ELIZABETH LOUISE SWEET 531 W. Hansberry St. 1st Floor

Philadelphia, PA 19144 elsweet1@gmail.com or bsweet@temple.edu

(617) 304-3112 cell EDUCATION_____________________________________________________________ Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis-Urban Planning and Policy May 2000

University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. Concentration: International Economic Policy and Gender Analysis. Gender and Women's Studies Interdepartmental Concentration Dissertation: Gendered Effects of Structural Adjustment: A Case Study in Mexico. Research included fieldwork in Mexico: a survey, focus groups, participant observation, oral histories, and document analysis.

Master of Urban Planning and Policy May 1992 University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. Concentrations: International and Domestic

Economic Development, Housing, and Community Development. Master’s Project: Chicago Job Loss and the Maquiladoras.

Bachelor of Arts September 1985

Boston University, Boston, MA. Major: Soviet and East European Studies. LANGUAGE SKILLS______________________________________________________

Spanish (fluent), Russian (intermediate level) TEACHING POSITIONS____________________________________________________

Assistant Professor of Instruction, fall 2010 - present Temple University Geography and Urban Studies Philadelphia, PA Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, Affiliate Faculty Latin American Studies Program, Affiliate Faculty Assistant Professor, fall 2006-spring 2010 University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Department of Regional and Urban Planning Latina/o Studies, Affiliate Faculty Champaign, IL Visiting Professor/Fulbright Scholar, 2005-2006 Buryat State University Sociology and Political Science Ulan Ude, Russia Visiting Professor, summer 2005 School of Architecture and Planning, SUNY Buffalo Monteverde Institute: Sustainable Futures Study Abroad Program Monteverde, Costa Rica

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Visiting Professor, spring 2005 National Autonomous University of Mexico University Program of Gender Studies (PUEG) Mexico City, Mexico Adjunct Assistant Professor, fall 2003-spring 2005 University of Illinois at Chicago Urban Planning and Policy Program and the Honors College Chicago, IL Visiting Lecturer, spring 2002–spring 2005 Northeastern Illinois University Sociology and Mexican and Caribbean Studies Departments Chicago, IL

Visiting Fellow, 2000-2001

Civic Education Project-Omsk State University, School of International Business Omsk, Russia

RESEARCH POSITIONS_________________________________________________ Gender and Race Intersections in Planning-Lab (GRIP-LAB), Philadelphia, PA Director, 2008-2012

Developed the concept for and established the lab.Wrote and adminstered grants for the work of the lab; managed student affiliates, lab projects and events; conducted reserach and produced reports and articles.

Instituto del Progreso Latino, Chicago, IL Researcher, 2001-2003 Action Research Director, 2003-2004

Organized and supervised the work of two research assistants, reviewed and edited grant proposals, conducted focus groups, carried out site visits, completed oral history interviews, analyzed census data (PUMS) and used GIS to map census data about Latinas, represented IDPL on local and state committees, acted as a liaison with various agencies, worked with different departments to develop research projects, developed training and education programs. Wrote grant proposal and was funded ($100,000) to conduct qualitative and quantitative research on low-income Latinas and the Chicago workforce.

Civic Education Project-Omsk State University, Omsk, Russia Visiting Professor, 2000-2001 Conducted research on gender in transitional economies including 20 oral histories, three focus groups, and 12 months of participant observation. Supervised students’ capstone projects. Advised students on proposals for national and international conferences. Mathematica, Princeton, NJ Chicago Field Supervisor, Fragile Families Study, Summer 2000 Conducted interviews with new parents about the roles they hoped to play in their children’s lives. Organized and supervised the work of six other interviewers and negotiated and facilitated access to hospitals to conduct study.

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Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities, Chicago, IL Researcher, 1999-2000 Made site visits, conducted interviews, and wrote reports about discriminatory mortgage lending in Chicago.

University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL Research Assistant, 1990-1997

Research included: analysis of job loss in Chicago in the context of investment in Mexico; international policymaking and its impact on local communities; gentrification of Latino communities; retail market analysis in an African American suburb; resident management in public housing; women and homelessness in Chicago.

Indian Treaty Rights Committee, Chicago, IL Volunteer Organizer and Researcher, 1992-1995 Assessed the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on Indian

treaty rights, represented the organization at the American Indian Congress, and organized informational community events about NAFTA and treaty rights.

AWARDS – HONORS____________________________________________________ Senate Committee on the Status of the Faculty of Color Committee, Temple University,

Leadership Award, Spring 2016 Association of American Geographers, Competitively selected to participate in NSF-

supported Catalyzing Research on Geographies of Broadening Participation Retreat, Spring 2012 University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, List of teachers ranked as Excellent by their students, Spring 2008 and Spring and Fall 2009

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Nominated for the Campus Award for Excellence in Public Engagement, 2008-2009 Arnold O. Beckman Research Award, (for Research that has special distinction or unusual promise) University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Complement, Mismatch or Overlap: The Effectiveness of Multiple Simultaneous Workforce Related Programs, September 2008

Fulbright Scholar, Gendered Economic Development in the Context of Transition: A Case Study in Ulan Ude, Buryat State University, Ulan Ude, Russia, September 2005-June 2006 Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellowship in the Humanities, A Cross Border Analysis of Women’s Empowerment through Cooperation, Migration, and Ownership: Transitions in Mexican and Siberian Labor Strategies, Regional Center for

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Multidisciplinary Research (CRIM), at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Cuernavaca, Mexico, January-April 2005

GRANTS______________________________________________________________

Temple University Community Driven Research Day, Fostering Sustainable Economic Opportunities for Immigrant Women Survivors of Violence in Norristown, PA, (with Donna M. Peters, Rickie Sanders and Carmen Guerrero) $10,000 July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017. GenEd Information Literacy Cross Teams (ILCT), Urban Timeline Challenge $1000 with Latanya Jenkins and Evan Wise May 2016 to December 2016

Temple University International Affairs, Internationalization Grant, Body and

community mapping: linking visceral experiences with neighborhood spaces to understand women's safety in cities $4,000 June 2014 to May 2015

American Sociological Association-Spivack Program Community Action Research

Initiative (With Donna Marie Peters), Migrant Women’s Experiences of Gender Violence in the New Latino Diaspora $3,000 May 2014-April 2015

National Science Foundation, Mini grant through Catalyzing Research on Geographies of

Broadening Participation (with Shangrila Joshi and Priscilla McCutcheon), Visceral Geographies of Whiteness and Invisible Micro-Aggressions, $3,050, June 2012-August 2013 Temple University Faculty Senate Seed Money Fund (FSSMF) (with Allison Hayes-Conroy), Rural Strategies, Urban Struggles: Food security among displaced women in Medellin, Colombia, $7,000 with additional $1,000 matching funds from the Department of Geography and Urban Studies, July 2012-June 2013 Catholic Charities for Human Development, Women for Economic Justice Project: Collaborative for Women’s Collectives, $15,000, June 2010-June 2011 University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Research Board Grant, Complement, Mismatch or Overlap: The Effectiveness of Multiple Simultaneous Workforce Related Programs, $17,910, September 2008-December 2010 University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Center for Democracy in a Multiracial Society, Conference: Society, Race, Diversity, and Campus Climate-Educational and Workplace Environment Assessment & Evaluation, $1,000, Diversity in Planning: From the Discipline to Our Department’s Diversity Code, December 2007 University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Creative Research Award, College of Fine and Applied Arts (with Gilberto Rosas), $5,000, Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class in Transnational Economic and Social Activism: Mexican Community Activism

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and How Cities Can Benefit From It, December 2007 University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Research Board Grant, Transnational Economic Gardening: Examining Latina Economic Communities, $6,591, October 2007-December 2009 Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, Chicago, Forum: Reinventing Race, Reinventing Racism: The 40th Anniversary of the Kerner Commission. “Race and Gender in the New Anti-Immigrant City: Implications for Brown Women,” $800, April 2008 Illinois Department of Human Services, Chicago IL, Research Grant, Trabajando y Creciendo: Latinas in the Chicago Workforce, $100,000, October 2003

PUBLICATIONS________________________________________________________

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Peer Reviewed Journals

Turner K. M., E. L. Sweet, and *E. Fornaro forthcoming From Ferguson to Charleston and Beyond: Talking about Race and Diversity in the classroom Communication Teacher Sweet, E. L. and *Ortiz Escalante, S. 2017 Engaging Territorio Cuerpo-Tierra through body and community mapping: A methodology for making communities safer. Gender Place in Culture 24(4) 594-606 Sweet, E. L. 2017 The benefits and challenges of Collective and Creative Storytelling through visceral methods within the neoliberal university, Geoforum 82: 202-203

Sweet E. L. 2016 Carceral feminism: Linking the state, intersectional bodies, and the dichotomy of place Dialogues in Human Geography 6(2) 202–205

Sweet, E. L. 2016 Locating Migrant Latina Economic Activities in a Diverse Economies Framework: Evidence from Chicago Gender Place and Culture 23(1): 55-71 Sweet, E. L. and *S. Ortiz Escalante 2015 Bringing bodies into planning: visceral methods, fear, and gender violence Urban Studies, 52(10): 1826-1845 Joshi, S., P. McCutcheon, and E. L. Sweet. 2015 Visceral geographies of whiteness and invisible microagressions ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 14(1): 298-323 Sweet, E. L. 2015 Latina Kitchen Table Planning Saving Communities:

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Intersectionality and Insurgencies in an Anti-Immigrant City Local Environments: International Journal of Justice and Sustainability 20(6): 728-743

Hayes-Conroy, A and E. L. Sweet 2015 Whose adequacy?: (Re)Imagining food security with displaced women in Medellin, Colombia Agriculture and Human Values 32(3): 373-384

Chakars, M., and E. L. Sweet. 2015 Women and the economics of survival before and after regime change: Diverse economies and work strategies in the Russian Republic of Buryatia GeoJournal 79(5): 649-663

Sweet, E. L. and H. Etienne. 2011 Commentary: Diversity in Urban Planning Education and Practice Journal of Planning Education and Research 31(3): 332-339 Sweet, E. L. and M. Chakars. 2010 Identity, Culture, Land, and Language: Stories of Insurgent Planning in the Republic of Buryatia in Russia Journal of Planning Education and Research 30(2): 198-209 (also see letter to the editor and my response regarding this article) Sweet, E. L. and *S. Ortiz Escalante. 2010 Planning Responds to Gender Violence: Evidence from Spain, Mexico, and the Unites States Urban Studies 47(10): 2129-2147 (19th most downloaded article in Urban Studies in September 2010 and 17th in October 2010) (published in Spanish in Jornadas Estudios Urbanos, Género y Feminismo: teorías y experiencias in 2013: 39-62 ISBN 978-84-616-7657-6) Sweet E. L. 2009 Ethnographic Understandings of Gender and Economic Transition in Siberia: Implications for Planners and Policy Makers European Planning Studies Journal 17(5): 701-718 Capeheart, L. and E. L. Sweet. 2006 Condiciόnes, Drogas, y La Cárcel: Life Circumstances and Drug Usage of Latino Arrestees in Miami, New York, San Antonio, and San Jose Criminal Justice Policy Review 17(4): 427-450 (among the 50 most read articles in Criminal Justice Policy Review)

Policy Reports, Reviews, Book Chapters, and Other Publications

D. M. Peters, E. L. Sweet, K. M. Turner and K. Williams-Witherspoon. forthcoming "The Elephant in the Room: Challenges and Prejudice in the Academy"? in Anthology on Prejudice in the Academy, edited by Michael Moreno, Palgrave Press (peer reviewed) D. M. Peters, S. Peterson-Lewis, R. Sanders, E. L. Sweet, K. M. Turner and K. Williams-Witherspoon. 2017 Treading Treacherous Waters: A conversation with Women Faculty of Color on Teaching Race Leadership, in Equity, and Social Justice in

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American Higher Education--A Reader, edited by C. P. Gause, Peter Lang (peer reviewed)

Sweet, E. L., K. M. Turner, K. Williams-Witherspoon, E. Fornaro (2016-December) Contradictions of Perceptions and Reality at Temple University: A Report From The 2014 Diversity Symposium ACCORD/FOC, Temple University

Sweet, E. L. 2016 Gender, Violence and the City of Emotion The Participatory City edited by Y. Beebeejaun, Berlin, Jovis (peer reviewed) pp 121-127 Sweet E. L. 2015 Mapping Anti-Violence Strategies Democratic Left XLII(4): 8 Sweet, E. L., K. M. Turner and K. Williams-Witherspoon. 2014 Three Senior Scholars of Color Discuss their Research and Diversity at Temple Faculty Herald, 44(5): 1 and 4-5 http://www.temple.edu/herald/44_5/ThreeSeniorScholarsDiscuss.htm

Sweet, E. L. 2014 Book Review Nina Glick Schiller and Ayşe Çağlar, eds.

Locating Migration: Rescaling Cities and Migrants. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011. 279 pp. Journal of Planning Education and Research 34(1): 97-99 Sweet, E. L. 2013 How Grassroots Women Are Raising Awareness and Enlisting Authorities Against Growing Violence in Peru The Global Urbanist, http://globalurbanist.com/2013/03/18/groots-peru *Ortiz Escalante, S. and E. L. Sweet. 2013 Migrant Women’s Safety: Framing, Policies and Practice Building Inclusive Cities: Women’s Safety and the Right to the City, edited by Whitzman, C. et al., London and New York, Routledge, Chapter 4: 53-72 (peer reviewed) Sweet, E. L. 2012 New Configurations of Racism after 9/11: Gender and Race in the Context of the Anti-Immigrant City Reinventing Race, Reinventing Racism, edited by John Betancur and Cedric Harring, Brill Publishers, Chapter 12: 241-257 (peer reviewed) *Drigo, M. V., C. Ehlschlaeger and E. L. Sweet. 2012 Intimate Partner Violence and Support Systems Ecologist-Developed Spatially-Explicit Dynamic Landscape Models (Modeling Dynamic Systems), edited by James Westervelt, New York, Springer Publishing Company, Chapter 14: 234-254 (peer reviewed)

Sweet, E. L., *S. Lee and *S. Ortiz Escalante 2012 'A Slow Assassination of Your Soul' Race, Citizenship and Gender Identities in the Borderlands of New Economic Places Transnational Migration, Gender and Rights edited by Ragnhild Sollund, and Liam Leonard, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 99-126 (peer reviewed)

Sweet E. L., 2011 Response to Letter to Editors: Action and Planning – Where do We Draw the Line? Journal of Planning Education and Research, 31(2): 221-222

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Sweet E. L. 2010 Diversity in Urban Planning: From the Discipline to Department Climates Implementing Diversity: Contemporary Challenges and Best Practices at Predominantly White Universities, edited by Jorge Chapa, Helen Neville, and Margaret Browne Huntt, Champaign, IL, Center for Democracy in a Multiracial Society, Chapter 12: 224-246 (peer reviewed)

Sweet, E. L. 2009 (November) Women and the City, Encyclopedia of Urban Studies, edited by Ray Hutchison, Newbury Park, CA, SAGE Publications, Inc., 963-966 (peer reviewed)

Sweet, E. L. 2009 Latina Portrait: Social Economic Well Being Synopsis, Mujeres Latinas en Accíon. Policy Brief. http://www.mujereslatinasenaccion.org/Publications/latina_portraits Sweet, E. L. 2007 Beyond WID WAD and GAD: Expanding Gendered Economic Development Theory Part 2. История и культура народов сибири стран центральной и восточной азии батуевские чтения (History and Culture of the Siberian People -- Central and East Asia Countries: Batuevskie Readings), Ulan Ude, Russia 486-496 Sweet E. L. 2006 Spy or Feminist: “Grrrilla” Research on the Margin Advances in Gender Research 10: 145-162 (peer reviewed) Sweet, E. L. 2006 Beyond WID WAD and GAD: Expanding Gendered Economic Development Theory Part 1 История и культура народов сибири стран центральной и восточной азии батуевские чтения. (History and Culture of the Siberian People -- Central and East Asia Countries: Batuevskie Readings), Ulan Ude, Russia 125-133

Sweet E. L. 2006 Femicide and Economic Development in Ciudad Juarez: Part of a New Gender Agenda in Planning Progressive Planning 167: 20-27

Betancur, J. J. and Sweet, E. L. (2005). Bilingual Manufacturing Training Programs: Challenges and Opportunities. Research Paper and Evaluation prepared for Instituto del Progreso Latino. Sweet, E. L. and *B. Gunzel. 2004 Trabajando y Creciendo: Low Income Latinas in the Chicago Workforce Illinois Department of Human Services, Chicago, IL Policy Report

Sweet E. L 2004 Trabajando y Cresiendo: Preliminary Findings on Low-Income Latinas in the Chicago Workforce Gender and Human Security Latina/o Immigrants in the Midwest, Perspectives: Research Notes and News a publication of Woman and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, Volume 24, Number 2

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Sweet E. L. and Y. Dous 2001 (June) CEP: an International Exchange Program in Omsk in International Relations for Developing Social and Economic Process in the CIS Countries, published conference papers, Omsk, Russia

In Progress

Turner K. M., E. L. Sweet, and *E. Fornaro forthcoming From Ferguson to Charleston and Beyond: Talking about Race and Diversity in the classroom Communication Teacher Imeokparia, T and E. L. Sweet Towards a Reconceptualization of the ‘Everyday’ in Urban Planning and Design Discourse for Planning Theory Joshi, S., and E. L. Sweet Parallax and essentialism maintaining the status quo of power relations and privilege in the academy in preparation for Progress in Human Geography

E. Harper-Anderson, Sweet, E. L. and M Wilson. The Geography of Multiple Simultaneous Workforce Development Programs under review at the Journal of the American Planning Association

Harper-Anderson, E. and E. L. Sweet. Mismatch, Overlap, Complements or Competitors: Regional Coordination of Intersecting Workforce Development Programs in preparation for Regional Studies

Sweet, E. L. and *S. E. Guerrier Covering Chaos: Haitian and Mexican Representations of Immigration Through the Lens of Crisis and Resistance in preparation for GeoForum

Book Projects in Preparation E. L. Sweet, Arenas, I.,T. Córdova, and D. Youdell, (edited volume) Disassembled Cities: Social and Spatial Strategies to Reassemble Communities under contract with Routledge Press Sweet, E. L. Community accountability: Ending violence against women by looking inward for solutions and building diverse economies. In preparation for Routledge Press

CLASSES TAUGHT_____________________________________________________ (OLL = class was also taught in an On Line Learning format, HF= Class was also taught using a hybrid online and face to face format) Temple University

Urban Society in a Global Economy (HF) Development and Globalization (OLL and HF) Global Cities (OLL and HF)

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International Urbanization Sustainable Environments (OLL) Qualitative Research Methods (graduate and undergraduate) Environment and Development Urban Dynamics: Global, Regional, and Local Connections (HF)

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Planning for Cities and Regions Social Inequality and Planning Community Economic Development Qualitative Methods Community Development in Chicago: Race, Gender, and Difference

Buryat State University Gender and Economic Development Qualitative Methods in Economic Development

National Autonomous University of Mexico A Gendered City: Gender Sensitive Urban Planning and Policy (taught in Spanish)

Northeastern Illinois Demography and Population Urban Sociology Social Policy: Work and Family Sociology of the Latina The Sociology of Work The Sociology of Aging Women and Development Qualitative Methods for Economic Development Analysis Sociology of the Working Woman (study abroad in Mexico)

Instituto del Progreso Latino Family Literacy-Even Start (combination of ESL and Pre-K with parents and children) Work Place Communication Vocational English as a Second Language Math for Manufacturing

University of Illinois Chicago International Planning II Women and Development

Omsk State University Gender and Development

Qualitative Field Research Methods INVITED PRESENTATIONS_______________________________________________

Gaming in Class: Providing Content through Play Temple University Center for the Advancement of Panel: Teaching Play: Using Gaming Pedagogy to Transform your Curriculum, Philadelphia PA, November 15, 2016 Body Mapping Project Temple University School of Media and Communication Radio Broadcasting Class J3501 (Karen M Turner Instructor) Philadelphia PA, November 17 2015

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Territorio Cuerpo-Tierra: Mapping bodies and communities as a continuum to make places safer for women CUNY Graduate School Speaker Series NY NY, September 10, 2015 Disassembledge in Russia: How Buryats reconstruct through time and space. Cities Across the Globe, The Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago IL, April 30, 2015 Latinas in Chicago: Kitchen Table Planning in a Diverse Economy DePaul University, Chicago IL, April 17, 2015 Immigrant Women’s Bodies in Safe Places: Rethinking the Public Private Divide and How We respond to Violence, American Planning Association Annual Conference, Atlanta GA, April 27, 2014 Body-Map Storytelling and Community Mapping-Half Day Workshop University of Pittsburg, Pittsburg PA, February 28, 2014 Internally Displaced Women in Medellin, Colombia: Food Insecurity, Violence, Health and Mobility Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago IL, November 21, 2013 The Body and Food Insecurity: Visceral Methods with Internally Displaced Women in Colombia Rethinking Cities 2013-2014, Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ, November 11, 2013 with Allison Hayes-Conroy Truth and Reconciliation: A Way to Add Caring and Love into Planning Education and Practice University of Michigan Symposium "Planners in a Post-Racial Society: Challenges and New Directions,” Ann Arbor MI, November 1, 2013

Perspectiva de Genero y Feminismo: Influencias y Resultados en Planificación Urbana Keynote Speaker-presentation in Spanish VI Congreso Nacional y el 2o. Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Arquitectas y Urbanistas, El Hábitat Sustentable con Perspectiva de Géneros, Hidalgo Mexico, October 7-10, 2012 (presentation in Spanish) Mujeres e (In)Seguridad Urbana: Experiencias en Chicago, Medellín y Barcelona, Encuentro Internacional de Ciudades Seguras para las Mujeres, Mexico City, July 26-27 2012 (presentation in Spanish)

Diverse Economies Guest Lecture GUS4198 Capstone Class, Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, February 3, 2011

Community Development Plan Making Guest Lecture in UP510 Plan Making, Dept of

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Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Champaign IL, Nov 9, 2009 Economic Activities In Relation to Economic Geography: Latinas at Work in the US and Mexico-An NSF Proposal Transnational Seminar Series, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Champaign IL, March 13, 2009

Latinas At work: Issues and Opportunities Guest Lecture in UP199-LB Poverty and Policy, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Champaign IL, March 4, 2009 Vulture Cities: How Planning Engages Gender Violence PhD Seminar Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Champaign IL, October 8, 2008 with Sara Ortiz Economic Justice, Globalization and Urban Planning: The Case of Juarez Keynote Speaker, International Women’s Day Conference, De Paul University, Chicago IL, March 6, 2008

Economics for Survivors, Keynote Speaker, Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's Network, Chicago IL, February 28, 2008 Rural Women’s Access to Legal Services and Economic Development Opportunities University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Law School, Champaign IL, February 20, 2008 Multiple Uses of Qualitative Methods in Planning, PhD Seminar, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Champaign IL, October 31, 2007 Gender and Planning: Guest Lecture, Landscape Architecture 470, Social and Cultural Issues in Environmental Design, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Champaign IL, October 4, 2007 Ethnography and other Qualitative Tools in Planning: Old Uses and New Opportunities, Lew Hopkins Symposium, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Champaign IL, September 7, 2007 Culture and Gender as a Guide for Economic Empowerment: The Case of Low-Income Latinas in Chicago The Changing Face of Illinois Community, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Extension Program, Champaign IL, August 16, 2007 Feminism, Gender and Economic Development Keynote Speaker, Political Café, Ulan Ude Public Library, Ulan Ude, Russia, March 8, 2006 Women and Economic Development: Opportunities in Ulan Ude, Keynote Speaker

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for the Buryat Republic’s Department of Women and Children for their Strategic Gender Plan Conference, Ulan Ude, Russia, February 2006 Gender and Strategic Planning: Evidence from Mexico, Chicago, and Omsk, Keynote Speaker--Open Public Forum of the Ulan Ude Strategic Planning Committee, Ulan Ude, Russia, September 2005 Methods for Collecting Data on Women and Economic Development. American Council for International Education, Buryat Republic, Russia, September, 2005 Gender and Planning, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Urbanism Department, Mexico City, March 2005 Qualitative vs. Quantitative Methods, Qualitative Techniques, and Designing Research Projects Using Qualitative Methods, Sakhalin State University, History Department, Sakhalin, Russia, March 2001 Qualitative Methods, Novosibirsk State University, Sociology Department, Academic City, Russia, April 2001

Feminist Oral Histories and Social Policy; Gender Issues in Transitioning Societies, International Summer School for Social Work, Social Policy, Education, Practice, Saratov, Russia, June 2001

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS___________________________________________

Checking our Cultural Parallax: An Examination of Experiences, Positionality, and Privilege of Campus Climates (with K. M. Turner, K. Williams-Witherspoon, E. Fornaro) American Education Research Association San Antonio, TX April 27-May 1 Community Accountability v. Social Innovation: The case of women in Chicago working to end violence against women Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference Minneapolis, MN April 19-22, 2017

Everyday violence against Mexican women: Moving from alienation to community accountability Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference San Diego CA March 16-19, 2016

Towards a Reconceptualization of the ‘Everyday’ in Urban Planning and Design Discourse. Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Houston TX October 22-26, 2015 with Timothy O. Imeokparia Treading Treacherous Waters: A Conversation with Women Faculty of Color on Teaching Race National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education, Washington DC, May 26-30, 2015 with K. Turner, K. Williams-Witherspoon,

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D. M. Peters, and S. Peterson Lewis Better than text? Exploring the opportunities for and practicalities of visceral methodologies in human geography Research Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Chicago IL, April 21-26, 2015 Invited Panelist Visceral and spatial implications of violence for Mexican women in satellite cities: Mapping disadvantages, inequalities, and injustices together with agency and resolve. Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference Miami FL April 8-11, 2015 Mexican women mapping their bodies and communities to eradicate violence against women in Norristown, PA. Critical Geography Conference, Temple University, Philadelphia PA November 7-9, 2014 Body and community mapping: linking visceral experiences within neighborhood spaces Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Philadelphia PA, October 29-November 2, 2014 with Sara Ortiz Escalante Bringing the Body into Planning: Visceral Methods, Fear and Gender Violence, Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference, San Antonio TX March 18-21, 2014 with Sara Ortiz Escalante Body Movement Practice as Community Research and Community Healing: Women and Violence in the Context of Disaster, Planners Network Conference, Brooklyn NY, June 8, 2013

Twenty Years Later: Women and Economic Transition in the Russian Republic of Buryatia, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Cincinnati OH, October 31-November 3, 2012

Women and the Economics of Survival Before and After Regime Change: Diverse Economies and Work Strategies in the Russian Republic of Buryatia, Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference, San Juan Puerto Rico, October 24-26, 2012 Indians on the Move: Otomi Transnational Lives in San Pablito and Durham by Altha Cravey, Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, NY NY, February 24-28, 2012 Invited Panelist Assessing the Impact of ARRA and Workforce Development on Regional Unemployment, Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference, Pittsburg PA, April 18-21, 2012 with Elsie L. Harper-Anderson

Migrant Women’s Safety: Policy Approaches and Best Practices, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Salt Lake City UT, October 12-16, 2011

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The Shaping of Immigrant Communities: Representations of Racialized Haitians and Mexicans through the Lens of Crisis and Resistance, Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Seattle WA, April 12-16, 2011 Covering Chaos: Representations of Haiti and Mexico During Times of Crisis, Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference, New Orleans LA, March 16-19, 2011 Locating Immigrant Latina Economic Activities in a Diverse Economies Framework: Evidence from Chicago, Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Washington D.C., April 14-18, 2010 “A Slow Assassination of your Soul”: Race, Citizenship, and Gender Identities in a New Place, Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference, Honolulu HI, March 10-13, 2010 Diverse Economic Activities In Relation to Economic Geography: Understanding Latinas at Work in Chicago, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Crystal City, VA., October 1-4, 2009 Gender and the Anti-Immigrant City: Women Respond to a New Context, Center for Democracy in a Multiracial Society, Immigration and Race in Illinois Workshop, Champaign IL, April 24, 2009 New Expressions of Racism after 9/11: Gender and Racism in the Context of the Anti-Immigrant City, Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Las Vegas NV, March 24, 2009 How Planning Engages Gender Violence: Evidence from Spain, Mexico, and the US, Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference, Chicago IL, March 4-7, 2009

Leaving a Legacy for the Next Seven Generations: Indigenous Women’s Epistemologies, A Community Symposium, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, In Beauty, It is Restored: Media Activism, Scholarship & Responsibilities of Indigenous People, Champaign IL, September 27, 2008 Teaching Diversity in Urban Planning: From the Discipline to our Department’s Diversity Code, ACSP and Association of European Schools of Planning 4th Joint Congress, Chicago IL, July 10, 2008 Women for Economic Justice: A New Model of Economic Development for Domestic Violence Survivors, Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference, Baltimore MD, April 2008 Latina Economic Empowerment in the Context of Gender Violence: A Framework

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and Preliminary Results, Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Boston MA, April 2008 Economic Transition in the Buryat Republic: Women’s Struggles and Agency, 15Th Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington IN, March 2008 Women for Economic Justice: Trying to WEJ our Way into Sustainable Economic Empowerment with Latinas, Women’s Economic Empowerment: Where the Buck Starts, Stalls, and Stops for Women in Today’s Globalism, Truman College, Chicago IL, October 26, 2007 What Are the Women Doing in the Anti-Immigrant City? Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Milwaukee WI, October 18-21, 2007 Gender Violence in the Context of Economic Policy and Practice: Implication and Findings from Mexico and Russia, Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference, Seattle WA, April 2007 Spy or Feminist: Grrrilla Research on the Margin, Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, San Francisco CA, April 2007 Indigenous People and Struggle in the Context of Contemporary Russian Imperialism: Resistance in the Buryat Republic, 14Th Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington IN, March/April 2007

Gender Violence and Economic Transition in Post Soviet Ulan Ude, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Fort Worth TX, November 2006 Gender, Culture, and Economic Development: The Case of Ulan Ude, Russia, World Planning Congress, Mexico City Mexico, July 2006 Indigenous People, Gender, and Struggle: The Case of Buryat Republic, Planners Network Conference, Chicago IL, May 2006 Gender Violence and Economic Development Planning: The Case of Juarez, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Kansas City MO, October 2005 Gender and Strategic Planning: Evidence from Mexico, Chicago, and Omsk. Administration of Ulan Ude, Scientific and Practical Conference on the Strategic Development Plan for Ulan Ude, Ulan Ude Russia, September 2005 Empoderamiento femenino a través de la cooperación, la migración y la propiedad. Dos casos de estudio: México y Rusia, Regional Center for Interdisciplinary Research

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(CRIM) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Cuernavaca Morelos Mexico, March 2005 Culture and Gender as a Guide for Economic Empowerment: The Case of Low-Income Latinas in Chicago, Department of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign IL, December 2004

Vulture City: Planning and Gendered Violence in Juarez (Poster Session) Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Portland OR, October 2004 Low-Income Latinas in Chicago: A Framework for Economic Empowerment Strategies, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Portland, OR, October 2004 Low-Income Latinas in the Chicago Workforce, Conference on Chicago Research and Public Policy, “The Changing Face of Metropolitan Chicago,” Chicago IL, May 2004 Femicide in a Global City: The Case of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, University of Illinois at Chicago, Urban Planning and Policy, Friday Research Forum, Chicago, IL, March, 2004 Trabajando y Creciendo: Preliminary Findings on Low-Income Latinas in the Chicago Workforce, University of Illinois at Urban Champaign, Women, Gender and Global Perspectives Program Symposium, “Gender and Human Security: Latina/o Immigrants in the Midwest,” Urbana IL, March 2004 Rathgeber Revised-Beyond WID, WAD and GAD: Evidence from Mexico, American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Atlanta GA, August 2003 Instituto del Progreso Latino: Job Training for Low-Income Latino Immigrants 4th National Low-Income Immigrant Rights Conference, Washington D.C. May 2003

Qualitative Methods or Espionage? The Case of a "Feminist Spy” Midwest Sociology Society Annual Conference, Chicago IL, April 2003 Bilingual Manufacturing Training Programs: The Challenges and Opportunities Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Annual Conference, Baltimore MD, November 2002 Gendered Economic Spaces in Siberia: Survival in the Context of Transition VI Encuentro de Cultura y Ciudades Contemporánras, Guadalajara Mexico, September 2002

Bilingual Manufacturing Training for Immigrant Women in Chicago, Fifth Annual Community Research Network Conference, Chicago IL, June 2002

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Globalization and Women: Two Perspectives from Russia and Mexico, University of Chicago, Department of Sociology Workshops on Globalization, Chicago IL, May 2002

Family and Education During Transition: A Case Study in Siberia, Midwest Sociology Society Annual Conference, Milwaukee WI, April 2002 Spy or Feminist? Academic Pursuits in Siberia, Northeastern Illinois University, Annual Women's Studies Symposium, Chicago IL, March 2002

Gender and Transition in Siberia, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Cleveland OH, November 2001 Bilingual Manufacturing Technology Bridge Program at IDPL-The Challenges and Opportunities, Building on the Benefits of our Bilingual Multicultural Workforce Summit, El Paso TX, November 2001

The Gendered Effects of Economic Structural Adjustment: Two Case Studies--Siberia and Mexico, World Planning Schools Congress, Shanghai China, July 2001

CEP: An International Exchange Program in Omsk, International Relations for Developing Social and Economic Process in the CIS Countries, Omsk Russia, June 2001 Are Collectives an Effective Tool for Economic Development? An Analysis of Two Collectives in Mexico, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Atlanta GA, November 2000

Some Gendered Effects of Structural Adjustment: A Case Study in Mexico, Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles CA, May 2000 Deconstructing Gendered Stereotypes of Work and Economic Activity in a Mexican Village, Third Annual University of Illinois at Chicago Graduate Student Conference, Chicago IL, February 2000 Gendered Effects of Structural Adjustment in a Small Village in South Central Mexico, University of Illinois at Chicago, Urban Planning and Policy Program, Friday Research Forum, Chicago IL, November 1999

Gender, Race, Culture, and Class Sensitive Methodologies and Their Importance in Planning and Development Policy Analysis: A Case Study in Mexico, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Chicago IL, October 1999

A Gendered Perspective on the IMF and the World Bank, 50 Years is Enough Campaign, IMF and World Bank Symposium, Chicago IL, July 1994

How Women are Challenging the New World Order, The Indigenous Environmental

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Network, Annual Save the Earth Conference, Mole Lake Reservation WI, June 1994 Women and NAFTA, Women for Economic Justice, Conference on the Impact of the North

American Free Trade Agreement on Women, Chicago IL, October 1993 Job Loss in Illinois and Investment in the Maquiladoras in Mexico, American Friends

Service Committee: Conference on the North American Free Trade Agreement, Chicago IL, May 1992

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Council of Diverse Constituents Temple University Member February 2016 - Present Faculty Senate Committee on the Status of Faculty of Color (FOC), Temple University, Committee Member, March 2013-June 2013, Co-Chair July 2013-Present

Academic Center on Research in Diversity (ACCORD), Temple University, Steering Committee Member, March 2013-Present

Women in Cities International, International Advisory Council Member, May 2012-Present Women for Economic Justice, Chicago, IL Founding member and board member, 2004-Present

College of Liberal Arts, Non-Tenure Track Merit Committee, Temple University Member 2015-2017 (appointed by the Dean)

Online Teaching Institute , Temple University, Center for Advancement in Teaching Participant February 2017 Workshop on Designing Online Courses, Temple University, Center for Advancement in

Teaching Participant, February 2017 14-Day Writing Challenge, National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity Participant, July 2016 and April 2017 Train the Trainer Multicultural Education Workshop, Temple University The Office

of Institutional Diversity, Equality, Advocacy and Leadership, Participant, Summer and Fall 2016 Provost Teaching Academy, Temple University Teaching and Learning Center Competitively selected to participate in the six-week training May-June 2016 Planners of Color Interest Group, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Elected

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Secretary/Treasury 2010-2012 and 2012-2014 Temple University - Center for Teaching and Learning, Learning Circle for Online Teaching, March 2012-January 2013

Global Planning Educators Interest Group, Association of Collegiate Schools of

Planning, Nominations Committee, Chair, 2008-2013 Certificate Program in Virtual Teaching (20 hours), Temple University, February-March 2013

National Science Foundation Proposal Reviewer, March 2011

Planners of Color Interest Group, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Policy

Committee, 2008-2011

Planners Network, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Chapter, Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Faculty Advisor, Spring 2010 College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Library committee, 2007-2010 East St. Louis Action Research Project, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign,

Campus Advisory Committee 2008-2009 College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, I-Space Committee, 2007-2008

Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Diversity Committee Coordinator, 2007-2009 University Program on Gender Studies (National Autonomous University of Mexico), Mexico City, Mexico, Working Group on the Genocide in Juarez, March 2005-2007 Senator Barack Obama’s Latino Policy Committee, Chicago, IL Workforce Development in Latino Communities, Fall 2004 Mujeres Latinas en Acción, Chicago, IL, Advisory Committee, Latina Portraits Revisited, 2003-2005 Latino Organization of the Southwest, Chicago, IL, Advisory Committee: Economic Development Planning Committee, 2003-2005

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Native American Foster Parents Association, Chicago, IL Advisory Committee Member: Elders Oral History Project, 2002-2003

Instituto del Progreso Latino, Chicago, IL

Workforce Development Department Curriculum Committee, 2001-2005 NCLA Pilot High School Development Committee Member, 2002-2003 Consultant for High School Accreditation Application, 2002- 2003 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Planning Globally Taskforce, Boston, MA, Curriculum Committee Member, 2002-2005

Alianza Cívica, Cuernavaca, Mexico, Foreign Observer of 1994 Presidential Elections, 1994

University of Illinois at Chicago, Urban Planning and Policy Program: Public Policy Analysis Committee, Curriculum Committee, and Recruitment Committee,

Chicago, IL Student Representative, 1993-1995

Indian Treaty Rights Committee, Chicago, IL, Organizer and researcher, 1992-1995 Greater Roxbury Neighborhood Authority, Boston, MA, Board of Directors, 1989-1990

Roxbury, North Dorchester Neighborhood Revitalization Development Corporation,

Boston, MA, Board of Directors, 1989-1990

University of Missouri Research Board Proposal Review December 2016 Journal Referee

American Sociological Review October 2016 Bitácora Urbano/Territorial (in Spanish), January 2014 Economic Development Quarterly, May 2010, September 2010, October 2010, July 2011, August 2011, September 2011, October 2011, August 2012, January 2013, March 2013, April 2013, August 2013, November 2013 Ecopsychology September 2014 Gender, Place and Culture, September 2008, August 2014, March 2017, May 2017, July 2017 GeoForum April 2014

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, May 2015 International Migration, September 2010, January 2011, January 2013, May 2013, September 2014

Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, November 2009 Journal of Planning Education and Research, November 2006, January 2007, March 2008, August 2008, February, 2009, September 2009, January 2010, November 2010, October 2012, January 2014, June 2015 Journal of Planning History, September 2005 Journal of Urbanism, November 2011, December 2012, October 2013

Latin American Research Review (in Spanish), September 2011 Latino Studies, December 2007, April 2008 Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, February 2017 Urban Studies, October 2012, October 2014, August 2015 Women’s Studies International Forum April 2014 World Development August 2014