SCHOOL OF LABOR AND URBAN STUDIES Transfer Appointment of Faculty

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WHEREAS, The School of Labor and Urban Studies was established as the City University of New York’s twenty-fifth College during the fall 2018 term; and

WHEREAS, Pursuant to Section 6212 of the New York State Education Law, seniority of a tenured person is governed by the date of appointment to the department. A tenured person transferred and appointed effective the same date to the School of Labor and Urban Studies shall have the same date of seniority as a result of this transfer; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Stephanie Luce, Associate Professor, is characterized by leaders in her field as a true intellectual and scholar in Labor Studies, and has published nine scholarly articles in top-tiered refereed journals since her appointment in 2010, and has co-authored two books, as well as, authored two books since her appointment, and been funded by grants and/or contracted research over eight projects; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Penny Lewis, Assistant Professor, is characterized by leaders in her field as a true intellectual and scholar in Labor Studies, and has published nine scholarly articles in top-tiered refereed journals since her appointment in 2009, and has co-authored three books since her appointment, and presented 11 juried papers at national conferences; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Kafui Abolde Attoh, Assistant Professor, is characterized by leaders in his field as a true intellectual and scholar in Urban Studies, and has published nine scholarly articles in top-tiered refereed journals since his appointment in 2013, and has authored three book chapters and one book since his appointment, and some of Dr. Attoh’s research has been funded by the Ewing Kauffman Foundation; and

WHEREAS, James G. Steele, Distinguished Lecturer, is a tireless advocate for voter equity, and directed “Countdown ’89 a non-partisan voter registration/voter mobilization project of the Community Service Society, and served as Director of Labor and Civic Participation Project at the Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies: an initiative designed to prepare union activities to play a more active role in electoral politics, and is a recognized author and speaker about Black voter rights; now therefore be it

RESOLVED, that Dr. Stephanie Luce, Associate Professor, Dr. Penny Lewis, Assistant Professor, Dr. Kafui Abolde Attoh, Assistant Professor, and James G. Steele, Distinguished Lecturer, be transferred as faculty to the Depart of Labor Studies at the School of Labor and Urban Studies (SLU) on June 1, 2019.

EXPLANATION: The transfer of faculty appointments from the School of Profession Studies is a critical next step in the development of CUNY's newest school, The School of Labor and Urban Studies. The President, therefore, shall break the ties in seniority between and among the tenured members by using each member’s original date of appointment to his or her full-time instructional staff title at the college. At such time as any of the untenured faculty members become tenured, his or her seniority would be governed by the date of appointment to CUNY SLU and the President will apply the same tie-breaking principle. The impacted instructional staff member has been advised of his or her seniority date in the new School.

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March 27, 2019

To Whom It May Concern:

The School of Labor and Urban Studies was established as the City University of New York’s twenty-fifth College during the fall 2018 term. Approved by the Board of Trustees, the following instructional faculty: Kafui Attoh, Stephanie Luce, Penelope Lewis and James G. Steele will be transferred from CUNY School of Professional Studies to CUNY SLU.

The aforementioned faculty are exemplary scholars and practitioners in their fields of Labor and Urban Studies. Each faculty member brings tremendous pedagogical and theoretical expertise that greatly enhances the educational experience of our students. SLU is indeed fortunate to have such exceptional faculty.

Thank you for your assistance in this important transition.

Sincerely,

Gladys Palma de Schrynemakers, Ed.D. Interim Associate Dean, Academic Affairs

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CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME Kafui Ablode Attoh

RECOMMENDATION FOR Promotion to Associate Professor

APPOINTMENT:

REAPPOINTMENT:

PROMOTION: X

REAPPOINTMENT WITH TENURE:

OTHER (Designation as Vice President, Dean, etc.):

CURRENT TITLE Assistant Professor of Urban DEPARTMENT Urban Studies Studies

EFFECTIVE DATE August 2013 SALARY RATE $84,354.00

I. HIGHER EDUCATION

Institution Dates Attended Degree & Major Date Conferred

Syracuse University 2008-2013 PhD, Geography June 2013 Syracuse University 2006-2008 MA, Geography June 2008 Macalester College 2002-2006 BA, Geography May 2006

II. EXPERIENCE/TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

Institution Department Rank Dates

CUNY Graduate Center Earth and Assistant 2018-Present Environmental Professor Sciences (Affiliated)

CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies

Urban Studies Assistant Professor

2018- Present

CUNY School of Professional Studies (Murphy Institute)

Urban Studies Assistant Professor

2013-2018

III. ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL HONORS

Honor or Award Granting Institution Date

Faculty Fellow CUNY Center for Place Culture and Politics

2016-2017

https://84,354.00

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Faculty Fellowship Publication Fellow CUNY FFPP Spring 2015

IV. PUBLICATIONS/CREATIVE WORKS

A. PUBLICATIONS/CREATIVE WORKS, PERFORMED OR EXHIBITED In REFEREED

VENUES

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS

Rights in Transit: Public Transportation and the Right to the City in California’s East Bay (2019) Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Attoh K, Mitchell, D. and Staeheli, L (2017) The University and the City: The campus as a space of dependence and engagement in the age of austerity. Alternative Routes Intervention

Attoh, K (2017) Public Transportation and the Idiocy of Urban Life. Urban Studies 54(1) 196-213

Shortlisted for best article in Urban Studies print edition

http://journals.sagepub.com/page/usj/collections/awards

Mitchell, D; Attoh, K; Staeheli, L (2015) Whose City? What Politics? Contentious and non-contentious spaces on Colorado’s Front Range. Urban Studies. 52(14) 2633-26488

Attoh, K (2014) Imagining a “cultural turn” in transportation geography, Journal of Cultural Geography. 31(2) 141-151

Attoh, K (2014) What type of public transit for what type of public? New Labor Forum. 23(2) 58-66.

Staeheli, L; Attoh, K and Mitchell, D. (2013) Contested Engagement: Youth and the Politics of Citizenship. Space and Polity.77 (1) 88-105.

Attoh, K. (2012) The Transportation Disadvantaged and The Right to the City in Syracuse, New York. The Geographical Bulletin. 53(1) 1-20

Attoh, K. (2011) What kind of right is the right to the city? Progress in Human Geography. 35(5) 669-686

Attoh, K. et al. (2011) The Bus Hub: Poem and Song. Acme Journal: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. 10(2) 280-285

http://journals.sagepub.com/page/usj/collections/awardshttps://Polity.77

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Mitchell, D; Attoh, K and Staehli, L (2016) “Broken Windows is not the Panacea” in Jordan Camp and Christina Heatherton (eds.) Policing the Crisis: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter. New York, NY: Verso.

Staeheli,L; Attoh, K and Mitchell, D (2014) “Contested Engagements: Youth and the Politics of Citizenship” in Kirsi Paulina Kallio and Jouni Hakli (eds). The Beginning of Politics: Youthful Political Agency in Everyday Life. New York: Routledge (reprint of Space and Polity article)

Mitchell, D; Attoh, K. and Staeheli, L. (2013) “Policing Centered Community Cohesion in Two British Cities” in Randy Lippert and Kevin Walby (eds). Policing Cities:Urban Securitization and Regulation in a 21st century world. New York: Routledge.

BOOK REVIEWS

Attoh, K (2017) Book review forum: Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility, by Jacob Shell. AAG Review of Books 5(2) 138-145

Attoh, K. (2012) Book review: Banished: The New Social Control in Urban America, by Katherine Beckett and Steven Herbert. Urban Studies 49(16) 3701-3703

Attoh, K. (2008) Book review: Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban frontiers edited by Helga Leitner, Jamie Peck and Eric Sheppard. Antipode 40(2) 336-338

B. OTHER PUBLICATIONS/ CREATIVE WORKS, PERFORMED OR EXHIBITED

REPORTS, ESSAYS and WRITING FOR GENERAL PUBLIC

Cullen, D, Attoh, K, Well, K (2018, August 30) Taking Back the Wheel. Dissent Magazine (Online) https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/uber-flying-car-silicon-valley-labor-technology-future-politics

Wells, K; Attoh, K and Declan Cullen (2018) Tax Uber and Lift the Veil, Kalmanovitz Blog http://lwp.georgetown.edu/2018/06/25/tax-uber-and-lift-the-veil/

Wells, K; Attoh, K and Declan Cullen (2018) Uber, the “Metropocalypse” and Economic Inequality in DC. Working Class Perspectives. February 19 2018 https://workingclassstudies.wordpress.com/

Attoh, K (2017) How Poor Public Transit Makes Idiots of us All London School of Economics: Unites States Politics and Policy Blog. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2017/09/27/how-poor-public-transit-makes-idiots-of-us-all/

Attoh, K and Yang, Siennah (2017) The Transportation Situation in Poughkeepsie: A Memo. Access at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/u6vfi6kfbndcpce/ReportOnCityTransitIssue_AttohYangJuly2017.pd f?dl=0

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/uber-flying-car-silicon-valley-labor-technology-future-politicshttps://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/uber-flying-car-silicon-valley-labor-technology-future-politicshttp://lwp.georgetown.edu/2018/06/25/tax-uber-and-lift-the-veil/https://workingclassstudies.wordpress.com/http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2017/09/27/how-poor-public-transit-makes-idiots-of-us-all/http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2017/09/27/how-poor-public-transit-makes-idiots-of-us-all/https://www.dropbox.com/s/u6vfi6kfbndcpce/ReportOnCityTransitIssue_AttohYangJuly2017.pdf?dl=0https://www.dropbox.com/s/u6vfi6kfbndcpce/ReportOnCityTransitIssue_AttohYangJuly2017.pdf?dl=0

I-B-20Wells, K; Attoh, K, and Declan Cullen (2017) The work lives of Uber drivers are worse than you think. Working Class Perspectives Blog. Access at: https://workingclassstudies.wordpress.com/2017/07/10/the-work-lives-of-uber-drivers-worse-than-you-think/

Attoh, K (2015) Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson: An Interview Murphy Institute Blog http://murphyinstituteblog.org/2015/04/07/nobody-leaves-mid-hudson-an-interview/

Attoh, K (2015) To the editors. New Labor Forum 24(1) 131-132.

Attoh, K (2014) Dead Labor on a Dead Planet: The Inconvenient Truth of Worker’s Bladders. Monthly Review Zine. http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2014/attoh061114.html

Attoh, K (2014) Panem et Circenses et Transit. Murphy Institute Blog. http://murphyinstituteblog.org/2014/06/10/the-world-cup-panem-et-circenses-et-transit-killjoy-alert/#sthash.2NqBZEjo.dpbs

V. UNPUBLISHED WORK (Supported by evidence, including unpublished PhD or Master’s Thesis)

A. WORKS SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION, EXHIBITION or PRODUCTION

Attoh, K; Wells, K; Cullen, D “‘We’re building their data’: Labor, Alienation and Idiocy in the Smart City” Society and Space (Under review, Submitted February 2, 2019)

Wells, K; Attoh, K; Cullen D “Platform Capitalism and the anti-revolutionary workplace of Uber drivers” ACME: An international Journal for Critical Geographies (Under review, Submitted February 25, 2019)

VI. GRANTS AND SPONSORED PROGRAMS

A. External

Name of Grant Funding Agency Dollar Award Period Role (PI, Co-PI) Amount

Economic Ewing $56,548.00 2015-2017 PI Inequality in the Kauffman Driver’s Seat Foundation

B. Internal (CUNY or PSC)

Name of Grant Funding Agency Dollar Award Period Role (PI, Co-PI) Amount

Rights in Transit PSC CUNY $2,534.69 Summer 2015 PI

http://murphyinstituteblog.org/2015/04/07/nobody-leaves-mid-hudson-an-interview/http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2014/attoh061114.htmlhttp://murphyinstituteblog.org/2014/06/10/the-world-cup-panem-et-circenses-et-transit-killjoy-alert/#sthash.2NqBZEjo.dpbshttp://murphyinstituteblog.org/2014/06/10/the-world-cup-panem-et-circenses-et-transit-killjoy-alert/#sthash.2NqBZEjo.dpbshttps://2,534.69https://56,548.00https://workingclassstudies.wordpress.com/2017/07/10/the-work-lives-of-uber-drivers-worse

VII. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES (Indicate invited

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lectures/presentations with *)

Title of Presentation/Lecture

Uber, Public Transit, and the Idiocy of the Smart City*

A Talk on Transportation Justice

Uber, Public Transit, and the Idiocy of the Smart City*

Uber’s Racial Strategy and our own*

Uber’s Racial Strategy*

Uber and the Idiocy of the Smart City

Uber and the Idiocy of the Smart City*

I like when metro don’t work, that’s how I make my money*

I like when metro don’t work, that’s how I make my money

Public Transportation and the Idiocy of Urban Life*

Name and Location of Date

Conference/Lecture

Mount Holyoke College February 2019 /Geography Department/ Annual Geography Speaker Series

Rockaway Revolution, First January 26 2019 Congregational Church, Rockaways

Vassar College/ Geography November 2018 Department/ Geography Awareness Week Lecture

(Anti)Blackness in the American November 2, Metropolis Workshop, Baltimore 2018 MD

American Sociological August 2018 Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA

Association of American April 2018 Geographies Annual meeting, Paper Session: My city is smarter than yours, New Orleans LA

CUNY, Graduate Center, October 25, 2017 Department of Critical Social and Environmental Psychology Brown Bag Lecture

CUNY, Critical Transportation April 28 2017 Group

Association of American April 2017 Geographies Annual meeting, Paper Session: Geographies of disruption, Boston MA.

CUNY Graduate Center, April 14, 2016 Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Colloquium

Public Transportation and the Idiocy of University of North Carolina, April 8 2016 Urban Life* Chapel Hill, Department of

Geography, Colloquium

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Author Meets Critic: Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility

Association of American Geographies Annual meeting, session organizer, San Francisco CA

March 2016

Geography and E.P. Thompson Association of American Geographies Annual meeting, Panelist. Chicago MA

March 2015

Dead Labor on a Dead Planet* New York University, Urban Democracy Lab, Infrastructures of Labor

December 2014

Dead Labor on a Dead Planet North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State, Detroit

December 2014

Splish Splash they Saved the Baths! Community Cohesion, the Public, and Levenshulme's ‘Save the Baths’ Campaign

Right to the City in the Age Austerity Conf. Paper presentation, Sorbonne, Paris (Presented by Lynn Staeheli)

May 31 2014

Teaching Geography Critically Association of American Geographies Annual meeting, Panelist. Tampa FL

April 8 2014

Rights in Transit: The Struggle for Transportation Justice in California’s East Bay*

Brooklyn College Philosophy Society

March 13 2014

“Working for “the Public”: The Evolution of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 192 and the Role of East Bay Bus Drivers in the Fight Against Transportation and Spatial Injustice

North American Labor History Conference, Paper Session Detroit MI

October 2013

Accessibility on what terms? Transportation Justice and other struggles against the idiocy of urban life.*

Workshop: Accessibility as a condition to spatial justice in urban context. Montreal Quebec.

May 2013

VIII. SERVICE

A. COLLEGE SERVICE

Name of Committee or Project

School wide curriculum committee

Type of Service

Review proposed curricular changes

Role (i.e. Chair)

Urban Studies Rep Dates

September 2018 -Present

Urban Studies curriculum Review proposed Faculty Rep September 2018 committee curricular changes

Commencement committee Plan Faculty Rep September Commencement 2018- Present

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Undergraduate Transition Develop Urban Faculty Rep September 2017 Committee Academy and

undergraduate plan for new school

Urban Studies Program Manager Hiring Faculty Rep November 2017 Search committee (x2)

Committee for Public Exhibits Develop criteria for Faculty Rep September 2016 changing public exhibits

Urban Studies Program Manager Hiring Faculty rep September 2016 Search committee

Murphy Institute Blog Contributor/editor Faculty Rep June 2014-2016 Committee

Institutional Effectiveness Developed Murphy Institute Rep committee organizational to SPS

structure

Urban Studies Tuition Award scholarships Faculty Rep September 2013 Scholarship Committee - present

Urban Studies Admission Admissions Faculty Rep September 2013 Committee - Present

MiddleStates accreditation Develop program Urban Studies Rep March 2014 committee goals/ Learning

outcomes

B. COMMUNITY SERVICE: Include public service to the NYC community beyond the

campus (e.g. mentoring of local high school students) and service to the community of your

discipline (e.g. journal reviewing/editing, conference organizing)

Name of Organization or Type of Service Role Dates

Project

Planning Committee for Our Managing Urban Studies Faculty September 2018 Economy! Economic Democracy Honoraria Rep -Present and System Change

Thomas Coggin (JD) Doctoral Academic Advisement January 2019 Fordham Law School Dissertation

Committee Member

October 2018 Jessica Murray ABD Doctoral Academic Advisement CUNY Environmental Dissertation Psychology Committee

Member

32BJ student Scholarship Selecting award Committee member 2014-2016 Committee. winners

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SSRC: -Mellon Mays Graduate Planning annual Committee Member 2013-2014 Initiative’s Planning and Conference Advisory Committee

Reviewer for: Urban Provide feedback to Peer reviewer 2013-Present Geography; Social and Cultural editors on Geography; Environment and submitted journal Planning A; Progress in Human articles Geography; Geographical Bulletin; Journal of Cartography; Journal of Cultural Geography; Urban Studies; International Journal of Urban and Regional Research; New Labor Forum; and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space .

IX. MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Name of Professional Organization Membership Role (i.e. Board) Dates

American Association of Geographers Member in good standing September 2011 to present

X. OTHER NOTABALE ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Featured on WNYC On the Media: Interviewed by Brooke Gladstone on “the deeper meaning of rights in transit” https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/on-the-media-2018-11-23

Invited to give annual Wheeler lecture at the University of Georgia’s Department of Geography I Spring 2020. This is one of their named lectures honoring the late colleague Jim Wheeler, who was the founding editor of Urban Geography. This lecture series features speakers who have made prominent contributions to urban and/or economic geography.

DATE SUBMITTED

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