CURRICULUM VITAE
Laura Pulido
Department of American Studies & Ethnicity
University of Southern California
3620 Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2534
(213) 740-2426
[email protected]
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008-present
2012-Winter/Spring
2007-2010
2006-present
2001-2007
1998-2001
1993-1998
1992-1993
Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
Visiting Professor, Black Studies, University of California,
Santa Barbara
Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and Geography, USC
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Sociology, USC
Associate Professor of Geography and Program in American
Studies & Ethnicity, USC
Associate Professor of Geography, USC
Assistant Professor of Geography, USC
Assistant Professor of Geography, California State University,
Fullerton
EDUCATION
1991
1987
1984
Ph.D, Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles
M.S., Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison
B.A., Geography, California State University, Fresno
SCHOLARLY INTERESTS
Critical human geography, comparative and relational ethnic studies, Chicana/o Studies,
environmental justice, labor studies, Los Angeles, political activism & social movements,
alternative tourism
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2013
2013
2013
2012
2012
2007
Enhancing Diversity Award, Association of American Geographers
Carey McWilliams Award, California Studies Association
Globe Book Award for Public Understanding Geography, Association of
American Geographers, A People’s Guide to Los Angeles.
Presidential Achievement Award, Association of American Geographers
Southern California Independent Booksellers Nonfiction Prize, A People’s Guide
to Los Angeles.
Meridian Book Award, Outstanding Scholarly Book in Geography
Association of American Geographers. Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical
Activism in Los Angeles
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awards & fellowships, cont’d
2007
2006
2006
2004
2000-2001
1997
1995
1995
1990-1991
1990
1987-1990
1985-1987
1987
1984
1984
1983-1985
1983
Association for Humanist Sociology Book Award, Black, Brown, Yellow and
Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles
Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, Black, Brown, Yellow and
Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles, USC
Challenge Grant: Undergraduate Research Teaching, USC
Summer Fellow, Institute for Multimedia Literacy, USC
Visiting Scholar Fellowship in Ethnic Studies, Institute of American Cultures,
Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Minorities
Ethnic Studies Department, University of California, San Diego
Minority Visiting Scholar Program, Geography Department
The Pennsylvania State University
Young Research Worker Award, Institute of British Geographers
Woodrow Wilson Rural Policy Fellowship
Research Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles
Ford Foundation Doctoral Fellowship for Minorities
Advanced Opportunity Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, Madison
University of Wisconsin Alumni Scholarship
Award of Excellence, National Council for Geographical Education
California Geographical Society Award
National Hispanic Scholarship Fund
Hispanic Excellence Award, California State University, Fresno
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
2008
2007
2004
2003
1998
1998
1998
Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences “What Does it
Mean to be Brown? Latina/o Racial Subjectivity in Southern California” USC
$20,000 (P.I.)
Provost Initiative on Immigration and Integration, “Spaces of Immigrant
Activism and Resistance” with Clara Irazabal and Grace Dryness $50,000 (co-P.I)
National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, “Elotes,
Champurado, Tamales: Latina Street Vending Landscapes in Los Angeles” with
Lorena Muñoz. $10,000. (P.I.)
Haynes Foundation Faculty Fellowship, “Latino and African American Attitudes
Towards Each Other in the City of Angels” $10,000 (P.I.)
Creative Communities Project, The Irvine Foundation/Southern California Studies
Center, University of Southern California. “Radical Movements of Color in Los
Angeles in the 1960s-70s” $45,000 (P.I.)
Service Learning Curriculum Development Grant. Joint Education Project,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles. “Internship in the Chicano/
Latino Community” $2500
National Science Foundation, Integrated Graduate Education and Training
(IGERT), “Urban Environmental Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Doctoral
Education Program” $2,500,000 (co-P.I.) Joseph Devinny (P.I.)
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financial support, cont’d
1997
1996
1995
1994
1994
1994
1993
1992
1991
1991
Southern California Studies Center, Junior Faculty Award, University of
Southern California “The Role of Central Americans in Militant Labor
Organizing in Los Angeles” $5000 (P.I.)
Zumberge Faculty Research and Innovation Fund, Interdisciplinary Research
and Scholarship, University of Southern California "Latino Political Economy
Group" (with Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo) $5000 (Co-P.I.)
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Research Grant and USC Innovative
Teaching Award, "La Frontera: The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands" (with Pierrette
Hondagneu-Sotelo) $5000 (Co-P.I.)
National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science Program,
Planning Grant, "The Role of 'Race' and Class in Exposure to Environmental
Hazards” $18,000 (P.I.)
Zumberge Faculty Research and Innovation Fund, University of Southern
California, "A Comparison of Multiracial/ethnic Environmental Justice
Organizing in Los Angeles and San Francisco" $21,000 (P.I.)
National Endowment for the Humanities. “Upper Rio Grande Hispano Farms: A
Cultural and Natural History of Land Ethics in Transition 1850-1994” Devon
Peña, P.I. $2500 (Research Consultant)
Affirmative Action Faculty Research Grant, California State University, Fullerton
"People of Color and the Environmental Justice Movement" $3,000 (P.I.)
Faculty Enhancement & Instructional Development Grant, California State
University, Fullerton $2,100 (P.I.)
Center for Regional Studies Research Grant,
University of New Mexico $2,600 (P.I.)
Inter-American Cultures Research Grant, UCLA $1,000 (P.I.)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Pulido, Laura, Laura Barraclough and Wendy Cheng (2012) A People’s Guide to Los Angeles
University of California Press. (see Awards & Fellowships)
HoSang, Dan, Oneka LaBennett, and Laura Pulido (editors) (2012) Racial Formation in the
Twenty-First Century. University of California Press.
Pulido, Laura (2006) Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles.
University of California Press, American Crossroads Series. (see Awards & Fellowships)
Pulido, Laura (1996) Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the
Southwest. University of Arizona Press, Society, Place and Environment Series
Pulido, Laura and Josh Kun (editors) (in press) Black and Brown Los Angeles: Beyond Conflict
and Cooperation. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Referred Journal Articles
Pulido, Laura and Manuel Pastor (2013) “Where in the World is Juan - and What Color is He?
The Geography of Latina/o Racial Identity in Southern California” American Quarterly
65 (2):
Nieva, Chrisshona Grant, Laura Pulido, with Nate Sessoms (in press) “Beyond Conflict and
Competition: How Color-blind Ideology Affects Blacks’ and Latinos’ Understanding of
Their Relationships” Kalfou: A Journal of Ethnic Studies.
Cheng, Wendy, Laura Barraclough and Laura Pulido (2011) “Radicalizing Teaching & Tourism:
A People’s Guide as Active and Activist History” Left History 15 (1): 111-127.
Carpio, Genevieve, Clara Irazabal and Laura Pulido (2011) “Right to the Suburb? Rethinking
Lefebvre and Immigrant Activism” Journal of Urban Affairs 33 (2): 185-208.
Reprinted in American Urban Politics in a Global Age, 7th edition (2012).
Edited by Kantor and Dennis Judd. New York: Pearson Publishing.
Lloyd, David and Laura Pulido (2010) “In the Long Shadow of the Settler: On Israeli and U.S.
Colonialisms” American Quarterly 62 (4): 759-809.
Reprinted in The Case for Sanctions Against Israel (2012) Edited by Audrea
Lim. New York: Verso, pp. 111-119.
Pulido, Laura (2003) “The Interior Life of Politics” Ethics, Place and Environment 6 (1): 46-52.
Pulido, Laura (2002) “Race and Revolutionary Politics: Black, Chicana/o, and Asian
American Leftists in Southern California” Antipode 34 (4): 762-788.
Houston, Donna and Laura Pulido (2002) "The Work of Performativity: Staging Social Justice at
the University of Southern California” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
20: 401-424.
Reprinted in Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies and Global Conflicts (2004)
Edited by G. Fischman, P. McLaren, Sunker, and Lankshear. Lanham, MD:
Rowman & Littlefield, 317-342.
Pulido, Laura (2002) “Reflections on a White Discipline” Professional Geographer 54(1): 42-49.
Reprinted in Critical Geographies: A Collection of Readings (2008) Edited by
Harald Bauder and Salvatore Engel-di Mauro. pp. 45-59. Praxis (e)Press.
http://www.praxis-epress.org/CGR/contents.html
Nast, Heidi with Laura Pulido (2001) “Resisting Corporate Multiculturalism: Mapping Faculty
Initiatives and Student Harassment in the Classroom” Professional Geographer 52(4):
722-737.
Pulido, Laura (2000) “Rethinking Environmental Racism: White Privilege and Urban
Development in Southern California” Annals of the Association of American
Geographers 90(1): 12-40.
Reprinted in People, Place and Space: A Reader (forthcoming) Edited by Jen
Gieseking, William Mangold, Cindi Katz, Setha Low and Susan Saegert. New
York: Routledge.
Reprinted in American Studies: An Anthology (2009) Edited by Janice Radway,
Kevin Gaines, Barry Schank, and Penny Von Eschen. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 465475.
Reprinted in Critical Geographies: A Collection of Readings (2008) Edited by
Harald Bauder and Salvatore Engel-di Mauro. pp. 532-577. Praxis (e)Press.
http://www.praxis-epress.org/CGR/contents.html
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referred journal articles, cont’d
Reprinted in Environment: Critical Essays in Human Geography (2008). Edited
by Kay Anderson and Bruce Braun. Aldershot, England: Ashgate. Chpt. 17.
Reprinted in Up Against the Sprawl: Public Policy and the (Re)Making of
Southern California (2004) Edited by Jennifer Wolch. University of Minnesota
Press.
Reprinted in Southern California Atlas (2001). Edited by Michael Dear. Los
Angeles, Southern California Studies Center, University of Southern California.
Pulido, Laura (1998) “Development of the ‘People of Color’ Identity in the Environmental
Justice Movement of the Southwestern U.S.” Socialist Review 96(4): 145-180.
Pulido, Laura and Peña, Devon (1998) “Pesticides and Positionality: The Early Pesticide
Campaign of the United Farm Workers’ Organizing Committee, 1965-71” Race, Class &
Gender 6(1): 33-50.
Pulido, Laura (1996) "A Critical Review of the Methodology of Environmental Racism
Research" Antipode 28(2): 142-159.
Pulido, Laura, Steve Sidawi and Bob Vos (1996) "An Archaeology of Environmental Racism in
Los Angeles" Urban Geography 17(5): 419-439.
Pulido, Laura (1996) "Ecological Legitimacy and Cultural Essentialism: Hispano Grazing in the
Southwest" Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 7 (4): 1-22.
Reprinted in The Quest for Ecological Democracy: Movements for
Environmental Justice in the United States (1998) Edited by Daniel Faber. New
York: Guilford Press. pp. 293-311.
Reprinted in Subversive Kin: Chicana/o Studies and Ecology (1999) Edited by
Devon Peña. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Pulido, Laura (1994) "Restructuring and the Contraction and Expansion of Environmental Rights
in the United States" Environment & Planning A 26: 915-936.
Book Chapters
Pulido, Laura (in press). “Faculty Governance at the University of Southern California” in The
Imperial University: Race, War, and the Nation-State. Edited by Sunaina Maira and Piya
Chatterjee. University of Minnesota Press.
Pulido, Laura (in press). “Checkered Choices, Political Assertions: The Unarticulated Racial
Identity of the Asociación Nacional México-Americana” in Critical Ethnic Studies
Anthology. Edited by Dylan Rodriguez, Jodi Kim, and David Hernandez.
Pulido, Laura and Josh Kun (in press) “Introduction” In Black and Brown Los Angeles: A
Contemporary Reader. Edited by Laura Pulido and Josh Kun. Berkeley: University of
California Press.
Pulido, Laura (2008) “FAQs: Frequently Asked Questions on Being a Scholar/Activist.”
In Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics and Methods of Activist Scholarship
Edited by Charles Hale. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 341-366.
Wolch, Jennifer, Stephanie Pincetl and Laura Pulido (2001) “Nature’s Metropolis: Urbanization
and the Environment” in From Chicago to Los Angeles: Making Sense of Urban Theory
Edited by Michael Dear. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, pp. 367-402.
Pulido, Laura (1997) "Community, Place and Identity" In Thresholds in Feminist Geography
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book chapters, cont’d
Edited by John Paul Jones, Heidi Nast, and Sue Roberts. Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield, pp. 11-28.
Pulido, Laura (1996) "Multiracial Organizing Among Environmental Justice Activists in
Los Angeles "In Rethinking Los Angeles Edited by Michael Dear, Greg Hise and Eric
Schockman. Newbury Park: Sage Publications, pp. 171-189.
Pulido, Laura (1993) "Sustainable Development at Ganados del Valle" in Confronting
Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots Edited by Robert Bullard. Boston:
South End Press, pp. 123-139.
Reports and Evaluations
Pulido, Laura (2001) “Fourth Evaluation of the Southern San Joaquin Valley Office of the
Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment” California Rural Legal Assistance, San
Francisco.
Pulido, Laura (2000) “Third Evaluation of the Southern San Joaquin Valley Office of the Center
on Race, Poverty & the Environment” California Rural Legal Assistance, San Francisco.
Pulido, Laura (2000) “Second Evaluation of the Southern San Joaquin Valley Office of the
Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment” California Rural Legal Assistance, San
Francisco.
Pulido, Laura (1999) “First Evaluation of the Southern San Joaquin Valley Office of the Center
on Race, Poverty & the Environment” California Rural Legal Assistance, San Francisco.
Pulido, Laura (1998) “The Roots of Political Consciousness Among Militant Unionists and
Worker Activists in Los Angeles” Center for the Study of Southern California, USC.
Work in Progress
Pulido, Laura. “Sangre en la Tierra: Landscapes of Racialized State Violence in Los Angeles:
1771-2010” To be submitted to, The LA Atlas, edited by Patricia Wakida. Heydey
Books.
Clyde A. Woods. Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restoration in
Post-Katrina New Orleans. Edited and posthumously completed by Laura Pulido and
Jordan Camp. University of Georgia Press, Geographies of Justice Series.
Pulido, Laura and Clyde A. Woods. “Los Angeles Slavery: Building on US Southern and
Mexican Forms of Unfree Labor.” To be submitted to A History of Black Los Angeles,
1492-2000. Edited by Paula Ioanide, Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Damien Schnyder.
Pulido, Laura. “The Geography of the Black Radical Tradition Among the U.S. Mexican
Diaspora.” To be submitted to, Black Radical Geographies. Edited by Josh Inwood and
Rashad Shabazz. University of Georgia Press, Geographies of Justice Series.
Encyclopedias
Pulido, Laura (2000) “Environmental Justice” in The Dictionary of Human Geography,
Fourth Edition. Edited by R. Johnston, D. Gregory, G. Pratt, D. Smith, and M. Watts.
Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 218-220.
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encyclopedias, cont’d
Pulido, Laura (2006) “The Border and the Environment” “Maria Elena Durazo”
“Ganados del Valle” “Maria Varela” in Latinas in the United States: An Historical
Encyclopedia. Edited by V. Ruiz and V. Sanchez Korrol. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press.
Book Reviews, Editorials, and Essays
Pulido, Laura and Laura Barraclough (2013) “Seeing the State in Downtown LA” Newsletter of
the Association of American Geographers. April.
Pulido, Laura (2013) Review of They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape and the Struggle
over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California, by Don Mitchell. Cultural
Geographies. 20 (1): 126.
Pulido, Laura (2012) Review of Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in
Twentieth Century Los Angeles, by Shana Bernstein. Journal of American History.
99: 657-658.
Pulido, Laura (2012) “The Future is Now: Climate Change and Environmental Justice”
Social Text online (http://www.socialtextjournal.org/periscope/)
Pulido, Laura (2012) “We Built This City: A Personal History” A People’s Guide to Los Angeles,
Part 3. Los Angeles Review of Books. August 20 (www.lareviewofbooks.org)
Pulido, Laura and David Lloyd (2010) “From La Frontera to Gaza: Chicano-Palestinian
Connections” American Quarterly 62 (4): 791-794.
Pulido, Laura (2009) “Immigration Politics and Motherhood” Amerasia. 35 (1): 169-178.
Pulido, Laura and Laura Barraclough (2008) “Forum: Geography, Pedagogy and Politics. The
People’s Guide to LA: An Experiment in Popular Geography” Progress in Human
Geography 32 (5): 680-718.
Pulido, Laura (2007) “A Day Without Immigrants” Antipode. 39 (1): 1-7.
Pulido, Laura (2005) Review of Mi Raza Primero! by Ernesto Chavez. Aztlan. 30(1): 213-217.
Pulido, Laura (2004), “Race, Immigration and the Border: Review of Joe Nevin’s Operation
Gatekeeper.” Antipode. 36(1): 154-157.
Pulido, Laura (2001) Review Essay “Race and Ethics: The White Scourge by Neil Foley,
Development Arrested by Clyde Woods, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
of South Africa” Ethics, Place and Environment. 4(2): 179-185.
Pulido, Laura (2000) Review of Ecofeminist Natures by Noel Sturgeon. Environment and
Planning D: Society & Space. 18(10): 122-124.
Pulido, Laura (1998) “The Sacredness of ‘Mother Earth’: Spirituality, Activism, and Social
Justice. Forum: David Harvey’s Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference” Annals
of the Association of American Geographers. 88(4): 719-723.
Burgos, Rita and Pulido, Laura (1998) “The Politics of Gender in the Los Angeles Bus Riders’
Union/Sindicato de Pasajeros” Capital, Nature, Socialism 9(3): 75-82.
Pulido, Laura (1998) Review of Ecological Resistance Movements by Bron R. Taylor (ed) Ethics,
Place, and Environment. 1(1): 109-113.
Mann, Eric and Jose Cuellar Valdez (1997) “Interview with Jorge Cuellar Valdez - Congress of
Mexican Workers, SUTAUR 100" Edited by Laura Pulido. Ahora/Now 3: 4-5.
Pulido, Laura (1996) "Environmental Racism" Introduction to special issue on environmental
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book reviews, essays and editorials, cont’d
racism. Urban Geography 17(5): 377-379.
Pulido, Laura and Jennifer Wolch (1996) Review of Culture, Conflict and Communication in the
Wildland-Urban Interface by Alan Ewert, Deborah Chavez and Arthur Magill, Annals of
the Association of American Geographers 86(3): 587-589.
Pulido, Laura and Steve Sidawi (1996) Review of Ecopopulism by Andrew Szasz, Economic
Geography 72(1): 92-94.
Burgos, Rita, Kate Kinkade and Laura Pulido (1996) “The Urgency and the Limits of
Affirmative Action” Ahora/Now 2: 5-6.
Pulido, Laura (1993) Review of Radical Ecology by Carolyn Merchant, Economic Geography
69(4): 445-448.
Alcantar, Leticia and Laura Pulido (1993) Co-Editors, Race, Poverty & Environment. Special
issue on Latinos and Environmental Justice. 4(3).
Pulido, Laura (1993) "Deconstructing Environmental Racism: The Early Pesticide Campaign of
the United Farm Workers" Race, Poverty & Environment 4(3): 14-16.
OTHER CREATIVE WORK
Pulido, Laura (2004) “The People’s Guide to LA”, Poster
Pulido, Laura and Sharon Sekhon (2004) “The People’s Guide to LA” (www.pgtla.com) Website
Pulido, Laura, Sharon Sekhon, Laura Barraclough and Wendy Cheng (2007) “A People’s Guide
to LA” exhibit in “Just Space(s)” at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE).
COURSES TAUGHT
Undergraduate
California Geography
Conservation of Natural Resources
Ethnicity and Place
Geography of the Chican@ Southwest
Humans and the Environment
Inter-ethnic Diversity in the West
Introduction to Environmental Studies
Junior Seminar on Race and Ethnicity
L.A. and the American Dream
La Frontera: The U.S./Mexico Border
Latina@ L.A.
Leadership in the Community
The Maquiladora System
Mexican American Places in Literature and Film
Social Justice and Environmentalism
Race and Class in Los Angeles
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courses taught, cont’d
Graduate
Current Issues in Geographical Research
Dissertation Proposal Writing
Geographical Foundations
Interdisciplinary Research Seminar on Los Angeles
Race and Environmentalism
Race, Class and Gender in Environmentalism
Race, Space & Place
Readings in Chican@/Latin@ Studies
Research Seminar in Comparative Ethnic Studies
Theories & Practice of Professional Development
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
2013
“The Role of Popular Education in Building Oppositional Consciousness: The Case of Tourism”
Political Science Department, University of California, Riverside. May.
“Taking it to the Streets: Race, Popular Education and Local Geography” Semana de la Latina.
University of Maryland, College Park. April.
“Race, Radical Geography and Insurgent Knowledge” Geography Department, Northeastern
Illinois University, April. Visiting Geographical Scientist. Association of American
Geographers.
Race, “Radical Geography and Insurgent Knowledge,” Geography Department, Chicago State
University, April. Visiting Geographical Scientist, Association of American Geographers.
“Tourism for the 99%” University of Vermont. African, Latina/o, Asian & Native American
Studies Program (ALANA). February.
2012
“Los Angeles” Los Angeles City College Book Program. October.
“Alternative Tourism and Social Justice” Metropolitan and Policy Studies, California State
University, Long Beach. September.
“The Clyde A. Woods Memorial Lecture: Bridging the University and Community Through
Popular Education” University of California, Santa Barbara. May.
“Using Popular Education to Communicate Geography: A People’s Guide to LA” Geography
Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. May.
“Taking it to the Streets: Radical Tourism, Ethnic Studies and Insurgent Knowledge” Chicana &
Chicano Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. March.
“The Making of A People’s Guide to LA” University of California Press Foundation. Los
Angeles. March.
2011
“Ethnic Studies and Alternative Tourism,” Ethnic Studies Week, University of Arizona. October.
“Towards a Popular Geography: Alternative Tourism in Los Angeles” Geography Department,
California State University, Long Beach. September.
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invited presentations, cont’d
“Alternative Tourism: A People’s Guide” Geography Department, University of Georgia. May.
“Racial Politics Among People of Color” Sawyer Seminar, Geography Department, University
of Washington. May.
“Towards Democratizing the Tenure Process at USC” Center for the Study of Men and Women,
USC. March.
2010
“The Geography of Latina/o Racial Subjectivity” Geography Department, University of
Georgia, Athens. April.
“On Being a Scholar/Activist” Geography Department, University of Georgia, Athens. April.
2009
“Mexican American Racial Identity over Time and Space” Geography Department, California
State University, San Diego. September.
“Mexican American Racial Subjectivity” Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics.
University of California, Los Angeles. May.
2008
“Black and Latino Relations Under Conditions of White Supremacy” Geography Department,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. January.
“Latino and Black Relations in Contemporary Los Angeles” Ethnic Studies Department,
University of California, Riverside. February.
“The Internalization of Color Blind Ideology by Blacks and Latinos.” University of California,
Santa Barbara. May.
“Los Angeles’s Third World Left” University of California, Santa Barbara. May.
“Radical Politics Today” Spaces of Democracy and the Democracy of Space.” Research
Network. Long Beach City Library. August.
2006
The Hilldale Lecture, “Rethinking Regional Racial Formations: Latinos in the South” Geography
Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison. April.
“On Being a Scholar/Activist” Geography Department, University of Wisconsin. April.
2003
Atwood Memorial Lecture, “Radical Activism in Historical and Geographical Context”
Geography Department, Clark University, Worcester, MA. November.
“Rethinking the Black/White Binary: Latinos in the South” Geography Department, Clark
University, Worcester, MA. November.
“Gender Relations Among the Third World Left” Center for Ethnic Studies Research, University
of California, San Diego, May.
2002
“Retelling the Revolution: Voices of 1960s Activists” Regional Oral History Office,
University of California, Berkeley, April.
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invited presentations, cont’d
“Gender Relations Among the Third World Left” Mills College, April.
“The Lessons of the Third World Left” Center for Third World Organizing. Oakland. April.
2001
“Black, Brown, Yellow and Left” Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley.
December.
“Public Space and Radical Activism” Scripps College, Claremont, CA. October.
“Gender Relations Among the Third World Left” Institute of American Cultures. UCLA
Los Angeles, CA. June.
“Immigration, Work and Political Mobilization” MacArthur Consortium Workshop, University
of Minnesota. Minneapolis. May.
“Forging New Coalitions” Joining Forces: Environmental Justice and Prison Abolitionists.
Prison Moratorium Project Conference. California State University Fresno. February.
“The Interior Life of Politics” Keynote speaker, Western Graduate Geography Student
Conference. Boulder, CO. February.
2000
“Emotions and Ethics in Political Activism” Department of Geography, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, NJ. March.
“Lessons from Activists from the Sixties and Seventies” Department of Sociology,
USC, October.
1999
“Applying Social Research: Linking Knowledge with Current Social Problems” Department of
Sociology, USC. March.
“Urban Space, White Privilege and Environmental Racism” Environmental Studies Department,
University of California, Santa Cruz. March.
“Race, Class, Political Activism and Research” Latino and Latin American Studies Research
Seminar. University of California, Santa Cruz. March.
1998
“Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Movements of Color in Los Angeles in the 1960s and
70’s” Geography Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
September.
“Environmental Racism and Urban Development in Southern California.” Ethnic Studies,
University of California, San Diego. April.
“The History of Environmental Racism” Department of Geography, Temple University.
Philadelphia, PA. April.
1997
“Race and Space in the Environmental Justice Literature” Environmental Justice Forum and the
Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle. November.
“Environmental Racism in Southern California: Suburbanization and White
Privilege” MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program on Peace and International
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invited presentations, cont’d
Cooperation. University of Minnesota. October.
“Scales of Environmental Racism: Suburbanization and White Privilege in Southern California”
Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
1996
“People of Color and Identity Formation in the Environmental Justice Movement.” Geography
Department and Ethnic Studies, University of Nevada, Reno. October.
“The Role of Central Americans in Militant Labor Organizing in Los Angeles”
Geography Department, University of Arizona. Tucson. September
"The Historical Geography of Environmental Racism in Los Angeles" Place, Democracy, and
Minority Identity. Clarion University, Pennsylvania. March.
"Social Action Research" Latino Leadership Opportunity Project. Chicano Studies, Stanford
University. Stanford, CA. February.
1995
"Constructing Cultural Differences in Chicano Resource Use" Geography
Department, University of Colorado, Boulder. December.
"A Critical Look at Environmental Racism Research: Rethinking Racism"
Geography Department, University of California, Los Angeles. May.
1994
"Latinos and the Environmental Justice Movement" Environmental Protection Agency.
Washington, D.C. September.
Panelist, "Minority Discourses in California and Environmental Justice" Center for Humanities
Research, University of California, Irvine. May.
"Problems of a Woman-Centered Paradigm" Graduate Student Feminist Network, University of
Southern California. Los Angeles. March.
"Internationalization and the Environmental Justice Movement" Keynote speaker.
Earth Day, California State University, Sacramento. April.
1993
"Cultural Studies, Public Policy and Community Organizing" Charting a Latino Research
Agenda, Sponsored by the Tomas Rivera Center, Occidental College.
"Environmental Science and Multiethnicity" Center for Multiethnic and Transnational Studies,
University of Southern California. Los Angeles. April.
"Minorities in the Environmental Justice Movement" Geography Department, University of
Southern California. Los Angeles. February.
"Culture and Ethnicity Among Minorities in the Environmental Justice Movement” Geography
Department, Pennsylvania State University. College Park, PA. January.
Conference Participation
2013
Regional Political Cultures of Domination: Unfree Labor in 19th Century Los Angeles” Annual
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“conference participation, cont’d
Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles. April.
Panelist, “Moving to Berlin: Beyond the Los Angeles School” Annual Meetings of the
Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, April.
Discussant, “Author Meets Critics: A People’s Guide to LA” Annual Meetings of the
Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, April.
Discussant, “Legacies of Environmental Injustice in the Other California"
Panelist, “Living and Writing Los Angeles” Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, University of
Southern California. April.
2012
Panelist, “Tourism as Resistance” Annual Meetings of the American Studies Association. San
Juan, Puerto Rico. November.
Chair, “Immigration, Transnational and Border Studies” Mujeres Activas en Letras & Cambio,
UC Santa Barbara. July.
Panelist, “Alternative Tourism from Across the US”, Annual Meetings of the Association of
American Geographers, New York City, February.
Panelist, “Clyde A. Woods: A Memorial” Annual Meetings of the Association of American
Geographers, New York City, February.
Panelist, “Author Meets Critics: Karen Tongson’s, Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries.
Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, New York City,
February.
2011
Social Movements Plenary, “Critical Ethnic Studies as a Social Movement? Notes from the
Field” Critical Ethnic Studies Conference. University of California, Riverside. April.
2010
Chair, “Confronting the Crisis: Using Collaborative Chains for Change (An Assistance Kit for
Navigating the ‘Not So Great Depression’ in the Academy). Annual Meetings of the
American Studies Association. San Antonio. November.
2009
Population Specialty Group Plenary Lecture, “What Does it Mean to be Brown?” Annual
Meetings of the Association of American Geographers. Las Vegas. April.
“Mexican American Racial Subjectivity in the Asociacion Nacional Mexico-Americana”
Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers. Las Vegas. April.
Discussant, “Race and the Neoliberal City” Annual Meeting of the American Studies
Association. Washington, D.C.
2008
Antipode Plenary Lecture, “Black and Latino Relations Under White Supremacy” Annual
Meetings of the Association of American Geographers. Boston. April.
National Research Council, “Strategic Directions for the Geographical Sciences in the Next
Decade.” Association of American Geographers. Boston. April.
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conference participation, cont’d
“Latina/o Racial Subjectivity and the Future of Racial Politics in the U.S.” Annual
Meetings of the Association of American Geographers. Boston. April
“The Color of the Asociacion Nacional Mexico-Americana” Annual Meeting of the Association
of American Studies. Albuquerque. October.
2007
Panelist, “Author Meets the Critics: Laura Pulido’s Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical
Activism in Los Angeles” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers.
San Francisco. April.
2006
Discussant, “Black and Latino Politics” Annual Meetings of the American Studies Association,
Oakland. October.
“Brown and Black Relations in Los Angeles” Conference entitled, “Inequality: Southern
California’s Major Fault Line.” University of California, Irvine. May.
2005
“Asian Americans as People of Color?” Annual Meetings of the Association of Asian
American Studies. Los Angeles. April.
2004
“The Geography of Race” Paper presented at “Reflections on the Future: Dialogues on
the Intersections of Latina/o-Chicana/o-Latin American(s) Studies". University of
California, Santa Cruz. February.
2002
“Gender and Revolution in the Sixties and Seventies” Annual Meetings of the American
Studies Association. Houston, TX. November
Panelist, “Marxist Geography and Race” Annual Meetings of the Association of American
Geographers. Los Angeles. March
Panelist, “Regional Political Cultures in Los Angeles” Annual Meetings of the Association
of American Geographers. Los Angeles. March
Panelist, “Author Meets Critique: Joe Nevin’s Operation Gatekeeper” Annual Meetings
of the Association of American Geographers. Los Angeles. March
2001
Panelist, “Ethics and Activism” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. New
York. February.
2000
“Gender Relations Among Revolutionaries of Color” Association of American Geographers
Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh. April.
Panelist, “Ethics and Activism” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting.
Pittsburgh. April.
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conference participation, cont’d
Discussant, “Race and the Census” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting.
Pittsburgh. April.
1999
“Regional Racial Formations and Oppositional Political Cultures” California Studies
Association. Berkeley. February.
1998
Discussant, “The Cultures of Revolution, the Revolution of Cultures” American Studies
Association. Seattle. November.
“Student Harassment in the Classroom” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting.
Boston. April. Written with and presented by Heidi Nast.
1997
“The Crisis of White Identity in the Los Angeles Labor Movement” Association of American
Geographers Annual Meeting. Fort Worth, Texas. April.
“The Geography of Militant Labor Organizing in Los Angeles” Rethinking Marxism,
Amherst Massachusetts. December.
1996
"El Salvador Producing Los Angeles" Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting.
Charlotte, NC. April.
"Author Meets Critics: Laura Pulido's Environmentalism and Economic Justice"
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Charlotte, NC. April.
Panelist, "Appropriations of Place" Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting.
Charlotte, NC. April.
Panelist, "Contract with America, State Restructuring and Geography" Association of American
Geographers Annual Meeting. Charlotte, NC. April.
1995
"Deconstructing Environmental Racism" Association of American Geographers Annual
Meeting. Chicago. March.
Panelist, "Environmental Ethics and Social Justice" Association of American Geographers
Annual Meeting. Chicago. March.
Panelist, "Race, Gender and Geography: Theory and Politics" Association of American
Geographers Annual Meeting. Chicago. March.
Discussant, "Linking Political Ecology and Environmental Justice" Association of American
Geographers Annual Meeting. Chicago. March.
"Community, Place and Identity" Conference entitled, New Horizons in Feminist Geography.
University of Kentucky, Lexington. January.
"Emergent/Resistant Identities Among Environmental Justice Activists in Los Angeles" Annual
Meetings of the Institute of British Geographers. University of Northumbria, Newcastle,
UK. January.
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conference participation, cont’d
"Problematizing 'Race' and Space" Conference entitled, Putting Health in Its Place. University of
Southern California. Los Angeles. February.
1994
Panelist, "Community Health and the Environment" Center for Research in Environmental
Sciences, Policy and Engineering, USC. Pasadena. April
"Environmental Racism as Articulated by the Environmental Justice Movement" Association of
American Geographers Annual Meeting. San Francisco. April.
Panelist, "Future Directions for Feminist Geography" Association of American Geographers
Annual Meeting. San Francisco. April.
Discussant, "Race in the West" Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. San
Francisco. April.
1993
"The Conceptual Inflation of Culture in the Environmental Justice Movement" Association of
American Geographers Annual Meeting. Atlanta. April.
"The Development of Pan-Ethnicity Among Minorities in the Environmental Justice Movement"
National Association of Chicano Studies. San Jose. March.
1992
"Social Justice Environmentalism: The United Farm Workers' Early Pesticide Campaign"
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. San Diego.
"Theory, Politics, and the New Environmentalism: Charting a New Research Agenda" National
Association of Chicano Studies. San Antonio. March.
"The Role of Culture in Contrasting Mexican American Environmental Struggles" International
Geographical Congress. Washington, D.C. August.
"The Complex Environmentalism of Everyday Life: Ganados del Valle" Environmental and
Latino Imaginations Conference. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. April.
1991
"Latino Environmental Struggles in the Southwest" Pacific Coast Council on Latin American
Studies Conference. Fullerton, CA. October.
"Rural Chicanos: Encountering Nature Through Culture and Class" Association of American
Geographers Annual Meeting. Miami. April.
1990
"The Los Angeles Chicano Community and Environmental Politics" National Association of
Chicano Studies. Albuquerque. April.
1987
"Community Perceptions of Agricultural Chemicals" Association of American Geographers
Annual Meeting. Portland. April.
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Studies Association
Association of American Geographers
Mujeres Activas en Letras & Cambio
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
PROFESSIONAL, UNIVERSITY & COMMUNITY SERVICE
Editorial Service
Series Editor, A People’s Guide book series, University of California Press (2013Managing Board Member, American Quarterly (2005-2009)
Editorial Board Member:
ACME: An Interdisciplinary E-Journal of Critical Geographies (2002-2006)
Annals of the Association of American Geographers (2001- present)
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Review of Books (2013- )
Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography (1999-2006)
Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies (2002-05)
Ecumene/Cultural Geography (1999-present)
Environment and Planning: D Society and Space (1999-2006)
Hagar: International Social Science Review (2001-2010)
Gender, Place & Culture (1996-1998)
University of Georgia, Geographies of Justice & Social Transformation Series (2010-present)
Referee for:
National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Cornell
University Press, Duke University Press, New York University Press, Pickering & Chatto,
Routledge Press, University of Arizona Press, University of California Press, University of
Georgia Press, University of Texas Press, ACME, American Quarterly, Annals of the
Association of American Geographers, Antipode, Aztlán, Economic Geography,
Ecumene/Cultural Geography, Environment and Planning: A, Environment and Planning D:
Society & Space, Gender, Place & Culture, Geoforum, Hastings Review, Health and Place,
Historical Geography, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Journal of
Contemporary Sociology, Journal of Geography, Journal of Planning Education and Research,
Journal of Social Geography Research, Latino Studies, Political Geography, Professional
Geographer, Progress in Human Geography, Social & Cultural Geography, Urban Affairs
Review, Urban Geography
Professional Service
2013
Convenor and Leader, Fieldtrip, “A People’s Guide to LA – Downtown” Annual Meetings of the
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professional service, cont’d
Association of American Geographers. Los Angeles, April.
2012
Member, Harold Rose Anti-Racist Award Committee, Association of American Geographers
Chair, Meridian Book Award Committee, Association of American Geographers
Member, Local Arrangements Committee, Association of American Geographers, Annual
Meetings
Co-Convenor, “In Appreciation of Clyde Woods: A Conversation on Race, Geography,
Community Activism and the Blues” Annual Meetings of the Association of American
Geographers. New York, February.
Co-Convenor, “Alternative Tourism” Annual Meetings of the Association of American
Geographers. New York, February.
2011
Faculty Leader, Institute of Geographies of Justice. University of Georgia. May/June.
Member, Meridian Book Award Committee, American Association of Geographers
Advisory Board Member, “Cesar’s Last Fast” Director, Richard Ray Perez.
Co-Convenor, “The Blues Epistemology: A Roundtable in Memory of Clyde A. Woods”
Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association. Baltimore. November.
2010
Member, Meridian Book Award Committee, American Association of Geographers
Chair, Minority Scholars’ Committee, American Studies Association
Convener, ASA session, “Confronting the Crisis: Transforming Chains into Networks
(An Assistance Kit for Navigating the "Not So Great Depression" in the Academy)”
American Studies Association Conference. San Antonio. November.
Ford Fellows Regional Liaison, Southern California (2010-12)
Co-Editor (with David Lloyd) of American Quarterly Forum, “From La Frontera to Gaza:
Chicano-Palestinian Connections” December 2010, Vol. 62 (4).
Panelist, “40th Anniversary of UCLA Planning Department” May.
2009
Convener, “Regional Variations in Latina/o Racial Subjectivity” Annual Meetings of the
Association of American Geographers. Las Vegas. April.
Co-Convener, “Chicana/o-Palestinian Connections” USC, March.
Member, Minority Scholars Committee, American Studies Association
2008
Convener, “Mexicans and Whiteness,” Annual Meetings of the American Studies Association,
Albuquerque. October.
Convener, “Author Meets Critics: Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s Golden Gulag. Annual Meetings of
the Association of American Geographers. Boston. April.
Member, Humanist Sociology Book Award Committee
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professional service, cont’d
2007
Steering Committee Member, Summer Institute for Geographies of Justice, Sponsored by
Antipode and the Socialist and Critical Geographers Specialty Group
2006
Workshop Presentation, “Power and Politics in the Everyday Landscape” UCLA HistoryGeography Project Institute. Los Angeles, July
Panelist, “Planning, Applying and Preparing for Graduate School” California Diversity Forum.
University of Southern California. April.
Jury Member, Antipode Student Scholarship
2002
Member, Program Committee, American Studies Association Annual Conference
Convener, “Racial Boundaries, Identities and Anti-Racist Politics” Annual Meetings of the
American Studies Association, Houston, TX. November
Co-Organizer, “Activism in the City of Angels” Panel Discussion, Annual Meetings of the
Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles. March
2001
Annals of the AAG and Professional Geographer Article Awards Committee
Guest book review editor “Race and Ethics.” Environment, Place and Ethics. 4(2)
Co-editor, “Ethics and Activism” Environment, Place and Ethics.
Co-convener “Race, Space and Social Movements” Annual Meeting of the Americans Studies
Association. Baltimore. November.
Co-convener, “Ethics and Activism” Annual Meetings of the Association of American
Geographers. New York. March.
Member, Reparations Conference Planning Committee, UCLA.
Convener, Third World Left Forum. Los Angeles. March, USC
Panelist, Ford Foundation Minority Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences Panel
2000
Faculty Proposal Critic. Social Science Research Council’s Minority Summer Dissertation
Workshop on International Migration. UCLA. August.
Convener, “Ethics and Activism” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting.
Pittsburgh, PA. April.
Faculty Proposal Critic. Los Angeles Dissertation Seminar. The Getty Research Institute for the
History of Art and the Humanities. Los Angeles.
1999
Convener, Author Meets Critics: Clyde Wood’s Arrested Development: Regional
Planning in the Mississippi Delta. Association of American Geographers Annual
Meeting. Honolulu, HI. March.
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professional service, cont’d
1997
External Evaluator, Center for Race, Poverty and the Environment, California Rural Legal
Assistance, Delano, CA. (1997-2001)
Convener, two sessions on “Structural Adjustment Across Three Worlds” Association of
American Geographers Annual Meeting. Fort Worth, TX. April
1996
Co-founder, Latino Political Economy Group (with Rudy Torres and Pierrette
Hondagneu-Sotelo)
Guest editor, special issue of Urban Geography on environmental racism/justice.
1995
Jury Member, National Student Paper Competition, Geographic Perspectives on
Women, Association of American Geographers.
Convener, two sessions on "Linking Political Ecology and Environmental Justice"
Convener, two sessions on "Environmental Racism/Justice" Association of American
Geographers Annual Meeting. Chicago. March.
1994
Organizer, two sessions on "Recent Developments in the Construction of 'Race'".
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. San Francisco. April.
University Service
2012
Placement Director, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
Member, Strategic Program & Opportunities Committee, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
2011
Chair, Merit Review Committee, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
2010
Member, Graduate Studies Committee, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
Member, Social Justice Search Committee, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
2008
Director, Undergraduate Studies, Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
Member, Executive Committee, Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
Member, Merit Review Committee, Geography Department, USC
Member, Diversity Curriculum Committee, USC
Member, Ad Hoc Grade Appeals Panel, Departments of American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
Co-Convener (with Josh Kun) “Writing Race in Los Angeles” Visions and Voices. USC
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university service, cont’d
2007
Director, Chicano/Latino Studies, Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
Member, Committee on Probationary Deadlines, Academic Senate, USC
Member, Executive Committee, Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
Member, Ad Hoc Grade Appeals Panel, American Studies & Ethnicity and Geography, USC
2006
Director, Chicano/Latino Studies, Department in American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
Member, Executive Committee, Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
Member, Committee on Probationary Deadlines, Academic Senate, USC
Member, Advisory Committee, “Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education in the Social,
Economic and Behavioral Sciences” National Science Foundation. Jean Morrison, P.I. USC
Member, Steering Committee, Latin American Studies Minor, USC
Mentor, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, USC
Panelist, “So You Want to go to Graduate School?” Geography Department, USC
Panelist, Multicultural Women’s Luncheon, USC
2005
Vice-Provost’s Task Force on Graduate Education, USC
Merit Review Committee, Geography Department, USC
Director of Graduate Studies, Program in American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
Member, Executive Committee, Program in American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
2004
Member, Service Learning Subcommittee, Strategic Plan Committee, USC
Library Liaison, Geography Department, USC
2003
Director of Graduate Studies, Program in American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
Chair, Admissions Committee, Program in American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
Member, Executive Committee, Program in American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
Member, Merit Review Committee, Geography Department, USC
2002
Director of Graduate Studies, Program in American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
Chair, Admissions Committee, Program in American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
Executive Committee, Program in American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
Search Committee, Program in American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
Colloquium Coordinator, Geography Department, USC
Tenure Review Committee, Geography Department, USC
2000
Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Geography Department, USC
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University service, cont’d
Merit Review Committee, Geography Department, USC
Member, Ph.D. Steering Committee, Program in American Studies & Ethnicity USC
1999
Graduate Coordinator, Geography Department, USC
Member, Search Committee, American Studies and Ethnicity, USC
Faculty Advisor, Student Activist Coalition, USC (1999-2002)
Faculty Advisor, Trojan Horse, USC (1999-2002)
Colloquium Coordinator, Geography Department, USC
Member, Program on American Studies & Ethnicity Advisory Committee, USC
1998
Member, Organized Research Unit Steering Committee, Program in American Studies and
Ethnicity, USC
Member, Search Committee, Geography Department, USC
Merit Review Committee, Geography Department, USC
Jury Member, Geography Department Student Paper Competition, USC
1996
Library Liaison, Geography Department, USC
Member, Program on American Studies & Ethnicity Advisory Committee, USC
Colloquium Coordinator, Geography Department, USC
Jury Member, Geography Department Student Paper Competition, USC
Member, Environmental Studies Advisory Committee, USC
1995
Member, Program on American Studies & Ethnicity Advisory Committee, USC
Protege Plus Mentor, USC
Colloquium Coordinator, Geography Department, USC
Jury Member, Geography Department Student Paper Competition, USC
Member, Environmental Studies Advisory Committee, USC
1993
Member, Environmental Studies Advisory Committee, USC
Colloquium Coordinator, Geography Department, USC
1992
Faculty Coordinator, Trojan Geographical Society, USC
Marshall, Commencement Exercises, USC
1991
Member, Graduate Student Committee, Geography Department California State University
Fullerton
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Community Service
Chair, “Labor Policy Committee” Arroyo Food Co-op
Member, “Product Sourcing Committee” Arroyo Food Co-op
Board Member, Southern California Library for Social Studies & Research
Consultant, Coalition Against Police Abuse, Los Angeles
Research Consultant, Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training, Denver
Community Funding Board, Liberty Hill Foundation, Los Angeles.
Evaluator, Center for Race, Poverty & Environment, San Joaquin Valley
Editorial Board, Ahora/Now, Labor/Community Strategy Center. Los Angeles.
Consultant, Communities for a Better Environment. Huntington Park, CA.
Commissioner, Environmental Affairs Department, City of Los Angeles.
Member, Environmental Equity Committee, The Comparative Risk Project,
California Environmental Protection Agency
Board of Organizers, Labor/Community Strategy Center. Los Angeles.
Consultant, Los Angeles Conservation Corps.
STUDENT SUPERVISION
Phd Committees Chaired
Laura Barraclough, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC (completed 2006)
“Rural Urbanism: Landscape, Land Use Activism, and the Cultural Politics of Suburban Spatial
Exclusion”
Assistant Professor, American Studies, Yale University
Chrisshona Grant Nieva, American Studies and Ethnicity, USC (completed 2011)
“This Is My Country: The Use of Blackness in Discourses of Racial Nativism Towards Latino
Immigrants”
Lecturer, University of Southern California
Daniel HoSang, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC (completed 2007).
“Racial Propositions: Genteel Apartheid in Postwar California”
Winner of the Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize in American Studies
Associate Professor, Political Science & Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon
Donna Houston, Geography Department, USC (completed 2006)
“Topographies of Memory and Power: Environmental Politics, History and Justice at Yucca
Mountain”
Lecturer, Environment & Geography, Macquarie University, Australia
Lorena Muñoz, Geography Department, USC (completed 2008)
“Tamales…Elotes…Champurado: The Production of Latin Vending Landscapes in Los
Angeles”
Assistant Professor, Geography, University of Minnesota
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Phd Committees Chaired, cont’d
Mary Roche, Geography Department, USC (completed 2004)
“Unfinished Business: The Production of Resistance to State Violence in Los Angeles & Derry”
Lecturer, Geography, University College Cork, Ireland
Rigoberto Rodriguez, Geography Department, USC (completed 2007)
“Enterprising Citizenship: Mexican Immigrant Empowerment and Public-Private Partnerships in
Santa Ana, California”
Associate Professor, Chicano & Latino Studies, California State University Long Beach
Dissertation Committees
Andrew Burridge, Geography Department (completed 2009)
Jason Byrne, Geography Department (completed 2007)
Genevieve Carpio, American Studies & Ethnicity (completed 2013)
Wendy Cheng, American Studies & Ethnicity (completed 2009)
Amee Chew, American Studies & Ethnicity (supervisor)
Michan Connor, American Studies & Ethnicity (completed 2008)
Gilbert Estrada, History Department (completed 2011)
Max Felker-Kantor, History Department
Glenda Flores, Sociology Department (completed 2011)
Steve Flusty, Geography Department (completed 2001)
Kai Green, American Studies & Ethnicity
Perla Guerrero, American Studies and Ethnicity (completed 2010)
Christina Heatherton, American Studies & Ethnicity (completed 2012)
Jill Humphries, Public Administration (completed 2002)
Analena Hassberg, American Studies & Ethnicity (supervisor)
Lynn Kelly, English Department
Jessica Kim, History Department (completed 2012)
Steve Kolletty, Geography Department (completed 2000)
Wei Li, Geography Department (completed 1997)
James McKeever, Sociology Department (completed 2011)
Marci McMahon, English Department (completed 2007)
Pamela McMullin-Messier, Sociology Department (completed 2006)
Jeb Middlebrook, American Studies & Ethnicity (completed 2011)
April Ruth Peck, Geography Department
Haven Perez, American Studies & Ethnicity (completed 2013)
Jessi Quizar, American Studies & Ethnicity
Orlando Serrano, American Studies & Ethnicity (supervisor)
Barbra Soliz, History Department
Carrie Sutkin, Urban Planning (completed 2002)
David Stein, American Studies & Ethnicity
Allison Tom, Urban Planning (completed 2002)
Unna Lassiter, Geography Department (completed 2000)
Bob Vos, Political Science (completed 1999)
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Non-USC Dissertation Committees
Maureen Purtill, Urban Planning, UCLA (completed 2013)
Ellen Kohl, Geography, University of Georgia
Ofelia Cuevas, Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego (completed 2008)
Doctoral Guidance Committees
Adam Bush, American Studies & Ethnicity (completed 2013)
Angela Constable, Sociology Department
Treva Ellison, American Studies & Ethnicity
Laura Fugikawa, American Studies & Ethnicity (completed 2011)
Laura Harjo, Geography Department (completed 2012)
Jacqueline Holzer, Geography Department
Ellen Kohl, Geography Department, University of Georgia, Athens
Jessica Lovas, American Studies & Ethnicity
Nic Ramos, American Studies & Ethnicity (supervisor)
Lisa Sedano, Geography Department (completed 2013)
Mona Seymour, Geography Department (completed 2010)
Steve Sidawi, Geography Department (supervisor)
Jennifer Tran, American Studies & Ethnicity
Rob Wilton, Geography Department (completed 1999)
Thesis Committees
Hallie Krinksi, Geography Department (supervisor, completed 2001)
Bob Massey, Sociology
Jurgen Von Mahs, Geography Department (completed 1996)
Jessica Walsh, Geography Department (completed 1996)
Lynn Whitley, Geography Department (completed 1998)
Senior Theses
Ramon Negrete, Program on the Environment and City (completed 1994)
Marisol Seigel, American Studies & Ethnicity (completed 2009)
Thomas Trexler, Geography Department (completed 1997)
McNair Scholars
Daniel Parra, “White Resistance to Ethnic Studies” (2002)
Adam Perez, “Mexican American Racial Identity” (2009)
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows
Raquel Chavez, “Multiracial Identities in Nicaragua and South Africa” (2006)
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