MICHAEL JAMES DEAR Curriculum Vitae May 2018 Present
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MICHAEL JAMES DEAR Curriculum Vitae May 2018 Present Appointments 1 Academic Qualifications 1 Honors 1 Professional Qualifications 2 Professional Affiliations 2 Employment History 2 Academic 2 Visiting 3 Creative / Curatorial Work 4 Consultancy and Professional Practice 4 Research Grant Information 5 Publications 8 Books 8 Editorial 9 Scholarly Articles 10 Research and Professional Reports 20 Commentaries and Criticism 22 Book reviews 24 Conferences/Seminars/Public Addresses 27 Professional Service 34 MICHAEL JAMES DEAR Curriculum Vitae PRESENT APPOINTMENTS [2009 to present] Professor, Professor Emeritus since 2016 Department of City & Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley Honorary Professor Bartlett School of Planning University College London, U.K. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS Doctor of Philosophy in Regional Science, University of Pennsylvania: 1974. Master of Arts in Regional Science, University of Pennsylvania: 1972. Master of Philosophy in Town Planning, University of London: 1969. Bachelor of Arts in Geography, University of Birmingham, England: 1966. HONORS 2016 Residency, School of Advanced Research, Santa Fe. 2014 Elected as Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. 2013 Globe Book Award from the Association of American Geographers for Why Walls Won’t Work. 2011-12 Senior Fellow, Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California Berkeley. 2010-15 Fulbright Specialist Program, Council for International Exchange of Scholars. 2007 Residential Fellowship, Mesa Refuge, CA. 2007 USC-Mellon Award for Excellence in Mentoring Graduate Students. 2003 Visiting Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Center, Italy. 2001-9 Elected member of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities 2001 CHOICE magazine selected The Postmodern Urban Condition as an “Outstanding Academic Title, 2000.” 1997-8 USC General Education Teaching Award 1997 Geographers on Film: archival interview 1 1995-6 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University. 1995 Association of American Geographers Distinguished Scholarship Award. 1994 Exhibition of Work, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. 1994 Phi Kappa Phi All-University Honor Society (Honorable Mention for Malign Neglect). 1993 American Planning Association, Los Angeles Chapter Award for L.A. Downtown Strategic Plan / Homelessness and Social Services 1993 American Planning Association, California Division Award for L.A. Downtown Strategic Plan / Homelessness and Social Services 1993 University of Southern California Associates Award for Excellence in Research 1993 University of Southern California College of Letters, Arts and Sciences: Raubenheimer Award for outstanding scholarship, teaching, and service 1989 Golden Key National Honor Society: Honorary Member 1989 Golden Key National Honor Society: Outstanding Research Award (University of Southern California Chapter) 1988-9 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow 1988-9 Dean of Social Sciences Fellowship, University of Southern California 1987 Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award (Honorable Mention for Landscapes of Despair) 1986 American Planning Institute / American Institute of Certified Planners Award for Academic Excellence 1980-81 Canadian Social Science & Humanities Research Council Fellowship PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS Member of the Canadian Institute of Planners (elected 1980). Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (Great Britain: elected 1970) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Planning Association Association of American Geographers Canadian Association of Geographers Institute of British Geographers 2 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Academic 1986-2009 Department of Geography, and Professor School of Policy, Planning & Development University of Southern California 2004-07 Department of Geography, Chair University of Southern California 1985-86 Department of Geography Professor & School of Social Work McMaster University 1979-85 Department of Geography Associate McMaster University Professor 1979-80 Department of Geography Associate McMaster University Chairman 1974-79 Department of Geography Assistant McMaster University Professor 1973-74 Regional Science Research Research Institute, Philadelphia Associate 1971-73 Transportation Studies Center Research University of Pennsylvania Associate Visiting 2003 Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Center, Italy. 1998 SISWO (Social Science Research Institute) University of Amsterdam 1998 New York University, International Center for Advanced Study 1997 School of Architecture, Building & Planning, University of Melbourne 1995-6 Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Stanford 1989 Center for Urban Studies and Planning University of Hong Kong 1987 Department of Geography University of Cambridge 1985 School of Urban & Regional Planning University of Southern California 3 1985 Department of Geography University of California, Los Angeles 1981 School of Geography University of New South Wales 1978 School of Architecture and Urban Planning Princeton University Creative / Curatorial Work 2018 “Art of the California-Mexico Border” Richmond Center for the Arts, CA. Co-curator. 2017 John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight show, HBO. Advisor. 2017 “FILM, ARCHITECTURE, POLITICS: A conversation between Amos Gitai and Michael Dear with Marie-José Sanselme,” Frameworks online magazine. 2012 “Trazando la Línea / Crossing the Line,” Centro Estatal de las Artes, Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. Co-curator. 2010 “Theatrum Orbis Terrarum,” Collaboration with artist Marjolin Dijkman, MATRIX 234, Berkeley Art Museum. 2003 “La frontera portátil / the Portable Border: Perspectives on the U.S./Mexico Borderlands,” USC Doheny Memorial Library. Curator. 2002 “Mixed Feelings: art and culture in the postborder metropolis/Sentimentos Contradictorios: arte y cultura en la metrópolis posfronteriza,” USC Fisher Gallery. Co-curator. 2000 “Camilo Vergara: El nuevo mundo: The landscape of Latino Los Angeles,” The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Catalogue editor/writer. Consultancy and Professional Practice 2018 Museum of Art and Design, New York City. 2017 “The US-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility,” Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles. 2016 Border Youth Tennis Exchange (BYTE) program, Ambos Nogales, Arizona and Sonora. 2016 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT No. 15-16410 Rodriguez v Swartz BRIEF FOR SCHOLARS OF U.S.-MEXICO BORDER ISSUES AS AMICI CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE ARACELI RODRIGUEZ AND AFFIRMANCE. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 15-118 Hernandez el al. v Mesa BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE BORDER SCHOLARS IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONERS 2015 “City of Gold,” documentary film directed by Laura Gabbert (advisory + speaking role). Sundance Film Festival. 4 2014-16 Border Community Alliance, Arizona, advisory board member. 2008-12 European Research Council, assessor, advanced research grant panel. 2008-9 La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, Los Angeles. 2005 Scripps College Strategic Planning Committee 1999-2002 Southern California Association of Governments, Benchmark Taskforce 1998 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles 1996 The Getty Research Institute for the History of Art & the Humanities, Santa Monica 1996 Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco 1995 Santa Monica Museum of Art 1995 Interfaith Conference, Washington D.C. 1994 U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, Indefinite Quantity Contract 1992-3 Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles: Downtown Strategic Plan 1991-1993 Ford Foundation/UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies 1982-1992 Pion, Ltd., Founding Editor, Society & Space (Environment and Planning D) 1990-2000 Guilford Publications, Series editor 1988-89 Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles 1984-1990 Polity Press/Blackwell, North American Editor, Geography Series 1983-82 Secretariat for Social Development, Province of Ontario 1972-74 Association of American Geographers' Comparative Metropolitan Analysis Project 1966-71 Department of Planning and Transportation Greater London Council, London 5 RESEARCH GRANT INFORMATION Year Grantor Amount Title of Project 2013-2016 Mellon Foundation $1.75 million Global Urban Humanities (with A. Cascardi and J. Wolch) 2007 College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, $25,000 Creating Data Archives for the USC US/Mexico Borderlands 2007 Liberty Hill Foundation $40,000 Ending Homelessness in Los (with J. Wolch) Angeles 2007 Provost’s Immigration & $24,000 Cultural Integration & Integration Initiative, USC Hybridization at the US/Mexico Boderlands 2004 National Geographical Society $20,000 Cultural Ecologies of US/Mexico Borderlands 1995-2003 University of Southern California $3.4 million Southern California Studies Center 2001-2 Rockefeller Foundation $40,000 Mixed Feelings Exhibition 2001-2 U.S. National Endowment for the $35,000 Mixed Feelings Exhibition Arts 2001-2 USC Arts Initiative $20,000 Mixed Feelings Exhibition 2001-2 Warhol Foundation $50,000 Mixed Feelings Exhibition 2001-2 Fideicomiso para la Cultura Mexico- $10,000 Mixed Feelings Exhibition EUA 2001 Hewlett Foundation $40,000 Sprawl Hits the Wall 2001 Stern Foundation $6,000 Sprawl Hits the Wall 2001 U.S. National Research Council $40,000 US-UK Comparative Urbanization 1998-2000 The James Irvine Foundation $1.8 million Creative Communities 1995 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/ $37,435 Creating New Community Interfaith Conference, Wash. D.C. 1994 J. Paul Getty Foundation/USC $14,000 Rethinking Los Angeles 1994 Community Redevelopment Agency $80,000 Downtown