Curriculum Vitae September 2018
Nicholas P. De Genova
Contact: Professor and Chair Tel. (+1) 773-818-6891 Department of Comparative Cultural Studies University of Houston McElhinney Hall, Room 233 Email. [email protected] 3623 Cullen Boulevard Houston, TX 77204-5020 [email protected]
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2018 - present: Professor and Chair of Department University of Houston; Department of Comparative Cultural Studies 2013 - 2016: Reader in Urban Geography King’s College London; Department of Geography 2012 - 2013: Reader Goldsmiths, University of London; Department of Anthropology 2011 - 2012: Senior Lecturer Goldsmiths, University of London; Department of Anthropology 2010 - 2011: Visiting Scholar University of Chicago; Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture March - August 2010: Visiting Research Professor University of Amsterdam; Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies September 2009 - February 2010: Visiting Professor / Swiss Chair in Mobility Studies University of Bern; Institute for Social Anthropology, and Swiss Forum for Migration Studies (in association with the universities of Zürich, Neuchâtel, and Lausanne) 2000 - 2009: Assistant Professor Columbia University; Department of Anthropology, and Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (Latina/o Studies Program) 2007 - 2008: Researcher / Marie Curie Incoming International Fellow University of Warwick (UK); Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations 1997 - 1999: Acting Assistant Professor Stanford University; Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology De Genova, p.2 EDUCATION
University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology: Ph.D., conferred 19 March 1999 Ph.D. Dissertation Title: Working the Boundaries, Making the Difference: Race and Space in Mexican Chicago University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology: M.A., conferred Spring 1992 M.A. Thesis Title: Face the Music, Face the Nation: Black Nationalism and the Politics of Rap University of Chicago, the College: B.A., with General Honors, conferred Spring 1990 Undergraduate concentration in Anthropology
FIELD RESEARCH
Summer 2013: Exploratory field research on migration in London Summer 2012: Exploratory field research on migration in London Summer 2005: Ethnographic field research conducted among would-be migrants in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico Summer 2003: Ethnographic field research conducted among would-be migrants in the state of San Luis-Potosí, Mexico Summer 2002: Ethnographic field research conducted among would-be migrants in the state of San Luis-Potosí, Mexico August 1999 - August 2000: Ethnographic field research conducted among Mexican migrants in metropolitan Chicago, IL June 1993 - December 1995: Ethnographic field research conducted among Mexican migrants in metropolitan Chicago, IL Summer 1992: Preliminary ethnographic field research conducted in the colonias populares of Naucalpan de Juárez (Estado de México), in metropolitan Mexico City
LANGUAGES
English (native); Spanish (fluent); French (fair r/w/s) De Genova, p.3 ACADEMIC HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS
2016: Nominated and Appointed Academic Leader for “Migration” theme (King’s College London) and Research Fellow, Social and Distributive Justice research cluster PLuS Alliance (King’s College London, Arizona State University (US), and University of New South Wales (Australia) research and teaching partnership to address “global grand challenges” 2011: Winner Bronze Award 2011 Past Presidents’ Book Awards of the Association of Borderland Studies (for The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement) 2007 - 2008: Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship (€95,000 for 14 months) Awarded by: European Commission Research Directorate-General Sponsored by: Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick (UK) Project Title: Migrant “Illegality,” Race, and Citizenship in the Aftermath of “Homeland Security”: The “War on Terrorism” at Home in the United States 2007: Winner 2007 CLR James Award (Working-Class Studies Association ) (for Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago) 2006: Winner 2006 Book Award of the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists (for Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago) 2006: Finalist 2005 C. Wright Mills Book Award (Society for the Study of Social Problems) (for Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago) 2006: Research Affiliate Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture (State University of New York – Binghamton) 2005: Rockefeller Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (USD $45,000 for 1 year; declined) Department of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago 2002 – 2006: Faculty Fellow Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (Columbia University) 2000: Spencer Foundation Small Research Grant (USD $26,000 for 6 months) 1996 - 1997: Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (USD $18,000 for 1 year) De Genova, p.4 PUBLICATIONS
Books (as Author)
In Progress, n.d. The Migrant Metropolis
In Progress, n.d. The “European” Question: Migration, Race and Postcoloniality
2005 (Duke University Press) Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago (329 pp.)
2003 (Routledge) (co-authored with Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas): Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship (257 pp.)
Books (as Editor)
2017 (Duke University Press) The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering (344 pp.)
2010 (Duke University Press) (co-edited with Nathalie Peutz) The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement (507 pp.)
2006 (Duke University Press) Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States (233 pp.) De Genova, p.5
PUBLICATIONS (cont’d)
Journal Special Issues (as Editor)
In Progress, 2018 Guest Editor, commissioned to coordinate and curate a special thematic research trajectory on “Art and Migration” for the online journal of PARSE: Platform for Artistic Research Sweden, based at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
2018 a Co-Editor, with Martina Tazzioli and Glenda Garelli Special Thematic Issue: “Rethinking Migration and Autonomy from within the ‘Crises’” accepted for publication in SAQ: South Atlantic Quarterly Volume 117, Number 2
2018 b Co-Editor, with Dace Dzenovska Special Thematic Issue: “The Political in/ of Europe” accepted for publication in Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology Issue #80
2017 Co-Editor, with Can Yildiz Special Thematic Issue: “Un/Free Mobility: Eastern European Roma Migrants in the EU” Social Identities (published online: 8 June 2017)
2016 “Europe / Crisis: New Keywords of ‘the Crisis’ in and of ‘Europe’” A collective writing project involving 15 co-authors; coordinated, co-edited and introduced by Nicholas De Genova and Martina Tazzioli Published in “Europe at a Crossroads,” Issue #1 of Near Futures Online (the online companion to the Zone Books series “Near Futures,” co-edited by Michel Feher and Wendy Brown):
2015 “New Keywords: Migration and Borders” A collective writing project involving 17 co-authors, coordinated, co-edited and introduced by Nicholas De Genova, Sandro Mezzadra, and John Pickles Special Thematic Section in Cultural Studies Volume 29, Number 1
2003 Co-Editor, with Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas Special Thematic Issue: “Latino Racial Formations in the United States” Journal of Latin American Anthropology Volume 8, Number 2 De Genova, p.6
PUBLICATIONS (cont’d)
Journal Articles (as Author)
Forthcoming, 2018 a “The Deportation Power” in Radical Philosophy Volume 2, Number 3 (October 2018) Solicited for special thematic forum: “Deportation” with contributions by Nicholas De Genova, Shahram Khosravi, Clara Lecadet, and William Walters
Forthcoming, 2018 b “Latino Studies, Latino/a/X Futures: Provocations toward a Prospectus” in Cultural Dynamics (October 2018) Solicited for special thematic issue: “LatinX Studies: Variations and Velocities”
2018 a “Autonomy of Asylum? The Autonomy of Migration Undoing the Refugee Crisis Script” (co-authored with Glenda Garelli and Martina Tazzioli) Introduction to special thematic issue: “Rethinking Migration and Autonomy from within the ‘Crises’” in SAQ: South Atlantic Quarterly Volume 117, Number 2
2018 b “Rebordering ‘the People’: Notes on Theorizing Populism” in SAQ: South Atlantic Quarterly Volume 117, Number 2 (special thematic issue: “Rethinking Migration and Autonomy from within the ‘Crises’”)
2018 c “Desire for the Political in the Aftermath of the Cold War” (co-authored with Dace Dzenovska) Introduction to special thematic section: “The Political in/of Europe” in Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology Issue #80
2018 d “Mediterranean Struggles for Movement and the European Government of Bodies: An Interview with Étienne Balibar and Nicholas De Genova” Interview conducted by Glenda Garelli, Alessandra Sciurba, and Martina Tazzioli in Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography Volume 50, Number 3 (special thematic issue: “Mediterranean Movements: Mobility Struggles and the Humanitarian Frontier”); (first published online: 17 August 2017)
2018 e “The ‘Migrant Crisis’ as Racial Crisis: Do ‘Black Lives Matter’ in Europe?” in Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 41, Number 10 (first published online: 21 August 2017) (special thematic issue on "Race and Crisis”) De Genova, p.7 PUBLICATIONS (cont’d)
Journal Articles (as Author, cont’d)
2018 f “Expulsion, pourvoir, mobilisation: Ce qu’expulser veut dire” Dialogue with Clara Lecadet and William Walters (translated by Clara Lecadet) in Vacarme #83 (Spring 2018)
2017 a “The Incorrigible Subject: Mobilizing a Critical Geography of (Latin) America through the Autonomy of Migration” in Journal of Latin American Geography Volume 16, Number 1 (special thematic issue: “Critical Geographies in Latin America”)
2017 b “Un/Free Mobility: Roma Migrants in the European Union” (co-authored with Can Yildiz) Introduction to Special Thematic Issue, in Social Identities (published online 8 June 2017)
2017 c “Movimientos migratorios contemporáneos: entre el control fronterizo y la producción de su ilegalidad. Un diálogo con Nicholas De Genova.” Interview conducted and translated by Soledad Álvarez-Velasco in Revista Íconos (Journal of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences [FLACSO], Ecuador) Number 58 (special thematic issue: Migraciones Internacionales en América Latina: miradas críticas a las producción de un campo de conocimientos) Available at:
2016 a “The ‘European’ Question: Migration, Race, and Postcoloniality in ‘Europe’” in Social Text Volume 34, Number 3 (Issue #128)
2016 b “The ‘Native’s Point of View’ in the Anthropology of Migration” in Anthropological Theory Volume 16, Numbers 2-3
2016 c “Toward a Marxian Anthropology? Bare, Abstract, Mobile, Global” in Dialectical Anthropology (solicited for 40th Anniversary issue) Volume 40, Number 2 De Genova, p.8
PUBLICATIONS (cont’d)
Journal Articles (as Author, cont’d)
2016 d “The “Crisis” of the European Border Regime: Towards a Marxist Theory of Borders” in International Socialism Number 150
2015 a “In the Land of the Setting Sun: Reflections on ‘Islamization’ and ‘Patriotic Europeanism’” in Movements: Journal für kritische Migrations- und Grenzregimeforschung (Göttingen, Germany) [Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Research] Volume 1, Number 2 Available at:
2015 c “Border Struggles in the Migrant Metropolis” in Nordic Journal of Migration Research Volume 5, Number 1
2015 d “Introduction: New Keywords: Migration and Borders” (co-authored with Sandro Mezzadra and John Pickles) in Cultural Studies 29 (1): 55–61.
2015 e “As políticas queer de migração: reflexões sobre ‘ilegalidade’ e incorrigibilidade” in REMHU - Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana Volume 23, Number 45 (Brasília)
2014 “Ethnography in Europe, or an Anthropology of Europe?” Comment on Dace Dzenovska, “Bordering Encounters, Sociality and Distribution of the Ability to Live a ‘Normal Life’,” in Social Anthropology / Anthropologie Sociale Volume 22, Number 3
2013 a “Spectacles of Migrant ‘Illegality’: The Scene of Exclusion, the Obscene of Inclusion” in Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Number 7 (special thematic issue on “Categorisation, Inclusion and Exclusion: Discourses on Migration since 1945”)
2013 b “‘We Are of the Connections’: Migration, Methodological Nationalism, and ‘Militant Research’” in Postcolonial Studies Volume 16, Number 3 (special thematic issue on “Challenging the Discipline of Migration: Militant Research in Migration Studies”) De Genova, p.9
PUBLICATIONS (cont’d)
Journal Articles (as Author, cont’d)
2013 c Forum: “Foucault, Migrations, Borders” (with Responses by Nicholas De Genova, Brett Neilson, and William Walters; in English, with Italian translation) in MaterialiFoucaultiani Volume 2, Number 3
2012 a “Bare Life, Labor-Power, Mobility, and Global Space: Toward a Marxian Anthropology?” in CR: The New Centennial Review Volume 12, Number 3
2010 a “The Queer Politics of Migration: Reflections on ‘Illegality’ and Incorrigibility” in Studies in Social Justice Volume 4, Number 2 (special thematic issue on “Migrant Rights Activism”)
2010 b “Migration and Race in Europe: The Trans-Atlantic Metastases of a Post-Colonial Cancer” in European Journal of Social Theory Volume 13, Number 3
2010 c “Antiterrorism, Race, and the New Frontier: American Exceptionalism, Imperial Multiculturalism, and the Global Security State” in Identities Volume17, Number 6 (special thematic issue on “The New Frontiers of Race”)
2010 d “The Management of ‘Quality’: Class Decomposition and Racial Formation in a Chicago Factory” in Dialectical Anthropology Volume 34, Number 2 (with Commentaries)
2010 e “Production, Class, Race … and Labor as Subject: Reply to Mishler, Harney, and Roediger” in Dialectical Anthropology Volume 34, Number 2 (Response to Commentaries)
2009 a “Conflicts of Mobility and the Mobility of Conflict: Rightlessness, Presence, Subjectivity, Freedom” in Subjectivity Volume 29, Number 1
2009 b “Sovereign Power and the ‘Bare Life’ of Elvira Arellano” in Feminist Media Studies Volume 9, Number 2 De Genova, p.10 PUBLICATIONS (cont’d)
Journal Articles (as Author, cont’d)
2009 c “‘Illegale’ Migranten, ‘Migrantenrechten’ en ‘Antiterrorisme’ in de Verenigde Staten” in Kritiek: Jaarboek voor socialistische Discussie en Analyse 2009 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2008 a “Inclusion through Exclusion: Explosion or Implosion?” in Amsterdam Law Forum Volume 1, Number 1 (available at: www.amsterdamlawforum.org) (reprinted in Special Issue: Amsterdam Law Forum in Review, 2008-2011; Year III - May 2011)
2008 b “‘American’ Abjection: ‘Chicanos,’ Gangs, and Mexican/Migrant Transnationality in Chicago” in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies Volume 33, Number 2
2007 a “The Production of Culprits: From Deportability to Detainability in the Aftermath of ‘Homeland Security’” in Citizenship Studies Volume 11, Number 5
2007 b “The Stakes of an Anthropology of the United States” in CR: The New Centennial Review Volume 7, Number 2
2006 “The Everyday Civil War: Migrant Working Men, Within and Against Capital” in Ethnography Volume 7, Number 2 2004 a “The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant ‘Illegality’” in Latino Studies Volume 2, Number 2 2004 b “La producción legal de la ‘ilegaledad’ migrante mexicana” in Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos Number 52 (Buenos Aires) 2003 a “Latino Rehearsals: Racialization and the Politics of Citizenship Between Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Chicago” (co-authored with Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas) in Journal of Latin American Anthropology Volume 8, Number 2
2003 b “Latino Racial Formations in the United States: An Introduction” (with Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas) in Journal of Latin American Anthropology Volume 8, Number 2 De Genova, p. 11 PUBLICATIONS (cont’d)
Journal Articles (as Author, cont’d)
2002 “Migrant ‘Illegality’ and Deportability in Everyday Life” in Annual Review of Anthropology #31
1998 “Race, Space, and the Reinvention of Latin America in Mexican Chicago” in Latin American Perspectives Volume 25, Number 5 (Issue #102)
1995 a “Gangster Rap and Nihilism in Black America: Some Questions of Life and Death” in Social Text #43 1995 b “Check Your Head: The Cultural Politics of Rap Music” in Transition #67
Book Chapters (as Author)
Forthcoming, n.d. “The Economy of Detainability: Theorizing Migrant Detention” Solicited for Julia Eckert, ed. The Bureaucratic Production of Difference
Forthcoming, 2019 a “Deportation” Solicited for inclusion in Beverley Skeggs, Sara R. Farris, and Alberto Toscano (eds.), The Sage Handbook of Marxism (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications)
Forthcoming, 2019 b “Migration and the Mobility of Labor” Solicited for inclusion in Matt Vidal, Tony Smith, Tomás Rotta, and Paul Prew (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx (New York and London: Oxford University Press)
2019 “The Securitization of Roma Mobilities and the Re-Bordering of Europe” in Huub van Baar, Ana Ivasiuc, and Regina Kreide, eds. The Securitization of the Roma in Europe (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)
2017 a “Introduction: The Borders of ‘Europe’ … and the ‘European’ Question” in Nicholas De Genova, ed. The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering (Durham, NC: Duke University Press) De Genova, p.12 PUBLICATIONS (cont’d)
Book Chapters (as Author, cont’d)
2017 b “Deportation: The Last Word?” Afterword, in Shahram Khosravi, ed. After Deportation: Ethnographic Perspectives (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)
2017 c “The Whiteness of Innocence: Charlie Hebdo and the Metaphysics of Antiterrorism in Europe” in Gavan Titley, Des Freedman, Gholam Khiabany and Aurélien Mondon (eds.), After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, Racism and Free Speech (London: Zed Books)
2017 d “The Economy of Detainability: Theorizing Migrant Detention” in Michael J. Flynn and Matthew B. Flynn, eds. Challenging Immigration Detention — Academics, Activists, Policy-makers (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar)
2017 e “Citizenship” in Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Nancy Ráquel Mirabal, and Deborah R. Vargas (eds.), Keywords for Latino Studies (New York: New York University Press)
2017 f “Citizenship’s Shadow: Obscene Inclusion, Abject Belonging, or, the Regularities of Migrant ‘Irregularity’” in Roberto G. Gonzáles and Nando Sigona (eds.), Within and Beyond Citizenship: Borders, Membership, and Belonging (New York and London: Routledge)
2016 a “The ‘European’ Question: Migration, Race, and Post-Coloniality in ‘Europe’” in Anna Amelina, Kenneth Horvath and Bruno Meeus (eds.), An Anthology of Migration and Social Transformation: European Perspectives (London: IMISCOE Research Series/ Springer)
2016 b “The Incorrigible Subject: The Autonomy of Migration and the U.S. Immigration Stalemate” in Andreas Oberprantacher & Andrei Siclodi (eds.), Subjectivation: Political Theory in Contemporary Practices (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)
2016 c “Economies of Dignity: Ideologies of Work and Worth among Mexican and Puerto Ricans in Chicago” (co-authored with Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas) in Ramón Gutiérrez and Tomás Almaguer, eds. The New Latino Studies Reader: A Twenty-First- Century Perspective (Berkeley: University of California Press) De Genova, p.13
PUBLICATIONS (cont’d)
Book Chapters (as Author, cont’d)
2016 d “The Incorrigible Subject of the Border Spectacle” in Amanda Haynes, Martin Power, Eoin Devereux, Aileen Dillane & James Carr (eds.) Public and Political Discourses of Migration: International Perspectives (London: Rowman and Littlefield)
2015 a “Denizens All: The Otherness of Citizenship” Afterword in Bridget Anderson and Vanessa Hughes (eds.), Citizenship and Its Others (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)
2015 b “Extremities and Regularities: Regulatory Regimes and the Spectacle of Immigration Enforcement” in Yolande Jansen, Robin Celikates, and Joost de Bloois (eds.), The Irregularization of Migration in Contemporary Europe: Detention, Deportation, Drowning (London: Rowman & Littlefield)
2014 a “Deportation” in Bridget Anderson and Michael Keith (eds.), Migration: A COMPAS Anthology. (Centre on Migration, Policy and Society [COMPAS], Oxford: Oxford University Press)
2014 b “Die queeren Politiken der Migration: Reflektionen über ‘Illegalität’ und Unverbesserlichkeit” in Lisa-Marie Heimeshoff, Sabine Hess, Stefanie Kron, Helen Schwenken, and Miriam Trzeciak (eds.), GrenzRegime II: Migration – Kontrolle – Wissen: Transnationale Perspektiven [Border Regime II. Migration - Control - Knowledge. Transnational Perspectives]. (Berlin: Assoziation A)
2013 a “Immigration ‘Reform’ and the Production of ‘Illegality’” in Cecilia Menjívar and Daniel Kanstroom (eds.), Constructing Immigrant “Illegality”: Experiences, Critiques, and Responses (New York: Cambridge University Press)
2013 b “Poder Soberano y la ‘Nuda Vida’ de Elvira Arellano” in Alejandra Aquino, Amarela Varela, and Frédéric Décosse (eds.), Desafiando Froteras: Control de la Movilidad y Experiencias Migratorias en el Contexto Capitalista (Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico: Sur+Ediciones/ Frontera Press) De Genova, p.14
PUBLICATIONS (cont’d)
Book Chapters (as Author, cont’d)
2013 c “The Securitarian Society of the Spectacle” in Zeynep Gambetti and Marcial Godoy-Anativia (eds.), Rhetorics of Insecurity: Belonging and Violence in the Neoliberal Era (New York: New York Univsity Press)
2013 d “The Perplexities of Mobility” in Ola Söderström, Didier Ruedin, Shalini Randeria, Gianni D’Amato, and Francesco Panese (eds.), Critical Mobilities (London: Routledge/Lausanne: Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes)
2013 e “The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant ‘Illegality’” in Jonathan Xavier Inda and Julie Dowling (eds.), Governing Immigration Through Crime: A Reader (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press)
2013 f “The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant ‘Illegality’” in Sian Lazar, ed. The Anthropology of Citizenship: A Reader (Oxford, UK and Malden, MA: Wiley- Blackwell)
2012 a “Border, Scene and Obscene” in Thomas Wilson and Hastings Donnan (eds.), A Companion to Border Studies (Oxford, UK and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell)
2012 b “The ‘War on Terror’ as Racial Crisis: Homeland Security, Obama, and Racial (Trans)Formations” in Daniel HoSang, Oneka LaBennett, and Laura Pulido (eds.), Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century (Berkeley: University of California Press)
2011 a “Spectacle of Security, Spectacle of Terror” in Shelley Feldman, Charles Geisler, and Gayatri Menon (eds.), Accumulating Insecurity: Violence and Dispossession in the Making of Everyday Life (Athens: University of Georgia Press)
2011 b “Alien Powers: Deportable Labour and the Spectacle of Security” in Vicki Squire (ed.), The Contested Politics of Mobility: Borderzones and Irregularity (London: Routledge) De Genova, p.15
PUBLICATIONS (cont’d)
Book Chapters (as Author, cont’d)
2010 a “The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement” Theoretical Overview, in Nicholas De Genova and Nathalie Peutz (eds.), The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement (Durham, NC: Duke University Press)
2010 b “Introduction” (co-authored with Nathalie Peutz), in Nicholas De Genova and Nathalie Peutz (eds.), The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement (Durham, NC: Duke University Press) 2010 c “‘White Puerto Rican’ Migrants, the Mexican Colony, and ‘Americanization’: Reflections on a Moment of Danger in Latino History” in Mérida Rúa (ed.), Latino Urban Ethnography and the Work of Elena Padilla (Urbana: University of Illinois Press)
2010 d “Latino Racial Formations in the United States” (with Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas) in Heather Dalmage and Barbara Katz Rothman (eds.), Race in an Era of Change: A Reader (New York: Oxford University Press)
2009 “The Production of Culprits: From Deportability to Detainability in the Aftermath of ‘Homeland Security’,” in Peter Nyers (ed.), Securitizations of Citizenship (New York: Routledge)
2007 “The Everyday Civil War: Migrant Labor, Capital, and Latino Studies” Commissioned submission in Juan Flores and Renato Rosaldo (eds.), A Companion to Latino Studies (New York: Blackwell) 2006 a “Introduction: Latino and Asian Racial Formations at the Frontiers of U.S. Nationalism” in Nicholas De Genova (ed.), Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States (Durham, NC: Duke University Press)
2006 b “The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant ‘Illegality’” in Suzanne Oboler (ed.), Latinos and Citizenship: The Dilemma of Belonging (New York: Palgrave)
2005 “La production légal de l’‘illégalité’ des migrants/ Mexicains” in Emmanuel Grez and Coline Pellegrini (eds.), Politiques migratoires: grandes et petites manoeuvres (Lyon: Éditions Carobella Ex-Natura) De Genova, p.16
PUBLICATIONS (cont’d)
Book Chapters (as Author, cont’d)
2004 “La produzione giuridica dell’illegalità: Il caso dei migranti messicani negli Stati Uniti” in Sandro Mezzadra (ed), I confini della libertà: Per un'analisi politica delle migrazioni contemporanee (Rome: DeriveApprodi)
Online Articles (as Author)
2018 “Europe’s Racial Borders” MONITOR: Global Intelligence on Racism #1 (January-February 2018) based at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Florence (Italy):
2017 “The Autonomy of Deportation” lo Squaderno #44 (June 2017) (Special Thematic Issue on “Deportations, Bans & Expulsions”):
2016 a “Europe / Crisis: New Keywords of ‘the Crisis’ in and of ‘Europe’” A collective writing project involving 15 co-authors; coordinated, co-edited and introduced by Nicholas De Genova and Martina Tazzioli Published in “Europe at a Crossroads,” Issue #1 of Near Futures Online (the online companion to the Zone Books series “Near Futures,” co-edited by Michel Feher and Wendy Brown):
2016 b “Detention, Deportation, and Waiting: Toward a Theory of Migrant Detainability" Global Detention Project, Working Paper No. 18 (1 December 2016):
2016 c The “Crisis” of the European Border Regime: Towards a Marxist Theory of Borders EuroNomade (16 March 2016):
PUBLICATIONS (cont’d)
Online Articles (as Author, cont’d)
2016 d “The “Crisis” of the European Border Regime: Towards a Marxist Theory of Borders” in International Socialism Number 150; available at:
2015 “The Border Spectacle of Migrant Victimization” openDemocracy: 50.50: inclusive democracy (20 May 2015) Forum: “Beyond Trafficking and Slavery”:
In Italian translation: 2015 a “Lo spettacolo del confine” (DiNAMO; transl. Claudia Bernardi; 26 October 2015)
2014 “Live from Lampedusa: The Freedom of Movement” openDemocracy: 50.50: inclusive democracy (9 June 2014)
In French translation: “En direct de Lampedusa, la liberté de circulation” Combats Pour les Droits de l'Homme (17 June 2014)
PUBLICATIONS (cont’d)
Online Articles (as Author, cont’d)
2006 “Migrant ‘Illegality’ and the Metaphysics of Antiterrorism: ‘Immigrants’ Rights’ in the Aftermath of the Homeland Security State” Forum: “Border Battles: The U.S. Immigration Debates” Social Science Research Council
In Spanish translation: “La ‘ilegalidad’ migratoria y la metafísica del antiterrorismo: Los ‘derechos de los inmigrantes’ como secuelas del Estado de Seguridad Nacional” Rebelión: El Cuarto Reich
In French translation: “L’illégalité des migrants et la métaphysique de la lutte contre le terrorisme: les ‘droits des migrants’ comme aspect collatéral de la doctrine de sécurité nationale US” Tlaxcala: The Translators’ Network for Linguistic Diversity
Occasional Essays on the Politics of Scholarship (as Author):
2011a Nicholas De Genova, contribution to the Public Anthropology review essay (compiled and edited by Melissa Checker): “ ‘Year That Trembled and Reel’d’: Reflections on Public Anthropology a Decade after 9/11” in American Anthropologist 113 (3) (September 2011)
2011b “Reflections on the Future of Latino Studies in Anthropology” Presentation to the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists (ALLA) Book Award Winners Roundtable: "Latina and Latino Anthropology for the Next Decade," 109th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (New Orleans, 19 November 2010; posted 13 September 2011); Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists (ALLA): www.aaanet.org/sections/alla/? page_id=19 De Genova, p.19 PUBLICATIONS (cont’d)
Articles in Translation
Dutch 2016 ‘Migrantencrisis’/’Vluchtelingencrisis’ (New Keywords Collective) (translated and introduced By Yolande Jansen) Wijsgerig Perspectief Volume 56, Number 3 (November 2016)
2009 “‘Illegale’ Migranten, ‘Migrantenrechten’ en ‘Antiterrorisme’ in de Verenigde Staten” Kritiek: Jaarboek voor socialistische Discussie en Analyse 2009 (Amsterdam)
* * * French
2018 “Expulsion, pourvoir, mobilisation: Ce qu’expulser veut dire” Dialogue with Clara Lecadet and William Walters (translated by Clara Lecadet) in Vacarme #83 (Spring 2018)
2014 “En direct de Lampedusa, la liberté de circulation” Combats Pour les Droits de l'Homme (17 June 2014)
2006 “L’illégalité des migrants et la métaphysique de la lutte contre le terrorisme: les ‘droits des migrants’ comme aspect collatéral de la doctrine de sécurité nationale US” Tlaxcala: The Translators’ Network for Linguistic Diversity
2005 “La production légal de l’‘illégalité’ des migrants/ Mexicains” In Emmanuel Grez and Coline Pellegrini (eds.), Politiques migratoires: grandes et petites manoeuvres (Lyon: Éditions Carobella Ex-Natura)
* * * German
2014 “Die queeren Politiken der Migration: Reflektionen über 'Illegalität' und Unverbesserlichkeit” In Lisa-Marie Heimeshoff, Sabine Hess, Stefanie Kron, Helen Schwenken, and Miriam Trzeciak (eds.), GrenzRegime II: Migration – Kontrolle – Wissen: Transnationale Perspektiven. (Berlin: Assoziation A) De Genova, p.20 PUBLICATIONS (cont’d)
Articles in Translation (cont’d)
Greek
2016 a “Η 'κρίση' του Ευρωπαϊκού Συνοριακού Καθεστώτος: Προς µια Μαρξιστική Θεωρία των Συνόρων” A Ruthless Critique Against Everything Existing (18 July 2016)
2016 b “Το Καθεστώς των Απελάσεων. Κυριαρχία, Χώρος και Ελευθερία Κίνησης” in Αντίθεση [Antithesis] (eds.), Vogelfrei: Τρία κείµενα για τη µετανάστευση, τις απελάσεις, το κεφάλαιο και το κράτος του [Vogelfrei: Three texts about migration, deportations, capital and its state]. (Athens, July 2016)
* * * Italian
2015 a “Lo spettacolo del confine” DiNAMO; translated by Claudia Bernardi (26 October 2015)
2015 b “La ‘Vittimizzazione’ del Migrante nello Spettacolo del Confine” La LUM -- Libera Università Metropolitana; translated by Claudia Bernardi (22 October 2015)
2015 c “Inclusione attraverso l’esclusione” Transglobal / Frontiere News (22 June 2015)
2013 Forum: “Foucault, migrazioni, e confini" (Responses by Nicholas De Genova Brett Neilson, and William Walters) Materiali Foucaultiani Volume 2, Number 3 De Genova, p.21 PUBLICATIONS (cont’d)
Articles in Translation (cont’d)
Italian (cont’d)
2012 “Vite illegali e criminali nella metropoli migranti” Supplement: “AlfaDifferenze: Per una lettura materialista di razza e genere” In Alfabeta 2.22
2004 “La produzione giuridica dell’illegalità: Il caso dei migranti messicani negli Stati Uniti” In Sandro Mezzadra (ed.), I confini della libertà:Per un'analisi politica delle migrazioni contemporanee (Rome: DeriveApprodi)
* * * Polish
2016 Europa/Kryzys: nowy słownik „kryzysu” „Europy” i w „Europie” (New Keywords Collective): „Kryzys” — and — Mobilność Praktyka Teoretyczna Number 21
* * * Portuguese
2017 “Rumo a uma antropologia marxiana? A nudez da vida, a abstração, a mobilidade, o global” Antropologia Crítica (Grupo de Estudos em Antropologia Crítica – GEAC; 6 February 2017) Available at: https://antropologiacritica.wordpress.com/2017/02/06/rumo-a-uma-antropologia- marxiana-a-nudez-da-vida-a-abstracao-a-mobilidade-o-global/
2015 “As políticas queer de migração: reflexões sobre ‘ilegalidade’ e incorrigibilidade” REMHU - Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana Volume 23, Number 45 (Brasília)
* * * Slovenian
2016 “Migrantska kriza”/ “begunska kriza” (New Keywords Collective) Notranja Number 264 (August 2016) De Genova, p.22 PUBLICATIONS (cont’d)
Articles in Translation (cont’d)
Spanish
2017 “Movimientos migratorios contemporáneos: entre el espectáculo del control fronterizo, la producción de su ilegalidad y la incorregibilidad de su fuerza: Un diálogo con Nicholas De Genova.” Interview conducted and translated by Soledad Álvarez-Velasco Revista Íconos (Journal of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences [FLACSO], Ecuador) Number 58 (special thematic issue: Migraciones Internacionales en América Latina: miradas críticas a las producción de un campo de conocimientos) Available at:
2013 “Poder soberano y la ‘nuda vida’ de Elvira Arellano” in Alejandra Aquino, Amarela Varela, y Frédéric Décosse (eds.), Desafiando Froteras: Control de la Movilidad y Experiencias Migratorias en el Contexto Capitalista (Oaxaca de Juárez, México: Sur+Ediciones/ Frontera Press, 2013)
2006 “La ‘ilegalidad’ migratoria y la metafísica del antiterrorismo: Los ‘derechos de los inmigrantes’ como secuelas del Estado de Seguridad Nacional” Rebelión: El Cuarto Reich
2004 “La producción legal de la ‘ilegaledad’ migrante mexicana” Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos Number 52 (Buenos Aires)
* * * Swedish “Vad vi talar om när vi talar om Europa” Interview conducted and translated by Emma Eleonorasdotter Mana Volume 2017, Numbers 2-3 (15 December 2017)
* * * Turkish
2016 “Batan Güneşin Ülkesinde: ‘İslâmlaşma’ ve ‘Vatansever Avrupacılık’ Üzerine Düşünceler” Birikim; translated by Eda Sevinin (18 February 2016); available at:
Photo Essays (as Author/ Photographer)
1997 “The Junkyard of Futures Past” in Anthropology and Humanism Volume 22, Number 2
1996 “Split-Level Bedlam: Chicago at the End of the Twentieth Century” in Public Culture Volume 9, Number 1
INTERVIEWS
Online (Text)
2018 “On Migration, Borders, and Freedoms” Interview by Ananya Roy for the New Poverty Politics podcast series of the Relational Poverty Network (29 May 2018)
2015 “The ‘European’ Question after Charlie Hebdo: An Interview with Nicholas De Genova” Interview by Martina Tazzioli, guest editor Darkmatter: international peer-reviewed online journal of postcolonial critique, #12 [special thematic issue: “Border Struggles: Epistemologies, Ontologies and Politics”]
Online (Video)
21 June 2017: Scholar to Scholar: Nicholas De Genova interviewed by Johan Höglund, Director of the Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Linnaeus University (Kalmar, Sweden)
6 July 2013: “Spectacles of Migrant ‘Illegality’: The Scene of Exclusion, the Obscene of Inclusion” Short video interview for the research platform Faculti: Communicating the Cutting Edge (London) De Genova, p.24 INTERVIEWS (cont’d)
2018 “Mediterranean Struggles for Movement and the European Government of Bodies: An Interview with Étienne Balibar and Nicholas De Genova” Interview conducted by Glenda Garelli, Alessandra Sciurba, and Martina Tazzioli Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography Volume 50, Number 3 [special thematic issue: “Mediterranean Movements: Mobility Struggles and the Humanitarian Frontier”]; (first published online: 17 August 2017)
2017 b “Movimientos migratorios contemporáneos: entre el espectáculo del control fronterizo, la producción de su ilegalidad y la incorregibilidad de su fuerza: Un diálogo con Nicholas De Genova.” Interview conducted and translated by Soledad Álvarez-Velasco Revista Íconos (Journal of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences [FLACSO], Ecuador) Number 58 (special thematic issue: Migraciones Internacionales en América Latina: miradas críticas a las producción de un campo de conocimientos) Available at:
1 May 2013: “‘We Didn’t Cross the Border, the Border Crossed Us’: Nicholas De Genova discusses our bordered identity” Interview by Daphne Plessner, published in Citizen Artist newspaper (London) Special Edition: Investigating the University’s Borders and Boundaries
30 September 2011: “Her skaber lovenforbrydelsen: Invandringspolitikken bliver strammet igen og igen i USA og Europa -- men samtidig med larmen fra grænsekontrol og deportationer foregår der en stilfærdig og vedholdende rekruttering af illegal arbejdskraft, siger migrationsforsker Nicholas De Genova, der i sidste uge gæstede Danmark” Interview by Nina Trige Andersen (translated into Danish), published in the daily newspaper Information (Denmark)
July 2011: “An Image of Our Future: On the Making of Migrant ‘Illegality’” Interview by Rozalinda Borcila, published in AREA Chicago #11
30 April 2006: “Una Mexican Chicago oltre la linea del colore” Interview by Anna Curcio and Gigi Roggero (translated into Italian), published in Il Manifesto (Italy) De Genova, p.25
DISTINGUISHED ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
In addition to extensive professional activity across the United States since the beginning of my academic career, as well as similarly extensive public speaking in the other countries where I have been professionally employed (the UK, Switzerland, and the Netherlands), I have been invited to present my scholarly work in more than 30 countries on 5 continents.
Invited International Keynote Lectures
30 May 2018: Invited Keynote Lecture presented to the conference “Transnational Migration: Borders and Global Justice,” organized by the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) Title: “Anonymous Black and Brown Bodies: The Productive Power of Europe's Deadly Border”
17 November 2017: Invited Keynote Lecture presented to the Platform for Artistic Research Sweden (PARSE) Conference, sponsored by the art- and practice-based research platform PARSE and the Centre for Global Migration, University of Gothenburg (Gothenburg, Sweden) Thematic: Geographies of Exclusion Title: “‘Crises,’ Convulsions, Concurrences: Human Mobility, the European Geography of “Exclusion,” and the Postcolonial Dialectics of Subordinate Inclusion”
20 June 2017: Invited Keynote Lecture presented to the conference “Mobilising Cultural Studies,” sponsored by the Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden (ACSIS), Linköping University (Norrköping, Sweden) Title: “Mobilizing Critique: Cultural Studies Confronting the ‘Crises’ of Human Mobility”
15 April 2016: Invited Keynote Lecture presented to the symposium “Borders: What’s Up With That? / Displacements, Belongings, Rights,” sponsored by the Mellon Initiative in Comparative Border Studies at the University of California - Davis (Davis, California, USA) Title: “Theorizing the ‘Crisis’ of Borders and Migration”
14 April 2016: Invited Featured Speaker for “New and Emerging Terms in Migration Studies: A Seminar with Nicholas De Genova,” sponsored by the Chicano/ Latino Research Center, University of California - Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, California, USA)
29 April 2015: Invited Keynote Lecture presented to the seminar “After Charlie Hebdo: Complex Media Cultures and the Limits of Liberalism,” sponsored by the Department of Media Studies, Maynooth University (Maynooth, Ireland) Title: “The Whiteness of Innocence: Charlie Hebdo and the Metaphysics of Antiterrorism in Europe” De Genova, p.26
DISTINGUISHED ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (cont’d)
Invited International Keynote Lectures (cont’d)
23 April 2015: Invited Keynote Lecture presented to the lecture series “Regimes of Mobility, Repertoires of Diversity,” sponsored by the Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre of the University of Leuven/ KULeuven (Leuven, Belgium) Title: “The Migrant Metropolis: Human Mobility and the Regimes and Repertoires of Urbanization”
26 September 2014: Invited Keynote Lecture presented to the International Summer School on “Expanding the Margins: Migration, Mobilities, Borders,” sponsored by the Institute for European Ethnology and the Berlin Institute for Empirical Migration and Integration Research, Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany) Title: “Border Struggles in the Migrant Metropolis”
13 August 2014: Invited Keynote Lecture presented to the the 17th Annual Nordic Migration Research Conference, hosted by the University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark) Title: “Border Struggles in the Migrant Metropolis”
24 April 2014: Invited Keynote Lecture presented to the conference “In the Frame? Public and Political Discourses of Migration,”sponsored by the Discourse, Power and Society Research Cluster and the Department of Sociology at the University of Limerick (Limerick, Ireland) Title: “The Incorrigible Subject of the Border Spectacle”
29 March 2014: Invited Keynote Lecture presented to the Winter School symposium on “Political Abilities: The Sense of Subjectification,” sponsored by the University of Innsbruck (Innsbruck, Austria) Title: “The Incorrigible Subject: The Autonomy of Migration and the U.S. Immigration Stalemate”
18 March 2014: Invited Keynote Lecture presented to the Winter School symposium on “Population Management – State, Mobility and Diversity,” sponsored by the University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany) Title: “Biopolitics, Necropolitics, and the Regularities of Migrant ‘Irregularity’”
9 August 2013: Invited Keynote Speaker in Plenary Debate (arguing Against the motion: “The free movement of people around the world would be utopian”); 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (Manchester, UK) De Genova, p.27
DISTINGUISHED ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (cont’d)
Invited International Keynote Lectures (cont’d)
22 February 2013: Invited Keynote Lectures presented to the academic workshop and public debate “Deportation, Detention, Drowning in la Mer Mortelle: Critical Perspectives on the Irregularization of Migration,” sponsored by the Department of Social and Political Philosophy and the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies, University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Title: “Extremities and Regularities: Regulatory Regimes and the Spectacle of Immigration Enforcement”
28 August 2012: Invited Keynote Lecture presented to the 9th Annual Conference of the IMISCOE (Immigration, Integration, and Social Cohesion in Europe) research network (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Plenary panel: “Mobility, Ethnicity, Race, and the Nation” Title: “The ‘European’ Question: Notes toward a Postcolonial Perspective on Migration, Nation, and Race”
12 May 2012: Invited Expert Witness testimony presented to Tribunal 12, sponsored by the Swedish Forum for Human Rights, Kulturhuset/ Stockholm, and Shaharazad - Stories for Life (Stockholm, Sweden); Panel: “Detention and Deportation”
22 September 2011: Invited Keynote Lecture presented to the international seminar “Latin America at Its Borders: Legality, Illegality and Transgression/ New Ways of Thinking and Acting,” sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Americas, Copenhagen Business School; the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Copenhagen; and Intercultural Studies, Roskilde University (Copenhagen, Denmark); Title: “The Perplexities of Mobility”
29 May 2009: Invited Keynote Address presented to the conference “The New Frontiers of Race: Criminalities, Cultures, and Policing in the Global Era,” sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, University of Chicago (Chicago, IL, USA) Title: “Antiterrorism, Race, and the New Frontier: American Exceptionalism, Imperial Multiculturalism, and the Global Security State”
25 April 2008: Invited Keynote Address presented to the Swiss Postgraduate Programme in Anthropology doctoral school, “Key Issues in Social Anthropology: Mobility/ Migration,” sponsored by the Swiss Ethnological Society (Bern, Switzerland) De Genova, p.28
DISTINGUISHED ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (cont’d)
Invited International Keynote Lectures (cont’d)
29 November 2006: Invited Keynote Address presented to the conference “Irregulars, Sans-papier, Hidden, Illegals and Black Labour: The (Welfare-)State and Its Non-Citizens,” sponsored by the National Thematic Network on Asylum, Stockholm University (Stockholm, Sweden) Title: Migrant “Illegality,” Immigrants’ Rights, and the Antiterrorism Security State
22 April 2006: Invited Plenary Address presented to conference “Anthropology in an UncertainAge,” the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Anthropology of North America (New York, NY, USA) Title: “The Uses of Uncertainty in the Aftermath of Homeland Security”
5 December 2003: Invited Keynote Address presented to the conference “Illegal Practices, Globalization, and the State,” sponsored by the Swiss Ethnological Society (Bern, Switzerland); Title: “Deportability and the Politics of Space”
Other Invited International Academic Lectures
31 May 2018: Invited Lecture presented to the research seminar of the Center for Cultural Sociology of Migration, Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic) Title: “Anonymous Black and Brown Bodies: The Productive Power of Europe's Deadly Border”
15 November 2017: Invited Lecture presented to the research seminar of the Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Linnaeus University (Växjö, Sweden) Title: “‘Crises,’ Convulsions, Concurrences: Human Mobility and the Postcolonial Dialectics of Subordinate Inclusion”
14 November 2017: Invited Lecture presented to the research seminar of the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University (Norrköping, Sweden) Book event on The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering
13 November 2017: Invited Lecture presented to the international research workshop, “Materialities of Borders,” sponsored by the Critical Border Studies research initiative, Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism, University of Uppsala, and the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm (Stockholm, Sweden) Title: “Anonymous Black and Brown Bodies: The Productive Power of Europe's Deadly Border” De Genova, p.29
DISTINGUISHED ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (cont’d)
Other Invited International Academic Lectures (cont’d)
21 June 2017: Invited Lecture presented to the research seminar of the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University (Norrköping, Sweden) Title: “The ‘European’ Question: Migration, Race, and Postcoloniality in ‘Europe’”
19 June 2017: Invited Lecture presented to the lecture series of the Community of Critical Anthropologists (FKA), Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark) Title: “Toward an Anthropology of Deceleration: Human Mobility, Migrant Detention, and the Economy of Detainability”
2 June 2016: Invited paper presented to the conference “The Politics of Security: Understanding and Challenging the Securitization of Europe’s Roma,” sponsored by the Research Program “Dynamics of Security: Forms of Securitization in Historical Perspective,” University of Giessen (Giessen, Germany) Title: “The Securitization of Roma Mobilities and the Re-Bordering of Europe”
20 May 2015: Invited Lecture presented to the symposium “Decolonizing Methodologies: Radical Pedadogy and Neoliberal Governmentalities,” sponsored by the Center for Gender and Postcolonial Studies University of Naples “L’Orientale" (Ex-asilo Filangieri, Naples, Italy) Title: “The ‘European’ Question: Migration, Race, and Postcoloniality”
14 November 2014: Invited participant in closing Roundtable Plenary of the seminar “The Migration-Security Nexus: The Case of Switzerland in International Perspective,” sponsored by the Center for Migration Law, University of Neuchâtel (Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
12 September 2014: Invited Lecture presented to the workshop “Border Struggles: Epistemologies, Politics, and Practices,” sponsored by the RELATE Center of Excellence, University of Oulu (Oulu, Finland) Title: “Border Struggles in the Migrant Metropolis”
13 August 2014: Invited Discussant for workshop “Materializing Borders,” at the 17th Annual Nordic Migration Research Conference (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2 May 2014: Invited Participant in International Conference on “Draft Convention on the Rights of Forcibly Expelled Persons,” sponsored by the Post-Deportation Human Rights Project of The Center for Human Rights and International Justice, School of Law, Boston College (Boston, MA, USA) De Genova, p.30
DISTINGUISHED ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (cont’d)
Other Invited International Academic Lectures (cont’d)
8 April 2014: Invited Lecture presented to the seminar series “Mobility struggles: the control of mobility, its limits, and opponents,” sponsored by the Department of Politics, Institutions, and History, University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy) Title: “The Incorrigible Subject and the ‘European' Question”
5 December 2013: Invited Lecture presented to the workshop “Ethnographies of Border Controls,” sponsored by the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University (Stockholm, Sweden) Title: “The Incorrigible Subject: The Autonomy of Migration & the Political Economy of the Border”
23 November 2013: Invited Lecture presented to the workshop “Contested Control at the Margins of the State: Control Practices and Migrants’ Mobility in the Schengen/ Dublin Area,” sponsored by the Institutes of Sociology and Social Anthropology of the University of Bern (Bern, Switzerland) Title: “The Incorrigible Subject”
22 May 2013: Commissioned Discussant for the workshop ““Un-Deported and Precarious: A New Mode of State Membership?” sponsored by the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
3 May 2013: Invited Lecture presented to the conference “Globalization and Mobilities: The Theory and Methods of Human Movement,” sponsored by the University of Chicago Urban Network and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, University of Chicago and the Université Paris - Diderot (Chicago, USA) Title: “Extremities and Regularities: Regulatory Regimes and the Spectacle of Immigration Enforcement”
27 April 2013: Invited Lecture presented to the conference “The Dilemmas of Security: How State and Non-State Actors Negotiate the Concept of Security,” sponsored by the Institute of Anglo-American History, University of Cologne (Köln, Germany) Title: “Extremities and Regularities: Regulatory Regimes and the Spectacle of Immigration Enforcement” De Genova, p.31
DISTINGUISHED ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (cont’d)
Other Invited International Academic Lectures (cont’d)
14 December 2012: Invited Lecture presented to the research project PROVIR (Provision of Welfare to Irregular Migrants, at the University of Bergen (Bergen, Norway) Title: “Race, Gender, and Reproduction in the Migrant Metropolis: From ‘Illegal’ Migrants to ‘Criminal’ Citizens”
13 December 2012: Invited Lecture presented to the Seminar Series of the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen (Bergen, Norway) Title: “‘This New Religion of Whiteness’: Some Reflections on Nationalism, Postcoloniality, and the ‘European’ Question”
14 July 2012: Invited Lecture presented to the International Symposium of the “Critical Migration and Border Regime Research” Network (KritNet), in collaboration with the”Labour Migration Policies/ Migration and Decent Work” research unit at the University of Kassel and the “Laboratory of Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies” at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology/ European Ethnology of the Georg-August University of Göttingen (Kassel, Germany) Panel: “Activist Citizenship and Struggles of Migration”
13 July 2012: Invited Lecture presented to the colloquium “Religion, ‘Volk,’ and ‘Race’ in the Construction of Nation, Culture, and State,” sponsored by the Nordeuropa-Institut at Humbolt University of Berlin (Berlin, Germany) Title: “‘This New Religion of Whiteness’: Some Reflections on Nationalism and Racism”
24 June 2012: Invited Lecture presented to the seminar "Composizione di classe e frammentazione nella crisi: per una lettura materialista di razza e genere," sponsored by UniNomade (Naples, Italy). Title: “Race, Gender, and Reproduction in the Migrant Metropolis: From ‘Illegal’ Migrants to ‘Criminal’ Citizens”
12 April 2012: Invited Lecture presented to the “Gender, Borders, Migration, and Criminology” Intensive Workshop of the Border Crossing Observatory, Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), held at the Monash University Centre in Prato (Prato, Italy) Title: “‘Illegal’ Migrants, ‘Criminal’ Citizens: Gender, Race, and Reproduction in the Migrant Metropolis” De Genova, p.32
DISTINGUISHED ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (cont’d)
Other Invited International Academic Lectures (cont’d)
26 March 2012: Invited Lecture presented to the seminar “Rethinking Migration Theory through Ethnography,” co- sponsored by the University of Paris-Diderot and the University of Chicago Center in Paris (Paris, France) Title: “‘Illegality,’ Race, and Citizenship in the Migrant Metropolis”
3 November 2011: Invited Lecture for a workshop of the interdisciplinary research project “Alternative Spaces,” Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, the University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark) Title: “Siting Borders and Boundaries – Between Legality and Illegality”
21 September 2011: Invited Lecture presented to the Migration Unit of the Danish Institute of International Studies (Copenhagen, Denmark) Title: “Spectacles of Migrant ‘Illegality’: The Scene of Exclusion, the Obscene of Inclusion”
10 December 2010: Invited Lecture presented to the Centre for Gender Studies, University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark) Title: “The Queer Politics of Migration: Reflections on ‘Illegality’ and Incorrigibility”
9 December 2010: Invited Lecture presented to the Research Unit on Migration, State and Education, Institute of Media, Cognition and Communication, Faculty of the Humanities, University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark) Title: “The Migrant Metropolis: Mobility, ‘Illegality,’ and the Production of Space”
19 November 2010: Invited Participant on the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists Book Award Winners Round Table, 109th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (New Orleans, LA, USA); Panel: “The Future of Latino Studies”
21 May 2010: Invited Lecture presented to the international workshop “Reconceptualizing Migration: Movements and Struggles, Facing the Global Crisis,” sponsored by the Department of Politics, Institutions, and History, University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy) Title: “The Queer Politics of Migration: Reflections on ‘Illegality’ and Incorrigibility” De Genova, p.33
DISTINGUISHED ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (cont’d)
Other Invited International Academic Lectures (cont’d)
22 April 2010: Invited Lecture presented to the Department of the History and General Theory of Law and the Master’s Program on the Politics of Cultural Encounter and Mediation, at the University of Rome III, co-sponsored by European Alternatives (Rome, Italy) Title: “Spectacles of Migrant ‘Illegality’: The Scene of Exclusion, the Obscene of Inclusion”
14 January 2010: Invited Lecture presented to the conference “The Language of Difference: Mechanisms of Inclusion and Exclusion of Migrants, 1945-2005,” sponsored by the Department of History, University of Leiden (Leiden, Netherlands) Title: “Spectacles of Migrant ‘Illegality’: The Scene of Exclusion, the Obscene of Inclusion”
15 December 2009: Invited Lecture presented to the Center for American Studies and Research, American University of Beirut (Beirut, Lebanon) Title: “The Deportation Regime and the Perplexities of Mobility”
27 March 2009: Invited Lecture presented to the workshop, “Engaging Borderzones: Contested Technologies of Illegalisation,” sponsored by the Open University (Milton Keynes, England, Great Britain) Title: “Alien Powers: Deportable Labor and the Spectacle of Security”
21 April 2007: Invited Lecture presented to the conference “Shaking Up Citizenship: Nation, State, and Transnational Actors,” sponsored by the Faculties of Law and Social Sciences of the Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Title: “States, Citizens, Denizens: Nationalism, “Rights,” and Transnationality”
27 January 2007: Commissioned paper presented to the international workshop, “Citizenship, Securitization and Vernacular Violence,” sponsored by the Regional Programs staff of the Social Science Research Council, at Bogaziçi University (Istanbul, Turkey); Title: “The Spectacle of Security”
29 November 2006: Invited Lecture presented to the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Centre for Research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Stockholm University (Stockholm, Sweden) Title: “Latin American Migrations, Latino Historicities, and the Spaces of Critique” De Genova, p.34
DISTINGUISHED ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (cont’d)
Other Invited International Academic Lectures (cont’d)
1-2 April 2005: Invited Participant in the international workshop, “Belonging, the Crisis of Citizenship, and Nation- State,” sponsored by the Regional Programs staff of the Social Science Research Council, at the Goree Institute (Dakar, Senegal)
27 June 2003: Invited Lecture presented to the conference “Translocal Flows: Migrations and Diasporas in the Americas,” sponsored by the Social Science Research Council and the Facultad Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) Title: “Racialized Trans-Nationality: ‘Mexican’-ness in the Space of the U.S. Nation-State”
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (Great Britain, while resident)
During my 14 months in the UK as a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Warwick (2007-08), and now relocated to London (since 2011), I have been invited to present to numerous academic audiences across Britain.
16 July 2015: Invited Participant in the Author Workshop, “Framing Financial Crisis and Protest” Project, sponsored by the Open University (Camden campus, London) Title: “The ‘Migrant Crisis’ as Racial Crisis: The Postcolonial Condition in and of ‘Europe’”
12 May 2016: Invited lecture presented to the symposium “The ‘Refugee Crisis’: Where is it? Whose crisis is it? What’s ethically and politically at stake?” sponsored by the “Understanding Conflict: Forms and Legacies of Violence” Research Cluster, University of Brighton
11 March 2016: Invited panelist for round-table “Philosophy, Politics, Capital – Conversation with Etienne Balibar,” sponsored by the Institut Français of the UK (London)
24 February 2016: Invited lecture presented to the “On the Road” seminar series of the Cambridge Migration Society, University of Cambridge Title: “Theorizing the ‘Crisis’ of the European Border Regime” De Genova, p.35
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (Great Britain, cont’d)
27 January 2016: Invited Participant in the workshop, “Guilt and the Transnational,” sponsored by the Guilt Working Group, Birkbeck Institute for Social Research (Birkbeck, University of London) Title: “Illegalised Migration within the European Border Regime: The Spectre of Guilt”
2 December 2015: Invited lecture presented to the London International Boundary Conference, hosted by King’s College London (Royal Geographical Society, London) Title: “Theorizing the ‘Crisis’ of the European Border Regime”
27 November 2015: Lecture presented to the Seminar in Contemporary Marxist Theory, King’s College London Title: “Theorizing the ‘Crisis’ of the European Border Regime”
25 November 2015: Invited Lecture presented to symposium on “Refugees & Migrations,” sponsored by the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London Title: “Theorizing the ‘Crisis’ of the European Border Regime”
13 November 2015: Invited Keynote Address to the conference “Migration, Borders and Violence,” sponsored by the Birkbeck Law Review, the European Law Students Association (ELSA Birkbeck) and the International Law Students Association (ILSA Birkbeck), Birkbeck University of London Title: “Theorizing the ‘Crisis’ of the European Border Regime”
3 November 2015: Invited Discussant for the symposium “Challenging Romaphobia,” sponsored by the Department of Politics, University of Brighton
27 October 2015: Invited speaker for the seminar “'The Great Migration of the 21st Century,” sponsored by the School of Global Affairs, King’s College London
15 October 2015: Invited Round Table Panelist for the film screening, “On the Bride's Side: Subverting Migration Discourse in Europe,” part of the Arts & Humanities Festival 2015: “Fabrication,” sponsored by the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, and presented by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London
30 July 2015: Invited Participant in the workshop, “Framing Financial Crisis and Protest: Pressures on Cultural Identity and Citizenship,” sponsored by the Open University (Camden campus, London) Title: “In the Land of the Setting Sun: Reflections on ‘Islamization’ and ‘Patriotic Europeanism’” De Genova, p.36 ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (Great Britain, cont’d)
9 July 2015: Invited Keynote Address presented to the “Migration, Post-Coloniality, and the Question of Europe” Symposium, sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Study and the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick (Coventry, UK) Title: “The ‘European’ Question: Migration, Race, and Postcoloniality”
26 June 2015: Featured Speaker for the event “Nicholas De Genova and Sandro Mezzadra — In Dialogue,” sponsored by the Borders, Citizenship & Mobility workshop, Department of Geography, King’s College London
1 June 2015: Invited paper presented to the seminar of the Sociology and Social Theory Study Group, King’s College London; Title: “The Incorrigible Subject of the Border”
1 June 2015: Invited Participant in Panel Discussion for the colloquium “Language, Security and Otherness,” sponsored by the King’s Centre for Language Discourse & Communication, King’s College London
13 May 2015: Invited Participant in the Round Table Discussion “‘They’ are Never Marginal to Power: Unfree Labour and Social Transformation,” sponsored by the Centre for Ethics and Politics, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London
23-24 February 2015: Invited Participant in the workshop “The Metropolis and Mental Life: Mapping Global Comparisons,” sponsored by the Department of Social Science, Health, and Medicine, King’s College London
27 January 2015: Invited lecture presented to the seminar series on “City, Space, Development,” sponsored by the Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics (LSE) Title: “The Migrant Metropolis: Borders and Migration as Problems for Urban Theory and Research”
4 December 2014: Invited lecture presented to the ArtesMundi 6 Exhibition “Dialogues on Conflict” seminar on “Urban Space: Exposing the Politics of Social Control,” Oriel Davies Gallery (Newtown, Wales) Title: “The Incorrigible Subject of the Migrant Metropolis”
3 December 2014: Invited lecture presented to the seminar series of the Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, London); Title: “Border Struggles in the Migrant Metropolis” De Genova, p.37 ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (Great Britain, cont’d)
24 November 2014: Invited lecture presented to the seminar series of the Department of Anthropology, University of Manchester Title: “The ‘European’ Question: Reflections on the Stakes of an Anthropology of ‘Europe’”
4-5 November 2014: Organizer of Urban Master Class, featuring Richard Best, OBE (House of Lords), for select Ph.D. students, on “Housing and Urban Regeneration: Translating Evidence into Action,” sponsored nby the Cities Research Group, Department of Geography, King’s College London
13 October 2014: Invited paper presented to the “Borders and Bordering” Seminar Series of the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees, and Belonging, University of East London Title: “Border Struggles in the Migrant Metropolis”
10-11 October 2014: Co-convenor (with Dace Dzenovska) of the symposium “Political Desire in/of Europe: Sites, Subjects, and Forms of Politics,” sponsored by the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford Paper presented: “The ‘European’ Question: Migration, Race, and Postcoloniality in ‘Europe’”
15-16 September 2014: Invited Participant in the workshop “The Metropolis and Mental Life: The Stress of the Urban,” sponsored by the Department of Social Science, Health, and Medicine, King’s College London
25 March 2014: Invited paper presented to the seminar series of the Goldsmiths Anthropological Society, Goldsmiths, University of London Title: “The ‘European’ Question: Reflections on the Stakes of an Anthropology of ‘Europe’”
25 February 2014: Invited paper presented to the seminar series of the Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex Title: “The ‘European’ Question: Reflections on the Stakes of an Anthropology of ‘Europe’”
14 December 2013: Invited Participant in the conference “Migration and Activist Research,” sponsored by the School of Management, University of Leicester
7 November 2013: Invited paper presented to the Cities Seminar, sponsored by the Cities Research Group, Department of Geography, King’s College London; Title: “The Migrant Metropolis” De Genova, p.38
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (Great Britain, cont’d)
20 October 2013: Invited lecture presented to the TransEuropa Festival, organized in thirteen cities by European Alternatives; Event: “Migrant Resistance: Protest, Art, and Movements” (London)26 June 2013: Invited lecture presented to the Bridges Project’s Ideas Lab on “Failure in European Policy-Making on Migration,” sponsored by Counterpoint and the European Policy Institute of the Open Societies Foundation (Brussels); Somerset House (London)
23 May 2013: Invited paper presented to the symposium “Goldsmiths in Conversation with the Work of Judith Butler,” sponsored by the Unit for Global Justice, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London; Title: “Bodies that Matter, Lives that Don’t: Bare Life as Horizon”
9 May 2013: Invited paper presented to the seminar series “Decades of Migration: Challenging UK Social Sciences,” sponsored by the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford Title: “Decades of Migration and ‘Europe’ in Question”
11 April 2013: Invited Keynote Address presented to the conference “Within and Beyond Citizenship: Lived Experiences of Contemporary Membership,” sponsored by the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS), the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), and the Oxford Institute of Social Policy (OISP), University of Oxford and the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago (Oxford, UK); Title: “Citizenship’s Shadow: Obscene Inclusion, Abject Belonging, or, the Regularities of Migrant ‘Irregularity’”
6 February 2013: Invited paper presented to the LSE Sociology Brown Bag Seminar Series, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics Title: “Spectacles of Migrant ‘Illegality’: The Scene of Exclusion, the Obscene of Inclusion”
30 January 2013: Invited Keynote Address presented to the conference “Migration and Militant Research,” sponsored by the Department of Politics, Goldsmiths, University of London Title: “Working the Boundaries: On Methodological Nationalism”
21 January 2013: Invited lecture presented to the Institute of North American Studies, King’s College London Panel: “The Post-Hope Presidency: Redefining Change”
24 January 2012: Invited lecture presented to the Oxford University Anthropological Society, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford Title: “Bare Life, Labor-Power, Mobility, and Global Space: Toward a Marxian Anthropology?” De Genova, p.39
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (Great Britain, cont’d)
1 December 2011: Invited lecture presented to the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society, University of Oxford Title: “Cities, Citizenship & the Migrant Metropolis: Life Within and Against the Spaces of the Law”
25 November 2011: Invited paper presented to the interdisciplinary workshop/ reading group, “Migrant Struggles, Practices of Citizenship, Techniques of Bordering,” sponsored by the Departments of Politics and Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London; Title: “The Perplexities of Mobility”
12 October 2011: Invited lecture presented to the Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London Title: “Spectacles of Migrant ‘Illegality’: Scene of Exclusion, Obscene of Inclusion”
29 June 2011: Invited paper presented to the ESRC-funded workshop, “Whose Security? Migration-(In)Security Dilemmas Ten Years After 9/11,” sponsored by the Department of Politics, University of Leicester, and the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick; Title: “Securitization and the Production of Mobility as Menace”
27 June 2008: Paper presented to “Subjectivity: International Conference in Critical Psychology, Cultural Studies, and Social Theory,” sponsored by the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University Panel: “Practices of Citizenship: Migration, Europe, and Political Subjectivities” Title: “Conflict of Mobility, and the Mobility of Conflict: Rightlessness, Subjectivity, Freedom”
24 June 2008: Invited lecture presented to the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick Title: “Antiterrorism and the Securitization of Migration in the United States”
16 May 2008: Organizer of “Border Effects: An International Interdisciplinary Symposium,” sponsored by the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick
9 April 2008: Invited lecture presented to Critical MASS (Manchester American Studies Seminar), Department of English and American Studies, University of Manchester; Title: “The Production of Culprits: Immigration, Race, and Citizenship in the U.S. Homeland Security State”
18 March 2008: Invited Participant in the Institute of Advanced Study workshop, “Challenging Orthodoxies: Developing Critical Governance Studies,” University of Warwick De Genova, p.40
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (Great Britain, cont’d)
6 March 2008: Invited lecture presented to the Seminar Series “Debating Mobility: Race, Migration, and Labour,” sponsored by the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University Title: “The Production of Culprits: Immigration, Race, and Citizenship in the U.S. Homeland Security State”
27 February 2008: Invited lecture presented to the research seminar “Border Spectacle: Rituals of Security,” sponsored by the Politics-State-Space Workshop of the Department of Geography, University of Durham Title: “The Spectacle of Security”
13 February 2008: Invited lecture presented to the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, University of London: Title: “The Production of Culprits: Migration, Race, & Citizenship in the Homeland Security State”
6 February 2008: Invited lecture presented to the Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London: Title: “The Management of ‘Quality’: Class Decomposition, Racial Formation, and the Reform of the Labor Process in a Chicago Factory”
30 January 2008: Invited lecture presented to the Oxford University Anthropological Society, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford Title: “The Production of Culprits: Immigration, Race, and Citizenship After Antiterrorism”
20 September 2007: Invited lecture presented to the workshop “Methodologies of Globalisation,” sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR), University of Warwick Title: “The Securitization of U.S. Migration”
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (Switzerland, while resident) During my six months in Switzerland as the Swiss Chair in Mobility Studies and Visiting Professor at the University of Bern, I was invited to present to various academic audiences.
5 December 2009: Invited lecture presented to the bloc-seminar, “New Regimes of Migration,” Department of History and the Center for Gender Studies, University of Basel Title: “The Deportation Regime and the Perplexities of Mobility” De Genova, p.41
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (Switzerland, cont’d)
30 November 2009: Invited lecture presented to the Ethnological Seminar of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zürich Title: “The Deportation Regime and the Perplexities of Mobility”
24 November 2009: Invited lecture presented to the Maison d'Analyse des Processus Sociaux (MAPS), University of Neuchâtel; Title: “The Deportation Regime and the Perplexities of Mobility”
14 October 2009: Invited lecture presented to the Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Bern Title: “The Deportation Regime”
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (The Netherlands, while resident)
During my six months in the Netherlands as Visiting Research Professor at the University of Amsterdam, I was invited to present to various academic audiences.
22 June 2010: Invited Lecture and Discussant for Human Geography Intensive Post-graduate Seminar, University of Amsterdam Title: “Methodological Nationalism and the Human Geography of Global Life”
15 June 2010: Invited lecture presented to the International Institute for Research and Education (Amsterdam) Title: “The Queer Politics of Migration: Reflections from the United States on ‘Illegality’ and Incorrigibility”
10 June 2010: Discussant for session of the Exploratory Workshop “Migrant Legality and Employment in Contemporary Europe,” sponsored by the Standing Committee for Social Sciences of the European Science Foundation (Amsterdam)
8 June 2010: Invited lecture presented to the Lecture Series of the Urban Studies Research Priority Area, University of Amsterdam Title: “The Migrant Metropolis: Methodological Nationalism and the Production of Space” De Genova, p.42
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (The Netherlands, cont’d)
11 May 2010: Invited Participant in the panel discussion “Debating Irregular Migration from a Comparative Perspective,” sponsored by the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam
6 April 2010: Invited lecture presented to the seminar of Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam; Title: “The Deportation Regime and the Perplexities of Mobility”
29 March 2010: Invited lecture presented to the seminar of Migration and Diversity Centre at the Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam) Title: “Spectacles of Migrant ‘Illegality’: The Scene of Exclusion, the Obscene of Inclusion”
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (United States and Canada, selected)
1 May 2018: Invited lecture presented to the Spring Lecture Series of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, The New School (New York, NY) Title: “Anonymous Brown Bodies: The Productive Power of the Deadly U.S.-Mexico Border”
1 May 2018: Invited paper presented to the faculty lunch seminar of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, The New School (New York, NY) Title: “Mobilizing Critique: Confronting the ‘Crises’ of Human Mobility”
22 April 2018: Invited participant in the Workshop "Migrant Knowledges: Concepts, Voices, Spaces,” sponsored by GHI West, the Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute (Washington DC) and the Institute of European Studies, University of California - Berkeley (Berkeley, CA) Roundtable: “Concepts: Creating Conceptual Space for Migrant Knowledges” De Genova, p.43
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (United States and Canada, selected, cont’d)
20 April 2018: Invited lecture presented to the seminar of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University (Stanford, CA) Title: “Anonymous Brown Bodies: The Productive Power of the Deadly U.S.-Mexico Border”
19 April 2018: Invited lecture presented to the seminar of the Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California - Berkeley (Berkeley, CA) Title: “Anonymous Brown Bodies: The Productive Power of the Deadly U.S.-Mexico Border”
14 April 2018: Invited lecture presented to the workshop “Hate Speech or Free Speech? A Workshop on the Politics of Language on College Campuses,” sponsored by the Anthropology section of the New York Academy of Sciences, with funding from the Wenner Gren Foundation, and hosted by the Fordham University Law School (New York, NY) Title: “Free Speech / Hate Speech / State Speech: Reflections on Speaking Freely (against State, Nation, and Empire)”
13 April 2018: Invited Keynote Address presented to the conference, “Visualizing Migration: Intersections of Photography, Art, and Social Science,” sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and the Latin American Studies Program, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) Title: “Anonymous Brown Bodies: The Productive Power of the Deadly U.S.-Mexico Border”
3 April 2018: Invited lecture presented to the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Houston (Houston, TX) Title: “Anonymous Brown Bodies: The Productive Power of the Deadly U.S.-Mexico Border”
28 March 2018: Invited lecture presented to the Refugee Relief and Education Committee, Connecticut College (New London, CN) Title: “‘Crises,’ Convulsions, Concurrences: Migrant and Refugee Mobilities, the Spectacle of Exclusion, and the Dynamics of Subordinate Inclusion”
27 March 2018: Invited lecture presented to the Departments of Sociology and Political Science, with funding from the Office for the Advancement of Research, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY) (New York, NY) Title: “Anonymous Brown Bodies: The Productive Power of the Deadly U.S.-Mexico Border” De Genova, p.44
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (United States and Canada, selected, cont’d)
2 March 2018: Invited Keynote Address presented to the conference, “Transformations: A critical Ethnic studues Symposium,” sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study and the Department of American Studies, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN) Title: “Anonymous Brown Bodies: The Productive Power of the Deadly U.S.-Mexico Border”
19 February 2018: Invited lecture presented to the Ethnography and Social Theory seminar of the Department of Anthropology at Yale University (New Haven, CT) Title: “Mobilizing Critique: Anthropology Confronting the ‘Crises’ of Human Mobility”
5 December 2017: Invited paper presented to the faculty seminar of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change, CUNY Graduate Center (New York, NY) Title: “Re-Bordering ‘the People’: Notes on Theorizing Populism”
4 December 2017: Featured speaker invited to roundtable panel discussion, sponsored by the Committee on Globalization and Social Change, CUNY Graduate Center (New York, NY) Title: “Fortress Europe? Borders, Bodies, Politics”
21 November 2017: Invited lecture presented to the seminar of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, University of Chicago Title: “Anonymous Brown Bodies: The Productive Power of a Deadly Border”
19 May 2017: Invited Keynote Address presented to the Annual Weissbourd Conference, “Friction and the City: Convergence, Divergence and Transformation in the Urban Realm,” sponsored by the Society of Fellows and the College of the University of Chicago Title: “Border Frictions in the Migrant Metropolis”
30 March 2017: Invited lecture presented to the seminar of the Global Migration working group, University of Illinois- Chicago; Title: “Anonymous Brown Bodies: The Productive Power of a Deadly Border”
14 March 2017: Invited lecture presented to the Latina/o and Latin American Studies Program and the Rome Studies Program, Loyola University (Chicago, IL) Panel: “Deadly Borders: Migration Crossings in the United States and Europe” Title: “Anonymous Brown Bodies: The Productive Power of a Deadly Border” De Genova, p.45
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (United States and Canada, selected, cont’d)
9 June 2016: Invited lecture presented to the Faculty of Public Affairs, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada) Title: “The ‘Crisis’ of the Borders of Europe: The Legal Production of Migrant ‘Illegality’ and the Re-Bordering of Migrant and Refugee Politics”
2 December 2013: Invited paper presented to the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California - Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, California) Title: “The Incorrigible Subject: The Political Economy of the Autonomy of Migration in Nuestra América”
22 April 2013: Invited paper presented to the Migration and Diaspora Studies Initiative, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada) Title: “The Migrant Metropolis: Citizenship, Space, Race, and Global Mobility”
30 April 2012: Invited lecture presented to the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, the Latin American and Latino Studies Program, and the Social Justice Initiative of the University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, IL) Title: “‘Illegality,’ Race, and Citizenship in the Migrant Metropolis”
28 April 2012: Invited panelist for the forum “Bold Conversations” at the Global Activism Expo 2012, sponsored by the Social Justice Initiative of the University of Illinois at Chicago and “Worldview”/ WBEZ-National Public Radio (Chicago, IL) Panel: “Kony 2012 and Beyond: Transnational Solidarities”
18 November 2011: Discussant for session of the American Anthropological Association, 110th Annual Meeting (Montreal, Canada) Panel: “The End/s of Multiculturalism”
16 November 2011: Paper presented to the American Anthropological Association, 110th Annual Meeting (Montreal, Canada) Panel: “Capitalism and Global Anthropology: Marxism Resurgent” Title: “Bare Life, Labor-Power, Mobility, and Global Space: Toward a Marxian Anthropology?” De Genova, p.46
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (United States and Canada, selected, cont’d)
11 March 2011: Invited lecture and submission for the workshop,“The Construction of Illegality: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach,” organized by The New Press, sponsored by the Ford Foundation, and hosted by the Tides Foundation (San Francisco, CA) Title: “Spectacles of Migrant ‘Illegality’: The Scene of Exclusion, the Obscene of Inclusion”
12 November 2010: Invited lecture presented to the Fall 2010 New Book Series of the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University (New York, NY) Title: “The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement”
1 May 2009: Invited lecture presented to the conference “The Right in These Times: Understanding and Combating Contemporary Shifts to the Right,” co-sponsored by the doctoral program of the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center (New York, NY) Panel: “The Right in These Times: A Conversation Between Academic and Non-Academic Thinkers and Researchers”
18 April 2009: Invited paper presented to the conference, “Accumulating Insecurity, Securing Accumulation: Militarizing Everyday Life,” sponsored by the Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program, Cornell University (Itahca, NY); Title: “Spectacle of Security, Spectacle of Terror”
3 April 2009: Invited lecture presented to the conference, “Reconceptualizing Migration: Economies, Spaces, Bio- politics,” sponsored by the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University (New York)
26 February 2009: Invited lecture presented to the New Metropolis Initiative speaker series of the Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, CA) Title: “The Ghost in the Machine: Migrant Labor and the Homeland Security State”
22 January 2009: Invited lecture presented to the Colloquium Series of the Department of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, University of California at Irvine (Irvine, CA) Title: “The Ghost in the Machine: Migrant Labor and the Homeland Security State”
13 November 2008: Invited lecture presented to the Fronteridades Border Research Group and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) Title: “The Ghost in the Machine: Migrant Labor and the Homeland Security State” Title: “Sovereign Power and the ‘Bare Life’ of Elvira Arellano” De Genova, p.47
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (United States and Canada, selected, cont’d)
3 November 2008: Featured speaker for book forum, “Exile/ Migration/ Desire: The Sea of Poppies Arrives in the US: Amitav Ghosh in Conversation with Nicholas De Genova,” sponsored by the Brecht Forum (New York, NY)
30 October 2008: Invited lecture presented to the colloquium “Migration & the Law: Illegality & Deportability in Post 9/11 US,” sponsored by the Migration across the Americas Faculty Cluster and the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)
3-4 October 2008: Invited paper presented to the workshop “Securitizing Accumulation: Militarizing Everyday Life,” sponsored by the Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) Title: “Spectacle of Security, Spectacle of Terror”
21 February 2008: Invited lecture presented to the Department of Anthropology, Wellesley College (Wellesley, MA) Title: “Deportable Labor and Bare Life in the Homeland Security State”
19 February 2008: Invited lecture presented to the Department of Anthropology, University of Texas (Austin, TX) Title: “Deportable Labor and Bare Life in the Borderlands of the Homeland Security State”
1 December 2007: Paper presented to the “Toward a Transformative Agenda around Race National Conference,” sponsored by the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Ohio State University (Columbus, OH) Panel: “Race and Management in the United States: Past and Present” Ttile: “The Management of ‘Quality’: Racial Formation, Class Decomposition, and the Reform of the Labor Process in a Chicago Factory”
28 April 2007: Keynote Address presented to the annual teaching colloquium “(Im)migration: Changing the Borders of Multiculturalism,” sponsored by the Sophomore Multiculturalism Seminar Committee, DePaul University (Chicago, IL) De Genova, p.48 ADVISING and MENTORING of DOCTORAL RESEARCH
As Principal Adviser/ Supervisor – Ph.D. dissertations Completed:
Khiara M. Bridges, “Reproducing Race” (Anthropology, Columbia University, 2008) Published as: Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization (University of California Press, 2011)
Stephanie Grohmann, “The Ethics of Space: Homelessness, Squatting, and the Spatial Self” (Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London; 2015)
Jasmin Immonen, “Ephemeral Citizenship: Contrasting Aspirations in the City of Sand” (ethnography of urbanization in the periphery of Lima, Peru) (Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London; 2017)
Patience Kabamba, “Trading on War: New Forms of Life in the Debris of the State” (Anthropology, Columbia University, 2008) (ethnography of transnational trade in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo) Published as: Business of Civil War: New Forms of Life from the Debris of the Democratic Republic of Congo (CODESRIA - Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa [Dakar, Senegal], 2013 & University of Notre Dame Press, forthcoming 2018)
Souad Osseiran, “Migration, Waiting and Uncertainty at the Borders of Europe: Syrian Migrants and Refugees in Istanbul” (Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London; 2017)
Kristin T. Ruppel, “Nations Undivided, Indian Land Unearthed: The Dis-Owning of the U.S. Federal Indian Trust” (Anthropology, Columbia University, 2004) Published as: Unearthing Indian Land: Living with the Legacies of Allotment (University of Arizona Press, 2008) De Genova, p.49
ADVISING and MENTORING of DOCTORAL RESEARCH (cont’d)
As Co-Principal Adviser/ Co-Supervisor – Ph.D. dissertations Completed:
Lorri M. Clark, “Taking Responsibility: The Cultural Contexts of Workplace Preparation in Chicago” (Anthropology, University of Chicago, 2002)
Ayça Çubukçu, “Humanity Must be Defended?” (Anthropology, Columbia University, 2008) (a multi-sited ethnography of the World Tribunal on Iraq)
Danielle diNovelli-Lang, “Nature, Value, and Territory in Alaskan Subsistence Politics: The View from Brown Bear Bay” (Anthropology, Columbia University, 2010)
Adriana Garriga-López, “Viral Citizens: The Coloniality of HIV-AIDS in Puerto Rico” (Anthropology, Columbia University, 2010)
Maria Kromidas, “Race, Multiculturalism, and ‘Childhood’: The Emergent Cosmopolitanisms of Kids in a New York City School” (Anthropology, Columbia University – Teachers’ College, 2009) Published as: City Kids: Transforming Racial Baggage (Rutgers University Press, 2016)
David Loher, “Deterritorialised Borders in the European Border Regime: Border Knowledge and Domination in the Transnational Space of Migration between Tunisia and Switzerland” (Social Anthropology, University of Bern, 2016)
Sunanda Samaddar, “Coming of Age on Bangladesh Avenue: The Remaking of Love and Kinship in Multicultural Detroit” (Anthropology, Columbia University – Teachers’ College, 2015)
Leila Whitley, “More than a Line: Borders as Embodied Sites” (Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London; 2015) De Genova, p.50
ADVISING and MENTORING of DOCTORAL RESEARCH (cont’d)
As Member of Advisory Committee – Ph.D. dissertations Completed:
Sofian Merabet, “Queer Beirut: Social Transformations in a War-Torn City” (Anthropology, Columbia University, 2009) Published as: Queer Beirut (University of Texas Press, 2014)
Sarah Ramírez, “Enumerating Invisibility, Humanizing Numbers: Public Health and the Production of Inequities, 1948-1974” (Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University, 2010)
As Member of Advisory Committee – Ph.D. dissertations In Progress:
Salvador Rangel, “La Jungla: How much have things changed for workers in the meat packing industry a century after the publication of The Jungle” (Sociology, University of California — Santa Barbara; field research in progress)
Eva van Gemert “The Mediterranean Rescue Spectacle: The Reconfiguration of the Border as a Humanitarian Space” (Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam; beginning research design and methods training) De Genova, p.51
ADVISING and MENTORING of DOCTORAL RESEARCH (cont’d)
As Principal Adviser/ Supervisor – Ph.D. dissertations In Progress:
Soledad Álvarez-Velasco, “Trespassing the Visible: The Production of Ecuador as a Transit Zone for “Illegalized” Migrants from the Global South towards the Mexico-U.S. Migratory Corridor” (funded by the National Secretariat of Higher Education, Science and Technology of Ecuador [SENESCYT]) (Geography, King’s College London; field research completed)
Fiorenza Picozza, “Europe’s Geographies of Asylum: Mobilities, Subjectivities and Solidarities within and against the Asylum Regime” (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council [AHRC], UK) (Geography, King’s College London; field research completed)
Hannah Schling, “Gender, Spatio-Temporality and Social Reproduction: Migrant Labour in the Czech Manufacturing Sector” (funded by the Economic and Social Research Council [ESRC], UK) (Geography, King’s College London; field research completed)
Aila Spathopoulou, “Migrants’ Uneven Geographies in ‘Greek Europe’: ‘Routes,’ ‘Transit’ Points, and Troubling Categories at and from the Uneasy Borderlands of the ‘Hotspot’ Regime Governing Greece” (funded by the Economic and Social Research Council [ESRC], UK) (Geography, King’s College London; field research completed)
Simone Vegliò, “The Urban Enigma: A ‘Decolonial’ Geography of Postcolonial Latin America” (Geography, King’s College London; archival research completed)
Isobel Ward, “The Cultural Politics of Home in Tottenham and King’s Cross: The Uneven Geographies of Home in London” (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council [AHRC], UK) (Geography, King’s College London; field research in progress)
Can Yildiz, “The Roma Spectacle: Foreignness, Racialisation, and Mobility among Roma Women in and out of a London Prison” (Geography, King’s College London; field research in progress) De Genova, p.52
EXTERNAL EXAMINATION of DOCTORAL RESEARCH
David Loher, “Deterritorialised Borders in the European Border Regime: Border Knowledge and Domination in the Transnational Space of Migration between Tunisia and Switzerland” (Social Anthropology, University of Bern, 2016)
Emma McCluskey, “Righteousness and its ‘Decent Citizen’: An Alternative Approach to Securitization” (War Studies, King’s College London, 2016)
Celine Cantat, “Contesting Europeanism: Discourses and Practices of Pro-Migrant Organisations in the European Union” (Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging, University of East London, 2015)
Marry-Anne Karlsen, “Precarious Inclusion: Irregular Migration, Practices of Care, and State Bordering in Norway” (Anthropology, University of Bergen, 2015; Bergen, Norway)
Tamlyn Monson, “Citizenship, 'Xenophobia' and Collective Mobilization in a South African Settlement: The Politics of Exclusion at the Threshold of the State” (Sociology, London School of Economics, 2015)
Lorenzo Pezzani, “Liquid Traces: Spatial Practices, Aesthetics, and Humanitarian Dilemmas at the Maritime Borders of the EU” (Centre for Research Architecture, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2015)
Michal Sipos, “War, Asylum, and Everyday Life: The Experiences of Chechen-Ingush Refugees in Poland” (Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2015)
Ana Gutiérrez-Garza, “The Everyday Moralities of Migrant Women: Life and Labour of Latin American Domestic and Sex Workers in London” (Anthropology, London School of Economics, 2014) De Genova, p.53
EXTERNAL EXAMINATION of DOCTORAL RESEARCH (cont’d)
Joe Rigby, “The Excess of Migration” (Sociology, University of Lancaster, 2014; Lancaster, UK)
Ruben Andersson, “Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe” (Anthropology, London School of Economics, 2013) Published as: Illegality, Inc.: Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe (University of California Press, 2014)
Francesco Salvini, “Struggles for the Right to the City: Assembling Politics on the Streets of Barcelona” (Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, 2013; London, UK)
Martina Tazzioli, “Counter-Mapping Migration Governmentality: Arab Uprisings and Practices of Migration Across the Mediterranean” (Politics, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2013; London, UK) Published as: Spaces of Governmentality: Autonomous Migration and the Arab Uprisings (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
Francesca Cetti, “‘Europeanity,’ the ‘Other,’ and the Discourse of Fear: The Centrality of the Forced Migrant as Global ‘Alien’ to an Emerging European National Identity” (Refugee Studies, University of East London, 2012; London, UK)
Ines Hasselberg, “An Ethnography of Deportation from Britain” (Anthropology, University of Sussex, 2012; UK) Published as: Enduring Uncertainty: Deportation, Punishment and Everyday Life (Berghahn Books, 2016)
Katherine Hepworth, “Encounters with the Clandestino/a and the Nomad in Milan: Securitisation, Irregularisation and Illegitimate Outsiders through the Italian ‘Security Package’” (Cultural Studies, University of Technology, 2011; Sydney, Australia) Published as: At the Edges of Citizenship: Security and the Constitution of Non-citizen Subjects (Ashgate, 2015) De Genova, p.54
TEACHING
2013 - 2016: Reader, King’s College London, Department of Geography
Course Convener and Principal Lecturer
Thematic Course for advanced Undergraduates and MA students 6SSG3073 / 7SSG5209: The Right to the City (combined lecture and seminar format; sole-designed,sole-taught)
Core Course for MA/MSc - Cities (Course Convener and Principal Lecturer) 7SSG5061: Theorising Cities: Inequalities and Difference (combined lecture and seminar format; sole-designed, team-taught)
Seminar/Tutorial teaching 4SSG1008: Geography Tutorials: Critical Thinking & Techniques (1st-year undergraduate seminar) 5SSG2063: Research Tutorials: Independent Geographical Study (2nd-year undergraduate seminar) 7SSG5002: Practicing Social Research (MA-level research methods seminar)
Contributing Lecturer 5SSG2048: Methods in Human Geography 5SSG2058: Urban Geography: Exploring the City 6SSG2061: Geographical Research Skills (undergraduate research methods lecture course) 6SSG3061: Current Research in Geography 6SSG3076: Geopolitics: Power & Place 7SSG5090: Boundaries, Sovereignty and the Territorial State 7SSG5153: Critical Geographies of Terrorism De Genova, p.55
TEACHING (cont’d)
2011 - 2013: Senior Lecturer/ Reader Goldsmiths, University of London, Department of Anthropology
Undergraduate Course AN52005A:
General Principles of Social Anthropology
(two-term module offered over entire academic year) (combined lecture and seminar format; sole-designed, sole-taught)
MA Core Course AN71035B:
Anthropology and Cultural Politics (MA Programme and Module Convenor)
(combined lecture and seminar format; sole-designed, sole-taught)
Fall 2009: Visiting Professor University of Bern, Institute for Social Anthropology
Thematic Lecture for advanced Undergraduates and MA students W6183: Labor-Power and the Freedom of Movement (sole-designed, sole-taught) De Genova, p.56
TEACHING (cont’d)
2000 - 2009: Assistant Professor, Columbia University Department of Anthropology, and Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race Undergraduate Courses (all sole-designed, sole-taught)
Anthro/ Latina/o Studies W1600: Latino History
Anthro/ Latina/o Studies W3910: U.S. Nationalism as a Racial Formation
Anthro/ Latina/o Studies W3915: Racialization and the Politics of Culture
Anthro/ Ethnic Studies W3917: Social Theory and Radical Critique in Ethnic Studies
Anthro/ Ethnic Studies W 3945: The Ethnographic Problem in Ethnic Studies
Anthro/ Latina/o Studies V3959: Mexican Migration: Disrupting the Border
Latina/o Studies W3997/3998 (supervised independent study course): Foundations of Social and Political Theory
MA-/ PhD-level Courses (all sole-designed, sole-taught) Anthro G6044: The Production of Space Anthro G6048: Political Economy and Social Relations Anthro G6052: Globalization and Transnational Processes
Anthro G6062: Savages in Theory: Alterity in European Social Theory
Anthro G6602: Questions in Anthropological Theory: Histories (doctoral core course)
Anthro G6606: The Metaphysics of Antiterrorism De Genova, p.57 UNIVERSITY SERVICE / ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Professor and Chair of Department (2018 - present) University of Houston; Department of Comparative Cultural Studies
* chief academic and chief executive officer of Department (11 full-time faculty, 4 administrative staff) * oversee and manage departmental budget and resource allocations (more than $1.6 million) * stimulate the Department by generating ideas and initiatives and formulating longterm vision * represent and advocate for the interests, concerns, needs, and priorities of the Department, departmental programs, and individual departmental faculty at College and university levels * collaborate with Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences to shape academic vision and realize teaching and research objectives for Department * communicate academic prerogatives, policies, and decisions of institutional academic administration to departmental faculty * consult with and provide leadership to faculty on all departmental initiatives * make recommendations to the Dean regarding all faculty personnel actions, including appointments, promotion, tenure, dismissal, salary increments, and post tenure review * organize faculty hiring searches and compose committee membership * oversee the departmental promotion and tenure process * promote faculty development by mentoring or providing mentors to assist new as well as established faculty * review and manage matters of academic or professional misconduct * facilitate faculty discussions and disputes, and resolve disagreements in a collegial and fair manner * supervise the design and implementation of undergraduate and graduate programs, including delegation of major responsibilities for these initiatives to other members of the department * assign teaching and administrative duties to ensure provision of adequate access to courses in academic programs * compose departmental Faculty Evaluation Committee to conduct individual faculty members’ Annual Performance Reviews * review and communicate individual faculty members’ Annual Performance Reviews to department faculty, including discussion of each individual’s expected teaching, research and service initiatives for previous and coming years and whatever salary increases (if available) a person will receive, and to advise and assist faculty to improve performance, as necessary * oversee the financial affairs of the Department, submit the Department’s annual plan and budget request to the Dean, and administer the approved budget in accord with Department’s priorities * pursue opportunities to enhance the resources of the Department and its programs through grant writing and fund-raising initiatives in both the public and private sector * negotiate with other departmental Chairs to develop interdisciplinary initiatives or collaborations * maintain effective and responsible public relations with relevant educational community constituencies, including the parallel academic departments at other educational institutions, departmental alumni, private donors, stakeholder communities, and the general public * oversee routine departmental matters, including: supervising and evaluating departmental staff, managing internal and external communications, conducting department meetings, and superintending class scheduling, student admissions, and space allocations De Genova, p.58 UNIVERSITY SERVICE / ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE (cont’d)
Reader (2013 - 2016) King’s College London, Department of Geography
Director (Chair), Cities Research Group (2014 - 2015) Spatial Politics Research Group (2015 - 2016) * formulating, coordinating, and advancing department’s urban and political geography research agenda (within and beyond the department) * supervising department’s urban and political geography research and teaching staff * developing and sustaining appropriate structures for consultation, decision-making and communication with staff * strategic planning (including staffing, invitation of visiting chairs, funding initiatives, collaborations, partnerships, and recruitment) * cultivating a dynamic and forward-looking interdisciplinary research environment * ensuring the highest levels of quality and integrity in all research undertaken * developing strategies and supporting efforts among staff to secure research grant income * superintending coherence and viability of undergraduate and MA/MSc teaching programmes * overseeing and coordinating delivery of teaching * mentoring individual staff members’ research * developing strategies and supporting efforts among staff to deliver high-quality academic publications * assuring group’s viability for Research Excellence Framework (REF) assessment * promoting and representing the research group both internally and externally * developing collaborations with other research centres and institutes within and beyond the university * managing organization of weekly Cities Seminar series (2014 - 2015) * organizing Annual Lectures by distinguished invited speaker * organizing Urban Master Classes by distinguished invited speakers (2014 - 2015) * intellectual community-building (including integration of students into research culture) * managing publicity * overseeing budget for invited speakers, networking, and hospitality
Convenor and Curricular Review Coordinator (2013 - 2015) Master’s degree programme in “Cities” (renamed “Urban Inequality and Social Justice”)
Convenor and Admissions Tutor Master’s degree programme in “Geography” (2013 - 2016)
Ph.D. Tutor (2013 - 2016) * overseeing and coordinating all pastoral, professionalization, and mentoring-related affairs for all Geography department students in MPhil and doctoral study * administering award and disbursement of small research grants to doctoral students Chair, Postgraduate Research Staff-Student Committee (2013 - 2016) (facilitating and coordinating doctoral student participation in departmental affairs) Programme Tutor Undergraduate Liberal Arts Programme - Geography Department Liaison (2016) De Genova, p.59 UNIVERSITY SERVICE / ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE (cont’d)
Reader (2013 - 2016) (cont’d) King’s College London, Department of Geography Member, Departmental Research Executive Committee (2015 - 2016) Departmental Education Committee (2013 - 2016) Postgraduate and Research Committee (2013 - 2016) Ph.D. Board of Studies (2013 - 2016) Undergraduate Dissertation Requirements Review and Advisory Committee (2013 - 2014) Academic Leader for “Migration” theme (King’s College London, nominated and appointed, 2016) and Research Fellow, Social and Distributive Justice research cluster PLuS Alliance: King’s College London, Arizona State University (US), and University of New South Wales (Australia) research and teaching partnership to address “global grand challenges”
Founder/ Organizer (2013 - 2016) “Borders, Citizenship, and Mobility: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Geopolitics of Encounter” (bi-monthly, interdisciplinary workshop for postgraduate students and academic staff) (supported with grants from Departmental Research and Innovation Fund, 2013 - 2015)
Founding Member/ Collaborator (2014 - 2016) King’s College Seminar in Contemporary Marxist Theory
Reader (2011 - 2013) Goldsmiths, University of London, Department of Anthropology
Ph.D. Tutor / Post-Graduate Research Convenor * overseeing and coordinating all student affairs in MRes/ MPhil and doctoral study * conducting all pre-field research proposal hearings and all post-field “upgrade” vivas (formally promoting MRes/ MPhil students to Ph.D. candidacy) * administering award and disbursement of dissertation completion grants to doctoral students
Convenor and Advisor/ Personal Tutor; Admissions Officer Master’s degree programme in “Anthropology and Cultural Politics”
Anthropology Departmental Representative Doctoral Training Centre (collaborative doctoral teaching initiative with Queen Mary College, University of London)
Member, Department Research Committee * developing and implementing strategy for oversight, support, and coordination of academic staff research and research assessment * reviewing all applications for doctoral-level research funding De Genova, p.60 UNIVERSITY SERVICE / ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE (cont’d)
Reader (2011 - 2013) (cont’d) Goldsmiths, University of London, Department of Anthropology
Co-Founder/ Co-Organizer “Migrant Struggles, Practices of Citizenship, Techniques of Bordering” (bi-monthly, interdisciplinary workshop for postgraduate students and academic staff; co- sponsored by the Departments of Politics and Anthropology)
Assistant Professor (2000 - 2007; 2008 - 09) Columbia University Department of Anthropology, and Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (Latina/o Studies Program)
Year VI 2006-07 Anthropology Department Internal Review of Applications / Advisory Committee for Columbia Society of Fellows 2006-07 Anthropology Department, Graduate Admissions Committee 2007 Anthropology Department, Doctoral Program Core Course (design and delivery)
Year V 2005-06 Anthropology Department Graduate Admissions Committee 2005-06 Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race Senior Faculty/ Prospective Director Hiring Search, Core Faculty Advisory Group
Year IV 2004-05 Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race Senior Faculty/ Prospective Director Hiring Search, Core Faculty Advisory Group
Year III 2002-03 Anthropology Department representative on Columbia University Institutional Review Board (Human Subjects Review Committee) 2002-03 Latina/o Studies/ English Department, Faculty Search Committee
2002-03 Anthropology Department Student-Faculty Liaison Committee De Genova, p.61 UNIVERSITY SERVICE / ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE (cont’d)
Assistant Professor (2000 - 2007; 2008 - 09) (cont’d) Columbia University Department of Anthropology, and Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (Latina/o Studies Program)
Year II 2001-02 Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Conference Organizer; Title: “Racial (Trans)Formations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States” 2001-02 Latina/o Studies Undergraduate Core Curriculum Committee 2001-02 Anthropology Department Undergraduate Program Review Committee 2001-02 Anthropology Department Student-Faculty Liaison Committee 2001-02 Anthropology Department Graduate Admissions Committee
Year I 2000-01 Latina/o Studies/ English Department, Faculty Search Committee 2000-01 Latina/o Studies Undergraduate Core Curriculum Committee 2000-01 Anthropology Department representative on Selection Committee for Columbia University Traveling Research Grants De Genova, p.62 SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Editorial Boards
2016 - present: Editorial Board Member, American Anthropologist (flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association, inaugurated 1899)
2016 - present: Editorial Board Member, Anthropological Theory (Sage, inaugurated 2001)
2012 - present: Global Advisory Editorial Board Member Palgrave/ PIVOT book series on “Mobility and Politics,” edited by William Walters, Parvati Raghuram, and Martin Geiger
2007 – present: International Editorial Advisory Board Member for the interdisciplinary journal Subjectivity (Palgrave Macmillan, inaugurated in 2008)
Research Advisory Boards
2018 - 2021: External Expert / Senior Advisor to Research Project: “Action-Oriented Research on Asylum Seekers’ Deportability”; Principal Investigator: Eveliina Lyytinen (Migration Institute of Finland; Turku, Finland); funded by an Academy of Finland Post- Doctoral Research Fellowship
2016 - present: External Expert Advisory Board Member to Research Project: “Waiting for an Uncertain Future: The Temporalities of Irregular Migration”; Principal Investigator: Christine M. Jacobsen (Center for Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen); funded by the Research Council of Norway
2010 - 2014: External Expert Advisor to Research Project: “Migration and Security in Switzerland”; Principal Investigator: Christin Achermann (Center for Migration Law, University of Neuchâtel); funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
Ethics Advisory Boards
2018 - present: Ethics Advisory Board Member to Research Project: “Deathscapes: Mapping Race and State Violence in Settler Societies” (www.deathscapes.org); funded by the Australian Research Council De Genova, p.63
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION (cont’d)
Expert Referee Panels
2017 Expert Referee Panel Member, reviewing grant proposals for the “Engaging Together Globally” Call on “The European Union and the Global Challenge of Migration,” in the Horizon 2020 research programme “Societal Challenge 6: Europe in a Changing World — Inclusive, Innovative and Reflective Societies,” European Commission- Research Executive Agency
2015 Expert Referee Panel Member, reviewing grant proposals in the Humanities and Social Sciences research programme (FRIHUMSAM), Research Council of Norway
2014 Expert Referee Panel Member, reviewing grant proposals in the Humanities and Social Sciences research programme (FRIHUMSAM), Research Council of Norway
2014 Expert Referee Panel Member, reviewing grant proposals in the research programme “Cultural Conditions Underlying Social Change” (SAMKUL), Research Council of Norway
Peer Review, Book Reviews, and Encyclopedia Entries
2017 Reviewer of book manuscript, Duke University Press
2017 Reviewer of submission, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice
2017 Reviewer of journal submission, Citizenship Studies
2017 Reviewer of journal submission, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography
2016 Reviewer of book proposal and partial manuscript, Duke University Press
2016 Reviewer of journal submission, Cultural Anthropology
2015 Author of Preface for book in Palgrave/ PIVOT book series on “Mobility and Politics”
2015 Contributing Author, Wiley-Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Anthropology (2017)
2015 Reviewer of journal submission, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography
2015 Reviewer of journal submission, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies De Genova, p.64 SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION (cont’d)
Peer Review, Book Reviews, and Encyclopedia Entries (cont’d)
2014 Reviewer of journal submission, Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory (S. Africa)
2014 Reviewer of journal submission, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review
2014 Reviewer of journal submission, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography
2013 Book Review Author, Migration Studies
2013 Reviewer of journal submission, Ethnic and Racial Studies
2013 Reviewer of book proposal, University of Illinois Press
2013 Reviewer of journal submission, International Migration Review
2013 Reviewer of journal submission, Subjectivity
2013 Reviewer of book proposal, Oxford University Press
2012 Reviewer of book manuscript, Duke University Press
2012 Reviewer of journal submission, Anthropological Quarterly
2012 Reviewer of journal submission, Subjectivity
2011 Contributing Author, Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in Contemporary Politics, Law, and Social Movements (2015)
2010 Reviewer of book proposal, Duke University Press
2010 Reviewer of special thematic journal issue proposal, Citizenship Studies
2010 Reviewer of journal submission, Citizenship Studies
2009 Reviewer of journal submission, Subjectivity
2008 Book Review Author, Journal of American Ethnic History
2008 Reviewer of journal submission, American Quarterly
2007 Book Review Author, American Journal of Sociology De Genova, p.65 SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION (cont’d)
Peer Review, Book Reviews, and Encyclopedia Entries (cont’d)
2007 Reviewer of journal submission, Ethnoscapes: Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context
2006 Book Review Author, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (UK)
2006 Book Review Author, Arab Studies Journal
2006 Reviewer of two journal submissions, Latino Studies
2006 Reviewer of journal submission, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (UK)
2005 Contributing Author, The Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, Macmillan Reference Library
2005 Reviewer of journal submission, Cultural Anthropology
2005 Reviewer of two journal submissions, Current Anthropology
2005 Reviewer of journal submission, Latino Studies
2004 Reviewer of final manuscript of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, Oxford University Press
2004 Book Review Author, Journal of Latin American Anthropology
2004 Book Review Author, Latino Studies
2004 Contributing Author, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
2003 Reviewer of journal submission, Cultural Anthropology
2003 Reviewer of journal submission, Latino Studies
2002 Reviewer of journal submission, American Ethnologist
2001 Reviewer of proposal for The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
2001 Reviewer of journal submission, Centro Journal, Centro de Estudios Puertoriqueños/ Center for Puerto Rican Studies (City University of New York)
2001 Reviewer of research proposal, Russell Sage Foundation De Genova, p.66
REFERENCES
Professor Ramón Gutiérrez Professor Howard Winant University of Chicago University of California – Santa Barbara Preston and Sterling Morton Distinguished Professor Distinguished Service Professor Department of Sociology Department of History and 1126 E. 59th Street, Mailbox 118 Director, Center for New Racial Studies Chicago, IL 60637 Ellison Hall 2834 Tel. (+1) 773-702-3286 Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9430 [email protected] Tel. (+1) 805-893-7465 [email protected]
Professor David Roediger Professor William Walters University of Kansas Carleton University Foundation Distinguished Professor Department of Political Science, and of American Studies and History Department of Sociology & Anthropology Department of History B640, Loeb Building 1445 Jayhawk Blvd. 1125 Colonel By Drive 3650 Wescoe Hall Ottawa, ON Lawrence, KS 66045 Canada K1S 5B6 Tel. (+1) 785-864-3569 Tel. (+1) 613-520-2600 x 2790 [email protected] [email protected]
Professor Neil Brenner Professor Bridget Anderson Harvard University University of Bristol Professor of Urban Theory Professor of Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship Graduate School of Design School of Sociology, Politics, and Gund Hall International Studies 48 Quincy Street 1.09, 3 Priory Road Cambridge, MA 02138 11 Priory Road Tel. (+1) 617-496-2798 Bristol, BS8 1TU [email protected] Tel. (+44) (0) 117-331-0848 [email protected]