LEVI VAN SANT University of Georgia, Athens ADDRESS Room 149 Geography/Geology Building University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 leviv@uga.edu EDUCATION University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. Department of Geography, PhD. Candidate in Conservation and Geography University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. M.A., History, 2009. University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. Graduate Certificate, Conservation Ecology, Odum School of Ecology, 2009. University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. B.A., History and Political Science, 2004. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Fall 2011-present, graduate school assistantship, UGA Center for Integrative Conservation Research Fall 2010-Spring 2011, teaching assistant, UGA Department of Geography 2009, archival manager, UGA Hargrett Library 2008, research assistant under Dr. Shane Hamilton's NSF Scholar's Award 2007-2009, teaching assistant, UGA History Department CURRENT RESEARCH Food and Agriculture; Postcolonial Studies; City and Country; Critical Physical Geography; The Politics of Land Through a study of recent agrarian change in the South Carolina Lowcountry - the area surrounding the port city of Charleston - my dissertation investigates the ways that shifting forms of state power and dynamic racial ideologies shape the region's uneven geography. PUBLICATIONS Book review: John Warren, et al., The Agri-Environment, in Agricultural History, Winter 2010. R. Vercoe, N. Heynen, D. Hardy, J. Demoss, S. Bonney, K. Allen, P. Brosius, D. Charles, B. Crawford, S. Heisel, R. de Jesús-Crespo, N. Nibbelink, L. Parker, C. Pringle, A. Shaw, L. Van Sant, M. Welch-Devine, “Acknowledging Tradeoffs and Understanding Complexity: Exurbanization Issues in Macon County, North Carolina,” Ecology and Society, forthcoming Spring 2014. “Lowcountry Visions: Race, Foodways, and the Politics of Myth,” Gastronomica, under review. “Metropolitan Geographies: Country, City, and other Legacies of Colonial Capitalism,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, in preparation. NEWSPAPER ARTICLES Athens Urban Food Collective, “Repurposing Public Space to Meet Local Food Needs,” Flagpole Magazine, Athens, GA., December 2010. “Immigration and Agribusiness in Georgia,” Flagpole Magazine, Athens, GA., June 2011. NEWSLETTER ARTICLES “Wilderness and Agriculture,” Trek Country, summer 2008. GRANTS American Association of Geographers Dissertation Research Award (2013) Harvard History Project Research Grant (2013) UGA Graduate School Dean's Award (2014) FELLOWSHIPS Harvard Center for the Study of Capitalism Research Fellowship (2013) GRANTS UNDER REVIEW OR IN PREPARATION National Science Foundation - DDRI PRESENTATIONS INVITED LECTURES “Ecosystem Ecology: A Southern Science?” UGA History Department, Fall 2008. “History of Science and Epistemology,” UGA Odum School of Ecology, Fall 2009. “Sustainability, Social Justice, and Local Food Systems,” UGA Center for Integrative Conservation Research, Fall 2012. "When Local Comes to Town: Race and Agricultural Governance in the South Carolina Lowcountry," Dr. Catarina Passidomo's "Geography of Food" Course, UGA Dept. of Geography INVITED WORKSHOPS 2013 Emory Postcolonial Studies Workshop, "Class Analysis and the Politics of the People" PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS 2013 Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, “When Local Comes to Town: Towards a Political Ecology of the Urban-Rural Rift” 2013 Dimensions of Political Ecology, University of Kentucky, “Geographies of Food and Agriculture: Towards a Theory of Urban-Rural Rift” 2012 Dimensions of Political Ecology, University of Kentucky, “Reading Wendell Berry as Critical Theory: Political Ecology, Environmental History, and Agrarianism” 2011 Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Conference 2010 NiCHE “Place and Placelessness” Workshop, “Southern Regions Revisited: Eugene Odum, Ecological Research, and the Fallacy of Placeless Knowledge” 2010 Forum on Agricultural, Rural and Environmental History, “Eugene Odum, Coastal Conservation, and the Politics of Place” 2009 American Society for Environmental History Conference, “Searching for the Fundamentals of Ecology: Eugene Odum, Ecosystem Ecology, and Environmental Politics” 2009 Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History (FARE), “A Tale of Two Cities: Towards a Thick Integration of Geography and History” 2008 Southern Regional History of Science and Technology (HoST) Conference, “Ecosystem Ecology: A Southern Science?” 2008 Forum on Agriculture and Rural History, “Backlashes, both Environmental and Social: Ecology and Agriculture in the Age of Environmentalism” 2007 WHEATS Conference, Discussion participant. 2006-2010 Workshop on the History of Agriculture and the Environment (WHAE) at UGA, Discussion participant and presenter. PANELS ORGANIZED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS 2013 Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, “Fragments of an Anarchist Geography: A Conversation” 2011 Agricultural History Society Conference, “Making Markets,” comment by Barbara Hahn. 2009 American Society for Environmental History Conference, “Science and Health at the Dawn of American Environmentalism,” comment by Scott Kirsch. 2009 Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History (FARE), “Foodways and Agriculture in the American South” ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES UGA Food and Agriculture Discussion Group, Founder, Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Workshop, Political Ecology and STS Reading Group, Co-convener, UGA Geography Department. “Food, Agriculture, and the Future” Research Node, Co-convener, UGA Center for Integrative Conservation. Georgia Writers Bloc, UGA History Department. Space, Nature, and Society Workshop, UGA Geography Department. ACADEMIC WORKSHOPS FACILITATED National Climate Assessment - Rural Communities Workshop, Rapporteur, February 13-14, 2012. COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS (CO-) ORGANIZED AND/OR FACILITATED Athens Food Activist Networking Session (AFANS; with Craig Page of Promoting Local Agriculture and Local Experience (P.L.A.C.E), and the Athens Urban Food Collective (AUFC)) CURRENT PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Society for Environmental History Society for Conservation Biology, UGA Chapter American Associantion of Geographers, Socialist and Critical Geography, and Political and Cultural Ecology Interest Groups