JOSHUA F. J. INWOOD CURRICULUM VITAE
2681 W. Gatesburg Rd. Department of Geography Warriors Mark, PA 16877 311 Walker Bldg. 706-546-4856 University Park, PA 16877 [email protected] 814 863 4894
EDUCATION University of Georgia Ph.D. Geography, 2007 Dissertation: Sweet Auburn: Contesting the Racial Identity of Atlanta’s Most Historically Significant African American Neighborhood. Advisor: Dr. Steve Holloway
Kent State University M.A. Geography, 2002 Masters Thesis: Hearing the Blind: A Critical Geo-Humanist Perspective on the Visually Impaired and Blind. Advisor: Dr. James Tyner
Michigan State University B.A. Geography, 2000 B.A. History, 2000
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor. Joint appointment between the Department of Geography and The Rock Ethics Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, 2016-Present. Affiliated faculty with the African American Studies Program, 2016-Present.
Associate Professor. Joint appointment between the Department of Geography and the Africana Studies Program, University of Tennessee, 2014-2016.
Assistant Professor. Joint appointment between the Department of Geography and the Africana Studies Program, University of Tennessee, 2010-2014.
Assistant Professor. Department of Geology and Geography, Auburn University, 2007- 2010. Affiliated faculty with the Africana Studies Program, 2007-2010. Affiliated faculty with the Women Studies Program, 2008-2010.
1 Inwood PUBLICATIONS Refereed Publications (n=35):
Bonds, A. and Inwood, J. 2016. “Beyond White Privilege: Geographies of White Supremacy and Settler Colonialism.” Progress in Human Geography, 40 (6) 715- 733.
Inwood, J. 2016. “How Grassroots Truth and Reconciliation Movements can Further the Fight for Social Justice in U.S. Communities.” National Civic Review Fall. 56-57.
Inwood, J. 2016. "Critical Pedagogy and the Fierce Urgency of Now: Opening up Space for Critical Reflections on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. Journal of Social and Cultural Geography.
Alderman, D. and Inwood, J. 2016. "Mobility as Anti-Racism Work: The “Hard Driving” of NASCAR’s Wendell Scott." Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Online First.
Inwood, J., Alderman, D. and Barron, M. 2016. "Neoliberal Violence and the U.S. Truth and Reconciliation Movement." Political Geography; Online First.
Inwood, J. and Bonds, A. 2016. "Confronting White Supremacy and a Militaristic Pedagogy in the US Settler Colonial State." Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Online First.
Inwood, J. and Alderman, D. 2016. "Taking Down the Flag is Just a Start: Toward the Memory-Work of Racial Reconciliation in White Supremacist America. Southeastern Geographer 56 (1) 9-15.
Inwood, J., Alderman, D. and Williams, J. 2016. "Where do we go from here? Transportation Justice and the Continuing Struggle for Public Access." Southeastern Geographer 55 (4) 417-433.
Inwood, J. 2015. Special Issue on the Death Penalty in the United States: The Execution of Troy Davis. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geography 14 (4) 1058-1065.
Inwood, J. and Barron, M. 2015. Life and Death in the Racial State: Collateral Consequences and the Execution of Troy Davis. ACME: An International E- Journal for Critical Geography 14 (4) 1100-1117.
Nagel, C., Inwood, J., Alderman, D., Aggarwal, U., Bolton, C., Holloway, S., Wright, R., Ellis, M., McCutcheon, P., Hankins, K., Walter, A., and Derickson, K. 2015.
2 Inwood "The Legacies of the U.S. Civil Rights Act, Fifty Years On." Political Geography, 1-10.
Inwood, J. 2015. "Neoliberal Racism: The "Southern Strategy" and the Expanding Geographies of White Supremacy." Journal of Social and Cultural Geography, 16 (4) 1-17.
Alderman, D. and Inwood, J. 2015. "The National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, Tennessee." Southeastern Geographer 55 (1) 1-5.
Tyner, J., Inwood, J., and Alderman, D. 2014. "Theorizing Violence and the Dialectics of Landscape Memorialization: A Case Study of Greensboro, North Carolina" Environment and Planning D, 32 (5) 902-914.
Inwood, J. Tyner, J. and Alderman, D. 2014. Remembering the Real Violence in Ferguson. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space Open Site. http://societyandspace.com/2014/09/10/inwood-tyner-and-alderman- remembering-the-real-violence-in-ferguson/
Tyner, J. and Inwood, J. 2014. "Violence as Fetish: Geography, Marxism and Dialectics" Progress in Human Geography, 38 (6) 771-784.
Inwood, J. 2013. "Contextualizing the State Mode of Production in the United States: Race, Space and Civil Rights." Environment and Planning A 45: 2120-2134.
Inwood, J. 2013. "Love and the Other: A Response to Morrison et al. (2013)" Progress in Human Geography 37 (5) 721-723.
Alderman, D. and Inwood, J. 2013. "Street Naming and the Politics of Belonging: Spatial Injustices in the Toponymic Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr." Social and Cultural Geography 14 (2) 211-233.
Inwood, J. and Bonds, A. 2013. "On Racial Difference and Revolution." Antipode 45 (3) 517-520.
Inwood, J. 2012. “Righting Unrightable Wrongs: Legacies of Racial Violence and the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 102 (6) 1450-1468.
Inwood, J. 2012. "The Politics of Being Sorry: The Greensboro Truth Process and Efforts at Restorative Justice." Social and Cultural Geography 13 (6) 607-624.
Martin, D. and Inwood, J. 2012. “Subjectivity, Power, and the IRB.” Professional Geographer, special issue on Institutional Review Boards. Professional Geographer 64 (1) 7-16.
3 Inwood Inwood, J. 2012. "Geographies of Race in the American South: The Continuing Legacies of Jim Crow Segregation." Southeastern Geographer 51 (4) 564-577.
Inwood, J. and Tyner, J. 2011. “Geography’s Pro-Peace Agenda: An Unfinished Project.” Acme 10 (3) 442-457.
Inwood, J. 2011. “Construction African American Urban Space in Atlanta Georgia: A Case Study of Auburn Avenue.” Geographical Review 101 (2) 147-163.
Inwood, J. and Martin, D. 2010. “Exploring Spatial (Dis)locations Through the Use of Roving Focus Groups.” Qualitative Researcher 12: 5-7.
Inwood, J. 2010. “Sweet Auburn: Constructing Auburn Avenue as a Heritage Tourist Destination.” Urban Geography 31 (2) 573-594.
Inwood, J. 2009. “Searching for the Promised Land: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Concept of the Beloved Community.” Antipode 41 (3) 487-508.
Inwood, J. 2009. “Contested Memory in the Birthplace of a King: A Case Study of Auburn Avenue and the Martin Luther King Jr. National Park.” Cultural Geographies 16 (1) 87-109.
Inwood, J. 2008. “Forty Years On: Marking the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee.” Human Geography 1 (2) 112.
Inwood, J. and Martin, D. 2008. “Whitewash: White Privilege and Racialized Landscapes at the University of Georgia.” Social and Cultural Geography 9 (4) 373-395.
Inwood, J. 2007. “Thinking Through the Concept of Social Justice: Preliminary Thoughts.” Southeastern Geographer 47 (1) 101-103.
Inwood, J. 2005. “Making the Legal Visible: Wilhelmina Griffin Jones’ Experience of Living in Alabama during Segregation.” Southeastern Geographer 45 (1) 54-66.
Inwood, J. 2002. “Seeing the Blind: Humanism and the Blind Experience of Place.” Geographic Bulletin 44 (1) 42-50.
Under Review:
Brasher, J., Alderman, D., and Inwood, J., Applying Critical Race and Memory Studies to University Place Naming Controversies: Toward a Responsible Landscape Policy. Papers in Applied Geography. Submitted 31 January 2017.
4 Inwood Alderman, D. and Inwood, J. “Historical Geographies and Archived Subjects: Research as Doing Emotional Justice.” Research Ethics for Human Geography. Wilson, Helena and Darling, Jonathan (eds). Submitted 7 January 2017.
Inwood, J. and Bonds, A. “Property and Whiteness: The Oregon Standoff and the Contradictions of the US Settler State.” Submitted 22 December 2016, Space and Polity.
Inwood, J. “Black Lives Matter: The Black Counterpublic and Challenges to Normative Visions of U.S. National Identity.” For possible inclusion in: Urban Space, Place and National Identity, Alexander Diener and Joshua Hagen (eds). Rowen and Littlefield Publishers. Submitted 10 September 2016.
Books:
Inwood, J. and Tyner, J. (Under Contract). White Supremacy and the Making of America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Undergoing revisions to be resubmitted in 1 October 2016.
Edited Books:
Tyner, J. and Inwood, J. 2011. Non-Killing Geographies: Violence, Space and the Search for a More Humane Geography. Honolulu, HA: Center For Global Non- Killing.
Book Chapters:
Alderman, D. and Inwood, J. (forthcoming) Street Naming and the Politics of Belonging: Spatial Injustices in the Toponymic Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. In: Rose-Redwood, Reuben; Alderman, Derek and Azaryahu, Maoz (eds). The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes: Naming, Politics, and Place. London: Ashgate.
Alderman, D. and Inwood, J. 2015. "Toward a Pedagogy of Jim Crow: A Geographic Reading of The Green Book." In: Estaville, Lawrence (ed). Teaching Ethnic Geography in the Twenty-First Century. National Council for Geographic Education.
Inwood, J. 2014. "Great Migration." In: Colten, C. and Buckley, G. (eds), North American Odyssey: Historical Geographies for the Twenty-First Century. New York: Rowman and Littlefield. 103-114.
Alderman, D. and Inwood, J. 2013. "Landscapes of Memory and Socially Just Futures." In: Johnson, N.; Schein, R., and Winders, J. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography. London: Wiley-Blackwell.
5 Inwood Tyner, J. and Inwood, J. 2011. "An Introduction to Nonkilling Geographies." In: Tyner, J. and Inwood, J. (eds) Nonkilling Geography: Violence, Space and the Search for More Humane Geography. Honolulu, HA: Center for Global Nonkilling.
Book Reviews:
Inwood, J. 2014. Review of Joel Feagin, Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations, Third Addition, London: Routledge Press, 2013, pp.1x-360. Association of American Geographers Review of Books.
Inwood, J. 2013. Review of Erin Winkler, Learning Race, Learning Place: Shaping Racial Identities and Ideas in African American Childhoods. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, pp. vii-211. Journal of Social and Cultural Geography, 15 (3) 354-356.
Inwood, J. 2012. Review of Todd Shaw, Now is the Time! Detroit Black Politics and Grassroots Activism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009, pp.ix-288. Urban Affairs Review 48(3) 458-461.
Inwood, J. 2011. Review of Owen Dwyer and Derek Alderman, Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory. Chicago: The Center for American Places at Columbia College, 2008, pp. i-143. Geographical Review 101 (1) 139-140.
Inwood, J. and Yarbrough, R. 2009. “Introduction: Racialized Places, Racialized Bodies: The Impact of Racialization on Individual and Place Identities.” Special Issue on the Racialization of Place. GeoJournal 75: 299-301.
Inwood, J. 2009. Review of Euan Hague, Heidi Beirich, and Edward Sebesta (editors), Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2008, pp. ix-338 pp. Political Geography 28: 382-383.
Inwood, J. 2009. Review of Leslie Brown, Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008, pp. ix-451 pp. Southeastern Geographer 49 (3) 313-315.
Inwood, J. 2008. Review of Jessica Adams, Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 226 pp. Historical Geography 36: 263- 265.
Inwood, J. 2006. Review of Martin Kenzer, On Becoming a Professional Geographer. Caldwell, NJ: The Blackburn Press, 2000. 211 pp. Southeastern Geographer 46 (1) 161-163.
6 Inwood Inwood, J. 2005. Review of Hubbard et al., Thinking Geographically: Space, Theory and Contemporary Human Geography. London, UK: Continuum, 2002. 275 pp. Cultural Geographies 12 (4) 535.
Inwood, J. 2005. Review of Manning Marable, The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in American Life. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2002. 365 pp. Antipode 37 (1) 192-194.
Encyclopedia Entries:
Tyner, J. and Inwood, J. 2015. Geographies of Race and Racism. In: International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 2nd Edition. James Wright (ed), Oxford: Elsevier pp. 801-806.
Editorial Activities:
Editor. 2015 ACME. Special Issue on the Death Penalty and the Execution of Troy Davis.
Guest Co-Editor. 2010. GeoJournal. Special Issue on the Process of Racialization. With Dr. Robert Yarbrough.
Non-Refereed Publications:
Inwood, J. 2017. “Dealing with Hate: Can America’s Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Help?” theconversation.com 28 February.
Inwood, J. 2017. “Fractured Nation Needs to Remember King’s Message.” The Norman Transcript. 17 January.
Inwood, J. 2017. “MLK’s Vision of Love Can Help Heal Today’s Divisions.” Newsweek 16 January.
Inwood, J. 2016. “Why a Fractured Nation Needs to Remember MLK’s Message of Love.” Huffingtonpost.com 16 November.
Inwood, J. 2016. “MLK in Trumpland: America Should Look to Martin Luther King, Jr., During this Post-Election Chaos.” Salon.com 20 November.
Inwood, J. 2016. “MLK on the Hard Business of Loving Your Enemy: In the 1960s, like now, the US Nation Was Divided.” Houston Chronicle 16 November.
Inwood, J. 2016. “Why a fractured nation needs to remember King’s message of love.” theconversation.com 16 November.
Inwood, J. 2016. “Ask an Ethicist: To Stand or to Sit for the National Anthem?” Penn State News. pennstatenews.com, 3 October.
7 Inwood Bonds, A. and Inwood, J. 2016. “White Supremacy and Property Rights: Tamir Rice and the Oregon Standoff.” racismreview.com 19 January.
Inwood, J. and Alderman, D. 2015. "Diversity at UT Vital to Success of Entire State." Knoxville News Sentinel 12 December 2 B.
Alderman, D. and Inwood, J. 2015. "Make Civil Rights a Geography Awareness Week Theme." Association of American Geographers Newsletter. 30 July.
Inwood, J. and Alderman, D. 2015. "MLK's Plan: Applying Standards of Nonviolence to All." Knoxville Mercury 7 May, pg. 9.
Alderman, Derek and Inwood, Joshua. 2014. "Wendell Scott Deserves Spot in NASCAR Hall of Fame," The Tennessean 18 May http://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2014/05/19/wendell-scott-deserves- spot-nascar-hall-fame/9256251/
Inwood, J. and Tyner, J. 2013. "What’s so funny about peace, love and understanding anyway? A response to Joel Wainwright (and with apologies to Elvis Costello)," Antipode Foundation. http://wp.me/p16RPC-OQ
Inwood, J. and Tyner, J. 2011. “Guns and Geography: Rights, Rhetoric and Regulations.” Association of American Geographers Newsletter 46 (3) 19.
Tyner, J and Inwood, J. 2009. “Challenging America’s Racialized War Culture.” Association of American Geographers Newsletter 44 (1) 13.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
External Awarded:
2017. (Pending) National Science Foundation. Mapping Jim Crow From Below: The S tudent Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Geospatial Intelligence, and Civil R ights. Under-Review 1 September 2016. ($375,000) w/ Derek Alderman.
2010. National Science Foundation. Righting Unrightable Wrongs: Addressing the Legacy of Racial Violence in the U.S. South. Funding runs from August 2010- November 2015. ($164,744).
2005. National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. Geography and Regional Sciences Program for project titled: “Sweet Auburn: Contesting the Racial Identity of Atlanta’s Historically Significant African- American Neighborhood.” ($10,236)
8 Inwood Internal:
2015. University of Tennessee Professional Development Awards Committee. The Southern Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Geospatial Intelligence, and Civil Rights: Mapping Jim Crow From Below. ($2500).
2012. University of Tennessee Professional Development Awards Committee. "Transforming Racialized Violence Through Grassroots Initiatives: US Truth and Reconciliation Projects." From May 2012-August 2012. ($3250).
2008. Auburn University Competitive Research Grant. “Looking for the Promised Land: New Communities Collective Farm as an Expression of Dr. King’s Beloved Community.” ($3750)
2008. University Honors College Teaching Enhancement Grant. Research/Travel Grant from Auburn University Honors College. ($1000)
2004. University of Georgia Student Organization Committee. Wrote a successful grant application for the Department of Geography’s Graduate Student Speaker Series. ($2,100)
2004. Graduate Student Research and Performance Grant. Center for Humanities and Arts Advisory Board, University of Georgia. ($1,000)
Awards:
2016. Stanley Brunn Young Scholar Award. Association of American Geographers, Political Geography Specialty Group. The award is given to an individual who has received their Ph.D. within the past ten years, in honor of contributions that have opened up new areas of inquiry for political geographic research.
2015. Glenda Laws Award. Association of American Geographers. The annual award and honorarium recognize outstanding contributions to geographic research on social justice issues.
2013. Junior Faculty Research Award. University of Tennessee, College of Arts and Sciences. College award that recognizes high performing junior faculty.
2010. Distinguished Diversity Research Award. Auburn University. University wide award that recognizes faculty who made a significant contribution to understanding issues of diversity and inequality.
2007. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. The University of Georgia. Annual Award from the University of Georgia which recognizes the top 10% of all University teaching assistants.
9 Inwood 2006. John Fraser Hart Award, Best PhD Student Paper. Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers. Morgantown, WV.
2006-2007. Graduate School Dissertation Completion Award. The University of Georgia
2006. Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant. Department of Geography. The University of Georgia.
2005. Terry Jordan-Bychov Doctoral Paper Award. Cultural Geography Specialty Group Paper Competition. “Whitewash: Investigating the Role of White Privilege in the Construction of Racialized Landscapes.”
CONFERENCE/PAPER PRESENTATION
Race, Memory, Biopolitics nad the Law: Trayvon Martin and the Language of White Supremacy. Forthcoming, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geogrpahers; Boston, MA, April 2017.
Panel Participant: Author Meets Critics: Brenda Parker’s Masculinities and Markets: Raced and Gendered Urban Politics in Milwaukee. Forthcoming, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Boston, MA, April 2017.
Panel Participant: Demographic Fantasies, Fever Dreams, and Unberable Whiteness of Contemporary Politics. Forthcoming, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Boston, MA, April 2017.
Panel Participant: The Future of the Journal of Cultural Geography, With Featured Panelist Alyson Greiner (Editor, 2002-2016) Forthcoming, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Boston, MA, April 2017.
Panel Participant: Ethnic Geography Specialty Group Distinguished Career Award Lecture: Derek Alderman, discussant. Forthcoming, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Boston, MA, April 2017.
Race, Law and the Gun: Settler Colonialism, Legal Reasoning and the Logics of Genoci de in Legal Reasoning on the US Gun Rights Debate; Race, Ethnicity and Place Confern ece; Kent, OH September 2016.
Panel Participant: Teaching Civil Rights as a Geography Awareness Week Theme. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; San Francisco, CA March 2016.
10 Inwood Panel Participant: The Politics of Renaming the North American University Campus: A Landscape Intervention; Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; San Francisco, CA March 2016.
Race, law, and the Gun: Settler Colonialism, Legal Reasoning and the Logics of Genocide on the US Gun Rights Debate; Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; San Francisco, CA March 2016.
Gallery of Excellence and Reception. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN February 2016.
Discussant: Plantation Tourism, Memory, Marketing, Labor and Space. Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers; Pensacola, FL November 2015.
Southern Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Geospatial Intelligence, and Civil Rights: Mapping Jim Crow From Below; Annual meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers; Pensacola, FL November 2015.
Panel Participant: Violence and its Aftermath. Critical Conference; Lexington, KY October 2015.
Panel Participant: The Politics of Allyship and Representation in Research and Advocacy of Disasters, Displacement and Human Rights; DDHR Conference, Knoxville, TN September 2015
Confronting White Supremacy and a Militaristic Pedagogy in the US Settler Colonial State; Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Chicago, IL April 2015
Discussant: Commemoration, Politics and Violence I; Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Chicago, IL April 2015.
Neoliberal Racism: The "Southern Strategy" and the Expanding Geographies of White Supremacy; Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers; Athens, GA November 2014.
Panel Participant. Stand Your Ground Issues. ; Race, Ethnicity, and Place V, Association of American Geographers; Fort Worth, TX October 2014
Panel Participant. Teaching Slavery; Race, Ethnicity, and Place V, Association of Americ an Geographers; Fort Worth, TX October 2014
Jack Johnson Versus Jim Crow: Contesting Space and Race Through the Politics of Mobility; Race, Ethnicity, and Place V, Association of American Geographers; Fort Wort h, TX October 2014.
11 Inwood Panel Participant. Geography and the Military 2. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Tampa Bay, FL 2014.
Panel Participant. FQG: Race, Biopolitics and the Future Panel; Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Tampa Bay, FL April 2014.
Panel Participant. Stand Your Ground: Geographies of Violence and the Uneven Legal Landscape; Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Tampa Bay, FL April 2014.
Panel Participant. Critical Race Theory: The Current State of Research and New Possibilities; Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Tampa Bay, FL April 2014.
The Roots of Neoliberal Racism: Civil Rights and the Southern Strategy; Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Tampa Bay, FL April 2014.
Where Do We Go From Here? Transportation Justice and the Continuing Struggle for Public Access; Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers; Roanoke, VA November 2013.
Killing Me Softly: Contradictory Neoliberal Violences and the U.S. Truth and Reconciliation Movement; Rethinking Marxism Conference. Amherst, MA September 2013
Life and Death in the Racial State: Biopolitics, Violence, and the Execution of Troy Davis; Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Los Angeles CA April 2013.
Panel Participant. Geographies of Peace IV: Reflections on the Caravan for Peace and Peace Activisms; Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA April 2013.
Bending the Arc of Justice: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Poor People's Campaign and Defiant Geographies; Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers, Asheville, NC November 2012.
Panel Participant: Higher Education in a Time of State Retrenchment; Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers, Asheville, NC November 2012.
Letting Die in the Modern Racial State: The Execution of Troy Davis; 19th Annual Conference on Critical Geography, Chapel Hill, NC November 2012.
12 Inwood The Politics of Being Sorry: The Greensboro Truth Process and Efforts at Restorative Justice, Race, Ethnicity, and Place V, Association of American Geographers; San Juan, Puerto Rico. October 2012.
Panel Participant: Study of the American South SG Plenary Panel: Sundown Towns, The Geography and History of Racial Exclusion in the South, New York, NY February 2012.
Panel Participant: Neoliberalism, Activism and the University, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, NY February 2012.
Panel Participant: Critical Race Studies and Implications for Geography, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, NY February 2012.
The Politics of Apology: The Greensboro Truth Process and Efforts at Reconciliation, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, NY February 2012.
The Continuing Significance of Segregation on the Alabama Political Landscape: Mapping the Future of Civil Rights Struggles for the State, Region and Nation, Southern Studies Conference Auburn University Montgomery, Montgomery, AL. February 2012.
The Continuing Legacies of Jim Crow Segregation: A Case Study of the 1901 Alabama Constitution, Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers; Savannah, GA. November 2011.
Truth, Reconciliation and the Potential for Radical Social Change: The Case Study of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission, International Critical Geography Conference, Frankfurt, Germany, August 2011.
Panel Participant: Teaching the Geographies of Memory and Heritage, Annual Meeting of Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA, March 2011.
And the Walls (Just Might) Come Tumbling Down: Violence, Death, and Reconciliation in a Southern Mill Town, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Seattle, WA, March 2011.
Grassroots Community Organizations Attempts to Address Long Standing Impacts of Racial Violence, Race, Ethnicity, and Place V, Association of American Geographers; Binghamton, NY October 2010.
Reconciling the Truth: Legacies of Racial Violence in the American South, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Washington, DC. April 2010.
Panel Participant: Community and Community Organizing in the Time of Obama, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Washington, DC. April 2010.
13 Inwood Reconciling the Truth: Legacies of Racial Violence in the American South, Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers; Knoxville, TN. November 2009.
Panel Participant: Does the Marriage Work? Geography in Combined Departments, Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers; Knoxville, TN. November 2009.
Righting Unrightable Wrongs: Legacies of Racial Violence in the U.S. South, Mini- Conference on Critical Geography, Athens, GA. October 2009.
Panel Participant: Teaching Race at the University, Mini-Conference on Critical Geography, Athens, GA. October 2009.
Engaging With King: African American Political Thought, The Beloved Community and Social Justice, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Las Vegas, NV. March 2009.
After the Love Has Gone: The Politics of Love and Dr. King’s Relevance for 21st Century Community Development, Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers; Greensboro, NC November 2008.
I See the Promised Land: Examining Dr. Martin Luther King's Concept of the Beloved Community as Geographic Space, Race, Ethnicity and Place IV, Association of American Geographers; Miami, FL November 2008.
Sweet Auburn: Constructing Auburn Avenue as a Heritage Tourist Destination, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Boston, MA. April 2008.
Panel Participant: African American Commemorative Politics: The Confederate Battle Flag and Beyond, Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers; Charleston, SC November 2007.
Sweet Auburn: Contesting the Racial Identity of Atlanta's Historically Significant African American Neighborhood, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; San Francisco, CA April 2007.
Sweet Auburn: Contesting the Racial Identity of a significant African American Neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia, Honors Competition, Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers; Morgantown, WV November 2006.
Contested Memory in the Birthplace of a King: A Case Study of Auburn Avenue and the Martin Luther King Jr. National Park, Race, Ethnicity and Place III. Association of American Geographers; San Marcos, TX November 2006.
14 Inwood A Northerner Comes South: The Significance of Place and Positionality, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Chicago, IL March 2006.
Panel Participant: Toward a Critical Understanding of Social Justice and Geography in the American South, Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers; West Palm Beach, FL November 2005.
Whitewash: Investigating the Role of White Privilege in the Construction of Racialized Landscapes, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Denver, CO April 2005.
Whitewash: Investigating the Role of ‘Race’ in the Landscape, Race, Ethnicity and Place II. Association of American Geographers; Washington, DC October 2004.
Placing the Person: Wilhelmina Jones’ Experience of Living in Alabama During Segregation, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Philadelphia, PA March 2004.
Making the Legal Visible: Wilhelmina Jones’ Experience of Living in Alabama During Segregation, Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers; Charlotte, NC November 2003.
Spatial Dissidents: The Blind and the Experience of Walking, Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers; Richmond, VA November 2002.
Seeing the Blind: Humanism and the Experience of Place, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Los Angeles, CA March 2002.
Heterosexing Space at the Turn of the Century: The Case Study of Jack Johnson, Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers; Lexington, KY March 2001.
Humanism, Place, and the Experience of the Blind, Annual Meeting of the East Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers; Cincinnati, OH October 2001.
Sessions Organized:
Contested Landscapes of the U.S. South, at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers, Athens, GA November 2014.
Author Meets Critic: Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory, at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC April 2010.
15 Inwood Righting Unrightable Wrongs: Legacies of Racial Violence in the U.S. South, at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers, Greensboro, NC November, 2008.
After the Love Has Gone: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life, Legacy and Meaning for Geography, at the Race, Ethnicity and Place III Conference, Miami, FL October 2008.
Sessions Co-Organized:
Race, Place and Violence: Historical and Contemporary Issues of Memory I-III, with Ken Foote, Aretina Hamilton and James Tyner at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers Conference, Boston, MA April 2017.
Teaching Civil Rights as a Geography Awareness Week Theme, with Derek Alderman and Solange Munoz at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers Conference, San Francisco, CA March 2016.
The Politics of Renaming the North American University Campus: A Landscape Intervention, with Derek Alderman at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers Conference, San Francisco, CA March 2016.
Study of the American South and Southern Studies Special Plenary Session: From the U.S. South to the Global South, with Dr. David Butler, at the Annual Meeting of Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers, Athens, GA 2014.
Critical Race Theory: The Current State of Research and New Possibilities, with Dr. Anne Bonds, at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, FL, April 2014
Geographies of Civil Rights co-organizer with Dr. Richard Wright, Dr. Derek Alderman, at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, FL, April 2014. Sessions I-III
Geographies of Peace I-IV, co-organizer with Dr. Colin Flynt, Dr. Sara Koopman, Dr. Amy Ross, Dr. James Tyner, at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, March 2013.
Panel Discussion: Troy Davis Execution: Life and Death in the Racial State, Co- Organizer with Dr. Tom Chapman, at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers, Savannah, GA, November 2011.
16 Inwood The Continuing Significance of the Racial State, Co-organizer with Dr. James Tyner, at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers, Savannah, GA, November 2011.
Critical Pedagogy and the Geography of the U.S. Civil Rights Struggle, Co-organizer with Dr. Derek Alderman, at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers, Birmingham, AL November 2010.
Seeking Democratic Alternatives to the Neoliberal State: Geographies of Grassroots Democracy and Community Resistance to Neoliberalism, Co-Organizer with Dr. Leela Viswanathan at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Sessions I, II, III; Las Vegas, NV April 2009.
Racialized Places, Racialized Bodies: The Impact of Racialization on Individual and Place Identities, Co-Organizer with Dr. Robert Yarbrough at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Session I, II, III; San Francisco, CA April 2007.
Critical Perspectives on the American South, Co-Organizer with Dr. Derek Alderman and Scott Whitlock at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Session I, II; Chicago, IL March 2006.
Toward a Critical Understanding of Social Justice and Geography in the American South, Co-Organizer with Dr. Derek Alderman at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers, West Palm Beach, FL November 2005.
Invited Lectures:
Understanding the US Reconciliation Moment. University of Delaware, Newark, DE March 2017.
Teach-in: Us vs. Them: Racism, Islamophobia and the Politics of Division. The Pennsylvania State University 20 February 2017.
Documentary: Neshoba the Price of Freedom. Co-led a discussion on race, violence and reconciliation as part of The Pennsylvania State University Truth and Reconciliation Events. 16 February 2017.
Parasitic Economies and the Hellhounds of the New Jim Crow. TENSE Summit, University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN, August 23, 2015.
Panel Participant, Black Politics and State Violence. Platypus Affiliated Society, Knoxville Chapter, Knoxville, TN March 27, 2015.
17 Inwood Structural Violence: What do we Mean and How do we Understand it? Public Lecture. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN September 25, 2014.
The Geography of Violence. University of Tennessee College Scholars Program. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. September 17, 2014.
Understanding Place: A Community Dialogue on Race, Geography and Home. Phyllis Wheatley Center, Knoxville, TN. Panel Participant for Local Groups Opposed to Gentrification.
Contextualizing the State Mode of Production in the United States: Martin Luther King Jr., and the Poor People's Campaign. University of Kentucky. September 27, 2013.
Bending the Arc of Justice: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Poor People's Campaign. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. February 22, 2013.
Bending the Arc of Justice: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Poor People's Campaign. Michigan State University. January 25, 2013.
The Politics of Apology: The Greensboro Truth Process and Efforts at Reconciliation. Appalachian State University. November 10, 2011.
Reconciling the Truth: Legacies of Racial Violence in the American South. University of Tennessee Center for Social Justice. March 13, 2011.
Mobilizing Grassroots Agency for Anti-Racist Politics, Kent State University, Kent, OH February 25, 2011.
And the Walls (Just Might) Come Tumbling Down: Race, Violence and Death in a Southern Mill Town, University of North Carolina Greensboro, February 18, 2011.
Righting Unrightable Wrongs: Legacies of Violence and Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro, North Carolina, University of Tennessee Department of Anthropology, Knoxville, TN November 7, 2010.
Race, Ethnicity, and Place –V Conference. Binghamton State University of New York, Binghamton, NY. October 2010.
Constructing Auburn Avenue as a Heritage Tourist Destination. Auburn University Department of History, Auburn, AL February 2010.
Sweet Auburn: Constructing Auburn Avenue as a Heritage Tourist Destination. Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA November 2009.
After the Love Has Gone: Dr. King’s Legacy and Meaning for Geography. Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA March 2009.
18 Inwood Sweet Auburn: Contesting Racialized Identity in Atlanta. Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA October, 2006.
Living With Disability at the University. Leadership, Education, and Advocacy for Disabilities Student Group. University of Georgia, Athens, GA January 2003.
MASS MEDIA ENGAGEMENT & RECOGNITION
Interviewed on The Morning Mixtape 98.7fm FREQ on Martin Luther King Jr., and Agape. 15 December 2016.
Interviewed and quoted by the Associated Press for Story on the Resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan. KKK Members Insist They’re Not “White Supremacist.” 12 December 2016.
Interviewed by spare minute podcast on Martin Luther King Jr., and the Election of Trump. 18 November 2016.
Interviewed and quoted by the Christian Science Monitor, Why so Much Blatant Racism is Bubbling to the Surface. 9 October 2016.
Interviewed by the Red and Black UGA student newspaper on a story of the hidden history of UGA's racialized campus. March 1, 2016.
Interviewed by Knoxville Mercury for a story on the growth of white supremacy in Knoxville, TN. February 29, 2016.
Interviewed on Scholars Strategy Network on the Growth of Truth Commissions in the USA. February 26, 2016.
Guest on WATE Chanel 6, 5:30 Local Knoxville News discussing Affirmative Action. 9 December 2015.
Guest on WBIR Chanel 10, 5:30 Local Knoxville News discussing the Legacy of Rosa Parks. 1 December 2015.
Guest and Commentator on TRT (Turkish State Television) World in a Story on Contemporary Race Relations in the United States. 1 December 2015.
Interviewed and Quoted in: "UT Experts Call for Broader Understanding of Rosa Parks." Knoxville News Sentinel 1 December 2015.
Interviewed and Quoted in: "University of Missouri Unrest a Signal for Other Schools, Experts Say." USAToday 11 November 2015.
19 Inwood Interviewed and Quoted in: "Flag Down, but History of Racism Still Looms Over S.C." KUTV.com 15 July 2015
Interviewed and Quoted in: Newspaper story in El Confidencial on White supremacy. 1 July 2015.
Interviewed and Quoted in: "Massacre de negros nos EUA reabre debate sobre desigualdade racial" Correio Braziliense, 28 June 2015.
Guest on WBIR Chanel 10, 5:30 Local Knoxville News discussing the Confederate Flag and White Supremacy. 23 June 2015.
Taped interview on WATE Chanel 6, 5:00 Local News discussing the Confederate Flag and White Supremacy. 23 June 2015.
Guest on WATE Chanel 6, 5:30 Local Knoxville News discussing the National Football League and Race. 27 February 2014.
Panel Participant on "Scholars Circle" a Nationally Syndicated Radio Program and that was Focused on the Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., Broadcast on 19 January 2014. KPFK, 90.7 Los Angeles, California.
Interviewed and Quoted in: "Nelson Mandela Dies: African Leader's Legacy Great, UT Pair Say." Knoxville News-Sentinel, 6 December 2013. A1.
Interviewed and Quoted in: "Seeking 'A Better Way': Knoxvillians Reflect on Dr. King's Legacy, Obama's Second Term. Knoxville News-Sentinel 20 January 2013. B1.
Research featured and quoted in "Truth and Reconciliation Revisited." Carolina Peacemaker February 24-March 2, 2011. Page 1.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Participant, Research Initiative for the Study of Diversity Summer Grant Academy, June 1-12, Auburn University.
Participant, New Faculty Scholars Program, August 2008-May, 2009, Auburn University.
Participant, To Whom Much is Given: Addressing Poverty in Alabama, September 27-28, 2007, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.
Participant, Summer Institute for the Geographies of Justice. May 28-June 1, 2008, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
Participant, Geography Faculty Development Alliance. June 4-11, 2005, Boulder, CO.
20 Inwood Participant in Teaching Workshop: “Effective Teaching for Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty.” January 2005, Dr. Eric J. Fournier. Athens, GA.
COURSES TAUGHT
The Pennsylvania State University
Geography 128. Introduction to Geopolitics. Fall 2016-Present.
University of Tennessee
Africana Studies 201. Introduction to the African American Experience: African Kingdoms to US Civil War. Fall 2010-Present.
Africana Studies 202. Introduction to the African American Experience: Civil War to Civil Rights. Fall 2010-present. Fall 2010-Present.
Africana Studies 480. African American Urban Communities. Fall 2011-present.
Geography 101. Introduction to Regional Geography. Spring 2015-Present.
Geography 201. Core Concepts in Human Geography. Spring 2013-Present.
Geography 343. Geography of Human Rights. Spring 2013-Present.
Geography 363. Geography of the American South. Spring 2013-Present.
Geography 505. Geographies of Race and Ethnicity. Fall 2011-Present.
Geography 599. Geographic Thought. Fall 2010- Present.
Auburn University :
Geography 1010. Global Geography. Spring 2008-2010.
Geography 1017. Honors Global Geography. Spring 2008.
Geography 2800. Geographic Methods and Techniques. Fall 2008.
Geography 3140. Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa. Fall 2007-2010.
Geography 5010/6010. Urban Geography. Spring 2008-2010.
Geography 5800/6800. Geographic Thought. Spring 2010-2010.
21 Inwood The University of Georgia:
Study Abroad Program: New Zealand and Australia Sustaining Human Societies and the Natural Environment. March 2007.
Geography 1101. Introduction to Human Geography. March 2007. (one Section, 22 students) Brisbane, Australia.
Freshman College Summer Experience. Geography 1103. Cultural Geography of the United States. Summer 2006. (one section, 55 students).
Geography 1103. Cultural Geography of the United States. Fall 2004-Summer 2006. (four sections, from 55-88 students each section).
GRADUATE STUDENT MAJOR PROFESSOR
PhD: In Progress: Barron, M. Social Justice and Geography. (expected completion Spring 2017). University of Tennessee
Completed: Conner, N. (2015) Contested Notions of Irishness: Racial Integration and the Multiple Intersections of Ethno-Racial, Religious and National Identities in Dublin, Ireland. University of Tennessee
M.S.:
Completed: Rosko, Helen. (2015) Moonshine and Appalachia. University of Tennessee. Russell, K. (2014) Critical Mapping in a Post-Colonial Context: Montserrat and the Carr Plantation Site. (Graduated Summer of 2014). University of Tennessee Barron, Melanie (2010). Justice, Truth, and Community Organizing in Boston, MA. (Graduated Fall of 2012). University of Tennessee.
GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBER
PhD: In Progress: Hyun, Jiuwan. (2013-2016). TBA. University of Tennessee.
Completed: Cook, Mathew. (2013-2015). A Critical Historical Geography of Slavery in the American South. University of Tennessee.
22 Inwood Kim, Jaymelee (2011-2014). Comparative Analysis of Reconciliation Movements in Canada and the United States. Department of Anthropology. University of Tennessee. Petruney, Lucille (2008). Closer, Closer and Closest. Microscopy and Art Education. Ph.D dissertation committee. Department of Education. Auburn University.
MA:
Completed: Hodges, Davis (2013-Present). Low Income Housing in Knoxville: Community Support Dynamics. Department of Geography. University of Tennessee Djorcev, Maja (2013). Marketing Opportunities for Small Scale Organic Wine Producers in Slovenia Proposing A Wine Cluster Model. Department of Geography. University of Tennessee. Merchant, Alex (2013). Monstro City. Department of Art. University of Tennessee. (MfA). Cook, Mathew (2012). Redefining Memorial Landscapes: The Stolpersteine Project in Berlin. Department of Geography. University of Tennessee. Coan, Mackenzie (2009). Research on the Cultural Landscape of Lockapocha Syrup Sopping Festival. Department of Geology and Geography. Auburn University.
UNDERGRADUATE HONORS THESIS DIRECTED Barrineau, Patrick. Project examining the creation of memorial landscapes dedicated to U.S. Blues Musicians in the Mississippi Delta. Auburn University (Completed May 2010).
UNDERGRADUATE DIRECTED SENIOR RESEARCH Haywood, Dylan (2014-2016). College Scholars Program. University of Tennessee Guy, Sarah. (2013). Research on the Educational Outcomes of African American Children with One Parent in Prison. University of Tennessee. Tucker, Emily (2013). Research on Early Childhood Development in East Africa. University of Tennessee. Swanigan, Tijuana (2012). Critical Memory and African American Churches: Case Study in Memphis. University of Tennessee. TEACHING INTERESTS
Introductory: World Geography, Cultural Geography, Economic Geography. Intermediate: Geography of the United States, Geography of the American South, Urban Geography, Geography of Africa. Advanced/Seminars: Geographical Research Design, Urban Geography, Geographical Methods and Theory, Ethnic Conflict, Geographies of Violence and Power, Geography of Human Rights, Critical Race Theory.
23 Inwood PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS 2014-Present: National Council for Geographic Education. 2009-Present: Nonkilling Geography Research Committee at the Center for Global Nonkilling. 2002-Present: Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers 2000-Present: Association of American Geographers 2000-2002: East Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers
SERVICE To Geography 2016: Co-Director GFDA Workshop at the University of Tennessee. 2016-Present: Member Association of American Geographers Harold M. Rose Award Committee. 2015-Present: Member Association of American Geographers Committee to Re-envision Diversity in Geography Curriculums. 2015-Present: Vice-President Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers. 2013-2016: Member Association of American Geographers Publication Committee. 2012-2014: Member Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers Nominations Committee. 2011-2013: Board Member Qualitative Research Specialty Group. Association of American Geographers. 2010-2012: Secretary Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers. 2009-2010: Member Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers Honors Committee. 2009-Present: Member Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers Southern Studies Committee. 2009: Member Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers Program Committee. 2009-2010: Member Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers Nominations Committee. 2008-2009: Member Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers Audit Committee. 2008: Judge, Cultural Geography Specialty Group Graduate Student Paper Competition.
Manuscripts Reviewed (# of manuscripts reviewed) Acme (4) Annals of the Association of American Geographers (8) Antipode (3) Applied Geography (1) Capitalism, Nature, Socialism (1) City and Community (1) Cultural Geographies (2) Environment and Planning D (4)
24 Inwood Gastronomica (2) Geoforum (5) GeoJournal (2) Geographical Review (2) Geographies of Religions and Belief Systems (2) Journal of Cultural Geography (2) Journal of Geography in Higher Education (2) Material Culture: The Journal of the Pioneer America Society (1) Political Geography (4) Political Studies (2) Professional Geographer (2) Progress in Human Geography (3) Social and Cultural Geography (9) Southeastern Geographer (17) Space and Polity (1) Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (1) Urban Geography (4)
Book Manuscripts Reviewed Canadian Scholars Press (1). Policy Press Shorts, Bristol University Press (1)
Grant Proposals Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (1) National Science Foundation (2) Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute (1)
Encyclopedia Entries Oxford Bibliographies (2)
New Journal Proposals Taylor and Francis (1)
Editorial Boards: 2016-Present: Critical Spaces of Justice Book Series, Policy Press Shorts. 2015-Present: Southeastern Geographer.
The Pennsylvania State University Department: 2016-Present: Member Speakers Committee 2016-Present: Member Graduate Admissions Committee 2016: Reviewed Rock Ethics Institute Fellowship Proposals
University of Tennessee College: 2015-2016: Member Male Initiative Committee.
25 Inwood 2014-2016: Member Academic Review Board. 2014-2016: Member College of Arts and Sciences Diversity Committee. 2013-2016: Member College of Arts and Sciences General Education Social Sciences Curriculum Committee. 2012: Member College of Arts and Sciences Associate Dean for Academic Personnel Search.
Department: 2015-2016: Director Graduate Studies, Department of Geography. 2015-2016: Member: Africana Studies SACS Committee. 2015-2016: Chair Africana Studies Curriculum Committee. 2015: Chair Department Interview Committee for Spousal Accommodation Hire. 2015: Member Africana Studies Search Committee for Non-Tenure Track Faculty. 2015: Member Department of Geography Committee on Rewriting the Department By-Laws. 2014-2015: Chair Field Exam Review Committee. 2014-2015: Member Africana Studies Honors Committee. 2013-2015: Associate Director of Graduate Studies. 2013: Interim Program Director Africana Studies Program. (February 25- March 3) 2013-2014: Member Africana Studies Lecturer Promotion Committee 2012-2014: Member Africana Studies Undergraduate Curriculum Committee 2012-2014: Member Department of Geography Website Committee 2011-2012: Member Department of Geography Chair Search Committee. 2011-2012: Organized Africana Studies Faculty Symposium. Fall 2011: Organized Department of Geography Colloquium series. 2011-Present: Member Department Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Geography, University of Tennessee. 2010-Present: Member Department Graduate Program Committee, Department of Geography, University of Tennessee. 2010-2012: Co-Advisor, Geography Club, Gamma Theta Upsilon, Department of Geography, University of Tennessee.
Auburn University 2009: Organized a university wide symposium on the documentary film Greensboro’s Child. This was a formal university event organized in conjunction with Auburn University’s Multi-Cultural Center in which the director of Greensboro’s Child , Andy Coon, was invited to campus to show his film and take part in a university wide discussion on the legacy and role violence plays in U.S. society. I was responsible for coordinating Mr. Coon’s visit, organizing the university panel (made up of four university faculty from other departments), chairing the session, and leading the university discussion. 2008-2010 : Contributed to the annual Science Olympiad, College of Science and Mathematics. 2009-2010: Member Department colloquium committee, Department of Geology and
26 Inwood Geography, Auburn University. 2007-2010: Member of College of Science and Mathematics Diversity Council. Auburn University. 2007-2010: Member Department website design committee, Department of Geography and Geology, Auburn University.
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