DAVID WILSON, Ph. D.
Professor of Geography Professor Urban Planning Professor of Criticism and Interpretive Theory School of Liberal Arts and Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 607 South Mathews Avenue Urbana, Illinois 61801 Phone: (217) 333-0877
Home Address: 201 East Willard Street Urbana, Illinois 61801 Phone: (217) 344-8304
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Political Economy of U.S. Cities Urban Political Processes Cultural Studies of U.S. Cities Social Theory and the Built Environment Qualitative Methods
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 1985, Rutgers University, Department of Geography. Dissertation title: "Institutions and Urban Revitalization: the Case of Manhattan in New York City."
M.A. 1983, Temple University, Department of Geography. Thesis title: "The Spatial Character of Housing Abandonment: A Case Study of Allegheny West in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania."
B.A. 1978, State University of New York at Albany, Department of Geography.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Professor of Geography, University of Illinois 2006
Associate Professor, University of Illinois, 1993
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, 1990.
Member of the Graduate Faculty, University of Illinois, 1990.
Assistant Professor of Geography, Indiana University, Indianapolis, 1984-1989.
Member of the Graduate Faculty, Indiana University, 1989.
Acting Director, Center for American Studies, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Fall 1989.
Junior Director, Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences, 1989.
Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Studies, Indiana University, Indianapolis, 1984-1989.
Research Assistant, Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University, Fall 1983. Project examined the magnitude and risk of exposure of urban fishermen to toxins in New York Harbor (funded by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection).
Adjunct Instructor, Department of Geography, Rutgers University, Spring 1983. Taught Geography 200 "Maps and Map Reading."
Research Assistant, Department of Environmental Resources, Rutgers University, Fall 1982.
Teaching Assistant, Department of Environmental Resources, Rutgers University, 1981_1982. Environmental Resources 102 "Fundamentals of Environmental Planning."
Research Assistant, Department of Environmental Resources, Rutgers University, 1980-1981.
Adjunct Instructor, Department of Social Sciences, Rockland Community College, Suffern, New York. Fall 1980. Taught Geography 230 "Introduction to Urban Geography."
AWARDS LAST THREE YEARS
Appointed Distinguished Lecturer, Summer, University of Shanghai, China, Summer 2012
Appointed to the 2011 Chancellor Dunning Trust Lectureship, Queens University, Kingston Ontario 2011-2012.
Appointed the Endowed Sage Professor of Urban Civility, University of Glasgow, Scotland, 2009.
AUTHORED BOOKS AND EDITED JOURNAL VOLUMES
Wilson, D., Miriftab, F., and K. Salo, 2014. Urban Inequalities Across the Globe (London: Routledge), forthcoming.
Wilson, D., 2012. Invited Guest Editor, “Racialization and the U.S. City,” Urban 3
Geography, 33, Spring. Wilson, D., 2009. Invited Guest Editor, “Racialized Poverty in U.S. Cities,” Professional Geographer, 61, Spring.
Wilson, D., 2007. Cities and Race: the New American Black Ghetto (London: Routledge).
Wilson, D., 2005. Inventing Black-On-Black Violence: Discourse, Space Representation (Syracuse: Syracuse University).
Wilson, D., and H. Bauder, 2001. Invited Guest Editor of special issue, Tidschrift Vor Economisch En Sociale Geografie, “Discourse and the Making of Marginalized People.”
Jonas, A. and D. Wilson, 1999. Two Decades Later: Critical Perspectives On The Growth Machine Thesis (Albany: SUNY) Edited collection.
Wilson, D., 1997. "Globalization and the Changing United States City." Invited Guest Editor for The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 51, May, 257 pgs.
Wilson, D. and Huff, J., 1994. Marginalized Places and Popula- tions: A Structurationist Agenda (Westport: Praeger) edited collection.
Jakle, J. and D. Wilson, 1992. Derelict Landscapes: the Wasting of America's Built Environment (Lanham, Md: Rowman and Little- field).
REFEREED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Wilson, David, 2013, forthcoming. “The Legacy of Logical Positivism in Critical Urban Studies: The Agenda,” Urban Geography.
Wilson, David and Matthew Anderson, 2013, forthcoming. “America’s New Post Post-Industrial Economy.” In Lisa Benton-Short (ed.) Cities North America (Totowa: Rowman & Littlefield).
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Wilson, D., 2013, forthcoming. “The Global Trope Gets Troped,” Geographica Helvetica.
Wilson, David, 2012, ”Updating the Global-Local Concept: A Review of Peck and Tickell, Area, 34, 71-83.
Wilson, David, Cope, William, and Michael A. Peters, 2012. “The Parable of the Physicist and the Postmodernists,” Policy Futures in Education, 10, 2, 229-233.
Wilson, David, 2012, “Gentrification Across the Globe: Seven Speculations,” China Ancient City, 8, 32-45.
Wilson, David, 2012, “Changing Realities: the New Racialized Redevelopment Rhetoric in Chicago,” Urban Geography, 33, 7, 979-999.
Wilson, David, 2012. “Introduction: Racialization and the U.S. City,” Urban Geography, 33, 7, 940-941.
Wilson, David, 2012. “Racialized Spaces, Blues Clubs, and Human Mediation.” In Francis Winddance Twine and Bradley Gardner (eds.) Geographies of Privilege (London: Routledge) 71-95.
Wilson, David and Matthew Anderson, 2011. “Obama’s Discourse on Poverty.” In Marcus Corsse and Tia Dafnos (eds.) Discourses of Marginality: Marginalizing Discourses (Boston: Red Quall).
Wilson, David, 2010. “Performative Neoliberal-Parasitic Economies and the Making of Political Realities: the Chicago Case,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, in press.
Bauder, Harald, Wilson, David, et. al., 2010. “Contemporary Grant Dynamics: An Intervention, Acme: International Journal for Critical Geography, 9. 1, 102-112.
Wilson, D., 2009. “The Contemporary Ghetto.” In Barney Warf (ed.) Encyclopedia of Geography (Newbury Park: Sage), forthcoming.
Keil, R. and D. Wilson, 2009. “Mr. O. Goes To Town: the First Urban 5
American President? Canada Watch, October, 9-23.
Wilson, D., 2009. Racialized Poverty in United States Cities: Toward A Refined Racial Economy Perspective, Professional Geographer, 61, 2, 139- 150. Special Issue: Racialized Poverty in U.S. Cities.
Wilson, D., Beck, D., and A. Bailey, 2009. “Neoliberal-Parasitic Economies and Space Building: Chicago’s Southwest Side,” Annals of The Association of American Geographers, 99, 2, 301-324.
Wilson, D., 2009. “Globalization, the Global Trope, and Poor Black Communities: The American Experience,” Global E-Journal, 2, May, 22-26.
Wilson, D., 2009. “The Urban Underclass.” In Barney Warf (ed.) Encyclopedia of Geography (Newbury Park: Sage), 99-102.
Wilson, D., 2008. “America’s New Black Ghetto.” In The Social Issues Collection (London: Routledge) David S. Smith (ed.).
Wilson, D. and R. Keil, 2008. “The Real Creative Class: True Realities, Real Times,” Social and Cultural Geography, 8, 841- 849.
Wilson, D., 2008. “City Transformation and the Global Trope: Indianapolis and Cleveland.” In Cultures of Globalization: Coherence, Hybridity, Contestation (London: Routledge) 29-44.
Wilson, D., 2008. “Neoliberal Redevelopment in Western Cities: Neglected Underpinnings,” Urban Geography, 29, 193-196.
Wilson, D., 2008. “Text: Textual Analysis.” International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Oxford: Elsevier) Rob Kitchen And Nigel Thrift (eds.), forthcoming.
Wilson, D., 2007. “A Flawed Reading: Notes On Inventing Black-On- Black Violence,” Social and Cultural Geography, 7, 802-808.
Wilson, D., 2007. “The New Segregation in U.S. and U.K. Cities.” In 6
J.R. Short, P. Hubbard, and T. Hall (eds.) The Compendium of Urban Studies (Newbury Park: Sage).
Wilson, D., 2007. “The Life of David Harvey.” In R. Beauregard (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Urban Studies (Newbury Park: Sage).
Wilson, D., 2007. “The Global Trope: Rust Belt Cities in America,” Globalizations, 5, 28-49.
Wilson, D., 2006. “Fractures and Cleavages: The Growing Polarization in Chicago.” In R. Greene, M. Baumann, and D. Grammenos (eds.) Geography’s Chicago Understanding the Chicago Region (Washington D.C: Association of American Geographers).
Rhoads, B. and D. Wilson, 2006. “Observation of Our World.” In J.P. Jones and Basel Gomez (eds.) Interrogating Contemporary Research Methods (Oxford: Blackwell) 26-41.
Wilson, D., 2005. “The Counter-Narrative Begins: Confronting Capital And the Ideas of James DeFilippis,” Urban Geography, 27, 3, 111-114.
Wilson, D. and D. Grammenos, 2005. “Gentrification, Political Struggle, And the Body: Chicago’s Humboldt Park,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 23, 1, 295-312.
Wilson, D., 2004. “Making Historic Preservation in Chicago: Space, Discourse, and Neoliberalism,” Space and Polity, 8, 1, 43-59.
Wilson, D., 2004. “Toward A Contingent Urban Neoliberalism,” Urban Geography, 25, 8, 771-783. Special Issue: New Developments in Anglo Urban Geography.
Wilson, D., Grammenos, D. and J. Wouters, 2004. “Neighborhood Restructuring and Political Conflict: Chicago’s Pilsen Neighbor- Hood,” Environment and Planning A, 36, 2, 114-131. Special Issue: New Trends in Gentrification Research.
Wilson, D. and T. Mueller, 2004. “Growth Coalitions, Language, and Metaphorical Deployment in St. Louis,” Professional Geographer, 56, 2, 282-294. 7
Wilson, D. Gregory, K. And M. Creekmore, 2003. “Identity Constituting and Everyday Practices in Rural, Illinois,” Great Lakes Geographer, 24, 71-89.
Wilson, D. and J. Wouters, 2003. ”Spatiality and Growth Discourse: The Restructuring Of America’s Rust Belt Cities,” Journal of Urban Affairs, 25, 2, 123-139. Special Issue: Contemporary Geographical Perspectives On Urban Politics and Policy.
Wilson, D., H. Margulis, and J. Ketchum, 2002. “Spatial Aspects of Housing Abandonment in the 1990s: the Cleveland Experience.” In The City: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences Michael Pacione (ed.) (London: Routledge) 579-601 (reprinted from Housing Studies).
Wilson, D., 2002. “Constructing “Black-On-Black Violence:” the Conservative Reality,” Acme: International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 1, 38-59.
Rhoads, B.L., Wade, R. Wilson, D., et. al., 2002. “Integrating Science and Technology to Support Stream Naturalization Near Chicago, Illinois,” Journal of American Water Resources Asso- ciation, 38, 931-944.
Wilson, D., 2001. “Coloring the City: Black-On-Black Violence and And Liberal Discourse,” Journal of Economic and Social Geography, 92, 3,261-279. Special Issue: Discourse and the Making Of Marginalized People.
Wilson, D., 2001. “Forum on Byron Miller: Geography and Social Movements,” Political Geography, 20,7, 923-924.
Wilson, D. and H. Bauder, 2001. “Discourse and the Making of Marginalized People,” Journal of Economic and Social Geography, 92, 3, 259-261. Special Issue: Discourse and the Making of Margina- lized People
Wilson, D. and D. Grammenos, 2000. "Progress Report: Spatiality and Urban Redevelopment Movements," Urban Geography, 21, 4, 361- 371. 8
Jonas, A. and D. Wilson, 1999. "New Trends In the Growth Machine Thesis." In A.E.G. Jonas and D. Wilson (eds.) Two Decades Later: Critical Perspectives On the Growth Machine Thesis (Albany: SUNY) 3-19.
Rhoads, B., Urban, M., Wilson, D. and E. Herricks, 1999. “The Role of Scientists and Non-Scientists in Environmental Management,” Environmental Management, 23, 3, 302-321.
Wilson, D., 1998. "Progress Report: The Politics of Urban Representation," Urban Geography, 19, 5, 531-542.
Wilson, D., 1997. "Globalization and the United States City," Annals of the American Academy of Social and Political Sciences, May, 551, 8-16.
Wilson, D. and P. Moss, 1997. "Geography and Sociology Interconnect: the Rise of Spatiality Studies in Urban Geography." In R. Hutchison (ed.) New Perspectives in Urban Sociology (New York: JAI Press).
Wilson, D., 1996. Metaphors, Growth Coalitions, and Black Poverty Neighborhoods In A U.S. City, Antipode, 28, 1, 72-97.
Wilson, D., 1995. "Building A Reality: Growth Coalition Representations and Uneven Development in Two U.S. Cities,” Planning Theory, 14, 1, 96-115.
Wilson, D., 1995. Progress Report: Urban Conflict Politics and the Poststructuralist Gaze, Urban Geography, 16, 8, 734-743.
Wilson, D., 1995. "Excavating the Dialectic of Blindness and Insight: Anthony Giddens' Structuration Theory," Political Geography, 14, 3, 309-318.
Wilson, D., 1995. "Urban Neighborhood Disinvestment and Altruistic Capitalist Bureaucracies: An Empirical Assessment." In K. Misra (ed.) Urban Development and Public Policy: The Dreams and Realities of Transition (Vikas: New 9
Delhi).
Wilson, D., Margulis, H., and J. Ketchum, 1994. "Spatial Aspects of Housing Abandonment in the 1990s: The Cleveland Experience," Housing Studies, 9, 4, 493-509.
Wilson, D. and J. Browning, 1994. "Politics and Community Development: The Black Underclass On Chicago's Near West Side," Tidschrift Voor Economische En Sociale Geografie, 85, 53-66.
Wilson, D., 1994. "Structurationist Studies in Geography: A Critical Review." In D. Wilson and J. Huff (eds.) Marginalized Places and Populations: A Structurationist Agenda Westport: Praeger).
Wilson, D. and Huff, J., 1994. "Contemporary Human Geography: The Emergence of Structuration Theory in Inequality Research." In D. Wilson and J. Huff (eds.)Marginalized Places and Populations: A Structurationist Agenda (Westport: Praeger).
Wilson, D., 1994. "The Dynamics of U.S. Zoning." In R. W. Fairbridge and D.E. Alexander (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Environmental Science (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold).
Wilson, D., 1993. "Everyday Life, Spatiality, and Inner City Disinvestment In A U.S. City," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 17, 4, 578-594.
Wilson, D., 1993. "Connecting Social Process and Space in the Geography of Religion," AREA, 25, 4, 75-77.
Wilson, D., 1993."Organizations and Urban Spatial Structure: A Review and Appraisal," Journal of Planning Literature, 3, 227-237.
Wilson, D., 1992. "Social Reproduction and Local Organizations: A Social Constructionist Approach," Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 10, 3, 215_230.
Wilson, D., 1991. "Urban Change, Circuits of Capital, and Uneven Development," The Professional Geographer, 43, 4, 403-415. 10
Wilson, D., 1990. "Comments on the Decline of Fieldwork in Human Geography," The Professional Geographer, 42, 2, 219-221.
Wilson, D., 1990. "Institutions, Agency and Micro_Scale Gentrification: A Tale of Two Neighborhoods," Journal of Urban Affairs, 12, 3, 267-283.
Wilson, D., 1989. "Toward A Revised Urban Managerialism: Structure, Agency, and Community Development Block Grants," Political Geography Quarterly, 8, 21-41.
Wilson, D., 1989. "Community Development Block Grants, Politics and Local Development: A Critical Comment," East Lakes Geographer, 24, 143-153.
Wilson, D., 1989. "Local State Dynamics and Gentrification in Indianapolis, Indiana," Urban Geography, 10, 1, 19-40.
Wilson, D. and A. Slack, 1989. "Toward An Applied Phenomenology: the Case of Abandoned Pier Use in Hoboken, New Jersey," Environmental Management, 13, 1, 117-123.
Wilson, D., 1988. "Urban Ecology, Managerialism, and Neighborhood Revitalization: A City_Wide Assessment," Southeastern Geographer, 28, 2, 68-79.
Wilson, D., 1987. "Gentrification On The Upper West Side Of Manhattan: An Urban Managerialist Assessment," Economic Geography, 63, 1, 35-47.
Wilson, D., 1987. "Institutions and Urban Revitalization: the Case of Chelsea in New York City," Urban Geography, 8, 2, 129_145.
Wilson, D. and G. Lentz, 1987. "Tax Abatement Programs, Targeting and Equity," Geographical Perspectives, 1, 10-18.
Wilson, D., 1987. "Urban Restructuring on Manhattan's Upper West Side," Proceedings of the Conference on Urban and Regional Policy, Indiana 11
University, Indianapolis.
Wilson, D., 1986. "Toward A Typology of Institutional Influence: Gentrification in New York City's Chelsea District," East Lakes Geographer, 21, 26_41.
Wilson, D. and N. Houser, 1985. "Explanation in Geography: the Structuralist Alternative." Indiana Academy of The Social Sciences, 24, 21-32.
Wilson, D., 1985. "Subsidized Housing Rehabilitation and Neighborhood Ecological Characteristics: the Case of New York City." Proceedings of the Conference On Urban and Regional Policy, Indiana University, Indianapolis.
Wilson, D., 1983. "Institutions and Urban Residential Structure: A Theoretical Framework," The Middle States Geographer, 17, 25-32.
Airola, R. and D. Wilson, 1982. "The Recreational Value of Residual Open Space: A Case Study of Three Communities in Northeast New Jersey," Environmental Management, 6, 471-484.
UNREFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Wilson, D. Entries “bureaucracy,” “city government,” and “institutions” for Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Thousand Oaks, Cal: Sage).
Wilson, D. and G. Lentz. Tax Abatement Programs, Targeting and Equity. Department of Geography, Discussion Paper #3, Indiana University, Indianapolis, 17 pgs.
Wilson, D. and D. Mayer. Equity and Community Development Block Grants: the Case of Indianapolis. Department of Geography Discussion Paper #1, Indiana University, Indianapolis, 16 pgs.
Roundy, R., Weinstein, N., and D. Wilson. A Study of Toxic Hazards to Urban Recreational Fishermen and Crabbers. Technical Report, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Science and Research, 67 pgs.
Roundy, R., Weinstein, N., and D. Wilson. Fishing and Exposure to Toxins in Urban New Jersey. New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Report Number J_NJ25413_1_84, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Roundy, R., Weinstein, N., and D. Wilson. Subsistence Fishing and Fishermen in Northern New Jersey. Technical Report to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. 12
Airola, T., Parker, R., and D. Wilson. The Changing Retail Structure of Rural Communities in New Jersey. New Jersey Agricultural Experimental Station Report, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
CURRENT EDITORIAL BOARD ACTIVITIES
Editorial Board, Urban Geography (2004- ).
Editorial Board, Geography Journal (2012- ).
Editorial Board, Professional Geographer (2005- ).
Editorial Board, Space, Place, and Society Book Series, Syracuse University Press, (2005- ).
Editorial Board, Social and Cultural Geography (2005- ).
Editorial Board, International Journal of Spaces and Flows (2009 - ).
Editorial Board, ACME: International Online Journal of Critical Geography (2007- ).
Book Review Editor, Urban Geography (2011- ).
Editorial Board, Inter-Cultural Studies (2002- ).
Editorial Board, Open Urban Studies Journal (2007- ).
Editorial Board, Encyclopedia of Human Geography Project (2003- ).
Advisory Board, Urban Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers (2004- ).
KEYNOTE ADDRESSES, PROFESSIONAL COLLOQUIA AND PAPERS PRESENTED 13
“Intensifying the Creative City: America’s New Redevelopment Machine,” Keynote Lec- ture Delivered at the International Conference on the Creative Class and the Creative City, University of Heidelberg, Germany, Summer, forthcoming, 2013.
“Redevelopment Machines, Race, Class, and Fear-Scapes,” invited workshop lecture Delivered at SUNY Buffalo, Summer, forthcoming, 2013.
“Trends in Current Spaces and Flows Research,” Keynote Lecture Delivered at the International Conference on Spaces and Flows, University of Amsterdam, Fall 2013, forthcoming.
“Issues in Spaces and Flows: the Current Agenda,” Keynote Lecture Delivered at the International Conference on Spaces and Flows, Wayne State University, Fall 2012.
“Contemporary Gentrification in the Global West: Seven Speculations,” Keynote Lecture Delivered at the Department of Global Studies, Shanghai University, Shanghai China, Summer 2012.
“Global Poverty: Competing Explanations,” Keynote Lecture delivered at the Department Of Global Studies, Shanghai University, Shanghai China, Summer 2012.
“Evolving Urban Form in the Changing United States: Competing Perspectives,” Keynote Lecture Delivered at the Department of Global Studies, Shanghai University, Shanghai China, Summer 2012.
“Fabricating A Black-On-Black Violence Vision: the American Experience,” lecture delivered at the Department of Urban Planning Speaker Series, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, April 2012.
“New Tenacious Inequalities in America’s Rust Belt” (with Faranak Miraftab), Plenary Lecture at the Conference on Global Inequalities and Cities, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 2012.
“Building Black-On-Black Violence: the American Experience,” lecture delivered at the De- partment Colloquium Series, Department of Geography, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA., March 2012.
“Redevelopment Governances and the Current Fear Economy.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, New York, New York, February 2012.
“Spaces, Flows, and the Inventing of Black-On-Black Violence in America,” Keynote Address at the International Conference on Spaces and Flows, Prato, Italy, November 2011.
“Deploying the Discursive Suburbia.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, RG 21 Conference, Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Nether- lands, July 2011.
“Neoliberal-Parasitic Economies and Rust Belt Cities: the Chicago Case.” Paper presented 14
at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Seattle, Wash., April 2010.
“Spaces and Flows: the Future.” Lecture delivered at the Conference on Transnational Futures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ill., March 2011.
“The Politics of Representation: Indianapolis in a Global World.” Keynote lecture Delivered at the Tenth Annual Joseph E. Taylor Symposium, Indiana University at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN., March 2011.
“Global Ghettos in America’s Rust Belt.” 2011 Dunning Trust Lecture, Endowed Keynote Address, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, February 2011.
“Gentrification in North America: Seven Speculations.” Lecture delivered at the Depart- ment Colloquium Series, Department of Urban Planning, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, February 2011.
“Black-On-Black Violence American Style.” Lecture delivered at the Department Collo- quium Series, Department of Geography, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, February 2011.
“Deepening Racialized Poverty and Inequality in U.S. Cities.” Lecture delivered at the Forum on Race and Racism, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, February 2011.
“Changing Neoliberal Redevelopment Governance in Chicago.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Washington D.C., April 2010 (with Matt Anderson).
“Making America’s New Black Ghetto.” Lecture delivered at the Geography Depart- ment Colloquium Series, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, April 2010.
“Research in North American Poverty: A Summation.” Paper presented at the Global Poverty Workshop, University of Bergen, Os, Norway, January 2010.
“Racial Economy and the Politics of Globalization.” Lecture delivered at the Depart- ment Colloquium Series, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana, October 2009.
“New Urban Politics, Growth Governances, and Contemporary Chicago: Adjust- ments, Modifications, Alignments.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, Nev. March 2009.
“Balkanized Rust Belt Cities, Urban Redevelopment and Global-Speak.” Lecture delivered at the Geography Department Colloquium Series, Ohio State University (Columbus), February 2009.
“Visualizing and Planning an Urban Center: Its Multi-faceted Dimensions,” Special Invited Lecture, School of Arts and Sciences, Ohio State University (Columbus), February 2009.
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“Afflicted Poor Black Communities in the Neoliberalizing U.S. City.” Lecture delivered at Geography Department Colloquium Series, University of Washington (Seattle), January 2009.
“Globalization, Glocalization, the Global Trope, and America’s New Black Ghettos.” Lecture delivered at the Urban Studies Colloquium Series, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, December 2008.
“New Trends in Urban Geographic Scholarship: the Anglo Scene.” Lectgure delivered at the Urban Studies Colloquium Series, University Of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, October 2008.
“Re-Scripting the Black Poor: the Rhetorical Fix and Redevelopment Governance in Contemporary Chicago.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Conference on Race, Ethnicity, and Place, Miami, Fla. November 2008.
“The New Suburban Poverty: Leafy Suburbs and Municipal Governance.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Boston, Mass. April 2008.
“Rust Belt Cities, the New Racialized Marginalization, and the Global Trope.” Lecture delivered in the Geography Colloquium Series, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 2008.
“America’s New Black Ghetto and the Global Trope.” Lecture delivered in the Geography Colloquium Series, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, November 2007
“The New Economy in America’s Poor Racialized Spaces.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Society For the Study of Social Problems,” New York City, August 2007.
“Chicago’s Neoliberal-Parasitic Economy: Space Building and Institutional Reproduction.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April 2007.
“Inventing “Black-On-Black Violence.” Lecture delivered for the Inner Structures – Outer Cities Lectures Series, the City Institute, York University, Canada, November, 2006.
“Chicago’s Parasitic-Neoliberal Economy: Making Space and Economic Reproduction.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Institute Of British Geographers and Royal Geographical Society Meeting, London, U.K, September 2006.
“America’s New Black Ghetto: the Global Trope and Neoliberal Politics.” Keynote presentation at the Eleventh Annual Conference “Constructed Spaces, Contested Places,” University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, April, 2006. 16
“The Global Trope and the New Urban Governmentality: Reality and Impacts.” Lecture delivered at the Dialogic Conference on Globali- zation and the City, University of South Florida, April 2006.
“Global Hype in an Era of Global Realities: the Restructuring U.S. City. Lecture delivered at the Colloquium Series, Miami University of Ohio, March 2006.
“The Paradox of Neoliberal Redevelopment in Chicago.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois, April 2006.
“Dynamics of Race, Space, and Ethnicity.” Paper presented at the World University Network Seminar Series “Globalization and Beyond,” telecast to 12 American and European universities, September 2005.
“Neoliberalism and Multiculturalism: the Chicago Experience.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Denver, Colorado, April 2005.
“Historic Preservation and Neoliberalism in Chicago.” Lecture delivered at the Colloquium Series, Miami of Ohio University, Fall 2005.
“Political Conflict in Illinois Watersheds: the East-Central Illinois Experience.” Paper presented at the Conference on Water In A Troubled World,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, November, 2004.
Neighborhood Restructuring, Space, and the Body: Chicago’s Humboldt Park.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Spring 2004.
“The Growth Machine and Beyond.” Paper presented at the World University Network Seminar Series “Contemporary Trends in Human Geography,” telecast to 12 American and European Universities, October 2004.
“Gentrification, Social Construction, and the Body: Chicago’s Humboldt Park Neighborhood.” Lecture delivered at the Migration Colloquium Series, University of Illinois, November 2003.
“Making Historic Preservation in Chicago: Discourse, Space, and Neoliberalism.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Fourth Annual Transnationalism Conference, University of Illinois, May 2003.
“Making Workfare Work: Discourse and Spatiality.” Paper presented at The Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, Louisiana. Spring 2003.
“Ethnicity and Spatiality: Changing Pilsen in Chicago.” Paper presented 17
at the Annual Meeting, Association of American geographers, New Orleans, Louisiana. Spring 2003.
“Restructuring Chicago’s Pilsen Neighborhood in Neoliberal Times.” Paper presented at the Brownbag Series, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, May 2002.
“Restructuring Midwest Cities and the Local State: Current Dynamics.” Lecture delivered at the Colloquium Series, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana. April 2002.
“The Discursive Discourse of Gentrification in Three Midwest Cities.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, California. Spring 2002.
“Gentrifying Indianapolis: Local State Influences.” Paper presented At the Colloquium Series, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois, January 2002.
“Space and Growth Discourse.” Paper presented at the Migration Studies Theory Group, University of Illinois, November 2001
“Restructuring the U.S. Midwest City: Ideological Foundations.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Critical Geography Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, Fall 2000.”
“Coding and Coloring Chicago’s Violence: A Critical Perspective.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Great Cities Conference, Chicago, Ill. Fall 2000.
“Coloring the City: Representation and Discourse About Urban Violence.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pa., Spring 2000.
“Violence In the City: Discursive Racializing and Politics. Paper presented at the Colloquium Series, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, Spring 2000.
Farmer Practices and Symbolic Meanings in Central Illinois. Paper presented at Environmental Horizons Conference, University of Illinois, Spring 2000
“Constructing Black-On-Black Violence: the Neoliberal Rendition.” Paper presented at Annual Meeting, Conference on Critical Geography, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 1999.
“Coloring the Inner City: Conservative Constructions of Violence.” Paper presented at Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 1999.
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“Farmer Agricultural Practices and Identity Politics.” Lecture delivered at the Colloquium Series, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, January 1999.
“Reading Farmer Identities From the Agricultural Landscape.” Talk Delivered on tour of Central Illinois for the National Endowment For Humanities Seminar, Champaign, Illinois, Summer 1999.
“Space and Growth Discourse in U.S. Midwest Rust Belt Cities.” Paper presented at Annual Meeting, Middle States Division, Associate of American Geographers Meeting, New Brunswick, New Jersey October 1998.
“Spatialized Knowledge and the Transforming U.S. City.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Conference On Critical Geography, Cincinnati, Ohio October 1998.
“Integrating the Physical and the Social: Results of EPA/NSF Research One Year Later.” Paper presented at NSF Group Meeting, Eugene, Oregon (with Bruce Rhoads), March 1998.
“Space and Making Fact: the Midwest U.S. City Experience.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Boston, Mass. April 1998.
“Greasing the Growth Machine: Metaphors and the St. Louis Experience.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Boston, Mass. April 1998 (with Tom Mueller).
“Spatiality and Manufactured Knowledges: the Restructuring Of the United States City.” Paper presented at the Colloquium Series, Unit For Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois, January 1998.
“Space and Urban Redevelopment Movements in the United States.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Conference Of Critical Geographers, Cincinnati, Ohio October 1997.
"Making the Reality of Steel Deindustrialization: the Chicago Experience. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of merican Geographers, Ft. Worth Texas, April 1997.
"The Discourse of Black-On-Black Violence: the NeoConservative Gaze." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Conference On Critical Geography, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Ohio, October 1996.
"Growth Coalitions, Discourse, and Uneven Development In Two Midwest Cities." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, North Carolina, April 1996.
"Discourse and the Politics of U.S. City Growth." Paper presented at the 19
Annual Spring Colloquium, Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana, Spring 1995
"Metaphors and Uneven Development In A U.S. City." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Chicago, March 1995.
"Metaphors, Growth Coalition Discourses, and Black Poverty Neighborhoods In A U.S. City." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Institute of British Geographers, University of Northumbria, United Kingdom, January 1995.
"Gentrification and the Built Environment." Lecture delivered at the Annual Fall Colloquium, University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, Green Bay, Wisconsin, Fall 1993.
"Social Reproduction and Local Organizations: A Social Constructionist Perspective." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, April 1993.
"Spatiality and the Social Construction of Disadvantaged Neighborhoods." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Urban Affairs Association, Indianapolis, April 1993.
"Gentrification and Downtown Restructuring: the Indianapolis Experience." Paper presented at the Colloquium Series, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, October 1992.
"Politics and Community Development: the Case of Chicago's Black Underclass." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, San Diego, Cal., April 1992.
"Contemporary Gentrification in North American Cities." Paper presented at the Cohn Scholars Program, University of Illinois, Urbana Ill, December 1991.
"Space, Place, and Slum Persistence: Indianapolis' Zone In Transition." Paper presented at the North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association, New Orleans, LA, November 1991 (with Jeremy Browning).
"Slum Persistence as Spatial Construction: the Appropriation of Space and Place." Paper presented at Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Miami, Florida, April 1991.
"Gentrification and Structuration: A Geographer's Perspective." Lecture Delivered at the Scholarly Colloquium Series, University of Utah, April 1990.
"Contingent Slum Persistence: Toward A Refined Political Economy of Place Thesis. Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers 20
Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, April 1990.
"Toward A Revised Urban Managerialism: Local Managers and Community Development Block Grants." Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, March 1989.
"Geography and Gentrification Dynamics." Paper presented at the Scholarly Colloquium Series, University of North Carolina, Greens- boro, North Carolina, January 1989.
"Applied Phenomenology and Residual Waterfront Land in Hoboken, New Jersey." Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers West Lakes Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 1988.
"Gentrification and Urban Restructuring: A Geographers Perspective." Paper presented at the Scholarly Colloquia Series, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana August 1988.
"Marx and the Child: Implications for Urban Spatial Structure." Paper presented at the Canadian Association of Geographers, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 1988.
"Urban Revitalization and Local State Dynamics: the Indiananapolis Experience." Paper presented at the Scholarly Colloquia Series, Michigan State University, East Lansing, March 1988.
"Explicating Phenomenology: An Empirical Application." Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, April 1988 (co_author: Andrew Slack).
"Local Government Influences on Gentrification: the Indianapolis Experience." Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers West Lakes Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, October 1987.
"Gentrification and Local State Dynamics: the Case of Indianapolis." Paper presented for the Scholarly Colloquia Series, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, October 1987.
"Institutions and Urban Revitalization: the Case of New York City's Upper West Side." Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, April 1987.
"Neighborhood Ecology, Structuralism, and Urban Restructuring: A City_Wide Assessment." Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Southeast Division Meeting, Lexington, Kentucky, November 1986.
"Toward An Understanding of Supply Side Constraints on Neighborhood Reinvestment." Paper presented at the Assocation of American Geographers 21
Annual Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 1986.
"Gentrification in New York City's Chelsea District." Paper presented at the Conference On Urban And Regional Policy, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, May 1986.
"Toward A Refined Institutional Policy in Community Upgrading." Paper presented for the Visiting Scholars Program, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, March 1986.
"Explanation in Geography: the Structuralist Alternative." Paper presented at the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, October 1985 (co_author: Nathan Hauser).
"Institutions and Urban Revitalization: the Case of the Upper West Side in New York City." Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual West Lakes Meeting, DeKalb, Illinois, September 1985.
Subsidized Housing Rehabilitation and Neighborhood Ecological Characteristics: the Case of New York City." Paper presented at the Conference on Urban and Regional Policy, Indiana University,Indiana- polis, Indiana, April 1985.
"Urban Revitalization, Tax Abatement Programs, and Neighborhood Ecological Characteristics." Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Detroit, Michigan, April 1985.
"The Dynamics of Urban Managerialism." Paper presented at Association of American Geographers East Lakes and Canadian Association of Geographers Joint Meeting, Waterloo, Ontario, November 1984.
"Fishing and Exposure to Toxins in Urban New Jersey." Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Washington D.C., April 1984 (co_authors: Robert Roundy and Neil Weinstein).
"Institutions and Urban Residential Structure: A Theoretical Framework." Paper presented at the Middle States Division, Association of American Geographers, West Point, New York, November 1983.
"Public Versus Private Sector Revitalization: Contrasting Spatial Processes." Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, April 1982 (co_author: Briavel Holcomb).
"Slum Clearance: A Direct Stimulus Toward Ghetto Housing Expansion?" Paper presented at the Middle States Division, Association of American Geographers, New Brunswick, New Jersey, October 1979.
CONFERENCES AND CONFERENCE SESSIONS CHAIRED AND ORGANIZED 22
Co-organized the Third International Conference on Spaces and Flows, Wayne State University, October 2012.
Chaired session “The Dynamics of Racial Governances, Thirteenth Annual Trans- National Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 2012.
Co-organized (with Faranak Miraftab and Ken Salo) the “Global Inequalities and Cities Conference,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Ill., March 2012.
Organized the panel discussion “The Legacy of Logical Positivism in Critical Urban Research,” Association of American Geographers Meeting, New York, New York, February, 2012.
Organized the panel discussion “New Political Trends in the Western City: Predictions And Speculations,” Association of American Geographers Meeting, New York, New York, February, 2012.
Co-organized (with Markus Schultz) the Conference on Transnational Futures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Ill., March 2011.
Co-organized the First International Conference on Spaces and Flows, University of California – Los Angeles, December 2010.
Co-organized the Second International Conference on Spaces and Flows, Monash University, Prato, Italy, November 2011.
Chaired and co-organized session (with Kevin Ward) “The Making of Urban Fringe Economies,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, Nev. March 2009.
Organized session “Racialized Economies in Contemporary America,” Annual Meeting, Annual Conference on Race, Ethnicity, and Place, Miami, Fla. November 2008.
Chaired and organized session “Author Meets Critics: Alan Cochrane’s Understanding Urban Policy: A Critical Approach,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Boston, Mass. April 2008.
Chaired and organized session “The Western City as Research Object.” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April 2007.
Chaired session “Dynamics of Manufactured Spaces and Places,” Ninth Annual Meeting, Transnational Workshop, University of Illinois, April 2006.
Co-organized (with Roger Keil) four sessions “Dynamics of Neoliberal Governance I-IV,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois, April 2006. 23
Chaired two sessions “Dynamics of Neoliberal Governance I–IV,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois, April 2006.
Co-organized “2006 Urban Geography Plenary Lecture” (with Bob Lake, Lynn Staeheli) Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois, April 2006.
Co-organized (with Jennifer Massey) Political Geography Mini-Conference “Urban Change and Transformation,” two day event at the University of Illinois, March 2006.
Co-organized (with Jamie Peck, Wendy Larner) World University Network Seminar “Globalization and Beyond,” seminar series involving 12 American and European universities, originating out of University of Wisconsin and University of Bristol, 2005.
Chaired and organized session “Author Meets the Critics: James DeFilippis’s “Taming Goliath: Capital in the City,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Spring 2004.
Chaired session “The New U.S. Imperialism,” Francis Boyle Presentation, Colloquium Series, transnational seminar, University of Illinois, November 2003.
Organized 11 sessions for Tenth Annual Critical Geography Conference, University of Illinois, October 2003.
Chair, special session “Political Economy Of the South,” Annual Meeting, Illinois Institute for Humanities Conference: the South, April 2003.
Organized, special session “Space and Changing Inner Cities,” panel discussion, Annual Critical Geography Conference, University of Cincinnati, October 2001
Chaired special session “New Trends In Urban Politics,” panel discussion, Annual Critical Geography Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 2000.
Organized special session “Author Meets the Critics: Byron Miller’s Grass-Roots Activism and Spatiality: the Peace Movement,” Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, Pa. April 2000.
Organized special session “Perspectives on Representation and Urban Politics,” Association of American Geographers, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 1999.
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Chair of Session, “New Voices in Critical Geography II,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Boston, Mass. April 1998.
Organized three special sessions, "Globalization and the North American City," Annual Meeting of Association of American Geographers, Ft. Worth, Texas, Spring 1997.
Organized two special sessions, "Critical Appraisals in the Growth Machine Thesis," Annual Meeting of Asso- tion of American Geographers, Charlotte, North Carolina, Spring 1996.
Organized special session, "Facts and Fictions About the Urban Underclass," Annual Meeting of Progressive Planners Alliance, East St. Louis, Mo., May 1995.
Organized special session, "Perspectives On Urban Growth Coalitions in the 1990s," Annual Meeting of Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Ill., April 1995
Co_organized special session, "Perspectives on Space and Social Process, "Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, GA., April 1993
Co-Organized special session, "Perspectives on Urban Decline," Annual Meeting, National Urban Affairs Association, Indianapolis, IN., April 1993.
Co-organized special session, "Urban Geography and Ethnic Geography Specialty Groups: "Perspectives on North American Residential Structure," Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, San Diego, Cal., April 1992.
Organized two special sessions, "Perspectives on Space and Ideology," Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Miami, April 1991.
Chair of Session, "Perspectives on Space and Ideology II," Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Miami, April 1991.
Chair of Session, "Housing Issues," Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Miami, April 1991.
Chair of Session, "Contemporary Geographical Issues," Annual Meeting, Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences, Bloomington, Indiana, Fall 1990.
DISCUSSANT AND PANEL SESSIONS 25
Discussant, three papers (by Zambrana, Neal, and Bohr) in special session “Markets as Communities, Markets as Institutions,” 2011 Transnational Workshop, Urbana-Champaign, Ill, November 2011.
Discussant, four papers (by Winders and Schein, Brahinsky, Strauss, Branch) In special session “Race and Space I: The Politics of the Racial Economy,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Seattle Wash., April 2011.
Panelist in special session “Is There A Thing Like Re-Urbanization: A Critical Debate About Some Current Shifts in Urban Growth and Decline (organized By Thomas Doerfler), Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Seattle, Wash. April 2011.
Panelist in special session “Building and Sustaining Community-University Partnerships in Marginalized Urban Areas (Organized by Ahmed Allahwala and Susannah Bunce), Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Seattle, Wash. April 2011
Panelist in special session “Race, the Tea Party, and America’s Turn to the Right” (Organized by Sundiata Cha-Jua), Department of African-American Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill. November 2010
Discussant, four papers (by Wacquant, Doerffler, Darden, Gerhardt) in special session “Ghettos, Slums, Favelas: Dynamics and Comparisons,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Washington D.C., April 2010.
Panelist in art forum commentary on exhibit “Under Control,” Krannert Art Gallery, University of Illinois, Urbana, Fall 2009.
Panelist in special session “Where is Urban Politics?” (Organized by Clive Barnett And Scott Rodgers), Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, Nev. March 2009.
Panelist in special session “Debate: Critical Practice of Grant Application and Administration” (organized by Harald Bauder), Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, Nev. March 2009.
Discussant, paper presentation by Lauren Langman, “The Dialectic of Global Identity: Hegemony Versus Resistance,” Transnational Colloquium Series, University of Illinois, October 2008.
Discussant, paper presentation by Clarence Lo, “Straightening the Crooked E: Egalitarianism, Equity, and Retribution After the Global Scandal at ENRON,” Transnational Colloquium Series, University of Illinois, January 2008.
Discussant, paper presentation by Euan Hague, “Civil Rights, Culture, 26
and the Production of Iconography,” Transnational Colloquium Series, University of Illinois, October 2007.
Panelist, National Science Foundation, Division of Geography and Regional Science, reviewer for Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Awards, Arlington, VA, October 2007.
Discussant, paper presentation by Joe Painter, “Contemporary Biopolitics in the United Kingdom,” Transnational Colloquium Series, University of Illinois, May 2007.
Panelist and Central Speaker in special session “Author Meets the Critics: David Wilson’s Cities and Race, America’s New Black Ghettos,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April 2007.
Discussant, four papers (by Cox, Theodore and Peck, McCann, Rudry) in special session “Contemporary Urban Governance: Policy Implications,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April 2007.
Panelist in special session “Racialized Poverty in America: New Realities,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April 2007.
Discussant, paper presented by Andrew Wood, “Globalization, Urban Growth, and the Commercial Property Sector,” Transnational Colloquium Series, University of Illinois, November 2006.
Discussant, paper presented by Nik Heynen, “the Changing Politics of Hunger: Examples from Milwaukee,” Transnational Colloquium Series, University of Illinois, April 2006.
Panelist in special session “”Street Level Geography: University- Community Research and Action in Chicago and Beyond,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois, April 2006
Panelist in special session “Race and Poverty in America: the Dimension Of Discourse,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois, April 2006.
Discussant, four papers in special session “Urban Identities: Subjects, Bodies, and the City,” Twelth Annual Meeting, Critical Geography Conference, Miami of Ohio University, Oxford, Ohio, October 2005.
Panelist in special session “Sense of Place and Changing Economic and Environmental Times in the Sangamon Valley, Illinois,” State of Illinois Research Forum, Decatur, Ill., March 2005.
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Panelist in special session “The New City-Region and Issues of Social Reproduction,” International Geographical Union Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland, August 2004.
Discussant, four papers in special session “Changing Realities in U.S. Cities,” Eleventh Annual Meeting, Critical Geography Conference, Indiana State University, October 2004.
Discussant, paper presentation by Faranak Miriftab, “Home, Hope, and Eviction: South Africa’s Anti-Eviction Campaign,” Transnational Col- loquium, University of Illinois, February 2004.
Discussant, four papers in special session, “Discourse and Inequality,” Tenth Annual Meeting, Critical Geography Conference, University of Illinois, October 2003.
Discussant, special session “Education, Multiculturalism, and Politics.” Conference on Race, Education and Multiculturalism, Center for Democracy And Multiculturalism, University of Illinois, April 2003.
Discussant for four papers in special session “Geography, Discourse, and “Spatiality,” Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, La. March 2003.
Panelist in special session “Interactions, Contingencies, and Synthe- sis: Exploring Linkages Between Human and Physical Geography,” Annual Meeting, Conference on Critical Geography, Lexington, Kentucky. October 2002.
Panelist in special session “Neoliberalism and the City,” World Uni- versity Network Conference on Neoliberalism, Bristol University, Bristol, England. May 2002.
Discussant for three papers in special session “Geography and Trans- nationalism,” Annual Meeting, Transnational Dynamics, University of Illinois, Urbana, April 2002.
Panelist in special session ”the Construction of Space and America’s Changing Inner Cities,” Annual Meeting, Conference on Critical Geo- graphy, University of Cincinnati, October 2001.
Panelist in special session “New Trends in U.S. Community Development,” round-table Discussion, Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Boston, Mass. April 1998.
Discussant for four papers in special session "Social Construction and African Cities," Annual Meeting, Center for African Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana, Spring 1996.
Panelist in special session “New Trends in Appropriation of Place," 28
round-table Discussion, Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Charlotte North Carolina, Spring 1996.
Panelist in special session "Inner City Abandonment and Arson in Context: Some Critical Reflections," Roundtable Discussion, Annual Meeting, Association of Collegiate Planners, Detroit, Michigan, Fall 1995
Discussant for four papers in special session "The Public University and Urban Outreach" Session, Annual Meeting, Regional Collegiate Planners Meeting, Urbana, Illinois, Fall 1995.
Discussed "Urban Redevelopment and Gambling in Illinois," for five part documentary, WAND (ABC) TV, Spring 1995.
Discussed "Black Poverty Neighborhoods and Government Responsibility," National Public Radio, "Focus 580," Urbana and Chicago, Spring 1995
Discussant for four papers in "Social Construction of Urban Space" Session at the Annual Meeting of Collegiate Planners, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 1993.
Discussed "Derelict Landscapes Across American Places," National Public Radio Focus 580, Urbana and Chicago, Ill. November 1992.
Discussed Sara McLafferty and Valerie Preston, "Spatial Mismatch and Labor Market Segmentation For Black and Hispanic Women," North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association, New Orleans, LA. November 1991
Discussed Steve Mathews and Glenda Laws, "Working On the Margins: Production, Reproduction and the Labor Market Experiences of Young Women," North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association, New Orleans, La. November 1991.
Discussed Larry Bourne, "Recycling Urban Systems: Theory, Process, and Practice," Howard Roepke Annual Lecture, Association of American Geographers, Miami, April 1991.
Discussed "Homelessness As Emerging Dilemma" and "The Plight of the U.S. Black Athlete" at the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences Annual Meeting, Geography Division, Bloomington, Indiana, Fall 1990.
Discussed "The Frankfurt School and the Emergence of the U.S Urban University" at the Conference On the Urban University In the Twentieth Century, Indiana University, Indianapolis, November 1989.
Discussed "Homelessness and Public Policy Considerations" at the Symposium on Homelessness in America, Indiana University, Indianapolis, May 1989. 29
Discussed "Contemporary Spatial Issues" at the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences Annual Meeting, Geography Division, Greencastle, Indiana, Fall 1989.
Discussed "Cypriot Urbanization: A Geographical Assessment" at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Southeast Division, Lexington, Kentucky, November 1986.
Discussed "Urban/Economic Geography Sessional Presentations, Association of American Geographers West Lakes Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, October 1987.
BOOK REVIEWS
Judd, Dennis and Dick Simpson, 2012. The City, Revisited: Urban Theory (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota). For Urban Affairs Review.
Lewis, Robert, 2009. Chicago Made: Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis (Chicago: University of Chicago). For Economic Geography.
Leitner, H., Peck, J., and E. Sheppard, 2008. Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban Frontiers (New York: Guilford). For Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
Tonkiss, Fran, 2008. Space, the City and Social Theory (Cambridge: Polity). For British Journal of Sociology.
Maginn, Paul, J, 2005. Urban Regeneration, Community Power and the [In]significance of Race (Aldershot UK: Ashgate). For Population,
Theodore, N. and N. Brenner, 2004. Spaces of Neoliberalism (Oxford: Blackwell Press). For Annals of the Association of American Geo- graphers.
Bridge, G. and S. Bridge, 2002. “A Companion to the City.” Basil Blackwell Press, for Urban Studies.
Pile, S., Brook, C. and G. Mooney, 2001. “Unruly Cities, Understanding Cities,” Environment and Planning B, in press.
Vergara, C.J., 2001. The New American Ghetto. Routledge Press, for Urban Geography, 27, 404-405..
Barnes, T., 1999. Logics of Dislocation. Routledge Press, For Journal of Planning and Education Studies (with Pamela Moss). 30
Gregory, D., Martin, R., and G. Smith, 1996. "Human Geography: Society, Space, and Social Science." University of Minnesota Press, for Professional Geographer.
Ball, R., and A. Pratt, 1995. "Industrial Property: Policy and Economic Development." Routledge Press, for Environment and Planning A.
Mills, E.S. and J.F. McDonald, 1994. "Sources of Metropolitan Growth." Center for Urban Policy Research Press, for The Professional Geographer.
Castells, M., 1993 "The Informational City: Information Technology, Economic Restructuring, and the Urban_Regional Process." Basil Blackwell Press, for GROWTH AND CHANGE.
Owen, C.J. and Y. Willbern, 1986. "Governing Metropolitan Indianapolis: the Politics of Unigov." University of California Press, for GROWTH AND CHANGE.
REFEREE Annals of the Association of American Geographers 1997, 1999, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Environment and Planning A 1992, 1995a, 1995b, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2008a, 2008b, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
Economic Geography 1993, 2000, 2005
Political Geography 1992, 1993, 2000, 2001, 2002
Progress in Human Geography 2005, 2010
Urban Studies 2007, 2008a, 2008b, 2009a, 2009b, 2010, 2011
Great Lakes Geographer 1993
Sociological Quarterly 1994, 1997, 1998
National Science Foundation Proposals 1990, 1992, 1995a, 1995b, 1997a, 1997b, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2009
Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences 1989, 1990
Urban Geography 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994a, 1994b, 1995, 1996, 1997a, 1997b, 1997c, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 31
2003, 2004, 2005a, 2005b, 2006a, 2006b, 2007a, 2007b. 2007c. 2008a, 2008b, 2008c, 2009, 2009ª, 2010, 2011, 2012
Journal of Urban Affairs 1991, 1992, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007
Urban Affairs Review 2007, 2008
The Professional Geographer 1991, 1995, 1998a, 1999a, 1999b, 1999c, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006a, 2006b, 2006c, 2007a, 2007b, 2007c, 2007d, 2008a, 2008b, 2008c, 2008d, 2009ª, 2009b, 2009c, 2010a 2010b, 2011
AREA 1992, 2009
Antipode 1997a, 1997b, 1999, 2000a, 2000b, 2008 2001, 2002, 2003a, 2003b, 2004a 2004b, 2004c, 2007, 2009, 2009a, 2011, 2012
Annals of Tourism Research 1997
University of Illinois Research Board Proposals 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997,1998a, 1998b, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005 1999, 2001, 2002 Journal of Geography 1996
Environmental Management, 1993, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000a, 2000b, 2001, 2003, 2005
Theory and Society 1999
Austrian Science Fund (ASF) 2011
Acme: International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008a, 2008b, 2009a, 2009b, 2009c 2010a, 2010b, 2010c
Cultural Geographies 2007
Journal of Planning Literature 2003
Temple University Press 2003, 2007
Review of International Political Economy 2003
Blackwell Press 2004, 2008
McGraw-Hill Press 2007, 2008
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010a, 2010b, 2010c 32
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada 2004, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012 Cities 2005
Social and Cultural Geography 2006, 2007a, 2007b, 2007c, 2007d, 2007e, 20008a, 2008b, 2008c, 2009, 2009a, 2010a, 2010b, 2010c
Fullbright Fellowships 2003, 2004, 2005
Guggenheim Fellowships 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Geographical Review 2006
Geoforum 2009
Sage Books 2007, 2008a, 2008b
University of Minnesota Press, 2012
Praxis Books 2009
Geography Compass 2010
Growth and Change 2006, 2009, 2010
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Seed Grant Research Proposal, 2007
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Principal investigator, Center For Multiculturalism and Democracy, University of Illinois, 2003. “The Constructing of Entitlement: Citizenship And Restructuring in Chicago’s Humboldt Park Neighborhood,” $3,680.
Co-principal investigator, United States Department of Environmental Protection and National Science Foundation, 1997. “Science and Non- Scientists in Watershed Protection In Agricultural Environments,” $880,200 (with Bruce Rhoads and Edwin Herricks).
Co-principal investigator, United States Department of Environmental Protection, 1996. "Watershed Protection in Agricultural Environments: Integrated Social, Geomorphological and Ecological Research to Support Ecosystem-Based Stream Management," $350,699 (with Bruce Rhoads and Edwin Herricks).
Principal Investigator, University of Illinois Research Board Grant, 1995. "Race and Racial Representation: the Discourse of Black-On-Black Violence In the U.S. City, University of Illinois, $9,000. 33
Principal investigator, University of Illinois Research Board Grant, 1992. "Persistent Residential Abandonment: Midwest Cities in the 1990s, University of Illinois, $8,300.
Principal investigator, University of Illinois Research Board Grant, 1991. "Black and Hispanic Segregation and Political Response: the Case of Chicago," University of Illinois, $12,900.
Summer Faculty Research Grant, 1989. "Slum Sustenance and Organizational Factors," Indiana University, $2,900.
Summer Faculty Research Grant, 1988. "Tax Abatements and the Dynamics of Urban Redevelopment," Indiana University, $2,800.
Summer Faculty Research Grant, 1987. "Political Process and Community Development Block Grant Allocation," Indiana University, $2,700.
Summer Faculty Research Grant, 1986. "Gentrification As Downtown Restructuring," Indiana University, $2,100.
Indiana University Faculty Fellowship, 1985. "Block Grants, Politics, And Neighborhood Change," Indiana University, $4,500.
National Science Foundation Doctoral Research Grant, 1983. Division of Geography and Regional Science, Washington, D.C. $4,080.
Walter C. Russell Graduate Fellowship, Rutgers University, 1982_1983. Tuition waver and $9,000 stipend.
Social Science Graduate Fellowship, Temple University, 1979_ 1980.
TENURE/PROMOTION CASES REFEREED (SINCE 2006)
York University (Canada) (to Professor) Clark University (to Professor) University of Washington, Seattle (to Associate Professor) Rutgers University (New Brunswick) (to Associate Professor) University of Kentucky (to Associate Professor) University of Kentucky (to Professor) University of Toronto (Canada) (to Professor) University of Indianapolis (to Associate Professor) University of Manchester (United Kingdom) (to Professor) Simon Fraser University (Canada) (to Associate Professor) Simon Fraser University (Canada) (to Professor) University of British Columbia (Canada) (to Associate Professor) Miami of Ohio University (to Associate Professor) University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (to Professor) Georgia State University (to Associate Professor) 34
University of Toledo (to Professor)
PROFESSIONAL/SCHOLARLY ORGANIZATIONS
Association of American Geographers American Planning Association American Federation of Teachers Urban Affairs Association Society for the Study of Social Problems
COURSES TAUGHT
Geo. 104. Introduction to Social and Cultural Geography
Geo. 110. Introduction to Human Geography
Geo. 140. Maps and Map Reading
Geo. 210 Introduction to Urban Geography
Geo. 318. The Geography of Cities and Metropolitan Areas
Geo. 319. The Internal Structure of the City
Geo. 331. Principles of Economic Geography
Geo. 371. Contemporary Trends in Geographic Thought
Geo. 350. Sustainability and the City
Geo. 490. Senior Seminar: History and Philosophy of Human Geography
Geo. 464. Watershed Management: the Physical-Social Inter- Face
Geo. 495. Seminar: The Poststructuralist City
Geo. 495. Seminar: Spatiality and the City
Geo. 594. Seminar – New Political Spaces (World University Network Graduate Seminar)
Geo. 594. Seminar – Globalization and Beyond (World University Network Graduate Seminar).
Geo. 594. Seminar: The Transforming Anglo City
INVITED LECTURES, KEYNOTE ADDRESSES AND KEYNOTE PANELS
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University of Heidelberg (Germany) 2013
State University of New York Buffalo 2013
University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) 2013
Wayne State University 2012
Shanghai University, China 2012
Georgia State University 2012
Queens University (Canada) 2011
Indiana University –Indianapolis 2011
University of Bergen (Norway) 2010
University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) 2010
University of Washington (Seattle), 2009
Ohio State (Columbus), 2009
York University (Canada) 2009, 2007
University of Glasgow (UK), 2009, 2008
University of Kentucky, 2008
University of Miami, 2008
Northern Illinois University, 2008, 2007, 2004, 2003
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 2006
University of South Florida 2006
Miami of Ohio University, 2006
University of Chicago, 2004
Northeastern Illinois, 2004, 2004
SUNY New Paltz, 2004, 2003
Indiana State University 2004
Bristol University (U.K), 2002
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University of Minnesota (St. Paul Campus) 2001
University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, 1994
Indiana University, Bloomington, 1990, 1991
Bemidji State University, 1989
Rutgers University, 1989
Temple University, 1991
University of Illinois, 1990
University of Utah, 1990
Middlebury College, 1990
Indiana University, Indianapolis, 1988
Michigan State University 1989
University of North Carolina, 1989
Ball State University, 1987
UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT, AND DISCIPLINARY SERVICE
Committee Member, Search and Screen Committee, for Assistant Professor, Department of Asian and American Studies, University of Illinois, March
Head, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of Geography (2012).
Undergraduate Adviser, Department of Geography (1994-2012).
Colloquium Coordinator, Department of Geography (1992 - ).
Colloquium Coordinator, Transnational Colloq uium Series, University of Illinois (2-11 – 2012).
Committee member on Admissions and Academic Standards, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2011 -2013)
Curriculum Committee Member, School of Earth and Social Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2010-2012) 2013.
Proposal Panelist, Focal Point University Proposals, University of Illinois (2010)
Proposal Panelist, National Science Foundation, Dissertation Improvement Grants 37
Division, Washington D.C. (2007-2009).
Head, Undergraduate Committee, Department of Geography, University of Illinois (2008- ).
Committee Member, Search and Screen Committee for Head of School, School Of Earth, Society, and Environment, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2007-2008).
Head, Search and Screen Committee for Excellence Hire, School of Earth, Society, And Environment, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2007- 2008).
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Course and Curricula Committee (2005- 2007).
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Council on General Education (2004- ).
Committee On A Sustainable Environment, Campus Committee (2001-2004)
Faculty Mentor Program, Summer Research Opportunities Program, Summer, 2002, 2003
College of Business, Committee on Grievances and Standards (2000).
Committee on Admissions and Academic Standards, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (1999-2000).
Head of the Faculty Search and Screen Committee, Department of Geography (1999-2000).
Head of the Faculty Search and Screen Committee, Department of Geography (1988-1999).
Review Committee of Undergraduate Curriculum, Department Of Geography (1998-1999).
Faculty Mentor, Summer Research Opportunities Program, (Summer 1995, Summer 2002).
Department of Library Sciences, Search and Screen Committee (1995).
Campus Committee On Financial Aid to Students (1994- ).
Department of Geography Advisory Committee (1994-1996, 1998-2000).
Committee of the Graduate Program, Chair, Urban and Rural Development Program (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999).
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University of Illinois Faculty Senate, elected member (1994-1996).
Head of the Undergraduate Geography program, University of Illinois 1993-2008).
Affirmative Action Officer, Department of Geography, University of Illinois (1991-1993).
Colloquium Coordinator, Department of Geography, University of Illinois (1991-2013).
Geography Department Search and Screen Committee, University of Illinois (1991-1992).
Undergraduate Advisory Committee, University of Illinois (1990-1992).
Urban Studies Advisory Committee, Indiana University, Indianapolis (1988-1990).
Geography Department Search and Screen Committee, Indiana University, Indianapolis (1989)
School of Liberal Arts Resources and Planning Committee, Indiana University, Indianapolis (1987-1989).
Social Science Quantification Committee, Indiana University, Indianapolis 1986-1988).
Center for American Studies Advisory Board, Indiana University, Indianapolis (1987-1990).
United Faculty Union Treasurer, American Federation of Teachers, Local 3950 (1986-1990).
United Faculty Executive Committee, American Federation of Teachers, Local 3950 (1986-1990).
Hugh O'Brien Foundation Advisory Committee, Indiana University, Indianapolis (1986-1987).
Center for American Studies Executive Board, Indiana University, Indianapolis (1986-1990).
Indiana University Nominating Committee (Chair), Indiana University (1987-1988).
Technical Science Review Committee, Indiana University, Indianapolis (1987-1988).
Indiana University Structure Committee (1986-1988). 39
Center for American Studies Spring Symposium Chair, Indiana University, Indianapolis (1987).
Center for American Studies Spring Symposium Chair, Indiana University, Indianapolis, (1989).
SERVICE ON GRADUATE COMMITTEES
Matthew Aadland (chair, M.A.) Matthew Alu (chair, Ph.D.) Matt Anderson (MA., chair, Ph.D.) Nazal Achjar (M.S.) Barry Barker (M.A.) Shaunna Barnhardt (Ph.D., Landscape Architecture) Samuel Batzli (Ph.D.) Dean Beck (chair, M.A., Ph.D) Elise Bienvenieste (chair, M.A) Jeremy Browning (chair, Ph.D) Richelle Berneluzzi, (M.A., Ph.D.) Robert Cochran (chair, Ph.D) Treva Ellison (chair, M.A.) Sonya Duelberg (Ph.D.) Gregory Dumler (M.A., Landscape Architecture) Erin DeMuynck (chair, Ph.D) Jennifer Ely (chair, M.A) Donovan Finn (Ph.D., Urban Planning) Jillian Gesty (chair, M.A.) Serife Genise (Ph.D., Sociology) Michael Minn (Ph.D.) Jong Woo (Ph.D.) Erinn Nicley (Ph.D.) Dustin Allred (Ph.D., Urban Planning) Dennis Grammenos (chair, Ph.D) Steve Graves (Ph.D.) Kathleen Gregory (chair, M.A.) Maria Luz-Daniels (M.A) Dan Haag (M.A.) Jennifer Iverson (chair, M.A.) Jennifer Janke (chair, M.A.) Thomas Jones (chair, Ph.D) James Ketchum (chair, M.A.) Gregory Lawrence (M.A., Urban Planning) Francis Machungo (M.A., Ph.D) Elaine Marielle (M.A.) Dannel McCullum (M.A.) Thomas Mueller (chair, Ph.D.) Dawn Morrison (M.A.) Dianne Myncyte (Ph.D., Sociology) 40
Harini Nayaranan (chair, Ph.D) Tom Paradis (M.A., Ph.D.) Jeff Rodgers (Ph.D.) Clarissa Sampio (M.A., Urban Planning). Patrice Schoolman (chair, M.A.) Anindita Sengupta (chair, Ph.D.) Yildarim Senturk (Ph.D., Sociology) John Sharp (chair, M.A., Ph.D.) Adam Smith (Ph.D.) John Spindler (M.A.) Susan Smith (Ph.D., History) Carolina Sternberg (chair, Ph.D) Anthony Tolen (chair, M.A.) Michael Urban (M.A., Ph.D.) Marissa Warneke (chair, M.A.) Christa Weidler (chair, M.A) Rob Whiting (chair, Ph.D.) Jared Wouters (chair, M.A., Ph.D) Faiza Zafar (chair, Ph.D.)
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