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JOSHUA F. J. INWOOD

CURRICULUM VITAE

5502 Sunset Rd Department of Geography

Knoxville, TN 37914 408 Burchfiel Build.

706-546-4856 Knoxville, TN 37901

jinwood@utk.edu 865-974-6170

EDUCATION

University of Georgia

Ph.D. Geography, 2007

Dissertation: Sweet Auburn: Contesting the Racial Identity of Atlanta’s

Most Historically Significant African American Neighborhood.

Advisor: Dr. Steve Holloway

Kent State University

M.A. Geography, 2002

Masters Thesis: Hearing the Blind: A Critical Geo-Humanist Perspective

on the Visually Impaired and Blind.

Advisor: Dr. James Tyner

Michigan State University

B.A. Geography, 2000

B.A. History, 2000

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

Associate Professor. Joint appointment between the Department of Geography and the

Africana Studies Program, University of Tennessee, 2014-Present.

Assistant Professor. Joint appointment between the Department of Geography and the

Africana Studies Program, University of Tennessee, 2010-2014.

Assistant Professor. Department of Geology and Geography, Auburn University, 2007-

2010. Affiliated faculty with the Africana Studies Program, 2007-2010.

Affiliated faculty with the Women Studies Program, 2008-2010.

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Publications (n=28):

Inwood, J. and Williams, J. and Alderman, D. (Forthcoming) "Where do we go from

here? Transportation Justice and the Continuing Struggle for Public Access."

Accepted June 2015.

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Bonds, A and Inwood, J. (Forthcoming) "Beyond White Privilege: White Supremacy,

Settler Colonialism, and Anti-Racist Geographies." Progress in Human

Geography. Conditional Acceptance April 2015.

Inwood, J. (Forthcoming) "Special Issue on the Death Penalty in the United States: The

Execution of Troy Davis." Accepted to ACME. January 2014.

Inwood, J. and Barron, M. (forthcoming) "Life and Death in the Racial State: Collateral

Consequences and the Execution of Troy Davis." Accepted ACME, October

2013.

Nagel, C., Inwood, J., Alderman, D., Aggarwal, U., Bolton, C., Holloway, S., Wright, R.,

Ellis, M., McCutcheon, P., Hankins, K., Walter, A., and Derickson, K. 2015.

"The Legacies of the U.S. Civil Rights Act, Fifty Years On." Political

Geography, 1-10.

Inwood, J. 2015. "Neoliberal Racism: The "Southern Strategy" and the Expanding

Geographies of White Supremacy." Journal of Social and Cultural Geography,

16 (4) 1-17.

Tyner, J., Inwood, J., and Alderman, D. 2014. "Theorizing Violence and the Dialectics

of Landscape Memorialization: A Case Study of Greensboro, North Carolina."

Environment and Planning D, 32 (5) 902-914.

Inwood, J. Tyner, J. and Alderman, D. 2014. Remembering the Real Violence in

Ferguson. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space Open Site.

http://societyandspace.com/2014/09/10/inwood-tyner-and-alderman-

remembering-the-real-violence-in-ferguson/

Tyner, J. and Inwood, J. 2014. "Violence as Fetish: Geography, Marxism and

Dialectics" Progress in Human Geography, 38 (6) 771-784.

Inwood, J. 2013. "Contextualizing the State Mode of Production in the United States:

Race, Space and Civil Rights." Environment and Planning A 45: 2120-2134.

Inwood, J. 2013. "Love and the Other: A Response to Morrison et al. (2013)" Progress

in Human Geography 37 (5) 721-723.

Alderman, D. and Inwood, J. 2013. "Street Naming and the Politics of Belonging:

Spatial Injustices in the Toponymic Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr."

Social and Cultural Geography 14 (2) 211-233.

Inwood, J. and Bonds, A. 2013. "On Racial Difference and Revolution." Antipode 45

(3) 517-520.

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Inwood, J. 2012. “Righting Unrightable Wrongs: Legacies of Racial Violence and the

Greensboro Truth and Reconcilation Commission.” Annals of the Association of

American Geographers. 102 (6) 1450-1468.

Inwood, J. 2012. "The Politics of Being Sorry: The Greensboro Truth Process and

Efforts at Restorative Justice." Social and Cultural Geography 13 (6) 607-624.

Martin, D. and Inwood, J. 2012. “Subjectivity, Power, and the IRB.” Professional

Geographer, special issue on Institutional Review Boards. Professional

Geographer 64 (1) 7-16.

Inwood, J. 2012. "Geographies of Race in the American South: The Continuing

Legacies of Jim Crow Segregation." Southeastern Geographer 51 (4) 564-577.

Inwood, J. and Tyner, J. 2011. “Geography’s Pro-Peace Agenda: An Unfinished Project.”

Acme 10 (3) 442-457.

Inwood, J. 2011. “Construction African American Urban Space in Atlanta Georgia: A

Case Study of Auburn Avenue.” Geographical Review 101 (2) 147-163.

Inwood, J. and Martin, D. 2010. “Exploring Spatial (Dis)locations Through the Use of

Roving Focus Groups.” Qualitative Researcher 12: 5-7.

Inwood, J. 2010. “Sweet Auburn: Constructing Auburn Avenue as a Heritage

Tourist Destination.” Urban Geography 31 (2) 573-594.

Inwood, J. 2009. “Searching for the Promised Land: Dr. Martin Luther King

Jr.’s Concept of the Beloved Community.” Antipode 41 (3) 487-508.

Inwood, J. 2009. “Contested Memory in the Birthplace of a King: A

Case Study of Auburn Avenue and the Martin Luther King Jr. National Park.”

Cultural Geographies 16 (1) 87-109.

Inwood, J. 2008. “Forty Years On: Marking the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

in Memphis, Tennessee.” Human Geography 1 (2) 112.

Inwood, J. and Martin, D. 2008. “Whitewash: White Privilege and Racialized

Landscapes at the University of Georgia.” Social and Cultural Geography 9 (4)

373-395.

Inwood, J. 2007. “Thinking Through the Concept of Social Justice: Preliminary

Thoughts.” Southeastern Geographer 47 (1) 101-103.

Inwood, J. 2005. “Making the Legal Visible: Wilhelmina Griffin Jones’

Experience of Living in Alabama during Segregation.” Southeastern

Geographer 45 (1) 54-66.

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Inwood, J. 2002. “Seeing the Blind: Humanism and the Blind Experience of

Place.” Geographic Bulletin 44 (1) 42-50.

Under Review:

Alderman, D. and Inwood, J. "Mobility as Anti-Racism Work: The “Hard Driving” of

NASCAR’s Wendell Scott." Submitted to Annals of the Association of American

Geographers; submitted July 2015.

Inwood, J. Alderman, D. and Barron, M. "Neoliberal Violence and the U.S. Truth and

Reconciliation Movement." Submitted to Political Geography; submitted May

2014; revise and resubmitted July 2015.

Inwood, J. and Bonds, A. "Confronting White Supremacy and a Militaristic Pedagogy in

the US Settler Colonial State." Submitted to Annals of the Association of

American Geographers; Submitted September 2014, revise and resubmit.

Resubmitted June 2015.

Books:

Inwood, J. and Tyner, J. (Under Contract). White Supremacy and the Making of America.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Scheduled for release spring

2017.

Edited Books:

Tyner, J. and Inwood, J. 2011. Non-Killing Geographies: Violence, Space and the

Search for a More Humane Geography. Honolulu, HA: Center For Global Non-

Killing.

Book Chapters:

Alderman, Derek and Inwood. (Forthcoming) "Toward a Pedagogy of Jim Crow: A

Geographic Reading of The Green Book." In: Estaville, Lawrence (ed). Teaching

Ethnic Geography in the Twenty-First Century. National Council for Geographic

Education.

Inwood, J. 2014. "Great Migration." In: Colten, C. and Buckley, G. (eds), North

American Odyssey: Historical Geographies for the Twenty-First Century. New

York: Rowman and Littlefield. 103-114.

Alderman, D. and Inwood, J. 2013. "Landscapes of Memory and Socially Just Futures."

In: Johnson, N.; Schein, R., and Winders, J. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to

Cultural Geography. London: Wiley-Blackwell.

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Tyner, J. and Inwood, J. 2011. "An Introduction to Nonkilling Geographies." In: Tyner,

J. and Inwood, J. (eds) Nonkilling Geography: Violence, Space and the Search for

More Humane Geography. Honolulu, HA: Center for Global Nonkilling.

Book Reviews:

Inwood, J. 2014. Review of Joel Feagin, Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and

Future Reparations, Third Addition, London: Routledge Press, 2013, pp.1x-360.

Association of American Geographers Review of Books.

Inwood, J. 2013. Review of Erin Winkler, Learning Race, Learning Place: Shaping

Racial Identities and Ideas in African American Childhoods. New Brunswick:

Rutgers University Press, pp. vii-211. Journal of Social and Cultural Geography,

15 (3) 354-356.

Inwood, J. 2012. Review of Todd Shaw, Now is the Time! Detroit Black Politics and

Grassroots Activism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009, pp.ix-288. Urban

Affairs Review 48(3) 458-461.

Inwood, J. 2011. Review of Owen Dwyer and Derek Alderman, Civil Rights Memorials

and the Geography of Memory. Chicago: The Center for American Places at

Columbia College, 2008, pp. i-143. Geographical Review 101 (1) 139-140.

Inwood, J. and Yarbrough, R. 2009. “Introduction: Racialized Places, Racialized Bodies:

The Impact of Racialization on Individual and Place Identities.” Special Issue on

the Racialization of Place. GeoJournal 75: 299-301.

Inwood, J. 2009. Review of Euan Hague, Heidi Beirich, and Edward Sebesta (editors),

Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction. Austin: The University of Texas Press,

2008, pp. ix-338 pp. Political Geography 28: 382-383.

Inwood, J. 2009. Review of Leslie Brown, Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class,

and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South. Chapel Hill: The

University of North Carolina Press, 2008, pp. ix-451 pp. Southeastern

Geographer 49 (3) 313-315.

Inwood, J. 2008. Review of Jessica Adams, Wounds of Returning: Race,

Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation. Chapel Hill: The

University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 226 pp. Historical Geography 36:

263- 265.

Inwood, J. 2006. Review of Martin Kenzer, On Becoming a Professional

Geographer. Caldwell, NJ: The Blackburn Press, 2000. 211 pp.

Southeastern Geographer 46 (1) 161-163.

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Inwood, J. 2005. Review of Hubbard et al., Thinking Geographically: Space,

Theory and Contemporary Human Geography. London, UK: Continuum, 2002.

275 pp. Cultural Geographies 12 (4) 535.

Inwood, J. 2005. Review of Manning Marable, The Great Wells of Democracy:

The Meaning of Race in American Life. New York: Basic Civitas Books,

2002. 365 pp. Antipode 37 (1) 192-194.

Encyclopedia Entries:

Tyner, J. and Inwood, J. 2015. Geographies of Race and Racism. In: International

Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 2nd Edition. James Wright

(ed), Oxford: Elsevier pp. 801-806.

Editorial Activities:

Editor. (in Progress) ACME. Special Issue on the Death Penalty and the Execution of

Troy Davis.

Guest Co-Editor. 2010. GeoJournal. Special Issue on the Process of Racialization. With

Dr. Robert Yarbrough.

Non-Refereed Publications:

Inwood, J. and Alderman, D. 2015. "MLK's Plan: Applying Standards of Nonviolence to

All." Knoxville Mercury 7 May, pg. 9.

Alderman, Derek and Inwood, Joshua. 2014. "Wendell Scott Deserves Spot in NASCAR

Hall of Fame," The Tennessean 18 May http://www.tennessean.com/story/

opinion/2014/05/19/wendell-scott-deserves-spot-nascar-hall-fame/9256251/

Inwood, J. and Tyner, J. 2013. " What’s so funny about peace, love and understanding

anyway? A response to Joel Wainwright (and with apologies to Elvis Costello),"

Antipode Foundation. http://wp.me/p16RPC-OQ

Inwood, J. and Tyner, J. 2011. “Guns and Geography: Rights, Rhetoric and

Regulations.” Association of American Geographers Newsletter 46 (3) 19.

Tyner, J and Inwood, J. 2009. “Challenging America’s Racialized War Culture.”

Association of American Geographers Newsletter 44 (1) 13.

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GRANTS AND AWARDS

External Awarded:

2010. National Science Foundation. Righting Unrightable Wrongs: Addressing the

Legacy of Racial Violence in the U.S. South. Funding runs from August 2010-

November 2015. ($164,744).

2005. National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant.

Geography and Regional Sciences Program for project titled: “Sweet Auburn:

Contesting the Racial Identity of Atlanta’s Historically Significant African-

American Neighborhood.” ($10,236)

Internal:

2012. University of Tennessee Professional Development Awards Committee.

"Transforming Racialized Violence Through Grassroots Initiatives: US Truth and

Reconciliation Projects." From May 2012-August 2012. ($3250).

2008. Auburn University Competitive Research Grant. “Looking for the Promised

Land: New Communities Collective Farm as an Expression of Dr. King’s

Beloved Community.” ($3750)

2008. University Honors College Teaching Enhancement Grant. Research/Travel

Grant from Auburn University Honors College. ($1000)

2004. University of Georgia Student Organization Committee. Wrote a successful

grant application for the Department of Geography’s Graduate Student Speaker

Series. ($2,100)

2004. Graduate Student Research and Performance Grant. Center for

Humanities and Arts Advisory Board, University of Georgia. ($1,000)

Awards:

2015. Glenda Laws Award. Association of American Geographers. The annual award

and honorarium recognize outstanding contributions to geographic research on

social issues.

2013. Junior Faculty Research Award. University of Tennessee, College of Arts and

Sciences. College award that recognizes high performing junior faculty.

2010. Distinguished Diversity Research Award. Auburn University. University wide

award that recognizes faculty who made a significant contribution to

understanding issues of diversity and inequality.

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2007. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. The University of Georgia. Annual

Award from the University of Georgia which recognizes the top 10% of all

University teaching assistants.

2006. John Fraser Hart Award, Best PhD Student Paper. Annual Meeting of the

Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers. Morgantown,

WV.

2006-2007. Graduate School Dissertation Completion Award. The University of

Georgia

2006. Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant. Department of Geography.

University of Georgia.

2005. Terry Jordan-Bychov Doctoral Paper Award. Cultural Geography Specialty

Group Paper Competition. “Whitewash: Investigating the Role of White Privilege

in the Construction of Racialized Landscapes.”

CONFERENCE/PAPER PRESENTATION

Confronting White Supremacy and a Militaristic Pedagogy in the US Settler Colonial

State; Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Chicago, IL April

2015

Discussant: Commemoration, Politics and Violence I; Annual Meeting of the Association

of American Geographers; Chicago, IL April 2015.

Neoliberal Racism: The "Southern Strategy" and the Expanding Geographies of White

Supremacy; Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of

American Geographers; Athens, GA November 2014.

Panel Participant. Stand Your Ground Issues. ; Race, Ethnicity, and Place V, Association

of American Geographers; Fort Worth, TX October 2014

Panel Participant. Teaching Slavery; Race, Ethnicity, and Place V, Association of

American Geographers; Fort Worth, TX October 2014

Jack Johnson Versus Jim Crow: Contesting Space and Race Through the Politics of

Mobility; Race, Ethnicity, and Place V, Association of American Geographers; Fort

Worth, TX October 2014.

Panel Participant. Geography and the Military 2. Annual Meeting of the Association of

American Geographers; Tampa Bay, FL 2014.

Panel Participant. FQG: Race, Biopolitics and the Future Panel; Annual Meeting of the

Association of American Geographers; Tampa Bay, FL April 2014.

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Panel Participant. Stand Your Ground: Geographies of Violence and the Uneven Legal

Landscape; Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Tampa Bay,

FL April 2014.

Panel Participant. Critical Race Theory: The Current State of Research and New

Possibilities; Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Tampa Bay,

FL April 2014.

The Roots of Neoliberal Racism: Civil Rights and the Southern Strategy; Annual Meeting

of the Association of American Geographers; Tampa Bay, FL April 2014.

Where Do We Go From Here? Transportation Justice and the Continuing Struggle for

Public Access; Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of

American Geographers; Roanoke, VA November 2013.

Killing Me Softly: Contradictory Neoliberal Violences and the U.S. Truth and

Reconciliation Movement; Rethinking Marxism Conference. Amherst, MA September

2013

Life and Death in the Racial State: Biopolitics, Violence, and the Execution of Troy

Davis; Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Los Angeles CA

April 2013.

Panel Participant. Geographies of Peace IV: Reflections on the Caravan for Peace and

Peace Activisms; Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los

Angeles, CA April 2013.

Bending the Arc of Justice: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Poor People's

Campaign and Defiant Geographies; Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the

Association of American Geographers, Asheville, NC November 2012.

Panel Participant: Higher Education in a Time of State Retrenchment; Annual Meeting

of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers, Asheville, NC

November 2012.

Letting Die in the Modern Racial State: The Execution of Troy Davis; 19th Annual

Conference on Critical Geography, Chapel Hill, NC November 2012.

The Politics of Being Sorry: The Greensboro Truth Process and Efforts at Restorative

Justice, Race, Ethnicity, and Place V, Association of American Geographers; San Juan,

Puerto Rico. October 2012.

Panel Participant: Study of the American South SG Plenary Panel: Sundown Towns, The

Geography and History of Racial Exclusion in the South, New York, NY February 2012.

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Panel Participant: Neoliberalism, Activism and the University, Annual Meeting of the

Association of American Geographers, New York, NY February 2012.

Panel Participant: Critical Race Studies and Implications for Geography, Annual

Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, NY February 2012.

The Politics of Apology: The Greensboro Truth Process and Efforts at Reconciliation,

Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, NY February

2012.

The Continuing Significance of Segregation on the Alabama Political Landscape:

Mapping the Future of Civil Rights Struggles for the State, Region and Nation, Southern

Studies Conference Auburn University Montgomery, Montgomery, AL. February 2012.

The Continuing Legacies of Jim Crow Segregation: A Case Study of the 1901 Alabama

Constitution, Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers;

Savannah, GA. November 2011.

Truth, Reconciliation and the Potential for Radical Social Change: The Case Study of

the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission, International Critical Geography

Conference, Frankfurt, Germany, August 2011.

Panel Participant: Teaching the Geographies of Memory and Heritage, Annual Meeting

of Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA, March 2011.

And the Walls (Just Might) Come Tumbling Down: Violence, Death, and Reconciliation

in a Southern Mill Town, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers;

Seattle, WA, March 2011.

Grassroots Community Organizations Attempts to Address Long Standing Impacts of

Racial Violence, Race, Ethnicity, and Place V, Association of American Geographers;

Binghamton, NY October 2010.

Reconciling the Truth: Legacies of Racial Violence in the American South, Annual

Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Washington, DC. April 2010.

Panel Participant: Community and Community Organizing in the Time of Obama, Annual

Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Washington, DC. April 2010.

Reconciling the Truth: Legacies of Racial Violence in the American South, Annual

Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers;

Knoxville, TN. November 2009.

Panel Participant: Does the Marriage Work? Geography in Combined Departments,

Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American

Geographers; Knoxville, TN. November 2009.

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Righting Unrightable Wrongs: Legacies of Racial Violence in the U.S. South, Mini-

Conference on Critical Geography, Athens, GA. October 2009.

Panel Participant: Teaching Race at the University, Mini-Conference on Critical

Geography, Athens, GA. October 2009.

Engaging With King: African American Political Thought, The Beloved Community and

Social Justice, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Las Vegas,

NV. March 2009.

After the Love Has Gone: The Politics of Love and Dr. King’s Relevance for 21st Century

Community Development, Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the

Association of American Geographers; Greensboro, NC November 2008.

I See the Promised Land: Examining Dr. Martin Luther King's Concept of the Beloved

Community as Geographic Space, Race, Ethnicity and Place IV, Association of American

Geographers; Miami, FL November 2008.

Sweet Auburn: Constructing Auburn Avenue as a Heritage Tourist Destination, Annual

Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Boston, MA. April 2008.

Panel Participant: African American Commemorative Politics: The Confederate Battle

Flag and Beyond, Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of

American Geographers; Charleston, SC November 2007.

Sweet Auburn: Contesting the Racial Identity of Atlanta's Historically Significant African

American Neighborhood, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers;

San Francisco, CA April 2007.

Sweet Auburn: Contesting the Racial Identity of a significant African American

Neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia, Honors Competition, Annual Meeting of the

Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers; Morgantown, WV

November 2006.

Contested Memory in the Birthplace of a King: A Case Study of Auburn Avenue and the

Martin Luther King Jr. National Park, Race, Ethnicity and Place III. Association of

American Geographers; San Marcos, TX November 2006.

A Northerner Comes South: The Significance of Place and Positionality, Annual Meeting

of the Association of American Geographers; Chicago, IL March 2006.

Panel Participant: Toward a Critical Understanding of Social Justice and Geography in

the American South, Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of

American Geographers; West Palm Beach, FL November 2005.

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Whitewash: Investigating the Role of White Privilege in the Construction of Racialized

Landscapes, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Denver, CO

April 2005.

Whitewash: Investigating the Role of ‘Race’ in the Landscape, Race, Ethnicity and Place

II. Association of American Geographers; Washington, DC October 2004.

Placing the Person: Wilhelmina Jones’ Experience of Living in Alabama During

Segregation, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Philadelphia,

PA March 2004.

Making the Legal Visible: Wilhelmina Jones’ Experience of Living in Alabama During

Segregation, Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of

American Geographers; Charlotte, NC November 2003.

Spatial Dissidents: The Blind and the Experience of Walking, Annual Meeting of the

Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers; Richmond, VA

November 2002.

Seeing the Blind: Humanism and the Experience of Place, Annual Meeting of the

Association of American Geographers; Los Angeles, CA March 2002.

Heterosexing Space at the Turn of the Century: The Case Study of Jack Johnson,

Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American

Geographers; Lexington, KY March 2001.

Humanism, Place, and the Experience of the Blind, Annual Meeting of the East Lakes

Division of the Association of American Geographers; Cincinnati, OH October 2001.

Sessions Organized:

Contested Landscapes of the U.S. South, at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern

Division of the Association of American Geographers, Athens, GA November

2014.

Author Meets Critic: Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory, at the

Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC

April 2010.

Righting Unrightable Wrongs: Legacies of Racial Violence in the U.S. South, at the

Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American

Geographers, Greensboro, NC November, 2008.

After the Love Has Gone: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life, Legacy and Meaning

for Geography, at the Race, Ethnicity and Place III Conference, Miami, FL

October 2008.

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Sessions Co-Organized:

Study of the American South and Southern Studies Special Plenary Session: From

the U.S. South to the Global South, with Dr. David Butler, at the Annual

Meeting of Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers,

Athens, GA 2014.

Critical Race Theory: The Current State of Research and New Possibilities, with Dr.

Anne Bonds, at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,

Tampa, FL, April 2014

Geographies of Civil Rights co-organizer with Dr. Richard Wright, Dr. Derek

Alderman, at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,

Tampa, FL, April 2014. Sessions I-III

Geographies of Peace I-IV, co-organizer with Dr. Colin Flynt, Dr. Sara Koopman, Dr.

Amy Ross, Dr. James Tyner, at the Annual Meeting of the Association of

American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, March 2013.

Panel Discussion: Troy Davis Execution: Life and Death in the Racial State, Co-

Organizer with Dr. Tom Chapman, at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern

Division of the Association of American Geographers, Savannah, GA, November

2011.

The Continuing Significance of the Racial State, Co-organizer with Dr. James Tyner,

at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of

American Geographers, Savannah, GA, November 2011.

Critical Pedagogy and the Geography of the U.S. Civil Rights Struggle, Co-organizer

with Dr. Derek Alderman, at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of

the Association of American Geographers, Birmingham, AL November 2010.

Seeking Democratic Alternatives to the Neoliberal State: Geographies of Grassroots

Democracy and Community Resistance to Neoliberalism, Co-Organizer with

Dr. Leela Viswanathan at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American

Geographers, Sessions I, II, III; Las Vegas, NV April 2009.

Racialized Places, Racialized Bodies: The Impact of Racialization on Individual and

Place Identities, Co-Organizer with Dr. Robert Yarbrough at the Annual Meeting

of the Association of American Geographers, Session I, II, III; San Francisco, CA

April 2007.

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Critical Perspectives on the American South, Co-Organizer with Dr. Derek Alderman

and Scott Whitlock at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American

Geographers, Session I, II; Chicago, IL March 2006.

Toward a Critical Understanding of Social Justice and Geography in the American

South, Co-Organizer with Dr. Derek Alderman at the Annual Meeting of the

Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers, West Palm

Beach, FL November 2005.

Invited Lectures:

Panel Participant, Black Politics and State Violence. Platypus Affiliated Society,

Knoxville Chapter, Knoxville, TN March 27, 2015.

Structural Violence: What do we Mean and How do we Understand it? Public Lecture.

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN September 25, 2014.

The Geography of Violence. University of Tennessee College Scholars Program.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. September 17, 2014.

Understanding Place: A Community Dialogue on Race, Geography and Home. Phyllis

Wheatley Center, Knoxville, TN. Panel Participant for Local Groups Opposed to

Gentrification.

Contextualizing the State Mode of Production in the United States: Martin Luther King

Jr., and the Poor People's Campaign. University of Kentucky. September 27, 2013.

Bending the Arc of Justice: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Poor People's Campaign.

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. February 22, 2013.

Bending the Arc of Justice: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Poor People's

Campaign. Michigan State University. January 25, 2013.

The Politics of Apology: The Greensboro Truth Process and Efforts at Reconciliation.

Appalachian State University. November 10, 2011.

Reconciling the Truth: Legacies of Racial Violence in the American South. University of

Tennessee Center for Social Justice. March 13, 2011.

Mobilizing Grassroots Agency for Anti-Racist Politics, Kent State University, Kent, OH

February 25, 2011.

And the Walls (Just Might) Come Tumbling Down: Race, Violence and Death in a

Southern Mill Town, University of North Carolina Greensboro, February 18, 2011.

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Righting Unrightable Wrongs: Legacies of Violence and Truth and Reconciliation in

Greensboro, North Carolina, University of Tennessee Department of Anthropology,

Knoxville, TN November 7, 2010.

Race, Ethnicity, and Place –V Conference. Binghamton State University of New York,

Binghamton, NY. October 2010.

Constructing Auburn Avenue as a Heritage Tourist Destination. Auburn University

Department of History, Auburn, AL February 2010.

Sweet Auburn: Constructing Auburn Avenue as a Heritage Tourist Destination. Georgia

State University, Atlanta, GA November 2009.

After the Love Has Gone: Dr. King’s Legacy and Meaning for Geography. Georgia

Southern University, Statesboro, GA March 2009.

Sweet Auburn: Contesting Racialized Identity in Atlanta. Georgia State University,

Atlanta, GA October, 2006.

Living With Disability at the University. Leadership, Education, and Advocacy for

Disabilities Student Group. University of Georgia, Athens, GA January 2003.

MASS MEDIA ENGAGEMENT & RECOGNITION

Quoted in: "Flag Down, but History of Racism Still Looms Over S.C." KUTV.com July

15, 2015

Quoted in: Newspaper story in El Confidencial on White supremacy. July 1, 2015.

Quoted in: "Massacre de negros nos EUA reabre debate sobre desigualdade racial"

Correio Braziliense, June 28, 2015.

Guest on WBIR Chanel 10, 5:30 Local Knoxville News discussing the Confederate Flag

and White Supremacy. June 23, 2015.

Taped interview on WATE Chanel 6, 5:00 Local News discussing the Confederate Flag

and White Supremacy. June 23, 2015.

Guest on WATE Chanel 6, 5:30 Local Knoxville News discussing the National Football

League and Race. February 27, 2014.

Panel Participant on "Scholars Circle" a Nationally Syndicated Radio Program and that

was Focused on the Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., Broadcast on January 19,

2014. KPFK, 90.7 Los Angeles, California.

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Quoted in: "Nelson Mandela Dies: African Leader's Legacy Great, UT Pair Say."

Knoxville News-Sentinel, December 6, 2013. A1.

Quoted in: "Seeking 'A Better Way': Knoxvillians Reflect on Dr. King's Legacy, Obama's

Second Term. Knoxville News-Sentinel January 20, 2013. B1.

Research featured and quoted in "Truth and Reconciliation Revisited." Carolina

Peacemaker February 24-March 2, 2011. Page 1.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Participant, Research Initiative for the Study of Diversity Summer Grant Academy, June

1-12, Auburn University.

Participant, New Faculty Scholars Program, August 2008-May, 2009, Auburn

University.

Participant, To Whom Much is Given: Addressing Poverty in Alabama, September 27-28,

2007, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.

Participant, Summer Institute for the Geographies of Justice. May 28-June 1, 2008, The

University of Georgia, Athens, GA. Participant, Geography Faculty Development Alliance. June 4-11, 2005, Boulder, CO.

Participant in Teaching Workshop: “Effective Teaching for Graduate Students and Early

Career Faculty.” January 2005, Dr. Eric J. Fournier. Athens, GA.

COURSES TAUGHT

University of Tennessee

Africana Studies 201. Introduction to the African American Experience: African

Kingdoms to US Civil War. Fall 2010-Present.

Africana Studies 202. Introduction to the African American Experience: Civil War to

Civil Rights. Fall 2010-present. Fall 2010-Present.

Africana Studies 480. African American Urban Communities. Fall 2011-present.

Geography 101. Introduction to Regional Geography. Spring 2015-Present.

Geography 201. Core Concepts in Human Geography. Spring 2013-Present.

Geography 343. Geography of Human Rights. Spring 2013-Present.

Geography 363. Geography of the American South. Spring 2013-Present.

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Geography 505. Geographies of Race and Ethnicity. Fall 2011-Present.

Geography 599. Geographic Thought. Fall 2010- Present.

Auburn University:

Geography 1010. Global Geography. Spring 2008-2010.

Geography 1017. Honors Global Geography. Spring 2008.

Geography 2800. Geographic Methods and Techniques. Fall 2008.

Geography 3140. Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa. Fall 2007-2010.

Geography 5010/6010. Urban Geography. Spring 2008-2010.

Geography 5800/6800. Geographic Thought. Spring 2010-2010.

The University of Georgia:

Study Abroad Program: New Zealand and Australia Sustaining Human Societies and

the Natural Environment.

Geography 1101. Introduction to Human Geography. March 2007. (one Section, 22

students) Brisbane, Australia.

Freshman College Summer Experience. Geography 1103. Cultural Geography of the

United States. Summer 2006. (one section, 55 students).

Geography 1103. Cultural Geography of the United States. Fall 2004-Summer 2006.

(four sections, from 55-88 students each section).

GRADUATE STUDENT MAJOR PROFESSOR

PhD:

In Progress:

Barron, M. Social Justice and Geography. (expected completion Spring 2017).

University of Tennessee

MA:

In Progress:

Rosko, Helen. Moonshine and Appalachia. (expected completion Spring 2016).

University of Tennessee.

Completed:

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Conner, N. (2015) Contested Notions of Irishness: Racial Integration and the Multiple

Intersections of Ethno-Racial, Religious and National Identities in Dublin,

Ireland. University of Tennessee

Russell, K. (2014) Critical Mapping in a Post-Colonial Context: Montserrat and the Carr

Plantation Site. (Graduated Summer of 2014). University of Tennessee

Barron, Melanie (2010). Justice, Truth, and Community Organizing in Boston, NA. .

(Graduated Fall of 2012). University of Tennessee.

GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBER

PhD:

In Progress:

Cook, Mathew. (2013-Present). TBA. University of Tennessee.

Hyun, Jiuwan. (2013-Present). TBA. University of Tennessee.

Sonichesen, Tyler (2013-Present). TBA. University of Tennessee.

Completed:

Kim, Jaymelee (2011-2014). Comparative Analysis of Reconciliation Movements in

Canada and the United States. Department of Anthropology. University of

Tennessee.

Petruney, Lucille (2008). Closer, Closer and Closest. Microscopy and Art Education.

Ph.D dissertation committee. Department of Education. Auburn University.

MA:

In Progress:

Hodges, Davis (2013-Present). TBA. University of Tennessee

Completed:

Djorcev, Maja (2013). Marketing Opportunities for Small Scale Organic Wine

Producers in Slovenia Proposing A Wine Cluster Model. Department of

Geography. University of Tennessee.

Merchant, Alex (2013). Monstro City. Department of Art. University of Tennessee.

(MfA).

Cook, Mathew (2012). Redefining Memorial Landscapes: The Stolpersteine Project in

Berlin. Department of Geography. University of Tennessee.

Coan, Mackenzie (2009). Research on the Cultural Landscape of Lockapocha Syrup

Sopping Festival. Department of Geology and Geography. Auburn University.

UNDERGRADUATE HONORS THESIS DIRECTED

Barrineau, Patrick. Project examining the creation of memorial landscapes dedicated to

U.S. Blues Musicians in the Mississippi Delta. Auburn University(Completed

May 2010).

UNDERGRADUATE DIRECTED SENIOR RESEARCH

Guy, Sarah. (2013). Research on the Educational Outcomes of African American

Children with One Parent in Prison. University of Tennessee.

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Tucker, Emily (2013). Research on Early Childhood Development in East Africa.

University of Tennessee.

Swanigan, Tijuana (2012). Critical Memory and African American Churches: Case

Study in Memphis. University of Tennessee.

TEACHING INTERESTS

Introductory: World Geography, Cultural Geography, Economic Geography.

Intermediate: Geography of the United States, Geography of the American South, Urban

Geography, Geography of Africa.

Advanced/Seminars: Geographical Research Design, Urban Geography, Geographical

Methods and Theory, Ethnic Conflict, Geographies of Violence and Power,

Geography of Human Rights, Critical Race Theory.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

2014-Present: National Council for Geographic Education.

2009-Present: Nonkilling Geography Research Committee at the Center for Global

Nonkilling.

2002-Present: Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers

2000-Present: Association of American Geographers

2000-2002: East Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers

SERVICE

To Geography

2015-Present: Vice-President Southeastern Division of the Association of American

Geographers.

2013-Present: Member Association of American Geographers Publication Committee.

2012-Present: Member Southeastern Division of the Association of American

Geographers Nominations Committee.

2011-2013: Board Member Qualitative Research Specialty Group. Association of

American Geographers.

2010-2012: Secretary Southeastern Division of the Association of American

Geographers.

2009-2010: Member Southeastern Division of the Association of American

Geographers Honors Committee.

2009-Present: Member Southeastern Division of the Association of American

Geographers Southern Studies Committee.

2009: Member Southeastern Division of the Association of American

Geographers Program Committee.

2009-2010: Member Southeastern Division of the Association of American

Geographers Nominations Committee.

2008-2009: Member Southeastern Division of the Association of American

Geographers Audit Committee.

2008: Judge, Cultural Geography Specialty Group Graduate Student Paper

Competition.

Manuscripts Reviewed (# of manuscripts reviewed)

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Acme (1)

Annals of the Association of American Geographers (6)

Antipode (3)

Applied Geography (1)

City and Community (1)

Cultural Geographies (2)

Environment and Planning D (3)

Gastronomica (2)

Geoforum (2)

GeoJournal (2)

Geographical Review (2)

Geographies of Religions and Belief Systems (2)

Journal of Cultural Geography (2)

Journal of Geography in Higher Education (2)

Material Culture: The Journal of the Pioneer America Society (1)

Political Geography (2)

Professional Geographer (2)

Social and Cultural Geography (7)

Southeastern Geographer (13)

Urban Geography (3)

Book Manuscripts Reviewed

Canadian Scholars Press (1).

Grant Proposals

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (1)

National Science Foundation (2)

Encyclopedia Entries

Oxford Bibliographies (1)

Editorial Boards:

2015-Present: Southeastern Geographer.

University of Tennessee

College:

2015-Present: Member Male Initiative Committee.

2014: Member Academic Review Board.

2014-Present: Member College of Arts and Sciences Diversity Committee.

2013-Present: Member College of Arts and Sciences General Education Social Sciences

Curriculum Committee.

2012: Member College of Arts and Sciences Associate Dean for Academic

Personnel Search.

Department:

2015-Present: Director Graduate Studies, Department of Geography.

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2015: Chair Department Interview Committee for Spousal Accommodation

Hire.

2015: Member Africana Studies Search Committee for Non-Tenure Track

Faculty.

2015: Member Department of Geography Committee on Rewriting the

Department By-Laws.

2014-Present: Chair Field Exam Review Committee.

2014-2015: Member Africana Studies Honors Committee.

2013-2015: Associate Director of Graduate Studies.

2013: Interim Program Director Africana Studies Program. (February 25-

March 3)

2013-Present: Member Africana Studies Lecturer Promotion Committee

2012-2014: Member Africana Studies Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

2012-2014: Member Department of Geography Website Committee

2011-2012: Member Department of Geography Chair Search Committee.

2011-2012: Organized Africana Studies Faculty Symposium.

Fall 2011: Organized Department of Geography Colloquium series.

2011-Present: Member Department Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of

Geography, University of Tennessee.

2010-Present: Member Department Graduate Program Committee, Department of

Geography, University of Tennessee.

2010-2012: Co-Advisor, Geography Club, Gamma Theta Upsilon, Department of

Geography, University of Tennessee.

Auburn University

2009: Organized a university wide symposium on the documentary film

Greensboro’s Child. This was a formal university event organized in conjunction with Auburn University’s

Multi-Cultural Center in which the director of Greensboro’s Child , Andy Coon, was

invited to campus to show his film and take part in a university wide discussion on the

legacy and role violence plays in U.S. society. I was responsible for coordinating Mr.

Coon’s visit, organizing the university panel (made up of four university faculty from

other departments), chairing the session, and leading the university discussion.

2008-2010 : Contributed to the annual Science Olympiad, College of Science and

Mathematics.

2009-2010: Member Department colloquium committee, Department of Geology and

Geography, Auburn University.

2007-2010: Member of College of Science and Mathematics Diversity Council.

Auburn University.

2007-2010: Member Department website design committee, Department of

Geography and Geology, Auburn University.