Professor MARIANNA PAVLOVSKAYA Department of Geography and Environmental Science Hunter College (Department Chair 2018-2024) Ph.D program in Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES), CUNY Graduate Center Member of Community Economies Research Collective http://www.communityeconomies.org/Home http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/~mpavlov/

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Urban and feminist geography, diverse economies, solidarity cities, post-socialism, Russia, critical GIS, solidarity economy

I am a Professor of Geography at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center. I received a PhD in geography from Clark University and MA in Geography from Moscow State University. My research focuses on urban geography, feminist geography, and critical GIS (Geographic Information Science). I examine experiences of transition to capitalism in Russia and the production of economic difference there, including the production of poverty and work-related gendered migration in post-Soviet Russia. My work also looks at the role of the census and geo-spatial data in production of social ontologies. Currently, I work with a group of colleagues on geographies of the solidarity economy in the United States. Among other things, I research alternatives to capitalist finance in the United States as well as many other forms of the solidarity economy such as community gardens and worker cooperatives. My research appeared in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Geoforum, Europe-Asia Studies, Environment and Planning A, Cartographica, Urban Geography, and Gender, Place, and Culture as well as in many edited volumes. I co-edited a book Rethinking Neoliberalism: Resisting the Disciplinary Regime to which I also contributed a chapter on normalization of poverty in Russia through metrics. I just completed a book on Solidarity Cities with my solidarity economy research colleagues Professor of Economics Maliha Safri (Drew University), Professor of Geography Stephen Healy (Western Sydney University), and Professor of Political Science Craig Borowiak (Haverford College). It is forthcoming in January 2025. I am currently finishing up several mapping / research projects on solidarity economies and solidarity cities. I am also working on historical mappings of solidarity economies in Russia and the US.

To prospective MA and PhD students:

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I am thrilled to announce my new book “Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation” co-written with M. Safri, S. Healy, and C. Borowiak that is coming out in University of Minnesota Press in December 2024.

	Collectively authored by four scholars from different disciplines – economist Maliha Safri, geographers Marianna Pavlovskaya and Stephen Healy, and political scientist Craig Borowiak, the book argues that cities have always been built with human solidarity instead of racial capitalism alone. Illustrated with many maps, the book draws on the ontological power of mapping to make Solidarity Cities visible in our urban landscapes and make them part of the spatial imaginaries of the urban future. The book covers historical and spatial dynamics of solidarity economy in three cities – New York City, Philadelphia, and Worcester, MA - and analyzes those dynamics using spatial metaphors of faultlines, bulwarks, and edgezones. Cooperative forms of housing, food production, finance, and care work are considered in greater depth as they emerged as particularly significant sectors within the solidarity economy that respond to unmet needs. Not incidentally, the spatial concentrations of the solidarity economy overlap with lower income and people of color neighborhoods that were intensely redlined in the middle of the 20^th century. We conclude that economic solidarity has provided urban residents with a major means of not only surviving in the face of racial capitalism but also making cities in which people wanted to live – cities built on human solidarity and care instead of the profit motive and capitalist competition. For details, see https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517916022/solidarity-cities/. The book is available through University of Minnesota Press. On 40% discount through Dec 15th. Z.umn/edu/9orl with code MN91750. Contents Introduction: Solidarity Economies and the Unmaking of Racial Capitalism 1. Seeing Solidarity Cities: The Power of Mapping and Counter-Mapping 2. Making Cities with Solidarity through Time 3. Constructing the Solidarity City, Stone by Stone 4. Navigating Fault Lines in the Food Solidarity Economy 5. Edgework: Cooperative Encounters 6. Bulwarks: Build and Defend the Solidarity City Conclusion: Horizons of Economic Solidarity and More Livable Worlds PRAISE FOR SOLIDARITY CITIES "Examining the impact of alternative solidarity-based community economic development, Solidarity Cities uniquely juxtaposes spatial patterns of solidarity activity with other demographic information, highlighting racial, class, and gender complexities in solidarity economies that are often missed or ignored. At the same time, the book does the double job of analyzing and celebrating how and where solidarity economies operate and thrive, providing ‘defense and resistance’ against society’s structural inequities." —Jessica Gordon Nembhard, author of Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
Also see below on Solidarity Cities and Social Transformation Sample map from the book Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation by Maliha Safri, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Stephen Healy, Craig Borowiak. Forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press, January 2025.
	Book edited by Sanford F. Schram, Marianna Pavlovskaya “Rethinking Neoliberalism Resisting the Disciplinary Regime” https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351736497 . My latest work on Russia is in Ch 5.

Interview for GIS day at Temple University (November 15, 2017). My keynote lecture was titled “GIS for social transformation: Place-making with credit unions in New York City.” https://liberalarts.temple.edu/about-us/newsroom/gis-social-transformation-interview-marianna-pavlovskaya-phd.

My interview with Against The Grain (kpfa Pacifica radio) on transformation of welfare in post-Soviet Russia aired June 23 and 30, 2015 and is now posted http://www.againstthegrain.org/program/1169/tues-62315-when-soviet-welfare-ended.

Marcela Barone, a Brazilian geographer, asked my thoughts about Critical GIS Entrevista: Marianna Pavlovskaya | Barone | Boletim Campineiro de Geografia, http://agbcampinas.com.br/bcg/index.php/boletim-campineiro/article/view/228/128.

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Publications	Invited lectures and other presentations	Research
Teaching	Past courses	Students

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ON-GOING RESEARH PROJECTS

	Post-socialism, neoliberalism, and multiple/diverse economies, community economies and economies of cooperation Inspired by the work of feminist geographers J.-K. Gibson-Graham on class as a process and on diverse economies, my research on multiple/diverse economies of post-socialism draws on its conceptualization for the post-Soviet space from my dissertation (1998) and subsequent publication in Pavlovskaya 2004 Other transitions. Seen this way, the transformation of the post-Soviet economy and space was not a single, linear, macroscale, and systemic shift from state socialism to market capitalism. Rather, it involved a drastic, contradictory, and multi-scalar transformation of multiple economies and practices, formal and informal, public and private, monetized and non-monetized. And, the impact of transition has been particularly felt at the scale of a household, where, using Cindi Katz’ words, “messy and fleshy” contradictions of social reproduction have changed everyday lives in a profound but unseen way. Mapping multiple household economies is a way to make them visible but also real and ontologically significant. My later work focuses on the ontological production and epistemological normalization of poverty in Russia, the emergence of temporary labor migration as a major livelihood strategy, and economies of cooperation in post-socialism. Read more: Pavlovskaya, Marianna E. 2002. “Mapping Urban Change and Changing GIS: Other Views of Economic Restructuring.” Gender, Place & Culture 9 (3): 281–89. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369022000003897. Pavlovskaya, M. 2004. “Other transitions: Multiple economies of Moscow households in the 1990s." The Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 94(2), pp. 329–351. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2004.09402011.x. Pavlovskaya M. 2020. “Precarious labour and migration: Precarious labour: Russia’s ‘other’ transition.” In Handbook of Diverse Economies. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the-handbook-of-diverse-economies-9781788119955.html. Pavlovskaya (2017) “Ontologies of Poverty in Russia and Duplicities of Neoliberalism” Chapter 5 in Rethinking Neoliberalism: Resisting the Disciplinary Regime, pp.84-103. Schram and Pavlovskaya, Eds. Routledge. Community Economies Research Collective http://www.communityeconomies.org/Home All publications
	Critical GIS Critical GIS is a field concerned with uses of geospatial technologies in knowledge production and society more broadly. It sees these technologies as not neutral analytical tools but as highly contested mediums of social power and powerful representational tools. In short, the resulting maps not only reflect the world around us but they produce social landscapes by making things on the map matter. In this sense, mapping has ontological power. By combining the powers of mapping and information technologies with feminist and other critical social theory, Critical GIS promises new possibilities for acting upon the growing social contradictions of the neoliberal era. Critical GIS opens a pragmatic plane of action by fusing progressive geographic imaginations with concrete and tangible maps. This map shows networks of support that allowed women in single households survive the transition to capitalism in Moscow. Read more: Pavlovskaya, M. (2018), Critical GIS as a tool for social transformation. The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe Canadien, 62 (1): 40-54. doi:10.1111/cag.12438. Pavlovskaya, M. 2020. Chapter “Feminism, GIS, and Mapping” in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 29-34; Elsevier. https://www-sciencedirect-com.proxy.wexler.hunter.cuny.edu/science/article/pii/B9780081022955106006. Pavlovskaya, M., and Kevin St. Martin. 2007. “Feminism and Geographic Information Systems: From a Missing Object to a Mapping Subject.” Geography Compass 1 (3): 583–606. Pavlovskaya, Marianna. 2016. “Digital Place-Making: Insights from Critical Cartography and GIS.” In The Digital Arts and Humanities: Neogeography, Social Media and Big Data Integrations and Applications, edited by Charles Travis and Alexander von Lünen, 153–67. Cham: Springer. http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=4728201. In addition, critical GIS scholars use lots of reflection when using primary and secondary data and accounting for the ways it is – and the results of the research – are power laden. St. Martin, K. and M. Pavlovskaya. 2010. “Chapter 11. Secondary data: Engaging numbers critically” in Research Methods in Geography: A First Course, eds. J-P. Jones III and B. Gomez. Blackwell Press. Pdf. Click here for color versions of the maps. These maps are a result of my work with our MA student Sara Hodges work on open space equity in New York (with NYCEJA). Pavlovskaya, Marianna, and Jess Bier. 2012. “Mapping Census Data for Difference: Towards the Heterogeneous Geographies of Arab American Communities of the New York Metropolitan Area.” Geoforum 43 (3): 483–96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.10.007. All publications
From Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation by Maliha Safri, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Stephen Healy, Craig Borowiak. Forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press, January 2025.	Solidarity cities and social transformation A growing international social movement known as social or solidarity economy seeks to intentionally incorporate workplace democracy, social justice, cooperation, and environmental sustainability into everyday economic lives across the world. My colleagues Maliha Safri, Stephen Healy, and Craig Borowiak and I have approached the research on the solidarity economy in the United States using the diverse economies framework (J.-K. Gibson-Graham) and drawing much inspiration from Black Geographies. In the spirit of critical GIS and together with the movement activists, we have used mapping as a strategy for creating ontologies of the solidarity economy by making it visible on the map. Even in the U.S. cities, the solidarity economy is widely present but masked by neoliberal discourses and market ideologies. Thus, Solidarities Cities are part of any urban area and maybe charting some important ways forward with a focus on livelihoods, care, and community instead of a quest for wealth accumulation. Making solidarity economies visible on the map harnesses the ontological power of mapping that makes these overlooked economic practices integral to our cities and incorporates them into the social imaginaries of the future. This visibility allows for a critical inquiry into the solidarity economies as well. While they offer collective means of resistance to racial capitalism they also expresses racialized wealth of communities and at times creates social and spatial exclusions. Supported by the NSF collaborative grant and PSC-CUNY grants, my research in this area focused on visualizing and explaining the patterns of the solidarity economy in three US cities – New York, Philadelphia, and Worcester, MA. The resulting maps, that we have contextualized in the book and previous publications by qualitative, historical, and archival work, show spatial overlap of the solidarity economy concentrations (or “hot spots” using geographical language) with historically black and immigrant neighborhoods as well as with current low income and communities of color. Those neighborhoods were intensely redlined in the middle of the 20^th century as well. We conclude that economic solidarity has provided urbanites with a major means of not only surviving in the face of racial capitalism but also gave a way to make cities in which people wanted to live – cities built on human solidarity and care instead of the profit motive and capitalist competition. Read more: M. Safri, M. Pavlovskaya, S. Healy, and C. Borowiak. 2024. “Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation.” Authors are listed in reverse alphabetical order, contribution is equal., University of Minnesota Press. https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517916022/solidarity-cities/ Pavlovskaya M., C. Borowiak, M. Safri, S. Healy, and R. Eletto. 2020. "The place of common bond: Can credit unions make place for solidarity economy?" Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1-22. https://www-tandfonline-com.proxy.wexler.hunter.cuny.edu/doi/full/10.1080/24694452.2019.1685368. S. Healy, C. Borowiak, M. Pavlovskaya, and M. Safri. (2018) Commoning and the Politics of Solidarity: Transformational Responses to Poverty. Geoforum. Online March 28, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.03.015. Borowiak, C., M. Safri, S. Healy, and M. Pavlovskaya. 2017. “Navigating the Fault Lines: Race and Class in Philadelphia’s Solidarity Economy.” Antipode, 50 (3): 577-603. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12368. Published on-line October 29, 2017. Safri, M., S. Healy, C. Borowiak, and M. Pavlovskaya. (2017). “Putting the Solidarity Economy on the Map.” The Journal of Design Strategies 9 (1): 71–83. https://issuu.com/journalofdesignstrategies/docs/the_journal_of_design_strategies_vo_8c7f80d5276059. See also Mapping solidarity economy in the United States. Project webpage https://mappingthesolidarityeconomy.wordpress.com/. Funded by NSF and PSC-CUNY. 2016 Marianna Pavlovskaya, Maliha Safri, and Lauren Hudson. New York City Worker Cooperatives Survey: Round 1. Detailed Public Report. March 1, 2016. By Solidarity Economy Research Project (SERP). pdf 2016 Marianna Pavlovskaya, Maliha Safri, and Lauren Hudson. New York City Worker Cooperatives Survey: Round 1. Public Brief. March 1, 2016. By Solidarity Economy Research Project (SERP). Pdf All publications
	Credit unions as sites for commoning finance My work critically examines how credit unions, the financial cooperatives in which over half of the US adult population has membership, act as solidarity economy institutions with a striking example of credit unions founded by black churches to counter the racist practices of mainstream banks in redlined neighborhoods. Yet, having originated in communities shaped by racial capitalism, credit unions – perhaps as no other cooperative institutions, owing to the common bond principle - also express the racialized wealth of these communities. Read more: Pavlovskaya M., C. Borowiak, M. Safri, S. Healy, and R. Eletto. 2020. "The place of common bond: Can credit unions make place for solidarity economy?" Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1-22. https://www-tandfonline-com.proxy.wexler.hunter.cuny.edu/doi/full/10.1080/24694452.2019.1685368. Pavlovskaya M. and R. Eletto. Credit Unions, class, race, and place in New York City. Special issue on “Sharing vs. solidarity.” Geoforum. Online 15 June 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.05.020. All publications

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2014-current	Professor, Department of Geography, Hunter College; Ph.D. program in Earth and Environmental Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center
2015-2016	Professor II, UiT the Arctic University of Norway
2004-2014	Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Hunter College; Ph.D. program in Earth and Environmental Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center
1998-2003	Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Hunter College
1997-1998	Visiting Assistant Professor, Florida Atlantic University

Academic Honorary affiliations

2018-2024	Chair, Department of Geography, Hunter College
2014-2015	Interim Chair, Department of Geography, Hunter College
2012-2013	Department of Geography, Moscow State University and Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences
2011-2019	Member of the Editorial Board of The Professional Geographer.
2011-2013	International academic advisor to the project on “Gender and Mobilities” conducted by Kvinnforsk (Center for Gender Studies), University of Tromsø, Norway.
2010-2013	International academic advisor to research project “Gender, poverty and social transformation in Uganda,” University of Tromsø and Makerere University, Norwegian Programme for Development, Research and Education (NUFU).
2010	Guest scholar at Kvinnforsk (Centre for Women's Studies and Women in Research), University of, Norway. Spring 2010.
2005-2007		President of the Russian, Central Eurasian, and East European Specialty group of the Association of American Geographers
2000-2001	Fellow at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, Graduate Center, CUNY
2002, 2007	The City University of New York Certificate of Recognition.

EDUCATION
Ph.D., Geography 1998.	Clark University, Worcester MA Dissertation topic: Everyday life and social transition: Gender, class, and change in the city of Moscow. Advisor: Susan Hanson.
M.A., Geography 1987.	Moscow State University, Russia. Thesis topic: Geography of international trade. Advisor: Leonid Smirnyagin

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COURSES TAUGHT AT HUNTER COLLEGE AND CUNY GRADUATE CENTER (1998 - current):

Graduate

EES 70900 Geographic Thought & Theory (at the GC: Fall 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022)

GEOG 701 Geographic Thought & Theory (at HC: Fall 2017, 2019)

Geog 708 Geographies of Urban Space (at HC: Fall 2003, Spring 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2011)

EES 799.03 After the future: Post-soviet geographies (Fall 2007)

EES 799.03. Geography of post-socialism (at the GC: Spring 2005)

EES 79903 – Urban Space & Social Power, F 2-4 (NEW) (at the GC: Spring 2016)

Graduate/Undergraduate

GTech 385.02/GTech 785.02/ EES 799.03 GIS Applications in Social geography (at HC: Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Fall 2002, Spring 2004, Fall 2006, Fall 2008, Fall 2011, Fall 2015, Fall 2017)

Geog 383/709 Special Topics: Urban Space and Social Problems (Spring 2000)

Undergraduate (at HC)

GEOG 243 Urban geography (Fall 2013)

Geog 101 People and their Environment (Fall 1998, Spring 1999, Fall 1999, Spring 2001, Spring 2003, Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2006; Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009; Spring 2012; Spring 2014; Spring 2016)
Geog 278 Geography of Russia and Central Asia (Fall 1998, Spring 2000, Fall 2004, Spring 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010)
CUNY Honors College Seminar 2 CHC150 The peopling of New York (Spring 2006, Spring 2008, Spring 2009)

Geog 227 Environmental Conservation: Urban Problems (Spring 1999)

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STUDENTS

PhD committee chair:

Coline Chevrin (current) Urban development and the struggle to create alternatives in a Latin American city: The case of Rosario, Argentina

Olivia Ildelfonso (2022) Unraveling the Geographies of the U.S. Public Education System: An analysis of scale, segregation and hegemony.

Ekaterina Bezborodko (on leave) Vocational education.

Lauren Hudson (2021) Producing movement space in New York City’s solidarity economy.

Deen Sharp (2018) Corporate Urbanization: Between the Future and Survival in Lebanon

Bradley Gardener (2012) “And Then the Neighborhood Changed: Jewish Intra-Urban Migration and Racial Identity in the Bronx, NY.”

Amanda Huron (2012) “The Work of the Urban Commons: Limited-Equity Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.”

Cris Notaro (2011) “The Interfaith Center: The construction and consequence of interfaith space.”

Jess Bier, transferred to PhD program at Maastricht University, Netherlands.

PhD Committee member:

Gonzalo Martínez Herrera (current) Reconfiguration of human-plant relationships after the construction of the Zimapan Dam in the Mezquital Valley in Mexico. Advisor Jim Biles.

Miranda Meyer (current) Memory in Beirut. Advisor Peter Kabachnik.

Hilary Wilson (current) Tax Increment Financing and The Financialization of Urban Governance in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Advisor Ruth Wilson Gilmore.

Sophie O’Monique (current) Social Reproduction in the Financialized City: Financialized Landlords and Multi-Family Rental Housing in Toronto and New York City. Advisor Cindi Katz.

Alexandra Sullivan (current) “From Icon to Iconoclast: The Potential for a Solidarity Economy Pizza” Advisor Michael Menser.

Matthew Bissen (current) “Appropriate Urbanism: A study of the appropriation of space and nature in the Bronx River watershed toward urban transformation.” Advisor Ken Gould.

Rose Jimenez (2022) Mapping the Green Infrastructure Landscape and Green Gentrification in Brooklyn and Queens, New York. Advisor Juliana Maantay

Erin Friedman (2021) “Climate change in Antigua.” Advisor Bill Solecki.

Francesca Manning (2020) A defense and expansion of the theory of capitalist ground rent: Speculation, securitization, and struggles over land and housing. Advisor David Harvey.

Celeste Winston (2019) ““How to Lose the Hounds”: Tracing the Relevance of Marronage for Contemporary Anti-Police Struggles.” Advisor Ruth Wilson Gilmore.

Christian Siener (2018) “From Prison to Work Camp to Homeless Shelter: Camp LaGuardia and the Political Economy of an Urban Infrastructure, 1918-2007.” Advisor Ruth Wilson Gilmore.

David Spataro (2014) “Politicized Direct Intervention in Service Provision: a (gendered, racialized, and classed) struggle over social reproduction?” Advisor Cindi Katz.

Moira Conway (2013) “Gravity Modeling of Casinos in the United States: A Case Study of Philadelphia” Advisor John Seley.

Christian Anderson (2012) “Tracing West Forty-Sixth Street: an ethnography of everyday life, circulation, and possibility.” Advisor Cindi Katz.

MA thesis committee chair:

Stephen Wolkwitz (current) Census 2020 geographies of NYC

Rafael Perez (current) Migration from Puerto Rico.

Deron Bennet (current) Socio-spatial identity, power, and scale within the East River bridge neighborhoods.

Rebecca John (2024) Fibersheds: Textiles as the Basis for a New World. Adelène Moffat Fellowship and Sally Clark Award Society of Woman Geographers

Ross Maddux (2021) Access to Transportation in Working, Pregnant Mothers: Insights into Premature Birth.

Gabe Schuster (2021) (Re)Imagining Eminent Domain: The Embodied Imaginaries of the Atlantic Yards – Barclays Center Project.

Tim Lau (2020) Mapping Ecological Futures: Toward a Cartography of Climate Justice.

Rebecca Kukla (2019) Repurposed Spaces in Berlin and Johannesburg. Society of Woman Geographers award.

Erika Jimenez (2018) Assessment of the environmental impacts of the urban growth using GIS and Remote Sensing in the City of Guayaquil, Ecuador. Society of Woman Geographers award.

Adele Balderston (2016) Voices of Kaka’ako: A Narrative Atlas of Participatory Placemaking in Urban Honolulu.

Araby Smyth (2015) “Mexican Hometown Associations in New York City: A Study of Transnational Solidarity.” Society of Woman Geographers fellowship award, Miriam and Soul Cohen Award for the best graduate research paper. Nominated for Hunter College Shuster Award for the best master’s thesis.

Dan Rogers (2014) “The limits of authority: New York region, the Port Authority, and metropolitan governance from progressivism to neoliberalism.”

Jordan Leff (2013) “Geography of cooperative enterprises in the United States.”

Joanna Laroussi (2012) “Development and potential effects of Web Mapping Application “PUTES on the Web” for visualizing students’ transportation eligibility.”

Erin Araujo (2011), “Polluted Streams: The Political Economy of Potable Water in San Cristobal de las Casas Chiapas, Mexico.” Society of Women Geographers award, Miriam and Saul Cohen Graduate Award for Excellence in Geographic Research. (Currently in a PhD program at Memorial University, Canada.)

Christian Siener (2011) “ ‘A Rock My Pillow and the Sidewalk My Bed’: Homeless Geographies of New York City” Shuster Award for Outstanding Master's Degree Thesis, Miriam and Saul Cohen Graduate Award for Excellence in Geographic Research. (Currently in a PhD program at CUNY Graduate Center).

Thor Ritz (2010), “Facing the Food Crisis: the Political Economy of Alternative Agriculture Projects”, Miriam and Saul Cohen Graduate Award for Excellence in Geographic Research. (Currently in a PhD program at Syracuse University).

Sean Tanner (2009), "Ambiguous Territory: Landscapes of Landownership in Post-Civil War Guatemala". Shuster Award for Outstanding Master's Degree Thesis. (Currently in a PhD program at Rutgers University).

Dan Wiley (2007) “Planning Brooklyn Bridge Park: The Political Economy of Place.”

Ben Mancell (2006) “Recycling participation disparities in New York City neighborhoods.”

Valeria Treves (2005) “Towards a law enforcement technologies complex: Situating Compstat in neo-liberal penality.” Society of Women Geographers award.

Sara Hodges (2004) “Open space in New York City: A GIS-based analysis of equity of distribution and access.” Shuster Award for outstanding MA degree thesis, Society of Women Geographers award.

Naomi Santoni (2003) “A Geographic Exploration of Primary Health Care Needs and Services within the State of New Jersey.”

Doug Plumer (2000) “Thawing the Meatpacking District: Gentrification on Manhattan’s Lower West Side.”

MA exam committee chair:

Rob Eletto (2012)

Ron Roman (2011)

Rob Siwiec (2006)

Henry Sirotin (2006)

Tim Calabrese (2005 Schuster award)

MA Committee member:

Danielle Bartolone (2018), Michael Wilkerson (2011), Stefanie Gray (2011), Andrew Mallin (2007), Andres DeLeon (2005), Kevin Keenan (2005), Sam Keiss (2003), Dana Reimer (2002), Rich Swanson (2002), Andrea Copeland (2001).

Graduate independent studies of note/Internships

Holly Josephs (2020) National scale analysis of the spatial distribution of the solidarity economy. Summer Workforce Internship Program [SWIP] sponsored by the NSF-ATE program, BCC Geospatial Center of the CUNY CREST Institute.

Gabrielle Alpers (2020) Preliminary analysis of socio-economic and environmental vulnerabilities at a fine spatial resolution in New York City. Summer Workforce Internship Program [SWIP] sponsored by the NSF-ATE program, BCC Geospatial Center of the CUNY CREST Institute.

Julia Jong (2018) Social GIS Applications for Transportation Justice. Community Partner: Transportation Alternatives. Miriam and Saul Cohen Graduate Award for Excellence in Geographic Research.

Undergraduate students (Capstone/Honors Thesis):

Gabrielle Blevins (2020) The Distribution of Hazard: Race, Neoliberalism, and Environmental Privilege. Honors thesis.

Connie Koo (2020) The Social-Economic Profiles of Neighborhoods Experiencing Garden Closures Capstone.

Yu Qiao Chen (Tom) (2018) Does gentrification promote or diminish diversity in New York City? Honors thesis. Alice Hudson Map Award.

E. Terumi Woods (2017) Resisting Displacement: The Evolution of San Francisco. Honors.

Vicky Liburd (2017) Race, ethnicity, and the education gap in NYC. Capstone.

Joselyn Sanchez (2017) Over-Policing in New York City’s Public High Schools: A Case Study of the Bronx County Public High Schools. Honors Thesis.

Lena Suponya (2017) Environmental knowledge and student recycling at Hunter College. Honors Thesis.

Shantal Taveras (2017) Spatial application for school pupil transportation. Capstone.

Katelyn Kennedy (2016) Evaluation community gardens within the NYC metropolitan area. Honors.

Sofiya Elyukin (2016) Alternative childcare and single parent households in Philadelphia. Capstone.

Luciano Ortiz (2016) Community gardens as part of NYC solidarity economy. Capstone.

Tessa Hasson (2016) Gender in restaurant industry. Capstone.

Leticia Vasquez (2016) Gendered patterns of cyberspace crime and law. Capstone.

Pat Hanley (2015). Suburbanization of Italian Americans in New York. Capstone.

Brittany Richter (2015) Changing geography of Jewish neighborhoods in New York City. Capstone.

Sonia Wong (2015) Impact of Native Plants in New York City’s Urban Green Spaces. Capstone.

Esther Bannerman (2015) Homelessness in New York City: Its state and policy response. Capstone.

Trude Vargas (2014) Alternative food networks in New York City. Capstone.

Olena Borkovska (2012) Inventory/Survey Techniques for Management of Invasive Plant Species. Capstone.

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PUBLICATIONS

Authored books

2025 (forthcoming)	M. Safri, M. Pavlovskaya, S. Healy, and C. Borowiak. “Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation.” Authors are listed in reverse alphabetical order, contribution is equal. Forthcoming January 2025, University of Minnesota Press.
1990	Berezkin, A. V., V. A. Kolosov, M. E. Pavlovskaya, N. V. Petrov, and L. V. Smirnyagin. 1990. Vesna 1989: Geografiia i Anatomiia Parlamentskikh Vyborov. [Spring 1989: Geography and Anatomy of Parliamentary Elections]. In Russian. Moscow: Progress.

Edited Volumes

2018	Marianna Pavlovskaya, Siri Gerrard, and Marit Aure, guest editors. 2018. Special issue based on papers presented at the “Gender and (Im)mobilities in the Context of Work” conference, Tromsø, June 15 -17, 2016. Gender, Place, and Culture. Papers on line.
2017	Sanford F. Schram and Marianna Pavlovskaya, Editors. (forthcoming 2017) Rethinking Neoliberalism: Theory & Practice, Routledge.
2010	Pavlovskaya, Marianna, ed. 2010. Honoring Susan Hanson’s 45 years in Geography. Guest editor for Gender, place and culture: A journal of feminist geography, 2010, 17 (1).
2005	Harvey, Francis, Mei-Po Kwan, and Marianna E. Pavlovskaya, eds. 2005. Special issue: Critical GIS. Cartographica 40, no. 4.
2001	Ines Miyares, Marianna Pavlovskaya, and Gregory Pope, editors. 2001. From the Hudson to the Hamptons: The snapshots of the New York Metropolitan area. AAG: New York.

Refereed articles, chapters, and commentary in refereed journals

2020	Pavlovskaya M. “Precarious Labour and migration: Precarious labour: Russia’s ‘other’ transition.” Chapter for the Handbook of Diverse Economies. K. Gibson and K. Dombroski, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing (reviewed by editors). pdf. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the-handbook-of-diverse-economies-9781788119955.html.
2020	Pavlovskaya, M. 2020. Chapter “Feminism, GIS, and Mapping” in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 29-34; 2e, eds Audrey Kobayashi and Jeremy Crampton. Elsevier. (Reviewed by editors). pdf
2019	Pavlovskaya M., C. Borowiak, M. Safri, S. Healy, and R. Eletto. 2019. "The place of common bond: Can credit unions make place for solidarity economy?” Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1-22. Pdf. https://www-tandfonline-com.proxy.wexler.hunter.cuny.edu/doi/full/10.1080/24694452.2019.1685368.
2019	Pavlovskaya, Marianna. 2019. “Drawing New Lines of Hope and Social Transformation with Critical GIS.” Transactions in GIS 23 (1): 170–71. Commentary for book forum on Matthew Wilson (2018) “New Lines: Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map,” Transactions of GIS. https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12503.
2018	Alexander B. Murphy, John Agnew, Klaus Dodds, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Jeremy Tasch & Gerard Toal (2018) Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest Over Ukraine and the Caucasus, The AAG (The American Association of Geographers) Review of Books, 6:4, 293-305, DOI: 10.1080/2325548X.2018.1508200.
2018	Marianna Pavlovskaya, Siri Gerrard & Marit Aure (2018) Introduction: guest editorial for special issue ‘gender and im(mobilities)’, Gender, Place & Culture, 25:8, 1115-1120, DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2018.1499618
2018	Pavlovskaya M. and R. Eletto. Credit Unions, class, race, and place in New York City. Special issue on “Sharing vs. solidarity.” Geoforum. Online 15 June 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.05.020.
2018	S. Healy, C. Borowiak, M. Pavlovskaya, and M. Safri. (2018) Commoning and the Politics of Solidarity: Transformational Responses to Poverty. Geoforum. Online March 28, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.03.015.
2018	Pavlovskaya, M. (2018), Critical GIS as a tool for social transformation. The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien. doi:10.1111/cag.12438. In special issue of The Canadian Geographer on Speculative and Constructively Critical GIS. Thatcher J, Bergmann L, and D O’Sullivan, guest editors. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12438. proofs
2017	Schram, Sanford and Marianna Pavlovskaya (2017) Introduction. Chapter 1 in Rethinking Neoliberalism: Theory & Practice, Sanford F. Schram and Marianna Pavlovskaya, Editors. Routledge. pdf
2017	Pavlovskaya (2017) “Ontologies of Poverty in Russia and Duplicities of Neoliberalism” Chapter 5 in Rethinking Neoliberalism: Theory & Practice, Sanford F. Schram and Marianna Pavlovskaya, Editors. Routledge. pdf
2017	Safri, Maliha, Stephen Healy, Craig Borowiak, and Marianna Pavlovskaya. 2017. “Putting the Solidarity Economy on the Map.” The Journal of Design Strategies 9 (1): 71–83.
2017	Borowiak, Craig, Maliha Safri, Stephen Healy, and Marianna Pavlovskaya. 2017. “Navigating the Fault Lines: Race and Class in Philadelphia’s Solidarity Economy.” Antipode, n/a-n/a. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12368. Published on-line October 29, 2017.
2017	Pavlovskaya, M. “Qualitative GIS” in Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography. (reviewed by editors) pdf
2017	Pavlovskaya, M. “Class” in Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography. (reviewed by editors) pdf
2016	Pavlovskaya M. “Digital place-making: Insights from critical cartography and GIS.” Chapter for “The Digital Arts and Humanities: Neogeography, Social Media and Big Data Integrations and Applications,” (Springer Press), Charles Travis and Alexander von Lünen (editors) (reviewed by editors) pdf
2015	Pavlovskaya, M. 2015. “Post-Soviet Welfare and Multiple Economies of Households in Moscow.” Chapter 11 in Roelvink, Gerda, Kevin St Martin, and J. K. Gibson-Graham, eds. 2015. Making Other Worlds Possible: Performing Diverse Economies, pp.269-295. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. pdf
2014	Marianna Pavlovskaya and Kevin St. Martin. 2014. “Economy,” Chapter 20 in Sage Handbook of Human Geography. Edited by Roger Lee, Noel Castree, Rob Kitchin, Victoria Lawson, Anssi Paasi, Chris Philo, Sarah Radcliffe, Susan Roberts and Charles W.J. Withers. Sage Publications. (Reviewed by editors). Pdf.
2013	Pavlovskaya, M. 2013. “Between neoliberalism and possibility: Multiple practices of property in post-Soviet Russia”. Europe-Asia Studies. v.65, No.7, 1295-1323. DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2013.822708. Pdf.
2012	M. Pavlovskaya and J. Bier. 2012 “Mapping census data for difference: Towards the heterogeneous geographies of Arab American communities of the New York Metropolitan area.” Geoforum, Volume 43, Issue 3 (May 2012), Pages 483–496. Published online 30 November 2011. pdf.
2012	Pavlovskaya, M. 2012 "Theorizing with GIS: A tool for critical geographies?" Ch. 50 in “Digital Qualitative Research Methods” in Vol. 3, pp. 269-294. Edited by Bella Dicks. Four volumes. SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods, SAGE Publications. Reprint of Pavlovskaya 2006.
2010	St. Martin, K. and M. Pavlovskaya. 2010. “Chapter 11. Secondary data: Engaging numbers critically” in Research Methods in Geography: A First Course, eds. J-P. Jones III and B. Gomez. Blackwell Press. Pdf. Click here for color versions of the maps.
2010	Pavlovskaya, Marianna. 2010. Honoring Susan Hanson’s 45 years in Geography. Introduction. Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 17, no. 1. pdf
2009	Pavlovskaya M. “Non-quantitative GIS.” Ch. 1 in Qualitative GIS: A Mixed Methods Approach to Integrating Qualitative Research and Geographic Information Systems, Edited by S. Elwood and M. Cope, pp. 13-37. Sage Publications, London, UK. Pdf.
2009	Pavlovskaya M. Chapter “Methods: Feminist visualization” in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, eds R. Kitchin & N. Thrift. Elsevier. 4800 words. (Reviewed by editors) pdf
2009	Pavlovskaya M. Chapter “Feminism, maps, and GIS” in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, eds R. Kitchin & N. Thrift. Elsevier. 4000 words. (Reviewed by editors). pdf
2009	St. Martin, Kevin, and Marianna Pavlovskaya. 2009. Ethnography. Chapter 22 in Companion to environmental geography. eds N. Castree, D. Demeritt, D. Liverman, and B. Rhoads, 370-384. Blackwell Publishing. Pdf
2009	Pavlovskaya, Marianna. Critical GIS and its positionality. Cartographica 44, no. 1: 8-10. pdf
2007	Pavlovskaya, M. and St. Martin, K. 2007. Feminism and GIS: From a missing object to a mapping subject. Geography Compass, 1 (3): 583-606. pdf Reprinted in Geography Compass, February 2008 - Vol. 2 VIRTUAL ISSUE: Gender
2006	Pavlovskaya, M. 2006. "Theorizing with GIS: A tool for critical geographies?" Environment and Planning A, 38 (11): 2003-2020. pdf
2005	Harvey, F., M.-P. Kwan, and M. Pavlovskaya. 2005. Introduction: Critical GIS. Cartographica. Special Issue Critical GIS, Harvey, F., M-P. Kwan, and M. Pavlovskaya, Eds. 40, no. 4. pdf
2004	Pavlovskaya, M. 2004. “Other transitions: Multiple economies of Moscow households in the 1990s." The Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 94(2), pp. 329–351. pdf
2002	Pavlovskaya, M. 2002. "Mapping urban change and changing GIS: Other views of economic restructuring," Gender, place and culture: A journal of feminist geography, V 9 (3): 281 – 289. Issue focused on Feminist Geography and GIS. pdf
2001	Pavlovskaya, M. and S. Hanson, 2001. “Privatization of the Urban Fabric: Gender and Local Geographies in Downtown Moscow,” Urban Geography, 22, 1, pp. 4-28. pdf
1989	V. Kolosov, M. Pavlovskaya, N. Petrov and L. Smirnyagin, 1989. "The geography of the 1989 elections of Peoples' Deputies of the USSR (preliminary results)", Soviet Geography, v.30 (8).

Other publications

2016	Marianna Pavlovskaya, Maliha Safri, and Lauren Hudson. New York City Worker Cooperatives Survey: Round 1. Detailed Public Report. March 1, 2016. By Solidarity Economy Research Project (SERP). pdf
2016	Marianna Pavlovskaya, Maliha Safri, and Lauren Hudson. New York City Worker Cooperatives Survey: Round 1. Public Brief. March 1, 2016. By Solidarity Economy Research Project (SERP). pdf
2015	“Moi Smirnyaguin Leonid Victorovich” in Raiony, shtaty i goroda SSHA, Vol. 1, pp. 48-52, ed. by Tarkhov S. A. Moscow, 2015. Essay about L.V. Smirnyaguin as a teacher in the three-volume anthology of his works dedicated to his 80^th birthday. In Russian.
2012	Book review of Information and Communication Technology Geographies: Strategies for Bridging the Digital Divide. Melissa R. Gilbert and Michele Masucci. Praxis (e) Press, Critical Topographies Series. 2011. Annals of the Association of the American Geographers. Forthcoming in March 2012 issue.
Forth coming	Translation into Russian of a chapter by Susan Hanson “Geography and gender (1984): Women and geography study group in Hubbord, Phil, Rob Kitchin, and Gill Valentine, eds. 2008. Key texts in human geography. Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore: Sage Publications.
2010	Chapter on scholarship of Susan Hanson, in Encyclopedia of Geography, edited by Barney Warf, Sage Publications.
2009	Book review of Dreaming of a mail-order husband: Russian-American internet romance by Ericka Johnson, 2007. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Gender, Place & Culture, 16 (3): 359-361.
2001	Pavlovskaya, M. 2001. Book review of Pickles, John, and Adrian Smith, eds. 1998. Theorising transition: The political economy of post-communist transformation. London and New York: Routledge. Economic Geography, v.77 (1): 67-73.
1993	M.E. Pavlovskaya, 1993. Chapter 9 "Lithuania" in V.A. Kolosov, N.V. Petrov and L.V. Smirnyaguin, eds., Vesna 1989 goda: Geografia i Anatomia vyborov ["The Spring of 1989: Geography and Anatomy of elections"], Moscow: Progress. (In Russian)
1993	V.A. Myachin, M.E. Pavlovskaya and N.V. Petrov, 1993. Chapter 3 "Geographic Aspects of the 1989 Elections" in V.A. Kolosov, N.V. Petrov and L.V. Smirnyaguin, eds., "Vesna 1989 goda: Geografia i Anatomia vyborov" ["Spring 1989: Geography and Anatomy of elections"], Moscow: Progress. (In Russian)

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Grants

2014-2015	“Mapping the invisible: The solidarity economy of New York City” PSC-CUNY 45 Research Award. $5934.74. Awarded April 2014.
2013-2014	NSF Geography and and Spatial Sciences (GSS) Award “Collaborative Research: Mapping the Solidarity Economy in the United States.” Pavlovskaya is a PI. Hunter College is a lead institution with three other collaborating universities. Total amount $186,000; Hunter College share $71,000. Awarded June 2013.
2013	Fellow, Community Economies Theory and Writing Retreat in Bolsena, Italy, 2-14 July 2013. Funded by Julie Graham Community Economies Research Fund (JGCERF).
2012	Selected for Fulbright Research Award for Russia for 2012-2013. Declined.
2012-2013	Enhanced PSC-CUNY Research Award “Between state socialism and neoliberalism: Multiple practices of property and economies of cooperation in post-Soviet Russia”. May 2012, Amount $12,000.
2011	President’s Fund for Faculty Incentive Award for 2012. $1,500
2008-2009	PSC-CUNY research award “The invisible community: Creating geographies of Arab Americans in New York and New Jersey using secondary data.” $3800
2006-2007	Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Eurasia Teaching fellowship. "After the Future: Geography of Post-Socialist Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus." $9,000.
2005-2007	PSC-CUNY Award Mapping multiple economies of New York City households. $3,052.
2003-2008	George N. Shuster Faculty Fellowship, Hunter College Presidential Grant Competition. Post-privatization urban restructuring and control over urban space in Moscow. $3,000.
2003-2004	Gender Equity Project Sponsorship, Hunter College (part of NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award). $8,000.
2002-2003	Gender Equity Project Sponsorship. Hunter College (part of NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award). $10,000.
2002-2005	PSC-CUNY Research Award to supplement funding from HUD-NRC (see below). $4,884.
2001-2003	Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and National Research Council (NRC). $55,000. Urban Scholars Postdoctoral Fellowship. "Households, multiple economies, and urban change: A case study of three neighborhoods in New York City."
2001-2003	New York City Environmental Justice Alliance (NYCEJA). Pilot project “Open space equity in New York City,” $13,000.
1999-2000	PSC-CUNY Research Award. Dissertation follow-up research project on Moscow. $4,000.

Funded research assistants

Tim Calabrese, Jennifer Jeffus, Lynn Seirup, Rich Swanson, Alice Ungaro, Ivette Estrada, Sara Hodges, Kimberly Wolff, Natalia Krasnova, Jackie McKenzie Floredelisa Mota, Trinette Tatomer, Geovanna Pellot, Valeria Treves, Alicia Canary, Yvonne Bravo, Maria Kolchina, Jess Bier, Stefanie Gray, Rob Eletto, Trude Chandler, Jordan Leff, Jack Norton, Ekaterina Bezborodko, Christian Siener, Gabe Schuster, Araby Smyth, Lauren Hudson, Matt Herman, Holly Josephs, Gabrielle Alper, Mojan Farid, Lisa Gaetjens

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INVITED LECTURES, TALKS, WORKSHOPS, AND KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

2023	Solidarity Cities. Geoseminar, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, Hunter College, December 11, 2023.
2020	“Exploring Space and Place in Qualitative Research with GIS.” Workshop leader at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), January 8-10, 2020, Oslo, Norway.
2021	Co-presenter and panelist, with M. Safri, C. Borowiak, and S. Healy, “Mapping Solidarity Cities.” Presented at Community economies institute (CEI) Symposia on Thinking with Solidarity Economies, Session 2, June 24, 2021, online.
2020	“Exploring Space and Place in Qualitative Research with GIS.” Workshop leader at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), January 8-10, 2020, Oslo, Norway.
2019	“Is there an alternative to capitalist finance? Geography Awareness Week Lighening Talk. November 13, 2019.
2019	Place-making for solidarity economy: Credit unions in New York City. Rowan University. October 10, 2019.
2017	GES Earth and Environmental Sciences Doctoral Program Panel and Book Launch “Rethinking Neoliberalism: Resisting disciplinary regime” edited by S. Schram and M. Pavlovskaya. Participating authors: Sanford Schram, Jillian Schwedler, Leonard Feldman, Maureen Matarese, and Marianna Pavlovskaya. Science Center at CUNY Graduate Center, November 30, 2017.
2017	“GIS for social transformation: Place-making with credit unions in New York City.” Keynote address at the GIS day at Temple University. Philadelphia, November 15, 2017
2017	“Geography that matters: Place-making potential of credit unions in New York City.” Hofstra University, April 26, 2017.
2015	Interview with public affairs program Against the Grain, KPFA (Pacifica) Radio about the transformation of welfare in post-Soviet Russia. Invited as the author of the chapter "Post-Soviet Welfare and Multiple Economies of Households in Moscow" in the “Making Other Worlds Possible: Performing diverse economies,” 2015, University of Minnesota Press. Interview date June 16, 2015, 4-5pm, air dates June 23 and 30, 2015. http://www.againstthegrain.org/program/1169/tues-62315-when-soviet-welfare-ended
2014	“Solidarity economy and critical GIS” Geoseminar, Department of Geography, Hunter College, December 1, 2014.
2014	Mapping the Solidarity Economy in the USA. Sarah Lawrence College, May 6, 2014.
2014	Research directions: Mapping the Solidarity Economy in the United States. Department of Geography, Hunter College. March 12, 2014
2012	Keynote speaker at Gender and Mobilities: Current Empirical, Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives. The 2012 Symposium/Ph.D.-course. Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education. University of Tromsø, Norway. June 18-20, 2012.
2012	GIS Workshop/Course leader “GIS for social science research” organized by the University of the Faroe Islands for a group of researchers from Nordic countries. Funded by a grant from NORA (Nordic Atlantic Cooperation), an intergovernmental organization under the Nordic Council of Ministers. May 22-24, 2012. Tórshavn, Faroe Islands.
2012	Feminist methods in GIS: From a missing object to a mapping subject. Rutgers University, March 22, 2012.
2010	Lecture “Mapping gender and mobility,” Workshop on Gender, poverty, and social transformation, University of Kampala, Kampala and Jinja, Uganda. December 1-7, 2010.
2010	Lecture “Publishing in academic journals: Steps to take for graduate students.” Workshop on Gender, poverty, and social transformation, University of Kampala, Kampala and Jinja, Uganda. December 1-7, 2010.
2010	Lecture “Mapping gender and mobility,” Workshop on Gender and Mobility, Kvinnsforsk, University of Tromsø, Norway. November 23-26, 2010. Funded by Kvinnsforsk (Center for Women and Gender Studies).
2010	Paper presentation “Migrating to capitalism: Post-Soviet subjects in the US.” Presented at the Workshop on Gender and Mobility, Kvinnsforsk, University of Tromsø, Norway. November 23-26, 2010. Funded by Kvinnsforsk (Center for Women and Gender Studies).
2010	Keynote speaker “GIS as a qualitative research practice.” International conference Qualitative GIS: emerging issues and possible futures. Cardiff University, UK. 2-4 August 2010. Funded by WISERD (Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research Data and Methods).
2010	Presentation “Feminist geography on gender and mobility.” Seminar of the GIS/KIS network. University of Tromsø, Norway. April 28, 2010.
2008	Lecture Producing gender in Russia: Traditional family as a political technology. Environmental Psychology program, Graduate Center, CUNY, December 4, 2008
2008	Lecture “Gendered cartographies” Department of Geography, University of Lancaster. May 2, 2008
2008	Keynote speaker, “Class, Gender, and GIS,” ESRC seminar series on Time-Space and Life Course, University of Lancaster, UK. May 1, 2008
2008	“Class, Gender, and GIS” University of Newcastle, UK, April 30, 2008
2008	Lecture “From a missing object to a mapping subject: Remaking the world with a GIS,” February 12, 2008, Clark University, Worcester, MA
2006	Lecture “Flexible households in a non-flexible economy: Post-socialist Moscow and neo-liberal New York.” University of Massachusetts, Amherst. March 31, 2006
2005	Lecture “Multiple economies and urban restructuring in Moscow.” Department of City & Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. March 18, 2005
2004	Keynote speaker "From rigid singular economic systems to fluid multiple economies: Reconstituting socialism and post-socialism." Research seminar funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) “Trans-National Issues, Local Concerns: Insights from Russia, Central and Eastern Europe and the UK.” September 24, 2004, Queen Mary University of London.
2002	Lecture “Uncovering unprivileged economies.” Rutgers University, November 8, 2002.
1999	Invited guest speaker "Other transitions: Gender, class, and urban change in the City of Moscow." Presented at "Gender and Transition" workshop at NYU. March 5, 1999

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ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (selected since 2010)

2024		Panelist, Author Meets Critics 1: Discussing O'Sullivan's “Computing Geographically,” Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Virtual, April 16-20, 2024.
2023		Economies of cooperation in Russia’s past. Presentation at The 4^th Community Economies Research Network (CERN) LIVIANA International Online Conference October 30^th - November 10, 2023, Session 6.4 Community Economies of the Past: Inspiration for Otherworlds from the unexamined community economies of the past, November 6, 2023.
2022		The Place of Common Bond: Commoning finance as a site of social transformation. Paper presentation at Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Virtual, February 25- March 1, 2022.
2022		What does the Handbook of Diverse Economies Enable? Panelist at Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Virtual, February 25- March 1, 2022.
2021		Co-presenter and panelist, with M. Safri, C. Borowiak, and S. Healy, “Mapping Solidarity Cities.” Presented at Community economies institute (CEI) Symposia on Thinking with Solidarity Economies, Session 2, June 24, 2021, online.
	2021	Panelist on “(Un)Mapping Social and Spatial Inequality” Panel Session, UCGIS Symposium 2021: Advancing GIScience-informed Policy Solutions; June 7-11, 2021; online at https://hopin.com/events/ucgis-symposium-2021.
	2021	Panelist on Towards Computational Praxis for Social Justice Panel. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Virtual, April 7-11, 2021.
	2018	Panelist in the book panel “Author meets critics”: Matthew Wilson (2017) “New Lines: Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map,” Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, New Orleans, LA April 10-14, 2018.
	2018	Panelist in the book panel “Author Meets the Critics”: "Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus" by Gerard Toal. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, New Orleans, LA April 10-14, 2018.
	2017	“Place-making through ethical finance? Potential of credit unions in New York City.” Paper presentation at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston, Massachusetts, April 5-9, 2017.
	2017	Panelist in the session “Gazing at Power in Alternative Economies Research.” 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston, Massachusetts, April 5-9, 2017.
	2016	“Inequality and poverty in Russia: From ontological absence to epistemological normalization.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, CA March 29-April2, 2016.
	2016	“Critical GIS is a tool for social transformation” Panel presentation at the Panel Session “Constructively Critical GIS.” The Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, CA March 29-April2, 2016.
	2015	“To be or not to be on the map? Visibility and secrecy within the solidarity economy.” Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association of the American Geographers, Chicago, IL April 21-25, 2015
	2015	“Is There a Place or Space for GIS in History?” Paper presentation at the session “GIS and History: Epistemologies, Considerations, and Reflections” the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York, NY, January 2-5, 2015
	2014	Organizer and presenter. Research stage II workshop for the NSF-funded project “Collaborative research: Mapping the solidarity economy in the United States.” On-going progress and planning the second stage of the research. May 28, 2014, Department of Geography, Hunter College.
	2014	“Mapping the invisible: Outlining the contours of the solidarity economy in the United States.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of the American Geographers, Tampa, FL April 8-12, 2014
	2013	Organizer and presenter. Research stage I workshop for the NSF-funded project “Collaborative research: Mapping the solidarity economy in the United States.” Presentations on preliminary results, database design, and timeline for the project. October 27, 2013, Department of Geography, Hunter College.
	2013	Participant, IV International conference of the Society of Professional Sociologists “Deurbanization and nature capital: Migration trends, info-communication, and new rural settlements,” Medvedevo village, Manturovsky district, Kostroma region, Russia. May 9-11, 2013.
	2013	NORHED (The Norwegian Programme for Capacity Building in Higher Education and Research for Development) research proposal development workshop. Kampala, Uganda, 27 January – 1 February, 2013.
	2010	“Post-soviet space as possibility.” Presented at Annual meeting of the Association of the American Geographers, Washington, DC, April 14-18, 2010.
	2010	Presenter, panel session “Contributions from Second-World Cities: Russian and Chinese Cities,” Annual meeting of the Association of the American Geographers, Washington, DC, April 14-18, 2010.

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RESEARCH PROJECTS AND PUBLICATIONS BY PROJECTS

Solidarity economy and solidarity cities

Post-socialism, neoliberalism, and multiple/diverse economies of cooperation

Economies of cooperation in Russia (see Pavlovskaya 2013, 2015, 2017). Funded by PSC-CUNY.

Faculty seminar on neoliberalism, co-coordinated for two years 2014-2016, with Dr. Sanford Schram, Political Science. Funded by the office of the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. Results published as an edited book “Rethinking neoliberalism”

“The invisible community: Creating geographies of Arab Americans in New York and New Jersey using secondary data.” (Please see Pavlovskaya and Bier 2012). Funded by PSC-CUNY

Construction of the poor in post-Soviet Russia (see Pavlovskaya 2017). Funded by PSC-CUNY.

Multiple property practices and economies of cooperation in post-socialist Russia (please see Pavlovskaya 2013 “Between neoliberalism and possibility”). Funded by PSC-CUNY and SSRC.

Gender, mobility, transnationalism (Co-edited Special issue in Gender, Place, and Culture on Gender and Im(mobility). Together with the UiT, The Arctic University of Norway.

Multiple economies, gender, class, and urban restructuring in Moscow

Households, multiple economies, and urban change: A case study of three neighborhoods in New York City Funded by HUD

GIS and critical geographic research

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