Keith Harris
Curriculum vitae
January 4, 2017
Department of Urban Design and Planning
410 Gould Hall
Box 355740
Seattle, WA 98195-5740
Phone: 206-856-3981
[email protected]
EDUCATION
2016
2003
2001
Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Built Environment, University of Washington,
Dissertation title: “The Coordinated City’s Mutation
Machine: Capitalism, Sympathy, and Urbanization in Seattle’s South
Lake Union Neighborhood”
Advisor: Mark Purcell
M.Eng., Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University
B.S., Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University
PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters
(Forthcoming)
“A Thousand Models of Realization: Toward a Deleuzoguattarian Critical
Urban Theory,” Deleuze and Architecture/Urbanism
London: Bloomsbury Press.
Book Reviews
2017 (forthcoming)
Review of Cities and Inequalities in a Global and Neoliberal World,
edited by Faranak Miraftab, David Wilson, and Ken Salo (Routledge,
2015). Journal of Planning Education and Research.
2015
Review of Frédéric Lordon, Willing Slaves of Capital (Verso, 2014).
Antipode.
https://radicalantipode.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/book-review_harrison-lordon.pdf
2014
Review of Catalina Neculai, Urban Space and Late Twentiethcentury New York Literature: Reformed Geographies (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2014). Urban Geography Research Group (RGS-IBG).
http://urban-geography.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Harris-2014Review-of-Neculai.pdf
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2014
Review of John Protevi, Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the Science
(University of Minnesota Press, 2013). City (18): 4-5, 594-597.
2014
Review of Peter Hudis, Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism
(Brill, 2012). Antipode.
http://radicalantipode.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/book-review_harrison-hudis.pdf
2014
Review of Deleuze and Research Methodologies, edited by Rebecca
Coleman and Jessica Ringrose (Edinburgh University Press, 2013).
Emotion, Space and Society (12): 112-113.
2014
Review of Mark Bonta and John Protevi, Deleuze and Geophilosophy
(Edinburgh University Press, 2004). Foucault Studies (17): 259-263. Coauthor.
Manuscripts in Preparation
Refereed Journal Articles
“Making room for the extraeconomic: ontology for contemporary critical urban inquiry.”
Proposal accepted by City
Edited Volumes
From the Militant Commune: CERFI’S writings on urbanism. Proposal under review by Duke
University Press and MIT Press. Co-editor and Co-translator.
Translations
Paul B. Preciado. “Mi(e)s-conception: The Farnsworth House and the mystery of the transparent
closet.” Originally published as Beatriz Preciado. 2000. “Mies-conception: La casa
Farnsworth y el misterio del armario transparente.” Zehar 44.
Jacques Besse. 1999 (1969). La Grande Pâque (The Great Passover). Paris: La Chambre
d’échos.
Other Publications
2011
“Cultivating Community,” AIA Forum, September.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2016
John Toews Travel Grant
2015
Faculty Medal Award 2014-2015, Department of Urban Design and Planning
2015
Graduate and Professional Student Senate Travel Grant
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2014
John Toews Travel Grant (twice)
2014
Faculty Award, College of Built Environments, Panhellenic Association and
Intrafraternity Council
2013
John Toews Travel Grant
2013
Department of Urban Design and Planning Special Service Award
2011
University of Washington GSFEI Travel Award
2010
University of Washington GSFEI Travel Award
INVITED TALKS
2016
Tour of South Lake Union, School of Architecture, University of North Carolina –
Charlotte, March 4.
2014
Tour of South Lake Union, Department of Interior Design, Bellevue College,
September 30.
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY/PARTICIPATION
Panels Organized
2014
“Urban Machines, Governance, and Governmentality,” 7th International Deleuze
Studies Conference, Istanbul, July 14-16, 2014
2013
“Geophilosophy and the planes of urban experience,” Association of American
Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. Co-organizer.
Papers Presented
2017
“Abstract machines of urbanization: political economy, ethics, and aesthetics.”
Symposium on Assemblage Thinking. Mytilini, Lesvos, Greece, June (Paper
accepted).
2017
“The Schizo and the City: Jacques Besse’s La Grande Pâque.” American Association
of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, April (Paper accepted).
2016
“The Schizo and the City: Jacques Besse’s La Grande Pâque.” 9th International
Deleuze Studies Conference, Rome, Italy, July (Paper accepted).
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2016
“From Grunge to Glimmer: Building the New Seattle.” American Association of
Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, April.
2015
“A Thousand Models of Realization.” Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Refrains of
Freedom, Athens, Greece, April.
2015
“The Axiomatic State and Urban Governance,” Association of American
Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April (Paper accepted).
2014
“‘Doing Well By Doing Good’: Comprehensive Planning and Seattle’s Kinder,
Gentler War Machine,” American College Schools of Planning Annual
Conference, Philadelphia, PA, October.
2014
"Vulcan Inc.: Seattle’s Kinder, Gentler Urban War Machine," 7th International
Deleuze Studies Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, July.
2014
“Vulcan Inc.: Seattle’s New Urban War-Machine,” Association of American
Geographers Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL, April.
2013
“Urban Theory and Schizonomadology,” 6th International Deleuze Studies
Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, July.
2013
“Planes of Organization, Expression, and Content in Seattle’s South Lake Union
Neighborhood,” Communication and the City: Voices, Spaces, Media, Leeds, UK,
June.
2013
“South Lake Union: Plane of Organization/New Urbanization,” Association of
American Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April.
2012
“Urban Branding and Affect,” 5th International Deleuze Studies Conference, New
Orleans, LA, June.
2011
“Eros and ‘Urban Society’: Revisiting Henri Lefebvre from a Marcusean
Perspective,” Critical Refusals, International Herbert Marcuse Society Conference,
Philadelphia, PA, October.
2010
“Consumption, Terrorism, and the Built Environment,” Space in the Americas, Brest,
France, November (Paper accepted).
2010
“Consumption and the (Soft) Urban Process,” Middle Atlantic American Studies
Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March.
2010
“Consumption and the (Soft) Urban Process,” Consumption: Pleasures of the Text,
Materiality, and Cultural Practices, Columbia University, New York, NY, March.
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Discussant
2013
2011
“Opportunities and challenges in community-based pedagogy in urban geography,”
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April.
Pecha Kucha presentation on ‘third places’, Society of College and University
Planners, Northwest Regional Conference, Seattle University, Seattle, WA,
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvcrfR2r-PU), March.
CAMPUS/DEPARTMENTAL TALKS
2016
Panelist, “The Job Market” Colloquium in the Built Environment, University of
Washington, May.
2013
Panelist, “Roundtable: Thoughts on Interdisciplinary Professional Development,”
Colloquium in the Built Environment, University of Washington, December.
2013
Panelist, “The General Exam,” Colloquium in the Built Environment, University of
Washington, April.
2012
Panelist, “The General Exam,” Colloquium in the Built Environment, University of
Washington, March.
2011
“Bourgeois desires: the sexual illusion in luxury condo advertising, a visual discourse
analysis,” Colloquium in the Built Environment, January.
2010
“Three and a half papers on consumerism and the built environment,” Colloquium in
the Built Environment, February.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Washington (by department/program)
Architecture
Introduction to Structures I (Instructor of Record)
Introduction to Structures II (Instructor of Record, three terms)
Introduction to Structures III (Instructor of Record, three terms)
Architecture of the Ancient World (TA)
Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance Architecture (TA)
Community, Environment, and Planning (CEP)
Ethics and Identity (Instructional Co-Leader [one term], Instructor [three terms])
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Comparative History of Ideas (CHID)
Writing and Reading the City (Instructor of Record, three terms)
Mapping Desire and Affect (Instructor of Record, two terms)
Independent study of Deleuze (Instructor of Record)
The City of the Future? (Instructor of Record)
Knowing the City: from poetics to political economy (Instructor of Record)
Co-Director: New York City Exploration seminar (Autumn 2015)
Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in the Built Environment
Ethics in Practice, Research, and Teaching (Instructor of Record, Spring 2017)
Urban Planning
Introduction to Urbanization: Planning and Designing Alternative Urban Futures (TA, two
terms)
Introduction to Land Use, Growth Management, and Environmental Planning (Instructor of
Record)
University of Washington, Tacoma
Urban Studies
The City in Media (Instructor of Record, two terms)
Sustainable Urban Development Policies (Instructor of Record)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Referee, Space & Polity, Journal of Cultural Geography, Deleuze Studies
DEPARTMENTAL/UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Ph.D. in the Built Environment student application reviews, 2012, 2014.
EXTRACURRICULAR UNIVERSITY SERVICE
CHID Scholarship Committee, 2012-2013, 2014-2017
CHID Curriculum Committee, 2013-2014
CHID Thesis Committee, 2013-2014
Co-founder and participant of Becoming Poor, a critical theory reading group
(http://becomingpoor.wordpress.com), 2010-2014, 2016 – present.
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Organizer, “The Birth of the (Gay) Clinic," by Michael Brown and Larry Knopp. Colloquium in
the Built Environment, University of Washington, October, 2013.
Organizer, “Metropolis as Media Object,” by Andrew Culp (Ohio State University), Colloquium
in the Built Environment, University of Washington, March, 2014.
CEP Senior Project reviewer, May 2014, 2015, 2016
CEP 2016 Graduation Master of Ceremonies
STUDIO EXPERIENCE
2010
Vertical Farming and Sustainable Site Design Lab, Structures Crits, February.
2011
Structures I (for incoming Arch Graduate Students), Structures Crits, March.
2011
Structuring Efficiency, Structures Crits, October.
2011
Juror, Master of Architecture Thesis Presentations, December.
UNDERGRADUATE MENTORSHIP
Maddie Beeders (CEP, Mentor, graduated 2011)
Michelle Kehne (CHID, Thesis Advisor, graduated 2013)
Alexander Jordan (CHID, Mentor, 2013-2015)
Brianne Downing (CHID, Thesis Advisor, 2014)
Zoe Gish (CHID, Thesis Advisor, 2014-2015)
Boubacar Diallo (CHID, Thesis Advisor, 2014-2015)
Alexandra Masuoka (CHID, Thesis Advisor, 2014-2015)
Hyonjung (Halie) Kim (CEP, Senior Project Advisor, 2016)
Sophie Solomon (CEP/CHID Advisor, 2016-2016)
TEACHING AREAS/COURSES PREPARED TO TEACH
Urban Studies (traditional and interdisciplinary approaches)
Sustainable Urban Development Policies
Ethics
Affect Theory
RESEARCH LANGUAGES
French, Spanish
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS
American Association of Geographers
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REFERENCES
Mark Purcell
Professor
Department of Urban Design and Planning
University of Washington
Box 355740
Seattle, WA 98195
[email protected]
Bob Mugerauer
Professor
Department of Urban Design and Planning/Architecture
Director Ph.D. Program in the Built Environment
University of Washington
Box 355740
Seattle, WA 98195
[email protected]
María Elena García
Director, Comparative History of Ideas Program
Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
Adjunct Professor in Anthropology, Geography, and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies
University of Washington
Box 354300
Seattle, WA 98195
[email protected]