MARIANNA PAVLOVSKAYA, Associate Professor
Department of Geography, Hunter College - CUNY
Geography Ph.D program in Earth and Environmental Sciences CUNY Graduate Center

695 Park Avenue  New York, NY 10021

Past President (2005-2007), Russian, Central Eurasian, and East European (RCEEE) Specialty group of the Association of the American Geographers

 

E-mail:  mpavlovAThunter.cuny.edu

Web page http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/~mpavlov/

Office hours for Spring 2008 T, F 12:25-1:30

Office: 1043 HN Voice:   (212) 772-5320  Fax:      (212) 772-5268 
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FALL 2008 COURSES

Geog 278 Geography of Russia and Central Asia

 

EES 799.03/ GTech 385.02/GTech 785.02 GIS Applications in Social geography (“GIS for Social Justice”)

 

This course looks into how GIS can be used to critically analyze social power including economic, racial, gender, and cultural inequalities. It will also explore how GIS can be part of imagining social alternatives and creating new social spaces that aspire to social justice. We will examine a number of key GIS analytical techniques and how they can be applied to address the above issues. Hands-on GIS experience will be combined with readings, class discussions, and invited speakers.    

 

 

MA program in Geography, Hunter College

Ph.D program in Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES), CUNY Graduate Center

Russian, Central Eurasian, and East European Specialty group of the AAG

EDUCATION

Clark University, Worcester MA 1990-1997 Ph.D., Geography 1998

Dissertation topic: Everyday life and social transition: Gender, class, and change in the city of Moscow. , Advisor: Susan Hanson.

Moscow State University, Russia 1982-1987 M.A., Geography 1987

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Hunter College, 2004-current, Associate Professor of Geography

CUNY Graduate Center, Ph.D program in Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES), 2003-current, Graduate faculty member

Hunter College, 1998-2003, Assistant Professor of Geography

Florida Atlantic University 1997-1998, Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography

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STUDENTS

Ph.D:

Jess Bier “Economic practices of Arab Americans in New York and New Jersey”

Cris Notaro “The Interfaith Center: The construction and consequence of interfaith space”

 

MA thesis:

Erin Araujo, “Polluted Streams: The Political Economy of Potable Water in San Cristobal de las Casas Chiapas, Mexico”

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: Ron Roman, Rob Siwiec (2006), Henry Sirotin (2006), Tim Calabrese (2005, Shuster award)

 

MA Committee member: Andrea Copeland (2001), Rich Swanson (2002), Dana Reimer (2002), Sam Keiss (2003), Andres DeLeon (2005), Kevin Keenan (2005), Andrew Mallin (2007)

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

CUNY Honors College Seminar 2 CHC150 The peopling of New York (Spring 2006, Spring 2008)

GEOGRAPHY OF POST-SOCIALISM (Spring 2005) EES 799.03. Code 66604/ GEOG 705.62 001 code 4030

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

Geog 101 People and their Environment (Fall 1998, Spring 1999, Fall 1999, Spring 2001, Spring 2003, Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2006; Spring 2008)
Geog 278 Geography of Russia and Central Asia (Fall 1998, Spring 2000, Fall 2004, Spring 2007)
GTech 385.02/GTech 785.02 GIS Applications in Social geography (Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Fall 2002, Spring 2004, Fall 2006)
Geog 383/709 Special Topics: Urban Space and Social Problems (Spring 2000)

Geog 708 Geographies of Urban Space (Fall 2003, Spring 2007)

Geog 227 Environmental Conservation: Urban Problems (Spring 1999)

New future course:

GEOG 732.54 Critical GIS, 3 cr/3 hrs. Prereq: Graduate standing and department permission

This seminar course will critically evaluate GIS technology from a variety of perspectives, including critical geographic, feminist, and post-structuralist approaches. The students will be exposed to a wide range of literature known as “Critical GIS”. This focuses on social construction of GIS, including the technology itself and the institutional context, social manipulations of GIS, its contradictions, and possibilities beyond mainstream approach.

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PUBLICATIONS

Referred articles and book chapters

Edited books and special journal issues

Other publications

Refereed publications:

 

Forthcoming

Pavlovskaya M. “Breaking the silence: Non-quantitative GIS unearthed.” Ch. 1 in Qualitative GIS: A Mixed Methods Approach to Integrating Qualitative Research and Geographic Information Systems, Edited by S. Elwood and M. Cope. Sage Publications, London, UK.

Forthcoming

St. Martin, K. and M. Pavlovskaya. Forthcoming 2008. Ethnography. Chapter in Companion to environmental geography. eds N. Castree, D. Demeritt, D. Liverman, and B. Rhoads. Blackwell Publishing. (Reviewed by editors)

Forthcoming

M. Pavlovskaya Chapter “Methods: Feminist visualization” in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, eds R. Kitchin & N. Thrift. 4800 words. (Reviewed by editors)

Forthcoming

M. Pavlovskaya Chapter “Feminism, maps, and GIS” in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, eds R. Kitchin & N. Thrift. 4000 words. (Reviewed by editors)

Forthcoming

St. Martin, K. and M. Pavlovskaya “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.

 

2007

Pavlovskaya, M. and K. St. Martin. “Feminism and GIS: From a missing object to a mapping subject.” Geography Compass, 1 (3): 583-606. Text in pdf.

 

2006

M. Pavlovskaya. "Theorizing with GIS: A tool for critical geographies?" Environment and Planning A, 38 (11): 2003-2020. Text in pdf.

 

2004

M. Pavlovskaya. "Other transitions: Multiple economies of Moscow households in the 1990s," Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 94(2), pp. 329–351. Text in pdf

 

2002

M. Pavlovskaya. "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. Text in pdf

 

2001

M. Pavlovskaya and S. Hanson, "Privatization of the Urban Fabric: Gender and Local Geographies in Downtown Moscow," Urban Geography, 22, 1, pp. 4-28. pdf

 

1989

V.A. Kolosov, M.E. Pavlovskaya, N.V. Petrov and L.V. Smirnyagin, 1989. "The geography of the 1989 elections of Peoples' Deputies of the USSR (preliminary results)", Soviet Geography, 1989, v.30 (8).

 

Edited books and special journal issues

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.

Other publications

2005

Harvey, Francis, Mei-Po Kwan, and Marianna E. Pavlovskaya. 2005. Introduction: Critical GIS. Cartographica. Special Issue Critical GIS, Harvey, F., M-P. Kwan, and M. Pavlovskaya, Eds.  40, no. 4.

2001

Marianna Pavlovskaya, 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 2001, 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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RESEARCH

My research interests fall into four broad areas of research. The first involves a critical understanding of the post-socialist economic and social transformation in Russia and theories of transition to a market economy. The second focuses on the connections between class and gender processes and transformations of urban space. The third interest includes a critical engagement with GIS technology and practice; and the last area of research is urban political ecology and environmental justice. In my scholarship I attempt to rethink theoretical understandings of social and spatial processes and ground these theoretical perspectives in empirical work. For my current research projects, follow the links below.

 

Grants

Research projects

 

Grants

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. This prestigious award will support research for the original and innovative undergraduate and graduate courses focused on this region. Amount $9,000. Duration 2006-2007

2005

Competitive Hunter College Research Fellowship Leave (half-year, full-pay) for 2005-2006 academic year

2005-2006

Principal investigator, PSC-CUNY Award #: 67606-00 36. Mapping multiple economies of New York City households. Amount $3,052 Submitted October 2004.

2003-2004

Recipient of the George N. Shuster Faculty Fellowship, Hunter College Presidential Grant Competition. Project title: Post-privatization urban restructuring and control over urban space in Moscow.

2003-2004

Second Year Gender Equity Project Sponsorship Grant from Hunter College (part of the NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award). Amount $8,000. Details.

2002-current

Gender Equity Project Sponsorship Grant from Hunter College (part of NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award). Amount $10,000. Details.

2002-current

Principal investigator, PSC-CUNY Research Award to supplement funding from HUD-NRC (see below). Amount $4,884

2001-current

Principal investigator, Urban Scholars Postdoctoral Fellowship for a project "Households, multiple economies, and urban change: A case study of three neighborhoods in New York City," funded by Department of Housing and Urban Development and administered by National Research Council (NRC); amount $55,000. Details.

2001-current

Principle investigator, Pilot project "Open space equity in New York City," funded by NYC Environmental Justice Alliance; total amount $15,000. Details.

2000-2001

Fellowship at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics of the Graduate Center, CUNY. Details.

1999-2000

Principal investigator, PSC-CUNY Research Award Grant. Dissertation follow-up research project on Moscow, June 1999 - June 2000 ($4,000). Details.

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, Stefanie Gray

Research projects

 

Dissertation abstract

 

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

 

GIS and critical geographic research

 

Open space equity in New York (with NYCEJA)

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PRESENTED SCHOLARSHIP

Academic papers

Invited lectures

Other presentations

Organized conferences and sessions

Academic presentations

 

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, Boston, April 2008.

 

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, Boston, April 2008

 

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, Boston, April 2008

2007

Post-socialist migrants in the US: Enacting the transition to capitalism in space. Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Association of the American Geographers, San Francisco, April 17-21, 2007.

 

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 Alexei Yurchak. Annual Meeting of the Association of the American Geographers, San Francisco, April 2007

2006

“Flexible households in a non-flexible economy.” Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Association of the American Geographers, Chicago, Il, March 7-11, 2006

2005

“Households, Multiple Economies, and Urban Change: A Case Study of Three Neighborhoods in New York City.” HUD Urban Scholars Symposium. National Academies, Washington, DC November 6-7, 2005

 

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.

 

2004

“Diversifying the economic space of post-socialism: Multiple economies in the lives of households and capitalist enterprises.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of the American Geographers, March 14-19, 2004, Philadelphia.

 

2003

“Mapping power: Post-privatization urban restructuring in downtown Moscow” presented at Rethinking Marxism’s 5th International Gala Conference “Marxism and the world stage,” University of Massachusetts at Amherst. November 6-8, 2003

 

2003

Mapping the economic: Which economies matter to Moscow households? Presented in the session on Economic geography and feminism at the Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of British Geographers, London, UK, September 3-5, 2003.

 

 

2003

Sara Hodges (presenter), Marianna Pavlovskaya, and Hugh Hogan. Open Space in New York City: A GIS-based analysis of equity of distribution and access.  Presented at the conference "Urban Ecology" at The Institute for Environmental & Regional Studies of the Dyson College, Pace University. April 11, 2003

2003

Using mixed methods to understand multiple economies and their geographies. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of the American Geographers, New Orleans, USA, March 5-8, 2003.

2001

Mapping post-Soviet urban spaces: Restructuring in downtown Moscow. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, NY. February-March 2001

2000

Class, gender, and privatization in Moscow: Other views of urban restructuring. Presented at Rethinking Marxism's 4th International Gala Conference "Marxism 2000." University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA.

2000

Mapping urban change and changing GIS: Other views of economic restructuring. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. April 2000

1999

Restructuring public and private urban space: Privatization in Moscow. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Honolulu, Hawaii. March 1999

1998

Gender and class in the city of Moscow: Restructuring households and urban spaces. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, Massachusetts. March 1998

1997

Gender and class in Moscow: Connecting private and public spaces. Paper presented at The Association of American Geographers Meeting, Forth Worth, Texas. April 1997

1996

New Russia, old Russia? Everyday experiences of gender and class. Paper presented at The Association of American Geographers Meeting. April 1996

1994

Gender and labor in urban spaces: Social change in the City of Moscow (In search of a theory of transition). Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Meeting, San Francisco, CA. March-April, 1994

Invited lectures

2008

“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

“From a missing object to a mapping subject: Remaking the world with a GIS,” February 12, 2008, Clark University, Worcester, MA

 

2006

“Flexible households in a non-flexible economy: Post-socialist Moscow and neo-liberal New York.” University of Massachusetts, Amherst. March 31, 2006

2005   

“Multiple economies and urban restructuring in Moscow.” Department of City & Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. March 18, 2005

2004

"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

Uncovering unprivileged economies. Invited lecture at 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

Other presentations and participation in professional meetings

2008

Discussant in the paper session “Russia and new urban life - policy and conflict,” Annual Meeting of the Association of the American Geographers, Boston, April 2008

 

2007

Presenter, panel session NSF ADVANCE: Lessons for Geography Departments, Annual Meeting of the Association of the American Geographers, San Francisco, April 2007

2005

“Theorizing with GIS: A tool for critical geographies?” Presented at Department of Geography, Hunter College, Faculty Seminar Series. 5/4/2005.

2005

Presenter, panel session “The Possibility of Heterodox GIS II: Discussion and Prospects.” Annual Meeting of the Association of the American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 2-9, 2005.

2005

Presenter, panel session “Women on the Edge.” Annual Meeting of the Association of the American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 2-9, 2005.

2005

Presenter, panel session “Whither Postcommunist Studies? 15 Years On - Economy and Environment.” Annual Meeting of the Association of the American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 2-9, 2005.

2003

Invited participant of the 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.” The Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. December 5-6, 2003

 

2001

Presenter and organizer, panel session at the 2001 AAG Meeting "Information technologies and society I: GIS and critical geographic research" co-sponsored by Geographic Information Systems, Geographic Perspectives on Women, and Socialist Geography Specialty Groups.

2001

Presenter, panel session "Ten years after the fall of the USSR VI: Current issues of the geography of transition" (sponsored by Russia, Central Eurasian, and East European Specialty Group).

2000

Presenter, panel session "Post-Soviet woman and the peripatetic spaces of everyday life" at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. April 2000.

1998

Presenter, panel session on GIS and social theory, The Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, Massachusetts. March 1998

1997

Transition and Everyday Life in Russia. Presented at Geography Department at Boca Raton Campus of Florida Atlantic University. November 1997

1997

Multi-criteria evaluation and fuzzy sets in GIS. Presented at Geography Department, Moscow State University. Moscow. June 1997

1997

New directions in raster GIS analysis (Fuzzy modeling and image classification techniques). Presented at GIS’97 Forum in Moscow. June 1997

1996

Spatial analysis techniques with raster GIS. Presented at GIS’96 Forum in Moscow. June 1996

1996

New soft classifiers for digital image processing at IDRISI Project. Presented at GIS and Remote Sensing in Environmental Management conference in Moscow. November 1996

1996

New research in multi-criteria evaluation and decision making with GIS at IDRISI project. Presented at the IDRISI user conference in Budapest. June 1996

1995

Geography and feminism. A workshop at the Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences. Moscow

1995

Gender and feminism. A lecture for students of the Ecological University. Moscow.

Organized conferences, conference sessions, and panels

2007

Organizer, 3 panel sessions honoring “Susan Hanson’s 45 years in geography.” Annual meeting of the Association of the American Geographers, Boston, April 2008

Organizer, Book panel 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, Boston, April 2008.

 

2007

Organizer and co-organizer, 6 sessions on Post-socialism, 2 sessions on Flexibility. The Annual meeting of the Association of the American Geographers, San Francisco, April 17-21, 2007.

 

2006

Organizer, 9 sessions on “Post-socialism,” Annual Meeting of the Association of the American Geographers, Chicago, Il, March 7-11, 2006.

 

2006

Co-organizer, 5 sessions on “Social (re)production and household,” Annual Meeting of the Association of the American Geographers, Chicago, Il, March 7-11, 2006.

 

2005

Organizer, paper session "Producing femininities and masculinities in post-socialism. Annual Meeting of the Association of the American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 2-9, 2005.

 

2001

Organizer, with Mei-Po Kwan, Ohio State University, and Francis Harvey, University of Kentucky, First conference "GIS and Critical Geographic Research." February 25, 2001, Department of Geography, Hunter College, NY.

 

2000

Organizer, two paper sessions at 2001 AAG Meeting: "After the future: Other views of post-Soviet urban space I and II." Co-sponsored by Urban Geography; Russian, Central Eurasian and East European; and Qualitative Methods Specialty Groups. 

 

2000

Organizer, a panel session at the 2001 AAG Meeting "Information Technologies and Society I: GIS and Critical Geographic Research." Co-sponsored by Geographic Information Systems, Geographic Perspectives on Women, and Socialist Geography Specialty Groups.

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

To geographic community

Administrative service

To geographic community

2005-2007

President, Russian, Central Eurasian, and East European Specialty group of the Association of American Geographers.

2003-2005

Vice-president, Russian, Central Eurasian, and East European Specialty group of the Association of American Geographers.

2001-2003

Board member, Russian, Central Eurasian, and East European Specialty group of the Association of American Geographers

2000-2003

Member, George and Viola Hoffman Award Committee of the AAG that evaluates proposals for funding Master's thesis and Ph.D. dissertation research on Eastern Europe

Administrative service on behave of Department of Geography, Hunter College, and wider community

2001-current

Graduate Director, Department of Geography, Hunter College

2004-current

Member, Lab committee

2000-current

Library liaison for Department of Geography, Hunter College

1999-current

Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, MA Program in Geography, Hunter College

2001-2003

Member of the Personnel and Budget Committee, Department of Geography, Hunter College

2000-2001

Faculty seminar series coordinator (with Prof. S. McLafferty), Department of Geography, Hunter College

2000-2001

Alternate member of the Personnel and Budget Committee, Department of Geography, Hunter College

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