Author: Jessica Ty Miller

VIDEO: Gwendolyn Warren and Cindi Katz in Conversation

by Jessica Ty Miller

We are happy to announce a video of Gwendolyn Warren and Cindi Katz in conversation from our colloquium on October 16th. The October 16th Event Description: Join us for a conversation about the Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute (1968-72), a radical project of community based collaborative scholarship-activism and liberatory education, with Gwendolyn Warren, the project’s co-director, and Professor Cindi Katz. Warren shaped many of the DGEI’s mapping projects and was a leader of its extraordinary educational component, which brought hundreds of young people from Detroit to Michigan State University, where they formed a sort of autonomous university–revolutionary in its implications and not …

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Confronting Racial Capitalism: The Black Radical Tradition & Cultures of Liberation Event

by Jessica Ty Miller

The CUNY Graduate Center and NYU are hosting this amazing event on November 20 and 21 on Confronting Racial Capitalism: The Black Radical Tradition & Cultures of Liberation.  It’s open to the public and no RSVP is required. The program and more information can be found here: http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/events/confronting-racial-capitalism-the-black-radical-traditioncultures-of-liberation/

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University at Buffalo Visiting Position in Environmental Planning

by Jessica Ty Miller

The Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo is searching for a visiting assistant professor in the field of environmental planning for the 2015-16 academic year Please see the attached posting. If you are interested, we would love to meet you at the Philadelphia ACSP conference! At least six members of our faculty will be present. We are now setting up a way for potential applicants to meet us. If you would like to join us, please say so in a brief note to Ms. Norma Everett at ap-plandept-chair@buffalo.edu along with a CV. We will then …

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Economic Geographer Position at Michigan State University

by Jessica Ty Miller

Posted on behalf of Judy Reginek, Michigan State University The Department of Geography (geo.msu.edu) at Michigan State University invites applications for a full-time, academic-year (nine-month) tenure-system Assistant or Associate Professor to begin in Fall of 2015.  We seek an outstanding Economic Geographer whose primary research and teaching interests are in applied and theoretical aspects of the field (for example but not limited to, market analysis, transportation, entrepreneurship, or economic development).  A Ph.D. in Geography or related field is required. Corporate or governmental experience is also desirable. We are currently expanding our program in Economic Geography and especially seek candidates who …

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Feminist Geographer Position at Dartmouth College

by Jessica Ty Miller

Dartmouth College, Assistant Professor of Geography The Department of Geography (www.dartmouth.edu/~geog) and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program (www.dartmouth.edu/~wstudies) at Dartmouth College seek a scholar to fill a jointly appointed tenure-track ASSISTANT PROFESSOR position to begin in Fall 2015. We aim to appoint an individual committed to innovative scholarship and teaching in FEMINIST GEOGRAPHY. QUALIFICATIONS Candidates should hold a Ph.D. or be in the final stages of a Ph.D. program. Teaching responsibilities include core classes in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and courses of the candidate’s specialty in both Geography and Women’s and Gender Studies. APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS Please submit …

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The New York State Assembly Internships for Graduate Students

by Jessica Ty Miller

The New York State Assembly Intern Committee sponsors the Graduate Internship at the State Capital starting every January. The GRADUATE INTERNSHIP provides full-time research or policy analysis positions with Assembly leaders, committees and research staffs. An $11,500 stipend is awarded for the January 5, 2015 to June 19, 2015 Internship. The Assembly Graduate Internship provides research and policy development experiences for up to ten qualified graduate students. Approximately one third of the participants in the Internship have moved into other positions in state government. The Assembly Intern Committee affords graduate students a unique professional learning experience. Graduate Scholars are required …

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Postdoctoral Opportunity at Rutgers Department of Geography

by Jessica Ty Miller

Postdoctoral Opportunity – Department of Geography, Rutgers University Adaptations of Fish and Fishing Communities to Rapid Climate Velocities The Postdoctoral Candidate will contribute to a multi-year National Science Foundation funded project which examines the responses of marine species and fishing communities to climate change using long-term ecological, social, and environmental datasets as well as community-based interviews and related ethnographic research. This project aims to assess the distribution of fish species and fishing community territories across North American continental shelves, determine the impacts of climate change on these patterns, and understand how these changes constitute and are constituted by the choices and practices of …

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