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CURRICULUM VITAE CINDI KATZ PRESENT POSITION Professor Environmental Psychology Program & Earth and Environmental Sciences CURRICULUM VITAE CINDI KATZ PRESENT POSITION Professor Environmental Psychology Program & Earth and Environmental Sciences Program The City University of New York, Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10016 (212) 817 8728 (o) (212) 817 1533 (fax) [email protected] EDUCATION 1986 Ph.D. Graduate School of Geography. Clark University. 1979 M.A. Graduate School of Geography. Clark University. 1975 A.B. Geography. Clark University. PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS 2016- Co-Director, Dartmouth Institute on the Futures of American Studies, Dartmouth College. 2012-2019 Executive Officer, Earth and Environmental Sciences Program. Graduate Center of The City University of New York. 2011-2012 Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor of Gender Studies, University of Cambridge. 2009-2011 Chair, Environmental Psychology Program. Graduate Center of The City University of New York. (Previous term, 1996-99) 1999- Professor. Graduate Center of The City University of New York. (Assistant Professor, 1987-94; Associate Professor 1994-99) 1999-2003 Deputy Executive Officer, Psychology Program. Graduate Center of The City University of New York. Cindi Katz Page 2 PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS (Continued) 1993 Visiting Eliel Saarinen Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, Helsinki University of Technology. 1992-93 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Rutgers University. 1991-92 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Urban Planning, Columbia University. 1987-94 Associate Director, Center for Human Environments. Graduate Center of The City University of New York. 1987-93 Co-Director, Children's Environments Research Group. Graduate Center of The City University of New York. 1979 Visiting Lecturer, Khartoum University, Sudan. Department of Geography. HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS 2015 James Blaut Memorial Award for Scholarship, Teaching, and Activism towards Social Justice, Socialist and Critical Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers. 2012 Progress in Human Geography Annual Lecture, Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers. 2011 Helen Cam Visiting Fellow, Girton College, University of Cambridge, 2011-12. 2011 The Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professorship in Gender Studies, University of Cambridge, 2011-12. 2010 Featured in Key Thinkers on Space and Place. Phil Hubbard and Rob Kitchin, Editors. Routledge. 2007 Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement, Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ), WSQ (Women’s Studies Quarterly), with Nancy K. Miller. 2007 Janice Monk Distinguished Visiting Professor in Feminist Geography, University of Arizona & Royal Geographic Society/Institute of British Geographers. 2007 Cultural Geographies Special Lecture, Annual Meetings of Association of American Geographers. Cindi Katz Page 3 HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS (Continued) 2007 Visiting Scholar, Queen’s University Departments of Geography and Development Studies. 2006 Ethics, Justice and Human Rights Specialty Group Lecture, Annual Meetings of Association of American Geographers. 2004 Meridian Book Award for the Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography, Growing Up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children’s Everyday Lives, Association of American Geographers. 2003-04 Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. 2002 Visiting Scholar, Santa Fe Institute for the Arts. 2001 Antipode Lecture, Meetings of the Institute of British Geographers/Royal Geographical Society. 2000 Women’s Studies Scholar in Residence, West Virginia University. 1998 Royal Scottish Geographical Society Lecture, Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and St. Andrews. 1992- Who's Who of American Women, 18th and 19th Editions. 1992-93 Fellow, Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University. 1991 Institute of British Geographers. Young Research Scholar. 1988 Association of American Geographers. Nystrom Award Finalist. 1987 Association of American Geographers. Environmental Perception Specialty Group, Dissertation Award. 1986-87 National Research Service Post-Doctoral Fellowship, National Institute of Mental Health. 1982-83 American Association of University Women. Educational Foundation Fellowship. 1980-81 National Science Foundation. Dissertation Fellowship. 3 Cindi Katz Page 4 GRANTS 2012-13 Antipode Foundation, Regional Workshop Award. “NYC Geographic Expedition and Institute: Liberation Education for Geographic Inquiry.” 2007 Edmund A. Stanley Jr. Research Grant, Robert Bowne Foundation. “Children’s Relationship to the Animal World.” 2002-03 Faculty Research Award, Professional Staff Congress of the City University of New York. “Retheorizing Childhood.” 2002-03 University Faculty Development Program. Grant to hold series of Colloquia, “Producing a Future: Art and Globalization.” 1996-97 University Faculty Development Program. Grant to hold a Colloquium, “New York City: ‘A Region at Risk’?” 1995-96 Faculty Research Award, Professional Staff Congress of the City University of New York. Eroding Ecologies of Childhood--Sudan and New York. 1992 Aaron Diamond Foundation. Participatory Redesign of Schoolyards in New York City. 1989 Aaron Diamond Foundation. Schoolyard Improvement in New York City. PUBLICATIONS Books The People, Place, and Space Reader. Edited with Jen Jack Gieseking, William Mangold, Setha Low, and Susan Saegert. Routledge (2014). Growing Up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children’s Everyday Lives. University of Minnesota Press (2004). Life’s Work: Geographies of Social Reproduction. Edited with Sallie A. Marston and Katharyne Mitchell. Blackwell (2004). Globalización, Transformaciones Urbanas, Precarización Social y Discriminación De Genéro. With Neil Smith. Nueva Grafica, S.A.L. (2000). Full Circles: Geographies of Women Over the Life Course. Edited with Janice Monk. Routledge (1993). Cindi Katz Page 5 PUBLICATIONS (Continued) Interviews “Jokainen on Merkitty: Ilta Cindi Katzin Kanssa” (An interview conducted by A. Haila) Tiede & Edistys (Science and Progress), 4/93 (1993): 314-319. “Creating Safe Space and the Materiality of the Margins” (An interview conducted by V. DelCasino, M. Dorn, and C. Gallaher) disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory, No. 6 (1997): 37-55. Articles and Book Chapters “Accumulation, Dispossession, and Waste in Childhood and Children’s Everyday Lives.” In T. Skelton and S. Aitken (Eds.) Establishing Geographies of Children and Young People. Geographies of Children and Young People (Vol 1), Singapore: Springer (2019). “Children and Childhood.” In Antipode Editorial Collective (Eds.) Keywords in Radical Geography: Antipode at 50 (First Edition). Oxford: John Wiley and Sons (2019): 40-44. “The Angel of Geography: Superman, Tiger Mother, Aspiration Management and the Child as Waste.” Progress in Human Geography 42(5) (2018): 723-40. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132517708844 | First Published May 17, 2017. “On Rocking ‘the Project’: The Beat Goes On,” (Contribution to “On Being Outside “the Project”: A Symposium in Honor of Susan Christopherson”), AntipodeFoundation.org (2017). https://wp.me/p16RPC-1EF “Revisiting Minor Theory.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 35(4) (2017): 396- 99. “Bronx Chronicle.” In H. Merrill and L.M. Hoffman (Eds.) Spaces of Danger: Culture and Power in the Everyday, Athens: University of Georgia Press (2015): 299-310. “Demanding Life’s Work.” In K. Meehan and K. Strauss (Eds.) Precarious Worlds: Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction, Athens: University of Georgia Press (2015): 174- 188. With Sallie A. Marston and Katharyne Mitchell. “Le nature degli American Studies.” Ácoma. Rivista Internazionale di Studi Nord-Americani, new series, n. 5 (Autunno 2013): 36-49. “Missing Subjects.” Dialogues in Human Geography/DHG 3(1) (2013): 30-33. 5 Cindi Katz Page 6 PUBLICATIONS (Continued) Articles and Book Chapters “Playing with Fieldwork.” Social & Cultural Geography 14(7) (2013): 762-72. “Work and Play: Economic Restructuring and Children’s Everyday Learning in Rural Sudan.” In M. Bourdillon and G. Spittler (Eds.) African Children at Work. Berlin: Lit Verlag. (2012): 227-48. “Just Managing: American Middle-Class Parenthood in Insecure Times.” In R. Heiman, C. Freeman, and M. Liechty (Eds.) The Global Middle Classes: Theorizing Through Ethnography, Santa Fe: SAR Press. (2012): 169-88. “Lost Youth.” Cam, Cambridge Alumni Magazine 65 (Lent 2012): 18-21. (Cover Story) “Accumulation, Excess, Childhood: Toward a Countertopography of Risk and Waste.” Documents d’Anàlisi Geogràfica 57(1) (2011): 47-60. “Making Change in the Space of Injury Time.” Urban Geography 31(3) (2010): 315-320. “Cookie Monsters: Seeing Young People’s Hacking as Creative Practice.” Children, Youth and Environments 19(1) (2009): 197-222. With Gregory T. Donovan. (http://www.colorado.edu/journals/cye/19_1/19_1_10_CookieMonsters.pdf) “It’s All Happening at the Zoo: Children’s Environmental Learning after School.” Afterschool Matters 8 (Spring 2009): 36-45. With Jason A. Douglas. “Young Americans: Geographies at the Crossroads.” Environment and Planning A 40 (2008): 2809-13. (Guest Editorial with Caitlin Cahill). “The Death Wish of Modernity and the Politics of Mimesis.” Public Culture 20(3) (2008): 551- 60. “Bad Elements: Katrina and the Scoured Landscape of Social Reproduction.” Gender, Place and Culture 15(1) (2008): 15-29. Translated by Ewa Charkiewicz Niedobre układy. “Huragan Katrina i zagrabione krajobrazy społecznej reprodukcji.” Feminist Think Tank Online Library 2012 [2008] URL http://www.ekologiasztuka.pl/pdf/Katz2012.pdf
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