University of Washington Department of Geography

Highlights

New Books

Craig Jeffrey, Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery: Degrees Without Freedom? Education, Masculinities and Unemployment in North India (Stanford University Press, 2008)

Kim England and Kevin Ward, eds. Neoliberalization: States, Networks, Peoples. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 2007.

J.W. Harrington and P.W. Daniels, eds. Knowledge-Based Services, Internationalisation and Regional Development. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 2006.

Steve Herbert, Citizens, Cops and Power: Recognizing the Limits of Community. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006.

Victoria Lawson, Making Development Geography. Human Geography in the Making Series, Hodder Publishing, UK, 2007.

Matthew Sparke, In The Space of Theory: Postfoundational Geographies of the Nation-State. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2005).

New Courses

Geog 403 Migration, Integration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization. Post-WWII European migration patterns, with an emphasis on Muslim rights and identities. Next offered, Aut, 2007

Geog 343 Comparative Geographies of Youth. How education, health & climate change affect youth culture, politics & economics worldwide. Next offered, Winter 2008

Geog 276 Intro to Political Geography. Politics, space, power, the body, culture, scale, caregiving, geopolitics and territoriality. Next offered, Winter 2008

Grants, Awards & Honors

Mark Ellis received a Guggenheim fellowship for the 2005-6 academic year for work on "Geographies of the Color Line: Daily Rhythms of Diversity in American Cities"

Mark Ellis has an NSF supported project "The Mixed-Race Household in Residential Space: Neighborhood Context, Segregation, and Multiracial Identities, 1990-2000" that is funded from 2004-7.

Sarah Elwood received a National Science Foundation Early Career Grant for the period 2003-2008, for a research and education project entitled "Transforming the Politics of Place: GIS, Knowledge Production, and Community-Based Organizations in Urban Governance."

Craig Jeffrey received an RRF scholarship and RRF grant in 2006 to work Intergenerational Politics and Underemployment in India

Craig Jeffrey received a Simpson Center for the Humanities Society of Scholars Fellowship in 2007 to work on a project entitled Performing Democracy: Dramatic Experiments in Public Action.

Victoria Lawson and Lucy Jarosz received a National Science Foundation award for 2002-2007, for a research project entitled, "Reinterpreting Geographies of Poverty in the American Northwest."

Tim Nyerges has an NOAA-funded grant "Vulnerability to Climate Change Impacts" 2007-2009.

Tim Nyerges NSF-Supplement, "US-China Comparison of Water Resource Decision Tools" 2007-2008.

Tim Nyerges has an NSF supported project "An Internet Platform to Support Public Participation in Transportation Decision Making" that is funded from 2004-2007.

Katharyne Mitchell received a three year fellowship from the Simpson Center for the Humanities at UW from 2004-2007, for research on childhood and public scholarship.

Matthew Sparke received a Royalty Research Fund award at UW for 2007-2008, for a new research project entitled, "Comparing Models of Global Education Through Study Abroad."

Matthew Sparke received a University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award in 2007. The Distinguished Teaching Award is given annually to seven faculty members.

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