Fellowships, Honors, & Awards<\/strong><\/h5>\nFisher Center Faculty Fellow, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, on the theme of \u201cGender, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene\u201d 2015<\/p>\n
Humanities and Social Science Strategy Development Grant, University of Exeter, for \u201cUnsettling Life\/Death in Technoscientific Practices with Marine Invertebrates\u201d, with Astrid Schrader, 2014<\/p>\n
Human-Animal Studies Fellowship, Animal-Society Institute, Wesleyan University, Summer 2011<\/p>\n
Participant, Macaulay Honors College Faculty Seminar, \u201cFrom Bestiary to Bioculture: Constituting the Human,\u201d 2010-2011<\/p>\n
Mark and Judy Yudof Fellowship in Science Policy and Ethics, University of Minnesota,\u00a02009-2010<\/p>\n
Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment, and the Life Sciences Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 2009<\/p>\n
Participant, Center for Place, Culture, and Politics Annual Seminar, \u201cGeopolitics and Insecurity,\u201d The Graduate Center CUNY,\u00a02007-2008<\/p>\n
Presidential Fellowship, The Graduate Center CUNY; 2007-2012,\u00a0declined 2009-2012<\/p>\n
Graduate Research Partnership Program (with Professor Arun Saldanha), Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, 2007<\/p>\n
Foreign Language Area Scholarship (Mandarin Chinese), U.S. Department of Education in association with University of Minnesota,\u00a02006-2007<\/p>\n
Red Pocket and Hsiao Scholarships, China Center, University of Minnesota, 2005<\/p>\n
Honorable Mention, Geography, National Science Foundation \u2013 Graduate Research Fellowship Program, 2005<\/p>\n
Invited Lectures<\/strong><\/p>\n2015. \u201cRe-placing Labor in the Engineered Ecologies of the Anthropocene,\u201d Engineered Worlds<\/em>, a workshop at The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, University of Chicago, October 1-3.<\/p>\n2015. \u201cBiomimetic science and the politics of fabricating \u2018pluripotent\u2019 life,\u201d Domestication and Fabrication of life<\/i>, Laboratoire d\u2019anthropologie sociale P\u00e9pini\u00e8re Interdisciplinaire CNRS-PSL, College de France, March 24.<\/p>\n
2015. \u201cCartographies of the Anthropocene: Reconsidering the bio\/geo divide,\u201d Life After the Anthropocene<\/i>, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, Oxford University, February 25.<\/p>\n
2014. \u201cBetween Apocalypse and Eternity: Legislating the Life Cycles of Jellyfish\u201d <\/b>More-than-Human Legalities: Advocating an Animal Turn in Law, <\/i>SUNY Buffalo Law School, September 11-12.<\/p>\n
2014. \u201cEngineering Bees: Reconsidering Human and Nonhuman Labor,\u201d Department of Geography, University of Washington, April 25.<\/p>\n
2014.\u00a0\u201cUnsettling Life\/Death: Living with and as Jellyfish,\u201d Biological Futures in a Globalized World, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, April 24.<\/p>\n
\u00a02013. \u201cReproducing Bees: Value and Bricolage in Biomimetic Practice,\u201d Insects and Biotechnologies Workshop, Institute for Science Innovation and Society, University of Oxford, December 11.<\/p>\n
2011. \u201cOn Friendship and Revolutionary Time,\u201d So-Called Marginalia event, Bluestockings Bookstore, New York City, June 10.<\/p>\n
Campus Talks\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n2014. \u201cTime and the University,\u201d University College London\u2013Exeter Workshop on Science and Technology Studies, University of Exeter, February 21.<\/p>\n
\u00a02014.\u00a0\u201cFor the Love of Jellyfish,\u201d University of Exeter, Department of Geography Seminar, February 5.<\/p>\n
\u00a02013. \u201cMimetic Revolutions in the Biopolitical Machine,\u201d Biopolitics: Life in the Past and Present, Center for the Humanities, UW \u2013 Madison, May 3-4.<\/p>\n
\u00a02013.\u00a0\u201cThe Promise of a New Humanity: Imagining Bio-Mimetic Futures,\u201d Friday Lunch Lecture Series, Center for the Humanities, UW \u2013 Madison, March 1.<\/p>\n
\u00a02012. \u201cLife, Limits, and Enclosure: The Production of Biomimetic Science,” Yi-Fu Tuan Lecture Series, Department of Geography, UW \u2013 Madison, November 16.<\/p>\n
\u00a02011. \u201cThe Purpose of RoboBees: Biomimicry and Value,\u201d Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, UW-Madison, November 17.<\/p>\n
2007. \u201cRevealing the West as a Land of Gold? The problem of tourism development and biodiversity conservation in Western Sichuan, China,\u201d Asian Literatures, Cultures, and Media Workshop, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, March 22.<\/p>\n
Conference Activity<\/b><\/h3>\nPAPER PRESENTATIONS<\/i><\/h3>\n
2016 \u00a0\u201cBioaccumulation in the Anthropocene and the Limits of Labor,\u201d Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, March 29-April 4.<\/p>\n
2015 \u00a0\u201cThe Imperceptibility of Jellyfish: Unknowability in the Anthropocene,\u201d Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Chicago, IL April 21-25.<\/p>\n
2014 \u00a0 \u201cThinking Im\/mortality with Jellyfish,\u201d Im\/mortality and In\/finitude Symposium, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, December 2-5.<\/p>\n
2014 \u00a0 \u201cDeciding on the Uncompanionable: On Killing Bedbugs,\u201d British Animal Studies Network Annual Conference, University of Exeter, November 14-15.<\/p>\n
2014 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cIntimacy and Finitude: Living with and As Jellyfish,\u201d Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Turin, Italy, June 3-6.<\/p>\n
2014 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cBeyond Productions of Ignorance: Agnotologies of the Anthropocene,\u201d Anthropocene Feminisms Conference, University of Wisconsin \u2013 Milwaukee, April 10-12.<\/p>\n
2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cBiomimicries For and Against Capitalism,\u201d with Jesse Goldstein, Critical Climate Change Workshop, University of Minnesota and Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, April 2013.<\/p>\n
2012\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cRevisiting more-than-human Encounters: The ethics and politics of living and
\ndying lobsters,\u201d Annual Conference on Critical Geography, Chapel Hill, NC, November 2012.<\/p>\n
2012\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe Political Promise of Ontology,\u201d Millennium Conference: Materialism and World Politics, London, UK, with Garnet Kindervater, October 2012.<\/p>\n
2012\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cLittoral Bodies: Beyond the Boundaries of Geopolitical Territory\u201d\u00a0Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, New York, NY, March 2012.<\/p>\n
2011\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cReproducing Bees? Bricolage and the Value of Biomimicry\u201d\u00a0Human-Animal Studies Conference, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, July 2011.<\/p>\n
2011\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cFor the Love of Jellyfish: Reflections on Labor, Affect, and Biological Politics\u201d\u00a0Constituting the Human, Macaulay Honors College, CUNY, New York, NY, April 2011.<\/p>\n
2010\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cPoliticizing the Banality of RoboBees, or: Musing on Technoscience and the Quotidian,\u201d Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Seattle, WA, April 2010.<\/p>\n
2010\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cReverse Engineering Evolution: Considering jellyfish, oilfields, and other stories of the material present\u201d Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Washington, D.C, April 2010.<\/p>\n
2009\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cBio-Machinic Innovation: Of technological materials, imagined futures and contemporary conflict\u201d\u00a0Annual Meeting of the Association of American Anthropologists, Philadelphia, PA, November 2009.<\/p>\n
2008\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cConsider the Lobster: From environmentalism to militarism\u201d The State of Things Conference, University of Leicester, UK, May 2008.<\/p>\n
2008\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cGeopolitics, Bio-Revolutions, and the Emerging Science of Defense\u201d Annual Meeting of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers, London, UK, August 2008.<\/p>\n
2007\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cEngineering (In)Secure Bodies:\u00a0 Biological productions of national defense\u201d\u00a0Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston, MA, April 2007.<\/p>\n
2007\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cCombat Zoology: Engineering insecurity and the nation-state\u201d Project Biocultures: Science, Technology, Culture, Humanity, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, November 2007.<\/p>\n
2007\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cIs Domestic Tourism a Domestic Phenomenon?\u00a0 Development, the state, and global connections in the mountains of Western Sichuan, China\u201d Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, CA, April 2007.<\/p>\n
PANEL PRESENTATIONS<\/i><\/p>\n
2015 \u00a0 Queer Data: Desire and Tension in the Production of Media Ecologies, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Chicago, IL, April 21-25.<\/p>\n
2010 \u00a0 The Ontology of Revolution: Negri and Geography (Re)considered, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Washington, DC, April 14-18.<\/p>\n
2009 \u00a0 Geopolitics and Insecurity, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Las Vegas, NV, March 22-27.<\/p>\n
2008 \u00a0 Susan Hanson\u2019s 45 years in geography: Feminist ideas change the world, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston, MA, April 15-19.<\/p>\n
Teaching Experience<\/strong><\/h3>\nHobart and William Smith Colleges, Environmental Studies Program
\n<\/strong>Topics in Environmental Studies: Global Climate Change (Fall 2015, 2016; Spring 2016)
\nEating, Killing, Loving: Our Lives with Animals (Spring 2016)
\nHuman Values and the Environment (Fall 2015, 2016; Spring 2016)
\nRadical Environmentalisms (Fall 2016)
\nSenior Integrated Experience: Local Animal Agriculture (Fall 2015)<\/p>\nUniversity of Exeter, Department of Geography
\n<\/strong>Geographies of Science, Politics and Publics (Spring 2015), co-taught with Gail Davies
\nGeographies of Life (Fall 2014), co-taught with the Nature, Materialities, and Biopolitics Research Group<\/p>\nUniversity of Wisconsin \u2013 Madison, Department of Geography
\n<\/strong>Introduction to People and Resources (Spring 2012, 2013)
\nSpecial Topics Seminar: Emergent Geographies of Techno-Biological Change (Fall 2011,\u00a02012)<\/p>\nLaGuardia Community College, Department of Social Sciences
\n<\/strong>Introduction to World Geography: America in the World (Fall 2010, Spring 2011)<\/p>\nUniversity of Minnesota, Department of Geography
\n<\/strong>Political Ecology of North America (Summer 2010)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Service<\/b><\/h3>\n
Academic Service<\/strong><\/p>\n2014 \u00a0Discussant, \u201cIgnorance and Intervention,\u201d Knowledge\/Value Workshop: Dark Data, University of Exeter, December 15-16.<\/p>\n
2014 \u00a0Paper Session Co-Organizer with Astrid Schrader, \u201cUnsettling Life and Death\u201d Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Turin, Italy, June 3-6.<\/p>\n
2014 \u00a0Paper Session Co-Organizer with Harlan Morehouse and Rory Rowan, \u201cGeophilosophy and the Geo-Social,\u201d Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Tampa, FL, April 19-25.<\/p>\n
2013 \u00a0Paper Session Co-Organizer with Harlan Morehouse, \u201cRevisiting the Anthropocene, Rethinking Anthropos,\u201d Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, April 9-13.<\/p>\n
2013 \u00a0Panel Session Co-Organizer with Katharine Kindervater, \u201cMichel Serres and Geography,\u201d Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, April 9-13.<\/p>\n
2013 \u00a0Discussant, \u201cAnimating Geopolitics,\u201d Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, April 9-13.<\/p>\n
2012 \u00a0Paper Session Co-Organizer with Garnet Kindervater, \u201cThe Political Promises of Ontology,\u201d Millennium Conference: Materialism and World Politics, London School of Economics, UK, October 19-20.<\/p>\n
2012 \u00a0Discussant, \u201cTheorizing the Geographies of Food: New Directions and Interventions for Alternative Food Praxis,\u201d Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, New York, NY, February 24-28.<\/p>\n
2010 \u00a0Panel Co-Organizer with Nathan Clough, \u201cThe Ontology of Revolution: Negri\u00a0and Geography (Re)considered,\u201d Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., April 14-18.<\/p>\n
2009 \u00a0Panel Organizer, \u201cGeopolitics and Insecurity,\u201d Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, March 22-27.<\/p>\n
2008 \u00a0Paper Session Co-organizer with Bruce Braun, \u201cExperimentation and\u00a0Engineering: Between the Aleatory and the Processual,\u201d Association of American\u00a0Geographers, Boston, MA, April 15-19.<\/p>\n
University Service<\/strong><\/p>\n2013 \u00a0 Workshop Co-Organizer with Stephen Hinchliffe and Astrid Schrader, \u201cScience\u00a0Culture Futures,\u201d a symposium at the University of Exeter, December.<\/p>\n
2010 \u00a0 Conference Co-Organizer, \u201cBeneath the University, the Commons,\u201d University of\u00a0Minnesota and the West Bank Social Center, April 8-11.<\/p>\n
2009 \u00a0 Conference Co-Organizer, \u201cRe-Working the University: Visions, Strategies, Demands,\u201d University of Minnesota, April 24-26.<\/p>\n
2008-2011 \u00a0Graduate Student Workers United, Founding Member, UMN<\/p>\n
Departmental Service<\/strong><\/p>\nUniversity of Exeter, Department of Geography<\/em><\/p>\nNature, Materialities and Biopolitics (NAMBIO) Research Group, Member, 2013-present<\/p>\n
University of Wisconsin \u2013 Madison, Department of Geography<\/em><\/p>\nWomen in Geography, Member, 2011-2013<\/p>\n
City University of New York – Graduate Center, Earth and Environmental Sciences<\/em><\/p>\nSpacetime Research Collective, Founding Member, 2008-present<\/p>\n
University of Minnesota \u2013 Department of Geography<\/em><\/p>\nWorking Group for Global Political Scholarship, Member, 2006-2009<\/p>\n
Supporting Women in Geography, Member, 2004-2011<\/p>\n
Coffee Hour Committee (coordinating committee for weekly speaker series), 2004-2009<\/p>\n