104 ALDER BUILDING LAURA PULIDO EUGENE, OR DEPARTMENTS OF INDIGENOUS, RACE & ETHNIC 97403-5268 STUDIES & GEOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON (541) 346-0918 [email protected] www.laurapulido.org Professional Experience
University of Oregon, Collins Chair 2020 Simon Fraser University, Adjunct Professor, Geography Department 2020 University of Oregon, Dept. Head, Indigenous, Race & Ethnic Studies 2017-present University of Oregon, Professor, Affiliate Faculty, Environmental Studies 2017- present University of Oregon, Professor, Ethnic Studies and Geography 2016-present University of Southern California (USC), Professor, American Studies & Ethnicity 2008-2016 University of California, Santa Barbara, Visiting Professor, Department of Black Studies 2012 USC, Professor, Geography and American Studies & Ethnicity 2007-2010 USC, Affiliate Faculty, Sociology 2006-2009 USC, Associate Professor, Geography and Program in American Studies & Ethnicity 2001-2007 USC, Associate Professor, Geography 1998-2001 USC, Assistant Professor, Geography 1993-1997 California State University, Fullerton, Assistant Professor, Geography 1992-1993
Education
University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D, Urban Planning 1991 University of Wisconsin, Madison, M.S., Geography 1987 California State University, Fresno, B.A., Geography 1984
Scholarly Interests
Critical human geography, comparative & relational ethnic studies, environmental justice, cultural memory, political activism, Chicanx Studies, landscape, labor, radical tourism
Honors, Awards & Fellowships
Faculty Excellence Award, University of Oregon 2019 First Distinguished Human Geography Lecture , University of Uppsala, Sweden 2018 Harold Rose Anti-Racism Award, Association of American Geographers 2018 Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography, Development Drowned and Reborn, 2018 Association of American Geographers Guggenheim Fellowship, “Sangre en la Tierra” , John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 2016 The Archipelago Lecture, Royal Technology Institute, Stockholm, Sweden 2014 Alexander von Humboldt Lecture, Department of Geography, UCLA 2014 Enhancing Diversity Award, Association of American Geographers 2013 Carey McWilliams Award, California Studies Association 2013 Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography, A People’s Guide to Los Angeles 2013 Association of American Geographers Presidential Achievement Award, Association of American Geographers 2012 Southern California Independent Booksellers Nonfiction Prize , A People’s Guide to Los Angeles 2012 Clyde A. Woods Memorial Lecture, University of California, Santa Barbara 2012 Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Book in Geography 2007
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Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles, Association of American Geographers Association for Humanist Sociology Book Award, 2007 Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, USC 2006 Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles The Hilldale Lecture, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006 Challenge Grant: Undergraduate Research Teaching, USC 2006 Summer Fellow, Institute for Multimedia Literacy, USC 2004 Atwood Memorial Lecture, Department of Geography, Clark University 2003 Visiting Scholar Fellowship in Ethnic Studies, Institute of American Cultures, Chicano Studies, 2000 University of California, Los Angeles Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Minorities 1997 Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego Minority Visiting Scholar Program, Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University 1995 Young Research Worker Award, Institute of British Geographers 1995 Woodrow Wilson Rural Policy Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation 1990 Research Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles 1990 Doctoral Fellowship for Minorities, Ford Foundation 1987-89 Advanced Opportunity Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1985 University of Wisconsin Alumni Scholarship University of Wisconsin, Madison 1987 Award of Excellence, National Council for Geographical Education 1984 California Geographical Society Award 1984 National Hispanic Scholarship Fund 1983-85 Hispanic Excellence Award, California State University Fresno 1983
Research & Teaching Support
National Science Foundation Research Award, Geography & Spatial Sciences 2019 “Foundational White Supremacy in Landscapes of US Historical Commemoration” $350,000 (P.I) Wayne Morse Resident Scholar, University of Oregon 2018 “Cultural Memory & White Supremacy in the Creation of the U.S.” $8000 Faculty Research Award, Office of the V.P. for Research & Innovation, UO 2018 “Reframing US Historical Geography through White Supremacy and Cultural Memory,” $5500 College of Arts and Sciences Program Development Grant, UO 2017 “Developing an Ethnic Studies Network in the Pacific NW” $3000 Antipode Foundation Scholar-Activist Fund, “A People’s Guide Online” with Laura Barraclough, 2017 Wendy Cheng and Alex Tarr $12,345 (co-P.I.) Yale University, Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, “A People’s Guide 2016 Symposium and Website” with Laura Barraclough and Wendy Cheng $25,000 (co-P.I.) Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, USC 2008 “What Does it Mean to be Brown? Latina/o Racial Subjectivity in Southern California” $20,000 (P.I.) Provost Initiative on Immigration and Integration, USC, “Spaces of Immigrant Activism and 2007 Resistance” with Clara Irazabal and Grace Dryness $50,000 (co-P.I.) National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant 2004 “Elotes, Champurado, Tamales: Latina Street Vending Landscapes in Los Angeles” with Lorena Muñoz. $10,000. (P.I.) Haynes Foundation Faculty Fellowship, “Latino and African American Attitudes Towards 2003 Each Other in the City of Angels” $10,000 (P.I.) Creative Communities Project, The Irvine Foundation/Southern California Studies Center, USC 1998 “Radical Movements of Color in Los Angeles in the 1960s-70s” $45,000 (P.I.) Service Learning Curriculum Development Grant, USC “Internship in the Chicano/ 1998 Latino Community” Joint Education Project, USC $2500, National Science Foundation, Integrative Graduate Education & Research Training 1998 “Urban Environmental Sustainability: Multidisciplinary Doctoral Education Program” $2,500,000 (co-P.I.) Joseph Devinny (P.I.)
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Southern California Studies Center, Junior Faculty Award, USC 1997 “The Role of Central Americans in Militant Labor Organizing, in Los Angeles” $5000 (P.I.) Zumberge Faculty Research and Innovation Fund, USC 1996 “Latino Political Economy Group” with Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo $5000 (Co-P.I.) William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Research Grant & USC Innovative Teaching Award 1995 “La Frontera: The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands” with Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo $5000 (Co-P.I.) National Science Foundation Planning Grant, Geography and Regional Science Program 1994 “The Role of 'Race' and Class in Exposure to Environmental Hazards” $18,000 (P.I.) Zumberge Faculty Research and Innovation Fund, USC 1994 “A Comparison of Multiracial/ethnic Environmental Justice Organizing in Los Angeles and San Francisco” $21,000 (P.I.) National Endowment for the Humanities 1994 “Upper Rio Grande Hispano Farms: A Cultural and Natural History of Land Ethics in Transition 1850-1994” Devon Peña, (P.I.) $2500 Affirmative Action Faculty Research Grant, California State University, Fullerton 1993 “People of Color and the Environmental Justice Movement” $3,000 (P.I.) Faculty Enhancement & Instructional Development Grant, California State University, Fullerton 1992 $2,100 (P.I.) Center for Regional Studies Research Grant, University of New Mexico $2,600 (P.I.) 1991 Inter-American Cultures Research Grant, UCLA $1,000 (P.I.) 1991
Publications
Books and Special Issues
Woods, Clyde (2017) Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restoration in Post-Katrina New Orleans. Edited and posthumously completed by Laura Pulido and Jordan Camp. University of Georgia Press, Geographies of Justice series (see Awards & Fellowships)
Kun, Josh and Laura Pulido (editors) (2013) Black and Brown in Los Angeles: Beyond Conflict and Cooperation. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Pulido, Laura, Laura Barraclough and Wendy Cheng (2012) A People’s Guide to Los Angeles. University of California Press (see Awards & Fellowships)
Martinez HoSang, Dan, Oneka LaBennett, and Laura Pulido (editors) (2012) Racial Formation in the Twenty- First Century. University of California Press.
Pulido, Laura (2006) Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles. University of California Press, American Crossroads Series (see Awards & Fellowships).
Pulido, Laura (1996) Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest. University of Arizona Press, Society, Place and Environment series.
Guest edited special issue of Urban Geography, “Environmental Racism/Justice” volume 17, number 5 (1996)
Refereed Journal Articles
Pulido, Laura, Tianna Bruno, Cristina Faiver-Serna and Cassie Galentine (2019) “Spectacular Racism, Environmental Deregulation and the White Nation” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 109 (2): 520- 532. *Reprinted in Environmental Governance in a Populist/Authoritarian Era (2019) ed. James McCarthy. Routledge Press.
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Pulido, Laura and Juan De Lara (2018) “Reimagining ‘Justice’ in Environmental Justice: Radical Ecologies, Decolonial Thought, and the Black Radical Tradition” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 1 (1-2): 76- 98.
Barkan, Josh and Laura Pulido (2017) “Justice: An Epistolary Essay” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 107 (1): 33-40.
Pulido, Laura, Ellen Kohl, and Nicole-Marie Cotton (2016) “State Regulation and Environmental Justice: The Need for Strategy Reassessment” Capital Nature Socialism 27 (2): 12-31.
Nieva, Chrisshona Grant, Laura Pulido, with Nate Sessoms (2014) “Beyond Conflict and Competition: How Color-blind Ideology Affects Blacks’ and Latinos’ Understanding of Their Relationships” Kalfou: A Journal of Ethnic Studies 1 (1): 87-116.
Pulido, Laura and Manuel Pastor (2013) “Where in the World is Juan — and What Color is He? The Geography of Latina/o Racial Identity in Southern California” American Quarterly 65 (2): 309-341.
Cheng, Wendy, Laura Barraclough and Laura Pulido (2011) “Radicalizing Teaching & Tourism: A People’s Guide as Active and Activist History” Left History 15 (1): 111-127.
Carpio, Genevieve, Clara Irazabal and Laura Pulido (2011) “Right to the Suburb? Rethinking Lefebvre and Immigrant Activism” Journal of Urban Affairs 33 (2): 185-208. *Reprinted in American Urban Politics in a Global Age, 7th edition (2012) Edited by Kantor and Dennis Judd. New York: Pearson Publishing. *Reprinted in The Suburb Reader, 2nd edition (2016) Edited by Becky Nicolaides and Andrew Weise. Routledge, pp. 482-487.
Lloyd, David and Laura Pulido (2010) “In the Long Shadow of the Settler: On Israeli and U.S. Colonialisms” American Quarterly 62 (4): 759-809. *Reprinted in The Case for Sanctions Against Israel (2012) Edited by Audrea Lim. New York: Verso, pp. 111-119.
Pulido, Laura (2003) “The Interior Life of Politics” Ethics, Place and Environment 6 (1): 46-52.
Pulido, Laura (2002) “Race and Revolutionary Politics: Black, Chicana/o, and Asian American Leftists in Southern California” Antipode 34 (4): 762-788.
Houston, Donna and Laura Pulido (2002) “The Work of Performativity: Staging Social Justice at the University of Southern California” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 20: 401-424. *Reprinted in Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies and Global Conflicts (2004) Edited by G. Fischman, P. McLaren, Sunker, and Lankshear. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 317-342.
Pulido, Laura (2002) “Reflections on a White Discipline” Professional Geographer 54(1): 42-49. *Reprinted in Critical Geographies: A Collection of Readings (2008) Edited by Harald Bauder and Salvatore Engel-di Mauro. pp. 45-59. Praxis (e)Press. http://www.praxis-epress.org/CGR/contents.html
Nast, Heidi with Laura Pulido (2001) “Resisting Corporate Multiculturalism: Mapping Faculty Initiatives and Student Harassment in the Classroom” Professional Geographer 52 (4): 722-737.
Pulido, Laura (2000) “Rethinking Environmental Racism: White Privilege and Urban Development in Southern California” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90 (1): 12-40. *Reprinted in People, Place and Space: A Reader (2014) Edited by Jen Gieseking, William Mangold, Cindi Katz, Setha Low and Susan Saegert. New York: Routledge. *Reprinted in American Studies: An Anthology (2009) Edited by Janice Radway, Kevin Gaines, Barry Schank, and Penny Von Eschen. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 465-475. *Reprinted in Critical Geographies: A Collection of Readings (2008) Edited by Harald Bauder and Salvatore Engel-di Mauro. pp. 532-577. Praxis (e)Press. http://www.praxis-epress.org/CGR/contents.html
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*Reprinted in Environment: Critical Essays in Human Geography (2008). Edited by Kay Anderson and Bruce Braun. Aldershot, England: Ashgate. Chpt. 17. *Reprinted in Up Against the Sprawl: Public Policy and the (Re)Making of Southern California (2004) Edited by Jennifer Wolch. University of Minnesota Press. *Reprinted in Southern California Atlas (2001). Edited by Michael Dear. Los Angeles, Southern California Studies Center, University of Southern California.
Pulido, Laura (1998) “Development of the ‘People of Color’ Identity in the Environmental Justice Movement of the Southwestern U.S.” Socialist Review 96 (4): 145-180.
Pulido, Laura and Peña, Devon (1998) “Pesticides and Positionality: The Early Pesticide Campaign of the United Farm Workers’ Organizing Committee, 1965-71” Race, Class & Gender 6 (1): 33-50.
Pulido, Laura (1996) “A Critical Review of the Methodology of Environmental Racism Research” Antipode 28 (2): 142-159.
Pulido, Laura, Steve Sidawi and Bob Vos (1996) “An Archaeology of Environmental Racism in Los Angeles” Urban Geography 17 (5): 419-439.
Pulido, Laura (1996) “Ecological Legitimacy and Cultural Essentialism: Hispano Grazing in the Southwest” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 7 (4): 1-22. *Reprinted in The Quest for Ecological Democracy: Movements for Environmental Justice in the United States (1998) Edited by Daniel Faber. New York: Guilford Press. pp. 293-311. *Reprinted in Subversive Kin: Chicana/o Studies and Ecology (1999) Edited by Devon Peña. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Pulido, Laura (1994) “Restructuring and the Contraction and Expansion of Environmental Rights in the United States” Environment & Planning A 26: 915-936.
Book Chapters
Pulido, Laura (2018) “Racism and the Anthropocene” in The Remains of the Anthropocene. Edited by Gregg Mitman, Robert Emmett and Marco Armiero. University of Chicago Press, pp. 116-128.
Pulido, Laura (2017) “The Personal and the Political: Evolving Racial Formations and the Environmental Justice Movement” in Handbook of Environmental Justice. Edited by Ryan Holifield, Jayajit Chakraborty, and Gordon Walker. Routledge Press, pp. 15-24.
Camp, Jordan and Laura Pulido (2017) “Conclusion: The Cornerstone of Third Reconstruction” in Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Reconstruction in Post-Katrina New Orleans. Clyde Woods, edited and posthumously completed by Laura Pulido and Jordan Camp. University of Georgia Press, pp. 291-297.
Pulido, Laura (2016) “Checkered Choices, Political Assertions: The Unarticulated Racial Identity of the Asociación Nacional México-Americana” in Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader. Edited by Nada Elia, David Hernandez, Jodi Kim, Shana Redmond, Dylan Rodriguez, and Sarita See. Duke University Press, pp. 463-476.
Pulido, Laura (2015) “Landscapes of Racial Violence,” in Latitudes: An Angeleno's Atlas. Edited by Patricia Wakida. Berkeley: Heydey Books, pp. 63-71.
Pulido, Laura (2014) “Faculty Governance at the University of Southern California” in The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent. Edited by Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 145-168.
Pulido, Laura and Josh Kun (2013) “Introduction” In Black and Brown Los Angeles: A Contemporary Reader. Edited by Laura Pulido and Josh Kun. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1-30.
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Pulido, Laura (2008) “FAQs: Frequently Asked Questions on Being a Scholar/Activist.” In Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics and Methods of Activist Scholarship. Edited by Charles Hale. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 341-366.
Wolch, Jennifer, Stephanie Pincetl and Laura Pulido (2001) “Nature’s Metropolis: Urbanization and the Environment” in From Chicago to Los Angeles: Making Sense of Urban Theory. Edited by Michael Dear. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, pp. 367-402.
Pulido, Laura (1997) “Community, Place and Identity” In Thresholds in Feminist Geography. Edited by John Paul Jones, Heidi Nast, and Sue Roberts. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 11-28.
Pulido, Laura (1996) “Multiracial Organizing Among Environmental Justice Activists in Los Angeles“ In Rethinking Los Angeles. Edited by Michael Dear, Greg Hise and Eric Schockman. Newbury Park: Sage Publications, pp. 171-189.
Pulido, Laura (1993) “Sustainable Development at Ganados del Valle” in Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots. Edited by Robert Bullard. Boston: South End Press, pp. 123-139.
Essays, Editorials and Reviews
Pulido, Laura (2019) “Preface” in Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice and the Decolonial. Edited by Sarah Wald, David Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra and Sarah Jaquette Ray. Temple University Press, pp. ix-xvi.
Camp, Jordan and Laura Pulido (2019) “Development Drowned and Reborn: Reflections on Clyde Woods’ Political Economy of Race and Class in New Orleans” Antipode Foundation online https://antipodefoundation.org/2019/01/14/development-drowned-and-reborn/
Pulido, Laura (2018) “Geographies of Race and Ethnicity III: Settler Colonialism and NonNative Peoples of Color” Progress in Human Geography 42 (2): 309- 318. *Reprinted in Critical Dialogos: Revisiting Contemporary Latina/o Studies, edited by Ana Ramos-Zayas and Merida Rúa. New York University Press, forthcoming.
Laura Pulido (2018) Review of Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad by Jeanine Michna-Bales, The Annals of the Association of American Geographers Review of Books 6 (4): 251-253.
Pulido, Laura (2017) “Environmental Justice Conversations: An Interview with David Pellow” Capitalism Nature Socialism 28 (2): 43-53.
Pulido, Laura (2017) “Geographies of Race and Ethnicity II: Environmental Racism, Racial Capitalism and State-Sanctioned Violence” Progress in Human Geography 41 (4): 524-533.
Pulido, Laura (2016) “Flint Michigan, Environmental Racism and Racial Capitalism” Capitalism Nature Socialism 27 (3): 1-16.
Pulido, Laura (2016) Review of Hispanic and Latino New Orleans: Immigration and Identity Since the Eighteenth Century, by Andrew Sluyter, Case Watkins, James Chaney and Annie Gibson. Journal of Latin American Geography. 15 (3).
Pulido, Laura (2016) “The Road Less Taken: Reflections on Richa Nagar's Muddying the Waters” Gender, Place & Culture 23 (12): 1800-1812.
Pulido, Laura (2015) “Geographies of Race and Ethnicity I: White Supremacy vs White Privilege in Environmental Racism Research” Progress in Human Geography 39 (6): 1-9.
Pulido, Laura and Laura Barraclough (2013) “Seeing the State in Downtown LA” Newsletter of the Association of American Geographers. April.
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Pulido, Laura (2013) Review of They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape and the Struggle Over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California, by Don Mitchell. Cultural Geographies 20 (1): 126.
Pulido, Laura (2012) Review of Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth Century Los Angeles, by Shana Bernstein. Journal of American History. 99: 657-658.
Pulido, Laura (2012) “The Future is Now: Climate Change and Environmental Justice” Social Text online (http://www.socialtextjournal.org/periscope/)
Pulido, Laura (2012) “We Built This City: A Personal History” A People’s Guide to Los Angeles, Part 3. Los Angeles Review of Books. August 20. (www.lareviewofbooks.org)
Pulido, Laura and David Lloyd (2010) “From La Frontera to Gaza: Chicano-Palestinian Connections” American Quarterly 62 (4): 791-794.
Pulido, Laura (2009) “Immigration Politics and Motherhood” Amerasia 35 (1): 169-178.
Pulido, Laura and Laura Barraclough (2008) “Forum: Geography, Pedagogy and Politics. The People’s Guide to LA: An Experiment in Popular Geography” Progress in Human Geography 32 (5): 680-718.
Pulido, Laura (2007) “A Day Without Immigrants” Antipode 39 (1): 1-7.
Pulido, Laura (2005) Review of Mi Raza Primero! by Ernesto Chavez. Aztlan 30 (1): 213-217.
Pulido, Laura (2004), “Race, Immigration and the Border: Review of Joe Nevin’s Operation Gatekeeper” Antipode 36 (1): 154-157.
Pulido, Laura (2001) Review Essay “Race and Ethics: The White Scourge by Neil Foley Development Arrested by Clyde Woods, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa” Ethics, Place and Environment 4 (2): 179-185.
Pulido, Laura (2000) Review of Ecofeminist Natures by Noel Sturgeon. Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 18 (10): 122-124.
Pulido, Laura (1998) “The Sacredness of ‘Mother Earth’: Spirituality, Activism, and Social Justice. Forum: David Harvey’s Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 88 (4): 719-723.
Burgos, Rita and Pulido, Laura (1998) “The Politics of Gender in the Los Angeles Bus Riders’ Union/Sindicato de Pasajeros” Capitalism Nature Socialism 9 (3): 75-82.
Pulido, Laura (1998) Review of Ecological Resistance Movements by Bron R. Taylor (ed.) Ethics, Place, and Environment 1 (1): 109-113.
Mann, Eric and Jose Cuellar Valdez (1997) “Interview with Jorge Cuellar Valdez - Congress of Mexican Workers, SUTAUR 100” Edited by Laura Pulido. Ahora/Now 3: 4-5.
Pulido, Laura (1996) “Environmental Racism” Introduction to special issue on environmental racism. Urban Geography 17 (5): 377-379.
Pulido, Laura and Jennifer Wolch (1996) Review of Culture, Conflict and Communication in the Wildland-Urban Interface by Alan Ewert, Deborah Chavez and Arthur Magill, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 86 (3): 587-589.
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Pulido, Laura and Steve Sidawi (1996) Review of Ecopopulism by Andrew Szasz, Economic Geography 72 (1): 92- 94.
Burgos, Rita, Kate Kinkade and Laura Pulido (1996) “The Urgency and the Limits of Affirmative Action.” Ahora/Now 2: 5-6.
Pulido, Laura (1993) Review of Radical Ecology by Carolyn Merchant, Economic Geography 69 (4): 445-448.
Alcantar, Leticia and Laura Pulido (1993) Co-Editors, Race, Poverty & Environment. Special Issue on Latinos and Environmental Justice 4 (3).
Pulido, Laura (1993) “Deconstructing Environmental Racism: The Early Pesticide Campaign of the United Farm Workers” Race, Poverty & Environment 4 (3): 14-16.
Reports and Evaluations
Pulido, Laura (2001) “Fourth Evaluation of the Southern San Joaquin Valley Office of the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment” California Rural Legal Assistance.
Pulido, Laura (2000) “Third Evaluation of the Southern San Joaquin Valley Office of the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment” California Rural Legal Assistance.
Pulido, Laura (2000) “Second Evaluation of the Southern San Joaquin Valley Office of the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment” California Rural Legal Assistance.
Pulido, Laura (1999) “First Evaluation of the Southern San Joaquin Valley Office of the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment” California Rural Legal Assistance.
Pulido, Laura (1998) “The Roots of Political Consciousness Among Militant Unionists and Worker Activists in Los Angeles” Center for the Study of Southern California, USC.
Encyclopedia Entries
Pulido, Laura (2017) “Environmental Racism” The Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Edited by Douglas Richardson, Noel Castree, Michael Goodchild, Audrey Kobayashi, Weidong Liu, and Richard Marston, pp. 1-13. John-Wiley and Sons.
Pulido, Laura (2006) “The Border and the Environment,” “Maria Elena Durazo” “Ganados del Valle” “Maria Varela” in Latinas in the United States: An Historical Encyclopedia. Edited by V. Ruiz and V. Sanchez Korrol. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Pulido, Laura (2000) “Environmental Justice” in The Dictionary of Human Geography, Fourth Edition. Edited by R. Johnston, D. Gregory, G. Pratt, D. Smith, and M. Watts. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 218-220.
Work in Progress
Pulido, Laura. “Erasing Racial Capitalism in the Historical Geography of the US: The Mexican American War” for Racial Capitalism, ed. Susan Koshy.
Pulido, Laura. “Racism in the Air: U.S. Exceptionalism and Representations of Mexican Air Pollution” To be submitted to American Quarterly.
Pulido, Laura. Historical Atlas of Foundational White Supremacy (book manuscript and digital project)
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Other Creative Work
Pulido, Laura (2004) “The People’s Guide To La”, Poster. Pulido, Laura and Sharon Sekhon (2004) “The People’s Guide to LA” Website (www.pgtla.com). Pulido, Laura, Sharon Sekhon, Laura Barraclough and Wendy Cheng (2007) “A People’s Guide to LA” exhibit in “Just Space(s)” at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE).
Courses Taught
Graduate Current Issues in Geographical Research Dissertation Writing Dissertation Proposal Writing Geographical Foundations Interdisciplinary Research Seminar on Los Angeles Race and Environmentalism Race, Class and Gender in Environmentalism Race, Space & Place Readings in Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies Research Seminar in Comparative Ethnic Studies Theories & Practice of Professional Development Undergraduate California Geography Conservation of Natural Resources Culture, Nation and Ethnicity Environmental Justice Ethnicity and Place Humans and the Environment Inter-ethnic Diversity in the West Introduction to Environmental Studies L.A. and the American Dream La Frontera: The U.S./Mexico Border Latina/o Los Angeles Leadership in the Community The Maquiladora System Mexican American Places in Literature and Film Race and Class in Los Angeles Race, Nature and Power Research Methods Urban Geography
Invited Presentations
2019
“Commemorating to Forget: Historic Places in Oregon” Wayne Morse Center, University of Oregon May.
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“Spectacular Racism, the White Nation and Environmental Governance” Salisbury University, Salisbury Maryland. Confronting Inequality, Achieving Sustainability lecture series. April.
“Authoritarian Regimes, White Nationalism and Environmental Regulation” Environmental Studies, University of Oregon. May.
“Environmental Governance and Authoritarian Regimes: The Trump Era” Anthropology, University of Oregon. April.
“The Cultural Memory of Dispossession” Housing Justice in Unequal Cities, UCLA, February.
2018
“Spectacular Racism, the White Nation and Environmental Governance” Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University. December.
“The White Nation and Environmental Deregulation” Geography Dept., Simon Fraser University, November.
“Environmental Governance and Authoritarian Regimes: The Trump Era” Willamette University. October.
“Spectacular Racism and Environmental Deregulation” Geography Dept., Uppsala University, Sweden. October.
Presidential Plenary, “Channeling Black Geographies through Clyde Woods” Annual Meetings of Association of American Geographers. New Orleans. April.
“Lead Poisoning, Surplus Populations and Racial Capitalism” Oregon State University. May.
“Landscape, Power and Popular Education” School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Distinguished Speaker, University of Washington, Bothell. April.
“Landscapes of Foundational White Supremacy” Geography Dept., University of Arizona, February.
“Contextualizing Racist Symbols of the Past” Knight Library, University of Oregon. January.
2017
“Lead Poisoning in Flint Michigan and Racial Capitalism.” Environmental Studies, University of Oregon. October.
“Water and Infrastructure: Flint Michigan and Racial Capitalism” Barnard College, New York. April.
“The Many Meanings of Ethnic Studies Now!” Ethnic Studies, Oregon State University. May
“Whither the State? Environmental Justice in the Age of Trump” Institute of Environment & Sustainability, UCLA. March
2016
“Landscapes of Settler Colonialism” Geography Department, University of Washington, Seattle. October.
“Historicizing Environmental Justice Failure” Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, January.
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“Rethinking Environmental Justice Strategy” Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, March.
“Environmental Justice, State Cooptation and Ethnic Studies” School of Gender, Race & Nations, Portland State University, March.
“Environmental Justice Failure and Neoliberal Multiculturalism” California State University, Northridge, March.
“Problematizing Black and Brown Solidarity” California State University, Dominguez Hills, March.
”State Regulation and Environmental Justice: The Need for Strategy Reassessment” Capital Nature Socialism Lecture, Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, March.
“Environmental Justice Failure and Neoliberal Multiculturalism” Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, April.
“Coming to Terms with Failure: Environmental Justice in a Neoliberal Age” Department of Sociology, Contentious Politics Working Group, UCLA. May.
2015
“The F-Word: Environmental Justice Failure?” Department of Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside, October.
“Taking It to the Streets: Popular Education and Political Consciousness” Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon, October.
Presidential Plenary, “Justice: Geography's Radical Interdisciplinarity” with Joshua Barkan, Association of American Geographers, Chicago, April.
“Racism in the Air: Mexican Air Pollution Producing US Superiority” Department of Geography, UC Berkeley, April.
“Environmental Justice Tourism in Los Angeles” Urban and Environmental Policy, Occidental College, March.
“Black and Brown Solidarity” Hamilton College, March.
“Race and Nation in the Air: US Representations of Mexican Air Pollution, Neoliberalism and NAFTA” Vassar College, March.
2014
“Ecotourism: Rethinking Where We Live, Work, and Play” Institute of the Environment & Sustainability, UCLA, October.
“Environmental Racism and the State” Department of Geography, UCLA, May.
“The United Farm Workers' Early Pesticide Campaign” Chicana/o Studies, San Diego State University, April.
“Environmental Racism as State-Sanctioned Violence” Keynote address. Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, University of Kentucky, February.
“Landscapes of Environmental Justice Across the Americas: A Conversation with Laura Pulido” Social Justice & Cultural Self-Determination” Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Duke University, Durham, February.
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“Power and Knowledge in Urban Environments” Geography Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, February.
“Landscapes of Environmental Racism” Environmental Analysis, Pomona College, February.
“Environmental Racism as State-Sanctioned Racial Violence” Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, February.
“The Politics and Poetics of Environmental Justice Tours” Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, February.
2013
“The Role of Popular Education in Building Oppositional Consciousness: The Case of Tourism” Political Science Department, UC Riverside, May.
“Taking it to the Streets: Race, Popular Education and Local Geography” Semana de la Latina. University of Maryland, College Park, April.
“Race, Radical Geography and Insurgent Knowledge” Department of Geography, Northeastern Illinois University, April. Visiting Geographical Scientist. Association of American Geographers.
“Race, Radical Geography and Insurgent Knowledge,” Department of Geography, Chicago State University, Visiting Geographical Scientist, Association of American Geographers, April.
“Tourism for the 99%” University of Vermont. African, Latina/o, Asian & Native American Studies Program (ALANA), February.
2012
“Los Angeles” Los Angeles City College Book Program, October.
“Alternative Tourism and Social Justice” Metropolitan and Policy Studies, California State University, Long Beach, September.
The Clyde A. Woods Memorial Lecture: “Bridging the University and Community Through Popular Education” UC Santa Barbara, May.
“Using Popular Education to Communicate Geography: A People’s Guide to LA” Department of Geography, UC Santa Barbara, May.
“Taking it to the Streets: Radical Tourism, Ethnic Studies and Insurgent Knowledge” Chicana & Chicano Studies Department, UC Santa Barbara, March.
“The Making of A People’s Guide to LA” University of California Press Foundation. Los Angeles, March.
2011
“Ethnic Studies and Alternative Tourism,” Ethnic Studies Week, University of Arizona, October.
“Towards a Popular Geography: Alternative Tourism in Los Angeles” Geography Department, California State University, Long Beach, September.
“Alternative Tourism: A People’s Guide” Department of Geography, University of Georgia, May.
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“Racial Politics Among People of Color” Sawyer Seminar, Department of Geography, University of Washington, May.
“Towards Democratizing the Tenure Process at USC” Center for the Study of Men and Women, USC, March.
2010
“The Geography of Latina/o Racial Subjectivity” Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, April.
“On Being a Scholar/Activist” Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, April.
2009
Population Specialty Group Plenary Lecture, “What Does it Mean to be Brown?” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, April.
“Mexican American Racial Identity over Time and Space” Department of Geography, California State University, San Diego, September.
“Mexican American Racial Subjectivity” Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics, UCLA, May.
2008
“Black and Latino Relations Under Conditions of White Supremacy” Geography Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, January.
“Latino and Black Relations in Contemporary Los Angeles” Ethnic Studies Department, UC Riverside, February.
Antipode Plenary Lecture, “Black and Latino Relations Under White Supremacy” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, April.
“The Internalization of Color Blind Ideology by Blacks and Latinos” UC Santa Barbara, May.
“Los Angeles’s Third World Left” UC Santa Barbara, May.
“Radical Politics Today” Spaces of Democracy and the Democracy of Space” Research Network, Long Beach City Library, August.
2006
“On Being a Scholar/Activist” Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, April.
2003
“Rethinking the Black/White Binary: Latinos in the South” Department of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, November.
“Gender Relations Among the Third World Left” Center for Ethnic Studies Research, UC San Diego, May.
2002
“Retelling the Revolution: Voices of 1960s Activists” Regional Oral History Office, UC Berkeley, April.
“Gender Relations Among the Third World Left” Mills College, Oakland, April.
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“The Lessons of the Third World Left” Center for Third World Organizing. Oakland, April.
2001
“Black, Brown, Yellow and Left” Department of Geography, UC Berkeley, December.
“Public Space and Radical Activism” Scripps College, Claremont, October.
“Gender Relations Among the Third World Left” Institute of American Cultures, UCLA, June.
“Immigration, Work and Political Mobilization” MacArthur Consortium Workshop, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, May.
“Forging New Coalitions” Joining Forces: Environmental Justice and Prison Abolitionists. Prison Moratorium Project Conference, California State University Fresno, February.
“The Interior Life of Politics” Keynote speaker, Western Graduate Geography Student Conference, Boulder, February.
2000
“Emotions and Ethics in Political Activism” Department of Geography, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, March.
“Lessons from Activists from the Sixties and Seventies” Department of Sociology, USC, October.
1999
“Applying Social Research: Linking Knowledge with Current Social Problems” Department of Sociology, USC, March.
“Urban Space, White Privilege and Environmental Racism” Department of Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz, March.
“Race, Class, Political Activism and Research” Latino and Latin American Studies Research Seminar, UC Santa Cruz, March.
1998
“Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Movements of Color in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70’s” Department of Geography, USC, September.
“Environmental Racism and Urban Development in Southern California” Department of Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego, April.
“The History of Environmental Racism” Department of Geography, Temple University, Philadelphia, April.
1997
“Race and Space in the Environmental Justice Literature” Environmental Justice Forum and the Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, November.
“Environmental Racism in Southern California: Suburbanization and White Privilege” MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program on Peace and International Cooperation, University of Minnesota, October.
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“Scales of Environmental Racism: Suburbanization and White Privilege in Southern California.” Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley.
1996
“People of Color and Identity Formation in the Environmental Justice Movement” Department of Geography and Ethnic Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, October.
“The Role of Central Americans in Militant Labor Organizing in Los Angeles” Department of Geography, University of Arizona, Tucson, September.
“The Historical Geography of Environmental Racism in Los Angeles” Place, Democracy, and Minority Identity, Clarion University, Pennsylvania, March.
“Social Action Research” Latino Leadership Opportunity Project, Program in Chicano Studies, Stanford University, Palo Alto, February.
1995
“Constructing Cultural Differences in Chicano Resource Use” Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, December.
“A Critical Look at Environmental Racism Research: Rethinking Racism.” Department of Geography, UCLA, May.
1994
“Latinos and the Environmental Justice Movement” Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., September.
Panelist, “Minority Discourses in California and Environmental Justice” Center for Humanities Research, UC Irvine, May.
“Problems of a Woman-Centered Paradigm” Graduate Student Feminist Network, USC, March.
“Internationalization and the Environmental Justice Movement.” Keynote speaker, Earth Day, California State University, Sacramento, April.
1993
“Cultural Studies, Public Policy and Community Organizing” Charting a Latino Research Agenda, Sponsored by the Tomas Rivera Center, Occidental College.
“Environmental Science and Multiethnicity” Center for Multiethnic and Transnational Studies, USC, April.
“Minorities in the Environmental Justice Movement.” Department of Geography, USC, February.
“Culture and Ethnicity Among Minorities in the Environmental Justice Movement.” Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University, College Park, January.
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Conference Participation
2019
Keynote, “Commemorating to Forget: Historic Places in Oregon” Critical Geography Mini-Conference, University of Oregon, October.
Paper, “Landscapes of Denial: White Supremacy and Climate Change” American Studies Association. Honolulu, November.
Discussant, “Charting the Broader Impact of the San Francisco State Strike and Late-1960s Black Campus Movement” American Studies Association. Honolulu. November.
2018
Panelist, “Clyde Woods’ Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restoration in Post- Katrina New Orleans.” Association of American Geographers, New Orleans. April.
2017
Panelist, “The Past, Present, and Future of Environmental Justice Research” Association of American Geographers, Boston. April
Panelist, “Chicanx and Latinx Geographies” Association of American Geographers, Boston. April
Panelist, “Environmental Justice in the Age of Trump” Association of American Geographers, Boston. April
Commentator, “Author Meets Critics: New Directions in Critical Migration Research” Association of American Geographers, Boston. April
2016
Panelist, “Cooking up Scholarship: Exploring the Lasting Contributions of Margaret FitzSimmons to the Geographies of Food, Agriculture, and Beyond,” Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April.
Panelist, “Forging Solidarity: Taking A Stand on Palestine,” Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April.
Co-Convenor, “Radical Crosscurrents: EJ, Political Ecology, and Traveling Theory,” Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April.
Discussant, “Chicana/o and Latina/o Geography: Comparative Racialization and Borderlands,” Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April.
2015
Panelist, “The Arsenal of Exclusion: Los Angeles Edition,” Society for American City and Regional Planning History Meeting, Los Angeles, November.
Panelist, “State of the Field: Crossing Racial Divides in the 21st Century West,” Western History Association, Portland, Oregon, October.
Workshop Participant, “Anthropocene Objects and Environmental Futures,” Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität Munchen, Germany, July.
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Paper, “John Muir and Settler Colonialism,” Association of American Geographers, Chicago, April.
Panelist and Organizer, “Author Meets Critics: Richa Nagar's Muddying the Waters,” Association of American Geographers, Chicago. April.
Discussant, “Race, Empire and Militarism” Association of American Geographers, Chicago, April.
Discussant, “Race and Political Ecology” Association of American Geographers, Chicago, April.
2014
Panelist, “Society, Economy, Polity: Identifying Transformational Research in the Geographical Sciences” National Research Council, Beckman Center, Irvine, August.
Panelist, “Engaging the Social Sciences” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Los Angeles, November.
2013
Paper, “Regional Political Cultures of Domination: Unfree Labor in 19th Century Los Angeles” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, April.
Panelist, “Moving to Berlin: Beyond the Los Angeles School” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, April.
Discussant, “Author Meets Critics: A People’s Guide to LA” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, April.
Discussant, “Legacies of Environmental Injustice in the Other California” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, April.
Panelist, “Living and Writing Los Angeles” Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, University of Southern California, April.
2012
Panelist, “Tourism as Resistance” Annual Meetings of the American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November.
Chair, “Immigration, Transnational and Border Studies” Mujeres Activas en Letras & Cambio, UC Santa Barbara, July.
Panelist, “Alternative Tourism from Across the US” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, New York City, February.
Panelist, “Clyde A. Woods: A Memorial” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, New York City, February.
Panelist, “Author Meets Critics: Karen Tongson’s, Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, New York City, February.
2011
Social Movements Plenary, “Critical Ethnic Studies as a Social Movement? Notes from the Field” Critical Ethnic Studies Conference, UC Riverside, April.
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2010
Chair, “Confronting the Crisis: Using Collaborative Chains for Change (An Assistance Kit for Navigating the ‘Not So Great Depression’ in the Academy)” Annual Meetings of the American Studies Association, San Antonio, November.
2009
Paper, “Mexican American Racial Subjectivity in the Asociación Nacionál Mexico-Americana” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, April.
Discussant, “Race and the Neoliberal City” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., November.
2008
Paper, National Research Council, “Strategic Directions for the Geographical Sciences in the Next Decade.” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, April.
Paper, “Latina/o Racial Subjectivity and the Future of Racial Politics in the U.S.” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, April
Paper, “The Color of the Asociación Nacional Mexico-Americana” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Studies, Albuquerque, October.
2007
Panelist, “Author Meets the Critics: Laura Pulido’s Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April.
2006
Discussant, “Black and Latino Politics” Annual Meetings of the American Studies Association, Oakland. October.
Paper, “Brown and Black Relations in Los Angeles” Conference entitled, “Inequality: Southern California’s Major Fault Line” UC Irvine, May.
2005
Panelist, “Asian Americans as People of Color?” Annual Meetings of the Association of Asian American Studies, Los Angeles, April.
2004
Paper, “The Geography of Race” presented at “Reflections on the Future: Dialogues on the Intersections of Latina/o-Chicana/o-Latin American(s) Studies,” University of California, Santa Cruz, February.
2002
Paper, “Gender and Revolution in the Sixties and Seventies” Annual Meetings of the American Studies Association, Houston, November.
Panelist, “Marxist Geography and Race” Annual Meetings of the Association of America Geographers, Los Angeles, March.
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Panelist, “Regional Political Cultures in Los Angeles” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, March.
Panelist, “Author Meets Critique: Joe Nevin’s Operation Gatekeeper” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, March.
2001
Panelist, “Ethics and Activism” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. New York, February.
2000
Paper, “Gender Relations Among Revolutionaries of Color” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, April.
Panelist, “Ethics and Activism” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, April.
Discussant, “Race and the Census” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, April.
1999
Paper, “Regional Racial Formations and Oppositional Political Cultures” California Studies Association, Berkeley, February.
1998
Discussant, “The Cultures of Revolution, the Revolution of Cultures” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Seattle, November.
Paper, “Student Harassment in the Classroom” Written with and presented by Heidi Nast. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, April.
1997
Paper, “The Crisis of White Identity in the Los Angeles Labor Movement” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Fort Worth, April.
Paper, “The Geography of Militant Labor Organizing in Los Angeles” Rethinking Marxism, Amherst, December.
1996
Paper, “El Salvador Producing Los Angeles” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, April.
Respondent, “Author Meets Critics: Laura Pulido's Environmentalism and Economic Justice” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, April.
Panelist, “Appropriations of Place” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, NC, April.
Panelist, “Contract with America, State Restructuring and Geography” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, April.
1995
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Paper, “Deconstructing Environmental Racism” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, March.
Panelist, “Environmental Ethics and Social Justice” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, March.
Panelist, “Race, Gender and Geography: Theory and Politics” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, March.
Discussant, “Linking Political Ecology and Environmental Justice” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, March.
Paper, “Community, Place and Identity” New Horizons in Feminist Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington, January.
Paper, “Emergent/Resistant Identities Among Environmental Justice Activists in Los Angeles” Annual Meetings of the Institute of British Geographers, University of Northumbria, Newcastle, January.
Paper, “Problematizing 'Race' and Space” Putting Health in Its Place, USC, February.
1994
Panelist, “Community Health and the Environment” Center for Research in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Engineering, USC, Pasadena, April. Paper, “Environmental Racism as Articulated by the Environmental Justice Movement” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April.
Panelist, “Future Directions for Feminist Geography” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April.
Discussant, “Race in the West” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April.
1993
Paper, “The Conceptual Inflation of Culture in the Environmental Justice Movement” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, April.
Paper, “The Development of Pan-Ethnicity Among Minorities in the Environmental Justice Movement” National Association of Chicano Studies, San Jose, March.
1992
Paper, “Social Justice Environmentalism: The United Farm Workers' Early Pesticide Campaign” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Diego. April.
Paper, “Theory, Politics, and the New Environmentalism: Charting a New Research Agenda” National Association of Chicano Studies, San Antonio, March.
Paper, “The Role of Culture in Contrasting Mexican American Environmental Struggles” International Geographical Congress, Washington, D.C., August.
Paper, “The Complex Environmentalism of Everyday Life: Ganados del Valle” Environmental and Latino Imaginations, Cornell University, Ithaca, April.
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1991
Paper, “Latino Environmental Struggles in the Southwest” Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies Conference, Fullerton, October.
Paper, “Rural Chicanos: Encountering Nature Through Culture and Class” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Miami, April.
1990
Paper, “The Los Angeles Chicano Community and Environmental Politics” National Association of Chicano Studies, Albuquerque, April.
1987
Paper, “Community Perceptions of Agricultural Chemicals” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Portland, April.
Professional Memberships American Studies Association Association of American Geographers Critical Ethnic Studies Association National Association of Chicano Studies
Professional Service
Editorial Service
Series Editor, A People’s Guide book series, University of California Press (2013-present) Senior Editor, Capitalism Nature Socialism (2015-2018) Managing Board Member, American Quarterly (2005-2009)
Editorial Board Member
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space (2018-2021) ACME: An Interdisciplinary E-Journal of Critical Geographies (2002-2006) Annals of the Association of American Geographers (2001- present) Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Review of Books (2013-present) Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography (1999-2006) Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies (2002-05) Ecumene/Cultural Geography (1999-present) Environment and Planning: D Society and Space (1999-2006) Hagar: International Social Science Review (2001-2010) Gender, Place & Culture (1996-1998) Geographies of Justice & Social Transformation Series, University of Georgia Press (2010-2012)
Referee
National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Cornell University Press, Duke University Press, New York University Press, Oxford University Press, Pickering & Chatto, Routledge, University
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of Arizona Press, University of California Press, University of Georgia Press, University of Texas Press, ACME, American Quarterly, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Antipode, Aztlán, Economic Geography, Ecumene/Cultural Geography, Environment and Planning: A, Environment and Planning D: Society & Space, Gender, Place & Culture, Geoforum, Hastings Review, Health and Place, Historical Geography, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Journal of Contemporary Sociology, Journal of Geography, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Journal of Social Geography Research, Latino Studies, Local Environments, Pacific Historical Review, Political Geography, Professional Geographer, Progress in Human Geography, Social & Cultural Geography, Urban Affairs Review, Urban Geography, Wayne State University Press
Tenure and Promotion letters written for:
Amherst College, Arizona State University, Columbia University, Dennison University, Iowa State University, Northwestern University, The New School, Ohio State University, Oregon State University, Queens College - City University New York, Scripps College, Syracuse University, Temple University, University of Arizona, University of California, Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, and Santa Barbara, University of Colorado, University of Georgia, University of Kansas, University of Kentucky, University of Maryland, University of Minnesota, University of Texas, University of Tennessee, University of Vermont, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
2019
Mentor, Eminent Scholar Mentoring Program, Geography & Environmental Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Diversity Consultant, University of California, Santa Barbara
2018
Member, Steering Committee “Housing Justice in an Unequal World” Research Coordination Network, National Science Foundation, Ananya Roy (PI) Member, Honors Committee B, Association of American Geographers (elected)
2017
Member, Honors Committee B, Association of American Geographers (elected)
2016
Member, Honors Committee B, Association of American Geographers (elected) Chair, Globe Book Award Committee, Association of American Geographers
2015
Evaluator, Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, California State University, Long Beach, September. Convenor, “Author Meets Critics: Richa Nagar’s Muddying the Waters. Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, April. Member, Globe Book Award Committee, Association of American Geographers.
2014
Evaluator, Department of Ethnic Studies, Mills College, Oakland, April. Member, Globe Book Award Committee, Association of American Geographers. Moderator, “The Crusades of Cesar Chavez” Luis Valdez and Miriam Pawel, ALOUD, Los Angeles Public Library, April.
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2013
Chair, Harold Rose Anti-Racist Award Committee, Association of American Geographers. Convenor and Leader, Fieldtrip, “A People’s Guide to LA – Downtown” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, April.
2012
Member, Harold Rose Anti-Racist Award Committee, Association of American Geographers. Chair, Meridian Book Award Committee, Association of American Geographers. Member, Local Arrangements Committee, Association of American Geographers, Annual Meetings. Co-Convenor, “In Appreciation of Clyde Woods: A Conversation on Race, Geography, Community Activism and the Blues” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, New York, February. Co-Convenor, “Alternative Tourism” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, New York, February.
2011
Faculty Leader, Institute of Geographies of Justice. University of Georgia, May/June. Member, Meridian Book Award Committee, American Association of Geographers. Advisory Board Member, “Cesar’s Last Fast” Director, Richard Ray Perez. Co-Convenor, “The Blues Epistemology: A Roundtable in Memory of Clyde A. Woods” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Baltimore, November.
2010
Member, Meridian Book Award Committee, American Association of Geographers. Chair, Minority Scholars’ Committee, American Studies Association. Convener, ASA session, “Confronting the Crisis: Transforming Chains Into Networks (An Assistance Kit for Navigating the ‘Not So Great Depression’ in the Academy)” American Studies Association Conference, San Antonio, November. Ford Fellows Regional Liaison, Southern California (2010-12) Co-Editor (with David Lloyd) of American Quarterly Forum, “From La Frontera to Gaza: Chicano-Palestinian Connections” December 2010, Vol. 62 (4). Panelist, “40th Anniversary of UCLA Urban Planning Department” May.
2009
Convener, “Regional Variations in Latina/o Racial Subjectivity” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, April. Co-Convener, “Chicana/o-Palestinian Connections” USC, March. Member, Minority Scholars Committee, American Studies Association.
2008
Convener, “Mexicans and Whiteness,” Annual Meetings of the American Studies Association, Albuquerque. October. Convener, “Author Meets Critics: Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s Golden Gulag. Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers. Boston. April. Member, Humanist Sociology Book Award Committee.
2007
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Steering Committee Member, Summer Institute for Geographies of Justice, Sponsored by Antipode and the Socialist and Critical Geographers Specialty Group.
2006
Workshop Presentation, “Power and Politics in the Everyday Landscape” UCLA History-Geography Project Institute, Los Angeles, July. Panelist, “Planning, Applying and Preparing for Graduate School” California Diversity Forum, USC, April. Jury Member, Antipode Student Scholarship
2002
Member, Program Committee, American Studies Association Annual Conference. Convener, “Racial Boundaries, Identities and Anti-Racist Politics” Annual Meetings of the American Studies Association, Houston, November. Co-Organizer, “Activism in the City of Angels” Panel Discussion, Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, March.
2001
Annals of the AAG and Professional Geographer Article Awards Committee. Guest book review editor “Race and Ethics.” Environment, Place and Ethics 4 (2). Co-editor, “Ethics and Activism” Environment, Place and Ethics. Co-convener “Race, Space and Social Movements” Annual Meeting of the Americans Studies Association, Baltimore, November. Co-convener, “Ethics and Activism” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers. New York, March. Member, Reparations Conference Planning Committee, UCLA. Convener, Third World Left Forum, Los Angeles, USC, March Panelist, Ford Foundation Minority Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences Panel.
2000
Faculty Proposal Critic, Social Science Research Council’s Minority Summer Dissertation Workshop on International Migration, UCLA, August. Convener, “Ethics and Activism” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh, April. Faculty Proposal Critic, Los Angeles Dissertation Seminar, the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, Los Angeles, July.
1999
Convener, Author Meets Critics: Clyde Wood’s Arrested Development: Regional Planning in the Mississippi Delta, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Honolulu, March.
1997
External Evaluator, Center for Race, Poverty and the Environment, California Rural Legal Assistance, Delano, (1997-2001). Convener, two sessions on “Structural Adjustment Across Three Worlds” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, April.
1996
Co-founder, Latino Political Economy Group (with Rudy Torres and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo).
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1995
Jury Member, National Student Paper Competition, Geographic Perspectives on Women, Association of American Geographers. Convener, two sessions on “Linking Political Ecology and Environmental Justice” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, March. Convener, two sessions on “Environmental Racism/Justice” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, March.
1994
Organizer, two sessions on “Recent Developments in the Construction of 'Race'“ Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. San Francisco, April.
University Service
2019
Member, Environmental Initiative Steering Committee, UO Member, Search Committee, Executive Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, UO Member, Underrepresented Minority Research Program (UMRP) workgroup, UO Member, Advisory Board, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, UO Member, Center for Environmental Futures Steering Committee, UO Chair, Co-sponsorship Committee, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, UO Panelist, “Nativism and White Supremacy: Oregon, the US and Europe” Wayne Morse Center, University of Oregon. October.
2018
Member, Dean’s Advisory Council, College of Arts & Sciences, UO Member, Advisory Board, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, UO Member, Center for Environmental Futures Steering Committee, UO Member, Association of Pacific Rim Universities, Undergraduate Research Symposium, UO Chair, Pacific Northwest Ethnic Studies Undergraduate Research Symposium Committee, UO Chair, Co-sponsorship Committee, Ethnic Studies, UO Member, Curriculum Committee, Ethnic Studies, UO Member, Diversity Committee, Ethnic Studies, UO
2017
Member, Dean’s Advisory Council, College of Arts & Sciences, UO Member, Advisory Board, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, UO Member, Strategic Planning Committee, Ethnic Studies, UO Chair, Co-sponsorship Committee, Ethnic Studies, UO Member, Curriculum Committee, Ethnic Studies, UO Member, Diversity Committee, Ethnic Studies, UO
2016
Member, Graduate Studies Committee, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Member, Dornsife College NonTenure Track Personnel Committee, USC Member, Turpanjian Chair’s Faculty Advisory Committee, USC Chair, Provost Humanities Fellowship Selection Committee, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
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2015
Chair, American Studies & Ethnicity Commons Lecture Series, USC Chair, Provost Humanities Fellowship Selection Committee, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Member, Executive Committee, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Member, Graduate School Fellowship Committee, USC
2014
Member, Admissions Committee, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Member, Merit Review Committee, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Placement Co-Director, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
2013
Placement Director, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee
2012
Placement Director, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Member, Strategic Program & Opportunities Committee, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
2011
Chair, Merit Review Committee, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
2010
Member, Graduate Studies Committee, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Member, Social Justice Search Committee, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
2008
Director, Undergraduate Studies, Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Member, Executive Committee, Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Member, Merit Review Committee, Geography Department, USC Member, Diversity Curriculum Committee, USC Member, Ad Hoc Grade Appeals Panel, Departments of American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Co-Convener (with Josh Kun) “Writing Race in Los Angeles” Visions and Voices, USC
2007
Director, Chicano/Latino Studies, Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Member, Committee on Probationary Deadlines, Academic Senate, USC Member, Executive Committee, Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Member, Ad Hoc Grade Appeals Panel, American Studies & Ethnicity and Geography, USC
2006
Director, Chicano/Latino Studies, Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Member, Executive Committee, Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Member, Committee on Probationary Deadlines, Academic Senate, USC
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Member, Advisory Committee, “Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education in the Social, Economic and Behavioral Sciences” National Science Foundation. Jean Morrison, P.I. USC Member, Steering Committee, Latin American Studies Minor, USC Mentor, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, USC Panelist, “So You Want to go to Graduate School?” Geography Department, USC Panelist, Multicultural Women’s Luncheon, USC
2005
Vice-Provost’s Task Force on Graduate Education, USC Merit Review Committee, Geography Department, USC Director of Graduate Studies, Program in American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Member, Executive Committee, Program in American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
2004
Member, Service Learning Subcommittee, Strategic Plan Committee, USC Library Liaison, Geography Department, USC
2003
Director of Graduate Studies, Program in American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Chair, Admissions Committee, Program in American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Member, Executive Committee, Program in American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Member, Merit Review Committee, Geography Department, USC
2002
Director of Graduate Studies, Program in American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Chair, Admissions Committee, Program in American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Executive Committee, Program in American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Search Committee, Program in American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Colloquium Coordinator, Geography Department, USC Tenure Review Committee, Geography Department, USC
2000
Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Geography Department, USC Merit Review Committee, Geography Department, USC Member, Ph.D Steering Committee, Program in American Studies & Ethnicity USC
1999
Graduate Coordinator, Geography Department, USC Member, Search Committee, American Studies and Ethnicity, USC Faculty Advisor, Student Activist Coalition, USC (1999-2002) Faculty Advisor, Trojan Horse, USC (1999-2002) Colloquium Coordinator, Geography Department, USC Member, Program on American Studies & Ethnicity Advisory Committee, USC
1998
Member, Organized Research Unit Steering Committee, Program in American Studies and Ethnicity, USC Member, Search Committee, Geography Department, USC Merit Review Committee, Geography Department, USC
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Jury Member, Geography Department Student Paper Competition, USC
1996
Library Liaison, Geography Department, USC Member, Program on American Studies & Ethnicity Advisory Committee, USC Colloquium Coordinator, Geography Department, USC Jury Member, Geography Department Student Paper Competition, USC Member, Environmental Studies Advisory Committee, USC
1995
Member, Program on American Studies & Ethnicity Advisory Committee, USC Protege Plus Mentor, USC Colloquium Coordinator, Geography Department, USC Jury Member, Geography Department Student Paper Competition, USC Member, Environmental Studies Advisory Committee, USC
1993
Member, Environmental Studies Advisory Committee, USC Colloquium Coordinator, Geography Department, USC
1992
Faculty Coordinator, Trojan Geographical Society, USC Marshall, Commencement Exercises, USC
1991
Member, Graduate Student Committee, Geography Department California State University Fullerton
Community Service
Member, Community Advisory Board, Critical Resistance Chair, “Labor Policy Committee” Arroyo Food Co-op Member, “Product Sourcing Committee” Arroyo Food Co-op Board Member, Southern California Library for Social Studies & Research Consultant, Coalition Against Police Abuse, Los Angeles Research Consultant, Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training, Denver Community Funding Board, Liberty Hill Foundation, Los Angeles. Evaluator, Center for Race, Poverty & Environment, San Joaquin Valley Editorial Board, Ahora/Now, Labor/Community Strategy Center, Los Angeles Consultant, Communities for a Better Environment. Huntington Park, CA Commissioner, Environmental Affairs Department, City of Los Angeles Member, Environmental Equity Committee, The Comparative Risk Project, California Environmental Protection Agency Board of Organizers, Labor/Community Strategy Center. Los Angeles Consultant, Los Angeles Conservation Corps.
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Student Supervision
Phd Committees Chaired
Amee Chew, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC (2016) “The Revolution Will Come Home: Gendered Violence and Transformative Organizing From the Philippines to the US.” Mellon-ACLS Public Fellow
Analena Hope Hassberg, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC (2015) “To Survive and Thrive: Food, Justice, and Citified Sovereignty in South Los Angeles” Assistant Professor, Ethnic & Gender Studies, Cal Poly Pomona State University.
Orlando Serrano, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC (2014) “Colonial Brews: Café and Power in the Américas” National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Chrisshona Grant Nieva, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC (2011) “This Is My Country: The Use of Blackness in Discourses of Racial Nativism Towards Latino Immigrants” Lecturer, University of Southern California.
Lorena Muñoz, Geography Department, USC (2008) “Tamales…Elotes…Champurado: The Production of Latin Vending Landscapes in Los Angeles” Associate Professor, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota.
Daniel Martinez HoSang, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC (2007) “Racial Propositions: Genteel Apartheid in Postwar California” Winner of the Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize in American Studies. Associate Professor, American Studies, Yale University.
Rigoberto Rodriguez, Geography Department, USC (2007) “Enterprising Citizenship: Mexican Immigrant Empowerment and Public-Private Partnerships in Santa Ana, California” Associate Professor, Chicano & Latino Studies, California State University Long Beach.
Laura Barraclough, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC (2006) “Rural Urbanism: Landscape, Land Use Activism, and the Cultural Politics of Suburban Spatial Exclusion” Associate Professor, American Studies, Yale University.
Donna Houston, Geography Department, USC (2006) “Topographies of Memory and Power: Environmental Politics, History and Justice at Yucca Mountain” Lecturer, Environment & Geography, Macquarie University, Australia.
Mary Roche, Geography Department, USC (2004) “Unfinished Business: The Production of Resistance to State Violence in Los Angeles & Derry” Lecturer, Geography, University College Cork, Ireland.
Dissertation & Qualifying Committee Member
University of Oregon, Primary Supervision
Cristina Faiver-Serna, Geography Tianna Bruno, Geography Sophia Ford, Environmental Studies Carla Macal, Geography
Camila Alvarez, Sociology, University of Oregon (2019) Adam Bush, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC (Qualifying Exam only) Jason Byrne, Geography, USC (2007) Andrew Burridge, Geography, USC (2009) Genevieve Carpio, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC (2013) Wendy Cheng, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC (2009) Michan Connor, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC (2008)
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Angela Constable, Sociology, USC (Qualifying Exam only) Dustin Ellis, Political Science, UO Treva Ellison, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC (2015) Gilbert Estrada, History, USC (2011) Lisa Fink, English & Environmental Studies, UO Max Felker-Kantor, History, USC (2014) Glenda Flores, Sociology, USC (2011) Steve Flusty, Geography, USC (2001) Sarah Fong, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC (Qualifying Exam only) Ryan Fukumori, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Perla Guerrero, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC (2010) Laura Harjo, Geography, USC (Qualifying Exam only) Christina Heatherton, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC (2012) Jill Humphries, Public Administration, USC (2002) Jessica Kim, History, USC (2012) Steve Kolletty, Geography, USC (2000) Unna Lassiter, Geography, USC (2000) Colby Lenz, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Wei Li, Geography, USC (1997) Dolores Loustaunau, Sociology, UO Jessica Lovaas, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC (2016) Sanan Moradi, Geography, UO Marci McMahon, English, USC (2007) Pamela McMullin-Messier, Sociology, USC (2006) James McKeever, Sociology, USC (2011) Jeb Middlebrook, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC (2011) Adam Moore, Geography, UO April Ruth Peck, Geography, USC (2012) Haven Perez, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC (2013) Jessi Quizar, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC (2014) David Stein, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC (2014) Mona Seymour, Geography, USC (Qualifying Exam only) Kate Shields, Geography, UO Steve Sidawi, Geography Department, USC (supervisor) Barbra Soliz, History, USC (Qualifying Exam only) Carrie Sutkin, Urban Planning, USC (2002) Allison Tom, Urban Planning, USC (2002) Jennifer Tran, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC (Qualifying Exam only) Kirsten Vinyeta, Sociology, UO Robert Vos, Political Science, USC (1999) Rob Wilton, Geography, USC (Qualifying Exam only)
Outside Dissertation and Postdoctoral Supervision
Erin Goodling, UO Geography, NSF postdoctoral Fellow (2018-20) Ashley Hernandez, Urban Planning & Public Policy, University of California, Irvine Daniela Aiello, Geography, University of Georgia Deshoney Dozier, Environmental Psychology, City University New York Ellen Kohl, Geography, University of Georgia (2014) Maureen Purtill, Urban Planning, UCLA (2013) Ofelia Cuevas, Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego (2008)
Thesis Committees
Lourdes Ginart, Geography, UO (2019) Hallie Krinksi, Geography, USC (2001) (supervisor)
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Nick Machuca, English, UO (2018) Jurgen Von Mahs, Geography, USC (1996) Jessica Walsh, Geography, USC (1996) Bob Massey, Sociology, USC (1996)
Senior Theses and Projects
Fiona de los Rios-McCutcheon, Geography & Clarks Honor College, UO Adam Perez, McNair Scholar, USC (2009) Raquel Chavez, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow (2006) Ramon Negrete, Program on the Environment and City, USC (1994) Thomas Trexler, Geography, USC (1997) Daniel Parra, Program in American Studies, USC (2002)
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