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1320 Oak St. Oshkosh, WI 54901 Angela G. Subulwa [email protected] Curriculum Vitae 920.312.2047

EDUCATION Ph.D. (Geography) 2009 Graduate Certificate (African Studies) 2008 • Dissertation: Emplacing Displacement: Cultural Landscapes of Refugee-hosting in Ukwimi, • Committee: Garth Myers (Advisor/Chair, Geography), Shannon O’Lear (Geography), Elizabeth MacGonagle (History), Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka (Theatre & Women’s Studies), and J. Christopher Brown (Geography) • Research areas: political, cultural, and development geography of Eastern and Southern

M.A. (Geography) 2003 The University of Kansas • M.A. Thesis: Critical Geopolitics of African Displacement • Advisor: Garth A. Myers

B.S. (Geography, Minors: Geographic Information Systems and Computer Science) 2001 Northwest Missouri State University

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Acting Chair – Geography 2017 – present Associate Professor – Geography 2014 – present Assistant Professor – Geography 2008 – 2014 Department of Geography & Urban Planning University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Courses Taught: • Gender, Place, & Culture • Geographies of Coffee • International Development, Conflict, & Aid • Geography of Middle East & North Africa • Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa • World Regional Geography • Political Geography • Human Geography

Graduate Teaching Assistant 2001 – 2008 Department of Geography University of Kansas Courses Taught: • Africa’s Human Geographies • Advanced GIS • Introduction to GIS • Remote Sensing of the Environment

1 PUBLICATIONS Publications Myers, Garth, Francis Owusu, and Angela G. Subulwa. 2016. Cities of Sub-Saharan Africa in Brunn, Stanley, Hays-Mitchell, Maureen, and Zeigler, Don (eds). Cities of the World: World Regional Urban Development 6th edition. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Subulwa, Angela G. 2015. (Dis)(em)placing gender at Ukwimi: Refugee resettlement and repatriation in eastern Zambia. Gender, Place, & Culture 22(8): 1177 – 1194.

Subulwa, Angela G. 2013. Settlement, protracted displacement, and repatriation at Mayukwayukwa in western Zambia. African Geographical Review 32(1): 1 – 15.

Subulwa, Angela G. 2012. Negotiating displacement during the colonial and early independence period along the Zambia- border. Historical Geography 40: 147 – 167.

Myers, Garth, Francis Owusu, and Angela G. Subulwa. 2012. Cities of Sub-Saharan Africa in Brunn, Stanley, Hays-Mitchell, Maureen, and Zeigler, Don (eds). Cities of the World: World Regional Urban Development 5th edition, p 330 – 379. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Myers, Garth and Gray, Angela. 2011. Africa - Transnational Organizations in Stoltman, Joseph (ed). 21st Century Geography: A reference handbook, p 603 – 612. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Gray, Angela. 2010. Dynamics of forced displacement in Sub-Saharan Africa. Geographische Rundschau International Edition 6(3): 18 – 23.

O’Lear, Shannon & Gray, Angela. 2006. Asking the right questions: Environmental conflict in the case of Azerbaijan. Area 38(4): 390 – 401.

Article/Book Chapters in Press Myers, Garth and Angela G. Subulwa. Narrating Zambia from to , in Diener, Alexander and Joshua Hagan (eds). Narrating the nation through urban space (in press).

Subulwa, Angela. Urban Refugees. In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies (in press).

Book Reviews Gray, Angela. 2008. “Virtual migration: The programming of globalization, by A. Aneesh,” Cultural Geographies 15(2): 395 – 396.

Gray, Angela. 2004. “Spying with maps: Surveillance technologies and the future of privacy, by Mark Monmonier,” Cultural Geographies 11 (4): 478 – 479.

3 RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS “Challenging notions of the ‘dark continent’ with Instagram: Social media and representations of everyday life in Africa,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 2016. San Francisco, CA. Co-authored with Hilary Hungerford.

“Transforming Barotseland into Western Province (and back again?): Contested political ecology of the floodplain,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, November 20, 2015. San Diego, CA.

“Growing global: Increasing geographic literacy and developing global citizens,” SOTL Scholars Showcase, Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. October 1, 2015.

Invited lecture at Maxwell African Scholars Union, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Syracuse University. "When refuge becomes home: Settlement, Repatriation, and Integration in Zambia,” April 15, 2015. Syracuse, New York.

“Defining Barosteland from Mongu to Minneapolis: Citizenship, Social Media, and the Zambian/Barotseland Diaspora,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 21, 2015. Chicago, IL.

“Saliency of the refugee identity among self-settled Angolans in Mongu, Zambia,” paper at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, November 21, 2014. Indianapolis, IN.

“Negotiating Refugee Integration in Mongu, Zambia: Lessons from self-settled Angolans,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 11, 2014. Tampa, FL.

“Shake your neighbor: Western Zambia’s independence movement,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 10, 2013. Los Angeles, CA.

“Doing geography fieldwork in Africa” panelist at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 16, 2010. Washington DC.

“Political geographies of Zambia’s 2011 presidential election,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, February 27, 2012. New York, NY.

“Repatriation geographies at Mayukwayukwa Refugee Camp,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, November 19, 2010. San Francisco, CA.

“Creating and contesting nationalities along the Zambian border during Mozambique’s liberation struggle” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 14, 2010. Washington DC.

4 “Fieldwork in an African setting” panelist at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 16, 2010. Washington DC.

“Protracted refugee spaces: From exclusion to Inclusion in western Zambia,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, March 22, 2009. Las Vegas, NV.

“Political and feminist geographies of forced displacement in Africa,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 16, 2008. Boston, MA.

“Governing refuge: Development and refugee-hosting in Zambia,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, October 20, 2007. New York, NY.

“Identification and Mapping of Playa Lakes within a GIS Environment for the High Plains of Kansas” presented at the Geological Society of America, October 2007. Abstract printed in Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 39 (3): 26. Authored with Mark Bowen and W.C. Johnson.

“Displacement in motion: Refugee-hosting & development in Ukwimi, Zambia,” paper presented at the Mid- American Alliance for African Studies Conference, September 29, 2007. Lawrence, KS.

“Spaces of refuge: Cultural landscapes of refugee-hosting and resettlement in Ukwimi, Zambia,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 19, 2007. San Francisco, CA.

“Political ecology of refugee hosting in Zambia,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 5 – 9, 2005. Denver, CO.

“Forced displacement and environmental change in Africa: Challenging the received wisdom,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, November 11 – 14, 2004. New Orleans, LA.

“Constructing differences in African refugee policy,” paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, March 14 – 19, 2004. Philadelphia, PA.

“African refugees and the geopolitics of constructing difference,” paper presented at the African Studies Forum sponsored by the Kansas African Studies Center, March 9th 2004. Lawrence, KS.

“Critical geopolitics of African displacement,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Region of the Association of American Geographers, October 3, 2003. Manhattan, KS.

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS “Fostering global perspectives from home: Stories of the faraway right here” panelist at the Provost’s Teaching and Learning Summit: Global Perspectives. University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. October 23, 2013.

5 “Africa is a Country? Tackling misconceptions about sub-Saharan Africa. GEO-Quest Lecture Series. Department of Geography & Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. October 22, 2013.

Invited Film Discussion Facilitator at Women’s Center, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. April 27, 2011. Film: The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo.

Invited Lecture at Department of Geography Advisory Board Annual Meeting, University of Kansas. November 17, 2007. Topic: Developing Refuge in Zambia.

Invited Lecturer for Geography of African Development, Department of Geography/Department of African and African-American Studies, University of Kansas. Three weeks, Spring 2005. Topics: Globalization & Neoliberalism; Geography of Zambian Development.

Invited Guest Speaker for Introduction to Africa, Department of African and African-American Studies, University of Kansas. February 22, 2005. Topic: Africa’s Human and Physical Geographies.

Invited Lecturer for Africa’s Human Geographies, Department of Geography/Department of African and African-American Studies, University of Kansas. 2 weeks, Spring 2003.

GRANTS, HONORS, & SCHOLARSHIPS RECEIVED • Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Pilot Project Grant (2014 – 2015) • University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Faculty Development Research Grants (2010 & 2013) • SOTL Peer Mentor Program Participant (2013 – 2014) • KU Dissertation Fellowship (2007-2008) • Ken Lohrentz Graduate Paper Award, Mid-American Alliance for African Studies (2007) • Fulbright Fellowship to Zambia (2005-2006) • AAG Dissertation Research Grant (2005) • Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) from Michigan State University to study Chinyanja at the Summer Cooperative African Language Institute (SCALI) at Ohio University (2004)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS • Association of American Geographers (AAG) • African Studies Association

LANGUAGE SKILLS • Chinyanja – Intermediate reading, writing, speaking, and comprehension • Silozi – Basic reading, writing, speaking, and comprehension

SERVICE ACTIVITIES Departmental Service • Acting Chair (2017 – present)

6 • Curriculum Committee (2015 – present) • Recruitment & Retention Committee (2017 – present) • Departmental Program Review co-author [with Dr. Long] (2015) • Gamma Theta Upsilon (Geography Honor Society) Faculty Sponsor (2013 – present) • Peer Mentor to Dr. Elizabeth Barron (2013 – 2014) • Recruitment & Retention Coordinator, Department of Geography (2010 – 2014) • Geography Program Assessment Plan co-author/designer [with Dr. Long] (2012 – 2014)

College of Letters & Science Service • Program Review Committee (2017 – present) • Curriculum Committee (2015 – present) • Women’s and Gender Studies Steering Committee (2014 – present) • Daniel Raaf Scholarship Committee (2011 – present) • McNair Scholar Mentor (2011 – 2012) • Emerging Scholars Program Mentor (2010) • Odyssey Conversations Volunteer (2010) • Diversity and Leadership Conference Planning Committee (2009)

University Service • Global Scholar Council (2015 – 2017) • USP Council on Society (2015 – 2017) • Race & Ethnicity Council (2014 – 2016) • Enrollment Management Team (2010 – 2016) • Employee Assistance Program Advisory Board (2010 – 2016) • Faculty Grants & Development Research & Teaching Panelist (2010 – present) • Student-Faculty Collaborative Grants Reviewer (2012 – present) • Advisory Council for Academic Advising (2009 – 2016) • Presenter, One Session Wonder: Introduction to SOTL (2015) • Facilitator/Presenter, Global Oshkosh Project, Winter Interim 2015 • Presenter at Provost’s Teaching & Learning Summit: Global Learning (2013) • Presenter, Global Perspectives, Non-Western Culture, & Ethnic Studies Report and Discussion (2013) • Member, Summer Dialogue Team on Non-Western Culture course requirement (2013) • Member of Search & Screen Committee, Project Success (2013) • Invited lecture for students enrolled in study abroad (2013, 2014, 2016)

Disciplinary/National Service • Editorial Board, Historical Geography (2013 – present) • Executive Board/Awards Director, Cultural Geography Specialty Group (2013 – 2015) • Judge for Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov (PhD) and Masters Level Student Paper Awards, Cultural Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers (2012 & 2016) • Manuscript reviewer (Gender, Place, & Culture, Geographical Bulletin, Journal of International Migration and Integration) 3 • Book reviewer for Contemporary Political Geographies. John Wiley & Sones (2011) • Book reviewer for A Survey of Subsaharan Africa: A regional geography, Oxford University Press (2010).

Community Service • Board of Directors, E.B. Davis Foundation [Davis Child Care Center] (2015 – present) • Director & Founder, SEPO Zambia, Inc. (2011 – present) • Consult on opening of World Relief refugee resettlement office in Oshkosh (2011)

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