Dr. Carrie Mott Department of Geography [email protected] Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Education

PhD (2016) University of Kentucky, Geography MA (2009) University of Arizona, Near Eastern Studies BA (2004) University of Oregon, Religious Studies major, Anthropology Minor AA&S (1998) Yakima Valley Community College, General Arts and Sciences

Academic Employment

2016-present: Instructor, Department of Geography, Rutgers 2012-2016: Instructor, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky 2010-2012: Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky 2005-2007: Teaching Assistant, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona

Scholarly Interests o Identity and Difference o Settler Colonialism o Borders and Bordering o Social Justice Movements o Political Geography o Feminist Geography o Critical Pedagogy

Teaching Awards

University of Kentucky Society of Geographers Outstanding Geography Teacher Award, April 2016 University of Kentucky Provost’s Outstanding Teaching Award, April 2013 University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award, April 2013

Peer Reviewed Publications

Mott C (accepted and forthcoming) Building Relationships within Difference: Anarcha-feminism and the micropolitics of solidarity, The Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

Mott C and Cockayne D (available online, print version forthcoming) Citation matters: mobilizing the politics of citation toward a practice of ‘conscientious engagement’, Gender, Place & Culture. DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2017.1339022.

1 Mott C (available online, print version forthcoming) Precious Work: White anti-racist pedagogies in Southern Arizona, Social and Cultural Geography. DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2017.1355067.

Mott C (2016) The Activist Polis: Topologies of conflict in indigenous solidarity activism, Antipode 48(1): 193-211.

Mott C (2016) Feminist Geography, Oxford Bibliographies http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/.

Mott C (2016) Geographies of Whiteness, Oxford Bibliographies http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/.

The University of Kentucky Critical Pedagogy Working Group, Mott C, Zupan S, R.L., and Debbane´A (2015) Making Space for Critical Pedagogy in the Neoliberal University: struggles and possibilities”, ACME 14(4): 1260-1282.

Mott C and Roberts S (2014) Not Everyone Has (the) Balls: Urban exploration and the persistence of masculinist geography, Antipode 46(1): 229-245.

Other Academic Publications

Mott C, Sidaway J, Barrera de la Torre G, Ferretti F, Crane N, Long S, Knopp L, Rouhani F, Smith J, Springer S (2017) Review Forum: The Anarchist Roots of Geography: Toward Spatial Emancipation by Simon Springer. AAG Review of Books.

Mott C (2015) Re-living Tucson: geographic fieldwork as an activist-academic. Arizona Anthropologist 24(1): 33-41.

Mott C (2014) Review: Quiet Rumors: An Anarcha-Feminist Reader, by the Dark Star Collective. Human Geography 7(3): 119-121.

Mott C and Roberts S (2013) Difference Really Does Matter: A Response to Garrett and Hawkins, www.antipodefoundation.org. doi: http://radicalantipode.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/mott-and- roberts-reply.pdf.

Works in Progress

On the papers not written: responsibility, ethics, and care in activist oriented research (in preparation for submission to Environment and Planning D: Society and Space).

(with Boyce G) Anarchist Political Geographies (in preparation for submission to Progress in Human Geography).

(with Finn M) Critical Pedagogical Approaches to the Large Lecture (in preparation for inclusion in The Handbook of Learning and Teaching in Geography, eds Sarah Dyer, Helen Walkington, Jennifer Hill).

2 University Teaching Experience

Instructor of Record

Fall, 2017 Maps, Power, and the Digital World, Rutgers Fall, 2017 Human Geography: Space, Place, and Location, Rutgers Summer, 2017 Human Geography: Space, Place, and Location (online), Rutgers Spring, 2017 Gender Geographies, Rutgers Spring, 2017 Global Awareness: An Introduction to Global and International Studies, Rutgers Spring, 2017 Human Geography: Space, Place, and Location, Rutgers Fall, 2016 Maps and Map Reading, Rutgers Fall, 2016 Human Geography: Space, Place, and Location, Rutgers Fall, 2015 Qualitative Methods in Geography, University of Kentucky Fall, 2012 Geography of US Cities, University of Kentucky Spring, 2012 Introduction to Human Geography, University of Kentucky Summer, 2007 History of the Middle East, University of Arizona

Teaching Assistant

Spring, 2016 Digital Mapping, University of Kentucky Fall, 2011 Geography of US Cities, University of Kentucky Spring, 2011 Lands and Peoples of the Non-Western World, University of Kentucky Fall, 2010 Global Environmental Conflicts, University of Kentucky Spring, 2006 Middle Eastern Humanities, University of Arizona Fall, 2005 History of the Middle East, University of Arizona

Other Teaching Experience

AP Human Geography Reader, Cincinnati, OH, 2012-present Assistant Teacher at Khalsa Montessori School, Tucson, AZ, 2007-2010, 2013-2015 Reading Specialist at Whitney Elementary School, Yakima, WA, 1998-2000

Invited Talks

Nov, 2017 “Settler Colonialism through Reclamation: A historical geography of the inland Columbia Basin.” Rutgers, Department of Human Ecology Speaker Series.

Sep, 2016 “Spaces of Solidarity in the US/Mexico Borderlands.” Rutgers, Department of Geography Speaker Series.

Apr, 2016 “Landscapes of Solidarity: social justice activism in the US/Mexico borderlands.” University of Kentucky, Department of Geography Colloquium Series.

3 Academic Conference Presentations

Apr, 2017 (with Cockayne, D) “Conscientious Engagement: Mobilizing the politics of citation toward an anti-racist feminist critique of embodied academic authority.” Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston.

Apr, 2016 “Multi-Racial Solidarity Activism on the Arizona Border: Negotiating Difference.” Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, San Francisco.

Apr, 2015 “Re-living Tucson: geographic fieldwork as an activist academic.” Arizona Anthropologist Graduate Fieldwork Symposium, Tucson, Arizona.

Apr, 2015 “Negotiating Guilt: White Privilege, Solidarity, and Self Work.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago.

Aug, 2013 “Militarization on Tohono O’odham Lands: the historical development of security on the Arizona/Sonora border.” Annual Meeting of The International Geographical Union, Kyoto, Japan.

Aug, 2013 “Preparing the environment: Montessori education as a feminist intervention in neoliberalizing universities.” Annual Meeting of The International Geographical Union, Kyoto, Japan.

Apr, 2013 “Indigenous Solidarity Activism in Arizona: challenging settler colonialism and nation- state hegemony.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, California.

Apr, 2013 “Settler Colonialism on the Arizona/Sonora Border: queer theory, indigenous geographies, and the nation-state.” Political Geography Specialty Group pre-conference of the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, California.

Nov, 2012 “Rearticulating territory: indigenous activists and allies contesting border militarization and the nation-state in Southern Arizona.” Annual Conference on Critical Geography, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Apr, 2012 “Racial Dimensions of Border Security on the US/Mexico Border.” Annual Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, Lexington, Kentucky.

Nov, 2011 “A Historical Geography of the US/Mexico Border.” University of Kentucky GIS Day, Lexington, Kentucky.

Other Academic Conference Participation

Apr, 2017 Panelist, Critical Geography and Geography Education: Intersections and Opportunities. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston.

Apr, 2017 Panelist, Do Your Work: On Solidarity and Scholarship II. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston.

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Apr, 2017 Panelist, Author-Meets-Critics: Simon Springer’s The Anarchist Roots of Geography: Toward Spatial Emancipation. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston.

Feb, 2017 Organizer, Strategies for Action and Solidarity on Our Campuses amid Contexts of State- sanctioned Violence, Repression, and Hatred: A conversation. Dimensions of Political Ecology annual conference, Lexington, KY.

Mar, 2016 Discussant, Transnationalizing Migration Management III. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, San Francisco.

Mar, 2016 Panelist, Fulfilling the Promise of Anarchist Geographies III: Visions, hopes and challenges. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, San Francisco.

Mar, 2016 Panelist, Participation, Engagement, and Outreach. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, San Francisco.

Oct, 2015 Panelist, Producing Difference: The State and the Everyday. 22nd Annual Conference on Critical Geography, Lexington, Kentucky.

Apr, 2015 Panelist, Border to Border: Challenging Enforcement, Militarism, and Securitization. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois.

Apr, 2015 Discussant, Critical Pedagogy in Geography III: Teaching to Transgress, Teaching Community: bell hooks and feminist geographic pedagogies. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois.

Apr, 2013 Organizer and panelist, Tales from the Neoliberal University, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, California.

Apr, 2013 Panelist, Fragments of an Anarchist Geography, Annual Meeting of the Association of American geographers, Los Angeles, California.

Feb, 2011 Chair, Environmental Politics, Dimensions of Political Ecology annual conference, Lexington, Kentucky.

Awards and Honors (non-teaching)

Rutgers Research Council Grant, to support preliminary research through the summer of 2017.

International Geographical Union travel award, to support attendance at the 2013 International Geographical Union meeting in Kyoto, Japan.

Association of American Geographers IGU travel award, to support attendance at the 2013 International Geographical Union meeting in Kyoto, Japan.

Barnhart-Withington Research Award, Summer 2013, to support attendance at the 2013 International Geographical Union meeting in Kyoto, Japan, University of Kentucky.

5 Political Geography Specialty Group Travel Award, 2013, to support attendance at the AAG annual meeting in Los Angeles, CA.

Barnhart-Withington Research Award, Summer 2012, to support dissertation research, University of Kentucky.

Barnhart-Withington Research Award, Summer 2011, to support preliminary dissertation research, University of Kentucky.

Academic Year FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Award, 2006-2007, to support studies of third year Arabic, University of Arizona.

Summer FLAS Award, 2006, to support intensive second year Arabic studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Departmental Honors, University of Oregon, 2004

Americorps Education Award, 2000

Americorps Education Award, 1999

Professional Service

Member, AAG Committee on the Status of Women in Geography, July 2017 to July 2020

Undergraduate advisor, Department of Geography, Rutgers, September, 2016 to present.

Graduate Student Representative to the Graduate Committee, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, August, 2015 to May, 2016.

Teaching Assistant Liaison, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, April 2011 to August 2012.

Founding Member, University of Kentucky Critical Pedagogy Working Group, January 2012 to May, 2016.

Professional Membership o Association of American Geographers (2010 to present)

Peer Manuscript Referee o ACME o The Geographical Journal o International Journal of Arts and Technology o International Journal of Heritage Studies o Progress in Human Geography

6 Reference Contact Information

Robin Leichenko, Professor and Department Chair Department of Geography Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 54 Joyce Kilmer Ave Piscataway, NJ 08854-8045

Ph: (848) 445-4056 Email: [email protected]

Anna Secor, Professor Department of Geography University of Kentucky 863 Patterson Office Tower Lexington, KY 40506-0027

Ph: (859) 257-1362 Email: [email protected]

Susan Roberts, Professor Associate Provost for Internationalization Director, International Studies Program Department of Geography University of Kentucky 213B Patterson Office Tower Lexington, KY 40506-0027

Ph: (859) 257-2399 Email: [email protected]

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