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Paul C. Adams, Ph.D.
Updated: September 2020 Professor Department of Geography and the Environment 305 E. 23rd Street, RLP 3.306 University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712
AREAS OF INTEREST geographies of media and communication discourses and representations relating to the environment digital identity and agency critical geopolitics Europe and the EU in regional context
EDUCATION 1993 PhD University of Wisconsin, Madison—Geography Doctoral Fellow College of Letters and Science, 9/92-5/93 1990 MS University of Wisconsin, Madison—Geography 1984 BED University of Colorado-Boulder—Environmental Design Special Honors
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS University of Texas at Austin Sept. 2016 - present Professor, Director of Urban Studies Sept. 2007 - August 2016 Associate Professor, Director of Urban Studies Sept. 2001 - Aug. 2007 Assistant Professor University of Bergen, Norway 2016-2020 Associate Professor II Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden August 2016 - June 2017 Ander Visiting Professor in Global Media Studies University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand July 2011 - Aug. 2011 Univ. of Canterbury Visiting Erskine Fellowship University of Bergen, Norway Sept. 2010 - Dec. 2010 Fulbright Research Fellow McGill University and University of Montreal, Canada, Sept. 2001 - Dec. 2001 Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Lecturer Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Sept. 1998 - May 2001 Assistant Professor University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY Sept. 1996-May 1998 Visiting Assistant Professor Virginia Tech (VPISU), Blacksburg, VA Sept. 1993-May 1994 Visiting Assistant Professor
TIMES CITED Google Scholar: 3224 Web of Science: 511
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PUBLICATIONS
Books Adams, P.C. and Warf, B. (under contract) Handbook on Media Geographies. London and New York: Routledge. Jansson, A. and Adams, P.C. (under contract) Disentangling: Geographies of Disconnection. Oxford University Press. Adams, P.C. (forthcoming) 媒介与传播地理学. Chinese translation of Geographies of Media and Communication: A Critical Introduction by Dr. Yan Yuan. Beijing, China: Communication University of China Press. Adams, P.C., Cupples, J., Glynn, K., Jansson, A. & Moores S. (2016) Communications/Media/Geographies, New York: Routledge. Adams, P.C., Craine, J. and Dittmer, J. eds. (2014) Research Companion to Media Geography, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press. 390 pages. Adams, P.C. (2009) Geographies of Media and Communication: A Critical Introduction, London: Wiley-Blackwell. 267 pages. Recipient of the 2009 James W. Carey Media Research Award from the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research. Adams, P.C. (2007) Atlantic Reverberations: French Representations of an American Election, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press. 243 pages. Adams, P.C. (2005) The Boundless Self: Communication in Physical and Virtual Spaces, Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press. Adams, P.C., Hoelscher, S. and Till, K. eds. (2001) Textures of Place. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Guest-Edited Journal Issues Adams, P.C., (ed.) (2013) Book Review Forum for Maxwell Boykoff’s Who Speaks for the Climate. Contributions from Karl Zimmerer, Diana Liverman, Mike Goodman, David Demeritt and James McCarthy. Dialogues in Human Geography 3(3): 303-321. Schwartz, L. & Adams, P.C. (eds.) (2008) Aether: The Journal of Media Geography 1(2): Special Issue: Imagining Geography through Interactive Visual Media. Adams, P.C., (ed.) (2007) Ethics, Place and Environment 10(1), Special Issue on Technological Change. Adams, P.C. & Warf, B. (eds.) (1997) Geographical Review 87(2), Special Issue on Cyberspace and Geographical Space.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles Adams, P.C. (forthcoming 2020). Agreeing to Surveillance: Digital News Privacy Policies. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. Adams, P.C. (forthcoming 2020). Language and Groundwater: Symbolic Gradients of the Anthropocene. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, theme issue on the Anthropocene. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2020.1782724 Doubleday, K. and Adams, P.C. (2019) Women’s risk and well-being at the intersection of dowry, patriarchy, and conservation: The gendering of human-wildlife conflict. Environment and Planning E (digital preprint).
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Adams, P.C. & Jansson, A. (2019). 传播地理学：跨越学科的桥梁 Chinese translation by Li Miao of “Communication Geography: A Bridge between Disciplines” Shanghai Journalism Review, no. 9: 83-96. Adams, P.C. (2018) Geographies of media and communication III: Academic communications and the digital communication environment. Progress in Human Geography. doi:10.1177/0309132518763849 Adams, P.C. (2017) Migration Maps with the News: Guidelines for Ethical Visualization of Mobile Populations, Journalism Studies 19(4): 527-547. doi:10.1080/1461670X.2017.1375387. Adams, P.C. (2017) Geographies of media and communication II: Arcs of communication. Progress in Human Geography. doi:10.1177/0309132517702992. Adams, P.C. (2016) Geographies of media and communication I: Metaphysics of encounter. Progress in Human Geography 41(3): 365-374. doi: 10.1177/0309132516628254. Lowell, J. & Adams, P.C. (2016) The Routes of a Plant: Ayahuasca and the Global Networks of Santo Daime. Social and Cultural Geography 18(2): 137-157. doi:10.1080/14649365.2016.1161818. Adams, P.C. (2016) Placing the Anthropocene: A Day in the Life of an Enviro- organism. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 41(1): 54-65. Adams, P.C. & Gynnild, A. (2013). Communicating Environmental Messages in Online Media: The Role of Place. Environmental Communication 7(1): 113-130. Gynnild, A. & Adams, P.C. (2013). Animation, Documentary or Interactive Gaming? Exploring Communicative Aspects of Environmental Messaging Online. International Symposium on Online Journalism 3(1): 39-60. Adams, P.C. (2012). Trajectories of the Nobel Peace Prize. Geopolitics 17(3): 553-577. Adams, P.C. & Jansson, A. (2012). Communication Geography: A Bridge between Disciplines. Communication Theory 22: 299-317. Adams, P.C. (2012). Multilayered Regionalization in Northern Europe. GeoJournal 77: 293-313. Adams, P.C. (2011). A Taxonomy for Communication Geography. Progress in Human Geography 35 (1): 37-57. Adams, P.C. (2010). Networks of Early Writing. Historical Geography 38: 178-197. Skop, E. & Adams, P.C. (2009). Creating and Inhabiting Virtual Places: Indian Immigrants in Cyberspace. National Identities 11(2): 127–147. Adams, P.C. & Skop, E. (2008). The Gendering of Asian-Indian Transnationalism on the Internet. Journal of Cultural Geography 25(2): 115-136. Adams, P.C. (2007). The Chilling Tale of a Haunted Child, or How I Learned to Start Worrying and Love the Media. Aether, 1(1): 4-7. (editorial essay in inaugural issue of Aether, the journal of media geography). http://geogdata.csun.edu/~aether/volume_01.html. Adams, P.C. (2007). Introduction to ‘Technological Change’: A Special Issue of Ethics, Place & Environment. Ethics, Place and Environment 10(1): 1-6. Adams, P.C. (2004). The September 11 Attacks as Viewed from Quebec: The Small- Nation Myth in Geopolitical Discourse. Political Geography 23(6): 765-795. Adams, P.C. & Ghose, R. (2003). India.com: the Construction of a Space Between. Progress in Human Geography 27(4): 414-437.
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Adams, P.C. (1999). Bringing Globalization Home: A Homeworker inthre the Information Age Urban Geography 20(4) (May 16-June 30): 356-376. Adams, P.C. (1998). Teaching and Learning with SimCity 2000 Journal of Geography (March/April). Adams, P.C. (1998). Network Topologies and Virtual Place Annals of the Association of American Geographers 88(1): 88-106. Adams, P.C. (1997). Cyberspace and Virtual Places Geographical Review 87(2): 155- 171, Special Issue on Cyberspace and Geographical Space, guest editors, P. Adams and B. Warf. Adams, P.C. & Warf, B. (1997). Introduction: Cyberspace and Geographical Space Geographical Review 87(2): 139-145, Special Issue on Cyberspace and Geographical Space, guest editors, P. Adams and B. Warf. Adams, P.C. (1996). Protest and the Scale Politics of Telecommunications Political Geography 15(5): 419-441. Adams, P.C. (1995). A Reconsideration of Personal Boundaries in Space-Time Annals of the Association of American Geographers 85(2): 267-285. Adams, P.C. (1992). Television as Gathering Place. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 82(1): 117-135.
Book Chapters Adams, P.C. (2020) Migration Maps with the News: Guidelines for Ethical Visualization of Mobile Populations. In Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. and Kristy Hess (eds.) Reimagining Journalism and Social Order in a Fragmented Media World, pp.55- 75. New York and London: Routledge. Adams, P.C. (2019) Mapping the Influx: Cartographic Responses to Europe’s Refugee Crisis. In C. Lukinbeal, L. Sharp, E. Sommerlad and A. Escher (eds.) Media’s Mapping Impulse, pp.87-113. Stuttgart, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag. (Media Geography at Mainz, Issue 6) Adams, P.C. (2018) Chapter 20: Digital Media. In Robert Kloosterman, Virginie Mamadouh and Pieter Terhorst (eds.) Handbook on the Geographies of Globalization (pp. 268-278). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Adams, P.C. (2018) Migration Maps and the Performance of Europeanness. In Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel, ed. Migrants and Refugees: The New Reality of Open Societies (pp. 13-41). London: Routledge. Adams, P.C. (2018) Mapping Geomedia: Charting the Terrains of Space, Place and Media. In Karin Fast and Mekkonen Tesfahuney, eds. Geomedia Studies: Spaces and Mobilities in Mediatized Worlds (pp. 41-60). London: Routledge. Adams, P.C. (2018) Epilogue: Methodologies of Place Attachment Research. In Jeffrey S. Smith, ed. Explorations in Place Attachment (pp. 227-240). London: Routledge. Adams, P.C. (2017) Yi-Fu Tuan 1930-. In Joy A. Palmer Cooper and David E. Cooper, Eds. Key Thinkers on the Environment (pp. 279-283). London: Routledge. Adams, P.C. (2017) Place and Extended Agency. In N. J. Enfield and P. Kockelman (eds.) Distributed Agency: The Sharing of Intention, Cause, and Accountability (213-220). Oxford University Press. Adams, P.C. (2017) Tuanian Geography: A Tale of Contrasts and Nuances. In Bruce Janz (ed.) Place, Space and Hermeneutics (pp. 275-288). Springer. 6,162 words. Adams, P.C. (2016). The case of the Missing Laureate: The Communication Geography of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. In S. Mains, J. Cupples & C. Lukinbeal (eds.) 4 Adams CV, Page 5 of 16
Mediated Geographies/Geographies of Media (pp. 313-328). New York: Springer. ISBN: 978-94-017-9968-3. Adams, P.C. (2015). Chapter 29: Social Media. In J. Agnew, J. Sharp, A. Secor & V. Mamadouh (eds.) Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Geography (393-406). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Adams, P.C., Dittmer, J. & Craine, J. (2014). Introduction. In P.C. Adams, J. Craine & J. Dittmer (eds.) Research Companion to Media Geography (pp. 1-14) Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press. Adams, P.C. (2014). Chapter 16: Spaces of the Word. In P.C. Adams, J. Craine & J. Dittmer (eds.) Research Companion to Media Geography (pp. 259-275) Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press. Somdahl-Sands K. & Adams, P.C. (2014). Chapter 21: Spaces of Mediated Performance. In P.C. Adams, J. Craine & J. Dittmer (eds.) Research Companion to Media Geography (pp. 347-361) Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press. Adams, P.C. (2013). Communication in Virtual Worlds. In M. Grimshaw (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Virtuality (pp. 239-253). Oxford UK & New York: Oxford University Press. Adams, P.C. (2013). Media. In K. Dodds, M. Kuus and J. Sharp (eds.) The Ashgate Companion to Critical Geopolitics. (pp. 263-280). Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press. Adams, P.C. (2002). Mediascapes. In J. Agnew and J. Smith (eds.) American Space/American Place: Geographies of the Contemporary United States (pp. 292- 316). Edinburgh, U.K: Edinburgh University Press; New York and London: Routledge. Adams, P.C. (2001). Peripatetic Imagery and Peripatetic Sense of Place. In P.C. Adams, S. Hoelscher & K. Till (eds.) Textures of Place (pp. 186-206). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Adams, P.C., Steven Hoelscher and Karen E. Till (2001). Place in Context: rethinking humanist geographies. In P.C. Adams, S. Hoelscher & K. Till (eds.) Textures of Place (pp. xiii-xxxiii) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Adams, P.C. (2000). Application of a CAD-Based Accessibility Model. In D. Janelle and D. Hodge (eds.) Accessibility in the Information Age (pp. 217-239). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag.
Other Publications Adams, P.C. (2020) “Media” entry. In The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology, ed. D. Richardson, Wiley- Blackwell and the Association of American Geographers. Adams, P.C. (2020). The Perils and Promises of Politically Useful Knowledge: Commentary for a Review Forum on Sami Moisio's Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy. Political Geography. Adams, P.C. (2019). Field Notes: Something’s Happening to the Weather. A research blog of Planet Texas 2050. https://medium.com/planettexas2050/field-notes- somethings-happening-to-the-weather-bd39ee12e8de. Adams, P.C. (2019). Reflections on "Public Privates," for a book review forum in American Association of Geographers Review of Books. Subject: Marcia England’s book "Public Privates." AAG Review of Books 7(2): 144-145. Adams, P.C. (2017). Review of: Neutral Accent by A. Aneesh. Progress in Human Geography. Progress in Human Geography 41(1): 131-136.
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Adams, P.C. (2017). Place. In The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology, ed. D. Richardson, Wiley-Blackwell and the Association of American Geographers. Vol. X, pp. 5073-5085. Adams, P.C. (2016). Review of: The Interface Envelope: Gaming, Technology, Power by James Ash. Social and Cultural Geography 17(5): 735–743. Adams, P.C. (2016) Geography. In The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy, K. Bruhn Jensen, General Editor, Wiley-Blackwell. 1,822 words. Adams, P.C. (2015). Language Revival box in P.L. Knox and S.A. Marston, Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context, (7th ed., pp. 198-199). New York: Pearson. Adams, P.C. (2014). Review of Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications by L.C. Manzo and P. Devine-Wright. Geographical Review 105(1): 129-132. Adams, P.C. (2014). Communication. In Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. Ed. Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199874002/obo- 9780199874002-0044.xml?rskey=y0y7id&result=14. Adams, P.C. (2013). Who speaks for the climate? We do! Introduction to book review forum for Maxwell Boykoff’s Who Speaks for the Climate. Dialogues in Human Geography 3(3): 303-321. Adams, P.C. (2013). Homo Codicis, review of Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life by R. Kitchin and M. Dodge. Dialogues in Human Geography 3(4): 240-252. Adams, P.C. (2010). Review of Envisioning Media Power: On Capital and Geographies of Television by B. Christophers. Progress in Human Geography 34(6): 850-852. Adams, P.C. & Craine, J. (2008). From Ivory Towers to New England Noir. AAG Newsletter 43(4) (April): 1, 9. Adams, P.C. (2006). Review of Lived Topographies and their Mediational Forces by G. Backhaus and J. Murungi (eds.). Social and Cultural Geography 8(1): 151-157 Adams, P.C. (2005). Cyberspace. Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Sage Publications. Adams, P.C. (2005). Geography of Communication. Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Sage Publications. Adams, P.C. (2002). Review of The Promise of the City: Space, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Social Thought by K. Tajbakhsh. Contemporary Sociology 31(2): 177-178. Adams, P.C. (2002). Yi-Fu Tuan (biographical profile of Yi-Fu Tuan). In The Human Mosaic 9th edition, by T.G. Jordan-Bychkov & M. Domosh, p.25. Adams, P.C. (2002). Des Québécois Confus. In La Presse. Sept. 12, 2002, A-15. Adams, P.C. (2001). Review of Wanderlust: A History of Walking by R. Solnit. Ethics, Place and Environment 4(3). Adams, P.C. (2001). Review of Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space and Relations by M. Crang, P. Crang and J. May. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 91(2): 764-765. Adams, P.C. (2001). Consulting editor for children’s educational video: Where on the Planet are We? Adams, P.C. (2001). Book cover portrait for the eighth reprint of Space and Place by Y.- F. Tuan. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
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Adams, P.C. (1997). SimCity 2000, software review (urban simulation software by MAXIS Co.). Cities 14(6): 383-392. Adams, P.C. (1997). Review of The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism by J.A. Aho. Progress in Human Geography 21(2): 279-280. Adams, P.C. (1997). Review of The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism by J.A. Aho. Ecumene 4(4): 488-490. Adams, P.C. (1996). Review of City of Bits by W. Mitchell. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 86(3): 605-606. Adams, P.C. (1996). Review of SimCity 2000 (urban simulation software by MAXIS Co.). GeoCal 15: 24-27. Adams, P.C. (1994). Review of The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier by H. Rheingold. Professional Geographer 46(3): 402-403.
Works in Progress Adams, P.C., Vivie. Behrens, S. Hoelscher, O. Lavrenova, H. Robinson, Y. Yuan “Paradoxes of Disconnected Connection” for inclusion in A. Jansson and P.C. Adams Disentangling: Geographies of Disconnection. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Adams, P.C. “Newspapers: Geographic Research Approaches and Future Prospects” for inclusion in P.C. Adams and B. Warf, Handbook on Media Geographies. London and New York: Routledge. Adams, P.C. “I'm not a big climate-change guy: The semiotic gradients of weather and climate.” Submitted to Environmental Communication March 2020. Adams, P.C., D. Ballard and T. Davis. “Claims and frames of convenience: A critical perspective.” In preparation for Social and Cultural Geography.
RESEARCH GRANTS
Houser, H., Adams, P., Beach, T., Alvarez, C.J., Nxumalo, F. 2018-2020. “Texas Water Stories: Local Narratives of Hydrologic Change and Adaptation, Local Meanings and Environmental Adaptability” A Survey of Texas Stakeholders (LMEA) sub-project. Planet Texas 2050, University of Texas at Austin. Approximately 20% of $209,677.
Nyre, L., Gynnild, A., Tessem, B., Uskali, T., Vagnes, O. Johnson, D.G., Eide, M., Diakopoulos, N., Adams, P.C. (Co-Investigator) “Responsible Adoption of Visual Surveillance Technologies in the News Media (ViSmedia)” Research Council of Norway. November 1, 2015 - October 31, 2019. Total funding awarded $2,900,000. [Co- Investigator appointment supported with a 20% appointment at Professor II level for four years (November 1, 2015 - June, 2020) at the University of Bergen, Norway.]
Ballard, D., McGlone, M. and Adams, P.C. “The Identity Map Project: Mapping ‘Something You Do’ Onto Convenience Behaviors” Center for Identity, University of Texas. Submitted 2015. Total funding awarded $104,519. UT IRB# 2015-08-0024
Adams, P.C. (PI) “Identity, Risk and Human Mobility.” Center for Identity, University of Texas. Submitted 2015. Total funding awarded $12,500.
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FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS 2019-2020: External participant in Project Generic (PIs Jacek Kotus, Michał Rzeszewski and Tomek Sowada) funding from National Science Center of Poland (NCN); visits planned for 2020: Adams, 10 days in Poland in 2020 and 10 days in 2021; Jacek Kotus and a colleague 2 visits to the US to attend the AAG and collaborate on a research project involving sense of place and the media. 2016 Member of the Geomedia Research Group, Department of Geography, Media and Communication, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden 2016-2017: Ander Visiting Professor in Global Media Studies, Anne-Marie and Gustaf Ander Foundation for Media Research and Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden. 2015 Silver Spurs Centennial Teaching Fellowship #1 for consistent promotion of educational excellence in teaching students within the College of Liberal Arts. Total funding awarded $10,000. 2015 Rapoport-King Scholarship to Elena Kate Walker (Senior Honors Thesis under research supervision of P.C. Adams) “Solving Urban Problems in an Era of Polarization”. Total funding awarded $2000 fellowship + $1000 stipend. 2012 Faculty Fellow, UT Humanities Institute. 2012 UT-Austin’s nominee for the National Academic Advising (NACADA) Award. 2011 University of Canterbury Visiting Erskine Fellowship, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. 2010 Fulbright Research Fellowship, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway. Total funding awarded $21,000. 2010 College Research Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin Total funding awarded $15,800. 2009 James W. Carey Media Research Award for Geographies of Media and Communication, by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research. 2005: Summer Research Assignment ($6,400) Office of Graduate Studies, UT-Austin 2001: Fulbright Fellowship ($8,000) McGill University and Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada. 9/1/2001-12/31/2001. 2001-2002: Thomas O. Enders Fellowship ($19,000) Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) McGill University and the Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada. 7/1/2001-12/31/2001. 1999: International Research Travel Assistance Grant ($1,400) Texas A&M University 1999: Program to Enhance Scholarly and Creative Activities ($4,000) Texas A&M University.
ADVISING AND STUDENT-RELATED SERVICE
Dissertation Committees Chaired or Co-Chaired Claire Fitch, (PhD expected 2023) (Chair) Jonathan Lowell, PhD 2018. (Chair) Austin’s Urban Food Chains. Kalli Doubleday, PhD 2018. (Chair) Degrading, Evolving, Rewilding, Developing: Human-Environmental Relations in the Context of Rewilding Apex Predators in Rajasthan, India. Bisola Falola, PhD Geography, 2016. (Chair) Imagining Adulthood from the CC Terraces.
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Kathleen Shafer, PhD Geography, 2014. (Co-chair with Steven Hoelscher) Marfa, Texas: Land and Light. Published as Marfa: The Transformation of a West Texas Town (University of Texas Press 2017) Mason McWatters, PhD Geography, 2013. (Chair) The Unworlding and Worlding of Agoraphobia. Reena Patel, PhD Geography 2008. (Co-chair with Emily Skop) Working the Night Shift: Women’s Employment in the Transnational Call Center Industry. Published as Working the Night Shift: Women in India's Call Center Industry (Stanford University Press, 2010) Katrinka Somdahl-Sands, PhD Geography, 2007. (Co-chair with Steven Hoelscher) Dancing in Place: The Radical Production of Civic Spaces. Christopher T. Gaffney, PhD Geography, 2006. (Chair) Dynamic Sites and Cultural Symbols: The Stadiums of Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. Published as Temples of the Earthbound Gods (University of Texas Press, 2009)
Dissertation Committee Participation Dominica Whitesell, PhD Geography, expected 2022 Heath Robinson, PhD Curriculum and Instruction, expected 2022 Alicia Danze, PhD Geography, expected 2022 Amelia Eisenhart, PhD Geography, expected 2021 Clare Zutz, PhD Community and Regional Planning, expected 2021 Stephen Zigmund, PhD Community and Regional Planning, expected 2020 Marie Le Guen, PhD Geography (Université Lumière Lyon 2, France), 2019 Tasha Davis, PhD Communication Studies, 2017 Brendan Gaughen, PhD American Studies, 2016 Anne Gessler, PhD American Studies, 2015 Robert Lemon, PhD Geography, 2015 Sharon Wilcox, PhD Geography, 2014 Lindsey Carte, PhD Geography, 2013 Leigh Schwartz, PhD Geography, 2013 Stephanie Kolberg, PhD American Studies, 2012 Ahmed Abukhater, PhD Community and Regional Planning, 2010 Trushna Parekh, PhD Geography, 2008 Andrew Karvonen, PhD Interdisciplinary, 2008 Louis Rutigliano, PhD Journalism, 2008 Damon Scott, PhD Geography, 2008 Joy Adams, PhD Geography, 2006
Master’s Committees Julia Bordelon, MA in Geography, expected 2021 (Chair) Kimberly Greene, Master of Science in Identity Mgmt. & Security, 2019 (Reader) Janelle Yost, Master of Science in Identity Management and Security 2018 (Chair) Amy McCullough, MA in Geography, 2016 (Chair) Evan Tenenbaum, MS in Community & Regional Planning, 2016 (Reader) John Clary, MA in Geography, 2014 (Chair) Marina Islas, MA in Geography, 2014 (Reader) Jonathan Lowell, MA in Geography, 2013 (Chair) Brian Mills, MA in Geography, 2012 (Reader) 9 Adams CV, Page 10 of 16
Jonathan Gehrig, MA in Geography, 2012 (Reader) Emily Duda, MA in Geography, 2011 (Chair) Steven J. Shannon, MA in Geography, 2011 (Chair) Katherine Williams, MA in Geography, 2008 (Reader) Beverly Garland, MA in Geography, 2007 (Chair) Sharon Wilcox, MA in Geography, 2006 (Reader)
Undergraduate Honors Theses Holly Hodge 2020 (Supervisor) Lina Barakat 2020 (Reader) Madeleine RichterAtkinson 2019 (Supervisor) Sylvia Feghali, 2019 (Reader) Niku Hansen, 2018 (Supervisor) Camryn Kessler, 2018 (Supervisor) Natalie Fisher, 2018 (Reader) Clare Losey, 2016 (Supervisor) Elena Kate Walker, 2015 (Supervisor) Collin Poirot, 2015 (Reader) Riane Yates, 2014 (Supervisor) Elizabeth Cox, 2014 (Reader) Edgar Estrada, 2013 (Supervisor) Jeremy Atkinson, 2011 (Supervisor) Alexandra Cohen, 2011 (Supervisor) Shannon Wade, 2010 (Supervisor)
PRESENTATIONS (since 2007)
Invited Talks 2019 “Cartographie de la migration en Europe: une perspective contre-cartographique” Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, France. January 17. 2017 “Surveillant Geopolitics: Filter Bubbles, Fake News, and the Rise of Donald Trump” Uppsala University, Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala, Sweden. March 31. 2017 “Placing the Anthropocene: A day in the life of an enviro-organism” Karlstad University, Department of Geography, Media and Communication, Karlstad, Sweden. March 22. 2017 “Arcs of communication” Higher Seminar. Karlstad University, Department of Geography, Media and Communication, Karlstad, Sweden. February 22. 2016 “Hidden Topologies of Social Surveillance.” Re-mapping Europe conference, ACCESS Europe Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in Amsterdam and the University of Oxford Social Sciences Division under the auspices of the ‘Europe Unbound’ research project. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. December 1-2. 2016 “Migration Maps and Cartographic Ambivalence.” Department of Geography, Media and Communication, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden. September 29. 2015 “Mobility and Digital Technology: Emerging Risks of Tracking and Surveillance” Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas, Austin, TX. April. 10 Adams CV, Page 11 of 16
2015 “Communication Geography: A Field in the Making.” Chair of Plenary Session at the GeoMedia Conference, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden. May. 2014 “Sustainability, Justice, and the Hybrid Spaces of New Media.” Featured Speaker at the Rethinking Globalization and Question of Scale conference, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. April. 2012 “Public Space in the City.” Hemispheres (The International Area Studies Outreach Consortium) Summer Teacher’s Institute. University of Texas, Austin, TX. June. 2012 “Virtual Spaces of the Pre-Digital Era.” Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. February. 2011 “Trajectories of the Nobel Peace Prize.” Department of Geography, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. July. 2011 “Multilayered Regionalization in Northern Europe.” Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas, Austin, TX. April. 2010 “Multilayered Regionalization in Northern Europe.” Department of Regional Studies, University of Tampere, Finland. November. 2010 “Multilayered Regionalization in Northern Europe.” Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Finland. November. 2010 “Trajectories of the Nobel Peace Prize.” Department of Media and Communication Studies, University of Karlstad, Sweden. October. 2010 “Trajectories of the Nobel Peace Prize.” Department of Infomedia, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. September. 2009 “Media Geography,” Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas, Austin, TX. October. 2007 “Spaces of the Word in Oral, Scribal and Print Societies” Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. September. 2007 “Spaces of Daily Life: From the Concrete to the Virtual” Chautauqua Lecture Series, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY. September.
Conference Presentations (since 2007) (all except SWAAG included published abstracts) 2019 “Texas Water Stories” 6.5 minute talk presented at the Planet Texas 2050 Research Showcase, UT Austin, April 26. 2019. 2019 Author meets critics: Sami Moisio’s Geopolitics of the Knowledge Based Economy, panelist. April 4, 2019. 2019 “Texas Water Stories” Paper presenter, AAG Annual Meeting, Washington DC. April 4, 2019. 2018 “Mapping Migration to Europe: A Counter-Cartographic Perspective” Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, Lawrence, Kansas. Big XII Faculty Fellow. October 19, 2018. 2018 “Geopolitics and the Surveillant-Attention Economy of Digital Media” Paper presentation, AAG Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. April 11, 2018. 2017 “Performing Europe through Migration Maps.” Paper presentation, AAG Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. April 5, 2017. 2016 “Migration Maps and the Performance of Europeanness.” Paper presentation, Prague Media Point conference: Media and Migration. A pre-conference associated with the meeting of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). Prague, Czech Republic, November 2016. 2016 “The Faustian Bargain of Location-Based Services.” Paper presentation, AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. March 2016. 11 Adams CV, Page 12 of 16
2016 “Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Theoretical perspectives on human dynamics research.” Panelist. AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. March 2016. 2016 “PLACE Attachment Research I, II, & III” Discussant. AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. March 2016. 2016 “Geographies of Media XII: Journalism and Newsmaking Geographies.” Discussant. AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. March 2016. 2015 “Tuanian Geography: A Tale of Contrasts and Nuances.” Paper presentation, AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. April 2015. 2014 “Place, Politics and Social Media.” Paper presentation, AAG Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL. April 2014. 2014 “New Spaces of Internet Activity 3: Intersecting digital geographies and material futures.” Panelist. AAG Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL. April 2014. 2013 “The Case of the Missing Laureate: The Communication Geography of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize” Paper presentation, AAG Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. April 2013. 2013 “author-meets-critics session for Max Boykoff’s Who Speaks for the Climate” Organizer and panelist. AAG Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. April 2013. 2012 “Virtual Spaces of the Word” paper presentation, AAG Annual Meeting, New York, NY. February 2012. 2012 “Author-meets-critics session for Ken Hillis’ Online a Lot of the Time” Panelist, AAG Annual Meeting, New York, NY. February 2012. 2012 “Academic Job Market session” panelist in an AAG-organized session, AAG Annual Meeting, New York, NY. February 2012. 2011 “Communication in Virtual Worlds” SWAAG (Southwestern Division of the Association of American Geographers) Meeting, Austin, TX. November 2011. 2011 “The Trajectory: A Discursive Construct involving a Here, a There, and an In- Between” paper presentation, AAG Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. April 2011. 2011 “Author-meets-critics session for Geographies of Media and Communication” Session organizer and Panelist. AAG Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. April 2011. 2011 “Author-meets-critics session for Brett Christophers’ Envisioning Media Power” Panelist. AAG Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. April 2011. 2010 “The Nobel Peace Prize as a Critical Geopolitical Intervention.” Paper presentation, AAG Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. April 2010. 2009 “Teaching Media Geography.” Panelist. AAG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV. March 2009. 2009 “Worldwide Perceptions of the 2008 Presidential Campaign” Paper presentation. AAG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, March 2009. 2008 “A Map is Not a Map.” Paper presentation. AAG Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. April 2008. 2008 “The Infosphere: Can it be Managed?” Panelist. AAG Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, April 2008. 2007 “Ground-Truthing Code.” Paper presentation. AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2007.
ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (since 2007)
Departmental Service Peer Teaching Evaluation, Professor Torres, 2020 Member, Hiring Committee, GIS/Urban Geography hire, 2020 12 Adams CV, Page 13 of 16
Member, Hiring Committee, Mayan Lidar cluster hire, 2020 Graduate Admissions Committee, 2020 Peer Teaching Evaluation, Professor Miller, 2019
Chair of the Merit Committee, 2017-2018 academic year Author of 3 reports for Carlos Ramos-Scharrón’s Tenure Package: Service, Honors & Awards, Advising & Mentoring, Sept. 2018 Director, Urban Studies Degree Program, 2003-present Member, Graduate Studies Committee, 2005-present Intermittent Acting Department Chair (signatory power), January 2014-present Faculty Sponsor, Urban Studies Society, 2015-present Chair, Graduate Studies Committee, 2012-2016 Graduate Adviser and Chair of Graduate Committee, 2012-2014 Chair, Hiring Committee, Human Geography Position, 2013 Faculty Sponsor, Urban Development Society, 2006-2011 Peer Teaching Evaluations, Professors Batnitzky, Chatterjee, and Torres, 2007-2011 Chair, Undergraduate Studies Committee, 2006-2009 Chair, Human Geography Hiring Committee, 2008
University and Local Service Guest lecture in GEO191, Graduate Seminar on Planet Texas 2050 (Prof. Jay Banner) April 14 Participant in the Bridging Barriers program “Planet Texas 2050” under the direction of Heather Houser (Dept. of English) GSC member, UT Center for Identity, 2014-2020 Lecturer, Geography Seminar, Quest, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, October 8, 2015 Lecturer, Summer Honors Colloquium, Public Space in the City, July 19, 2013 Judge, Roden Scholars Case Study Competition: The Live Better Mexico City Project, March 2, 2013 Member, Hiring Committee for Academic Advising Coordinator for Sociology, Geography, and International Relations and Global Studies (IRG), 2012 Judge, Hamilton Book Award Committee, 2012 Member, European Studies Executive Committee, 2010-2012 Judge, Graduate Academic Year FLAS awards, European Studies, 2011 Chair/Discussant, Undergraduate Research Week, April 13, 2010 Guest Lecturer in SSC380D (Statistical Methods II), April 29, 2010 Member, Academic Affairs College Committee, 2009 Speaker in panel on Home (film) “Cinéma Français Today” Dobie Theater, Austin, October 12, 2009 Member, Academic Affairs College Committee, 2008 Chair, Outstanding Dissertation Award Committee, Soc. Sci., Bus. & Educ., 2008 Speaker in panel “Gambling the Vote: A Closer Look at the 2008 Election,” organized by the Liberal Arts Council, October 29, 2008. Leader of Field Trip in Austin’s Brentwood neighborhood, Urban Development Society, February 15, 2008 Guest Lecturer in “French and American Cultural Values,” Department of French and Italian, October 25, 2007 Field Trip Leader, Triangle and Mueller Redevelopment, Austin, April 26, 2007
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Professional Service External Reviewer for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2018 External Reviewer for LorFlows project, a CORE proposal to Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg, 2016-2017 Member of Geomedia Research Group, Karlstad University, 2016 Editorial Board, Geojournal Library book series in human geography, 2020 Editorial Board, Geographical Review, 2015-present Editorial Board, GeoHumanities, 2015-present Editorial Board, Aether: The Journal of Media Geography, 2007-2011 Editorial Board, Geographies of Media, a pivot book series by Palgrave publishers, 2014- present Referee for a Promotion & Tenure case, Arizona State University, 2014 Judge, James W. Carey Media Research Award, Carl Couch Center for Social & Internet Research, 2014 Communications Director, Communication Geography SG of the AAG, 2013-2014 Chair, Communication Geography Specialty Group of the AAG, 2005-2013 Referee for a Promotion & Tenure case, University of Oklahoma, 2012 Referee for a Promotion & Tenure case, Miami University of Ohio, 2011 Referee for a Promotion & Tenure case, U. Nebraska at Omaha, 2010 Editorial Board, Geopolitics and Representation book series, Ashgate, 2005-2008 Judge, Senate of College Councils, Undergraduate Research Award, 2007
Meeting Organization One paper session for the annual AAG meeting in New Orleans, LA: “Geographies of Media II: The Geopolitics of Digital Media,” as well as a day-long workshop “Geomedia: Bridging between Geography and Media Studies,” 2018. One paper session for the annual AAG meeting in San Francisco, CA: “Geographies of Media VIII: Social Media and Digital Spaces,” 2016. Three paper sessions for the annual AAG meeting in Chicago, IL: “Tuan's Next Generation: Modern scholarship influenced by the iconic geographer I,” “Tuan's Next Generation: Modern scholarship influenced by the iconic geographer II,” and “Geographies of Travel Writing,” 2015. Five sessions for annual AAG meeting in Los Angeles, CA: “Geographies of Social Media and VGI,” “Conflict and Communication,” “Geographies of Media IV: Representing and Performing Nature,” “Geographies of Media V: Author Meets Critics—Google and the Culture of Search by Ken Hillis,” and “Who Speaks for the Climate,” an author-meets-critics session relating to Maxwell Boykoff’s book by that name, 2013. Five sessions for annual AAG meeting in New York, NY: “Communicating through Crisis I,” “Communicating through Crisis II,” “Spaces of Geopolitical Discourse and Performance, “Social Media, Research and Pedagogy,” and “Communication Geography: a View from across the Interdisciplinary Divide” (the last supported by an Enrichment Grant from the AAG), 2012. One panel session for the annual AAG meeting in Seattle, WA: “Geographies of Media and Communication,” 2011. One paper session for the annual AAG meeting in Las Vegas, NV: “Online Spaces of Politics,” 2009.
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One panel session for the annual AAG meeting in Boston, MA: “The Infosphere: can it be managed?” 2008.
Peer-Reviews (ad hoc since 2010) National Science Foundation; Oxford University Press; Pearson; Routledge; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Temple University Press; Wiley- Blackwell; Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Antipode; Arab World Geographer; Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies; Communication Theory; Cultural Geographies; Environmental Communication; Environment and Planning A; Environment and Planning B; Environment and Planning D; Environmental Communication; First Monday: Waves, Bits and Bricks: Media and the Production of Urban Space; Geoforum; Geographical Journal; Geohumanities; Geojournal; Human Geography; International Journal of Communication; International Journal of Cultural Studies; International Journal of Geo-Information; Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media; Journal of Cultural Geography; Journal of Geography in Higher Education; Journal of Transport Geography; Journal of Urban Cultural Studies; Mobilities; New Media and Society; Polymath; Popular Communication; Professional Geographer, Progress in Human Geography; Social and Cultural Geography; Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers; Travel Behaviour and Society; Urban Studies, Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture
Professional Memberships American Association of Geographers 1991-present American Geographical Society 2015-present National Communication Association 2009-2013
TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Texas at Austin, Sept. 2001-present (service courses marked with *) GRG305: This Human World: Introduction to Geography * GRG307C/URB-301: Introduction to Urban Studies GRG310C: Spatial Data and Analysis * GRG351/EUS-S361, Oxford Summer Study II: Nature and Society GRG356T: Geography of the Information Society; Geography of Media GRG374: Frontiers in Geography GRG390K: Issues in Geography * GRG390L: Research in Geography GRG396T: Place, Politics, and Culture; Geopolitics and Representation; Geographies of Communication; Geopolitics; Political Geography (all graduate seminars) SSC305: Statistics in Policy Design URB315: Urban Studies Research Methods * INF385T: Identity in Society and Community Spatial Statistics: UT Summer Statistics Institute Johannes Gutenberg University, July 2016: Geography of Media graduate seminar; Geopolitics graduate seminar University of Canterbury, Christchurch, July-August 2011 (University of Canterbury Visiting Erskine Fellow): Space, Place and Power; Cultural Studies, Globalization & New Technologies
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McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Sept. 2001-Dec. 2001 (Visiting Lecturer): Urban Field Studies Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Sept. 1998-May 2001 (Assistant Professor) Introduction to Human Geography; Geography of the United States; Communication Geography University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY, Sept. 1996-May 1998 (Visiting Asst. Prof.) Introduction to Human Geography; The American City; Introduction to Urban Geography; Introduction to Spatial Analysis; Space, Society, and the Postmodern City; Spatial Analysis Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) Blacksburg, VA, Sept. 1993-May 1994 (Visiting Asst. Prof.): Introduction to Human Geography; Urban Geography; Spatial Structure of Urban Places
LANGUAGES SPOKEN and READ English (native) French (fluent) Swedish (intermediate) Norwegian (basic)
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