Kathryn Gillespie Curriculum Vitae

KATHRYN GILLESPIE CURRICULUM VITAE

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CURRENT AFFILIATIONS 2020-Present Postdoctoral Scholar, Geography, University of Kentucky 2018-Present Education Advisory Board, Freedom Education Project Puget Sound

PAST AFFILIATIONS 2018-2019 Affiliate Faculty, Geography, University of Washington 2016-2018 Postdoctoral Fellow in Animal Studies, Wesleyan University 2016-2018 Affiliate Faculty, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Science in Society Program, Wesleyan University 2015-2016 Collaborative Learning and Interdisciplinary Pedagogy Fellow, Comparative History of Ideas, University of Washington. 2014-2015 Lecturer, Geography and Comparative History of Ideas, University of Washington

EDUCATION 2014 PhD in Geography, University of Washington Dissertation: Reproducing dairy: Embodied animals and the institution of animal agriculture. 2010 MA in Geography, University of Washington Thesis: Killing with kindness? Reconceptualizing “humane” slaughter. 2006 BA in Creative Writing and Political Science, Sarah Lawrence College 2005 School for International Training, Tibetan Studies, India and Bhutan

RESEARCH AND TEACHING AREAS political ecology/economy human-environment relations feminist theory carceral geographies animal studies/geographies multispecies ethnography food and agriculture race and racialization

PUBLICATIONS – BOOK 2018 Gillespie, Kathryn. The Cow with Ear Tag #1389. University of Chicago Press. -Reviews: Cover review (with Michael Taussig’s new book) in Times Literary Supplement; one of the “5 best science picks” for the week in Nature; best books of 2018, science and nature in Open Letters Review; reviews also in Publisher’s Weekly, Washington Independent Review of Books, Metapsychology, VegNews, Animal Studies Journal, and Jotwell. -Excerpt published in Nautilus 2019 Korean language translation published.

PUBLICATIONS – E D I TED BOOKS & SPECIAL ISSUE 2020 Gillespie, Kathryn & Yamini Narayanan (Editors). Animal Nationalisms: Multispecies Cultural Politics, Race, and the (Un)making of the Settler Nation-State. Special Issue of the Journal for Intercultural Studies. 41(1). 2019 Gillespie, Kathryn & Patricia J. Lopez (Editors). Vulnerable Witness: The Politics of Grief in the Field. University of California Press: Public Anthropology Series.

2015 Gillespie, Kathryn & Rosemary-Claire Collard (Editors). Critical Animal Geographies: Politics, Intersections and Hierarchies in a Multispecies World. New York: Routledge. [Paperback edition released 2017] 2015 Lopez, Patricia J. & Kathryn Gillespie (Editors). Economies of Death: Economic Logics of Killable Life and Grievable Death. London: Routledge.

PUBLICATIONS – PEER - REVIEWED 2020 Gillespie, Kathryn & Yamini Narayanan. Introduction. Animal Nationalisms: Multispecies Cultural Politics, Race, and the (Un)making of the Settler Nation-State. Special Issue of the Journal for Intercultural Studies. 41(1): 1-7. 2019 Gillespie, Kathryn. Animal welfare. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd Edition, edited by Audrey Kobayashi. Elsevier. 2019 Gillespie, Kathryn. For a politicized multispecies ethnography: Reflections on a feminist geographic pedagogical experiment. Politics & Animals, 5: 1-16. 2019 Lopez, Patricia J. and Gillespie, Kathryn. Introduction. In Vulnerable Witness: The Politics of Grief in the Field, edited by Kathryn Gillespie & Patricia J. Lopez. University of California Press: Public Anthropology Series. 2019 Lopez, Patricia J. and Gillespie, Kathryn. Epilogue. In Vulnerable Witness: The Politics of Grief in the Field, edited by Kathryn Gillespie & Patricia J. Lopez. University of California Press: Public Anthropology Series. 2018 Gillespie, Kathryn. Placing Angola: Racialisation, settler-colonialism, and anthropocentrism at the Louisiana State Penitentiary’s Angola Rodeo. Antipode, 50 (5): 1267-1289. Reprint: In Decolonizing Critical Animal Studies, edited by Kelly Struthers Montford and Chloe Taylor. Critical Animal Studies Series, Brill Publishers, expected publication 2019. 2017 Gillespie, Kathryn and Victoria Lawson. “My Dog is My Home:” Multispecies care and poverty politics in Los Angeles, California and Austin, Texas. Gender, Place and Culture, 24 (6): 774-793. 2017 Gillespie, Kathryn. Feminist Food Politics. In Gender: Animals, edited by Juno Salazar Parreñas, pp. 149-164. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA. 2017 Gillespie, Kathryn. Slaughter. In Gender: Animals, edited by Juno Salazar Parreñas, pp. 181- 196. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA. 2016 Lopez, Patricia J. & Kathryn Gillespie. A love story: For “buddy system” research in the academy. Gender, Place, and Culture, 23 (12): 1689-1700. 2016 Gillespie, Kathryn. Witnessing animal others: Bearing witness, grief, and the political function of emotion. Hypatia, 31 (3): 572-588. 2014 Gillespie, Kathryn. Sexualized violence and the gendered commodification of the animal body in Pacific Northwest US dairy production. Gender, Place and Culture, 21(10): 1321-1337. 2011 Gillespie, Kathryn. How happy is your meat? Confronting (dis)connectedness in the ‘alternative’ meat industry. The Brock Review 12(1): 100-128.

PUBLICATIO N S – NON - R EF E REE D Forthcoming (2020). Gillespie, Kathryn. Animals. Research Ethics in Human Geography, edited by Helen Wilson and Jonny Darling, SAGE. 2018 Gillespie, Kathryn. The loneliness and madness of witnessing: Reflections from a vegan feminist killjoy. In Animaladies, coedited by Lori Gruen and Fiona Probyn-Rapsey. Bloomsbury. 2017 Gillespie, Kathryn. Intimacy, animal emotion, and empathy: Multispecies intimacy as slow research practice. In Writing Intimacy into Feminist Geography, edited by Pamela Moss and Courtney Donovan. London: Routledge. 2017 Gillespie, Kathryn. Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. In Humans and Animals: A Geography of Coexistence. Edited by Julie Urbanik and Connie Johnston, pp. 160-69. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press.

2016 Gillespie, Kathryn. Nonhuman animal resistance and the improprieties of live property. In Animals, Biopolitics, Law: Lively Legalities. Edited by Irus Braverman. London: Routledge. 2015 Gillespie, Kathryn & Patricia J. Lopez. 2015. Introducing Economies of Death. In Economies of Death: Economic logics of killable life and grievable death, edited by Patricia J. Lopez & Kathryn Gillespie. London: Routledge. 2015 Gillespie, Kathryn & Patricia J. Lopez. Economies of Death: An ethical framework and future directions. In Economies of Death: Economic logics of killable life and grievable death, edited by Patricia J. Lopez & Kathryn Gillespie. London: Routledge. 2015 Collard, Rosemary-Claire & Kathryn Gillespie. Introduction. In Critical Animal Geographies: Politics, Intersections and Hierarchies in a Multispecies World, edited by Kathryn Gillespie & Rosemary-Claire Collard. New York: Routledge. 2015 Collard, Rosemary-Claire & Kathryn Gillespie. Doing critical animal geographies: future directions. In Critical Animal Geographies: Politics, Intersections and Hierarchies in a Multispecies World, edited by Kathryn Gillespie & Rosemary-Claire Collard. New York: Routledge. 2011 Gillespie, Kathryn. Killing with kindness? Institutionalized violence in ‘humane’ slaughter. Nonkilling Geographies, edited by James Tyner and Joshua Inwood. Honolulu, Hawaii: Center for Global Nonkilling.

PUBLICATIONS – BOOK REVIEWS 2017 Gillespie, Kathryn. Book Review of The Wrongs of Injustice: Dehumanization and its Role in Feminist Philosophy by Mari Mikkola, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. 2016 Gillespie, Kathryn. Book Review of Political Ecologies of Meat, edited by Jody Emel and Harvey Neo, Economic Geography, 3 (2): 66-67. 2015 Gillespie, Kathryn. Book Review of Animal Oppression & Human Violence: Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict by David Nibert, The AAG Review of Books, 3 (2).

GRANTS, AWARDS , FELLOWSHIPS 2016-2018 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Animal Studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. 2016 Race and Animals Summer Institute, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT (Declined) 2015-2016 Collaborative Learning and Interdisciplinary Pedagogy Fellowship. “Food, Environmental, and Multispecies Justice,” Comparative History of Ideas, U. of Washington. 2015 Gender, Place and Culture Award for New and Emerging Scholars. 2014 Edward L. Ullman Award for Outstanding Doctoral Work, U. of Washington. 2013 Program on Values in Society Ethics Prize, U. of Washington. 2013 Hilda Scholar of the Year, North American Institute for Critical Animal Studies. 2012, 2013 Travel Grant, Department of Geography, U. of Washington. 2012 Toews Travel Grant, Comparative History of Ideas Program, U. of Washington. 2011 Interdisciplinary Educators Award, Course design: Animals, Ethics and Food, Comparative History of Ideas Program, U. of Washington. 2010-2011 Simpson Center Research Cluster Grant (co-applicant), Animals, Violence, Justice: At the Intersections of Rights, Representation, and (Post)Humanism, U. of Washington. 2010 Travel Grant, Animals & Animality Across the Humanities & Social Sciences, Queen’s U. 2005 Harle Adaire Damann Writing Scholarship, Sarah Lawrence College.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (SYLLABI AVAILABLE ON REQUEST) Race, Science, Gender, Species (FGSS 330/SISP 330), Spring 2017; 2018. Cross-listed: Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies and Science in Society Program, Wesleyan University. Witnessing Animal Others: Mourning, Haunting, and the Politics of Animal (After)Lives (FGSS 238/SISP 238), Spring 2018. Cross-listed: Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies and Science in Society Program, Wesleyan University. Animal Ethics and Social Justice, Winter Interim 2018, Tata Institute of Social Sciences,

Mumbai, India. Guest instructor. Qualitative Methods (GEOG 425), Fall 2017. Part-time lecturer, Geography, University of Washington. Geography of the World Economy (GEOG 208), Fall 2017. Teaching assistant, Geography, University of Washington. Social Problems (SOC 201), Summer 2017, Freedom Education Project Puget Sound, Washington Corrections Center for Women, Gig Harbor, Washington. Economies of Death, Geographies of Care (FGSS 235/SISP 235), Fall 2016. Cross-listed: Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies and Science in Society Program, Wesleyan University. Geography of Food and Eating (GEOG 271), Winter 2016. Part-time lecturer, Geography, University of Washington. The Politics of Living and Dying (HONORS 231A), Winter 2016. Part-time lecturer, Honors Program, University of Washington. Our Global Environment (GEOG 205), Fall 2015. Part-time lecturer, Geography, University of Washington. Exploring Human and Nonhuman Bodies in Film and Literature (CHID 250), Fall 2015, Part-time lecturer, Comparative History of Ideas, University of Washington. Co-taught with Nancy White. Geography Honors Senior Thesis Tutorial (GEOG 497), Taught Fall, Winter, Spring 2014- 2015. Part-time lecturer, Geography, University of Washington. Animals, Environment, Food, and Justice (HONORS 231A/CHID 250), Taught Winter 2015 (HONORS 231A), Spring 2016 (CHID 250). Part-time lecturer, Honors Program/CHID, University of Washington. Optional service learning component. Doing Multispecies Ethnography (CHID 250A/GEOG 295), Taught Summer 2014; 2015. Part-time lecturer, Comparative History of Ideas Program & cross-listed with Geography, University of Washington. The Making of World Regions (GEOG 102), Taught Spring, Fall 2014. Instructor, Geography, University of Washington. Online course. En Vogue: From Feathers to Leather, A Historical and Contemporary Exploration of Animals in Fashion (CHID 480A), Taught Winter 2014; Spring 2015. Instructor, Comparative History of Ideas Program, University of Washington. Animals, Ethics, and Food: Deconstructing Dominant Discourse (CHID 480B), Taught Fall, Winter 2012. Instructor, Comparative History of Ideas Program, University of Washington. Introduction to Political Geography (GEOG 276), Taught Winter 2010, 2011. Teaching Assistant, Geography, University of Washington. Introduction to Globalization (GEOG 123), Taught Fall 2008, 2009, 2010. Teaching Assistant, Geography, University of Washington. Indigenous Encounters: Cultural Politics in Latin America (CHID 250), Taught Spring 2010. Teaching Assistant, Comparative History of Ideas Program, University of Washington. Geography of Food and Eating (GEOG 271), Taught Spring 2009. Teaching Assistant, Geography, University of Washington. Geography of Health and Healthcare (GEOG 280), Taught Winter 2009. Teaching Assistant, Geography, University of Washington.

NEWLY DESIGNED COURSES Environmental Justice in a Multispecies World Sensate: Ways of Knowing Through the Sensory

INVITED LECTURES & PUBLIC EVENTS 2020 Doula for a Dying Planet. Geographies of Extinction Plenary Panel. North American Association for Critical Animal Studies (NAACAS) Inaugural Conference, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, May.

2019 Racialization and settler colonialism at the Angola Rodeo: Toward de-anthropocentric and decolonial futures. Department of Geography Colloquium Series, University of Kentucky, October 25, Lexington, KY. 2019 The cow with ear tag #1389 and other stories from the farmed animal auction yard. Animals & Society Research Initiative Distinguished Lecture Series. University of Victoria, October 16, Victoria, BC. 2019 The cow with ear tag #1389 and other stories. Farm Sanctuary’s Annual Hoe Down, August 11, Watkins Glen, NY. 2018 Public lecture: The cow with ear tag #1389 and other stories: Unthinking commodification. Deakin University, December 11, Melbourne, Australia. 2018 Book launch public reading for The Cow with Ear Tag #1389. Third Place Books (Ravenna location), November 19, Seattle, WA. 2018 Public reading and discussion for The Cow with Ear Tag #1389. Herbivore Clothing Company, November 15, Portland, OR. 2018 Book launch public reading for The Cow with Ear Tag #1389. Tree Pittsburgh, November 8, Pittsburgh, PA. 2018 Critical animal studies: Engaging in activism for animals, with Lori Gruen, Bluestockings Bookstore, November 5, New York, NY. 2018 The Cow with Ear Tag #1389 and Lori Gruen, Critical Terms in Animal Studies. Wesleyan R.J. Julia Bookstore, November 1, Middletown, CT. 2018 Doing multispecies ethnography: Reflections on a feminist geographic approach to pedagogy. Queen’s University, October 31, Kingston, Ontario. 2018 Racialization, anthropocentrism, and settler colonialism at the Louisiana State Penitentiary’s Angola Rodeo: Toward decolonial and de-anthropocentric futures, Geography Department Colloquium Series, University of Washington, May 18, Seattle, WA. 2016 Plantation economies, human-animal entanglements, and the foundations of capitalism at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Science in Society Program Student/Faculty Lunch Lecture Program, Wesleyan University, October 17, Middletown, CT. 2016 Invited guest speaker, Food Justice Feed, Wesleyan University, October 1, Middletown, CT. 2016 Keynote on food justice, Food Empowerment Project, Fundraising Gala, July 7, Seattle, WA. 2016 Placing Angola: Race, coloniality, and human-animal encounters at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Lecture hosted by The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice and the Ecologies of Social Difference Research Network, University of British Columbia. March 2. 2015 Animals, Environment, Food and Justice, University Beyond Bars, Arts & Lecture Series, Monroe Correctional Complex – Minimum Security Unit, October 24, Monroe, Washington. 2015 Gene Baur and Kathryn Gillespie: The Ethical and Environmental Impacts of Eating Animals. Invited speaker for Seattle’s Town Hall. May 8. 2015 Kathryn Gillespie and Ross Reynolds. “Do Zoos Really Help Animals in the Wild?” KUOW Public Radio Interview, Seattle, WA. April 21. 2015 Sexualized violence against nonhuman animals in food production. Invited lecture for Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Activists (SARVA), Seattle, WA, February 19. 2015 The Cow with Ear Tag #1389: Species, Place and Power in U.S. Animal Agriculture. Invited Lecturer for 2014/2015 Seattle Arts & Lecture U series, Thinking Animals: Species, Power and the Politics of Care in the World, February 13. 2014 Invited lecture. Reproducing Dairy: The individual animal and the institution of animal agriculture, University of Washington Geography Colloquium Series, February 28, Seattle, WA. 2013 The ‘global intimate,’ sexualized violence and gendered commodification in Pacific Northwest dairy production. Invited speaker in the Animal Rights Academy’s lecture series. Toronto, ON. December 5.

CONFERENCE PR ESENTATIONS

2020 Intimate ethnography as witnessing: Trauma and healing within and beyond the laboratory, in Intimate Ethnographies in Multispecies Lifeworlds (paper session), Annual Meeting of the American association of Geographers, April 6-10, Denver, Colorado. 2020 Panelist, Considering Cow Geographies (paper session), Annual Meeting of the American association of Geographers, April 6-10, Denver, Colorado. 2020 A multispecies theory of livable lives within and beyond the ruins, in Afterlives of Accumulation: Political Ecologies of Hope in Blasted Landscapes (paper session), Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, February 27-29, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. 2019 Excavating anthropocentrism and white supremacy at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Building Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice – A Critical Prison Studies Conference, September 20-21, Banff, AB. 2018 Scent of the spectral: Sensory witnessing beyond sight. Animaladies II. December 13-14, University of Wollongong, Australia. 2018 Panelist, Friendship in the Academy: Toward a Politics of Caring With (panel session), Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, April 10-14, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 Panelist, Difference and Mentoring in Feminist Geography 2 (panel session), Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, April 10-14, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 Panelist, Troubling, Extending, and Expanding Care (panel session), Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, April 10-14, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 Discussant, Multispecies methods and encounters in the field (includes: seeking nonhuman life in the AAG convention space) (panel session), Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, April 10- 14, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2017 Doing multispecies ethnography: A sanctuary-university collaboration, Sanctuary: Reflecting on Refuge, co-organized by VINE Sanctuary and Wesleyan Animal Studies, Wesleyan University, September 29-30, Middletown, Connecticut. 2017 Witnessing the Afterlives of Plastic: The Emotional Geographies of Chris Jordan’s Midway, The Lives and Afterlives of Plastic (a nearly carbon-neutral conference), Political Ecology Research Centre, Massey University, June 24-July14, New Zealand. 2016 Introducer, Theorizing Economies of Death (panel session), Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, March 29-April 2, San Francisco, CA. 2016 Race, the Agrarian Question, and Human-Animal Entanglements at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, in Race and the Agrarian Question (paper session), Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, March 29-April 2, San Francisco, CA. 2016 Panelist, Vegan Geographies (panel session), Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, March 29-April 2, San Francisco, CA. 2015 Spectacles of Vulnerability: Multispecies entanglements at the Angola Prison Rodeo, in Precarious Human and Animal Lives: Making and Unmaking Vulnerable Bodies (paper session), National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 2015 Multispecies Livability: Feminist articulations of livable lives beyond the human, in Liveable Lives (paper session), RGS-IGB Annual International Conference 2015, September 2-4, University of Exeter, UK. 2015 Placing ‘Angola’: Power, violence and human-animal encounters at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, in Histories in the Making of Place-in-the-Present III: Histories of Difference in the Transnational Present (paper session), Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 21-25, Chicago, IL. 2015 Invited panelist, Methods for accessing emotions: Dealing with affect empirically (panel sessions), Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 21-25, Chicago, Illinois. 2015 Co-presenter (with Victoria Lawson), Multispecies feminist care as politics? in Care Ethics and Social Movements: Multi-species Interdependency, Intersectionality, and Radical Social Change (panel session), Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 21-25, Chicago, Illinois.

2015 Co-author (with Rosemary-Claire Collard – presenting author), What is ethical practice in multispecies fieldwork? in Animal Minds (paper session), Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 21-25, Chicago, Illinois. 2015 Doing Multispecies Ethnographies: Feminist pedagogies across species lines. In Feminist Methodologies (paper session), IGU Commission on Gender and Geography, April 19-20. 2014 Animal resistance and the improprieties of live property. More-than-Human Legalities Workshop at the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy. September 11-12, Buffalo, NY. 2014 Invited panelist, Public Geographies and Feminist Praxis at the Feminist Geographies Conference, May 15-18, Omaha, NE. [Organizer: Amy Piedalue; Panelists: Amy Piedalue, Kristy Copeland, Jennifer Fluri, Kathryn Gillespie.] 2014 Panelist in FQG: Methodologies of Intimate Writing – Methodological, Epistemological and Ontological Questions at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 8-12, Tampa, FL. [Organizers: Pamela Moss and Courtney Donovan; Panelists: Courtney Donovan, Kathryn Gillespie, Robyn Longhurst, Maral Sotoudehnia, Dana Cuomo, Kelsey Hanrahan.] 2014 Grieving the individual animal: Making legible the everyday violence of U.S. dairy production. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 8-12, Tampa, FL. 2013 Knowing Sophie: Hybrid epistemologies, cyborg figures and the individual animal. Sex and the animal: theorizing sex, gender, species session at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 20-24, Chicago, IL. 2013 (De)colonized bodies/(De)colonized lives. “Food” Bodies/ “Raced” Bodies session, North American Institute for Critical Animal Studies Conference, June 20-22, Minneapolis, MN. 2013 The ‘global intimate,’ sexualized violence, and the gendered commodification of the animal body in Pacific Northwest dairy production. Navigating a Multispecies World Conference, Harvard University, April 25-26, Boston, MA. 2013 Making sexual cyborgs: Hybrid methodologies and the re-making of cross-species relations. Science and the Production of Species session at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 9-13, Los Angeles, CA. 2012 Re-placing the ‘dairy cow’: decolonizing the animal body. Decolonizing Cascadia? 7th Annual Critical Geographies Conference, University of British Columbia, November 16-17, Vancouver. 2012 Joining the resistance: Farmed animals making history. Institute for Critical Animal Studies Annual Conference, Canisius College, March 2-4, Buffalo, NY. 2012 Animal resistance and the improprieties of live property. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, February 24-28, New York, NY. 2011 Deconstructing dairy: The animal body as machine. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 12-16, Seattle, WA. 2010 Killing with kindness? Reconceptualizing ‘humane’ slaughter. Animals and Animality across the Humanities and Social Sciences Conference, Queen’s University, June 26-27, Kingston, Ontario.

CONFERENCE SESSIONS ORGANIZED 2020 Co-organizer (with Yamini Narayanan), Intimate Ethnographies in Multispecies Lifeworlds (paper session), Annual Meeting of the American association of Geographers, April 6-10, Denver, Colorado. 2020 Co-organizer (with Claudia Hirtenfelder and Yamini Narayanan), Considering Cow Geographies (panel session), Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, April 6-10, Denver, Colorado. 2018 Co-organizer (with Rosemary-Claire Collard and Jessica Dempsey), Capitalism and Anthropocentrism: Beyond the trap of intrinsic/extrinsic value? (paper session), Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, April 10-14, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 Co-organizer (with Patricia Lopez), Friendship in the Academy: Toward a Politics of Caring With (panel session), Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, April 10-14, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2016 Co-organizer (with Patricia Lopez), Theorizing Economies of Death (panel session), Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, March 29-April 2, San Francisco, California. [Panel: Jennifer Fluri, David Giles, James Tyner, Patricia Lopez]

2015 Co-organizer (with Rosemary-Claire Collard), Critical Interventions in a Multispecies World (panel session), Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 21-25, Chicago, Illinois. [Panel: Richard White, Jodi Emel, Heidi Nast, Connie Johnston, Karen Morin] 2015 Co-organizer (with Patricia Lopez), Grieving witnesses: The politics of grief in the field (2 panel sessions), Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 21-25, Chicago, Illinois. [Panel 1: Kalli Doubleday, Kate Coddington, Jacquelyn Micieli-Voutsinas, Lakhbir K. Jassal, Maureen Hays- Mitchell, Elizabeth Olson, Dana Cuomo; Panel 2: Christine Eriksen, Laurie Heffron, Catherine Nolin, William Payne, Jessie Clark, Michelle Daigle] 2015 Co-organizer (with Kristy Copeland, Patricia Lopez, Amy Piedalue), Care Ethics and Social Movements: Multispecies Interdependency, Intersectionality, and Radical Social Change (1 panel; 1 paper session), Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 21-25, Chicago, Illinois. [Paper session: Kristy Copeland, Brandon Derman, Amy Piedalue, Jennifer Gaddis, Rheanna (Juno) Salazar Parreñas; Panel session: Victoria Lawson & Kathryn Gillespie, Dena Aufseeser, Anna Feigenbaum, Fabian Frenzel, Patrick McCurdy, Audra Elisabeth El Vilaly, Mario Bruzzone, Vivienne Bozalek, Daniela Gachago] 2014 Co-organizer (with Kristy Copeland, Michelle Daigle, Patricia Lopez, Amy Piedalue, Magie Ramirez), Powerful histories: Tracing the legacies of contemporary racial formations (3 paper sessions), 21st Annual Critical Geographies Conference: ‘How Power Happens,’ Temple University, November 7-9, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [Session 1: Kristy Copeland, Sendy Guerrier-Alciodonis, Emily Mitchell- Eaton, Amy Piedalue; Session 2: Claire Rasmussen, Adrian Mulligan, Sophie Moore, Michelle Daigle, Ron J. Smith; Session 3: Patricia Lopez, Emma Gaalaas Mullaney, Divya Sundar] 2014 Co-organizer (with Amy Piedalue), Epistemologies of violence: Critical engagements across space, time, and sites of difference (3 paper sessions), Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 8-12, Tampa, Florida. [Session 1: Phil Arkow, Katherine Brickell, Elinor Lloyd, Patricia Martin, Bradley Rowe; Session 2: Scott Hurley and Richard Merritt, Nicole Nguyen, Jared Powell, Ian Shaw and Majed Akhter; Session 3: Julie Cupples and Kevin Glynn, Corrie de Blocq van Scheltinga, Sarah Hunt, Amber Murrey] 2014 Co-organizer (with Patricia Lopez), Economies of death: Economic logics of killable life and grievable death (3 paper sessions), Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 8-12, Tampa, Florida. [Session 1: Jennifer Fluri, Jennifer Musial, Phil McManus, LA Watson, Renee Tapp; Session 2: Jennifer Hyndman, Cary Karacas, Beth Greenhough, Mollie Holmberg, Kathryn Gillespie; Session 3: James Tyner, Tom Gregory, Alex Colucci, Jeff Baldwin, Patricia Lopez] 2012 Co-organizer (with Rosemary-Claire Collard), Decolonizing human-animal relations in a time of expanding critical geographies (paper session), Decolonizing Cascadia? Seventh Annual Critical Geographies Conference, November 16-17, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. [Chair: Rosemary Claire Collard; Presenters: Lisa Dumoulin, Kathryn Gillespie, Will McKeithen, Max Ritts and Rosemary Claire Collard.] 2012 Co-organizer (with Rosemary-Claire Collard), Live Property (paper session), Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, February 24-28, New York, NY. [Chair: Rosemary Claire Collard; Presenters: June Dwyer, Stacey Smith, Kathryn Gillespie]

STUDENTS SUPERVISED 2017 Katie Bartel, Animal Studies, Wesleyan University, Undergraduate senior thesis: From Farm to Sanctuary. 2015-2016 Anna Johnson, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Washington Tacoma, Masters Thesis: Washington State Animal Welfare Law and Policies. [Committee Member] 2016 Keara Irwin, Comparative History of Ideas Program, Undergraduate senior thesis: Ethical Agriculture: Sustainability and Social Justice. 2015-2016 Sarah Olson, Comparative History of Ideas Program, Undergraduate senior thesis: Dismantling the Human-Animal Divide: The Case for Critical Humane Education and Politically Engaged Students. 2014-2015 Matt Wildey, Geography Department, University of Washington, Honors Thesis: Democracy at Work: Exploring Seattle’s Worker Cooperative Economy.

2014-2015 Anisa Jackson, Geography Department, University of Washington, Honors Thesis: The Politics of Cross-Class Alliance-Building in a Mixed-Income Neighborhood. 2014-2015 Julia Hanley, Geography Department, University of Washington, Honors Thesis: Haitian Refugees, Modern Perspectives, and Fluid Borders. 2014-2015 Jeff Koss, Geography Department, University of Washington, Honors Thesis: Spatial Variability in Health Risk Factors in 8th Graders by School in the Seattle Metropolitan Area in 2004 and 2014: A Study of the Washington State Healthy Youth Survey. 2014 Sarah Olson, Comparative History of Ideas Program, University of Washington, Independent project/internship: Speciesist Hierarchies as Perpetuated by Carnism. 2014 Savannah McKenzie, Comparative History of Ideas Program, University of Washington, Project/internship: Seattle Tilth: A Fresh Take on Food Politics or the Same Ol' Yuppie Outreach? 2013-2014 Lauren Glass, Comparative History of Ideas Program, University of Washington, Undergraduate senior thesis: Culinary Deconstruction: An Exploration in Creating a New Food Aesthetic. 2012-2013 Marion Siman, Comparative History of Ideas Program, University of Washington, Undergraduate senior thesis: Co-operatives, Communes, and Intentional Living Communities: An Interactive Archive of Community-Living in the United States

PROFESSIONAL S E R VI CE & ACTIVITIES 2017-2019 Nonfiction Book Review Editor, Society & Animals. 2017 Co-organizer (with pattrice jones and Lori Gruen), Conference: Sanctuary: Reflecting on Refuge, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, September 29-30. 2009-2016 Co-founder/organizer, Animal Studies Working Group, University of Washington. 2012-2016 Participant in workshops/events organized by Diversity and Inclusivity Committee, Geography, University of Washington. 2014-2016 Co-organizer & participant, Black Feminisms and Postcolonial Studies Reading Group, University of Washington & Dartmouth College. 2016 Application Reviewer, University of Washington Honors Program Annual Undergraduate Admissions. 2015/2016 Co-organizer (with Geography Chair Lucy Jarosz), “Life After Grad School” Careers Panel, Geography, University of Washington, January 23, 2016. 2015/2016 Curriculum Committee, Comparative History of Ideas, University of Washington. 2015/2016 Scholarship Committee, Comparative History of Ideas, University of Washington. 2014/2015 Co-organizer & Participant, Postcolonial Animal Studies Reading Group, University of Washington. 2014/2015 Participant, The Postcolonial Animal: Nature/Culture/Empire Research Cluster, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington. 2013/2014 Graduate student officer, Animal Geography Specialty Group, AAG. 2013 Moving Through CHID Curriculum Committee. Comparative History of Ideas Program, University of Washington. 2013 Co-organizer, Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop on Animals and Animality, University of British Columbia, May 10-11. 2013 Panelist, Designing Your Own Course. Graduate Student Pedagogy Workshop Series, Department of Geography, University of Washington. 2013 Research Assistant, Critical Animal Studies Program Planning and Development, María Elena García (supervisor), Funded by the Humane Society of the United States. 2012-2013 Co-organizer, Post-humanist Reading Group, University of Washington. 2011-2014 Editorial Assistant, Social & Cultural Geography, Routledge. 2011 Research Assistant, Transnational Guinea Pigs, María Elena García (supervisor). 2010-2011 Senator, Graduate and Professional Student Senate, University of Washington. 2009 Co-chair, Orientation Committee, Geography, University of Washington.

MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS JOURNAL ARTICLES Canadian Food Studies BOOKS Gender, Place, and Culture Humanimalia Univ. of Oklahoma Press Hypatia Feral Feminisms Polity Press Antipode Journal of Environmental Univ. of Chicago Press Social & Cultural Geography Policy and Planning CRC Press Geoforum Science as Culture Routledge Society & Animals Politics and Animals Univ. of Georgia Press The Canadian Geographer Memory Studies

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