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JOSHUA F. J. INWOOD
CURRICULUM VITAE
5502 Sunset Rd Department of Geography
Knoxville, TN 37914 408 Burchfiel Build.
706-546-4856 Knoxville, TN 37901
[email protected] 865-974-6170
EDUCATION
University of Georgia
Ph.D. Geography, 2007
Dissertation: Sweet Auburn: Contesting the Racial Identity of Atlanta’s
Most Historically Significant African American Neighborhood.
Advisor: Dr. Steve Holloway
Kent State University
M.A. Geography, 2002
Masters Thesis: Hearing the Blind: A Critical Geo-Humanist Perspective
on the Visually Impaired and Blind.
Advisor: Dr. James Tyner
Michigan State University
B.A. Geography, 2000
B.A. History, 2000
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor. Joint appointment between the Department of Geography and the
Africana Studies Program, University of Tennessee, 2014-Present.
Assistant Professor. Joint appointment between the Department of Geography and the
Africana Studies Program, University of Tennessee, 2010-2014.
Assistant Professor. Department of Geology and Geography, Auburn University, 2007-
2010. Affiliated faculty with the Africana Studies Program, 2007-2010.
Affiliated faculty with the Women Studies Program, 2008-2010.
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Publications (n=28):
Inwood, J. and Williams, J. and Alderman, D. (Forthcoming) "Where do we go from
here? Transportation Justice and the Continuing Struggle for Public Access."
Accepted June 2015.
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Bonds, A and Inwood, J. (Forthcoming) "Beyond White Privilege: White Supremacy,
Settler Colonialism, and Anti-Racist Geographies." Progress in Human
Geography. Conditional Acceptance April 2015.
Inwood, J. (Forthcoming) "Special Issue on the Death Penalty in the United States: The
Execution of Troy Davis." Accepted to ACME. January 2014.
Inwood, J. and Barron, M. (forthcoming) "Life and Death in the Racial State: Collateral
Consequences and the Execution of Troy Davis." Accepted ACME, October
2013.
Nagel, C., Inwood, J., Alderman, D., Aggarwal, U., Bolton, C., Holloway, S., Wright, R.,
Ellis, M., McCutcheon, P., Hankins, K., Walter, A., and Derickson, K. 2015.
"The Legacies of the U.S. Civil Rights Act, Fifty Years On." Political
Geography, 1-10.
Inwood, J. 2015. "Neoliberal Racism: The "Southern Strategy" and the Expanding
Geographies of White Supremacy." Journal of Social and Cultural Geography,
16 (4) 1-17.
Tyner, J., Inwood, J., and Alderman, D. 2014. "Theorizing Violence and the Dialectics
of Landscape Memorialization: A Case Study of Greensboro, North Carolina."
Environment and Planning D, 32 (5) 902-914.
Inwood, J. Tyner, J. and Alderman, D. 2014. Remembering the Real Violence in
Ferguson. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space Open Site.
http://societyandspace.com/2014/09/10/inwood-tyner-and-alderman-
remembering-the-real-violence-in-ferguson/
Tyner, J. and Inwood, J. 2014. "Violence as Fetish: Geography, Marxism and
Dialectics" Progress in Human Geography, 38 (6) 771-784.
Inwood, J. 2013. "Contextualizing the State Mode of Production in the United States:
Race, Space and Civil Rights." Environment and Planning A 45: 2120-2134.
Inwood, J. 2013. "Love and the Other: A Response to Morrison et al. (2013)" Progress
in Human Geography 37 (5) 721-723.
Alderman, D. and Inwood, J. 2013. "Street Naming and the Politics of Belonging:
Spatial Injustices in the Toponymic Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr."
Social and Cultural Geography 14 (2) 211-233.
Inwood, J. and Bonds, A. 2013. "On Racial Difference and Revolution." Antipode 45
(3) 517-520.
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Inwood, J. 2012. “Righting Unrightable Wrongs: Legacies of Racial Violence and the
Greensboro Truth and Reconcilation Commission.” Annals of the Association of
American Geographers. 102 (6) 1450-1468.
Inwood, J. 2012. "The Politics of Being Sorry: The Greensboro Truth Process and
Efforts at Restorative Justice." Social and Cultural Geography 13 (6) 607-624.
Martin, D. and Inwood, J. 2012. “Subjectivity, Power, and the IRB.” Professional
Geographer, special issue on Institutional Review Boards. Professional
Geographer 64 (1) 7-16.
Inwood, J. 2012. "Geographies of Race in the American South: The Continuing
Legacies of Jim Crow Segregation." Southeastern Geographer 51 (4) 564-577.
Inwood, J. and Tyner, J. 2011. “Geography’s Pro-Peace Agenda: An Unfinished Project.”
Acme 10 (3) 442-457.
Inwood, J. 2011. “Construction African American Urban Space in Atlanta Georgia: A
Case Study of Auburn Avenue.” Geographical Review 101 (2) 147-163.
Inwood, J. and Martin, D. 2010. “Exploring Spatial (Dis)locations Through the Use of
Roving Focus Groups.” Qualitative Researcher 12: 5-7.
Inwood, J. 2010. “Sweet Auburn: Constructing Auburn Avenue as a Heritage
Tourist Destination.” Urban Geography 31 (2) 573-594.
Inwood, J. 2009. “Searching for the Promised Land: Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.’s Concept of the Beloved Community.” Antipode 41 (3) 487-508.
Inwood, J. 2009. “Contested Memory in the Birthplace of a King: A
Case Study of Auburn Avenue and the Martin Luther King Jr. National Park.”
Cultural Geographies 16 (1) 87-109.
Inwood, J. 2008. “Forty Years On: Marking the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
in Memphis, Tennessee.” Human Geography 1 (2) 112.
Inwood, J. and Martin, D. 2008. “Whitewash: White Privilege and Racialized
Landscapes at the University of Georgia.” Social and Cultural Geography 9 (4)
373-395.
Inwood, J. 2007. “Thinking Through the Concept of Social Justice: Preliminary
Thoughts.” Southeastern Geographer 47 (1) 101-103.
Inwood, J. 2005. “Making the Legal Visible: Wilhelmina Griffin Jones’
Experience of Living in Alabama during Segregation.” Southeastern
Geographer 45 (1) 54-66.
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Inwood, J. 2002. “Seeing the Blind: Humanism and the Blind Experience of
Place.” Geographic Bulletin 44 (1) 42-50.
Under Review:
Alderman, D. and Inwood, J. "Mobility as Anti-Racism Work: The “Hard Driving” of
NASCAR’s Wendell Scott." Submitted to Annals of the Association of American
Geographers; submitted July 2015.
Inwood, J. Alderman, D. and Barron, M. "Neoliberal Violence and the U.S. Truth and
Reconciliation Movement." Submitted to Political Geography; submitted May
2014; revise and resubmitted July 2015.
Inwood, J. and Bonds, A. "Confronting White Supremacy and a Militaristic Pedagogy in
the US Settler Colonial State." Submitted to Annals of the Association of
American Geographers; Submitted September 2014, revise and resubmit.
Resubmitted June 2015.
Books:
Inwood, J. and Tyner, J. (Under Contract). White Supremacy and the Making of America.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Scheduled for release spring
2017.
Edited Books:
Tyner, J. and Inwood, J. 2011. Non-Killing Geographies: Violence, Space and the
Search for a More Humane Geography. Honolulu, HA: Center For Global Non-
Killing.
Book Chapters:
Alderman, Derek and Inwood. (Forthcoming) "Toward a Pedagogy of Jim Crow: A
Geographic Reading of The Green Book." In: Estaville, Lawrence (ed). Teaching
Ethnic Geography in the Twenty-First Century. National Council for Geographic
Education.
Inwood, J. 2014. "Great Migration." In: Colten, C. and Buckley, G. (eds), North
American Odyssey: Historical Geographies for the Twenty-First Century. New
York: Rowman and Littlefield. 103-114.
Alderman, D. and Inwood, J. 2013. "Landscapes of Memory and Socially Just Futures."
In: Johnson, N.; Schein, R., and Winders, J. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to
Cultural Geography. London: Wiley-Blackwell.
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Tyner, J. and Inwood, J. 2011. "An Introduction to Nonkilling Geographies." In: Tyner,
J. and Inwood, J. (eds) Nonkilling Geography: Violence, Space and the Search for
More Humane Geography. Honolulu, HA: Center for Global Nonkilling.
Book Reviews:
Inwood, J. 2014. Review of Joel Feagin, Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and
Future Reparations, Third Addition, London: Routledge Press, 2013, pp.1x-360.
Association of American Geographers Review of Books.
Inwood, J. 2013. Review of Erin Winkler, Learning Race, Learning Place: Shaping
Racial Identities and Ideas in African American Childhoods. New Brunswick:
Rutgers University Press, pp. vii-211. Journal of Social and Cultural Geography,
15 (3) 354-356.
Inwood, J. 2012. Review of Todd Shaw, Now is the Time! Detroit Black Politics and
Grassroots Activism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009, pp.ix-288. Urban
Affairs Review 48(3) 458-461.
Inwood, J. 2011. Review of Owen Dwyer and Derek Alderman, Civil Rights Memorials
and the Geography of Memory. Chicago: The Center for American Places at
Columbia College, 2008, pp. i-143. Geographical Review 101 (1) 139-140.
Inwood, J. and Yarbrough, R. 2009. “Introduction: Racialized Places, Racialized Bodies:
The Impact of Racialization on Individual and Place Identities.” Special Issue on
the Racialization of Place. GeoJournal 75: 299-301.
Inwood, J. 2009. Review of Euan Hague, Heidi Beirich, and Edward Sebesta (editors),
Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction. Austin: The University of Texas Press,
2008, pp. ix-338 pp. Political Geography 28: 382-383.
Inwood, J. 2009. Review of Leslie Brown, Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class,
and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South. Chapel Hill: The
University of North Carolina Press, 2008, pp. ix-451 pp. Southeastern
Geographer 49 (3) 313-315.
Inwood, J. 2008. Review of Jessica Adams, Wounds of Returning: Race,
Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation. Chapel Hill: The
University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 226 pp. Historical Geography 36:
263- 265.
Inwood, J. 2006. Review of Martin Kenzer, On Becoming a Professional
Geographer. Caldwell, NJ: The Blackburn Press, 2000. 211 pp.
Southeastern Geographer 46 (1) 161-163.
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Inwood, J. 2005. Review of Hubbard et al., Thinking Geographically: Space,
Theory and Contemporary Human Geography. London, UK: Continuum, 2002.
275 pp. Cultural Geographies 12 (4) 535.
Inwood, J. 2005. Review of Manning Marable, The Great Wells of Democracy:
The Meaning of Race in American Life. New York: Basic Civitas Books,
2002. 365 pp. Antipode 37 (1) 192-194.
Encyclopedia Entries:
Tyner, J. and Inwood, J. 2015. Geographies of Race and Racism. In: International
Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 2nd Edition. James Wright
(ed), Oxford: Elsevier pp. 801-806.
Editorial Activities:
Editor. (in Progress) ACME. Special Issue on the Death Penalty and the Execution of
Troy Davis.
Guest Co-Editor. 2010. GeoJournal. Special Issue on the Process of Racialization. With
Dr. Robert Yarbrough.
Non-Refereed Publications:
Inwood, J. and Alderman, D. 2015. "MLK's Plan: Applying Standards of Nonviolence to
All." Knoxville Mercury 7 May, pg. 9.
Alderman, Derek and Inwood, Joshua. 2014. "Wendell Scott Deserves Spot in NASCAR
Hall of Fame," The Tennessean 18 May http://www.tennessean.com/story/
opinion/2014/05/19/wendell-scott-deserves-spot-nascar-hall-fame/9256251/
Inwood, J. and Tyner, J. 2013. " What’s so funny about peace, love and understanding
anyway? A response to Joel Wainwright (and with apologies to Elvis Costello),"
Antipode Foundation. http://wp.me/p16RPC-OQ
Inwood, J. and Tyner, J. 2011. “Guns and Geography: Rights, Rhetoric and
Regulations.” Association of American Geographers Newsletter 46 (3) 19.
Tyner, J and Inwood, J. 2009. “Challenging America’s Racialized War Culture.”
Association of American Geographers Newsletter 44 (1) 13.
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GRANTS AND AWARDS
External Awarded:
2010. National Science Foundation. Righting Unrightable Wrongs: Addressing the
Legacy of Racial Violence in the U.S. South. Funding runs from August 2010-
November 2015. ($164,744).
2005. National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant.
Geography and Regional Sciences Program for project titled: “Sweet Auburn:
Contesting the Racial Identity of Atlanta’s Historically Significant African-
American Neighborhood.” ($10,236)
Internal:
2012. University of Tennessee Professional Development Awards Committee.
"Transforming Racialized Violence Through Grassroots Initiatives: US Truth and
Reconciliation Projects." From May 2012-August 2012. ($3250).
2008. Auburn University Competitive Research Grant. “Looking for the Promised
Land: New Communities Collective Farm as an Expression of Dr. King’s
Beloved Community.” ($3750)
2008. University Honors College Teaching Enhancement Grant. Research/Travel
Grant from Auburn University Honors College. ($1000)
2004. University of Georgia Student Organization Committee. Wrote a successful
grant application for the Department of Geography’s Graduate Student Speaker
Series. ($2,100)
2004. Graduate Student Research and Performance Grant. Center for
Humanities and Arts Advisory Board, University of Georgia. ($1,000)
Awards:
2015. Glenda Laws Award. Association of American Geographers. The annual award
and honorarium recognize outstanding contributions to geographic research on
social issues.
2013. Junior Faculty Research Award. University of Tennessee, College of Arts and
Sciences. College award that recognizes high performing junior faculty.
2010. Distinguished Diversity Research Award. Auburn University. University wide
award that recognizes faculty who made a significant contribution to
understanding issues of diversity and inequality.
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2007. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. The University of Georgia. Annual
Award from the University of Georgia which recognizes the top 10% of all
University teaching assistants.
2006. John Fraser Hart Award, Best PhD Student Paper. Annual Meeting of the
Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers. Morgantown,
WV.
2006-2007. Graduate School Dissertation Completion Award. The University of
Georgia
2006. Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant. Department of Geography.
University of Georgia.
2005. Terry Jordan-Bychov Doctoral Paper Award. Cultural Geography Specialty
Group Paper Competition. “Whitewash: Investigating the Role of White Privilege
in the Construction of Racialized Landscapes.”
CONFERENCE/PAPER PRESENTATION
Confronting White Supremacy and a Militaristic Pedagogy in the US Settler Colonial
State; Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Chicago, IL April
2015
Discussant: Commemoration, Politics and Violence I; Annual Meeting of the Association
of American Geographers; Chicago, IL April 2015.
Neoliberal Racism: The "Southern Strategy" and the Expanding Geographies of White
Supremacy; Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of
American Geographers; Athens, GA November 2014.
Panel Participant. Stand Your Ground Issues. ; Race, Ethnicity, and Place V, Association
of American Geographers; Fort Worth, TX October 2014
Panel Participant. Teaching Slavery; Race, Ethnicity, and Place V, Association of
American Geographers; Fort Worth, TX October 2014
Jack Johnson Versus Jim Crow: Contesting Space and Race Through the Politics of
Mobility; Race, Ethnicity, and Place V, Association of American Geographers; Fort
Worth, TX October 2014.
Panel Participant. Geography and the Military 2. Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Geographers; Tampa Bay, FL 2014.
Panel Participant. FQG: Race, Biopolitics and the Future Panel; Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers; Tampa Bay, FL April 2014.
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Panel Participant. Stand Your Ground: Geographies of Violence and the Uneven Legal
Landscape; Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Tampa Bay,
FL April 2014.
Panel Participant. Critical Race Theory: The Current State of Research and New
Possibilities; Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Tampa Bay,
FL April 2014.
The Roots of Neoliberal Racism: Civil Rights and the Southern Strategy; Annual Meeting
of the Association of American Geographers; Tampa Bay, FL April 2014.
Where Do We Go From Here? Transportation Justice and the Continuing Struggle for
Public Access; Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of
American Geographers; Roanoke, VA November 2013.
Killing Me Softly: Contradictory Neoliberal Violences and the U.S. Truth and
Reconciliation Movement; Rethinking Marxism Conference. Amherst, MA September
2013
Life and Death in the Racial State: Biopolitics, Violence, and the Execution of Troy
Davis; Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Los Angeles CA
April 2013.
Panel Participant. Geographies of Peace IV: Reflections on the Caravan for Peace and
Peace Activisms; Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los
Angeles, CA April 2013.
Bending the Arc of Justice: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Poor People's
Campaign and Defiant Geographies; Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the
Association of American Geographers, Asheville, NC November 2012.
Panel Participant: Higher Education in a Time of State Retrenchment; Annual Meeting
of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers, Asheville, NC
November 2012.
Letting Die in the Modern Racial State: The Execution of Troy Davis; 19th Annual
Conference on Critical Geography, Chapel Hill, NC November 2012.
The Politics of Being Sorry: The Greensboro Truth Process and Efforts at Restorative
Justice, Race, Ethnicity, and Place V, Association of American Geographers; San Juan,
Puerto Rico. October 2012.
Panel Participant: Study of the American South SG Plenary Panel: Sundown Towns, The
Geography and History of Racial Exclusion in the South, New York, NY February 2012.
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Panel Participant: Neoliberalism, Activism and the University, Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, New York, NY February 2012.
Panel Participant: Critical Race Studies and Implications for Geography, Annual
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, NY February 2012.
The Politics of Apology: The Greensboro Truth Process and Efforts at Reconciliation,
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, NY February
2012.
The Continuing Significance of Segregation on the Alabama Political Landscape:
Mapping the Future of Civil Rights Struggles for the State, Region and Nation, Southern
Studies Conference Auburn University Montgomery, Montgomery, AL. February 2012.
The Continuing Legacies of Jim Crow Segregation: A Case Study of the 1901 Alabama
Constitution, Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers;
Savannah, GA. November 2011.
Truth, Reconciliation and the Potential for Radical Social Change: The Case Study of
the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission, International Critical Geography
Conference, Frankfurt, Germany, August 2011.
Panel Participant: Teaching the Geographies of Memory and Heritage, Annual Meeting
of Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA, March 2011.
And the Walls (Just Might) Come Tumbling Down: Violence, Death, and Reconciliation
in a Southern Mill Town, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers;
Seattle, WA, March 2011.
Grassroots Community Organizations Attempts to Address Long Standing Impacts of
Racial Violence, Race, Ethnicity, and Place V, Association of American Geographers;
Binghamton, NY October 2010.
Reconciling the Truth: Legacies of Racial Violence in the American South, Annual
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Washington, DC. April 2010.
Panel Participant: Community and Community Organizing in the Time of Obama, Annual
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Washington, DC. April 2010.
Reconciling the Truth: Legacies of Racial Violence in the American South, Annual
Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers;
Knoxville, TN. November 2009.
Panel Participant: Does the Marriage Work? Geography in Combined Departments,
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American
Geographers; Knoxville, TN. November 2009.
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Righting Unrightable Wrongs: Legacies of Racial Violence in the U.S. South, Mini-
Conference on Critical Geography, Athens, GA. October 2009.
Panel Participant: Teaching Race at the University, Mini-Conference on Critical
Geography, Athens, GA. October 2009.
Engaging With King: African American Political Thought, The Beloved Community and
Social Justice, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Las Vegas,
NV. March 2009.
After the Love Has Gone: The Politics of Love and Dr. King’s Relevance for 21st Century
Community Development, Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the
Association of American Geographers; Greensboro, NC November 2008.
I See the Promised Land: Examining Dr. Martin Luther King's Concept of the Beloved
Community as Geographic Space, Race, Ethnicity and Place IV, Association of American
Geographers; Miami, FL November 2008.
Sweet Auburn: Constructing Auburn Avenue as a Heritage Tourist Destination, Annual
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Boston, MA. April 2008.
Panel Participant: African American Commemorative Politics: The Confederate Battle
Flag and Beyond, Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of
American Geographers; Charleston, SC November 2007.
Sweet Auburn: Contesting the Racial Identity of Atlanta's Historically Significant African
American Neighborhood, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers;
San Francisco, CA April 2007.
Sweet Auburn: Contesting the Racial Identity of a significant African American
Neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia, Honors Competition, Annual Meeting of the
Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers; Morgantown, WV
November 2006.
Contested Memory in the Birthplace of a King: A Case Study of Auburn Avenue and the
Martin Luther King Jr. National Park, Race, Ethnicity and Place III. Association of
American Geographers; San Marcos, TX November 2006.
A Northerner Comes South: The Significance of Place and Positionality, Annual Meeting
of the Association of American Geographers; Chicago, IL March 2006.
Panel Participant: Toward a Critical Understanding of Social Justice and Geography in
the American South, Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of
American Geographers; West Palm Beach, FL November 2005.
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Whitewash: Investigating the Role of White Privilege in the Construction of Racialized
Landscapes, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Denver, CO
April 2005.
Whitewash: Investigating the Role of ‘Race’ in the Landscape, Race, Ethnicity and Place
II. Association of American Geographers; Washington, DC October 2004.
Placing the Person: Wilhelmina Jones’ Experience of Living in Alabama During
Segregation, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Philadelphia,
PA March 2004.
Making the Legal Visible: Wilhelmina Jones’ Experience of Living in Alabama During
Segregation, Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of
American Geographers; Charlotte, NC November 2003.
Spatial Dissidents: The Blind and the Experience of Walking, Annual Meeting of the
Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers; Richmond, VA
November 2002.
Seeing the Blind: Humanism and the Experience of Place, Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers; Los Angeles, CA March 2002.
Heterosexing Space at the Turn of the Century: The Case Study of Jack Johnson,
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American
Geographers; Lexington, KY March 2001.
Humanism, Place, and the Experience of the Blind, Annual Meeting of the East Lakes
Division of the Association of American Geographers; Cincinnati, OH October 2001.
Sessions Organized:
Contested Landscapes of the U.S. South, at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern
Division of the Association of American Geographers, Athens, GA November
2014.
Author Meets Critic: Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory, at the
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC
April 2010.
Righting Unrightable Wrongs: Legacies of Racial Violence in the U.S. South, at the
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American
Geographers, Greensboro, NC November, 2008.
After the Love Has Gone: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life, Legacy and Meaning
for Geography, at the Race, Ethnicity and Place III Conference, Miami, FL
October 2008.
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Sessions Co-Organized:
Study of the American South and Southern Studies Special Plenary Session: From
the U.S. South to the Global South, with Dr. David Butler, at the Annual
Meeting of Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers,
Athens, GA 2014.
Critical Race Theory: The Current State of Research and New Possibilities, with Dr.
Anne Bonds, at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,
Tampa, FL, April 2014
Geographies of Civil Rights co-organizer with Dr. Richard Wright, Dr. Derek
Alderman, at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,
Tampa, FL, April 2014. Sessions I-III
Geographies of Peace I-IV, co-organizer with Dr. Colin Flynt, Dr. Sara Koopman, Dr.
Amy Ross, Dr. James Tyner, at the Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, March 2013.
Panel Discussion: Troy Davis Execution: Life and Death in the Racial State, Co-
Organizer with Dr. Tom Chapman, at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern
Division of the Association of American Geographers, Savannah, GA, November
2011.
The Continuing Significance of the Racial State, Co-organizer with Dr. James Tyner,
at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of
American Geographers, Savannah, GA, November 2011.
Critical Pedagogy and the Geography of the U.S. Civil Rights Struggle, Co-organizer
with Dr. Derek Alderman, at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of
the Association of American Geographers, Birmingham, AL November 2010.
Seeking Democratic Alternatives to the Neoliberal State: Geographies of Grassroots
Democracy and Community Resistance to Neoliberalism, Co-Organizer with
Dr. Leela Viswanathan at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, Sessions I, II, III; Las Vegas, NV April 2009.
Racialized Places, Racialized Bodies: The Impact of Racialization on Individual and
Place Identities, Co-Organizer with Dr. Robert Yarbrough at the Annual Meeting
of the Association of American Geographers, Session I, II, III; San Francisco, CA
April 2007.
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Critical Perspectives on the American South, Co-Organizer with Dr. Derek Alderman
and Scott Whitlock at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, Session I, II; Chicago, IL March 2006.
Toward a Critical Understanding of Social Justice and Geography in the American
South, Co-Organizer with Dr. Derek Alderman at the Annual Meeting of the
Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers, West Palm
Beach, FL November 2005.
Invited Lectures:
Panel Participant, Black Politics and State Violence. Platypus Affiliated Society,
Knoxville Chapter, Knoxville, TN March 27, 2015.
Structural Violence: What do we Mean and How do we Understand it? Public Lecture.
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN September 25, 2014.
The Geography of Violence. University of Tennessee College Scholars Program.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. September 17, 2014.
Understanding Place: A Community Dialogue on Race, Geography and Home. Phyllis
Wheatley Center, Knoxville, TN. Panel Participant for Local Groups Opposed to
Gentrification.
Contextualizing the State Mode of Production in the United States: Martin Luther King
Jr., and the Poor People's Campaign. University of Kentucky. September 27, 2013.
Bending the Arc of Justice: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Poor People's Campaign.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. February 22, 2013.
Bending the Arc of Justice: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Poor People's
Campaign. Michigan State University. January 25, 2013.
The Politics of Apology: The Greensboro Truth Process and Efforts at Reconciliation.
Appalachian State University. November 10, 2011.
Reconciling the Truth: Legacies of Racial Violence in the American South. University of
Tennessee Center for Social Justice. March 13, 2011.
Mobilizing Grassroots Agency for Anti-Racist Politics, Kent State University, Kent, OH
February 25, 2011.
And the Walls (Just Might) Come Tumbling Down: Race, Violence and Death in a
Southern Mill Town, University of North Carolina Greensboro, February 18, 2011.
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Righting Unrightable Wrongs: Legacies of Violence and Truth and Reconciliation in
Greensboro, North Carolina, University of Tennessee Department of Anthropology,
Knoxville, TN November 7, 2010.
Race, Ethnicity, and Place –V Conference. Binghamton State University of New York,
Binghamton, NY. October 2010.
Constructing Auburn Avenue as a Heritage Tourist Destination. Auburn University
Department of History, Auburn, AL February 2010.
Sweet Auburn: Constructing Auburn Avenue as a Heritage Tourist Destination. Georgia
State University, Atlanta, GA November 2009.
After the Love Has Gone: Dr. King’s Legacy and Meaning for Geography. Georgia
Southern University, Statesboro, GA March 2009.
Sweet Auburn: Contesting Racialized Identity in Atlanta. Georgia State University,
Atlanta, GA October, 2006.
Living With Disability at the University. Leadership, Education, and Advocacy for
Disabilities Student Group. University of Georgia, Athens, GA January 2003.
MASS MEDIA ENGAGEMENT & RECOGNITION
Quoted in: "Flag Down, but History of Racism Still Looms Over S.C." KUTV.com July
15, 2015
Quoted in: Newspaper story in El Confidencial on White supremacy. July 1, 2015.
Quoted in: "Massacre de negros nos EUA reabre debate sobre desigualdade racial"
Correio Braziliense, June 28, 2015.
Guest on WBIR Chanel 10, 5:30 Local Knoxville News discussing the Confederate Flag
and White Supremacy. June 23, 2015.
Taped interview on WATE Chanel 6, 5:00 Local News discussing the Confederate Flag
and White Supremacy. June 23, 2015.
Guest on WATE Chanel 6, 5:30 Local Knoxville News discussing the National Football
League and Race. February 27, 2014.
Panel Participant on "Scholars Circle" a Nationally Syndicated Radio Program and that
was Focused on the Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., Broadcast on January 19,
2014. KPFK, 90.7 Los Angeles, California.
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Quoted in: "Nelson Mandela Dies: African Leader's Legacy Great, UT Pair Say."
Knoxville News-Sentinel, December 6, 2013. A1.
Quoted in: "Seeking 'A Better Way': Knoxvillians Reflect on Dr. King's Legacy, Obama's
Second Term. Knoxville News-Sentinel January 20, 2013. B1.
Research featured and quoted in "Truth and Reconciliation Revisited." Carolina
Peacemaker February 24-March 2, 2011. Page 1.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Participant, Research Initiative for the Study of Diversity Summer Grant Academy, June
1-12, Auburn University.
Participant, New Faculty Scholars Program, August 2008-May, 2009, Auburn
University.
Participant, To Whom Much is Given: Addressing Poverty in Alabama, September 27-28,
2007, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.
Participant, Summer Institute for the Geographies of Justice. May 28-June 1, 2008, The
University of Georgia, Athens, GA. Participant, Geography Faculty Development Alliance. June 4-11, 2005, Boulder, CO.
Participant in Teaching Workshop: “Effective Teaching for Graduate Students and Early
Career Faculty.” January 2005, Dr. Eric J. Fournier. Athens, GA.
COURSES TAUGHT
University of Tennessee
Africana Studies 201. Introduction to the African American Experience: African
Kingdoms to US Civil War. Fall 2010-Present.
Africana Studies 202. Introduction to the African American Experience: Civil War to
Civil Rights. Fall 2010-present. Fall 2010-Present.
Africana Studies 480. African American Urban Communities. Fall 2011-present.
Geography 101. Introduction to Regional Geography. Spring 2015-Present.
Geography 201. Core Concepts in Human Geography. Spring 2013-Present.
Geography 343. Geography of Human Rights. Spring 2013-Present.
Geography 363. Geography of the American South. Spring 2013-Present.
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Geography 505. Geographies of Race and Ethnicity. Fall 2011-Present.
Geography 599. Geographic Thought. Fall 2010- Present.
Auburn University:
Geography 1010. Global Geography. Spring 2008-2010.
Geography 1017. Honors Global Geography. Spring 2008.
Geography 2800. Geographic Methods and Techniques. Fall 2008.
Geography 3140. Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa. Fall 2007-2010.
Geography 5010/6010. Urban Geography. Spring 2008-2010.
Geography 5800/6800. Geographic Thought. Spring 2010-2010.
The University of Georgia:
Study Abroad Program: New Zealand and Australia Sustaining Human Societies and
the Natural Environment.
Geography 1101. Introduction to Human Geography. March 2007. (one Section, 22
students) Brisbane, Australia.
Freshman College Summer Experience. Geography 1103. Cultural Geography of the
United States. Summer 2006. (one section, 55 students).
Geography 1103. Cultural Geography of the United States. Fall 2004-Summer 2006.
(four sections, from 55-88 students each section).
GRADUATE STUDENT MAJOR PROFESSOR
PhD:
In Progress:
Barron, M. Social Justice and Geography. (expected completion Spring 2017).
University of Tennessee
MA:
In Progress:
Rosko, Helen. Moonshine and Appalachia. (expected completion Spring 2016).
University of Tennessee.
Completed:
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Conner, N. (2015) Contested Notions of Irishness: Racial Integration and the Multiple
Intersections of Ethno-Racial, Religious and National Identities in Dublin,
Ireland. University of Tennessee
Russell, K. (2014) Critical Mapping in a Post-Colonial Context: Montserrat and the Carr
Plantation Site. (Graduated Summer of 2014). University of Tennessee
Barron, Melanie (2010). Justice, Truth, and Community Organizing in Boston, NA. .
(Graduated Fall of 2012). University of Tennessee.
GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBER
PhD:
In Progress:
Cook, Mathew. (2013-Present). TBA. University of Tennessee.
Hyun, Jiuwan. (2013-Present). TBA. University of Tennessee.
Sonichesen, Tyler (2013-Present). TBA. University of Tennessee.
Completed:
Kim, Jaymelee (2011-2014). Comparative Analysis of Reconciliation Movements in
Canada and the United States. Department of Anthropology. University of
Tennessee.
Petruney, Lucille (2008). Closer, Closer and Closest. Microscopy and Art Education.
Ph.D dissertation committee. Department of Education. Auburn University.
MA:
In Progress:
Hodges, Davis (2013-Present). TBA. University of Tennessee
Completed:
Djorcev, Maja (2013). Marketing Opportunities for Small Scale Organic Wine
Producers in Slovenia Proposing A Wine Cluster Model. Department of
Geography. University of Tennessee.
Merchant, Alex (2013). Monstro City. Department of Art. University of Tennessee.
(MfA).
Cook, Mathew (2012). Redefining Memorial Landscapes: The Stolpersteine Project in
Berlin. Department of Geography. University of Tennessee.
Coan, Mackenzie (2009). Research on the Cultural Landscape of Lockapocha Syrup
Sopping Festival. Department of Geology and Geography. Auburn University.
UNDERGRADUATE HONORS THESIS DIRECTED
Barrineau, Patrick. Project examining the creation of memorial landscapes dedicated to
U.S. Blues Musicians in the Mississippi Delta. Auburn University(Completed
May 2010).
UNDERGRADUATE DIRECTED SENIOR RESEARCH
Guy, Sarah. (2013). Research on the Educational Outcomes of African American
Children with One Parent in Prison. University of Tennessee.
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Tucker, Emily (2013). Research on Early Childhood Development in East Africa.
University of Tennessee.
Swanigan, Tijuana (2012). Critical Memory and African American Churches: Case
Study in Memphis. University of Tennessee.
TEACHING INTERESTS
Introductory: World Geography, Cultural Geography, Economic Geography.
Intermediate: Geography of the United States, Geography of the American South, Urban
Geography, Geography of Africa.
Advanced/Seminars: Geographical Research Design, Urban Geography, Geographical
Methods and Theory, Ethnic Conflict, Geographies of Violence and Power,
Geography of Human Rights, Critical Race Theory.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2014-Present: National Council for Geographic Education.
2009-Present: Nonkilling Geography Research Committee at the Center for Global
Nonkilling.
2002-Present: Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers
2000-Present: Association of American Geographers
2000-2002: East Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers
SERVICE
To Geography
2015-Present: Vice-President Southeastern Division of the Association of American
Geographers.
2013-Present: Member Association of American Geographers Publication Committee.
2012-Present: Member Southeastern Division of the Association of American
Geographers Nominations Committee.
2011-2013: Board Member Qualitative Research Specialty Group. Association of
American Geographers.
2010-2012: Secretary Southeastern Division of the Association of American
Geographers.
2009-2010: Member Southeastern Division of the Association of American
Geographers Honors Committee.
2009-Present: Member Southeastern Division of the Association of American
Geographers Southern Studies Committee.
2009: Member Southeastern Division of the Association of American
Geographers Program Committee.
2009-2010: Member Southeastern Division of the Association of American
Geographers Nominations Committee.
2008-2009: Member Southeastern Division of the Association of American
Geographers Audit Committee.
2008: Judge, Cultural Geography Specialty Group Graduate Student Paper
Competition.
Manuscripts Reviewed (# of manuscripts reviewed)
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Acme (1)
Annals of the Association of American Geographers (6)
Antipode (3)
Applied Geography (1)
City and Community (1)
Cultural Geographies (2)
Environment and Planning D (3)
Gastronomica (2)
Geoforum (2)
GeoJournal (2)
Geographical Review (2)
Geographies of Religions and Belief Systems (2)
Journal of Cultural Geography (2)
Journal of Geography in Higher Education (2)
Material Culture: The Journal of the Pioneer America Society (1)
Political Geography (2)
Professional Geographer (2)
Social and Cultural Geography (7)
Southeastern Geographer (13)
Urban Geography (3)
Book Manuscripts Reviewed
Canadian Scholars Press (1).
Grant Proposals
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (1)
National Science Foundation (2)
Encyclopedia Entries
Oxford Bibliographies (1)
Editorial Boards:
2015-Present: Southeastern Geographer.
University of Tennessee
College:
2015-Present: Member Male Initiative Committee.
2014: Member Academic Review Board.
2014-Present: Member College of Arts and Sciences Diversity Committee.
2013-Present: Member College of Arts and Sciences General Education Social Sciences
Curriculum Committee.
2012: Member College of Arts and Sciences Associate Dean for Academic
Personnel Search.
Department:
2015-Present: Director Graduate Studies, Department of Geography.
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2015: Chair Department Interview Committee for Spousal Accommodation
Hire.
2015: Member Africana Studies Search Committee for Non-Tenure Track
Faculty.
2015: Member Department of Geography Committee on Rewriting the
Department By-Laws.
2014-Present: Chair Field Exam Review Committee.
2014-2015: Member Africana Studies Honors Committee.
2013-2015: Associate Director of Graduate Studies.
2013: Interim Program Director Africana Studies Program. (February 25-
March 3)
2013-Present: Member Africana Studies Lecturer Promotion Committee
2012-2014: Member Africana Studies Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
2012-2014: Member Department of Geography Website Committee
2011-2012: Member Department of Geography Chair Search Committee.
2011-2012: Organized Africana Studies Faculty Symposium.
Fall 2011: Organized Department of Geography Colloquium series.
2011-Present: Member Department Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of
Geography, University of Tennessee.
2010-Present: Member Department Graduate Program Committee, Department of
Geography, University of Tennessee.
2010-2012: Co-Advisor, Geography Club, Gamma Theta Upsilon, Department of
Geography, University of Tennessee.
Auburn University
2009: Organized a university wide symposium on the documentary film
Greensboro’s Child. This was a formal university event organized in conjunction with Auburn University’s
Multi-Cultural Center in which the director of Greensboro’s Child , Andy Coon, was
invited to campus to show his film and take part in a university wide discussion on the
legacy and role violence plays in U.S. society. I was responsible for coordinating Mr.
Coon’s visit, organizing the university panel (made up of four university faculty from
other departments), chairing the session, and leading the university discussion.
2008-2010 : Contributed to the annual Science Olympiad, College of Science and
Mathematics.
2009-2010: Member Department colloquium committee, Department of Geology and
Geography, Auburn University.
2007-2010: Member of College of Science and Mathematics Diversity Council.
Auburn University.
2007-2010: Member Department website design committee, Department of
Geography and Geology, Auburn University.