MARIANNA PAVLOVSKAYA,
Associate Professor
Department of Geography, Hunter
College - CUNY
Ph.D program in
Geography (Earth and Environmental Sciences) CUNY Graduate Center
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695 Park Avenue, New York, NY
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On sabbatical leave 2012-2013
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Contact information
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Please contact
the Department of Geography at (212) 772-5266 |
mpavlovAThunter.cuny.edu Please note that I will not be able to answer email messages on a regular basis. |
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Urban geography, social theory, post-socialism, feminist geography, GIS (geographic information systems), critical GIS
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
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2004- |
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Hunter College; Ph.D. program in Earth and Environmental Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center |
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1998-2003 |
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Hunter College |
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1997-1998 |
Visiting Assistant Professor, Florida Atlantic University |
Academic Honorary
affiliations
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2011-current |
Member of the Editorial Board of The Professional Geographer. |
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2011-current |
International academic advisor to the project on “Gender and Mobilities” conducted by Kvinnforsk (Center for Gender Studies), University of Tromsø, Norway. |
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2010-current |
International academic advisor to research project “Gender, poverty and social transformation in Uganda,” University of Tromsø and Makarere University, Norwegian Programme for Development, Research and Education (NUFU). |
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2010 |
Guest scholar at Kvinnforsk (Centre for Women's Studies and Women in Research), University of, Norway. Spring 2010. |
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2005-2007 |
President of the Russian, Central Eurasian,
and East European Specialty group of the
Association of American Geographers |
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2000-2001 |
Fellow at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, Graduate Center, CUNY |
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2002, 2007 |
The City University of New York Certificate of Recognition. |
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EDUCATION
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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. |
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M.A., Geography 1987. |
Moscow State University, Russia. Thesis topic: Geography of international trade. Advisor: Leonid Smirnyagin |
COURSES TAUGHT AT HUNTER COLLEGE AND CUNY
GRADUATE CENTER (1998 - current):
Graduate
EES 70900 Geographic Thought & Theory (Fall 2011)
Geog 708 Geographies of Urban Space (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 (Spring 2005)
Graduate/Undergraduate
GTech 385.02/GTech 785.02 GIS Applications in Social geography (Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Fall 2002, Spring 2004, Fall 2006, Fall 2008, Fall 2011)
Geog 383/709 Special Topics: Urban Space and Social Problems (Spring 2000)
Undergraduate
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)
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)
STUDENTS
PhD committee
chair:
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Bradley Gardener (2012) “Racial identity of the Jews in the South Bronx, 1970-1990.” |
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Amanda Huron (2012) “Building Solidarity Geographies: Limited-Equity Cooperatives and Anti-Displacement Work in Washington, D.C.” |
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Cris Notaro (2011) “The Interfaith Center: The construction and consequence of interfaith space.” |
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Jess Bier, transferred to PhD program at Maastricht University, Netherlands. |
PhD
Committee member:
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David Spataro (chaired by Dr. Katz) “Politicized Direct Intervention in Service Provision: a (gendered, racialized, and classed) struggle over social reproduction?” |
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Moira Conway “Gravity Modeling of Casinos in the United States: A Case Study of Philadelphia” Advisor Dr. John Seley. |
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Christian Anderson (2012) (chaired by Dr. Katz) “Tracing West Forty-Sixth Street: an ethnography of everyday life, circulation, and possibility” |
MA
thesis committee chair:
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Jordan Leff (current) “Geography of cooperative enterprises in the United States.” |
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Kenea Letts (current) “A Matter of Geography: A Past and Present Look at Child Care Subsidies Cuts in NYC.” |
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Dan Rogers (current) “The limits of authority: New York region, the Port Authority, and metropolitan governance from progressivism to neoliberalism.” |
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Joanna Laroussi (2012) “Development and potential effects of Web Mapping Application “PUTES on the Web” for visualizing students’ transportation eligibility.” |
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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.) |
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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). |
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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). |
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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). |
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Dan Wiley (2007) “Planning Brooklyn Bridge Park: The Political Economy of Place.” |
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Ben Mancell (2006) “Recycling participation disparities in New York City neighborhoods.” |
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Valeria Treves (2005) “Towards a law enforcement technologies complex: Situating Compstat in neo-liberal penality.” Society of Women Geographers award. |
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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. |
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Naomi Santoni (2003) “A Geographic Exploration of Primary Health Care Needs and Services within the State of New Jersey.” |
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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:
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).
PUBLICATIONS
Edited
Volumes
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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). |
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2005 |
Harvey, Francis, Mei-Po Kwan, and Marianna E. Pavlovskaya,
eds. 2005. Special issue: Critical GIS. Cartographica 40, no.
4. |
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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
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Forthcoming |
Marianna
Pavlovskaya and Kevin St. Martin Chapter 20 “Economy” in Sage Handbook of Human Geography. Edited
by Roger Lee et al. (Reviewed by editors). |
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Forthcoming |
M. Pavlovskaya.
“Between neoliberalism and possibility: Multiple practices of property in
post-Soviet Russia”. Europe-Asia Studies. Accepted with
minor revisions 7/26/2012. Pdf. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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2009 |
Pavlovskaya M. Chapter “Methods: Feminist visualization” in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, eds R. Kitchin & N. Thrift. Elsevier. 4800 words. (Reviewed by editors) |
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Pavlovskaya M. Chapter “Feminism, maps, and GIS” in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, eds R. Kitchin & N. Thrift. Elsevier. 4000 words. (Reviewed by editors). |
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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. |
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Pavlovskaya, Marianna. Critical GIS and its positionality. Cartographica 44, no. 1: 8-10. |
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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 |
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Pavlovskaya, M. 2006. "Theorizing with GIS: A tool for critical geographies?" Environment and Planning A, 38 (11): 2003-2020. pdf |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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). |
Non-referred
publications
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Forthcoming |
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. |
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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. |
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2010 |
Chapter on scholarship of Susan Hanson, in Encyclopedia of Geography, edited by Barney Warf, Sage Publications. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
RESEARCH
I am interested
in four broad areas of research. The first involves a critical understanding of
the post-socialist economic and social transformation in
Projects
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Mapping solidarity economy |
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“The invisible community: Creating geographies of Arab Americans in New York and New Jersey using secondary data.” |
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Multiple property practices and economies of cooperation in post-socialist Russia |
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Gender, mobility, transnationalism |
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Multiple economies, gender, class, and urban restructuring in Moscow |
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Grants
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2012 |
Selected for Fulbright Research Award for Russia for 2012-2013.
Declined. |
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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. |
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2011 |
President’s Fund for Faculty Incentive Award for 2012. $1,500 |
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2008-2009 |
PSC-CUNY research award “The invisible community: Creating geographies of Arab Americans in New York and New Jersey using secondary data.” $3800 |
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Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Eurasia Teaching fellowship. "After the Future: Geography of Post-Socialist Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus." $9,000. |
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2005-2007 |
PSC-CUNY Award Mapping multiple economies of New York City households. $3,052. |
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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. |
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2003-2004 |
Gender Equity Project Sponsorship, Hunter College (part of NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award). $8,000. |
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2002-2003 |
Gender Equity Project Sponsorship. Hunter College (part of NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award). $10,000. |
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2002-2005 |
PSC-CUNY Research Award to supplement funding from HUD-NRC (see below). $4,884. |
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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." |
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2001-2003 |
New York City Environmental Justice Alliance (NYCEJA). Pilot project “Open space equity in New York City,” $13,000. |
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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 Krasnova, Jess Bier,
INVITED
LECTURES AND KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
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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. |
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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. |
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2012 |
Feminist methods in GIS: From a missing object to a mapping
subject. Rutgers University, March 22, 2012. |
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2010 |
Lecture “Mapping gender and mobility,” Workshop on Gender, poverty, and social transformation, University of Kampala, Kampala and Jinja, Uganda. December 1-7, 2010. |
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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. |
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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). |
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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). |
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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). |
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2010 |
Presentation “Feminist geography on gender and mobility.” Seminar of the GIS/KIS network. University of Tromsø, Norway. April 28, 2010. |
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2008 |
Lecture Producing gender in Russia: Traditional family as
a political technology. Environmental Psychology program, |
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Lecture “Gendered cartographies” Department of Geography, University of Lancaster. May 2, 2008 |
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2008 |
Keynote speaker, “Class, Gender, and GIS,” ESRC seminar series on Time-Space
and Life Course, |
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“Class, Gender, and GIS” |
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Lecture “From a missing object to a mapping subject: Remaking the world with a GIS,” February 12, 2008, Clark University, Worcester, MA |
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2006 |
Lecture “Flexible households in a non-flexible economy:
Post-socialist Moscow and neo-liberal New York.” |
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2005 |
Lecture “Multiple economies and urban restructuring in
Moscow.” Department of City & Regional Planning, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. March 18, 2005 |
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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. |
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2002 |
Lecture “Uncovering unprivileged economies.” Rutgers University, November 8, 2002. |
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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 |
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (since 2005)
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2010 |
“Post-soviet space as possibility.” Presented at Annual meeting of the Association of the American Geographers, Washington, DC, April 14-18, 2010. |
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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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2008 |
Making Gender in the Post-Soviet Spaces. Paper presented
at the Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies, November 20-23, 2008, |
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2008 |
Presenter and organizer, a book panel session Author meets
critics: Rebecca Kay’s “Men in Contemporary Russia: The Fallen Heroes of
Post-soviet Change?” Annual meeting of the Association of the American
Geographers, |
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2008 |
Presenter and organizer, the panel session “Susan Hanson’s
45 years in geography: Opening new research horizons.” Annual Meeting of the
Association of the American Geographers, |
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2008 |
Presenter in the panel session “Straddling
the Fence II: Theory, Practice, and History in Critical GIS”, Annual
Meeting of the Association of the American Geographers, |
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2007 |
Post-socialist migrants in the |
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2007 |
Presenter and organizer, panel session Post-socialism IX:
The author meets critics: "Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More:
The Last Soviet Generation" by |
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2006 |
“Flexible households in a non-flexible economy.” Paper
presented at the Annual meeting of the Association of the American
Geographers, |
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“Households, Multiple Economies, and Urban Change: A Case
Study of Three Neighborhoods in |
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2005 |
Beyond the informal: multiple economies of everyday life. Paper presentation at Annual Meeting of the Association of the American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 2-9, 2005. |
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