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Curriculum Vitae

E. JEFFREY POPKE

Department of , Planning and Environment East Carolina University • Greenville, NC 27858 (252) 328-6087 • [email protected]

Education

Ph.D. 1999, University of Kentucky, Geography Dissertation: “Deconstructing Apartheid : Negotiating Alterity and History in Durban’s Cato Manor” Faculty Advisor: John Pickles

M.A. 1993, University of Kentucky Major Field: Geography Thesis: "Recasting Geopolitics: The Discursive Scripting of the International Monetary Fund" Faculty Advisor: Susan Roberts

Certificate in Social Theory, 1995 University of Kentucky

B.A. 1989, Dartmouth College Major Field: Geography

Teaching and Research Positions

2014 - Professor, Department of Geography, East Carolina University

2004-2014 Associate Professor, Department of Geography, East Carolina University

1998-2004 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, East Carolina University

1997 Research Assistant, “Social Impact Assessment of Pipeline Effluent in Durban’s South Coast ” (P.I. Dianne Scott)

1996 Leave Replacement Lecturer, Department of Geographical and Environmental Sciences, University of Natal Durban, South Africa

1996 Visiting Instructor, Department of Geography, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

1994 Research Assistant, West Virginia Regional Research Institute, Morgantown, WV (P.I. John Pickles)

1992-1997 Instructor, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky,

1 Courses Taught

Graduate Seminars The History and Philosophy of Geography, ECU Global Issues (MA in International Studies Program), ECU Seminar in Rural Development, ECU Seminar in , ECU Honors , University of Natal

Advanced Undergraduate Latin America, ECU The Geography of Africa, ECU Political Geography, ECU , ECU Research Methods, University of Natal Quantitative Techniques in Geography, University of Kentucky

Introductory Undergraduate Introduction to Geography, ECU World Geography – Less Developed , ECU World Geography – Developed Regions, ECU , University of Natal Lands and Peoples of the Non-Western World, University of Kentucky World , University of Kentucky

Honors and Fellowships

2013 Recipient, UNC Board of Governors Distinguished Professor for Teaching Award

2013 Finalist, University Alumni Outstanding Teaching Award

2006 Distinguished Teacher Achievement Award, National Council for Geographic Education

2002 Selected Participant, “Collaborative Workshop on ‘Space, Race and Urban Development’”, Johannesburg, South Africa International Research and Scholarly Exchange Committee, Association of American

2002 College Research Award, College of Arts and Sciences, East Carolina University

1997 J. William Fulbright Dissertation Award, South Africa

1996 University of Kentucky Dissertation Year Fellowship

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Publications a. Journal Articles

Harrison, C. and Popke, J. Under Review. Assembling Oil in the Caribbean: The Contested Politics of Petrocaribe. Journal of Latin American Geography.

Harrison, C. and Popke, J. 2018. of renewable energy transition in the Caribbean: Reshaping the island energy metabolism. Energy Research and Social Science 36: 165-174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2017.11.008

Gamble, D., Burrell, D., Popke, J. and Curtis, S. 2017. Contextual analysis of dynamic drought perception among small farmers in Jamaica. Climate Research 74: 109-120. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/cr01490

Moulton, A., and Popke, J. 2017. Greenhouse governmentality: protected agriculture and the changing biopolitical management of agrarian life in Jamaica. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 35(4): 714-732. DOI: 10.1177/0263775816679669.

Popke, J., Curtis, S., and Gamble, D. W. 2016. A Framing of Climate Change Discourse and Policy: Adaptation, Resilience and Vulnerability in a Jamaican Agricultural Landscape. Geoforum, 73: 70-80. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.11.003

Popke, J. 2016. Researching the hybrid geographies of climate change: reflections from the field. Introduction to special theme section, J. Popke, editor. Area 48(1): 2-6. DOI: 10.1111/area.12220

Moulton, A., Popke, J., Curtis, S., Gamble, D., & Poore, S. 2015. Water Management Strategies and Climate Adaptation: Lessons from the 2014 Drought in Jamaica. Caribbean Geography 20: 60-73.

Curtis, S., Gamble, D. W., and Popke, J. 2014. Sensitivity of Crop Water Need to 2071-2095 Projected Temperature and Precipitation Changes in Jamaica. Earth Interactions 18(12): 1-17. DOI: 10.1175/EI-D-14-0001.1

Popke, J. 2014. Cultivating New and More Ethical Calculative Agencies (Book Review Forum). Social and , 15 (8): 968-973. DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2014.916982

Popke, J. and R. Torres. 2013. Neoliberalization, transnational migration, and the varied landscape of economic subjectivity in the Totonacapan region of Veracruz. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 103(1): 211-229. DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2011.652871

3 Harrison, C. and J. Popke. 2011. “Because You Got to Have Heat”: The Networked Landscape of Energy Poverty in Eastern North Carolina. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 101(4): 949-961. DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2011.569659

Popke, J. 2011. Latino Migration and Neoliberalism in the Rural South: Notes Toward a Rural Cosmopolitanism. Southeastern 51(2): 242-259. DOI: 10.1353/sgo.2011.0023

Gamble, D.W., D. Campbell, T. Allen, D. Barker, S. Curtis, D. McGregor, and J. Popke. 2010. Climate Change, Drought, and Jamaican Agriculture: Local Knowledge and the Climate Record. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 100(4): 880-893.

Jones, K. and J. Popke. 2010. Re-Envisioning the City: Lefebvre, HOPE VI, and the Neoliberalization of Urban Space. Urban Geography 31(1):114-133.

Popke, J. 2009. Geography and Ethics: Nonrepresentational Encounters, Collective Responsibility and Economic Difference. Progress in Human Geography 33(1): 81-90.

Popke, J. 2007. Geography and Ethics: of Cosmopolitan Responsibility. Progress in Human Geography 31(4): 509-518.

Mitchelson, M., Alderman, D. and Popke, J. 2007. Branded: The Economic Geographies of Streets Named in Honor of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Social Science Quarterly, 88(1): 120-145

Popke, J. 2006. Geography and Ethics: Everyday Mediations through Care and Consumption. Progress in Human Geography, 30(4): 504-512.

Popke, E. J. 2004. The Face of the Other: Zapatismo, Responsibility and the Ethics of . Social and Cultural Geography, 5(2): 301-317.

Popke, E. J. and Ballard, R. 2004. Dislocating Modernity: Identity, Space and Representations of Street Trade in Durban. Geoforum, 35: 99-110.

Popke, E. J. 2003. Managing Colonial Alterity: Narratives of Race, Space and Labor in Durban, 1870- 1920. Journal of , 29(2): 248-267.

Popke, E. J. 2003. Poststructuralist Ethics: Subjectivity, Responsibility and the Space of Community. Progress in Human Geography, 27(3): 298-316.

Alderman, D. and Popke, E. J. 2002. Humor and Film in the Geography Classroom: Learning from Michael Moore’s TV Nation. Journal of Geography, 101(6): 228-239.

Popke, E. J. 2001. The ‘Politics of the Mirror’: On Geography and Afro-Pessimism. African Geographical Review 21: 5-27.

Popke, E. J. 2001. Modernity’s Abject Space: The Rise and Fall of Durban’s Cato Manor. Environment and Planning A, 33(4):737-752.

4 Popke, E. J. 2000. Violence and Memory in the Reconstruction of South Africa’s Cato Manor. Growth and Change, 31(2):235-254.

Popke, E. J. 1994. Recasting Geopolitics: The Discursive Scripting of the International Monetary Fund. Political Geography, 13(3):255-269.

b. Book Chapters

Harrison, C. and Popke, J. 2017. Critical Energy Geographies. In Handbook on the Geographies of Energy, K. Calvert and B. Solomon (eds.). Edward Elgar, pp. 490-501.

Poore, S., Moulton, A., Gamble, D., Curtis S, and Popke, J. 2016. The 2014 Jamaican Drought: Climate Change or Interannual Variability? In Global Change and the Caribbean: Adaptation and Resilience, D. Barker, D. McGregor, K. Rhiney and T. Edwards (eds). Kingston: University of West Indies Press, 41-51.

Popke, J. 2010. Ethical Spaces of Being In-common. In The Handbook of , S. Smith, R. Pain, S. Marston and J. P. Jones III (eds). London: Sage, pp. 435-454.

Torres, R., Popke, E. J. and Hapke, H. 2006. The South’s Silent Bargain: Rural Restructuring, Latino Labor and the Ambiguities of Migrant Experience. In H. Smith and O. Furuseth (eds), The New South: Latinos and the Transformation of Place. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, pp. 37-67.

c. Anthologies and Reproductions

Popke, E. J. 2012. Poststructuralist Ethics: Subjectivity, Responsibility and the Space of Community (Originally published in Progess in Human Geography, 2003). In Sage Fundamentals of Geography: Human Geography, Volume 1, Derek Gregory and Noel Castree (eds), 327-348. London: Sage.

Popke, E. J. 2004. The ‘Politics of the Mirror’: On Geography and Afro-Pessimism (Originally published in African Geographical Review, 2001). In Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial African Issues, 1st Ed. William Moseley, Ed. Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, pp. 9-16. [Chapter was replaced in 2nd and subsequent editions]

d. Encyclopedia Entries

Popke, J. 2006. “Modernity”. In Encyclopedia of Human Geography, B. Warf (ed), pp. 307-308.

e. Book Reviews

2004. Review of A. Merrifield, Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City (Routledge, 2002) for Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 22(3):469-470.

5 2000. Review of G. Ó Tuathail, : The Politics of Writing Global Space, (Routledge, 1996) for Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 90(3):649-651.

1997. Review of J. Painter, Politics, Geography and 'Political Geography' (Arnold, 1995) for Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 87(2):396-397.

f. Non-Refereed Publications

Torres, R., Popke, J., Hapke, H, Suarez, M., Serrano, H., Chambers, B. and Castaño, P. 2003. Transnational Communities in Eastern North Carolina: Results from a Survey of Latino Families in Greene County. The North Carolina Geographer, 11: 88-107.

Popke, E. J. 1997. , the Question of Identity, and the South African Transition. History and African Studies Seminar Series, No. 21 of 1997. University of Natal, Durban.

"Space, Power and the Academy: An Interview with Doreen Massey" (with Brenda Weber Ijams and Kakie Urch). disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory Issue #4, Winter 1994-1995.

Popke, E. J., Hanna, S. and Pickles, J. 1994. Chemical Production in the Kanawha Valley. West Virginia University Regional Research Institute, Research Paper #9419. Morgantown, WV: Regional Research Institute.

"An Interview with Samuel Bowles" (with Todd Lewis and Caedmon Staddon). disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory, Issue #3, Autumn, 1993. pp. 105-117.

Grants

2015 Summer Research Award, ECU Center for Sustainability. Enhancing Sustainability in the Caribbean: The Energy-Food-Water Nexus in an Era of Climate Change (with Scott Curtis) $3,992.

2015 Enhancing Sustainability in the Caribbean: The Energy-Food-Water Nexus in an Era of Climate Change, Co-Principal Investigator (with Scott Curtis and Doug Gamble), National Science Foundation, Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability. $54,404 (Rejected)

2012 Vulnerability and Resilience Among Small Farmers: An Assessment of Environmental Change, Economic Stress, and the Role of Water Management. Co-P.I. (with Scott Curtis). National Science Foundation. $180,555.

2008 Employers and Hispanic/Latino Workers in Eastern North Carolina. Co-P.I. (with Rebecca Powers). Research Development Seed Grant, ECU Division of Research and Graduate Studies. $39,888.

6 2005 Rural Transformation and Latino Transnational Migration & Settlement in the U.S. South. Co-P.I. (with Rebecca Torres). Research Development Seed Grant, ECU Division of Research and Graduate Studies. $19,317.

2005 Transnational Migration from the Tierra Caliente region of Mexico. Research/Creative Activity Grant, East Carolina University. $17,620.

2002 “Los Puentes: Dual Language Immersion and Multicultural Education and Research Program” Co-P.I. (with Holly Hapke and Rebecca Torres). Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. $65,000

2001 ECU Rural Development Initiative. Co-P.I. (with Derek Alderman, Holly Hapke, and Rebecca Torres). GoldenLEAF Foundation. $60,000

2000 The Asian Supplement: Ocean Connections, Colonial Space, and the Geopolitical Imaginary. “Crossing Boundaries: Rethinking Area Studies”. Ford Foundation (P.I. Martin Lewis, Duke University, $350,000) Project Participant, $3,360.

1996 Association of American Geographers Dissertation Improvement Grant

Research Presentations

Presenting or co-presenting author, except where noted with *

2017 "Putting Things in Order: The Improvisational Formations and Negotiations of Global Change in Caribbean Agriculture" (with Alex Moulton). Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston, MA, April.

"Mining Steam: The Promise and Peril of Geothermal Energy in the Caribbean Energy Transition" (with Conor Harrison) Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston, MA, April.

2016 “Engaging critical geographies of energy in the Caribbean” (with Conor Harrison*). Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, California, March.

“Greenhouse Governmentality: Biopower and Agricultural Subjectivity in Contemporary Jamaica” (with Alex Moulton*). Annals of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, California. March.

7 “To 'Catch a Crop': Everyday Hedging and the Calculative Agencies of Smallholder Farming in Jamaica.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, California, March.

2015 “Materializing the Post-Colonial Caribbean: Decolonial Theory and Plantation Ecologies of Matter in Jamaica.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, April.

2014 “An Examination of Double Exposure and Farm-Level Adaptation in a Jamaican Agricultural Region” (with Scott Curtis, Doug Gamble, Dorlan Burrell, Alex Moulton, and Shaina Poore). 6th British-Caribbean Geography Seminar, Kingston, Jamaica, July

“Climate Justice and the Uneven Landscape of Agricultural Risk and Opportunity in Jamaica” (with Scott Curtis and Doug Gamble). Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, Florida, April.

2013 Poster: “Double Exposure, Vulnerability, and Resilience among Jamaican Small Farmers” (with Shaina Poore*, Alex Moulton, Doug Gamble, Scott Curtis, and Dorlan Burrell). Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers, Blacksburg, Virginia, November.

“The Challenges of Significance and Reconciliation in Mixed Research in Climate Change (with Scott Curtis and Doug Gamble*). Association of American Geographers, 108th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, April.

Poster: “A Case Study in Caribbean Climate Change: Impacts on Crop Suitability and Small Farmer Vulnerability in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica” (with Scott Curtis*, Doug Gamble and Shaina Poore). American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California.

2012 “Agricultural Systems, Vulnerability, and Resilience in Rural Jamaica” Caribbean Studies Forum Miniconference, East Carolina University, October.

“Bridge over Troubled Water: Linking Physical and Human Geography to Assess Climate Change and Agriculture in Jamaica” (with Scott Curtis). Colloquium Presentation, Department of Geography, ECU. April.

“To Catch a Crop: Double Exposure and the Geographies of Agricultural Assemblage in Jamaica” (with Donovan Campbell). Association of American Geographers, 107th Annual Meeting, New York, March.

8 “Neoliberalism as an Everyday Hazard” Panel Presentation (invited), Association of American Geographers, 107th Annual Meeting, New York, March.

2011 “To ‘Catch a Crop”: Double Exposure and Agricultural Change in Rural Jamaica” (with Scott Curtis and Doug Gamble). Southeast Division of the Association of American Geographers 66th Annual Meeting, Savannah, November

“Labor, Space and the Common: On Negri's Ethical Materialism and Nonrepresentational Theory” Association of American Geographers, 106th Annual Meeting, Seattle, April

2010 “Latino Migration and Neoliberalism in the Rural South: Notes Toward a Rural Cosmopolitanism” Southeast Division of the Association of American Geographers 65th Annual Meeting, Birmingham, November.

“Reflections on Neoliberalism, Migration, and Ethics” Invited seminar presentation, Duke Marine Lab, Beaufort, NC, November.

"Because You Got to Have Heat": Fuel Poverty, Weatherization, and Landscapes of Care (with Conor Harrison). Association of American Geographers, 105th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April

“The Ontological (Re)Turn in Geography. Panel Presentation (invited). Association of American Geographers, 105th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April

2009 “Re-Envisioning Social Space: HOPE VI, Neoliberalization and Urban Politics in Charlotte, NC” (with Katherine Jones). Southeast Division of the Association of American Geographers 64th Annual Meeting, Knoxville, November.

“Re-Envisioning Social Space: Lefebvre, HOPE VI, and the Right to the City.” Association of American Geographers, 104th Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, March.

Powers, R.*, Popke, J., & Torres, R. Reports from The Boss about Hispanic/Latino Workers in Eastern North Carolina. Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, Louisiana.

2008 “Neoliberalization, Transnational Migration and New Subjectivities in Rural Mexico”. Association of American Geographers, 103rd Annual Meeting, Boston, April.

2007 “The Antinomies of Neoliberal Transnationalism: Latino Migration and the Case For a Rural Cosmopolitanism” Association of American Geographers, 103rd Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March.

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2006 “Negotiating Globalization: Lessons from San Salvador Atenco” Southeastern Council of Latin America Studies, 53rd Annual Meeting, Charlotte, April.

Geographies of Relational Thinking, panel presentation (invited), Association of American Geographers, 102nd Annual Meeting, Chicago, March.

2005 “Constructing the Multitude” Association of American Geographers, 101st Annual Meeting, Denver, April.

“Latino Transnationalism and the Negotiation of Citizenship in the Rural South” (with Rebecca Torres) Association of American Geographers, 101st Annual Meeting, Denver, April.

“Globalization and its Critics: Lessons from the Mexico City Airport Saga” Invited Colloquium Presentation, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, March.

“Labor, Espacio y Comunidad en la Lucha Contra el Aeropuerto en D.F.” Fourth International Critical Geography Conference, Mexico City, January

2004 “(Re)working Resistance: Labor, Space and Community in the Mexico City Airport Saga” Association of American Geographers, 100th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.

Panel Discussion - ‘The Role of Geographic Methods, Approaches and Perspectives in Addressing African Development Challenges’, Association of American Geographers, 100th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, March.

“Dynamics of Latino Transnational Migration to the U.S. South” (with Holly Hapke and Rebecca Torres), Association of American Geographers, 100th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, March.

“The African Mirror: Area Studies, Geography and the of Modernity” Invited Colloquium Presentation in the Series “African Geography: Theory and/or Area Studies” Department of Geography, Miami University, February.

2003 “(Re)working the Commodity Fetish: Space, Time and the Communal Subjectivity of Labor” Rethinking Conference, Amherst, MA, November.

“Negotiating Modernity: Strangers, Traders and Spaces of Hospitality in Durban” Invited Colloquium Presentation, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, October.

2002 “Transforming the Urban Space Economy: The Politics of Informal Trade in Durban” African Studies Association, 45th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., December.

10 “Negotiating Modernity: Urban Space and Identity in Durban” Association of American Geographers, 98th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 2002.

2001 “Deconstructing Capitalism: Value, Labor and the Space of Transformation” Association of American Geographers, 97th Annual Meeting, New York, NY, March.

2000 “Spatial Alterity and the Ethics of Deconstruction” Association of American Geographers, 96th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March

Panel Discussion - Ethics, Values and Justice Specialty Group Plenary Session, Association of American Geographers, 96th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March.

Panel Discussion – ‘Finding Democracy in a New South Africa,’ Association of American Geographers, 96th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March.

1999 “South Africa’s Haunted Transition: Democracy and Space in Durban’s Cato Manor,” African Studies Colloquium Series, East Carolina University, December.

“Founding Colonial Subjectivity: Indian Indentured Labor and the Geopolitical Imaginary” Colloquium Presentation, Duke University, April.

“The Space of Deconstruction and the Politics of Change” Conference, “Retheorizing Space and Time and the End of the Millennium,” Athens, GA, April.

“Apartheid’s Ghosts: Deconstruction, Difference, and the Event of Transition,” Association of American Geographers, 95th Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, March.

“Apartheid Space and the Politics of Memory in South Africa” Colloquium Presentation, International Studies Association, East Carolina University, February.

“On the Importance of Ghosts in International Studies” Keynote Address, Phi Beta Delta Induction Ceremony, Gamma Rho Chapter, East Carolina University, January.

1998 “Postcolonial Space: Negotiating Alterity and History in Durban’s Cato Manor” Association of American Geographers, 94th Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts March, 1998

“The Specter that Haunts: Marx and Derrida in Eastern Europe, South Africa and Mexico” (with John Pickles) Association of American Geographers, 94th Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts March, 1998

11 1997 “Post-Colonial Geographies: Negotiating Space and History in Cato Manor” Colloquium Presentation, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, October 20, 1997.

1996 "Spatial Difference and Poststructuralist Marxism" Conference entitled "Languages of Contemporary Marxism" Amherst, Massuchusetts, December 6, 1996.

"Specters of Apartheid: Space, Identity and Reconstruction in Post-Apartheid South Africa" Colloquium Presentation, Department of Geographical and Environmental Sciences, University of Natal, Durban South Africa, July, 1996.

"Discursive Turns and Reason in Contemporary Development Theory" (with Oliver Froehling and John Pickles) Association of American Geographers, 92nd Annual Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina May, 1996.

1995 "Marxism and (Post)modernity: New Spaces of Liberty" (with Oliver Froehling). 2nd Annual Miniconference on Critical Geography, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 14, 1995.

"(De)Constructing Urban Space: Capital Restructuring and the Construction of Meaning in Downtown Lexington" Association of American Geographers, 91st Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 17, 1995.

1994 "Post-Marxist Geographies? Identity, Discourse and Space" 1st Annual Miniconference on Critical Geography, Cincinnati, Ohio, November 12, 1994.

"Writing, Representation and Space" Conference entitled 'Textual Regions/Regions of the Text' Department of English, University of Kentucky, October 22, 1994, Lexington, KY.

"Selling Capital: Economic Development and Community identity in Lexington, KY" (with Deborah Dixon). Association of American Geographers, 90th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April 2, 1994.

"Community Politics, Economic Development and Risk in the Kanawha Valley" (with Stephen Hanna). Association of American Geographers, 90th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 31, 1994.

1993 "The Discursive Scripting of the International Monetary Fund," Association of American Geographers, 89th Annual Meeting, April 7, 1993, Atlanta, Georgia.

"Power, Discourse, and the International Monetary Fund," 4th Annual Geography Graduate Student Conference, February 27, 1993, Lexington, Kentucky.

12 1992 "The World in Focus: The Potential Uses for Photography in Geographic Research," Southeast Division of the Association of American Geographers 47th Meeting, November 23, 1992, Louisville, Kentucky.

Editorial Service

Guest Editor, theme section on ‘Researching the Hybrid Geographies of Climate Change’ (5 papers), Area 48(1), 2016.

Co-Editor, The North Carolina Geographer, 2000-2003 Editorial Board Member, The African Geographical Review, 2001-2003 Associate Editor, The North Carolina Geographer, 1999-2000. Head Editor and Production Editor, disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory, Issue #4, 1993-1994 Production Editor, disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory, Issue #3, 1992-1993

Manuscript Reviews (49): ACME (2), African Geographical Review (2), Annals of the Association of American Geographers (2), (5), Area, Dialogues in Human Geography (2), Environment and Planning A (2), Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Gender Place and Culture (2), Geoforum (10), Geographica Helvetica, Geography Compass, Hospitality and Society, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, Social and Cultural Geography, Journal of Urban Affairs, Political Geography, Progress in Human Geography (2), Radical Philosophy Review, Southeastern Geographer (3), Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (2), Urban Affairs Review (2), Urban Geography, Urban Studies

Grant and Tenure Reviews: National Science Foundation (4) National Research Foundation (South Africa) – Faculty Research Review (2) Grinnell College Faculty Research Award

Reviews of Books: Jones and Gomez, Research Methods in Geography: A First Course (chapter review) Marston, Knox and Liverman, World Regions in a Global Context, Prentice Hall. Aryeetey-Atoh (ed), Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa, Prentice Hall. Performativity and Politics (book prospectus), Routledge.

Professional Service a. Organizations and Committees

Member, Honors Committee, Southeastern Division, Association of American Geographers, 2009-2010.

Chair, Ethics, Justice and Human Rights Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, 2003-2006

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Secretary/Treasurer, Ethics, Values and Justice Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, 2000-2010

Web Site Manager, Ethics, Values and Justice Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, 2004-2007

Member, Tellers Committee, Southeastern Division, Association of American Geographers, 2003-2004

Member, Steering Committee, North Carolina Geographical Society, 1999-2003

b. Conference Organization and Participation

Organizer and Moderator, Panel session on "Latino/a Geographies of/in the American South" Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, Florida, April 2014.

Organizer, three sessions on "Mixed Methods and Hybrid Epistemologies in Climate Change Research" Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, Florida, April 2014.

Organizer of four sessions on “Mixed Methods and Hybrid Epistemologies in Climate Change Research” Association of American Geographers, 109th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, April 2013.

Session Discussant (invited), “Take Back the Economy I: Ethics and Methods for Constituting Community Economies” Association of American Geographers, 109th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, April 2013.

Session Discussant (invited), ‘Performativity, Space and Politics’. Association of American Geographers, 106st Annual Meeting, Seattle, April 2010.

Panelist (invited), ‘Latinos in the American South: New Southerners in a New South?’ Southeast Division of the Association of American Geographers, November 2008.

Panelist, ‘Navigating the Murky Waters of the Tenure and Promotion Process’, Southeast Division of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Charleston, SC, November, 2007.

Paper Discussant, Southeast Division of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Charleston, SC, November, 2007.

Organizer of a special plenary lecture on ‘Ethics and Political Geography’ (by Derek Gregory) at the Association of American Geographers 103rd Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April, 2007.

Session Discussant (invited), ‘Care-Full Geographies’, Association of American Geographers, 103st Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March, 2007.

Organizer of a special plenary lecture on ‘Ethics and Hurricane Katrina’ at the Association of American Geographers 102nd Annual Meeting, Chicago, March, 2006

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Session Discussant, “Impact of Globalization on Contemporary Argentina”, Southeast Council of Latin American Studies 53rd Annual Meeting, Charlotte, April, 2006.

Co-organizer (with Brad Jokisch) of a special plenary session on ‘Ethics and Political Ecology’ at the Association of American Geographers 101st Annual Meeting, Denver, April, 2005.

Session Discussant (invited), ‘Ethics and Organizations’, Association of American Geographers, 101st Annual Meeting, Denver, March, 2005.

Panel Moderator, ‘Learning to Publish: The Rules, Risks and Rewards’, Southeast Division of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Biloxi, MS, November, 2004.

Co-organizer (with Derek Alderman) of a special plenary session on ‘Ethics, Justice and Culture’ at the Association of American Geographers 100th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, March, 2004.

Paper Discussant, Southeast Division of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC, November, 2003.

Co-Organizer and member of Coordinating Committee, “Curing the Future: Issues & Strategies in Remaking Tobacco-Dependent Communities in North Carolina”. Conference held in Greenville, NC, February 28-March 1, 2002.

Organizer of two sessions on “Rethinking Africa” Sponsored by the Africa Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, 98th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 2002.

Session Moderator, ‘Alternative Crops, Emerging Technologies & Farm Income Diversification’, Curing the Future Conference, February 28, 2002.

Paper Discussant, Southeast Division of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Richmond, VA, November, 2002.

Panel Moderator, ‘Human Geography in the 21st Century’. Southeast Division of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Noveber 2000.

Paper Discussant, Southeast Division of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL, November, 1999.

Paper Discussant, “New Urbanism,” paper session, Southeast Division of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Memphis TN, November, 1998

Co-Organizer of three sessions on "Restructuring the Urban Landscape" Sponsored by the Urban Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, 91st Annual Meeting, Chicago, 1995.

Chair of session "Struggles Over Place: Community Politics and Urban Spatial Change" Association of American Geographers, 91st Annual Meeting, Chicago, 1995.

Co-Organizer, 4th Annual Geography Graduate Student Conference, Lexington, Kentucky.

15 University and Departmental Service a. East Carolina University

Parliamentarian of the Faculty, 2017-2018 Chair, University Budget Committee, 2012-2015 Member, Foundations Work Group, 2014-2015 Member, Tuition and Fees Committee, 2014-2015 Faculty Senator, Department of Geography, 2010 –2015 Member, University Budget Committee, 2011-2015 Member, Quality Enhancement Plan Council, 2011-2014 Member, Committee on Committees, 2013-2015 Member, Grievance Board 2012-2015 Vice-Chair, University Budget Committee, 2012-1013 Member, Educational Policies and Planning Committee, 2012-2013 Member, Faculty Officers Nominating Committee, 2012-2013 Member, Honors College Faculty Advisory Committee, 2010 - 2011 Member, ECU Ad-Hoc Committee on Globalizing the Curriculum, 2008-2010 Member, UNC System Graduate Council (one faculty representative per campus) 2008-2010 Member, East Carolina University Honors Program Committee, 1999-2001 Member, Research/Creative Activity Grant Committee, 2004-5 Member, Scholarship Committee, EC Scholars Program, 2004 Faculty Judge, Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Symposium, 2004 and 2006 Member, Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship Committee, 2004 Member, East Carolina University African Studies Committee, 1998-2002

b. College of Arts and Sciences

Chair, Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, 2005-2008 Member, East Carolina College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, 2000-2008 Member, College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program Liaison Committee, 1999-2003

c. Department of Geography

Co-Chair, Assessment Committee, 2013-2014 Chair, Human Geography Search Committee, 2012-2013 Library Liaison, 2003-2007 and 2011-2014 Writing Liaison, 2012-2014 Member, Ad-hoc Program Review Committee, 2010 – 2012 Member, Department Advisory Committee, 2012 Chair, Planning Director Search Committee, 2009-2010 Member, Department of Geography Graduate Committee, 2009 Director of Graduate Studies, 2005-2008 Chair, Department of Geography Curriculum Committee, 2001-2005 Member, Department of Geography Curriculum Committee, 1999-2007 Organizer, Department of Geography Colloquium Series, 2000-2006 Member, Department of Geography Undergraduate Committee, 2001-2002

16 Member, Department of Geography Social Committee, 1998-2001 Faculty Advisor, GeoClub 2000-2002 Faculty Advisor, Gamma Theta Upsilon, Geography Honor Society 1999-2002 Member, Department of Geography Search Committee, 2000 Member, Department of Geography Ad-Hoc Self-Study Committee, 1998-2000

d. University of Kentucky

Co-Organizer, speaker series "Crisis in Mexico" President, UK Geography Graduate Student Union Graduate Student Representative, Department of Geography Undergraduate Committee Graduate Student Representative, Department of Geography Colloquium Committee Founding Member, UK Geography Graduate Student Union

Mentoring, Outreach and Engagement

Panelist, “Chasing Ice” ECU Coastal Society Film Event, April, 2013.

Duke University Preparing Future Faculty Program: Year-long mentoring program for Duke graduate students, 2011-2012.

Panelist, “The Future of Our Fluid Planet”. Panel presentation to the ECU community in celebration of Geography Awareness Week, November, 2010.

‘Global Connections’ , Presentation for Regional Teacher Cadet Conference, March 2010

Panelist, “Geographies of Social Justice”. Panel presentation to the ECU community highlighting human geography research, 2009.

“Latin America’s Turn to the Left” Presentation for the ECU Great Decisions Lecture Series, Foreign Policy Association, 2008.

Co-author, “La Migración Latina en Carolina del Norte”. Educational pamphlet for community Distribution, 2007.

Interview with WNCT television news for a story on Latino migration in Eastern NC, 2007.

Lead author, “A State Transformed: Latino Immigration to North Carolina”. Education pamphlet distributed to local schools, 2006.

‘South Africa and Geography’, talk for students at Oakwood School, Oct 1, 1998.

Judge, National Geography Bee, Chicod Elementary and Middle School, 1998-1999.

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Thesis Advising

Alex Moulton, 2015 “Greenhouse Governmentality: Discourses of Rural Development and the Negotiation of Farmer Subjectivity in Jamaica”

Heather Blair, 2013 (with Scott Curtis) “North Carolina Winegrowers’ Perceptions of Climate Change Impacts”

Ryan Cobey, 2012 (MA in International Studies), “Living the Good Life? An Analysis of Ecuador’s Plan Nacional Para El Buen Vivir Development Model As An Alternative To A Neoliberal Global Framework”

Conor Harrison, 2010. “’Because you Gotta Have Heat’: Fuel Poverty in Eastern North Carolina”

Ben Deck, 2010, “Incorporation and Silence: A Comparative Study of the Reception of Latino Immigrants in Two Southeast U.S. Cities”

Jesse Messina, 2009, “A Word Frequency Analysis of HIV/AIDS Policies in Africa”

Shamaury Myrick, 2006, “Advocacy Planning and Greenville’s West End Redevelopment Plan”

Matt Mitchelson, 2005. “The Economic Landscapes of MLK Streets”

Robert Best, 2005. “Community of Interest: Demographic or Geographic? An Analysis of Discourse in Two Southern Congressional Districts”

Rebecca Bertrand, 2000. “A Geography of Environmental Impact Statements”

Thesis Committees

Andrew Bennett Micheal Cockerham Anna Eskridge Laura Heavner Arnold Modlin Caleb Parker Mathew Watterson Melissa Wicks

Memberships

Association of American Geographers (since 1989) South East Division, Association of American Geographers (since 2004) Climate Specialty Group, AAG Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group, AAG Food and Agriculture Specialty Group, AAG

18 Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group, AAG Latin America Specialty Group, AAG Water Resources Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group, AAG North Carolina Geographical Society, 1998-2007 Southeast Council on Latin American Studies, 2005 Institute of British Geographers, 2002-2005 African Studies Association 2001-2002

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