Michael R. Goldman
I. PERSONAL HISTORY AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
A. Educational Background
Northwestern University, B.S., History and Journalism, 1982
University of California at Santa Cruz, MA, Sociology, 1990
University of California at Santa Cruz, Ph.D., Sociology, 1994 Dissertation title: “’There’s a Snake on Our Backs’: Development and State Crisis in India’s
Desert” (Advisor: James O’Connor)
Research Areas of Expertise
Transnational Sociology of Development, Environment, Financial Institutions,
Knowledge/Power, Expertise, and Global Urbanisms/Cities
Working on a book manuscript titled: “Cities on Fire”
B. List of Academic Positions since Final Degree
Assistant Professor, Lewis and Clark College, Sociology and Anthropology, 1997
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Department of Sociology, 1998 to April 2004
Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Department of Sociology, May to August 2004
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Sociology and Institute for Global Studies, Fall
2004
Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Sociology and Institute for Global Studies, Fall
2005 to present
McKnight Presidential Fellow, University of Minnesota 2005-2008
C. Honors, Recognitions, and Outstanding Achievements
1991 Fulbright Dissertation Research Fellowship (in Rajasthan, India)
1991 Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, India
1994-1996 S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Sociology Department,
University of California-Berkeley
1996-1998 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship in Peace and International
Cooperation, Research and Writing Grant, Sociology Department, University of
California-Berkeley
1993-2000 Associate Fellow, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1993-1996 European Union grant for the Ecopolitics Commons Project, through the
Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, invited investigator
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2000-2001 “Incomplete List of Teachers ranked Excellent”, both semesters
2001-2002 Fellow, Yale University’s Program in Agrarian Studies, in residence in New
Haven
2001-2002 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois
2004 “Incomplete List of Teachers ranked Excellent”, Spring semester
2005-2008 McKnight Presidential Fellow, University of Minnesota
2006-2008 American Institute for Indian Studies, Senior Fellow award, for research in India
2008 Residential Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota
2008 Book Award, for Imperial Nature, Political Economy of the World-System,
American Sociological Association
2013-14 Arthur Motley Exemplary Teaching Award
D. Invited Lectures and Invited Conference Presentations (jumping to 1992)
1992 International Sociological Association, Environmental Sociology meeting,
Netherlands
1992 Annual South Asia Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1992 8th World Congress for Rural Sociology (IRSA), Penn State University
1992 Colloquium Lecture, University of Chicago, South Asia and Middle East
Seminar
1993 American Sociological Association Meetings, Environment and Technology
panel
1993 Colloquium Lecture (STARE series), Sociology Department, University
Wisconsin-Madison
1993 Association for Asian Studies 45th Conference, Los Angeles
1993 International workshop on Environment and Development, Korean Sociological
Association, Seoul
1993 European Union/Transnational Institute “Ecopolitics and the Commons”
workshop, Amsterdam
1994 International Society for Ecological Economics, 3rd
International Meeting, Costa
Rica
1994 European Union/Transnational Institute’s “Ecopolitics” workshop, Bonn, May
1994 EU/Transnational Institute’s “Ecopolitics” workshop, Frankfurt, October
1995 Invited Talks: Central Arid Zone Research Institute; Desert Medical Research
Institute, Jodhpur, India; Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, India
1996 Working Group Workshop on “Social Capital and Politics of Sustainability,”
sponsored by AAAS and the Social Capital and Public Affairs Project,
University Californian, Berkeley
1996 American Sociological Association Meetings, Political Economy of World-
Systems panel
1996 International Common Property Conference (IASCP), panel organizer and
presenter
1996 Energy and Resources Group Colloquium, University Californian, Berkeley
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1996 Annual South Asia Conference, University Californian, Berkeley
1997 American Sociological Asc. Meetings, Sociology of Knowledge and
Intellectuals Panel
1997 Instituto de Estudios Indígenas, Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco, Chile:
“The New Politics of Development Science: Indigenous Peoples, Sustainability,
Resistance” Ford Foundation/University of Oregon/Lewis and Clark College
Conference on Asian Studies: “‘Greening’ the Mekong: The World Bank and
Environmentally Sustainable development”
1998 Yale University (Institute for Social and Policy Studies and the Program in
Agrarian Studies), Cost-Benefit Analysis Dilemma Conference
1998 The Transnational Institute, Amsterdam: “Globalization and the Environment”
conference, Keynote Speaker: de Baile Cultural Center, Amsterdam, and Public
Debut of Privatizing Nature
1998 Invited Talks at The Social Research Institute in Frankfurt, University of
Bielefeld, and Freiburg University, Germany: “The Politics of Green Science at
the World Bank” and “Transnational Institutions and the Production of Green
Knowledge”
1999 Geography Department, Colloquium Series, University of Illinois
2000 Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Colloquium Series, UIUC
2000 American Sociological Association, Annual Meetings, Chicago, Panel on
Property Institutions and Resource Regimes
2000 Illinois Wesleyan University, Environmental Studies Lecture Series
2000 International Sociological Association, RC-24 Section, Conference on “The
Environmental State Under Pressure,” Chicago, closing plenary panel
2000 Yale University, Program in Agrarian Studies, Colloquium Series, “The Art of
Eco-government: The New Agenda of a ‘Green’ World Bank”
2001 Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, Environmental
Knowledge Workshop
2001 University of Chicago, Transnational Sociology symposium, invited presenter
2002 American Sociological Association, Sociology of Development panel
presentation
2002 Sociology Department Colloquium Series, UIUC
2002 Program in Environmental and Resource Economics Colloquium Series, UIUC
2002 Cornell University, keynote address, Landscape Transformations conference
2002 Yale University, Colloquium Presentation, Program in Agrarian Studies
2002 Witwatersrand University, World Summit on Sustainable Development,
Johannesburg, South Africa, Invited Speaker
2003 UIUC African Studies/International Studies, 29th Annual Spring Symposium
2003 Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Invited Speaker, “Changing
Properties of Property” conference, Halle, Germany (declined)
2003 Chiang Mai University, Thailand, Plenary Speaker, “Politics of the Commons”
conference (declined)
2003 Invited Speaker, University of Minnesota, Sociology and Institute for Global
Studies
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2004 Invited Organizer and Presider, Thematic Session on “The Environment,” by the
ASA Program Committee for the Annual Sociological Meetings, San Francisco
2004 Panelist, “Environment and Technology” special session, ASA, SF
2004 Invited Presenter, International Rural Sociology Conference, Trondheim,
Norway.
2004 Invited Presenter, Joint-Area Studies Conference, “Globalization and Water”,
University of Illinois, November
2004 Invited Speaker, Environmental Politics Colloquium Series, Institute for
International Studies, University of California-Berkeley, October
2005 Invited Speaker, IV Encuentro Salamanca, “Politicas de la Tierra,” sponsored by
the former vice president of Spain, the foundation, Fundacion Sistema, and
journal, Revista Temas, May
2005 Paper presentation, “Ecology, Imperialism, and the Contradictions of Capitalism”
conference, York University, Toronto, June
2005 Invited Speaker, Social Ecology series, School of Environmental Studies and
Forestry, and guest lecturer in a graduate course in conservation and
development, Yale University, October
2006 Paper presentation, on Neoliberalism and Nature panel, American Association of
geographers (AAG), annual meetings, Chicago, March.
2006 University of California-Santa Cruz, Sociology Speakers Series
2006 Stanford University Humanities Institute and Anthropology Department
2006 Two-day workshop, invited speaker, European Commission-funded initiative for
a policy paper on the History and Future of Knowledge and Science Production,
Brussels, Belgium
2006 Boston University, Sociology Colloquium Series
2006 Boston College, Sociology Colloquium Series
2006 Dartmouth College, two-day campus visit for three invited lectures
2006 University of Paris, CNRS, and Natural Science Museum, invited lecture, Paris
2006 University of Avignon (France) and the Ecodevelopment Institute for 2-day
workshop on my book
2006 Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (PhD-granting institution), Bangalore
2006 National Law School, Bangalore
2006 Public Talk, Centre for Film and Drama, Bangalore
2006 Manchester University, Development and Poverty Institute, Manchester UK
2006 Rutgers University, Invited speaker, Center for Global Change and Governance
2006 Keynote Speaker, for the Annual Conference of Nicaragua Sister City
Organization, Minneapolis
2006 Two talks at Washburn High School, Minneapolis, Public Outreach for IGS, U-M
2006 Guest presentation via teleconference, in graduate seminar reading my book, Penn
State University
2006 Hour-long radio interview on water and international finance, WEFT radio,
Urbana, Illinois
2006 Book launch and reading at U-M Bookstore
2006 Public Talk for Continuing Education Series, University of Minnesota
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2007 Madras Institute for Development Studies, Chennai/Madras, India
2007 National Institute for Advanced Studies, Indian Institute for Science, Bangalore
2007 Workshop on Water in Greater Bangalore, NIAS/IISc, Co-organizer and speaker
2007 Co-Keynote with Timothy Mitchell, Conference on Rule of Experts, Institute of
International Studies, UC-Berkeley
2007 Mellon Sawyer Seminar Invited Speaker, Duke University
2007 South Asia Speakers Series, University of Minnesota, “Getting Bangalored”
2008 Panel on my book, Imperial Nature, Annual Geography (AAG) Meetings, Boston
2008 Special Panel addressing World Bank’s 2008 World Development Report, Annual
geography meetings, Boston
2008 Special Address, Tata Institute for Social Sciences, Mumbai, India
2008 Public Talk, Environmental Support Group, Bangalore, India
Recorded and shown on the cable station, Real Estate Channel throughout India
2008 Keynote Address, Clarke Forum on Public Issues, Davidson College (PA)
2008 Selected presenter, SSRC Workshop, “Inter-Referencing Asia: Urban Experiments
and the Art of Being Global,” Dubai School of Government, UAE, February
2008 Max Planck Institute (Berlin) sponsored workshop on Global Governance and
Science, CNRS and EHESS, Paris, France, May
2008 Hamline University, St. Paul
2008 St. Olafs College, Northfield, MN
2008 University of Colorado-Boulder, Sociology Colloquium Series
2008 University of Michigan’s Ford School of Policy, Science, Technology, and Policy
Colloquium Series
2009 Consortium on the Study of the Asias, “Comparing Global Cities: China and
India”, U-Minnesota (January 30, 2009), with a Chinese specialist
2009 ESRC National UK Seminar Series—New Castle/Northumbria/Edinburgh
Universities-on Volunterism, Citizenship, and Activism (May 19-20, 2009); three
presentations, in New Castle, UK
2009 Public Talk, co-sponsored by the Centre for Internet and Society and CASUUM,
an urban issues organization, “Indian Cities, Speculative Real Estate, and the
Financial Crisis,” June, Bangalore, India
2009 ASA Annual Meetings, SF, August, “Speculating on the Next World City,” on the
Globalization panel.
2009 ICGC Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium Series, September
2010 Co-sponsors: University of Minnesota, Peking University in Shenzhen, China,
National University of Singapore, and Hong Kong University: “Making Global
Cities and the Global Economic Crisis” (January 4-7, 2010). Co-organizer and
presenter.
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2010 “Anthropology of International Institutions,” funded by the Wenner-Gren
Foundation, Paris, June 10-12, a workshop to produce an edited book, on the
latest on questions of knowledge and governance in global institutions. Co-
sponsored by Institut Interdisciplinaire d’Anthropologie du Contemporain (IIAC),
LAOIS, and CNRS/EHESS, 10-12 June.
2010
Invited presenter, resident scholar, at INRA-Avignon, France’s national
Ecodevelopment Institute, on a French government grant, to collaborate over the
long-term with an interdisciplinary team on urban expansionism and its effects on
rural economies, two weeks, June 2010.
Public presentation, sponsored by SETER (Agropolis Fondation/CIRAD), and
INRA-Ecodeveloppement, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France, 1 July.
2010 Sociology Colloquium Series, Rutgers University November.
2011 Colloquium Speaker for a Public Event, National Institute for Advanced Studies,
IISc-Bangalore, India, “Why the ‘Urban Turn’ in Global Policymaking?,”
February.
Public Workshop on my article, “Speculative Urbanism and the Making of the
Next World City”, at a public venue, Jaaga, February, Bangalore.
Talk based on my article, “Speculative Urbanism and the Making of the Next
World City”, at Tata Institute of Social Studies, Mumbai, India, February.
2011 Co-organizer of and presenter at a SSRC pre-dissertation set of workshops on
“provincializing global urbanism,” with Helga Leitner, Eric Sheppard, Ananya
Roy, in Monterey, CA in June and Philadelphia in September.
UC-Berkeley, Colloquium Speaker, sponsored by Global Metropolitan Studies,
“Speculation in an Age of Urban Revolution,” and an all-day graduate student workshop
focused on my work on political ecology and global urbanism, October
Cornell University, Keynote Speaker, Rethinking Development Conference, November
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual International Conference,
Paper presentation, Madrid, Spain, June
GPS Alliance, Colloquium Series Speaker, UofM, September
European Studies Colloquium Series, “From Cairo to Madrid to London: Are We
Entering the Age of Urban Revolution?,” UofM, November
2012
Co-organizer and Presenter, 4 day International Conference, “Urban Revolutions in an
Age of Global Urbanism,” Jakarta, Indonesia, March 2012
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Plenary Panel Organizer and Presenter, “Sustainable Cities?” American Sociological
Association, Annual Meetings, Denver, August 2012
Colloquium Talk, Sociology, University of Wisconsin (Oct), 2012
Colloquium Talk, Sociology, University of Illinois, (Nov) 2012
2013
Presenter, Presidential Plenary Panel, “Genres of Global Urbanism,”
American Association of Geographers, Annual Meetings, Los
Angeles, April 2013
Invited Keynote Speaker, Institut Francilien Recherché Innovation Societe (IFRIS), Paris,
“Le Global et les Processus de Globalisation comme objets de Sciences Socialies.” In
Florence, Italy, 14-18 May, a workshop for PhDs and postdocs, across Europe. (declined)
Invited presenter, SSRC Conference on InterAsian Connections, paper presenter in the
workshop on social class and labor, three days at Koc University, Istanbul, October
Invited speaker, Sociology Colloquium Series, Bogazici University, Istanbul, October
Invited Speaker, Centre for Historical Studies, J Nehru University, New Delhi, September
Invited Speaker, Delhi School of Economics and Sociology, New Delhi, September
2014
Invited Workshop presentation, NYU-New School collaboration, on the “Urban Zone”,
February
Invited talk, Interdisciplinary Seminar on Urban Democracy, NYU, A Public Forum at the
Cooper Union, May
Panelist, Globalization and Inequality, ASA Annual Meetings, SF, August
Invited Talk, Geography Department, UCLA, November
2015
Invited Paper Presentation, to workshop a paper in progress, UCLA, Social Comparative
Analysis Seminar, Sociology, March
Keynote Address, International Urban Studies Congress, sponsored by Institute of Urban
Research (Ankara), Journal of Urban Research, and Anadolu Universitesi, Eskisehir, Turkey
Invited speaker, Sociology, Bilgi University, Istanbul, and Adnan Menderes University,
Izmir, Turkey, April
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Invited speaker, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and invited to participate in a three-day
workshop with faculty and deans to help design an Endowed Chair Program in Global South
Cities, May
E. Editorships of Journals
Founding editorial board of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, and Ecologia Politica (Rome, Italy),
Invited (but declined) Contributing Editor, American Journal of Sociology (2007-2010).
Editorial Advisory Committee (or COP), University of Minnesota Press (2007-2010)
F. Grants Received Since 1999
1999-2000 University of Illinois, Critical Research Initiative Planning Grant, with Michael
Irwin, an interdisciplinary (natural and social sciences) project on
biodiversity,($10,000, returned when group disbanded)
1999-2000 University of Illinois, Research Board Grant, for final research on the World
Bank, ($16,373)
1999-2000 UI Environmental Council Course Development Grant ($9,837)
2002-2003 University of Illinois, Research Board Grant, to complete World Bank book
($6,288)
1998-2003 UI Research Board Travel Grants, each year for domestic or international
conferences
2005-2008 McKnight Presidential Fellow, three year research grant, U of Minnesota
2006-2007 Sabbatical and Sabbatical Supplement Awards, UM
2006 International Travel Grant, Office of International Programs, UM
2006-2007 American Institute for Indian Studies, Senior Fellow(ship)
2006 GRRP Award with graduate student Jin Woong Kang
2007 GRRP Award with graduate student Raphi Rechitsky
2007 Title VI Grant, IGS and ICGS, to run a Symposium, and start a research
collaborative on Making Global Cities, Spring 2008, with U of M and Global
South cities’ scholars (Bangalore, Istanbul, Singapore, Taipei, Shanghai, Cape
Town)
2008 International Travel Grant, OIP/IGS, U of M, Winter (Bangalore)
2008-09 Institute for Advanced Study, co-PI, Research Collaborative, housed in IAS, to
develop a campus collaborative on Making Global Cities, $12,500
2008-09 Office of International Programs, Co-PI, Making Global Cities, to initiate research
collaboratives and projects among UM faculty and research institutes in Global
South cities, $25,000
2009 NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant, with graduate student Jin Woong Kang on
North Korean State Micro-Politics (his co-signatory on the grant)
2009 GRRP award with graduate student Sinan Erensu
2010 Semester Leave Grant, U of Minnesota, for Spring 2011
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2011 “Urban Revolutions in an Age of Global Urbanism”, a highly competitive
grant from the Urban Studies Journal Foundaton (UK) for its first-ever
international workshop on innovation in urban theory, proposal co-authored
with Profs. Helga Leitner, Vinay Gidwani, Eric Sheppard, Ananya Roy from
UC Berkeley, and Prof. and Dean Jo Santoso from Tarumanagara University,
Jakarta, Indonesia. We ran an international workshop in Jakarta, March 2012,
and a special issue of Urban Studies
2012 We (Profs. Sheppard, Gidwani, Leitner, and myself) as Co-PIs received a
$65,000 grant from Global Spotlight International Major Grant (GPS Alliance
of OIP at the UofM), with another $15,000 from other sources, for a
collaborative project with colleagues in Bangalore and Jakarta, “The Great
Transformation: Urban Land Markets, Livelihoods and the Growing
Ecological Crisis in Asia’s Cities.”
2013 Sabbatical Funding with supplement.
2014 Institute of the Environment, UofM, seed grant funding for a project with PhD
student, Devika Narayan on the new politics of land and water in Bangalore
2014 Our Integrated Water Research Training Network was funded by the Canadian
Social Sciences and Humanities Council. I am a senior collaborator working
alongside the Co-PIs: Leila Harris (U of British Columbia), Chris Sneddon
(Dartmouth), Jackie Goldin (U. of Western Cape). ($200,000 over three years)
For developing a global interdisciplinary network and training program on
water research for global South institutes/projects. Will fund three pilot
research projects on urban water politics and ecology, including one led by me
in Bangalore, and two others in Lima and Cape Town. Received funding for
one UofM PhD student. Plan to use this grant as seed money for a $2 million
proposal from the Canadian equivalent of NSF.
II. PUBLICATIONS AND CREATIVE WORKS
A. Doctoral thesis title
1. “’There’s a Snake on Our Backs’: Development and State Crisis in India’s Desert”,
adviser Prof. James O’Connor
B. Books Authored
1. Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of
Globalization, New Haven, CT and London, UK: Yale University Press, June 2005,
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paperback version 2006. Published by Orient Longman, India (2006), and in Japanese by
Kyoto University Press, 2008, with plans for a Bahasa translation in Indonesia.
C. Books Edited
1. Privatizing Nature: Political Struggles for the Global Commons, M. Goldman (ed.), Rutgers
University Press (New Brunswick, NJ) and Pluto Press (London), 1998.
D. Chapters in Books
1. “Cultivating Hot Peppers and Water Crisis in India’s Desert: Toward a Theory of
Understanding Ecological Crisis,” Ken Dyer and John Young, (eds.), Changing Directions
(University of Adelaide, Australia: Mawson Graduate Centre for Environmental Studies),
1990, pp. 561-573.
2. “Irrigating India’s Desert, Producing Resource Scarcity: A Case Study of World Bank
‘Sustainable Development’,” in Tai-Hwan Kwon, (ed.), Environment and Development
(Seoul, Korea: Seoul Press),1994, pp. 155-174.
3. “Introduction: The Political Resurgence of the Commons,” Michael Goldman, Privatizing
Nature: Political Struggles for the Global Commons (New Brunswick: Rutgers University
Press), 1998, pp.1-19.
4. “Inventing the Commons: Theories and Practices of the Commons’ Professional,”
Michael Goldman, Privatizing Nature: Political Struggles for the Global Commons (New
Brunswick: Rutgers University Press). Revision of Theory and Society article (1997),
1998, pp.20-53.
5. “Allmacht und Allmende: Die Commons-Debatte und der Aufstieg der globalen
Ressourcenmanager,” (or “Conquests in Common: The Rise of the ‘Global Resource
Managing’ Class),” Volker Heins and Michael Flitner (eds.), Konfliktfeld Natur:
Biologische Ressourcen und globale Politik (or The Political Development of Nature: New
Conflicts over Biological Resources) (Frankfurt: Leske & Budrich). Translation into
German by publisher of my Theory and Society article (1997), 1998, pp.87-118.
6. “Peasants, the State, and Production Conditions in Crisis: A Study of the Indira Gandhi Canal,”
Rakesh Hooja and Rajendra Joshi, (eds.), Desert, Drought and Development: Studies in
Resource Management and Sustainability (Jaipur, India: Rawat Publishers), 1999, pp. 237-261.
7. “Inventando os Comuns: Teorias e Práticas do Profissional em Bens Comuns.” In
Espaços e Recursos Naturais de Uso Comum. Diegues, A. C., Moreira, A. D. C.. Sao
Paulo, Brazil: Nucleo de Apoio à Pesquisa sobre Populaçoes Humanas e Areas Umidas
Brasileiras (NUPAUB). Translation into Portuguese by publisher of my Theory and
Society article (1997), 2001.
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8. “Imperial Science, Imperial Nature: Environmental Knowledge for the World (Bank),” Sheila
Jasanoff and Marybeth Long (eds.), Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental
Governance (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), revision of my Ethnography article (2001), 2004,
pp.1-29.
9. “Eco-governmentality and a ‘Green’ World Bank,” for a revised edition of Richard Peet and
Michael Watts (eds.), Liberation Ecologies (London: Routledge), revision of my Social
Problems article (2001), 2004, 37 pages.
10. “World Bank”, entry in the Encyclopedia of International Development, Tim Forsyth (ed.),
(London: Routledge), 2005, 8 pages.
11. “La tragedia della recinzione dei beni comuni,” in Giovanna Ricoveri, ed., Beni Comuni: Fra
Tradizione e Futuro (Rome: Editrice Missionaria Italiana), revised and translated into Italian,
of earlier chapter (1998), 2005.
12. “El neolilberalismo verde,” in Alfonso Guerra and Jose Felix Tezanos, eds., Las Politicas
de la Tierra (Madrid, Editorial Sistema, 2006).
13. “Water for All! The Phenomenal Rise of Transnational Policy Networks,” in Gabriela
Kutting and Ronnie Lipshutz, eds., Global Environmental Governance: Power and
Knowledge in a Local-Global World (Routledge, 2009).
14. “Speculating on the Next World City”, in Aihwa Ong and Ananya Roy, eds., Worlding
Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global, 2011, New York and London: Basil
Blackwell Publishers.
15. Reprint of Goldman and Longhofer, “Making World Cities,” Contexts Volume 17,
number 4: 32-37, 2009, in the Hartmann and Uggen, eds., Contexts Reader, NY: Norton,
2011
16. One of three commissioned chapters, “Development and the City,” for the first edition of
the Cities of the Global South Reader eds. Faranak Miraftab and Neema Kudva, Urban
Reader Series, Routledge, 2014.
E. Articles in Journals
1. “Ideologies of Environmental Crisis: Technology and its Discontents,” Capitalism, Nature,
Socialism 1:1, 1998, co-authored with James O’Connor et al.
Translated into Italian by publisher and reprinted as “Ideologie della crisi ambientale:
La tecnologia e le sue disillusioni,” Capitalismo, Natura, Socialismo 1:3, Rome,
(Novembre 1991), 1998, 91-106.
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2. “The ‘Mirch-Masala’ of Chili Peppers: The Production of Drought in India’s Desert,”
Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 1:2, 1989, pp. 83-93.
3. “Cultivating Hot Peppers and Water Crisis in India’s Desert: Toward a Theory of
Understanding Ecological Crisis,” The Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 23:3, 1990,
pp. 19-29.
4. “Tragedy of the Commons or the Commoners’ Tragedy: the State and Ecological Crisis in
India,” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 4:4 (December), 1993, pp. 49-68.
5. “‘Customs in Common’: The Epistemic World of the Commons Scholars,” Theory and
Society 26:1, 1997, pp. 1-37.
Extensively revised and reprinted in Michael Goldman (ed.), Privatizing Nature (New
Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998).
Translated into German by publisher and reprinted in Volker Heins and Michael Flitner,
Konfliktfeld Natur (Frankfurt: Leske & Budrich, 1998).
Translated into Portuguese by publisher and reprinted in Antonio Diegues et al., (Sao
Paolo: NUPAUB, 2001), 1997.
Translated and included in an Italian volume, 2005, all noted above in chapters section.
6. “Closing the ‘Great Divide’: New Social Theory on Nature and Society,” with Rachel
Schurman, Annual Review of Sociology, Vol 26, 2000, pp. 563-584.
7. “The Birth of a Discipline: Producing Authoritative Green Knowledge, World Bank-style”
Ethnography 2:2, pp. 191-217. Extensively revised and reprinted in Sheila Jasanoff and
Marybeth Long (eds.), Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Governance
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004), 2001, as noted above.
8. “Constructing an Environmental State: Eco-governmentality and other Transnational
Practices of a ‘Green’ World Bank,” Social Problems, special issue on “Globalization and
Social Problems” 48:4, 2001, 499-523. Revised and reprinted in Richard Peet and Michael
Watts (eds.), Liberation Ecologies (London: Routledge, 2004), 2001.
9. “Notes from the World Summit in Johannesburg: “History in the Making?,” Capitalism,
Nature, Socialism 13:4 December 2002. Also in Ecologia Politica 24, 2002, in Spain
(Translated into Spanish by publisher) and in Italy (Translated into Italian by publisher).
Revised version published on the European website of RISQ: Review of International
Social Questions, 2002.
10. “Tracing the Routes/Roots of World Bank Power,” International Journal of Sociology
and Social Policy, Special Issue on Innovations in Development Sociology, 36 pages.
(Volume 25, Numbers 1/2, 2005), invited and refereed.
11. “How ‘Water for All!’ Policy Became Hegemonic: The Power of the World Bank and its
Transnational Policy Networks,” in a special issue on global water policies, GeoForum
38:786-800, 2007), invited and refereed.
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12. “Under New Management: Historical Context and Current Challenges at the World
Bank”, lead article in a special issue on the Wolfowitz era, Brown Journal of World
Affairs, Volume XIII:2, Summer 2007, invited and refereed.
13 “Making World Cities,” Contexts Volume 17, number 4: 32-37, 2009, with Wesley
Longhofer.
14. “Speculative Urbanism and the Making of the next World City,” International Journal of
Urban and Regional Research, 25:3, May 2011
15. “With the Declining Significance of Labor, Who’s Producing Our Global Cities?,”
International Labor and Working-Class History journal, special issue on Asian Labor, in the
Spring issue, 2015
16. co-author with Eric Sheppard et al., “Introduction: Urban Revolution in the Age of Global
Urbanism,” introducing a special issue of Urban Studies, refereed papers from our Jakarta
conference, forthcoming, 2015
F. Bulletins, Reports, or Conference Proceedings
1. “The Indira Gandhi Canal: A Barren Harvest,” The Economic Times, New Delhi, 18 Nov
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2. “Rajasthan’s Sorrow” Economic and Political Weekly, Bombay, XXVI: 31-32, 3-10
August, with S. Ramanathan, 1991.
3. “Crisis in Theory,” Economic and Political Weekly, XXXVI: 20, 18 May, 1991.
4. “Hot Peppers and Water Crisis in India’s Desert,” Haramata: Bulletin of the Drylands,
London, 1992.
5. “The Power of World Bank Knowledge,” on RealWorldBank.org Journal, London, June,
2001.
6. “Oko-Legoland,” iz3w (German journal on Third World politics; translated by the
publisher), October 2001.
7. Conference report: “Capitalism, Imperialism, and the Production of Nature” conference
at York University, Toronto, in Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 16:4, December 2005, pp.
141-43
8. “Producing Global Knowledge, Experts, and Expertise,” in Dominique Pestre, ed.,
Historical Perspectives in Science, Society and the Political, Report submitted to the
Science, Economy and Society Directorate, European Commission, January 2007.
9. “What Can We Expect from the post-Wolfowitz World Bank?,” submitted to the
International Tribunal on the World Bank, for the official transcripts, J. Nehru University,
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Delhi, India, September 2007; also submitted a 20-minute telecast presentation for
showing during the tribunal.
G. Book Reviews
1. “Amazon Thoughts: Review Essay,” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 2:9, 1992.
2. “Ganges Development,” Contemporary Sociology 25:5, September 1996.
3. “Globalization and Environmental Reform” Contemporary Sociology 31:6, 2002.
4. Book Review of Amitai Etzioni, From Empire to Community: A New Approach to
International Relations (Palgrave, 2004), for Contemporary Sociology, Sept. 2005, 34:5, pp.
527-8.
5. Book Review of Anna Tsing, Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (Princeton,
2005), American Journal of Sociology, Sept. 2005, 111:2, pp.648-650.
6. Book review of Sanjav Khagram, Dams and Development: Transnational Struggles for
Water and Power (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004), for American Journal of
Sociology, 2006.
7. “What’s Nature Got to Do with it?,” Book review essay on two books, Recurring Dark
Ages by Sing Chew and Governing Environmental Flows by Gert Spaargaren et al.,
Contemporary Sociology, 37:4, July 2008.
8. Book review of Behind the Development Banks: Washington Politics, World Poverty, and the
Wealth of Nations, by Sarah Babb, for Contemporary Sociology, March 2010; vol. 39, 141-142.
9. Book review of David Strang, “Learning by Example: Imitation and Innovation at a
Global Bank,” Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, November 2011; vol. 40, 6:
pp. 756-757.
10. Book review of Julian Go’s Patterns of Empire, Social Forces, published first online Feb
23, 2013.
III. COURSES TAUGHT AT MINNESOTA
Fall 2005: Soc4321: Sociology of Globalization: 21
Spring 2005: GLOS3981W: Major Projects Seminar, 20
Fall 2005: GLOS3415, Global Institutions of Power, 42
Soc8890, Advanced Topics in Research: Studying Power Transnationally, 19
Spring 2006: Soc4311/GLOS4311: Race, Class, and the Politics of Nature, 56
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Fall 2007: Soc8390: Global Cities graduate seminar, 16; DSSC 8111: Ways of Knowing graduate
seminar for ICGC (the “MacArthur program”), 17; Soc4311, Race, Class, and the Politics of Nature,
50.
Spring 2008: GLOS3415 Global Institutions of Power, 50; GLOS3981, Major Projects Seminar
(with honors section), 25.
Winter 2009: GLOS3415 Global Institutions, 60; Soc8790, Contemporary Social Theory, 15.
Fall 2009: a new Global Cities Freshman seminar in Global Studies (20 students) and a revised
Global Cities graduate seminar in Sociology (6 students).
Spring, 2010, a new preparation on the core course Glos 3145 in Global Studies (230-plus students),
Theoretical Approaches to Global Studies, plus 3145, an honors section. And a new course,
Soc4321, Globalize This! Understanding Globalization through Sociology (80 students).
Fall 2010: Two senior projects seminars, Glos3981 with an honors section, total 26 students, and Soc
4966 with 21 students
Fall 2011: Glos3415 Global Institutions of Power, 68 students, and Soc 4321, 56 students.
Fall 2012: Soc4311 race, Class, Politics of Nature, 47 students, Glos 4910 Social Change in the
Global City, new class, special topics, 16 students
Spring 2013: Glos3145: Theoretical Approaches to Global Studies, 134 students; Soc4321:
Globalize This!, 49 students.
Fall 2014: Soc88790, Grad Seminar on Contemporary Social Theory, 10 students plus two auditors;
Soc3090/Glo33415: Global Institutions of Power: 44 students.
COURSES TAUGHT AT UIUC
Year Course Title University Level
2003-2004
Fall Social Change & the Environment U of IL SOC 131
Spring Environmental Sociology U of IL SOC 347
Spring Race, Class & the Politics of Nature U of IL SOC 482
2002-2003
Fall Global Inequality and Social Change U of IL SOC 160
Fall Transnational Processes:Studies in Political Soc U of IL SOC 422
Spring Social Impacts of Globalization U of IL SOC 274
2001-2002 Was a Fellow at Yale, did not teach
2000-2001
Fall Social Change and the Environment U of IL SOC 131
Fall Transnational Power, Knowledge, & Institutions U of IL SOC 396
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Spring Global Poverty, Inequality & Social Change U of IL SOC 296
Spring Transnational Power, Knowledge, and Institutions U of IL SOC 422
1999-2000
Fall Social Change & the Environment U of IL SOC 131
Spring Population Issues: Hunger and Inequality U of IL SOC 270
Spring Transnational Power, Knowledge, & Institutions U of IL SOC 396
1998-1999
Fall Social Change and the Environment U of IL SOC 131
Fall Social Theory and the Environment U of IL SOC 482
IV. SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENT WORK
At University of Illinois-UC:
PhD Chair
Lara Fischer (chair), filed in May 2004, working in Washington DC.
Yildirim Senturk (chair), filed in May 2004, Asst. Professor, Istanbul.
Jin-Ho Jang (chair), dissertation proposal defended in June 2004, teaching in South
Korea.
Soochul Kim (chair before transferring to ICR), dissertation proposal.
PhD External Examiner
Thomas Winner, Social Sciences, PhD, Flinders University, Australia, May 2004
PhD Committee
Niranjan Karnik, dissertation committee, defended May 2002 Ph.D./MD program, “Street
Children as Humanitarian Objects,” postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University.
Emin Adas, dissertation committee, defended May 2003,”Profit and the Prophet: Culture
and the Politics of Islamic Entrepreneurs in Turkey,” assistant professor at Gaziantep
Universitesi in Turkey.
Jesook Song, in Anthropology, defended Oct. 2002, “Shifting Technologies:
Neoliberalization of the Welfare State in South Korea, 1997-2001,” Asst. Professor at U
of Toronto.
Amit Prasad, filed in May 2004, assistant professor at University of Missouri.
Jeong-Ho Kim, defended dissertation proposal in Summer 2004.
Zakia Salime, defended proposal in Oct 2003, dissertation in 2004, assistant professor at
Rutgers University
Yildirim Senturk, dissertation 2004, assistant professor at Mimar University, Istanbul
Satomi Yamamoto, defended proposal in Summer 2004, finished dissertation 2008,
assistant professor at Tsuda College, Japan.
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Master committee – withdrew from committees when I left UIUC
Sibel Cekic, completed preliminary exam.
Huibo Shao, master’s student.
Erin Murphy, master’s student.
Anya Pantuyeva, completed master’s degree.
Jee Hun Kim, master’s student.
On the committee of the following PhD students who have successfully defended:
Jin Woong Kang, (co-advisor, PhD 2011, postdoc Yale U 2012, and assistant professor at Korea
University, 2013)
Eunhye Yoo (co-advisor, PhD 2012, assistant professor at a Korean university)
Wes Longhofer (2012 PhD, asst. prof, Emory University)
Rehema Kilonzo (defended 2008, PhD 2011, professor University of Dodoma, Tanzania)
Brian Dill (PhD defense 2007, asst. prof. UIUC)
Minzee Kim (PhD defense 2012, asst. professor University of Queensland, Australia)
Shawn Wick (PhD defense 2013, asst. professor in Iowa)
Yu-Ju Chien (PhD defense, 2013)
On the committee of current UofM PhD students:
Sinan Erensu, PhD advisor
Raphi Rechtisky, co-advisor, asst. prof, St. Petersburg, Russia
Aysegul Kozak, PhD committee, asst. prof. Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey
Gulseren Isic, PhD committee, asst. prof., Turkey
Vania Brightman, PhD committee
Becky Stipnitz, PhD committee
Emily Springer, PhD committee
Devika Narayan, PhD advisor
Shi-Rong Lee, PhD committee
Deniz Coral, anthropology, PhD committee
Anthony Jimenez, PhD committee
Damien Carriere, Geography, PhD committee
Erik Kojola, PhD committee
Matt Gunther, PhD committee
Rachel Grewell, PhD committee
Francis Lyimo, PhD committee
I have also been on Ph.D. committees for these UofM students:
Moira McDonald (geography, prelim 2005, defended 2009),
Ursula Dahlinghaus (anthropology, prelim March 2006, defended 2008),
Aaron Windel, history, PhD defense April 2010),
Ivan Bialostosky (geography, proposal defense 2009, PhD defense 2013),
Dan Putnam (geography, prelim 2008),
Ozan Karaman (geography, proposal defense 2009), asst. prof. U of Glasgow
Rajyashree Retty (Geography, proposal defense 2009), asst. prof. at University of Toronto
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Adina Schneeweis (mass communications, prelim 2006, prospectus defense 2007, asst.
professor, Oakland College, MI),
Naheed Aaftaab (Anthropology, proposal defense 2009, PhD 2012)
Catherine Chang (Geography, prelim 2010, expected PhD 2014, asst prof Macalester College)
Hillary Waters (Geography, masters exam 2011)
Heather O’Leary (anthropology, an IDF fellow at ICGC-2013, postdoc fellow, McMasters,
Canada)
IAS Mentor 2008-2009 to Ozan Karaman (Geography, 2012), Ivone Barriga (Performance,
2014)
3. Other Contributions to Instructional Programs at Illinois
Helping to start the new LAS Dean’s Initiative: the “Global Studies” course, for First Year
students, taught collectively by seven departments, starting Fall 2004.
Teaching in the Chancellor’s Initiative: the Discovery Seminar program for First Year students,
from Fall 1999.
Environmental Council’s Environmental Scholar’s Program, 2003-2004
Helped design the curricula for Sociology’s Transnational Studies and Science, Technology, and
Environment.
Redesigned my courses under the College’s Internationalizing the Curriculum Initiative, from
2001
Introduced five new courses to the curriculum, graduate and undergraduate
IV. SERVICE (PUBLIC, PROFESSIONAL/DISCIPLINARY, AND UNIVERSITY)
1. Public Service
1999 Coordinator of Community Public Event: “Banana Workers on Tour” (Chiquita
union organizers from Central America), sponsored by student and community
groups, 300 people in attendance, Foellinger Auditorium, UIUC
2000 Public Lecture: World Bank/IMF Public Forum, Unit One College, UIUC
2001 Public Lecture: “Globalization from above, Globalization from below” in the
“Know Your University” Lecture Series at the Y, UIUC, broadcast on local radio
station, 90.1 FM, WEFT
2002 Public event Coordinator, Teach-In on the World Bank and IMF, Speakers from
Nigeria, Mexico, and the Philippines, sponsored by student groups, 200 people in
attendance, Foellinger Auditorium, UIUC
2003 Public Event, Teach-in on the Iraq War, two presentations
2003 Sponsored a Public Event on “The U.S., Oil and Venezuela”
2004 Co-organizer with Center for Latin American Studies, Mapuche Indian Art Exhibit
and Series of Panels, February 16-20: “Territorios/Territories: Mapuche Art and
Identity” at IPRH, and Arte Contemporanea Mapuche y Territorios” at CLAS, and
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“Artistic Representation, Space and Native American Identities” along with Native
American House, UIUC.
2004 “What are Global Institutions Good For?” Public Talk at the CU-IMC Media center
and co-sponsored by AWARE, the anti-war, anti-racism community organization,
February
2004 Keynote Speaker at the Amnesty International “Human Rights” Conference,
YMCA, UIUC, April, “The World Bank and Human Rights Politics”, broadcast on
local radio station, 90.1 FM, WEFT
2004 Organizer of campus-wide MillerComm Talk, Prof. Michael Burawoy, UC-
Berkeley and president of the ASA, “The University and its Publics” and a follow-
up panel, “Responses from Across the University,” Levis Faculty Center, UIUC
2005-2006 Co-organizer of Global Studies Speakers Series
2006 Co-organizer (with five others) of Middle East Today Public Speakers Series
2007 Presented testimony (via video) and papers to the International tribunal on the
World Bank, New Delhi, J Nehru University, Sept.
2007 Speaker, “Critical Thinking” Club, Stillwater, MN
2007 Speaker, AAUW-Twin Cities
2008 Speaker, Women’s Club-Minneapolis
2008 Speaker for the Roseville School System, Global Issues debating teams
2008 Interview in major Japanese magazine, Sapio. Imperial Nature also reviewed
positively in two major Japanese newspapers.
2009 Speaker at Saturday night events, 1666 Coffman Estates, University Retirement
Center, “Global Financial Meltdown and the Role of the World Bank”
2009 Speaker in Global Issues Series, AAUW-Minneapolis, “Are Large Cities Becoming
City States?”
2009 On Bangalore TV 9 evening news, 2 hours, special panel on the crisis in public
works in Bangalore, India
2010 Evening Panel event on International Development, sponsored by the Department
of Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development, U of M, Feb. 15th
.
2010 One of three panelists for an evening presentation on U.S. Foreign Policy and
Human Rights, organized by student human rights groups on campus
2010 Presentation for UM’s Biologists without Borders, On International Development
and Global Public Health
2010 Organized a national tour for two directors of Environmental Support Group, an
Indian NGO working for urban social and ecological justice, with 20 talks on 10
university campuses and with Indian-based voluntary organizations across the US
2011 Public Talk in Bangalore on Global Urban Policy
2013 Public Talk on the global financial crisis and cities, Global UN Policy Forum,
United Methodist Church, Minneapolis
2013
Public Talk, “Urban Transformation the Age of Bankruptcy,” Sponsored by civil
society organizations, Bangalore, September
2014 Public Talk, UofM International Human Rights and Water Week, March
2014 Two-page centerpiece interview with Express Magazine, on financial crisis and the
new urbanism, interviewed and published in the national magazine, Istanbul, Oct
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2015 Public Talk, AAUW-Twin Cities Chapter, Gale Mansion, January
2015 Public radio interview, Acik Radyo, May
2. Service to Disciplinary and Professional Societies or Associations
Senior Editor, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: Journal of Marxist Ecology, starting in 2015
Project Reviewer for National Science Foundation and SSRC
Book Manuscript reviewer for Duke University Press, Yale University Press, Routledge
Press (London), Macmillan, U of Chicago Press, Princeton U Press, Stanford U Press, Polity
Press, University of Minnesota Press
Article manuscript reviewer for scholarly journals including: American Journal of Sociology
(Invited to be a contributing editor, 2007): Social Problems; Social Forces, American
Sociological Review, Sociological Theory; The Sociological Quarterly; Rural Sociology,
Ethnography; Economic Geography; Environmental Politics; Capitalism, Nature, Socialism;
The Journal of Asian Studies; Journal of Critical Asian Scholars; Society and Natural
Resources; GeoForum; GeoJournal, Annals of American Geography, Environment and
Planning A, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Antipode
On the advisory board reviewing conference paper submissions for an international conference on
the environment, Leipzig, Germany (2005, 2006)
UofM Study Abroad consultations to start up Bangalore site for a new study abroad program,
MSID, in Bangalore. Offering presentations on pedagogy and content of development
curriculum, at MSID summer workshop (June 2014)
Reviewer for promotion cases: Dartmouth College (for tenure), St. Lawrence College (for tenure),
Portland State University (promotion to full professor), UC Berkeley (for tenure), University of
Wisconsin-Madison (for tenure).
Proposal Reviewer for the Austrian government national science foundation, July 2014
External reader of PhD dissertation for Wollongong University, Australia, 2015
Member:
American Sociological Association and, at various times, its sections of Environment, Technology,
Society; Political Economy of World Systems; Science, Knowledge, and Technology; and
Political Sociology, and the new section on Global/Transnational Sociology. American
Association of Geographers. Past member of International Sociological Association and two
research committees
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3. University/Campus Service (University of Illinois)
Campus
Executive Committee, Human Dimensions to Environmental Systems, an interdisciplinary
scholars/research program, Environmental Council, 1999-2000
Faculty Associate, Environmental Council
Faculty Associate, Environmental Studies Scholars program, an interdisciplinary campus minor
Faculty Associate, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, UIUC
Committee member, MillerComm of the Center for Advanced Study, 1999-2002
Faculty Associate, Science, Technology, Information, and Medicine (STIM), an interdisciplinary
campus minor
Reviewer, Campus Research Board applications
Organizing Committee, Joint Area Studies Symposium
Department level
Chair (2003-2004, 2001-02) and Associate, Science, Technology, Environment, and Society
(STES), one of four areas of specialization within the Sociology Department
Faculty Associate, Transnational Studies area, Sociology Department, and one of two coordinators
of our Transnational Workshops, 2000, 2001, 2003. Coordinator of the Transnational seminar
(biweekly colloquium series -- shared with three other departments) 2004-2005.
Committees: Graduate Admissions (1998-1999, 2002-2003, 2003-2004), Faculty Search (theory
position, 1999-2000), Faculty Search (Senior position, 2000-2001), Faculty Search
(Introduction to Sociology instructor, 2004), Grievance (2000-2001, 2002-03, 2003-04), and a
number of ad hoc committees for publications, and awards.
4. Service (University of Minnesota)
University Level
Member of the University Faculty Senate (2005-2008).
University Publications Committee (University of Minnesota Press, 2007-2010)
Affiliate Faculty, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC), and on
its curriculum revision committee, 2006-2007.
Affiliate Faculty, Consortium for the Study of the Asias.
Advisory Committee for the new India Centre on campus
President’s Distinguished Faculty Mentor Program
Quadrant Advisory Board, a shared Mellon foundation funded project between IAS and
University of Minnesota Press 2008-2011
Student Technology Fee committee 2009-2011
DDF Selection Committee 2012-2013
Graduate Education Committee, University-wide, 2014-2017
ICGC, Advisory Board member, 2014-2017
CLA college level
Search committee, Urban Geography, Geography Department, 2013
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Advisory Committee, Urban Studies Program, with Dean’s mandate to revamp its
curriculum and structure, 2012-2013
Chair, CLA Instructional Committee to award the Motley Excellence in Teaching Award,
2015, met spring 2014
3. Department committees or other service (standing or ad hoc)
Faculty Adviser for the UM Student Model UN Association
Department level
1) Sociology: Graduate Affairs Committee, 2014-2015; PT&S Committee, 2012-13, Graduate
Affairs Committee, 2005-06, 2008-09, 2011-2012; Chair of SRI Committee, 2006.
Migration and Race Search Committee, 2007-08. Graduate Affairs Cttee (Spr 2012), PT&S
Cttee (Fall 2012-2013), on faculty in Global Studies
Evaluate junior faculty dossiers, for tenure, and for 3rd
-year reviews.
2) Institute for Global Studies: Core faculty shares most committee work together, teach three of
its core courses, developing its newest core course (with Tom Wolfe), Ways of Knowing,
for Fall 2015.
3) ICGC (Institute for the Study of Global Change), graduate interdisciplinary major:
Curriculum committee, taught one of its core seminars
4) Masters in Development Practices, Humphrey School, affiliate faculty
Each semester, I am an advisor for a number of undergraduates who are writing senior theses
and honor theses, McNair students, UROP, GRRP, and so on. I am also an advisor for off-
campus internships and directed studies for undergraduates, for new student groups and
campus-wide initiatives and campaigns, and I regularly conduct individualized directed
studies (regular discussions about assigned readings) for graduate students.