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Deborah G. Martin
Curriculum Vitae Graduate School of Geography
Clark University
950 Main Street
Worcester, MA 01610
Phone: 508.793.7104, fax: 508.793.8881
CLARK UNIVERSITY
Interim Associate Provost and Dean of Research September 2016 – Present
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF GEOGRAPHY, CLARK UNIVERSITY
Professor of Geography September 2015 – Present
Associate Director August 2012 – July 2015
Associate Professor of Geography May 2009 – August 2015
Assistant Professor of Geography August 2004 – May 2009
DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
Assistant Professor of Geography August 1999 – July 2004
EDUCATION
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN September 1992 – June 1999 Ph.D., Geography, 1999
Dissertation: "Claiming Place and Community: Place Identity and Place-Based Organizing in
Inner-City Neighborhoods", Advisor: Dr. Helga Leitner
MA, Geography, 1994
Master's Thesis: "Community Organizing and the State: The Neighborhood Revitalization
Program (NRP) of Minneapolis, MN", Advisor: Dr. Roger Miller
Macalester College, St. Paul, MN September 1987 - May 1991 BA, summa cum laude with honors, Geography and International Studies, May 1991.
RESEARCH GRANTS
“The Uncertainties of Sea Ice: Socio-Legal Dynamics in a Changing Arctic Oceanscape,” PI with Karen
Frey and co-PI/Doctoral Candidate, Kristen Shake, National Science Foundation Doctoral
Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, $12,459 (for support of Kristen Shake), 2016-2018.
“Collaborative Research: The Scale of Governance in the Regulation of Land: Community Land Trusts
in the Twin Cities”, Co-PI with Joseph Pierce, Florida State University, and James DeFilippis,
Rutgers University. National Science Foundation, Geography and Spatial Science (co-funded
with Law and Social Science), August 2014 – April 2017, $175,000.
“Mapping Beetles, Trees, Neighborhoods, and Policies: A Multi-Scaled, Urban Ecological Assessment
of the Asian Longhorned Beetle Invasion in New England,” co-PI with John Rogan, Clark
University Graduate School of Geography. National Science Foundation Research Experience
for Undergraduates (REU) Site Award, $329,992. May 2012-April 2015.
“Urban Homesteading: Gender and Self-Provisioning in the City,” PI with co-PI and Doctoral
Candidate, Oona Morrow, National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research
Improvement Grant, $11,434 (for support of Oona Morrow), 2012-2013.
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“A Geographic Analysis of U.S. Border Patrol Humanitarian Initiatives,” PI with Co-PI and Doctoral
Candidate, Jill Williams, National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research
Improvement Grant, $11,965 (for support of Jill Williams), 2011-2013.
“Alternative Agrifood Politics in Massachusetts: Social Movements and Policy Change,” PI with Co-PI
and Doctoral Candidate, Edmund Harris, National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation
Research Improvement Grant, $12,000 (for support of Edmund Harris), 2011-2013.
“Legalizing Community: Place Framing and Problem-Solving in Land Use Conflicts,” with co-PI
Alexander Scherr, University of Georgia Law School. National Science Foundation, Geography
and Regional Science (co-funded with Law and Social Science), September 2007- January 2012,
$100,000.
Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Supplemental Proposal for NSF/BCS 0731095,
“Legalizing Community: Place Framing and Problem-Solving in Land Use Conflicts,” National
Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science, Summer 2008, $7000.
“Constructing Drought: Law, Land Use and Water Sustainability”, co-PI with Christopher City and PI
Jody Emel, National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant,
$9,354 (for support of Christopher City), declined and closed, 2010.
Faculty Research Grant with Alexander Scherr, Office of the Vice President for Public Service and
Outreach, Scholarship of Engagement Grants Program for University Engagement, University of
Georgia, 2004 ($3,400)
Faculty Research Grant, University of Georgia Research Foundation, 2002 ($5,890)
Faculty Research Grant, University of Georgia Research Foundation, 2000 ($3,000)
AWARDS AND HONORS John W. Lund Community Achievement Award, 2014, Clark University (for community service)
Oliver and Dorothy Hayden Junior Faculty Fellowship Award, 2011, Clark University (included $5,000
for research-related expenses).
Stanley D. Brunn Young Scholar Award, 2005, Political Geography Specialty Group of the Association
of American Geographers.
Lilly Teaching Fellow, University of Georgia, 2000-2002 (included $2,000 grant for instructional
materials)
Fellow, Seminar in Contentious Politics, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences,
Stanford University, Summer 2000 ($4,700 stipend)
Best Dissertation, Urban Geography Specialty Group, 1999 (Awarded 2000, $250).
Best Graduate Student Publication 1998-1999, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, for
“Transcending the fixity of jurisdictional scale,” Political Geography, 1999, 18: 33-38.
Doctoral Dissertation Fellow, Graduate School, University of Minnesota, Fall 1997 - Spring 1998
(Value with fringe benefits approximately $15,000)
Borchert/Center for Urban and Regional Affairs Research Fellow, Fall 1997 - Spring 1998 (declined)
(Value with fringe benefits approximately $12,000)
Summer Fellowship, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, Summer 1996 ($1,500)
Summer Fellowship, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, Summer 1993 ($2,000)
Phi Beta Kappa, Macalester College, May 1991
Excellence of Scholarship Award, National Council for Geographic Education, May 1991
Gamma Theta Upsilon (Geography Honor Society), Macalester College, 1989
ARTICLES AND REPORTS IN REFEREED JOURNALS
*= PhD student at time of submission **=Undergraduate student at time of submission
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Shake, Kristen.L*, Frey, Karen E, Martin, Deborah G, and Steinberg, Phil, “(Un)frozen spaces:
Exploring the role of sea ice in the marine socio-legal spaces of the Bering and Beaufort Seas”
accepted and forthcoming in Journal of Borderlands Studies.
Danko, Joseph**, Verna DeLauer, Deborah Martin and John Rogan, “Asian Longhorned Beetle
narrative timeline for the Worcester outbreak” accepted and forthcoming in Northeastern
Geographer, 2017.
Pierce, Joseph, and Deborah G. Martin, 2017, “The law is not enough: seeking the theoretical “frontier
of urban justice” via legal tools,” Urban Studies, 54(2): 456-465.
Pierce, Joseph, Olivia Williams, and Deborah G. Martin, 2016, “Rights in places: an analytical
extension of the right to the city,” Geoforum 70: 79-88.
Cantor, Alida*, Verna DeLauer, Deborah Martin and John Rogan, 2015, “Training interdisciplinary
‘wicked problem’ solvers: Applying lessons from HERO in community-based research
experiences for undergraduates,” Journal of Geography in Higher Education 39(3): 407-419.
Keatinge, Brenna*, and Deborah G. Martin, 2015, “Bedford Falls Kind of Place,” Urban Studies
53(5): 867-883.
Pierce, Joseph, and Deborah G. Martin, 2015, “Placing Lefebvre,” Antipode 47(5): 1279-1299.
Cunningham, Sean, John Rogan, Deborah Martin, Verna DeLauer, Stephen McCauley, Andrew
Schatz, 2015, “Mapping land development through periods of economic bubble and bust in
Massachusetts using Landsat time series data,” GIScience and Remote Sensing 52 (4): 397-415.
Foo, Katherine*, Deborah G. Martin, Colin Polsky, Maya Lim**, Beth Anne Martin**, Clara Wool**,
and Martha Ziemer**, 2015, “Social well-being and environmental governance in urban
neighborhoods in Boston, MA,” The Geographical Journal 181(2): 138-146.
Palmer, Shannon**, Deborah Martin, Verna DeLauer, and John Rogan, 2014, “Vulnerability and
Adaptive Capacity in the Asian Longhorned Beetle Infestation in Worcester, Massachusetts,”
Human Ecology 42(6): 965–977.
Martin, Deborah G. 2014, “Struggling with Democracy’s Differences,” Dialogues in Human
Geography 4: 75-77.
Hostetler, Andrew**, John Rogan, Deborah Martin, Verna DeLauer, and Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne, 2013,
“Characterizing tree canopy loss using multi-source GIS data in Central Massachusetts, USA,”
Remote Sensing Letters. 4(12): 1137-1146.
Foo, Katherine*, Deborah G. Martin, Clara Wool**, and Colin Polsky, 2013, “A relational place-
making analysis of the perceptions, functions, and values of vacant land in core Boston, MA
neighborhoods,” Cities 35: 156–163.
Rogan, John, Martha Ziemer**, Deborah Martin, Sam Ratick, and Nicholas Cuba*, Verna DeLauer,
2013, “The impact of tree cover loss on land surface temperature: A case study of central
Massachusetts using Landsat Thematic Mapper thermal data,” Applied Geography 45: 49-57.
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Martin, Deborah G., 2013, “Up against the law: legal structuring of political opportunities in
neighborhood opposition to group home siting in Massachusetts,” Urban Geography 34(4): 523-
540.
Martin, Deborah G. and Joseph Pierce*, 2013, “Reconceptualizing Resistance: residuals of the state and
democratic radical pluralism,” Antipode 45(1): 67-79.
Edmund Harris*, Deborah G. Martin, Colin Polsky, Lillian Denhardt**, and Abigail Nehring**, 2013,
“Beyond ‘Lawn People’: Diverse Yards, Practices, and Emotions in Residential Suburban
Boston,” Professional Geographer 65(2): 345–361.
Pierce, Joseph*, Deborah G. Martin, Amelia Greiner*, Alexander Scherr, 2012, “The Spatial Justice of
Mental Health: How Local Development Politics Shape Public Health Outcomes” Annals of the
Association of American Geographers 102(5): 1084-1092.
Harris, Edward*, Colin Polsky, Kelli Larson, Rebecca Garvoille*, Deborah G. Martin, Jaleila
Brumand*, Laura Ogden, 2012, “Heterogeneity in Residential Yardcare: Evidence from Boston,
Miami, and Phoenix,” Human Ecology, 40(5): 735-749.
Martin, Deborah G., 2012, “Police, Urban Space, Politics, and Responsibility,” Urban Geography,
33(7): 936-939.
Martin, Deborah G., and Joshua Inwood, 2012, “Subjectivity, Power, and the IRB,” The Professional
Geographer 64(1): 7-15.
Martin, Deborah G., 2011, “Regional Urbanization, Spatial Justice, and Place,” Urban Geography
32(4): 484-487.
Martin, Deborah, 2011, “Urban Politics as Sociospatial Struggles,” International Journal of Urban and
Regional Research 35(4): 856-858.
Pierce, Joseph*, Deborah G. Martin, and James Murphy, 2011, “Relational place-making: The
networked politics of place,” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 36(1): 54-70.
Inwood, Joshua, and Deborah G. Martin, 2010, “Exploring Spatial (Dis)locations Through the Use of
Roving Focus Groups,” Qualitative Researcher Iss. 12: 5-7.
Hayes-Conroy, Allison* and Deborah G. Martin, 2010, “Mobilizing Bodies: Visceral identification in
the Slow Food Movement,” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35(2): 269-281.
Martin, Deborah G., Alexander Scherr, and Christopher City*, 2010, “Making Law, Making Place:
Lawyers and the Production of Space,” Progress in Human Geography 34(2): 175-192.
Wyly, Elvin, Deborah G. Martin, Pablo Mendez*, and Steven R. Holloway, 2010, “Transnational
tense: immigration and inequality in American housing markets,” Journal of Ethnic and
Migration Studies, 36(2): 187 – 208.
Reprinted in Linking Integration and Residential Segregation, eds. G. Bolt, A. S. Özüekren, D.
Phillips, Routledge, 2012.
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Inwood, Joshua* and Deborah G. Martin, 2008, “Whitewash: white privilege and racialized landscapes
at the University of Georgia,” Social and Cultural Geography 9(4): 373-395.
Martin, Deborah G., Susan Hanson, and Danielle Fontaine*, 2007, “What counts as activism? The role
of individuals in creating change,” Women’s Studies Quarterly 35: 78-94.
Martin, Deborah G., 2007, “Bureaucratization of ethics: Institutional review boards and participatory
research”, ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 6(3): 319-328.
Martin, Deborah G., 2007, “Community, neighborhood, and political possibility” (commentary on
Citizens, Cops and Power: Recognizing the Limits of Community, by Steven Herbert), Political
Geography 26: 217-221.
Hankins, Katherine B.* and Deborah G. Martin, 2006, “Charter schools and urban regimes in
neoliberal context: Making workers and new spaces in metropolitan Atlanta,” International
Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30(3): 528-47.
Martin, Deborah G., “Rescaling autonomy? Reflections on Unmaking Goliath,” 2005, Urban
Geography 26(4): 286-289.
Martin, Deborah G., and Alexander Scherr, 2005, “Lawyering landscapes: Lawyers as constituents of
landscape,” Landscape Research 30(3): 379-394.
Reprinted in Justice, Power, and the Political Landscape, eds. K. Olwig and D. Mitchell,
Routledge, 2008.
Martin, Deborah G., and Steven Holloway, 2005, “Organizing diversity: scales of demographic change
and neighborhood organizing in St. Paul, Minnesota,” Environment and Planning A 37(6): 1091-
1112.
Martin, Deborah G., 2004, “Non-profit foundations and grassroots organizing: reshaping urban
governance,” Professional Geographer 56(3): 394-405.
Martin, Deborah G., 2004, “Reconstructing urban politics: neighborhood activism in land use change,”
Urban Affairs Review 39(5): 589-612.
Martin, Deborah G., 2003, “Enacting neighborhood,” Urban Geography 24(5): 361-385.
Martin, Deborah G., 2003, “‘Place-framing’ as place-making: constituting a neighborhood for
organizing and activism,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 93(3): 730-750.
Martin, Deborah G., and Byron Miller, 2003, “Space and contentious politics,” Mobilization: An
International Journal 8(2): 143-156.
Martin, Deborah G., Eugene McCann, and Mark Purcell, 2003, “Space, scale, governance, and
representation: Contemporary geographical perspectives on urban politics and policy,” Journal
of Urban Affairs 25(2): 113-121.
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Martin, Deborah G., 2003, “Observing Atlanta, Georgia: Using an urban field study to enhance student
experiences and instructor knowledge in urban geography,” Journal of Geography 102(1): 35-
41.
Martin, Deborah G., 2002, “Constructing the ‘neighborhood sphere’: gender and community
organizing,” Gender, Place and Culture 9(4): 333-350.
Martin, Deborah G., 2000, “Constructing place: cultural hegemonies and media images of an inner-city
neighborhood,” Urban Geography 21(5): 380-405.
Elwood, Sarah and Deborah G. Martin, 2000, “‘Placing’ interviews: Location and scales of power in
qualitative research,” Professional Geographer 52(4): 649-657.
Martin, Deborah G., 1999, “Transcending the fixity of jurisdictional scale,” Political Geography 18, 33-
38. (Response to Dr. Richard Morrill’s Plenary Address, “Inequalities of Power, Costs and
Benefits Across Geographic Scales: The Future Uses of the Hanford Reservation,” at the Annual
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, March 1998.)
In Review/In Progress
Manley, Matthew**, John Rogan, Deborah Martin, and Verna DeLauer, “A Multi-Scale Assessment of
Urban Forest Biodiversity: Tree Replanting as a Driver of Street Tree Composition Urban
Forestry & Urban Greening,” in progress
Martin, Deborah G. and Andy Walter, “On validity in qualitative research,” in progress.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Books
Davidson, Mark, and Deborah Martin, co-editors, 2014, “Urban Politics: Critical Approaches,” Sage
Publications.
Includes the following co-authored chapters:
Hankins, Katherine, and Deborah Martin, “Neighborhood as a place for (urban) politics,” pp.
23-41 (peer-reviewed).
Davidson, Mark, and Deborah Martin:
“Thinking critically about urban politics,” pp. 1-14
“Introduction to City as Setting,” pp. 17-22
“Introduction to City as Medium,” pp. 79-84
“Introduction to City as Community,” pp. 133-138
Martin, Deborah, and Mark Davidson:
“Urban politics as parallax,” pp. 223-230
Book Chapters
Hankins, Katherine, and Deborah Martin, 2014, “Neighborhood as a place for (urban) politics,” in M.
Davidson and D. Martin, eds., “Urban Politics: Critical Approaches,” London: Sage
Publications. Pp. 23-41. (Peer-reviewed; also listed above.)
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Martin, Deborah, 2014, "Chapter 9: Urban Inequities," in L. Benton-Short, ed., Cities of North America:
Contemporary challenges in US and Canadian Cities. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Pp. 221-246.
Martin, Deborah G., 2013, “Place frames: analyzing practice and production of place in contentious
politics,” in W. Nicholls, J. Beaumont, and B. Miller, eds., Spaces of Contention: Places, Scales
and Networks of Social Movements. Ashgate. Pp. 85-99.
Martin, Deborah G., 2009, “Teaching Qualitative Geography,” in D. DeLyser, S. Herbert, S. Aitken, M.
Crang, and L. McDowell, eds., The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Human
Geography. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Pp. 406-417.
Martin, Deborah G., 2009, entries (listed under DMar and DGM) on “blockbusting,” “Chicago School,”
“collective consumption,” “community,” “Disneyfication,” “neighbourhood,” “urban and
regional planning,” “urban ecology,” and “urban social movement,” in D. Gregory, R. Johnston,
G. Pratt, M. Watts and S. Whatmore, eds., Dictionary of Human Geography 5th edition.
London: Blackwell.
Miller, Byron and Deborah G. Martin, 2000, “Missing geographies: social movements on the head of a
pin?,” in B. Miller, Geography and Social Movements: Comparing Antinuclear Activism in the
Boston Area. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Pp. 1-38.
Martin, Deborah G., “District Heating,” “Galtier Plaza,” and “World Trade Center,” (three chapters) in
D. A. Lanegran, C. Seelhammer, and A. Walgrave, eds., 1989, The Saint Paul Experiment:
Initiatives of the Latimer Administration: Case Studies in Metropolitan Reform, St. Paul, MN:
City of St. Paul, pp. 257-267; 196-204; 215-225.
Reports, Working Papers, and Editorials
Martin, Deborah, and John Rogan, 2013, “Trees under multiple threats,” Worcester Telegram and
Gazette, 21 May 2013, p. A13.
Lukermann, Barbara, Mariia V. Zimmerman and Deb Martin, 1996, Handbook for Navigating Through
the Minneapolis Commercial Corridor Process, Minneapolis, MN: Neighborhood Planning for
Community Revitalization, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, 35
pp.
Martin, Deborah G., 1994, Hennepin Avenue Task Force: Background Report for Martin and Pitz
Consultant Team, Minneapolis, MN: Neighborhood Planning for Community Revitalization,
Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, 70 pp.
Book Reviews
Martin, Deborah G., 2016, “Everyday Utopias: the Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces, by Davina
Cooper,” Forthcoming in PhiloSOPHIA 6(1): 146-150.
Martin, Deborah G., 2006, “Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban
Los Angeles, by Eric Avila,” Environment and Planning A 38(5): 989-990.
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Martin, Deborah G., 2006, “Empowering Squatter Citizen: Local Government, Civil Society and Urban
Poverty Reduction, edited by Diana Mitlin and David Satterthwaite,” Progress in Human
Geography 30(5): 694-696.
Martin, Deborah G., 2006, “New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood, by
Neil Brenner,” Economic Geography, 82(1): 113-114.
Martin, Deborah G., 2000, “RePlacing Citizenship: AIDS Activism and Radical Democracy, by Michael
P. Brown,” Ethics, Place, and Environment, 3(2): 232-236.
The Minnesota Geography Reading Group (collaboration among Jack Byers, Sarah Elwood, Larry
Knopp, Jerry Kramer, Helga Leitner, Fredric Markus, Deborah G. Martin, Roger Miller, Eric
Sheppard, John Tichy, Barbara VanDrasek, and Elvin Wyly), 1996, “Gay New York: Gender,
Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940,” book review article,
Gender, Place and Culture, vol. 3, 95-101.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES Invited
“Engaging students in socio-ecological research: Analyzing trees and ‘place’ through the human-
environment regional observatory (HERO) program.” James O. Wheeler Lecture, Department of
Geography, University of Georgia, 24 March 2017.
Thinking place-politics through collaborative undergraduate human-environment research: Urban forest
loss and tree planting in Worcester, MA,” Department of Geography, Texas State University, 23
October 2015.
“Thinking place-politics through collaborative undergraduate human-environment research: The Asian
longhorned beetle project,” Department of Geography, University of California-Los Angeles, 28
April 2014.
“Laws and Rights: The Legal Structuring of Urban Politics,” Presented at National Science Foundation
Workshop, “Discerning the Spatial Constitution,” convened by David Delaney, Amherst
College, and Irus Braverman, SUNY Buffalo School of Law. Washington, DC, 13-14 June 2013.
“Salute to Geography Alumni Presentation: The Asian Longhorned Beetle in Worcester, MA,” Co-
presentation with John Rogan, Clark University, 5 February 2013.
“Doing Integrated Human-Environment Research: The Asian Longhorned Beetle in Worcester, MA,”
Department of Geography, Florida State University, 11 January 2013.
“Place, Law and Urban Politics,” Department of Geography, Hebrew University, Israel, 13 May 2012.
“Place, Law and Urban Politics,” Department of Geography and the Human Environment, Tel Aviv
University, Israel, 8 May 2012.
“Interrogating the Neighborhood as a Place for (Urban) Politics,” with Katherine Hankins, Georgia State
University, at the Department of Geography, Durham University, UK, 16 January 2012.
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“Making Law, Making Place: Land Use and Conflict,” Department of Political Science, College of
Charleston, 27 January 2011.
Marsh Institute Lecture: “Making Law, Making Place: Land Use and Conflict,” Clark University, 18
November 2010.
Speaker/Panelist, “Urban Slums in the United States,” Perpetuating Forces Panel, Northwestern
University Conference on Human Rights, Evanston, IL, 22 January 2010.
“Making Law, Making Place: An agenda for legal geography,” Department of Geography, University of
Washington, 17 October 2008.
“Organizing Diversity: Scales of Demographic Change and Neighborhood Organizing in St. Paul,
Minnesota,” The Dickey Center for International Understanding's Local/Global Interactions
Faculty Working Group, Dartmouth College, 8 November 2004.
“Race, Space and Law: Teaching Geographical Awareness as a Component of Practical Citizenship,”
co-authored with and presented by Alex Scherr, Workshop on Law, Landscapes and Ethics,
International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain, 9-11 June 2004.
“Neighborhood Activism and Place Identity: Political Community through Contestation,” School of
Geography, Clark University, 2 February 2004.
“‘What’s Neoliberalism Got To Do With It?: Rescaling Urban Politics through Neighborhood
Activism,” Contested Urban Futures Conference, University of Minnesota, 8 November 2003.
“Rethinking Neighborhood: Shaping Community Through Activism in Athens, Georgia”, Colloquium at
Georgia State University Department of Anthropology and Geography, 27 January 2003.
“Representing Community through Neighborhood Activism and Place Identity,” Department of
Geography, University of British Columbia, 24 January 2002.
“Claiming Place and Community Through Neighborhood Activism,” Department of Geography,
University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 15 February 1999.
“Claiming Place and Negotiating Scale: Activist Discourses in Frogtown (St. Paul) and Convent,
Louisiana,” co-authored and presented with Hilda Kurtz, Department of Geography Coffee Hour,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 23 April 1999.
Conferences
“Urban geography's racial state: grappling with urban theory,” Association of American Geographers,
Boston, MA, April 2017.
“The spatial politics of alternative property interventions: housing and community land trusts in the
Twin Cities, Minnesota,” Deborah G. Martin, Azadeh Hadizadeh Esfahani, James DeFilippis,
Joseph Pierce, and Olivia Williams, Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA,
Mar-April 2016.
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“Theorizing ‘Local’ States and Citizens: The Role of Community Land Trusts (CLTs) in Reshaping
Local Governance,” Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, April 2013.
“The Legal Structuring of Urban Politics,” Association of American Geographers, New York, NY,
February, 2012.
“The Rights to our Cities: reading Lefebvre through a contentious politics of rights,” Joseph Pierce and
Deborah G. Martin, Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA, April 2011.
“Relational place-making: theorizing place for post-politics” Deborah G. Martin and Joseph Pierce,
Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA, April 2011.
“Devolution and abandonment: how neoliberal and rights-based ideologies shape group home siting in
Worcester, MA,” Deborah G. Martin and Joseph Pierce, Association of American Geographers,
Las Vegas, NV, March 2009.
“Place frames encounter the law: activist strategies and legal frameworks in land use conflicts,” Deborah
G. Martin and Christopher City, Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, April 2008.
“Constructing place identities through community documents and print media,” Social Science History
Association, Minneapolis, MN, November 2006.
“The Regime Goes to (Charter) School: The Atlanta Journal Constitution and Regime Politics in
Education,” Katherine B. Hankins and Deborah G. Martin, Association of American
Geographers, Denver, CO, April 2005.
“Homeownership, Ethnicity, and Neighborhood Organizing: the Politics of Diversity,” Steven R.
Holloway, Deborah G. Martin, Elvin Wyly, and Ronald Malega, Association of American
Geographers, Philadelphia, PA, March 2004.
“Organizing Diversity: Scales of Demographic Change and Neighborhood Organizing in St. Paul,
Minnesota,” Deborah G. Martin and Steve Holloway, Association of American Geographers,
New Orleans, LA, March 2003.
“New Orleans ‘Postcard’: History and Transition In-Town,” presentation for “Postcards from New
Orleans,” Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA, March 2003.
“Faculty Symposium,” University of Georgia Office of the Provost, Unicoi, Georgia, April 2002.
“Grassroots Organizing and Non-Profit Foundation Support in Shaping Urban Political Agendas,”
Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, March 2002.
“Observing Atlanta, Georgia: Using an urban field study to enhance student experiences and instructor
knowledge in urban geography.” Southeast Division of the Association of American
Geographers, Lexington, KY, November 2001.
“Top-down or bottom-up? Urban politics and neighborhood activism,” Association of American
Geographers, New York, NY, February 2001.
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“Constructing Place Identity: The Role of Local and Mainstream Newspapers in Representing an Inner-
city Neighborhood,” Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2000.
“Collective Identities: (Identity) Politics and Contradictions in Neighborhood Organizations,”
Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, March 1998.
“Missing Geography: Social Movements on the Head of a Pin?,” Deborah G. Martin and Byron Miller,
Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, March 1998.
“Community Activism and Place-Perception in a Racially Mixed Inner-City Neighborhood,” Urban
Affairs Association, Toronto, ON, Canada, April 1997.
“Urban Neighborhoods: Community-Building, Or Just a Place to Sleep?,” Association of American
Geographers, Charlotte, NC, April 1996.
“Community Consensus and Minority Concerns in Minneapolis' Neighborhood Revitalization
Program,” Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, March 1995.
“Community Organizing Through the Neighborhood Revitalization Program of Minneapolis,”
Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, April 1994.
Sessions Organized or Service as Discussant/Panelist
National Conferences
Panelist, “Teaching Qualitative Methods in Geography,” Association of American Geographers, Boston,
MA, April 2017.
Discussant, “The Where of Rights and the Right to the City I: Accessing Rights and Justice,”
Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, April 2017.
Panelist, “Finding Funding for Qualitative Research,” Association of American Geographers, San
Francisco, CA, Mar-April 2016.
Panelist, “Author Meets Critics: G DeVerteuil's (2015) Resilience in the Post-welfare Inner City:
Voluntary Sector Geographies in London, Los Angeles and Sydney,” Association of American
Geographers, San Francisco, CA, Mar-April 2016.
Co-organizer, with James DeFilippis, Azadeh Hadizadeh Esfahani, Joseph Pierce, and Olivia Williams,
two paired sessions on “Transformations of property and land in the contemporary political
economy,” Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, Mar-April 2016.
Panelist, “Legal geographies: Power, (post)disciplinarity, and practice -- A -- State, difference, social
control,” Association of American Geographers, Chicago IL, April 2015.
Panelist/Discussant, “Thinking Urban, Writing Urban: A Panel of Sage Authors,” Association of
American Geographers, Chicago IL, April 2015.
Organizer and Chair, Panel on “Spotlight on REUs: Pedagogical Impacts of a Multi-Generational, Use-
Inspired Research Project at Clark University's Human-Environment Regional Observatory
(HERO) program,” Association of American Geographers, Tampa, FL, April 2014.
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Co-Organizer and Panelist, “A place for 'place politics' in contemporary geography?,” Association of
American Geographers, Tampa, FL, April 2014. Panel presentation: “Thinking Place”
Co-Organizer and Co-Chair, with Katherine Hankins, Gordon MacLeod, and Joseph Painter, five linked
sessions on, “Global Urbanization and Local Politics in an Age of Austerity,” Association of
American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, April 2013.
Panelist/Discussant, “Author Meets Critics: Mariana Valverde’s Everyday Law on the Street,” Eastern
Sociological Association, Boston, MA, March 2013.
Panelist, “Supporting qualitative research and research instruction in Geography departments,”
Association of American Geographers, New York, NY, February 2012.
Panelist, “Taking Stock of Space and Social Movements: What Have We Learned and Whom are We
Speaking to?,” Association of American Geographers, Seattle WA, April 2011.
Panelist/Discussant, Urban Geography Plenary Lecture, “Sidewalks, Police Powers, and Public Space:
Rethinking the Purification Thesis,” Association of American Geographers, Seattle WA, April
2011.
Co-Organizer and Co-Chair, with Mark Davidson, three linked sessions on “The politics of a different
city: change beyond consensus?,” Association of American Geographers, Seattle WA, April
2011.
Discussant, “Law, State, Space: Cities, Governmentality, Intervention,” Association of American
Geographers, Seattle WA, April 2011.
Panelist, “Urban Politics: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue,” Association of American Geographers,
Washington, DC, April 2010.
Panelist/Discussant, “Post-PostMetropolis: Taking Stock of the Urban Condition,” Association of
American Geographers, Washington, DC, April 2010.
Organizer and Chair, “Qualitative Geography: Retrospective and Prospects,” Association of American
Geographers, Washington, DC, April 2010.
Discussant, “Changing Places, Urban Spaces: New Theories of Place for the Networked City,”
Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC, April 2010.
Discussant, “Right to the City: Urbanism, Planning, Anti-Oppression,” Association of American
Geographers, Washington, DC, April 2010.
Panelist, “Protecting Human Subjects Across the Geographic Research Process,” Association of
American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV, March 2009.
Panelist, “Conducting, Analyzing, and Writing Qualitative Work,” Association of American
Geographers, Las Vegas, NV, March 2009.
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Panelist/Discussant, “Author Meets Critics: Steve Herbert's Citizens, Cops and Power: Recognizing the
Limits of Community,” Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, March 2006.
Panelist, “The Politics of Participation 1: Negotiating Ethics,” Association of American Geographers,
Chicago, IL, March 2006.
Panelist, “Rethinking Legal Geography,” Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, March
2006.
“Labors of Love: Parenting, Gender, and Work in Academia and Beyond,” Association of American
Geographers, Denver, CO, April 2005.
Panelist/Discussant, “Author Meets Critics: James DeFilippis’ Unmaking Goliath,” Association of
American Geographers, Philadelphia, PA, March 2004.
Panelist/Discussant, “The Future of Social and Behavioral Research: Learning from the Past”, at the
National Human Research Protections Workshop, Protecting Human Subjects in the 21st
Century: Issues in Social and Behavioral Research. Georgia Center for Continuing Education,
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 29 July, 2003.
Co-organizer, Session on “Placing Race and Identity: Politics and Performance” Association of
American Geographers, New Orleans, LA, March 2003.
Co-organizer, Session on “Urban Governance, Alternative Forms of Decision-Making, and the
Production of Urban Space,” Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, March
2002.
Discussant, Session on “Utopian and Dystopian Views of Urban Communities and Landscapes,”
Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, March 2002.
Co-organizer, Sessions on “Urban Politics in Geography”, Association of American Geographers, New
York, NY, February 2001.
Discussant, Session on “Urban Politics in Geography IV: Discourse, Ideology, and Symbol in Urban
Politics”, Association of American Geographers, New York, NY, February 2001.
Discussant, Session on “Qualitative Research in Urban Geography”, Association of American
Geographers, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2000.
Co-organizer, Special Session on “Urban Research Centers: A Guide for Graduate Students,” Sponsored
by the Urban Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh,
PA, April 2000.
Clark University
“Becoming a Clark geographer,” First Friday Promotion Lecture, Clark University, 12 February 2016.
“Making Law, Making Place: An agenda for legal geography,” Marsh Lecture, 18 November 2010.
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“Making Law, Making Place: An agenda for legal geography,” Research Café Presentation, Graduate
School of Geography, Clark University, 11 February 2010.
Session Chair and Discussant, “Activism and Social Movements,” Women’s Studies Conference, Clark
University, September 17, 2005.
RESEARCH INTERESTS Constructions of identity and place-based communities
Representations of place in cultural media and political activism
Neighborhood organizing and urban policy
Urban Politics
Qualitative research methodology
Feminist theory
Geography and social movement theory
Social theory
TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND INTERESTS
Undergraduate: Discover Worcester! (first year field-trip seminar), Introduction to Urban Geography
(“American Cities: Changing Spaces, Community Places”), Research Methods in Geography,
Introduction to Human Geography (at University of Georgia), Utopian Visions/Urban Realities
(undergraduate and graduate students), Suburbia: Life, Culture, Politics, Place (undergraduate
and graduate students).
Graduate: Urban Theory, Qualitative Methods, Development of Western Geographic Thought, Feminist
Theory in Geography.
Courses in development or that I would like to teach: Law and Geography, Community Development
and Urban Politics, Urban Social Movements, Social Theory.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Association of American Geographers
Specialty Groups Memberships: Geographic Perspectives on Women; Political Geography;
Qualitative Research; and Urban Geography.
Urban Affairs Association
SERVICE Special Features Editor, Urban Geography, June 2012 – May 2016
Book Review Editor, Urban Affairs Review, September 2010 – January 2014
Editorial Boards:
Urban Affairs Review, January 2010 – January 2013
Geography Compass, Urban section, 2009-
Urban Geography, 2007-
Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2009-2013
Urban Geography Specialty Group Board, Association of American Geographers, Chair 2014-2016,
Vice Chair, 2012-2014.
Qualitative Geography Research Specialty Group Board, Association of American Geographers: Co-
Chair, 2009-2011, Member, 2002-2004.
Enhancing Diversity Committee, Association of American Geographers, July 2007 - June 2009.
Local Arrangements co-organizer, Political Geography Specialty Group Pre-Conference, April 2008
Glenda Laws Award Committee, Association of American Geographers, July 2006 - June 2007
(committee folded into Enhancing Diversity Committee in July 2007).
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Geographic Perspectives on Women, Association of American Geographers: Board Member, 2002-
2004.
Urban Geography Specialty Group Board, Association of American Geographers: Member, 2000 –
2002; Student Member, 1998 - 2000.
Reviewer of books and manuscripts for: ACME (1 manuscript, 2010) Antipode (3, 2006-8), Applied
Geography (1, 2015), Area (1, 2007), Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (1, 2008),
Economic Geography (1, 2012, 1 book, 2005), Emotion, Space and Society (2 2008-9),
Environment and Planning: A (13 books/manuscripts, 2003-13), Frontiers: A Journal of Women
Studies (1, 2010), Gender, Place and Culture (7, 2000-14), Geographical Review (2, 2005-6),
Geoforum (3, 2009-14), Human Ecology (1, 2015), International Journal of Urban and Regional
Research (1, 2007), Journal of Geography (1, 2003), Journal of Geography Higher Education
(8, 2009-14), Journal of Rural Studies (1, 2005), Journal of Urban Affairs (4, 2003-12),
Landscape Journal (1, 2015), Mobilization (1, 2009), Political Geography (5, 2001-16),
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS; 1, 2017), Professional Geographer (7,
2000-11), Progress in Human Geography (1 book, 2005, 1 manuscript 2013), Research in Social
Movements, Conflicts and Change (1 manuscript, 2006), Singapore Journal of Tropical
Geography (1, 2006), Social and Cultural Geography (3, 2009-2016), Social Problems (2, 2003-
5), The Sociological Quarterly (1, 2007) Society and Natural Resources (1, 2006-7), Tourism
Geographies (1, 2001), Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (1, 2013), Urban
Affairs Review (1, 2013), and Urban Geography (14, 1999-2017).
Reviewer of proposals for: National Science Foundation, Geography and Spatial Sciences (2, 2004; 1,
2007, 1, 2009, 2, 2011, 2, 2014, 1, 2016), National Science Foundation, Decision, Risk, and
Management Sciences (1, 2017), Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC,
Canada) (2, 2009-12), Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FRQSC) (1, 2014),
Routledge (2, 2004), Sage (2, 2004-2005).
Panel Reviewer for National Science Foundation, Geography and Spatial Sciences, DDRI Grant
Program, 2011-2014
Site Reviewer, National Science Foundation Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER), Baltimore
Ecosystem Study, October 2013.
Clark University
Participation in Majors Fairs and Admitted Students Open House for Geography and UDSC: annually,
2004-present
Steering Committee, George Perkins Marsh Institute (GPMI), 2016-2019
Graduate Board, 2013-2016 (Chair 2014-15, Co-Chair, 2015-16)
Graduate Admissions Centralization Oversight Committee, May 2013-
Director, Urban Development and Social Change (UDSC) Undergraduate Concentration, 2009-
Phi Beta Kappa, Treasurer, 2010-2015
Phi Beta Kappa Selection Committee (Committee on Undergraduate Elections), 2006-
Compton Mentor Fellows Selection Committee, 2005-2011
University Judicial Board, 2005-2009
Master’s Program Committee, Women’s Studies, 2004-2005
School of Geography
Associate Director/Graduate Advisor, summer 2012 – present; GA only, 2009-2011
Economic Geography (Journal) Governance Committee, 2012 – present
NESTVAL conference planning committee (New England-St. Lawrence Valley division, Association of
American Geographers), Spring-Fall 2013. Conference was hosted at Clark.
Strategic Planning Initiative, Curriculum and Workload Working Group Chair, Fall 2012
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Tenure Committee for James Murphy, 2010-2011
Hiring Committee for Urban Geography position, Fall 2008-Spring 2009
Graduate Admissions Committee, 2008
Economic Geography Oversight Committee, Spring 2008 (on sabbatical Fall 2007)
Replacement Posts Committee (formed after announced departure of Billie Turner), Spring 2008
Chair, Undergraduate Studies Committee, 2005-2007
Tenure Committee for Yuko Aoyama, 2004-2005
Hiring Committee for Economic Geography position, Fall 2004
University of Georgia, Department of Geography:
Ad Hoc Committee on Undergraduate Tracks: 2003-2004
Curriculum Committee, 2003-2004, 2001-2002
Human Geography Subcommittee of the Graduate Studies Committee, 2002 - 2003; 2000 - 2001
Colloquium Committee, 2000 – 2002
Outside Member, History Department Search Committee, 2000 – 2001
New Faculty Search Committee, 1999 – 2000
GRADUATE ADVISING/COMMITTEES
Clark University Graduate School of Geography:
Advisor: Azi Hadizadeh Esfahani, Son Ca Lam, Guy Hydrick (co-advisee), Richard Kruger, Kristen
Shake (co-advisee), Leslie Gross Wyrtzen (co-advisee)
Graduated: Amy Zhang (PhD 2016, Lecturer, University of Birmingham), Oona Morrow (PhD
2014, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Trinity College Dublin), Edward Harris (PhD 2013), Jill
Williams (PhD 2013, Research Social Scientist and Director, Women in Science and
Engineering, University of Arizona), Joseph Pierce (PhD 2011, Assistant Professor, Florida State
University), Allison Hayes-Conroy (PhD 2009, Assistant Professor, Temple University)
Graduated co-advisees: Lisa Stoddard (PhD 2014, Assistant Professor, WPI), Danielle Fontaine
(PhD 2011, Director of First Year Experience Project, University of Cape Town), Matt Huber
(PhD 2009, Associate Professor, Syracuse University), Christopher City (MA 2010), Sarah Loy
(MA 2006)
Committee member, Geography: Alireza Faramini Farahani, Kaner Turker
Graduated: Maya Manzi (PhD 2012), Anna Cieslik (PhD 2010), Gerard Hyland (PhD 2010), Connie
Johnston (PhD 2014), Kevin Keenan (PhD 2009), Ipsita Chatterjee (PhD 2007), Elizabeth Faust
(MA 2005), Matt Manley (MS-GIS 2014), Michelle Andrews (MS-GIS 2015)
MS Advisor (GIS): Elliot Altbaum (MS 2015)
IDCE (International Development, Community, Environment)
Advisor: Shannon Palmer (MA-CDP, 2014), Joanna Plunkett (MA-CDP, 2009)
Committee member: Jeremy Gleed (MA 2015), Jeannette Roach (MA 2013), Sara Nelson (MA 2009),
Erin Ellison, (MA 2005); Stephen Metts and Kate Driscoll (MA 2005)
University of Georgia:
Advisor: Katherine B. Hankins (PhD 2004, Associate Professor, Georgia State University)
Committee member: Josh Inwood (PhD 2007), Rob Yarbrough (PhD 2006), Qingfang Wang (PhD
2005).
External Committee Member:
Kate Davidoff, Rutgers University, Planning and Public Policy (PhD 2015)
Brenna Keatinge, University of Toronto, Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies
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UNDERGRADUATE ADVISING: HONOR’S
Honor’s Theses Advised: Joseph Hersh (2015), Michino Hisabayashi (2015), Shannon Palmer (2013),
Christopher MacAlpine-Belton (2009)
Second Reader, Honor’s Theses: Matt Manley (2013), Andrew Hostetler (2013)
Reader, Honor’s Theses: Martha Ziemer (2013)
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