Michael R. Goldman

I. PERSONAL HISTORY AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

A. Educational Background

Northwestern University, B.S., History and Journalism, 1982

University of California at Santa Cruz, MA, Sociology, 1990

University of California at Santa Cruz, Ph.D., Sociology, 1994 Dissertation title: “’There’s a Snake on Our Backs’: Development and State Crisis in India’s

Desert” (Advisor: James O’Connor)

Research Areas of Expertise

Transnational Sociology of Development, Environment, Financial Institutions,

Knowledge/Power, Expertise, and Global Urbanisms/Cities

Working on a book manuscript titled: “Cities on Fire”

B. List of Academic Positions since Final Degree

Assistant Professor, Lewis and Clark College, Sociology and Anthropology, 1997

Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Department of Sociology, 1998 to April 2004

Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Department of Sociology, May to August 2004

Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Sociology and Institute for Global Studies, Fall

2004

Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Sociology and Institute for Global Studies, Fall

2005 to present

McKnight Presidential Fellow, University of Minnesota 2005-2008

C. Honors, Recognitions, and Outstanding Achievements

1991 Fulbright Dissertation Research Fellowship (in Rajasthan, India)

1991 Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, India

1994-1996 S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Sociology Department,

University of California-Berkeley

1996-1998 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship in Peace and International

Cooperation, Research and Writing Grant, Sociology Department, University of

California-Berkeley

1993-2000 Associate Fellow, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1993-1996 European Union grant for the Ecopolitics Commons Project, through the

Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, invited investigator

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2000-2001 “Incomplete List of Teachers ranked Excellent”, both semesters

2001-2002 Fellow, Yale University’s Program in Agrarian Studies, in residence in New

Haven

2001-2002 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois

2004 “Incomplete List of Teachers ranked Excellent”, Spring semester

2005-2008 McKnight Presidential Fellow, University of Minnesota

2006-2008 American Institute for Indian Studies, Senior Fellow award, for research in India

2008 Residential Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota

2008 Book Award, for Imperial Nature, Political Economy of the World-System,

American Sociological Association

2013-14 Arthur Motley Exemplary Teaching Award

D. Invited Lectures and Invited Conference Presentations (jumping to 1992)

1992 International Sociological Association, Environmental Sociology meeting,

Netherlands

1992 Annual South Asia Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1992 8th World Congress for Rural Sociology (IRSA), Penn State University

1992 Colloquium Lecture, University of Chicago, South Asia and Middle East

Seminar

1993 American Sociological Association Meetings, Environment and Technology

panel

1993 Colloquium Lecture (STARE series), Sociology Department, University

Wisconsin-Madison

1993 Association for Asian Studies 45th Conference, Los Angeles

1993 International workshop on Environment and Development, Korean Sociological

Association, Seoul

1993 European Union/Transnational Institute “Ecopolitics and the Commons”

workshop, Amsterdam

1994 International Society for Ecological Economics, 3rd

International Meeting, Costa

Rica

1994 European Union/Transnational Institute’s “Ecopolitics” workshop, Bonn, May

1994 EU/Transnational Institute’s “Ecopolitics” workshop, Frankfurt, October

1995 Invited Talks: Central Arid Zone Research Institute; Desert Medical Research

Institute, Jodhpur, India; Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, India

1996 Working Group Workshop on “Social Capital and Politics of Sustainability,”

sponsored by AAAS and the Social Capital and Public Affairs Project,

University Californian, Berkeley

1996 American Sociological Association Meetings, Political Economy of World-

Systems panel

1996 International Common Property Conference (IASCP), panel organizer and

presenter

1996 Energy and Resources Group Colloquium, University Californian, Berkeley

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1996 Annual South Asia Conference, University Californian, Berkeley

1997 American Sociological Asc. Meetings, Sociology of Knowledge and

Intellectuals Panel

1997 Instituto de Estudios Indígenas, Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco, Chile:

“The New Politics of Development Science: Indigenous Peoples, Sustainability,

Resistance” Ford Foundation/University of Oregon/Lewis and Clark College

Conference on Asian Studies: “‘Greening’ the Mekong: The World Bank and

Environmentally Sustainable development”

1998 Yale University (Institute for Social and Policy Studies and the Program in

Agrarian Studies), Cost-Benefit Analysis Dilemma Conference

1998 The Transnational Institute, Amsterdam: “Globalization and the Environment”

conference, Keynote Speaker: de Baile Cultural Center, Amsterdam, and Public

Debut of Privatizing Nature

1998 Invited Talks at The Social Research Institute in Frankfurt, University of

Bielefeld, and Freiburg University, Germany: “The Politics of Green Science at

the World Bank” and “Transnational Institutions and the Production of Green

Knowledge”

1999 Geography Department, Colloquium Series, University of Illinois

2000 Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Colloquium Series, UIUC

2000 American Sociological Association, Annual Meetings, Chicago, Panel on

Property Institutions and Resource Regimes

2000 Illinois Wesleyan University, Environmental Studies Lecture Series

2000 International Sociological Association, RC-24 Section, Conference on “The

Environmental State Under Pressure,” Chicago, closing plenary panel

2000 Yale University, Program in Agrarian Studies, Colloquium Series, “The Art of

Eco-government: The New Agenda of a ‘Green’ World Bank”

2001 Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, Environmental

Knowledge Workshop

2001 University of Chicago, Transnational Sociology symposium, invited presenter

2002 American Sociological Association, Sociology of Development panel

presentation

2002 Sociology Department Colloquium Series, UIUC

2002 Program in Environmental and Resource Economics Colloquium Series, UIUC

2002 Cornell University, keynote address, Landscape Transformations conference

2002 Yale University, Colloquium Presentation, Program in Agrarian Studies

2002 Witwatersrand University, World Summit on Sustainable Development,

Johannesburg, South Africa, Invited Speaker

2003 UIUC African Studies/International Studies, 29th Annual Spring Symposium

2003 Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Invited Speaker, “Changing

Properties of Property” conference, Halle, Germany (declined)

2003 Chiang Mai University, Thailand, Plenary Speaker, “Politics of the Commons”

conference (declined)

2003 Invited Speaker, University of Minnesota, Sociology and Institute for Global

Studies

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2004 Invited Organizer and Presider, Thematic Session on “The Environment,” by the

ASA Program Committee for the Annual Sociological Meetings, San Francisco

2004 Panelist, “Environment and Technology” special session, ASA, SF

2004 Invited Presenter, International Rural Sociology Conference, Trondheim,

Norway.

2004 Invited Presenter, Joint-Area Studies Conference, “Globalization and Water”,

University of Illinois, November

2004 Invited Speaker, Environmental Politics Colloquium Series, Institute for

International Studies, University of California-Berkeley, October

2005 Invited Speaker, IV Encuentro Salamanca, “Politicas de la Tierra,” sponsored by

the former vice president of Spain, the foundation, Fundacion Sistema, and

journal, Revista Temas, May

2005 Paper presentation, “Ecology, Imperialism, and the Contradictions of Capitalism”

conference, York University, Toronto, June

2005 Invited Speaker, Social Ecology series, School of Environmental Studies and

Forestry, and guest lecturer in a graduate course in conservation and

development, Yale University, October

2006 Paper presentation, on Neoliberalism and Nature panel, American Association of

geographers (AAG), annual meetings, Chicago, March.

2006 University of California-Santa Cruz, Sociology Speakers Series

2006 Stanford University Humanities Institute and Anthropology Department

2006 Two-day workshop, invited speaker, European Commission-funded initiative for

a policy paper on the History and Future of Knowledge and Science Production,

Brussels, Belgium

2006 Boston University, Sociology Colloquium Series

2006 Boston College, Sociology Colloquium Series

2006 Dartmouth College, two-day campus visit for three invited lectures

2006 University of Paris, CNRS, and Natural Science Museum, invited lecture, Paris

2006 University of Avignon (France) and the Ecodevelopment Institute for 2-day

workshop on my book

2006 Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (PhD-granting institution), Bangalore

2006 National Law School, Bangalore

2006 Public Talk, Centre for Film and Drama, Bangalore

2006 Manchester University, Development and Poverty Institute, Manchester UK

2006 Rutgers University, Invited speaker, Center for Global Change and Governance

2006 Keynote Speaker, for the Annual Conference of Nicaragua Sister City

Organization, Minneapolis

2006 Two talks at Washburn High School, Minneapolis, Public Outreach for IGS, U-M

2006 Guest presentation via teleconference, in graduate seminar reading my book, Penn

State University

2006 Hour-long radio interview on water and international finance, WEFT radio,

Urbana, Illinois

2006 Book launch and reading at U-M Bookstore

2006 Public Talk for Continuing Education Series, University of Minnesota

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2007 Madras Institute for Development Studies, Chennai/Madras, India

2007 National Institute for Advanced Studies, Indian Institute for Science, Bangalore

2007 Workshop on Water in Greater Bangalore, NIAS/IISc, Co-organizer and speaker

2007 Co-Keynote with Timothy Mitchell, Conference on Rule of Experts, Institute of

International Studies, UC-Berkeley

2007 Mellon Sawyer Seminar Invited Speaker, Duke University

2007 South Asia Speakers Series, University of Minnesota, “Getting Bangalored”

2008 Panel on my book, Imperial Nature, Annual Geography (AAG) Meetings, Boston

2008 Special Panel addressing World Bank’s 2008 World Development Report, Annual

geography meetings, Boston

2008 Special Address, Tata Institute for Social Sciences, Mumbai, India

2008 Public Talk, Environmental Support Group, Bangalore, India

Recorded and shown on the cable station, Real Estate Channel throughout India

2008 Keynote Address, Clarke Forum on Public Issues, Davidson College (PA)

2008 Selected presenter, SSRC Workshop, “Inter-Referencing Asia: Urban Experiments

and the Art of Being Global,” Dubai School of Government, UAE, February

2008 Max Planck Institute (Berlin) sponsored workshop on Global Governance and

Science, CNRS and EHESS, Paris, France, May

2008 Hamline University, St. Paul

2008 St. Olafs College, Northfield, MN

2008 University of Colorado-Boulder, Sociology Colloquium Series

2008 University of Michigan’s Ford School of Policy, Science, Technology, and Policy

Colloquium Series

2009 Consortium on the Study of the Asias, “Comparing Global Cities: China and

India”, U-Minnesota (January 30, 2009), with a Chinese specialist

2009 ESRC National UK Seminar Series—New Castle/Northumbria/Edinburgh

Universities-on Volunterism, Citizenship, and Activism (May 19-20, 2009); three

presentations, in New Castle, UK

2009 Public Talk, co-sponsored by the Centre for Internet and Society and CASUUM,

an urban issues organization, “Indian Cities, Speculative Real Estate, and the

Financial Crisis,” June, Bangalore, India

2009 ASA Annual Meetings, SF, August, “Speculating on the Next World City,” on the

Globalization panel.

2009 ICGC Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium Series, September

2010 Co-sponsors: University of Minnesota, Peking University in Shenzhen, China,

National University of Singapore, and Hong Kong University: “Making Global

Cities and the Global Economic Crisis” (January 4-7, 2010). Co-organizer and

presenter.

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2010 “Anthropology of International Institutions,” funded by the Wenner-Gren

Foundation, Paris, June 10-12, a workshop to produce an edited book, on the

latest on questions of knowledge and governance in global institutions. Co-

sponsored by Institut Interdisciplinaire d’Anthropologie du Contemporain (IIAC),

LAOIS, and CNRS/EHESS, 10-12 June.

2010

Invited presenter, resident scholar, at INRA-Avignon, France’s national

Ecodevelopment Institute, on a French government grant, to collaborate over the

long-term with an interdisciplinary team on urban expansionism and its effects on

rural economies, two weeks, June 2010.

Public presentation, sponsored by SETER (Agropolis Fondation/CIRAD), and

INRA-Ecodeveloppement, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France, 1 July.

2010 Sociology Colloquium Series, Rutgers University November.

2011 Colloquium Speaker for a Public Event, National Institute for Advanced Studies,

IISc-Bangalore, India, “Why the ‘Urban Turn’ in Global Policymaking?,”

February.

Public Workshop on my article, “Speculative Urbanism and the Making of the

Next World City”, at a public venue, Jaaga, February, Bangalore.

Talk based on my article, “Speculative Urbanism and the Making of the Next

World City”, at Tata Institute of Social Studies, Mumbai, India, February.

2011 Co-organizer of and presenter at a SSRC pre-dissertation set of workshops on

“provincializing global urbanism,” with Helga Leitner, Eric Sheppard, Ananya

Roy, in Monterey, CA in June and Philadelphia in September.

UC-Berkeley, Colloquium Speaker, sponsored by Global Metropolitan Studies,

“Speculation in an Age of Urban Revolution,” and an all-day graduate student workshop

focused on my work on political ecology and global urbanism, October

Cornell University, Keynote Speaker, Rethinking Development Conference, November

Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual International Conference,

Paper presentation, Madrid, Spain, June

GPS Alliance, Colloquium Series Speaker, UofM, September

European Studies Colloquium Series, “From Cairo to Madrid to London: Are We

Entering the Age of Urban Revolution?,” UofM, November

2012

Co-organizer and Presenter, 4 day International Conference, “Urban Revolutions in an

Age of Global Urbanism,” Jakarta, Indonesia, March 2012

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Plenary Panel Organizer and Presenter, “Sustainable Cities?” American Sociological

Association, Annual Meetings, Denver, August 2012

Colloquium Talk, Sociology, University of Wisconsin (Oct), 2012

Colloquium Talk, Sociology, University of Illinois, (Nov) 2012

2013

Presenter, Presidential Plenary Panel, “Genres of Global Urbanism,”

American Association of Geographers, Annual Meetings, Los

Angeles, April 2013

Invited Keynote Speaker, Institut Francilien Recherché Innovation Societe (IFRIS), Paris,

“Le Global et les Processus de Globalisation comme objets de Sciences Socialies.” In

Florence, Italy, 14-18 May, a workshop for PhDs and postdocs, across Europe. (declined)

Invited presenter, SSRC Conference on InterAsian Connections, paper presenter in the

workshop on social class and labor, three days at Koc University, Istanbul, October

Invited speaker, Sociology Colloquium Series, Bogazici University, Istanbul, October

Invited Speaker, Centre for Historical Studies, J Nehru University, New Delhi, September

Invited Speaker, Delhi School of Economics and Sociology, New Delhi, September

2014

Invited Workshop presentation, NYU-New School collaboration, on the “Urban Zone”,

February

Invited talk, Interdisciplinary Seminar on Urban Democracy, NYU, A Public Forum at the

Cooper Union, May

Panelist, Globalization and Inequality, ASA Annual Meetings, SF, August

Invited Talk, Geography Department, UCLA, November

2015

Invited Paper Presentation, to workshop a paper in progress, UCLA, Social Comparative

Analysis Seminar, Sociology, March

Keynote Address, International Urban Studies Congress, sponsored by Institute of Urban

Research (Ankara), Journal of Urban Research, and Anadolu Universitesi, Eskisehir, Turkey

Invited speaker, Sociology, Bilgi University, Istanbul, and Adnan Menderes University,

Izmir, Turkey, April

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Invited speaker, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and invited to participate in a three-day

workshop with faculty and deans to help design an Endowed Chair Program in Global South

Cities, May

E. Editorships of Journals

Founding editorial board of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, and Ecologia Politica (Rome, Italy),

Invited (but declined) Contributing Editor, American Journal of Sociology (2007-2010).

Editorial Advisory Committee (or COP), University of Minnesota Press (2007-2010)

F. Grants Received Since 1999

1999-2000 University of Illinois, Critical Research Initiative Planning Grant, with Michael

Irwin, an interdisciplinary (natural and social sciences) project on

biodiversity,($10,000, returned when group disbanded)

1999-2000 University of Illinois, Research Board Grant, for final research on the World

Bank, ($16,373)

1999-2000 UI Environmental Council Course Development Grant ($9,837)

2002-2003 University of Illinois, Research Board Grant, to complete World Bank book

($6,288)

1998-2003 UI Research Board Travel Grants, each year for domestic or international

conferences

2005-2008 McKnight Presidential Fellow, three year research grant, U of Minnesota

2006-2007 Sabbatical and Sabbatical Supplement Awards, UM

2006 International Travel Grant, Office of International Programs, UM

2006-2007 American Institute for Indian Studies, Senior Fellow(ship)

2006 GRRP Award with graduate student Jin Woong Kang

2007 GRRP Award with graduate student Raphi Rechitsky

2007 Title VI Grant, IGS and ICGS, to run a Symposium, and start a research

collaborative on Making Global Cities, Spring 2008, with U of M and Global

South cities’ scholars (Bangalore, Istanbul, Singapore, Taipei, Shanghai, Cape

Town)

2008 International Travel Grant, OIP/IGS, U of M, Winter (Bangalore)

2008-09 Institute for Advanced Study, co-PI, Research Collaborative, housed in IAS, to

develop a campus collaborative on Making Global Cities, $12,500

2008-09 Office of International Programs, Co-PI, Making Global Cities, to initiate research

collaboratives and projects among UM faculty and research institutes in Global

South cities, $25,000

2009 NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant, with graduate student Jin Woong Kang on

North Korean State Micro-Politics (his co-signatory on the grant)

2009 GRRP award with graduate student Sinan Erensu

2010 Semester Leave Grant, U of Minnesota, for Spring 2011

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2011 “Urban Revolutions in an Age of Global Urbanism”, a highly competitive

grant from the Urban Studies Journal Foundaton (UK) for its first-ever

international workshop on innovation in urban theory, proposal co-authored

with Profs. Helga Leitner, Vinay Gidwani, Eric Sheppard, Ananya Roy from

UC Berkeley, and Prof. and Dean Jo Santoso from Tarumanagara University,

Jakarta, Indonesia. We ran an international workshop in Jakarta, March 2012,

and a special issue of Urban Studies

2012 We (Profs. Sheppard, Gidwani, Leitner, and myself) as Co-PIs received a

$65,000 grant from Global Spotlight International Major Grant (GPS Alliance

of OIP at the UofM), with another $15,000 from other sources, for a

collaborative project with colleagues in Bangalore and Jakarta, “The Great

Transformation: Urban Land Markets, Livelihoods and the Growing

Ecological Crisis in Asia’s Cities.”

2013 Sabbatical Funding with supplement.

2014 Institute of the Environment, UofM, seed grant funding for a project with PhD

student, Devika Narayan on the new politics of land and water in Bangalore

2014 Our Integrated Water Research Training Network was funded by the Canadian

Social Sciences and Humanities Council. I am a senior collaborator working

alongside the Co-PIs: Leila Harris (U of British Columbia), Chris Sneddon

(Dartmouth), Jackie Goldin (U. of Western Cape). ($200,000 over three years)

For developing a global interdisciplinary network and training program on

water research for global South institutes/projects. Will fund three pilot

research projects on urban water politics and ecology, including one led by me

in Bangalore, and two others in Lima and Cape Town. Received funding for

one UofM PhD student. Plan to use this grant as seed money for a $2 million

proposal from the Canadian equivalent of NSF.

II. PUBLICATIONS AND CREATIVE WORKS

A. Doctoral thesis title

1. “’There’s a Snake on Our Backs’: Development and State Crisis in India’s Desert”,

adviser Prof. James O’Connor

B. Books Authored

1. Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of

Globalization, New Haven, CT and London, UK: Yale University Press, June 2005,

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paperback version 2006. Published by Orient Longman, India (2006), and in Japanese by

Kyoto University Press, 2008, with plans for a Bahasa translation in Indonesia.

C. Books Edited

1. Privatizing Nature: Political Struggles for the Global Commons, M. Goldman (ed.), Rutgers

University Press (New Brunswick, NJ) and Pluto Press (London), 1998.

D. Chapters in Books

1. “Cultivating Hot Peppers and Water Crisis in India’s Desert: Toward a Theory of

Understanding Ecological Crisis,” Ken Dyer and John Young, (eds.), Changing Directions

(University of Adelaide, Australia: Mawson Graduate Centre for Environmental Studies),

1990, pp. 561-573.

2. “Irrigating India’s Desert, Producing Resource Scarcity: A Case Study of World Bank

‘Sustainable Development’,” in Tai-Hwan Kwon, (ed.), Environment and Development

(Seoul, Korea: Seoul Press),1994, pp. 155-174.

3. “Introduction: The Political Resurgence of the Commons,” Michael Goldman, Privatizing

Nature: Political Struggles for the Global Commons (New Brunswick: Rutgers University

Press), 1998, pp.1-19.

4. “Inventing the Commons: Theories and Practices of the Commons’ Professional,”

Michael Goldman, Privatizing Nature: Political Struggles for the Global Commons (New

Brunswick: Rutgers University Press). Revision of Theory and Society article (1997),

1998, pp.20-53.

5. “Allmacht und Allmende: Die Commons-Debatte und der Aufstieg der globalen

Ressourcenmanager,” (or “Conquests in Common: The Rise of the ‘Global Resource

Managing’ Class),” Volker Heins and Michael Flitner (eds.), Konfliktfeld Natur:

Biologische Ressourcen und globale Politik (or The Political Development of Nature: New

Conflicts over Biological Resources) (Frankfurt: Leske & Budrich). Translation into

German by publisher of my Theory and Society article (1997), 1998, pp.87-118.

6. “Peasants, the State, and Production Conditions in Crisis: A Study of the Indira Gandhi Canal,”

Rakesh Hooja and Rajendra Joshi, (eds.), Desert, Drought and Development: Studies in

Resource Management and Sustainability (Jaipur, India: Rawat Publishers), 1999, pp. 237-261.

7. “Inventando os Comuns: Teorias e Práticas do Profissional em Bens Comuns.” In

Espaços e Recursos Naturais de Uso Comum. Diegues, A. C., Moreira, A. D. C.. Sao

Paulo, Brazil: Nucleo de Apoio à Pesquisa sobre Populaçoes Humanas e Areas Umidas

Brasileiras (NUPAUB). Translation into Portuguese by publisher of my Theory and

Society article (1997), 2001.

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8. “Imperial Science, Imperial Nature: Environmental Knowledge for the World (Bank),” Sheila

Jasanoff and Marybeth Long (eds.), Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental

Governance (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), revision of my Ethnography article (2001), 2004,

pp.1-29.

9. “Eco-governmentality and a ‘Green’ World Bank,” for a revised edition of Richard Peet and

Michael Watts (eds.), Liberation Ecologies (London: Routledge), revision of my Social

Problems article (2001), 2004, 37 pages.

10. “World Bank”, entry in the Encyclopedia of International Development, Tim Forsyth (ed.),

(London: Routledge), 2005, 8 pages.

11. “La tragedia della recinzione dei beni comuni,” in Giovanna Ricoveri, ed., Beni Comuni: Fra

Tradizione e Futuro (Rome: Editrice Missionaria Italiana), revised and translated into Italian,

of earlier chapter (1998), 2005.

12. “El neolilberalismo verde,” in Alfonso Guerra and Jose Felix Tezanos, eds., Las Politicas

de la Tierra (Madrid, Editorial Sistema, 2006).

13. “Water for All! The Phenomenal Rise of Transnational Policy Networks,” in Gabriela

Kutting and Ronnie Lipshutz, eds., Global Environmental Governance: Power and

Knowledge in a Local-Global World (Routledge, 2009).

14. “Speculating on the Next World City”, in Aihwa Ong and Ananya Roy, eds., Worlding

Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global, 2011, New York and London: Basil

Blackwell Publishers.

15. Reprint of Goldman and Longhofer, “Making World Cities,” Contexts Volume 17,

number 4: 32-37, 2009, in the Hartmann and Uggen, eds., Contexts Reader, NY: Norton,

2011

16. One of three commissioned chapters, “Development and the City,” for the first edition of

the Cities of the Global South Reader eds. Faranak Miraftab and Neema Kudva, Urban

Reader Series, Routledge, 2014.

E. Articles in Journals

1. “Ideologies of Environmental Crisis: Technology and its Discontents,” Capitalism, Nature,

Socialism 1:1, 1998, co-authored with James O’Connor et al.

Translated into Italian by publisher and reprinted as “Ideologie della crisi ambientale:

La tecnologia e le sue disillusioni,” Capitalismo, Natura, Socialismo 1:3, Rome,

(Novembre 1991), 1998, 91-106.

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2. “The ‘Mirch-Masala’ of Chili Peppers: The Production of Drought in India’s Desert,”

Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 1:2, 1989, pp. 83-93.

3. “Cultivating Hot Peppers and Water Crisis in India’s Desert: Toward a Theory of

Understanding Ecological Crisis,” The Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 23:3, 1990,

pp. 19-29.

4. “Tragedy of the Commons or the Commoners’ Tragedy: the State and Ecological Crisis in

India,” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 4:4 (December), 1993, pp. 49-68.

5. “‘Customs in Common’: The Epistemic World of the Commons Scholars,” Theory and

Society 26:1, 1997, pp. 1-37.

Extensively revised and reprinted in Michael Goldman (ed.), Privatizing Nature (New

Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998).

Translated into German by publisher and reprinted in Volker Heins and Michael Flitner,

Konfliktfeld Natur (Frankfurt: Leske & Budrich, 1998).

Translated into Portuguese by publisher and reprinted in Antonio Diegues et al., (Sao

Paolo: NUPAUB, 2001), 1997.

Translated and included in an Italian volume, 2005, all noted above in chapters section.

6. “Closing the ‘Great Divide’: New Social Theory on Nature and Society,” with Rachel

Schurman, Annual Review of Sociology, Vol 26, 2000, pp. 563-584.

7. “The Birth of a Discipline: Producing Authoritative Green Knowledge, World Bank-style”

Ethnography 2:2, pp. 191-217. Extensively revised and reprinted in Sheila Jasanoff and

Marybeth Long (eds.), Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Governance

(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004), 2001, as noted above.

8. “Constructing an Environmental State: Eco-governmentality and other Transnational

Practices of a ‘Green’ World Bank,” Social Problems, special issue on “Globalization and

Social Problems” 48:4, 2001, 499-523. Revised and reprinted in Richard Peet and Michael

Watts (eds.), Liberation Ecologies (London: Routledge, 2004), 2001.

9. “Notes from the World Summit in Johannesburg: “History in the Making?,” Capitalism,

Nature, Socialism 13:4 December 2002. Also in Ecologia Politica 24, 2002, in Spain

(Translated into Spanish by publisher) and in Italy (Translated into Italian by publisher).

Revised version published on the European website of RISQ: Review of International

Social Questions, 2002.

10. “Tracing the Routes/Roots of World Bank Power,” International Journal of Sociology

and Social Policy, Special Issue on Innovations in Development Sociology, 36 pages.

(Volume 25, Numbers 1/2, 2005), invited and refereed.

11. “How ‘Water for All!’ Policy Became Hegemonic: The Power of the World Bank and its

Transnational Policy Networks,” in a special issue on global water policies, GeoForum

38:786-800, 2007), invited and refereed.

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12. “Under New Management: Historical Context and Current Challenges at the World

Bank”, lead article in a special issue on the Wolfowitz era, Brown Journal of World

Affairs, Volume XIII:2, Summer 2007, invited and refereed.

13 “Making World Cities,” Contexts Volume 17, number 4: 32-37, 2009, with Wesley

Longhofer.

14. “Speculative Urbanism and the Making of the next World City,” International Journal of

Urban and Regional Research, 25:3, May 2011

15. “With the Declining Significance of Labor, Who’s Producing Our Global Cities?,”

International Labor and Working-Class History journal, special issue on Asian Labor, in the

Spring issue, 2015

16. co-author with Eric Sheppard et al., “Introduction: Urban Revolution in the Age of Global

Urbanism,” introducing a special issue of Urban Studies, refereed papers from our Jakarta

conference, forthcoming, 2015

F. Bulletins, Reports, or Conference Proceedings

1. “The Indira Gandhi Canal: A Barren Harvest,” The Economic Times, New Delhi, 18 Nov

19 with S. Ramanathan, 1991.

2. “Rajasthan’s Sorrow” Economic and Political Weekly, Bombay, XXVI: 31-32, 3-10

August, with S. Ramanathan, 1991.

3. “Crisis in Theory,” Economic and Political Weekly, XXXVI: 20, 18 May, 1991.

4. “Hot Peppers and Water Crisis in India’s Desert,” Haramata: Bulletin of the Drylands,

London, 1992.

5. “The Power of World Bank Knowledge,” on RealWorldBank.org Journal, London, June,

2001.

6. “Oko-Legoland,” iz3w (German journal on Third World politics; translated by the

publisher), October 2001.

7. Conference report: “Capitalism, Imperialism, and the Production of Nature” conference

at York University, Toronto, in Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 16:4, December 2005, pp.

141-43

8. “Producing Global Knowledge, Experts, and Expertise,” in Dominique Pestre, ed.,

Historical Perspectives in Science, Society and the Political, Report submitted to the

Science, Economy and Society Directorate, European Commission, January 2007.

9. “What Can We Expect from the post-Wolfowitz World Bank?,” submitted to the

International Tribunal on the World Bank, for the official transcripts, J. Nehru University,

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Delhi, India, September 2007; also submitted a 20-minute telecast presentation for

showing during the tribunal.

G. Book Reviews

1. “Amazon Thoughts: Review Essay,” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 2:9, 1992.

2. “Ganges Development,” Contemporary Sociology 25:5, September 1996.

3. “Globalization and Environmental Reform” Contemporary Sociology 31:6, 2002.

4. Book Review of Amitai Etzioni, From Empire to Community: A New Approach to

International Relations (Palgrave, 2004), for Contemporary Sociology, Sept. 2005, 34:5, pp.

527-8.

5. Book Review of Anna Tsing, Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (Princeton,

2005), American Journal of Sociology, Sept. 2005, 111:2, pp.648-650.

6. Book review of Sanjav Khagram, Dams and Development: Transnational Struggles for

Water and Power (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004), for American Journal of

Sociology, 2006.

7. “What’s Nature Got to Do with it?,” Book review essay on two books, Recurring Dark

Ages by Sing Chew and Governing Environmental Flows by Gert Spaargaren et al.,

Contemporary Sociology, 37:4, July 2008.

8. Book review of Behind the Development Banks: Washington Politics, World Poverty, and the

Wealth of Nations, by Sarah Babb, for Contemporary Sociology, March 2010; vol. 39, 141-142.

9. Book review of David Strang, “Learning by Example: Imitation and Innovation at a

Global Bank,” Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, November 2011; vol. 40, 6:

pp. 756-757.

10. Book review of Julian Go’s Patterns of Empire, Social Forces, published first online Feb

23, 2013.

III. COURSES TAUGHT AT MINNESOTA

Fall 2005: Soc4321: Sociology of Globalization: 21

Spring 2005: GLOS3981W: Major Projects Seminar, 20

Fall 2005: GLOS3415, Global Institutions of Power, 42

Soc8890, Advanced Topics in Research: Studying Power Transnationally, 19

Spring 2006: Soc4311/GLOS4311: Race, Class, and the Politics of Nature, 56

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Fall 2007: Soc8390: Global Cities graduate seminar, 16; DSSC 8111: Ways of Knowing graduate

seminar for ICGC (the “MacArthur program”), 17; Soc4311, Race, Class, and the Politics of Nature,

50.

Spring 2008: GLOS3415 Global Institutions of Power, 50; GLOS3981, Major Projects Seminar

(with honors section), 25.

Winter 2009: GLOS3415 Global Institutions, 60; Soc8790, Contemporary Social Theory, 15.

Fall 2009: a new Global Cities Freshman seminar in Global Studies (20 students) and a revised

Global Cities graduate seminar in Sociology (6 students).

Spring, 2010, a new preparation on the core course Glos 3145 in Global Studies (230-plus students),

Theoretical Approaches to Global Studies, plus 3145, an honors section. And a new course,

Soc4321, Globalize This! Understanding Globalization through Sociology (80 students).

Fall 2010: Two senior projects seminars, Glos3981 with an honors section, total 26 students, and Soc

4966 with 21 students

Fall 2011: Glos3415 Global Institutions of Power, 68 students, and Soc 4321, 56 students.

Fall 2012: Soc4311 race, Class, Politics of Nature, 47 students, Glos 4910 Social Change in the

Global City, new class, special topics, 16 students

Spring 2013: Glos3145: Theoretical Approaches to Global Studies, 134 students; Soc4321:

Globalize This!, 49 students.

Fall 2014: Soc88790, Grad Seminar on Contemporary Social Theory, 10 students plus two auditors;

Soc3090/Glo33415: Global Institutions of Power: 44 students.

COURSES TAUGHT AT UIUC

Year Course Title University Level

2003-2004

Fall Social Change & the Environment U of IL SOC 131

Spring Environmental Sociology U of IL SOC 347

Spring Race, Class & the Politics of Nature U of IL SOC 482

2002-2003

Fall Global Inequality and Social Change U of IL SOC 160

Fall Transnational Processes:Studies in Political Soc U of IL SOC 422

Spring Social Impacts of Globalization U of IL SOC 274

2001-2002 Was a Fellow at Yale, did not teach

2000-2001

Fall Social Change and the Environment U of IL SOC 131

Fall Transnational Power, Knowledge, & Institutions U of IL SOC 396

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Spring Global Poverty, Inequality & Social Change U of IL SOC 296

Spring Transnational Power, Knowledge, and Institutions U of IL SOC 422

1999-2000

Fall Social Change & the Environment U of IL SOC 131

Spring Population Issues: Hunger and Inequality U of IL SOC 270

Spring Transnational Power, Knowledge, & Institutions U of IL SOC 396

1998-1999

Fall Social Change and the Environment U of IL SOC 131

Fall Social Theory and the Environment U of IL SOC 482

IV. SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENT WORK

At University of Illinois-UC:

PhD Chair

Lara Fischer (chair), filed in May 2004, working in Washington DC.

Yildirim Senturk (chair), filed in May 2004, Asst. Professor, Istanbul.

Jin-Ho Jang (chair), dissertation proposal defended in June 2004, teaching in South

Korea.

Soochul Kim (chair before transferring to ICR), dissertation proposal.

PhD External Examiner

Thomas Winner, Social Sciences, PhD, Flinders University, Australia, May 2004

PhD Committee

Niranjan Karnik, dissertation committee, defended May 2002 Ph.D./MD program, “Street

Children as Humanitarian Objects,” postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University.

Emin Adas, dissertation committee, defended May 2003,”Profit and the Prophet: Culture

and the Politics of Islamic Entrepreneurs in Turkey,” assistant professor at Gaziantep

Universitesi in Turkey.

Jesook Song, in Anthropology, defended Oct. 2002, “Shifting Technologies:

Neoliberalization of the Welfare State in South Korea, 1997-2001,” Asst. Professor at U

of Toronto.

Amit Prasad, filed in May 2004, assistant professor at University of Missouri.

Jeong-Ho Kim, defended dissertation proposal in Summer 2004.

Zakia Salime, defended proposal in Oct 2003, dissertation in 2004, assistant professor at

Rutgers University

Yildirim Senturk, dissertation 2004, assistant professor at Mimar University, Istanbul

Satomi Yamamoto, defended proposal in Summer 2004, finished dissertation 2008,

assistant professor at Tsuda College, Japan.

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Master committee – withdrew from committees when I left UIUC

Sibel Cekic, completed preliminary exam.

Huibo Shao, master’s student.

Erin Murphy, master’s student.

Anya Pantuyeva, completed master’s degree.

Jee Hun Kim, master’s student.

On the committee of the following PhD students who have successfully defended:

Jin Woong Kang, (co-advisor, PhD 2011, postdoc Yale U 2012, and assistant professor at Korea

University, 2013)

Eunhye Yoo (co-advisor, PhD 2012, assistant professor at a Korean university)

Wes Longhofer (2012 PhD, asst. prof, Emory University)

Rehema Kilonzo (defended 2008, PhD 2011, professor University of Dodoma, Tanzania)

Brian Dill (PhD defense 2007, asst. prof. UIUC)

Minzee Kim (PhD defense 2012, asst. professor University of Queensland, Australia)

Shawn Wick (PhD defense 2013, asst. professor in Iowa)

Yu-Ju Chien (PhD defense, 2013)

On the committee of current UofM PhD students:

Sinan Erensu, PhD advisor

Raphi Rechtisky, co-advisor, asst. prof, St. Petersburg, Russia

Aysegul Kozak, PhD committee, asst. prof. Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey

Gulseren Isic, PhD committee, asst. prof., Turkey

Vania Brightman, PhD committee

Becky Stipnitz, PhD committee

Emily Springer, PhD committee

Devika Narayan, PhD advisor

Shi-Rong Lee, PhD committee

Deniz Coral, anthropology, PhD committee

Anthony Jimenez, PhD committee

Damien Carriere, Geography, PhD committee

Erik Kojola, PhD committee

Matt Gunther, PhD committee

Rachel Grewell, PhD committee

Francis Lyimo, PhD committee

I have also been on Ph.D. committees for these UofM students:

Moira McDonald (geography, prelim 2005, defended 2009),

Ursula Dahlinghaus (anthropology, prelim March 2006, defended 2008),

Aaron Windel, history, PhD defense April 2010),

Ivan Bialostosky (geography, proposal defense 2009, PhD defense 2013),

Dan Putnam (geography, prelim 2008),

Ozan Karaman (geography, proposal defense 2009), asst. prof. U of Glasgow

Rajyashree Retty (Geography, proposal defense 2009), asst. prof. at University of Toronto

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Adina Schneeweis (mass communications, prelim 2006, prospectus defense 2007, asst.

professor, Oakland College, MI),

Naheed Aaftaab (Anthropology, proposal defense 2009, PhD 2012)

Catherine Chang (Geography, prelim 2010, expected PhD 2014, asst prof Macalester College)

Hillary Waters (Geography, masters exam 2011)

Heather O’Leary (anthropology, an IDF fellow at ICGC-2013, postdoc fellow, McMasters,

Canada)

IAS Mentor 2008-2009 to Ozan Karaman (Geography, 2012), Ivone Barriga (Performance,

2014)

3. Other Contributions to Instructional Programs at Illinois

Helping to start the new LAS Dean’s Initiative: the “Global Studies” course, for First Year

students, taught collectively by seven departments, starting Fall 2004.

Teaching in the Chancellor’s Initiative: the Discovery Seminar program for First Year students,

from Fall 1999.

Environmental Council’s Environmental Scholar’s Program, 2003-2004

Helped design the curricula for Sociology’s Transnational Studies and Science, Technology, and

Environment.

Redesigned my courses under the College’s Internationalizing the Curriculum Initiative, from

2001

Introduced five new courses to the curriculum, graduate and undergraduate

IV. SERVICE (PUBLIC, PROFESSIONAL/DISCIPLINARY, AND UNIVERSITY)

1. Public Service

1999 Coordinator of Community Public Event: “Banana Workers on Tour” (Chiquita

union organizers from Central America), sponsored by student and community

groups, 300 people in attendance, Foellinger Auditorium, UIUC

2000 Public Lecture: World Bank/IMF Public Forum, Unit One College, UIUC

2001 Public Lecture: “Globalization from above, Globalization from below” in the

“Know Your University” Lecture Series at the Y, UIUC, broadcast on local radio

station, 90.1 FM, WEFT

2002 Public event Coordinator, Teach-In on the World Bank and IMF, Speakers from

Nigeria, Mexico, and the Philippines, sponsored by student groups, 200 people in

attendance, Foellinger Auditorium, UIUC

2003 Public Event, Teach-in on the Iraq War, two presentations

2003 Sponsored a Public Event on “The U.S., Oil and Venezuela”

2004 Co-organizer with Center for Latin American Studies, Mapuche Indian Art Exhibit

and Series of Panels, February 16-20: “Territorios/Territories: Mapuche Art and

Identity” at IPRH, and Arte Contemporanea Mapuche y Territorios” at CLAS, and

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“Artistic Representation, Space and Native American Identities” along with Native

American House, UIUC.

2004 “What are Global Institutions Good For?” Public Talk at the CU-IMC Media center

and co-sponsored by AWARE, the anti-war, anti-racism community organization,

February

2004 Keynote Speaker at the Amnesty International “Human Rights” Conference,

YMCA, UIUC, April, “The World Bank and Human Rights Politics”, broadcast on

local radio station, 90.1 FM, WEFT

2004 Organizer of campus-wide MillerComm Talk, Prof. Michael Burawoy, UC-

Berkeley and president of the ASA, “The University and its Publics” and a follow-

up panel, “Responses from Across the University,” Levis Faculty Center, UIUC

2005-2006 Co-organizer of Global Studies Speakers Series

2006 Co-organizer (with five others) of Middle East Today Public Speakers Series

2007 Presented testimony (via video) and papers to the International tribunal on the

World Bank, New Delhi, J Nehru University, Sept.

2007 Speaker, “Critical Thinking” Club, Stillwater, MN

2007 Speaker, AAUW-Twin Cities

2008 Speaker, Women’s Club-Minneapolis

2008 Speaker for the Roseville School System, Global Issues debating teams

2008 Interview in major Japanese magazine, Sapio. Imperial Nature also reviewed

positively in two major Japanese newspapers.

2009 Speaker at Saturday night events, 1666 Coffman Estates, University Retirement

Center, “Global Financial Meltdown and the Role of the World Bank”

2009 Speaker in Global Issues Series, AAUW-Minneapolis, “Are Large Cities Becoming

City States?”

2009 On Bangalore TV 9 evening news, 2 hours, special panel on the crisis in public

works in Bangalore, India

2010 Evening Panel event on International Development, sponsored by the Department

of Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development, U of M, Feb. 15th

.

2010 One of three panelists for an evening presentation on U.S. Foreign Policy and

Human Rights, organized by student human rights groups on campus

2010 Presentation for UM’s Biologists without Borders, On International Development

and Global Public Health

2010 Organized a national tour for two directors of Environmental Support Group, an

Indian NGO working for urban social and ecological justice, with 20 talks on 10

university campuses and with Indian-based voluntary organizations across the US

2011 Public Talk in Bangalore on Global Urban Policy

2013 Public Talk on the global financial crisis and cities, Global UN Policy Forum,

United Methodist Church, Minneapolis

2013

Public Talk, “Urban Transformation the Age of Bankruptcy,” Sponsored by civil

society organizations, Bangalore, September

2014 Public Talk, UofM International Human Rights and Water Week, March

2014 Two-page centerpiece interview with Express Magazine, on financial crisis and the

new urbanism, interviewed and published in the national magazine, Istanbul, Oct

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2015 Public Talk, AAUW-Twin Cities Chapter, Gale Mansion, January

2015 Public radio interview, Acik Radyo, May

2. Service to Disciplinary and Professional Societies or Associations

Senior Editor, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: Journal of Marxist Ecology, starting in 2015

Project Reviewer for National Science Foundation and SSRC

Book Manuscript reviewer for Duke University Press, Yale University Press, Routledge

Press (London), Macmillan, U of Chicago Press, Princeton U Press, Stanford U Press, Polity

Press, University of Minnesota Press

Article manuscript reviewer for scholarly journals including: American Journal of Sociology

(Invited to be a contributing editor, 2007): Social Problems; Social Forces, American

Sociological Review, Sociological Theory; The Sociological Quarterly; Rural Sociology,

Ethnography; Economic Geography; Environmental Politics; Capitalism, Nature, Socialism;

The Journal of Asian Studies; Journal of Critical Asian Scholars; Society and Natural

Resources; GeoForum; GeoJournal, Annals of American Geography, Environment and

Planning A, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Antipode

On the advisory board reviewing conference paper submissions for an international conference on

the environment, Leipzig, Germany (2005, 2006)

UofM Study Abroad consultations to start up Bangalore site for a new study abroad program,

MSID, in Bangalore. Offering presentations on pedagogy and content of development

curriculum, at MSID summer workshop (June 2014)

Reviewer for promotion cases: Dartmouth College (for tenure), St. Lawrence College (for tenure),

Portland State University (promotion to full professor), UC Berkeley (for tenure), University of

Wisconsin-Madison (for tenure).

Proposal Reviewer for the Austrian government national science foundation, July 2014

External reader of PhD dissertation for Wollongong University, Australia, 2015

Member:

American Sociological Association and, at various times, its sections of Environment, Technology,

Society; Political Economy of World Systems; Science, Knowledge, and Technology; and

Political Sociology, and the new section on Global/Transnational Sociology. American

Association of Geographers. Past member of International Sociological Association and two

research committees

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3. University/Campus Service (University of Illinois)

Campus

Executive Committee, Human Dimensions to Environmental Systems, an interdisciplinary

scholars/research program, Environmental Council, 1999-2000

Faculty Associate, Environmental Council

Faculty Associate, Environmental Studies Scholars program, an interdisciplinary campus minor

Faculty Associate, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, UIUC

Committee member, MillerComm of the Center for Advanced Study, 1999-2002

Faculty Associate, Science, Technology, Information, and Medicine (STIM), an interdisciplinary

campus minor

Reviewer, Campus Research Board applications

Organizing Committee, Joint Area Studies Symposium

Department level

Chair (2003-2004, 2001-02) and Associate, Science, Technology, Environment, and Society

(STES), one of four areas of specialization within the Sociology Department

Faculty Associate, Transnational Studies area, Sociology Department, and one of two coordinators

of our Transnational Workshops, 2000, 2001, 2003. Coordinator of the Transnational seminar

(biweekly colloquium series -- shared with three other departments) 2004-2005.

Committees: Graduate Admissions (1998-1999, 2002-2003, 2003-2004), Faculty Search (theory

position, 1999-2000), Faculty Search (Senior position, 2000-2001), Faculty Search

(Introduction to Sociology instructor, 2004), Grievance (2000-2001, 2002-03, 2003-04), and a

number of ad hoc committees for publications, and awards.

4. Service (University of Minnesota)

University Level

Member of the University Faculty Senate (2005-2008).

University Publications Committee (University of Minnesota Press, 2007-2010)

Affiliate Faculty, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC), and on

its curriculum revision committee, 2006-2007.

Affiliate Faculty, Consortium for the Study of the Asias.

Advisory Committee for the new India Centre on campus

President’s Distinguished Faculty Mentor Program

Quadrant Advisory Board, a shared Mellon foundation funded project between IAS and

University of Minnesota Press 2008-2011

Student Technology Fee committee 2009-2011

DDF Selection Committee 2012-2013

Graduate Education Committee, University-wide, 2014-2017

ICGC, Advisory Board member, 2014-2017

CLA college level

Search committee, Urban Geography, Geography Department, 2013

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Advisory Committee, Urban Studies Program, with Dean’s mandate to revamp its

curriculum and structure, 2012-2013

Chair, CLA Instructional Committee to award the Motley Excellence in Teaching Award,

2015, met spring 2014

3. Department committees or other service (standing or ad hoc)

Faculty Adviser for the UM Student Model UN Association

Department level

1) Sociology: Graduate Affairs Committee, 2014-2015; PT&S Committee, 2012-13, Graduate

Affairs Committee, 2005-06, 2008-09, 2011-2012; Chair of SRI Committee, 2006.

Migration and Race Search Committee, 2007-08. Graduate Affairs Cttee (Spr 2012), PT&S

Cttee (Fall 2012-2013), on faculty in Global Studies

Evaluate junior faculty dossiers, for tenure, and for 3rd

-year reviews.

2) Institute for Global Studies: Core faculty shares most committee work together, teach three of

its core courses, developing its newest core course (with Tom Wolfe), Ways of Knowing,

for Fall 2015.

3) ICGC (Institute for the Study of Global Change), graduate interdisciplinary major:

Curriculum committee, taught one of its core seminars

4) Masters in Development Practices, Humphrey School, affiliate faculty

Each semester, I am an advisor for a number of undergraduates who are writing senior theses

and honor theses, McNair students, UROP, GRRP, and so on. I am also an advisor for off-

campus internships and directed studies for undergraduates, for new student groups and

campus-wide initiatives and campaigns, and I regularly conduct individualized directed

studies (regular discussions about assigned readings) for graduate students.