Emily Skop
Department of Geography
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Columbine Hall, 2021
1420 Austin Bluffs Pkwy
Colorado Springs, CO 80918
phone: (719) 255-3789
e-mail: eskop@uccs.edu
Curriculum Vitae
August 2015
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy, Geography
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. May 2002.
Dissertation: The Saffron Suburbs: Asian Indian Immigrant Community Formation
in Metropolitan Phoenix
Master of Arts, Geography
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. August 1997.
Thesis: Segmented Paths: The Geographic and Social Mobility of Mariel Cuban
Exiles
Bachelor of Arts, Geography
University of Miami, Miami, FL. May 1995. Magna Cum Laude.
Honors Thesis: A Demographic and Socioeconomic Comparison of Different
Hispanic Groups in Dade County
Discipline: Geography
Specialties and Regional Focus:
International Migration Patterns and Processes
Urbanization, Spatial Segregation, and Inequality
Race, Ethnicity, and Place
Broadening Participation in Higher Education
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Founding Director, Global Intercultural Research Center (GLINT), University of
Colorado Colorado Springs, CO. August 2014-present.
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies,
University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO. August 2010present.
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies,
University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO. August 2007August 2010.
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. August 2002-July 2007.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Skop, Emily. 2012. The Immigration and Settlement of Asian Indians in Phoenix,
Arizona 1965-2011: Ethnic Pride vs. Racial Discrimination in the Suburbs. New
York: Edwin Mellen Press. (reviewed by Population, Space, and Place (2014),
South Asian Diaspora (2014), Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (2013),
International Migration Review (2013), National Identities (2013), and Journal of
Regional Science (2013)
Refereed Book Chapters in Edited Volumes
Skop, Emily. In Press. Asian Indians and the Construction of Community and
Identity. Book Chapter in Contemporary Ethnic Geographies in America, 2nd
edition, edited by Christopher A. Airriess. Lanham, MD: Roman and Littlefield,
325-345.
Li, Wei, Emily Skop and Wan Yu. In Press. Enclaves, Ethnoburbs, and New
Patterns of Settlement among Asian Immigrants. Book Chapter in
Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader, Third Edition, edited
by Min Zhou and James V. Gatewood. New York: New York University Press.
Skop, Emily. 2014. Understanding Ethnicity and Inequality through Fieldtrip
Projects. Book Chapter in Teaching Ethnic Geography in the 21st Century,
edited by Lawrence E. Estaville, Edris J. Montalvo, and Fenda A. Akiwumi.
Washington, D.C.: National Council for Geographic Education, 94-100.
Skop, Emily. 2013. Thirdspace as Transnational Space. Book Chapter in Indian
Transnationalism Online: Ethnographic Explorations edited by Hans de Kruijf
and Ajaya Sahoo. Ashgate Publishing, 81-102.
Li, Wei and Emily Skop. 2012. Migration. Oxford Bibliographies in Geography,
edited by Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press (online).
Skop, Emily and Claire E. Altman. 2012. The Invisible Immigrants: Asian Indian
Settlement Patterns and Racial/Ethnic Identities. Book Chapter in Race,
Ethnicity, and Place in a Changing America, 2nd edition, edited by John Frazier,
Eugene Tettey-Fio, and Norah Henry. New York: Academic Publishing, 329-338.
Murdie, Robert and Emily Skop. 2012. Immigration and Urban-Suburban
Settlements. Book Chapter in Immigrant Geographies of North American Cities,
edited by Carlos Teixeira, Wei Li, and Audrey Kobayashi. Don Mills, ON: Oxford
University Press Canada, 48-68.
Skop, Emily and Wei Li. 2011. Urban Patterns and Ethnic Diversity. Book Chapter
in 21st Century Geography, A Reference Handbook, edited by Joseph P.
Stoltman. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 314-324.
Skop, Emily. 2009. Austin: A City Divided. Book Chapter in The African Diaspora
in the United States and Canada at the Dawn of the 21 st century, edited by
John Frazier, Joe T. Darden and Norah F. Henry. New York: Academic
Publishing, 109-122.
Skop, Emily and Sarah Zell. 2008. São Paulo: Historic Immigrant Gateway to
Contemporary Emigrant Outpost. Book Chapter in Migrants to the Metropolis:
The Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities, edited by Marie Price and Lisa BentonShort. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 345-368.
Skop, Emily. 2008. The Policy of Open Arms? U.S. Refugee Policy and Cubans in
Phoenix. Book Chapter in Immigrants Outside Megalopolis: Ethnic
Transformation in the Heartland, edited by Richard Jones. Lanham, MD:
Lexington Books, 43-63.
Skop, Emily and Tara Buentello. 2008. Austin: Immigration and Transformation
Deep in the Heart of Texas. Book Chapter in Twenty-First Century Gateways,
edited by Audrey Singer, Caroline Brettell, and Susan Hardwick. Washington,
D.C.: The Brookings Institute, 255-278.
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Refereed Book Chapters in Edited Volumes continued
Li, Wei and Emily Skop. 2007. Enclaves, Ethnoburbs, and New Patterns of
Settlement among Asian Immigrants. Book Chapter in Contemporary Asian
America: A Multidisciplinary Reader, Second Edition, edited by Min Zhou and
James V. Gatewood. New York: New York University Press, 222-239.
Skop, Emily, Brian Gratton and Myron Gutmann. 2007. Latinos/as (in) on the
Border. Book Chapter in Latino/a Sourcebook, edited by Havidán Rodríguez,
Rogelio Saenz, and Cecilia Menjivar. New York: Springer, 243-262.
Skop, Emily. 2006. Asian Indians and the Construction of Community and
Identity. Book Chapter in Contemporary Ethnic Geographies in America, 2nd
edition, edited by Ines M. Miyares and Christopher A. Airriess. Lanham, MD:
Roman and Littlefield, 271-290.
Skop, Emily and Claire E. Altman. 2006. The Invisible Immigrants: Asian Indian
Settlement Patterns and Racial/Ethnic Identities. Book Chapter in Race,
Ethnicity, and Place in a Changing America, edited by John W. Frazier and
Eugene Tettey-Fio. New York: Academic Publishing, 309-316.
Skop, Emily and Wei Li. 2003. From the Ghetto to the Invisiburb: Shifting Patterns
of Immigrant Settlement in Contemporary America. Book Chapter in
Multicultural Geographies: Persistence and Change in U. S. Racial/Ethnic
Patterns, edited by John W. Frazier and Florence Margai. New York: Academic
Publishing, 113-124.
Refereed Journal Articles
Skop, Emily. 2015. Conceptualizing Scale in the Science of Broadening
Participation of Underrepresented Groups in Higher Education. The Professional
Geographer 67(3): 427-437.
Skop, Emily and Kendall Zanowiak-Antonelli. 2011. The Role of Rallies and Raids
in Identifying New Latino Immigrant Communities. The Latin Americanist 55(4):
111-141.
Li, Wei and Emily Skop. 2010. Diaspora in the United States: Chinese and Indians
Compared. Journal of Chinese Overseas 6(4): 286-310.
Zell, Sarah and Emily Skop. 2010. Social Networks and Migrant Flows from Brazil.
Population, Space, and Place 16(4): 615-633.
Skop, Emily and Paul C. Adams. 2009. Creating and Inhabiting Virtual Places:
Indian Immigrants in Cyberspace. National Identities 11(2): 127-147.
Skop, Emily. 2008. Creating Fieldtrip-based Learning Communities. Journal of
Geography 107(6): 230-235.
Adams, Paul C. and Emily Skop. 2008. The Gendering of Asian Indian
Transnationalism on the Internet. Journal of Cultural Geography 25(2): 115-136.
Gonzales, Suzannah and Emily Skop. 2007. ¿HABLA UD. INGLÉS? The Linguistic
Assimilation of Mexican Immigrants in Texas. Southwestern Geographer 11(1):
22-47.
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Refereed Journal Articles continued
Gratton, Brian, Myron P Gutmann and Emily Skop. 2007. Immigrants, their
Children, and Theories of Assimilation: Family Structure in the United States, 1880
to 1970. History of the Family 12(3): 203-222.
Peters, Paul and Emily Skop. 2007. Socio-Spatial Segregation in Metropolitan
Lima, Peru. Journal of Latin American Geography 6(1): 149-171.
Skop, Emily. 2006. The Shape of Urban Inequality. Urban Geography 27(5): 393396.
Skop, Emily, Paul A. Peters, Ernesto Amaral, Joseph Potter and Wilson Fusco.
2006. Chain Migration and Residential Segregation of Internal Migrants in the
Metropolitan Area of São Paulo, Brazil. Urban Geography 27(5): 397-421.
Skop, Emily. 2006. Mapping Race and Ethnicity: The Influence of James A.
Allen. Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 68: 94-104.
Skop, Emily. 2006. The Methodological Potential of Focus Groups in Population
Geography. Population, Space, and Place 12(2): 113-124.
Skop, Emily, Brian Gratton, and Myron Gutmann. 2006. La Frontera and
Beyond: Geography and Demography in Mexican American History. The
Professional Geographer 58(1): 78-98.
Skop, Emily and Wei Li. 2005. Asians in America's Suburbs: Patterns and
Consequences of Settlement. Geographical Review 95(2): 167-188.
Skop, Emily. 2001. Race and Place in the Adaptation of Mariel Exiles.
International Migration Review 35(2): 449-471.
Skop, Emily and Cecilia Menjívar. 2001. Phoenix: The Newest Latino Immigrant
Gateway. Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 63: 63-76.
McHugh, Kevin, Ines Miyares, and Emily Skop. 1997. The Magnetism of Miami:
Segmented Paths in Cuban Migration. Geographical Review 87(4): 504-519.
Special Issues of Professional Journals
Skop, Emily, guest editor. 2006. Special Issue: Comparative Urban Spatial
Segregation, Part I. Urban Geography 27(5).
Skop, Emily, guest editor. 2006. Special Issue: Comparative Urban Spatial
Segregation, Part II. Urban Geography 27(6).
Encyclopedia Contributions
Skop, Emily and Wei Li. In Press. Ethnicity. The Wiley-AAG International
Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology,
edited by Douglas Richards et al. New York: Wiley International.
Skop, Emily and Wei Li. 2010. Ethnicity. Encyclopedia of Geography, edited by
Barney Warf. New York: Sage Publications.
Li, Wei and Emily Skop. 2009. Ethnicity. International Encyclopedia of Human
Geography, edited by Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift. New York: Elsevier.
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Encyclopedia Contributions continued
Skop, Emily. 2008. Population and Demography: Overview. Encyclopedia of
the Modern World, edited by Peter N. Stearns. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Zell, Sarah and Emily Skop. 2008. South Americans in the United States.
Encyclopedia of race, ethnicity, and society, edited by Richard T Schaefer.
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications
Skop, Emily. 2007. Race. Encyclopedia of Environment and Society, edited by
Paul Robbins. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Skop, Emily. 2007. Urbanization. Encyclopedia of Environment and Society,
edited by Paul Robbins. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Book Reviews
Skop, Emily. 2015. Rows of Memory: Journeys of a Migrant Sugar-Beet Worker.
Book review written for: Southwestern Historical Quarterly 118(4): 443-445.
Skop, Emily. 2012. India Migration Report 2010-2011. Book review written for:
Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 21(4): 536-537.
Skop, Emily. 2012. Contemporary Migration to South Africa, edited by Aurelia
Segatti and Loren B. Landau. Book review written for Journal of Regional
Science 52(3): 517-519.
Skop, Emily. 2008. From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb: New Asian
Communities in Pacific Rim Countries, edited by Wei Li. Book review written for
Professional Geographer 60(1): 152-154.
Skop, Emily and Solange Munoz. 2007. Inside the Mosaic edited by Eric Fong.
Book review written for Journal of Regional Science 47(3):648-650.
Skop, Emily. 2006. Hispanic Spaces, Latino Places edited by Daniel D. Arreola.
Book Review written for: Annals of the Association of American Geographers,
96(1) 222-224.
Skop, Emily. 2004. Immigrants and the American Dream: Remaking the Middle
Class by William A.V Clark. Book Review written for: Population, Place, and
Space 10(6): 496-498.
Skop, Emily. 2002. Legacies: Children of Immigrants in America by Alejandro
Portes and Ruben Rumbaut. Book review written for: Annals of the Association
of American Geographers 92(3): 327.
Other Publications
Skop, Emily. 2015. The Biggest Reason Why the Southwest Keeps Expanding?
Rising Immigration. http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2015/05/30/here-arethe-biggest-reasons-why-the-southwest-keeps-expanding/ideas/up-fordiscussion/
Skop, Emily. 2012. The Complexity of the Situation. NSF and AAG Geographies
of Broadening Participation Working Paper Series.
http://www.aag.org/cs/gbp/catalyzingpapers
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Other Publications continued
Skop, Emily, Tara Buentello, Alisha Cloud, Michael Davis and Naya Jones. 2006.
Ghettos, Enclaves, and Citadels in Austin: A Fieldtrip Guide. Austin, TX.
Peters, Paul and Emily Skop. 2005. The Geography of Poverty and Segregation
in Metropolitan Lima, Peru. Austin, TX: PRC Working Paper Series, No. 04-05-13.
http://www.prc.utexas.edu/working_papers/wp_pdf/04-05-13.pdf
Boswell, Thomas and Emily Skop. 1995. Hispanic National Groups in
Metropolitan Miami. Miami: Cuban American National Council.
WORK UNDER
REVIEW
Refereed Articles
Skop, Emily, Greg Chase, and E. Eric Boschmann. Under Review. Obtaining
and Retaining Hispanic Migrant Labor in the Sugar Beet Landscapes of
Colorado. Submitted to: Geographical Review.
Brandon Vogt and Emily Skop. Under Review. High Impact Practices in the
Silverton Field Experience. Submitted to: Journal of Geography in Higher
Education.
Skop, Emily. Under Review. Asian Indians in Phoenix Arizona: Negotiating the
"Model Minority" Myth in an Anti-Immigrant Climate. Submitted to: GeoJournal.
Refereed Book Chapters
Skop, Emily. Under Review. Little Indias vs. Invisiburbs: Asian Indian Migration
and Settlement Past and Present. Book Chapter in International Skilled
Migration, edited by Micheline Van Rumjisk and Qingfang Wang. Submitted to:
Routledge.
IN PREPARATION
Refereed Journal Articles
Cerian Gibbes, Emily Skop and Mae Rohrbach. In preparation. Socio-Ecological
Isolation in Shrinking Cities. To be submitted to: Special Issue on Shrinking Cities in
Sustainability.
Best, Brian and Emily Skop. In preparation. Tapas vs. Tacos: Mobile Food Vendors
in Austin, Texas. To be submitted to: Journal of Cultural Geography.
Adriana Morken and Emily Skop. In preparation. Displacement of the Ngobe
Community in Panama’s Coastal Resort Communities. To be submitted to:
Journal of Latin American Geography.
EXTERNAL GRANTS
Socio-Ecological Isolation in Shrinking Cities. Geography and Regional Science
Program, National Science Foundation (in preparation) (Co-PI).
Deed Restrictions and Restrictive Covenants in Austin Texas: The Role of
Developers and Advertisers. The Gerald E. and Corinne L. Parsons Fund Research
Award, American Folklife Center, U.S. Library of Congress, Spring 2013, $1710
(unfunded) (PI)
Highly Skilled Indian and Chinese Migration. MacArthur Foundation, Spring 2010,
$300,000 (unfunded) (sub-contractor)
Highly-skilled Chinese and Indian Migration across the Atlantic and the Pacific
(HICMAP), Foundation for Population, Migration and Environment, International
Metropolis Project, Spring 2008, $100,000 (unfunded) (Co-PI)
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EXTERNAL GRANTS
Global Competition for Highly-skilled Immigrants: Asians in the United States.
Institute for Social Science Research, Arizona State University, Spring 2008,
$19,908 (unfunded) (sub-contractor)
Working the Night Shift. Dissertation Support Grant, National Science Foundation,
Department of Geography, UT-Austin, May 2007-October 2008, $11,759 (funded)
(Faculty Sponsor for Reena Patel).
The Workforce & Beyond: Highly-Skilled Asian Americans as Agents of Change.
Human and Social Dynamics Program, Spring 2006, $149,996 (unfunded) (co-PI).
Achieving the American Dream: The Asian American Workforce in High-Tech
Industry and Micro-Business. U.S. Department of Labor, Fall 2005, $1,730,949
(unfunded) (Co-PI)
The Changing Face of America’s Suburbs. Geography and Regional Science
Program, National Science Foundation, Fall 2005, $149,960 (unfunded) (Co-PI).
Collaborative Research: The Rise of New “Creative” Immigrants and the
Transformation of America’s Suburbs. Geography and Regional Science
Program, National Science Foundation, Fall 2003, $149,960 (unfunded) (Co-PI)
Urbanization and Migration in Latin America. Center for the Study of Urbanization
and Internal Migration in Developing Countries, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
Population Research Center, UT-Austin, Fall 2002-Spring 2005, $25,000 (funded)
(sub-contractor).
INTERNAL GRANTS
Summer 2015 Student Research Funding, LAS Dean's Office, Summer 2015, $1200
(unfunded).
Undergraduate Research Academy Fellow, UCCS Undergraduate Research
Academy, Spring 2015, $6000 (unfunded).
Student-Faculty Research Award, UCCS LAS Student Faculty Research Award
Committee, Fall 2014, $4000 (funded).
Curriculum Development Grant. UCCS Faculty Minority Affairs Committee, Fall
2014, $250 (funded)
Integrating Writing Across the Curriculum Faculty Fellow Award. UCCS Writing
Center, Summer 2014, $500 (funded)
Curriculum Development Grant Program. UCCS Center for the Study of
Government and the Individual, Spring 2013, $800 (funded)
Committee on Research and Creative Works Program. UCCS Office of the Vice
Chancellor for Research and Innovation, Spring 2013, $4661 (unfunded)
Curriculum Development Grant Program. Gerontology Center. The University of
Colorado Colorado Springs, Spring 2010, $500 (funded)
Research Internship Program. Office of Graduate Studies. The University of Texas
at Austin, Fall 2007-Spring 2008, $18,000 (funded)
Research Internship Program. Office of Graduate Studies. The University of Texas
at Austin, Fall 2006-Spring 2007, $17,000 (funded)
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INTERNAL GRANTS
The Rise of the Immigrant Middle Class and the Transformation of America’s
Suburbs. Office of Graduate Studies. The University of Texas at Austin, Summer
2005, $12,000 (funded)
The Rise of the Creative Immigrant Class: The Transformation of America’s
Suburbs. NICHD Grant for Professional Development. Population Research
Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Summer 2003, $3,000 (funded)
Building Multiethnic Communities: Integrating Asian Americans to Metropolitan
Phoenix. Office of the Vice Provost of Research, Arizona State University, Spring
2005, $32,365 (co-PI) (funded)
New Latino Immigrants to Phoenix: Their Experiences and Prospects. Graduate
Scholars Special Grants Program, Center for Urban Inquiry. Arizona State
University, Summer 1999, $6993 (co-PI) (funded)
INVITED
PRESENTATIONS
National and International
The Sugar Beet Landscapes of Colorado. Colloquium, Population Center,
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO. October 2015.
Indian Immigrant Identities and the Internet. Colloquium, Department of
Geography, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK. March 2015.
Austin: The Emerging Immigrant Gateway. Colloquium, Department of
Geography, University of North Carolina Charlotte, Charlotte, NC. April 2013.
Migration: An Introduction. Invited Speaker, Immigration and Migration: A
Comparison & Contrast of US & EU Concerns, Colorado Council for Economic
Education, Denver, CO. June 2012.
Conceptualizing Scale in Broadening Participation. Invited Speaker, Catalyzing
Research on the Geographies of Broadening Participation Retreat, Temple
University, Philadelphia, PA. March 2012.
Austin: City of Ideas, Immigrants, and InTolerance. Colloquium, Department of
Geography, SUNY-Binghamton, Binghamton, NY. May 2011.
Austin: City of Tolerance, Ideas, and Immigrants? Colloquium, Department of
Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO. April 2011.
Qualitative Research Methods. Invited Speaker, US Air Force Academy,
Colorado Springs, CO. October 2009.
Globalization: An Introduction. Invited Speaker, Denver Public Schools Teacher
Institute, Denver, CO. March 2009.
Chinese and Indians: Diasporas Compared. Invited Speaker, 20th Conference of
the International Association of Historians of Asia, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi, India (Wei Li, Presenter). November 2008.
The Junior Faculty Perspective. Invited Speaker, University of Colorado
President’s Teaching Scholars Program Retreat, Estes Park, Colorado. November
2007.
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National and International continued
Urbanization and the Urbanized: Views from Latin America. Invited Speaker,
Seventh Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality, Institute for Migration Research
and Intercultural Studies, University of Osnabrück, Germany. October 2007.
Austin City Limited. Colloquium, Department of Geography, University of
Colorado Colorado Springs. January 2007.
Austin City Divided. Colloquium, Department of Geography, University of South
Carolina. January 2007.
Austin as an Idea City: Impact on Housing Issues for Immigrant Residents. Invited
Speaker, Suburban Immigrant Gateways Workshop, Brookings Institute,
Washington, D.C. June 2006.
São Paulo: Historic Immigrant Gateway to Contemporary Emigrant Outpost.
Invited Speaker, Global Cities as Immigrant Gateways Workshop, George
Washington University. January 2006.
Urban Governance and Intra-Urban Population Differentials in Lima, Peru. Invited
Speaker. Workshop on Spatial Differentiation and Governance in the Americas,
Austin, Texas (Paul Peters, presenter). November 2005.
The Rise of Indian Immigration to the United States. Colloquium, Marisco Visiting
Scholar Lecture, Department of Geography, University of Denver. May 2005.
Invisibility in Immigrant Landscapes. Colloquium, Department of Geography,
Texas A & M University (Wei Li, Collaborator). October 2004.
Immigrants in the Suburbs. Colloquium, Department of Geography, Kent State
University (Wei Li, Presenter). January 2004.
The Rise of the Creative Immigrant Class. Colloquium, Department of
Geography, University of Arizona. (Wei Li, Presenter). November 2003.
Understanding Invisibility in Urban Ethnic Landscapes. Colloquium, Department
of Geography, Miami University. October 2003.
Building MultiEthnic Communities: Integrating Asian Americans to America's
Suburbs. Invited Speaker, Immigration and Metropolitan Transformation in the
United States, Athens, Georgia (Wei Li, Presenter). April 2002.
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Qualitative Research Methods. Guest Lecture, University of Colorado Colorado
Springs. February 2013.
Learning Communities as High Impact Practice. Invited Speaker, General
Education Task Force, University of Colorado Colorado Springs. February 2012.
The Hipster Invasion of Austin, Texas. Invited Speaker, Galleries of Contemporary
Art, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO. November
2011.
Tenure Nuts and Bolts Workshop. Invited Speaker, Office of the Provost, University
of Colorado Colorado Springs. October 2011.
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University of Colorado Colorado Springs continued
India: An Introduction. Guest Lecture, Department of Geography and
Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Colorado Springs. April 2009.
Sam Quinones Radio Interview. Guest Host, UCCS Internet Radio, University of
Colorado Colorado Springs. April 2009.
Learning Communities: Definitions and Pedagogy. Guest Lecture, Learning
Communities Workshop, University of Colorado Colorado Springs. February 2009.
India: An Introduction. Guest Lecture, Department of Geography and
Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Colorado Springs. November 2008.
Studies in Geography. Invited Speaker, UCCS Internet Radio, University of
Colorado Colorado Springs. October 2008.
India: An Introduction. Guest Lecture, Department of Geography and
Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Colorado Springs. April 2008.
Advice for Graduate School. Invited Speaker, Department of Geography and
Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Colorado Springs. November 2007.
The University of Texas at Austin
Immigration: Beyond Passion and Rhetoric. Invited Speaker, Barbara Jordan
Forum, LBJ School for Public Policy, The University of Texas at Austin. April 2007.
Immigrants and the Politics of Belonging. Guest Lecture, Bridging Disciplines
Program, The University of Texas at Austin. March 2006.
Immigrant Integration Post-9/11. Invited Speaker, Conference on Immigration
Policy after 9/11: U.S. and European Perspectives, The University of Texas at
Austin. February 2006.
The Politics of Mobility in Katrina’s Aftermath: Evacuation, Intersticios, and Return.
Invited Speaker, Faculty/Student Panel, Department of Geography, The
University of Texas at Austin. October 2005.
Urban Space: The Shape of Inequality. Invited Speaker. ILASSA XXV Student
Conference on Latin America, The University of Texas at Austin. February 2005.
Migration: An Introduction. Guest Lecture, Department of Sociology, The
University of Texas at Austin. February 2005.
Immigrant and Refugee Adaptation. Invited Speaker, Anthropological
Association, The University of Texas at Austin. October 2004.
The Rise of the Creative Immigrant Class and the Transformation of America’s
Suburbs. Colloquium, Population Research Center, The University of Texas at
Austin (Wei Li, Collaborator). April 2004.
Population Geography. Guest Lecture, Department of Geography, The
University of Texas at Austin. September 2003.
Arizona State University
New Latino Immigrants to Phoenix. Invited Speaker, Graduate Scholars Grants
Colloquium, Center for Urban Inquiry, Arizona State University. February 2000.
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PROFESSIONAL
PRESENTATIONS
Thirdspace as Transnational Space. Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois. April 2015.
Geographies of Internationalization: Higher Education Encountering the Global –
Comments. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,
Chicago, Illinois. April 2015.
Key Issues in the Immigrant Integration Debate – Comments. Annual Meeting of
the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois. April 2015.
Social Spatial Inequalities of the Transportation System in Colorado Springs,
Colorado – Poster. Colorado Springs Undergraduate Research Forum (CSURF).
Colorado Springs, Colorado. April 2015.
Understanding Ethnicity and Inequality Through Fieldtrip Projects. Race, Ethnicity,
and Place: A Conference Sponsored by the Association of American
Geographers, Ft. Worth, Texas. October 2014.
Thomas Boswell Plenary – Comments. Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Geographers, Tampa, Florida. April 2014.
Highly Skilled International Migration – Comments. Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, Tampa, Florida. April 2014.
“Beyond the Ivory Tower” Comments. Sponsored by the Association of American
Geographers. Applied Geography Conference and the Middle Atlantic Division
of the AAG Meeting, Annapolis, Maryland. November 2013.
James Allen Plenary – Comments. Sponsored by Population and Ethnic
Geography Specialty Groups. Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, Los Angeles, California. April 2013.
The Ambiguity of Brownness? Public Discourse and Discordant Reactions to
Racial Categorization. Race, Ethnicity, and Place: A Conference Sponsored by
the Association of American Geographers, San Juan, PR. October 2012.
Immigration and Urban-Suburban Settlement Patterns. Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, Seattle, Washington. April 2011.
Immigrants, Diaspora, and Transnationalism - Comments. Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, Seattle, Washington. April 2011.
Keeping Things Weird? The Fallacies of Tolerance in Austin, Texas. Race,
Ethnicity, and Place: A Conference Sponsored by the Association of American
Geographers, Binghamton, NY. October 2010.
Ethnic Geography. Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers. Washington, D.C. April 2010.
Creating Fieldtrip-based Learning Communities. Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, Nevada. March 2009.
Laura Pulido Plenary – Introductory Comments. Sponsored by Population and
Ethnic Geography Specialty Groups. Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Geographers, Las Vegas, Nevada. March 2009.
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Professional Presentations continued
The Role of Protests, Rallies and Raids in Identifying New Latino Settlements.
Race, Ethnicity, and Place: A Conference Sponsored by the Association of
American Geographers, Miami, Florida. November 2008.
São Paulo: Historic Immigrant Gateway to Contemporary Emigrant Outpost.
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco,
California. April 2007.
Contemporary North American Ethnic Geography: Multiple Approaches to
Asian Migration – Panel Comments. Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Geographers, San Francisco, California. April 2007.
Immigrants and Transnational Experiences in World Cities – Panel Comments.
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco,
California. April 2007.
Austin City Divided. Race, Ethnicity, and Place: A Conference Sponsored by the
Association of American Geographers, San Marcos, Texas. November 2006.
Women on the Edge – Panel Comments. Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois. March 2006.
The Methodological Potential of Focus Groups in Understanding Racialization
Processes. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,
Chicago, Illinois. March 2006.
Internet Use and Attitudes toward Cultural Preservation among Asian Indians in
the US. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago,
Illinois. (Paul Adams, presenter). March 2006.
“Mapping” Race/Ethnicity: The Influence of James Allen. Association of Pacific
Coast Geographers, Phoenix, Arizona. October 2005.
Asian Immigrant Businesses in America’s Suburbs. 10thInternational Metropolis
Conference, Toronto, Ontario. October 2005.
Chain Migration and Residential Segregation in the Mesoregion of São Paulo,
Brazil. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver,
Colorado. April 2005.
Ethics in Ethnic Geography – Panel Comments. Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, Denver, Colorado. April 2005.
Women on the Edge – Panel Comments. Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Geographers, Denver, Colorado. April 2005.
Instituting a Field Exam for International Field Research – Panel Comments.
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver,
Colorado. April 2005.
Multi-Level and Multi-Group Spatial Segregation in Latin American Mega-Cities:
an analysis of Lima, Peru. Population Association of America, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania (Paul Peters, Presenter). April 2005.
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Professional Presentations continued
The Space of Focus Groups in Migration Research. 4th Conferencia
Internacional de Geografía Critica, Mexico City, Mexico. January 2005.
Collectivity, Cooperation, and Conflict in America's Multiethnic Suburbs: Focus
Groups as a Tool in Social Science Research. Race, Ethnicity, and Place:
Conference Sponsored by the Association of American Geographers,
Washington, D.C. September 2004.
Internal Migration and Settlement in São Paulo. Annual Meeting of the
Associação Brasileira de Estudos Populacionais (ABEP), Caxambú, Minas Gerais,
Brazil (Joseph Potter, Presenter). September 2004.
Internal Migration and Settlement in São Paulo. Conference of Texas Brazilianists,
Austin, Texas (Paul Peters, Presenter). April 2004.
Chain Migration and Residential Segregation in São Paulo. Population
Association of America, Boston, Massachusetts. April 2004.
Global Connections and Transnational Ties: The Role of New “Creative”
Immigrants. Association for Asian American Studies, Boston, Massachusetts (Wei
Li, Presenter). March 2004.
PSG Session in Honor of the AAG Centennial: Behind the Curve? Placing Theory
in Population Geography. Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. March 2004.
Building Multiethnic Communities: Integrating Asian Immigrants to America's
Suburbs. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. March 2004.
Immigrants Outside Megalopolis: Urban Settings. Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. March 2004.
“Doing” Ethnic Geographies: Theory, Method, and Practice. Annual Meeting of
the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, Louisiana. March 2003.
Old-to-new Colorado License Plates: A Barometer for Cultural Geographers.
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans,
Louisiana (Brandon Vogt, Presenter). March 2003.
Ethnic Identity and Community: Patterns and Change. Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, Louisiana. March 2003.
From the Ghetto to the Invisoburb: Shifting Patterns of Immigrant Settlement in
Contemporary America. Race, Ethnicity, and Place, Binghampton, New York.
October 2002.
The Socio-Spatial (re)Construction of “Indian-ness” in Phoenix. Annual Meeting of
the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles. March 2002.
Settling in the Suburbs: Asian Indian Immigrants in Phoenix. Annual Meeting of
the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Santa Barbara, California.
September 2001.
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Professional Presentations continued
Immigrants and their Children: Mexican Americans, European Americans, and
Family Structure, 1880-1970. Annual Meeting of the Population Association of
America, Washington D.C (Brian Gratton, Presenter). March 2001.
Phoenix: The Newest Latino Immigrant Gateway? Annual Meeting of the
Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Arcata, California. September 2000.
The Heterolocal Construction of Community and Identity. Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. April 2000.
Re)Construction of the Asian Indian Community in Phoenix. Annual Meeting of
the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Reno, Nevada. September 1999.
Ingredients for Making a Cultural Identity: Mexican Restaurants in Phoenix,
Arizona. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Honolulu,
Hawaii. March 1999.
Sitting on a Concrete Bench: Gender in the Plaza. Annual Meeting of the
Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Flagstaff, Arizona. September 1998.
Segmented Paths: The Geographic and Social Mobility of Mariel Cuban Exiles.
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston,
Massachusetts. March 1998.
AWARDS AND
HONORS
National and International
Honorarium for Colloquium Presentation at University of Colorado Boulder,
October 2015.
Honorarium for Colloquium Presentation at Oklahoma State University, April 2015.
Honorarium for Paper Presented at the Race, Ethnicity, and Place AAG
Conference, October 2014.
Honorarium for Colloquium Presentation at University of North Carolina,
Charlotte, April 2013.
Honorarium for Paper Presented at the Race, Ethnicity, and Place AAG
Conference, October 2012.
Honorarium for Invited Presentation at the Colorado Council for Economic
Education, June 2012.
Honorarium for Paper Presented at the Catalyzing Research on the Geographies
of Broadening Participation Retreat, March 2012.
Honorarium for Colloquium Presentation at Binghamton University, May 2011.
Honorarium for Colloquium Presentation at University of Colorado, Boulder, April
2011.
Award for Raising Awareness from the U.S. Census, Spring 2010.
Honorarium for Paper Presented at the Race, Ethnicity, and Place AAG
Conference, October 2010.
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Honorarium for Presentation at the Denver Public Schools Teacher Institute,
March 2009.
Honorarium for Paper Presented at the Race, Ethnicity, and Place AAG
Conference, November 2008.
Honorarium for Paper Presented at the Presidential Teaching Scholars Retreat,
November 2007.
Honorarium for Paper Presented at the Seventh Berlin Roundtables on
Transnationality, October 2007.
Honorarium for Participation in AAG Teaching Modern Geography Workshop,
April 2007.
Honorarium for Paper Presented at the Race, Ethnicity, and Place AAG
Conference, November 2006.
Honorarium for Paper Presented at the Suburban Immigrant Gateways
Workshop, Brookings Institute, June 2006.
Honorarium for Paper Presented at the Global Cities as Immigrant Gateways
Workshop, January 2006.
Honorarium for Colloquium Presentation at University of Denver, May 2005.
Honorarium for Colloquium Presentation at Texas A&M University, October 2004.
Honorarium for Paper Presented at the Race, Ethnicity, and Place AAG
Conference, September 2004.
Honorarium for Colloquium Presentation at Miami University, October 2003.
Honorarium for Paper Presented at the Race, Ethnicity, and Place AAG
Conference, October 2002.
Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Women’s Network Travel Grant,
October 2001.
Ethnic Geography Specialty Group, Best Student Paper Award, March 2000.
Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, President’s Award for Outstanding
Paper by a Ph. D. Student, September 1998.
The University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Nominated for the UCCS Faculty Award for Outstanding Contribution to Diversity
and Inclusiveness, Spring 2015.
UCCS Student-Faculty Research Award, Fall 2014.
Award for Participating in the Integrating Writing Across the Curriculum Faculty
Fellows Seminar, Fall 2014.
Nominated for MOSAIC's Outstanding Faculty Diversity Award, Spring 2013.
Award for Participating in the Knapsack Institute, Spring 2013.
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The University of Colorado Colorado Springs continued
Nominated for the LAS Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and Creative
Works, Spring 2011.
The University of Texas at Austin
Nominated for the Jean Holloway Award for Teaching Excellence in Liberal Arts
or Natural Sciences, 2007.
Distinguished Service Award, Department of Geography, 2002-2007.
Vice Provost for Research Faculty Travel Award, 2007.
Vice Provost for Research Faculty Travel Award, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003.
Dean’s Proposal Award for Submission of External Grant Proposal, 2003.
Arizona State University
Faculty Women’s Association, Distinguished Achievement Award, Doctoral
Candidate, 1998.
Graduate Travel Award, 1998-2000.
Graduate Academic and Tuition Scholarships, 1995-2001.
COURSES PREPARED
World Regional Geography A lower-division course that provides an introduction
to basic geographical concepts. The course examines elements of physical,
cultural, historical, economic, and political geography within eight world regions.
Introduction to Human Geography A lower-division course that introduces subdisciplines of human geography through lecture, slide shows, the Internet, writing
exercises, and group “field” projects. Students investigate in-depth case studies
that show how geography shapes the political, social and economic processes
of the world around us.
Population Geography An upper-division/graduate course that examines
population processes and patterns of mortality, fertility, and migration in a
contemporary, international geographic setting. The class combines lectures,
exercises, and discussions.
Inequality USA An upper-division/graduate course that provides a geographical
approach to understanding how and why inequality exists in the United States.
Students learn how social geographers study various spaces, which include
individuals, groups, neighborhoods, communities, organizations, institutions,
governments, and states, to understand how they become both products and
producers of inequality.
Mega-Cities An upper-division/graduate-level seminar that provides a global
perspective on the nature of urbanization, the forces behind these patterns, and
their effects on the social, political, economic, and environmental organization
and governance of the world’s largest mega-cities.
Silverton Field Experience An upper-division/graduate-level field course that
focuses on Silverton, Colorado’s cultural and physical landscapes. Participants
select an overarching, central question related to the fieldsite and develop a
research project based on that question.
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Race, Ethnicity, and Place An upper-division course that provides students with a
perspective concerning the dynamics and processes of racialization in varying
U.S. urban contexts. The class emphasizes discussion, as well as learning the
methods utilized by geographers in exploring race, ethnicity, and place.
Global Migration An upper-division/graduate-level seminar that outlines how
international migration has become a major factor in economic, political, and
cultural change. Current themes such as transnationalism, citizenship, and the
sociospatial consequences of migration are discussed and critiqued by students.
PROFESSIONAL
AFFILIATIONS
Association of American Geographers (AAG)
Migration Policy Institute
National Council for Geographic Education
Applied Geography
SERVICE
EXPERIENCE
National and International
AAG Advisory Board Member. Geographies of Broadening Participation Group.
2012-present.
AAG Specialty Group Chair. Population Geography Specialty Group. 2010-2011.
AAG Specialty Group Chair. Ethnic Geography Specialty Group. 2008-2010.
AAG Specialty Group Vice Chair. Population Geography Specialty Group. 20092010.
AAG National Committee Member. AAG Committee on the Status of Women in
Geography. 2009-2014.
AAG Specialty Group Vice Chair. Ethnic Geography Specialty Group. 2006-2008.
AAG Specialty Group Board Member. Population Geography Specialty Group.
2006-2009.
AAG Specialty Group Secretary and Treasurer. Ethnic Geography Specialty
Group. 2004-2006.
AAG Student Paper Competition Committee. Population Geography Specialty
Group. 2005-present.
Journal Reviewer. Annals of the Association of American Geographers (2014,
2013, 2012, 2010), Ageing and Society (2006), Asian and Pacific Migration (2012),
Community Development Journal (2012), Economic Geography (2008),
Geoforum (2007), Geographical Review (2015, 2014, 2011, 2010, 2008), Growth
and Change (2014), Habitat (2007), International Journal of Population Research
(2013), International Migration (2014, 2005), International Migration Review (2014,
2005), Journal of Cultural Geography (2015, 2014, 2013, 2011, 2006), Journal of
Ethnic and Migration Studies (2015), Journal of International Migration and
Integration (2012), Journal of Regional Science (2012, 2007), Journal of STEM
Education (2014), Journal of Urban Affairs (2010, 2009), Journal of Urban and
Regional Research (2008), Landscape Research (2011, 2010), Migration Letters,
(2011) Population, Space, and Place (2013), Population Research Policy Review
(2005), Professional Geographer (2007), Sociological Forum (2013), Southeastern
Geographer (2006), The Southwestern Geographer (2014), Southwestern
Historical Quarterly (2014), Urban Geography (2013, 2012, 2008, 2006), Urban
Studies (2008)
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National and International continued
National Science Foundation Senior Panelist. Geography and Spatial Sciences
Program.
Proposal Reviewer. National Science Foundation. 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011,
2012, 2013, 2014, 2015.
Editorial Board Member. Journal of Cultural Geography. 2014-present.
Editorial Advisory Board Member. Geographical Review. 2014-present.
Manuscript Reviewer. Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs by Lucia Lo
et al. (revised) University of Toronto Press. Fall 2013. * Review featured on back
cover.
Manuscript Reviewer. The Iranian Americans by Maboud Ansari. Edwin Mellen
Press, Fall 2012.
Manuscript Reviewer. Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs by Lucia Lo
et al. University of Toronto Press. Spring 2012.
Manuscript Proposal Reviewer. Global Migration by Elizabeth Mavroudi and
Caroline Nagel. Routledge. Spring 2011.
Manuscript Reviewer. Population Geography: Tools and Issues by Professor K.
Bruce Newbold. Roman & Littlefield Publishers. Spring 2009. *Review featured on
back cover.
Manuscript Reviewer. Making the Body Count: War, Peace, and Population
Geography by Professor Jim Tyner. Guilford Press. Spring 2008. *Review featured
on back cover.
Textbook Reviewer. The Human Mosaic. W.H. Freeman. Spring 2008.
Textbook Reviewer. The Cultural Landscape. Prentice Hall. Spring 2006.
REP Paper Session Chair. Session titled: "Education Issues" October 2014.
REP Paper Session Chair. Session titled: “Asian Geographies” October 2012.
REP Paper Session Chair. Session titled: “Immigrant Experience: I” October 2010.
REP Paper Session Chair. Session titled: “Multicultural and Ethnic Issues”
November 2008.
AAG Paper Session Chair. Session titled “Migrants, Migration, and Neoliberalism
IV”. April 2007.
AAG Paper Session Organizer. Session titled “International Population Dynamics”.
April 2007.
AAG Paper Session Organizer. Session titled “Retirement, Rurality, and
Migration”. April 2007.
AAG Paper Session Organizer. Session titled “The Politics and Economics of
Migration”. April 2007.
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National and International continued
REP Paper Session Chair. Session titled: “Urban Racial and Ethnic Issues in the
U.S.” November 2006.
REP Fieldtrip Organizer. Fieldtrip titled “Ghettos, Enclaves, and Citadels in Austin”
November 2006.
AAG Paper Session Co-Organizer, with Paul Peters. Session titled “Comparative
Urban Spatial Segregation (International Perspective)”. April 2005.
Community
Ambassador. College Readiness and Success Program Workshop Series.
Sponsored by El Pomar Foundation. August 2015-present.
Advisory Committee, Asian American Advisory Council, El Pomar Foundation.
Spring 2015-present.
Art in a Suitcase Volunteer, Colorado Springs School District 12. Fall 2014-present.
PTO Volunteer, Broadmoor Elementary. Fall 2014-present.
Advisory Committee, Mountain Song Community School. Fall 2012-Spring 2014.
Volunteer, Educating Children of Color. Sponsored by the Center of STEM
Education/PIPES. January 2012.
Advisory Committee, Pikes Peak Area Complete Count Committee (PPACCC)
for Census 2010. Fall 2009-2011.
Consultant, Pikes Peak Immigrant and Refugee Collaborative. Spring 2009.
Consultant, Dream City 2020. Spring 2009-Spring 2010.
Advisory Committee, Immigration to Texas. Bob Bullock Texas State History
Museum. Fall 2006-Spring 2009.
Consultant, Austin City Divided KLRU– PBS. Fall 2006 – Spring 2007.
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Founding Director, Global Intercultural Research Center. Fall 2014-present.
Graduate Director, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies. Spring
2010-present.
Affiliate, Department of Women’s and Ethnic Studies (WEST). Fall 2007-present.
Affiliate, Gerontology Center. Spring 2015-present.
Faculty Mentor, Office of Student Multicultural Affairs Mentorship Program. Fall
2007-present.
Committee Member, Graduate Executive Committee, Spring 2010-present.
Committee Member, Jacquelyn Beyer Women in Geography Scholarship. Fall
2007-present.
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University of Colorado at Colorado Springs continued
Committee Member, Sustainability Minor. Fall 2007-present.
Planning Committee Member, Diversity Summit. Fall 2015-present.
Co-Organizer, Compass Curriculum Campus-Wide Presentation. Spring 2015.
Committee Member, Global Engagement Office Executive Director Job Search.
Spring 2015.
Committee Member, US Department of State Education USA Leadership Institute
– UCCS visit. Spring 2015.
Co-Organizer, GeoQuiz Night. Fall 2014.
Comprehensive Review Committee Member, Cerian Gibbes, Fall 2014.
Co-Chair, Geography Job Search. Fall 2013.
Co-Chair, Inclusive Engagement Learning Communities. Spring 2008-Spring 2014.
Committee Member, Global Multicultural Scholarship Task Force. Fall 2012present.
Committee Member, Geography Capstone Experience. Spring 2013.
Committee Member, Social Science Symposium Series. Fall 2007-Fall 2013.
Volunteer, A Day in American Life, Office of International Affairs. Summer 2013.
Committee Member, The Graduate School and the Office of Research and
Innovation Graduate Student Fellowship Criteria Revision, Fall 2012-Spring 2013.
Committee Member, General Education Faculty Dialogue, Fall 2011-Fall 2012.
Tenure Review Committee Member, Aditi Mitra, Fall 2012.
Tenure Review Committee Member, David Havlick, Fall 2012.
First Year Review Committee Member, Cerian Gibbes, Fall 2012.
Committee Member, All Campus Read. Spring 2012.
Committee Member, Capstone Requirements, Spring 2012.
Co-Chair, Geography Job Search. Fall 2010.
Comprehensive Review Committee Member, Paddington Hodza, Fall 2010.
Committee Member, Provost’s Task Force on High Impact Practices. Spring 2010.
Organizer, Slum Invasion. Spring 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014.
University of Texas at Austin
(Details for service from 2002-2007 can be provided upon request)
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STUDENT
DISSERTATION AND
THESIS SUPERVISION
Ph.D. Dissertations
Reena Patel (Committee chair - UT-Austin). Working the Nightshift: Women in
Indian Call Centers. Graduated May 2008.
Solange Munoz (Committee chair – UT-Austin). Deconstructing Whiteness in
Chile: The Role of Peruvian Immigrants. August 2006-May 2007.
Katia R. Avilés-Vázquez (Committee member – UT-Austin). Differential social
mobility of the Dominican Diaspora in Puerto Rico. August 2006-May 2007.
Mikyung Kim (Committee member – UT-Austin). Economic globalization and
urban livability: Is a global city a livable city? Graduated August 2008.
Hae-Bong Woo (Committee member – UT-Austin). International Family Migration
and Labor Market Experiences of Asian Immigrant Couples. Graduated May
2007.
Joy Adams (Committee member). Going Deutsch: Heritage Tourism and Identity
in German Texas. Graduated May 2006.
John Oswald (Committee member – UT-Austin). Cyprus: A Divided City. August
2006-August 2007.
Lissette Aliaga Linares (Committee member – UT-Austin). The Shaping of
Informality: Street Markets in Santiago de Chile and Metropolitan Lima. August
2005-August 2007
Master’s Theses
Amarra Handsome (Committee chair – UCCS). Shifting Geographies of
Cohabitation. In progress.
Adriana Morken (Committee chair – UCCS). Refugee Resettlement Agencies
and Displacement. In progress.
Anna Cordova (Committee chair – UCCS). Place-making in Indigenous
Archeology. In progress.
Justin Cook (Committee chair – UCCS). Declining Fertility and Its Consequences.
In progress.
Melissa Greenleaf (Committee chair – UCCS). Food Inequality in Immigrant
Neighborhoods. In progress.
Brian Best (Committee chair – UCCS). Tapas vs Tacos: Mobile Street Vendors in
Austin. Graduated December 2013.
Brock Kilgore (Committee member – UCCS). Bus Route #9: Crossing
Neighborhoods in Colorado Springs. In progress.
Peter Walke (Committee member – UCCS). The Patty Jewett Neighborhood.
Graduated May 2013.
Greg Chase (Committee member – University of Denver). The Sugar Beet
Landscape: Mexican and Mexican American Settlement and Migration in
Eastern Colorado. Graduated December 2011.
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Master's Theses
Zach Owen (Committee member – UCCS). The Mormon Culture Region.
Graduated December 2009.
Frank Kinder (Committee member- UCCS). Sustainability Gone Wrong: The North
Nevada Development. Graduated December 2008.
Jon Walsh (Committee member – UCCS). Subdivision Entrances: Imagineering
Identity through Marketing, Place-Naming and Gateway Construction.
Graduated May 2008.
Erin Miller (Committee chair – UT-Austin). Mexican Day Laborers Negotiate Home
Depot’s Third Space. Graduated May 2008.
Kendall Zanowiak (Committee chair – UT-Austin). Immigrant Rights Marches and
Subsequent Raids in “New” Immigrant Communities, Graduated August 2007.
Solange Munoz (Committee chair – UT-Austin). Peruvian Migration to Chile:
Policy, NGO’s and the Chilean State. Graduated August 2006.
Sarah Zell (Committee chair – UT-Austin). Intersections of Social Networks and
State Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Brazilian Migration to the United States
and Japan. Graduated May 2006.
Suzannah Gonzales (Committee chair – UT-Austin). The Geography of
Bilingualism in Texas Graduated May 2006.
Undergraduate Honor’s Theses
Loretta Payne (Committee chair – UCCS). Socio-Spatial Inequalities in the
Colorado Springs Transportation System. In progress.
Adriana Morken (Committee chair – UCCS). Land Disputes in Panama:
Indigenous Peoples vs. Foreign-Born Retirees. Highest Honors. Graduated May
2014.
Daniel Morris (Committee co-chair – UCCS). Persistent Inequality in Education:
The Case of Colorado Springs. Graduated August 2013.
Ryan Pulling (Committee member – UCCS). The Geography of Guatemala’s
Elections. Graduated May 2012.
Alisha E. Cloud (Committee member – UT-Austin). Uncovering Black Historical
Spaces in Austin, Texas. Graduated May 2008.
Tara Buentello (Committee chair – UT-Austin). Homeownership Rates and
Housing Quality of Mexican Immigrants in Austin, Texas. Graduated May 2007.
Claire E. Altman (Committee member – UT-Austin). Ethnic Identity and SecondGeneration Asians. Graduated May 2006.
Keri Moczygemba (Committee chair – UT-Austin). Impacts of the Austin Boom on
Housing Issues for Low-Income Residents. Graduated May 2003.
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Undergraduate Independent Studies
Courtney Marisa Watsabaugh. (Mentor, Independent Study). Spring 2014.
Amarra Handsome. (Mentor, Independent Study). Fall 2013.
Erika Dicker. (Mentor, Independent Study). Fall 2013.
Kelly Young. (Mentor, Independent Study). Summer 2013.
Melissa Greenleaf (Mentor, Independent Study). Spring 2013.
Michael Core (Mentor, Independent Study). Fall 2012.
Other Graduate/Undergraduate Formal Mentorships
Mae Rohrbach (Mentor, MOSAIC Mentorship Program – UCCS). Summer 2015.
Tommie-Sue Spears (Mentor, MOSAIC Mentorship Program – UCCS). Fall 2008Spring 2009.
Angie Longwing (Mentor, MOSAIC Mentorship Program – UCCS). Fall 2008-Spring
2009.
Naya Jones (Mentor, Research Internship Program – UT-Austin). Fall 2006-Spring
2007.
Tara Buentello (Mentor, REU Minority Demography Program – UT-Austin). Summer
2006.
Rob Stahl (Mentor, REU Minority Demography Program – UT-Austin). Summer
2006.
Elaina Lewis (Mentor, Bridging Disciplines Program – UT-Austin). Spring 2005.
Irfana Hussein (Mentor, Bridging Disciplines Program – UT-Austin). Spring 2005.
Claire Altman (Mentor, REU Minority Demography Program – UT-Austin). Summer
2004.
Paul A. Peters, (Mentor, Mellon Graduate Fellow Program – UT-Austin), Fall 2003Spring 2004.
Wilson Fusco (Mentor, Vilmar Faria Graduate Fellow Program – UT-Austin). Fall
2003-Spring 2004.
Ernesto Amaral (Mentor, Hewlett Graduate Fellow Program – UT-Austin). Fall
2003-Spring 2004.
Boris Brodsky (Mentor, Mellon Senior Fellow Program – UT-Austin). Fall 2002- Spring
2003.
RESEARCH AND
TRAINING
SEMINARS
National and International
Invited Participant, Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference. Hosted by Texas
Christian University, Ft. Worth, October 2014.
Invited Participant, Knapsack Institute. Hosted by University of Colorado
Colorado Springs, June 2013.
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National and International continued
Invited Participant, Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference. Hosted by University
of Puerto Rico, San Juan, October 2012.
Invited Participant, The Wealth Divide: Economics and Income Inequality. Hosted
by Colorado Council for Economic Education, Denver, CO, October 2012.
Invited Participant, Catalyzing Research on Geographies of Broadening
Participation Retreat. Hosted by Association of American Geographers and
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, March 2012.
Invited Participant, Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference. Hosted by SUNYBinghamton, Binghamton, New York, October 2010.
Invited Participant, Web Conference on Learning Community Development.
Hosted by Ohio University. November 2008.
Invited Participant, Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference. Hosted by University
of Miami, Miami, Florida, November 2008.
Invited Participant, 20th Conference of the International Association of Historians
of Asia. Hosted by Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Dehli, November 2008.
Invited Participant, Seventh Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality. Hosted by
Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of
Osnabrück, Germany, October 2007.
Invited Participant, Teaching Modern Geography Workshop. Hosted by the
Association of American Geographers, April 2007.
Invited Participant, Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference. Hosted by Texas
State University, San Marcos, Texas, November 2006.
Invited Participant, Workshop on Suburban Immigrant Gateways. Hosted by The
Brookings Institute, June 2006.
Invited Participant, Workshop on Global Cities as Immigrant Gateways. Hosted
by George Washington University, January 2006.
Invited Participant, Workshop on Spatial Differentiation and Governance in the
Americas. Hosted by the University of Texas at Austin, November 2005.
Invited Participant, Workshop on Geographical Information Systems. Hosted by
the AAG and Binghamton University at Howard University. September 2004.
Invited Participant, Workshop on the End of Public Space in the Latin American
City. Co-hosted by LLILAS and the University of Texas at Austin. March 2004.
Invited Participant, Workshop on Urban Governance and Intra-Urban Population
Differentials. Hosted by The University of Texas at Austin. November 2002.
Invited Participant, Race/Ethnicity and Place Mini-Conference. Hosted by
Applied Geography Conference, SUNY-Binghamton. October 2002.
Invited Participant, Mexico’s GIS Capabilities. Hosted by SEDESOL, Mexico City,
Mexico. September 2002.
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Community
Ambassador. College Readiness and Success Program Workshop Series.
Sponsored by El Pomar Foundation. August 2015-present.
Invited Participant. Emerging Leaders Development Program. Sponsored by the
El Pomar Foundation. February 2014-present.
Facilitator, Educating Children of Color. Sponsored by the Center of STEM
Education/PIPES. January 2012.
Invited Participant, Community Workshop of Census 2010. Sponsored by the Pikes
Peak Area Complete Count Committee (PPACCC). October 2010.
Coordinator, Community Workshop on Gangs and Immigrants: Myths and
Realities. Co-hosted by University of Colorado Colorado Springs and the Pikes
Peak Immigrant and Refugee Collaborative. April 2009.
Invited Participant, Dream City 2020 Focus Group. Hosted by Dream City 2020,
Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 2009.
Invited Participant, Grand Opening to the “Forgotten Gateway: Coming to
America Through Galveston Island” exhibit. Hosted by the Bob Bullock Museum,
Austin, Texas. February 2009.
Fieldtrip Organizer. Fieldtrip titled: Ghettos, Enclaves and Citadels in Austin.
Sponsored by the 2006 Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference and Austin Now
(a PBS production). November 2006.
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Invited Participant, The Art of Grantsmanship. Hosted by the University of
Colorado Colorado Springs, May 2015.
Participant, Veteran Educators Resource Workshop. Hosted by the University of
Colorado Colorado Springs. April 2015.
Invited Participant, The Art of Grantsmanship. Hosted by the University of
Colorado Colorado Springs, September 2014.
Invited Participant, Integrating Writing Across the Curriculum Faculty Fellows
Seminar. Hosted by the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, August 2014.
Coordinator, Navigating the National Science Foundation. Co-hosted by the
Social Science Symposium Series, UCCS Graduate School, and Department of
Geography and Environmental Studies. December 2013.
Coordinator, Advice for Graduate School. Department of Geography and
Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Colorado Springs. November 2012.
Invited Participant. Greening of the Office Program. Office of Sustainability,
University of Colorado Colorado Springs. September 2012.
Coordinator, Advice for Graduate School. Department of Geography and
Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Colorado Springs. November 2011.
Invited Participant. Diversity Champions: What can we learn? Office of Diversity
and Inclusiveness, University of Colorado Colorado Springs. January 2011.
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Participant, New Teaching Technologies. Hosted by UCCS Learning Center.
January 2011.
Coordinator, Workshop on Learning Communities at UCCS. Hosted by University
of Colorado Colorado Springs. March 2010.
Invited Participant, Sustainability Minor Retreat. Hosted by University of Colorado
Colorado Springs. December 2009.
Coordinator, Workshop on Learning Communities at UCCS. Hosted by University
of Colorado Colorado Springs. February 2009.
Participant, The BIG Idea Workshop: Building Inclusiveness at UCCS. Hosted by
University of Colorado Colorado Springs. January 2009.
Invited Participant, Workshop on Learning Communities. Hosted by University of
Colorado Colorado Springs. October 2008.
Invited Participant, Presidential Scholars Program Retreat. Hosted by University of
Colorado. November 2007.
Participant, New Faculty Orientation Seminar. Hosted by the Teaching and
Learning Center, University of Colorado Colorado Springs. August 2007.
The University of Texas at Austin
Invited Participant, Workshop on Professors as Authors. Hosted by The University
of Texas at Austin, February 2006.
Participant, Using Blackboard. Hosted by the Division of Instructional Innovation
and Assessment and Instructional Technology Services, The University of Texas at
Austin. September 2005.
Participant, Alumni Teaching Scholars Community Workshop, The University of
Texas at Austin. March 2004.
Participant, Creating Critical Discussion. Hosted by the Center for Teaching
Effectiveness, The University of Texas at Austin. November 2003.
Participant, Sharing What Works: Dodging Death by PowerPoint. Hosted by the
Division of Instructional Innovation and Instructional Technology Services, The
University of Texas at Austin. November 2002.
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