ARABY SMYTH University of Kentucky Geography Department 822 Patterson Office Tower Lexington, KY 40506-­0027 859-­257-­6992 arabysmyth@uky.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. student, Geography. University of Kentucky M.A. Geography 2015. Hunter College of the City University of New York Thesis: “Mexican Hometown Associations in New York City: a Study of Transnational Solidarity” Advisors: Marianna Pavlovskaya (Chair) and Monica Varsanyi Certificate in Geographic Information Science 2015. Hunter College B.A. Political Science 2006. Hunter College AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2015 University of Kentucky Teaching Assistantship and tuition (4 years) 2015 Miriam and Saul B. Cohen Prize for Geographic Excellence $1000 2015 Shuster Award for Outstanding Master’s Thesis (nominee) 2015 Society of Woman Geographers NYC Chapter Fellowship $6000 2014 Hunter College Dean of Arts and Sciences Master’s Thesis Support Grant $376 PUBLICATIONS Beauchamps, J.H. and Smyth, A. 2010. “Lakou: Haitian Identity in Housing.” In New Haiti Villages by Steven Holl Architects, Guy Nordenson & Associates, and Matthias Schuler, Transsolar. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, pages 10-­11. PRESENTATIONS 2015 “People Out of Place” Conference on Critical Geography at University of Kentucky, panelist and co-­organizer with Leif Johnson 2015 “New Initiatives in Geospatial Data Resources” CUNY Teaching & Technology Conference at Baruch College, co-­presenter with Francis Donnelly 2014 – 2015 Hunter College Faculty Research Seminar on Neoliberalism, student participant TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2015 Teaching Assistant, Digital Mapping, University of Kentucky 2015 Teaching Assistant, Open Source GIS Practicum, Baruch College ACADEMIC SERVICE 2015 – present: Treasurer of the Graduate Geography Student Union, University of Kentucky 2015 – present: Personnel Committee, Geography Department, University of Kentucky 2013 – 2015 Vice President of the Graduate Geography Association, Hunter College CUNY PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2014 – 2015 Administrator, Faculty Seminar on Neoliberalism, co-­Directed by Marianna Pavlovskaya, Geography and Sanford Schram, Political Science, Hunter College 2014 – 2015 Research Assistant, Francis Donnelly, Geospatial Data Librarian, Baruch College 2014 – 2015 Research Assistant, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Interim Chair & Professor, Geography Department, Hunter College 2014 Communications Intern, NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs 2014 Editorial Intern, Center for Migration Studies Journal on Migration and Human Security TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES Advanced: ArcGIS, CartoDB, Leaflet, Mapbox, PostGIS, QGIS, SpatiaLite Beginner: CSS, ENVI, HTML, Javascript, Python, R, SPSS PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Association of American Geographers, Community Economies Research Network, Relational Poverty Network LANGUAGES Spanish 2015 Centro Ollin Tlahtoalli, Oaxaca, Mexico 2014 Proyecto Linguistico Quetzalteco de Español, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala Beginner Haitian Creole & French 2010 Port-­au-­Prince, Haiti 2005 Hunter College Study Abroad, Paris, France