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Visiting Scholar
Institute for Advanced Study
University of Minnesota

Curriculum Vitae

Detailed CV (pdf)

RACHEL SLOCUM

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EDUCATION

Ph.D., Geography, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA

MA, International Development, International Development Program, Clark University, Worcester, MA, 

BA, Honors, Political Science, McGill University, Montréal, PQ, Canada

GRANTS and AWARDS

Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, 2008

The National Science Foundation, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, Geography and Regional Science, 2004

The National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, 1999

Fulbright Scholarship, Institute for International Education, United States Information Agency, 1994
Master's research in Mali

Peace Corps Fellowship, International Development Program, Clark University, 1993
Scholarship for the MA program

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2009
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, (tenure track appointment), 2005-2009

Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, spring 2008

Visiting Scholar, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 2004-05

Visiting Assistant Professor, Syracuse University, Department of Geography, Syracuse, NY, 2001-03

Visiting Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, 2000

Research Assistant, Clark University Graduate School of Geography, Worcester, MA, 1996-99

PUBLICATIONS

2009. The embodied politics of pain in US anti-racism, ">ACME: An International E Journal for Critical Geographies 8(1):tba. (accepted October, 2007)

2009 (anticipated). Discussant comments on Michael Brown’s Urban Geography Plenary lecture, “Public health as urban politics, urban geography: venereal biopower in Seattle, 1943-1983, Urban Geography.


2008. Thinking race through corporeal feminist theory: divisions and intimacies at the Minneapolis Farmers’ Market, Social and Cultural Geography, 9(8):849-869.

2008 (anticipated). Sociological research directions on climate change: paper for public report to be published through the National Science Foundation

2007. Whiteness, space and alternative food practice. Geoforum 38(3):520-533. Chosen to be part of the virtual special issue celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Geoforum, which featured 26 papers which demonstrate the excellence and breadth of scholarship.

2006. Anti-racist practice in the work of community food organizations Antipode 38(2):327-349.

2004. Polar bears and energy-efficient light bulbs: strategies to bring climate change home Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 22(3):413-438.

2004. Consumer citizens and the Cities for Climate Protection campaign Environment and Planning A, 36(5):763-782.

Publications in process

Race, Biopolitics and Alternative Food. For the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, analysis of survey, interview and observational data 2004-2007 on race and the alternative food movement

Publications with colleagues

Slocum, Rachel, Elisabeth Ellsworth and Arun Saldanha. Local food and public space: a study of Minneapolis Farmers’ Market customers’ perceptions and practices, CURA Reporter, June, 2009 (anticipated).

Slocum, Rachel and Susan J. Smith. Introduction, Author Meets Critics (Braun, Ley, Pratt, Kobayashi): Arun Saldanha’s Psychedelic white: goa trance and the viscosity of race to be published in Social and Cultural Geography (anticipated date). ISI Impact Factor 2006 0.855, rank 27/39

Angel, David et al. 1998. The drivers of greenhouse gas emissions: what do we learn from local case studies? Local Environment 3(3):263-277.

Slocum, Rachel and Barbara Thomas-Slayter. 1995: Participation, empowerment and sustainable development in Power, process and participation: tools for change. Rachel Slocum et al. (Eds.). London, Intermediate Technology Publications: 3-8.

Rocheleau, Dianne and Rachel Slocum. 1995. Participation in context: key questions in Power, process and participation: tools for change. Rachel Slocum et al. (Eds.). London, ITP: 17-30.

Book Reviews

2009. Review of Morgan, K., Marsden, T., and Murdoch, J. 2006. Worlds of food: Place, power, and provenance in the food chain. Oxford University Press, Oxford and Blay-Palmer A. 2008. Food Fears: From Industrial to Sustainable Food Systems. Ashgate, Aldershot, Hants for Environment and Planning A. (anticipated date)

2008. Review of Anderson, Kay. 2007. Race and the crisis of humanism. London, Routledge, for Gender, Space and Culture 15(1):88-90.

2003. Review of Portney, Kenneth. 2003. Taking sustainable cities seriously: economic development, the environment and quality of life in American cities. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press. Environment and Planning A 35(10):1895.

2000. Review of Low, Nicholas et al. (eds.). 2000. Consuming cities: the urban environment in the global economy after the Rio Declaration. London, Routledge. Environment and Planning A 32(6):1138.

Other Writing

2006    Difference, power and community food: a report to respondents (unpublished report)

2004    Cotton production and government payments, a report for Oxfam America (unpublished report)

GUEST PARTICIPATION

2008 Guest lecture, 'Race, bodies and alternative food geographies', Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

2008 Invited Participant, Research Directions in Sociology on Global Climate Change Workshop, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA

2008 Invited Participant, Food and Society: Gathering for Good Food, sponsored by The Kellogg Foundation, Chandler, AZ

2008 Discussant for Michael Brown’s paper for the Urban Geography Plenary, AAG, Boston,MA

2008 Chair,Food Environments III:Access and Race, AAG, Boston, MA

2007 Guest lecture, 'Geographies of race and food', University of Minnesota, Department of Geography, Minneapolis,MN

2006 Guest lecture, 'Geographies of race and food',St. Cloud State,Department of Geography, St.Cloud, MN

2006 Invited participant, presented'Theorizing race and food' at Eating Cultures: Race and Food, a research group, organized by Melanie DuPuis, University of California Humanities Research Institute, Irvine, CA

2007 Discussant,Food geographies II:Everyday Food, organized by Peter Jackson and Megan Blake, AAG,San Francisco, CA

2005 Whiteness and community food,Invited participant in 'White Food', a workshop organized by Julie Guthman and Melanie DuPuis, sponsored by the University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

2004 Guest lecture, 'Food, justice and society', and 'Climate Protection, Climate Politics' Department of Political Science, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA

2003 Guest lecture, 'Consumer citizens and the Cities for Climate Protection campaign', Rutgers University,Graduate Student Association,Department of Geography, Newark, NJ

CONFERENCE PAPERS and SESSIONS ORGANIZED

2008 Co-organizer with Susan J. Smith, Author Meets the Critics: Arun Saldanha's Psychedelic White:Goa Trance and the Viscosity of Race, AAG Boston

2008 Corporeal feminism and political ecology,in Political Ecology of Bodies II,organized by Becky Mansfield and Julie Guthman, AAG, Boston, MA

2007 The embodied politics of pain in US anti-racism in Subaltern Cosmopolitanisms, organized by David Featherstone, 5th International Critical Geography Conference,Mumbai, Maharashtra

2007 Co-organizer with Julie Guthman, Geographies of Race and Food I and II,AAG, San Francisco

2007 Race at the market, in Geographies of Race and Food II: Bodies and Spaces,AAG, San Francisco

2006 At the market: feeling race and food, in Emotional Geographies of Rurality,organized by Jo Little, Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers, London

2006 Whiteness,space and alternate food practices, in Performing Alternative Economic Imaginaries: Governance, Ethics, and the Everyday Spaces of Responsibility organized by Trina Hamilton,AAG,Chicago, IL

2005 Shifting the balance of power? Anti-racist practice and cross difference alliance in the community food movement, in Political and Cultural Economies of Organic Food Supply Chains/Alternative Food Networks, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO

2002 Hungry polar bears and energy efficient light bulbs:toward a critical climate politics, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA

2001 The climate politics of the Cities for Climate Protection campaign, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, NY

1999 Cities and climate change prevention, Annual Meeting of the Association of American, Geographers, Honolulu, HI

1996 Repositioning women on the landscape of the Office du Niger, Mali, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, NC

TEACHING

COURSES TAUGHT

Sustainable Cities (senior seminar, Holy Cross)
Worlds of Food and Famine (senior seminar, Syracuse Geography)
Population Change (mid level, Syracuse Geography)
World Regional Geography (intro level, Syracuse Geography)
Africa: Problems and Prospects (mid level, Syracuse Geography)
Global Environmental Change (sophomores-seniors, Syracuse Geography)
Environment and Society (upper division and MA students, St. Cloud Sociology)
Environmental Citizenship (intro level, St. Cloud Sociology)
Social Inequality (mid level, St. Cloud Sociology)

TEACHING DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION

Teaching Strategies
Evaluation and Development
Innovation in Teaching

SERVICE

Service to the Department, St. Cloud State University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 2005-08, Syracuse University, 2001-03 and Clark University, 1995-98

Service to academic community: research grant refereeing

2008    NSF, Sociology, environmental social movements

2007    NSF, Sociology, health and climate change

2007    NSF, Geography, Career proposal

2006    NSF, Geography, racial disparities and toxics

2005    NSF, Geography, rural poverty

Service to academic community: journal refereeing

2009    Global Environmental Change, Antipode

2008    Emotion, Space and Society, Antipode, Environment and Planning A, Global Environmental Change,            Social and Cultural Geography and the Annals of the Association of American Geographers

2007    Environment and Planning A

2003    Urban Studies

Service to alternative food and food justice communities

MEMBERSHIP

Association of American Geographers
    Geographical Perspectives on Women Specialty Group
    Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group
Diverse Economies Network

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Consultant, Oxfam America, US Program, Boston, MA, 2004

Consultant, Central New York Community Food System Coalition, Syracuse, NY, 2003-04

Trainer, Gender and Development Workshop, Promotion of Local Initiatives, GTZ, Mali, 1995

Program Assistant, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Cambridge, MA, 1994

Consultant, Africare, Bamako, Mali, 1992

Project Manager, sustainable livestock project for Tuareg nomads, Tahoua, Niger, 1992

Policy Analyst, Church World Service/Lutheran World Relief Office on Development Policy, Washington,         DC, 1990-91

Peace Corps Volunteer, Small Enterprise Development/Agroforestry, Tahoua, Niger, 1987-89