St. Cloud, MN 56301
720 4th Ave. South
(320) 308-4180 (phone)
(320) 308-1694 (fax)
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology
Curriculum Vitae
RACHEL SLOCUM
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
The National Science Foundation, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, Geography and Regional Science, 2004
- Grant funded: BCS 0417592 Community food systems and anti-racist practice
- Grant obtained as an independent scholar
The National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, 1999
- Grant funded: BCS 9900876 Urban commitments to greenhouse gas emissions abatement
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
GRANTS PENDING
The National Science Foundation, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, Geography and Regional Science, 2007
- Grant submitted: Geographies of race and food: the
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, spring 2008
- To pursue research and writing on the geographies of race and food
- Teaching Social Inequality and Democractic Citizenship
- New course proposals: Gender, Space and Society: Global Perspectives, The Social Dimensions of Environmental Change and Global Nature: Society and Environment in the 21st century
Visiting Scholar, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 2004-05
- Conducted research on whiteness and anti-racist practice in the community food movement
Visiting Assistant Professor, Syracuse University, Department of Geography, Syracuse, NY, 2001-03
- Taught Global Environmental Change, Population Change, Worlds of Food and Famine, World Regional, Africa: Problems and Prospects
Visiting Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, 2000
- Proposed and taught the seminar, Sustainable Cities
Research Assistant, Clark University Graduate School of Geography, Worcester, MA, 1996-99
PUBLICATIONS
2008. The embodied politics of pain in US anti-racism, ACME: An International E Journal for Critical Geographies 7(3):tba.
2007. Whiteness, space and alternative food practice. Geoforum 38(3):520-533.
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
Bodies at the market, to be submitted February 2008Publications with colleagues
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.
Reviews
2008. Review of Kay Anderson's Race and the Crisis of Humanism, Gender, Place 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.
GUEST PARTICIPATION
Discussant, Urban Geography Plenary, AAG, Boston 2008Theorizing race and food, Invited participant, Eating Cultures: Race and Food, a research group, University of California Humanities Research Institute, Irvine, CA, October 2006
Discussant, Food Geographies II: everyday food, AAG, San Francisco, 2007
Guest lecture, Place, race and the Minneapolis Farmers' Market for Bruce Braun, Freshman Seminar, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, MN, September, 2006
Whiteness and community food, Invited participant in 'White Food', a workshop sponsored by the University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 2005
Food, justice and society, Department of Political Science, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, 2004
Consumer citizens and the Cities for Climate Protection campaign, Rutgers University, Graduate Student Association, Department of Geography, Newark, NJ, 2003
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Co-organizer with Susan J. Smith, Author Meets the Critics:
Arun Saldanha’s Psychedelic White: Goa Trance
and the Viscosity of Race, AAG
Race at the market, in Geographies of Race and Food II: bodies and spaces, AAG, San Francisco, 2007
At the market: feeling race and food, in Emotional Geographies of Rurality, 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, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, 2006
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, 2005
Hungry polar bears and energy efficient light bulbs: toward a critical climate politics, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, 2002
The climate politics of the Cities for Climate Protection campaign, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, NY, 2001
Cities and climate change prevention, Annual Meeting of the Association of American, Geographers, Honolulu, HI, 1999
Repositioning women on the landscape of the Office du Niger, Mali, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, NC, 1996
SERVICE
Service to the Department, St. Cloud State University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 2005-07
- Faculty search committee, fall 2006, spring 2007, fall 2007 (2 searches)
- Webmaster, 2006-
- Sociology Program Assessment committee, 2005-2006
- College of Social Sciences Assessment Committee, 2007-
- Developed materials for adjuncts and fixed term faculty teaching Democratic Citizenship, 2007
- Develped materials for the department and college on new course proposal procedures, 2006
- Sociology Program Curriculum committee, 2007
- Advisor to Sociology and General Education majors
Service to the academic community, 2006-07
- Reviewed NSF proposals and articles
- Session organizer and discussant, 2007, 2008
Committee member, Outreach and Diversity Committee, Community Food Security Coalition, 2003-2005
- Representative, CFSC and ODC Conference Planning Committees
- Developed strategy, wrote documents and participated in the majority of ODC meetings
- Represented graduate student interests in the Graduate School of Geography
- Designed a transparent departmental grant-making process
- Organized colloquia and served on faculty review and search committees
MEMBERSHIP
Association of American Geographers
Geographical Perspectives on Women Specialty Group
Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Consultant, Oxfam America, US Program, Boston, MA, 2004
- Researched and wrote paper on government payments to cotton producers and the potential impact of effective payment limits
Consultant, Central New York Community Food System Coalition, Syracuse, NY, 2003-04
- Organized the core committee of the CNY CFSC and developed an inclusive vision, a statement of intent and a strategy to move forward
- Researched and wrote a proposal to encourage collaboration, secured funding and conducted outreach to potential coalition members to create a broad base
Trainer, Gender and Development Workshop, Promotion of Local Initiatives, GTZ, Mali, 1995
- Planned workshop, wrote case studies and presented gender sensitive tools to staff
Consultant, Africare, Bamako, Mali, 1992
- Evaluated village level integrated pest management program and prepared report
Project Manager, sustainable livestock project for Tuareg nomads, Tahoua, Niger, 1992
- Wrote proposal, secured $10,000 grant for the Kel Aghrala, Tuareg for various small projects
Policy Analyst, Church World Service/Lutheran World Relief Office on Development Policy, Washington, DC, 1990-91
- Analyzed US foreign aid policy for Central America and Africa, planned advocacy strategy, wrote reports, lobbied Congressional staff and collaborated with NGO working groups
Peace Corps Volunteer, Small Enterprise Development/Agroforestry, Tahoua, Niger, 1987-89
- Implemented projects on fuel wood conservation, health and small enterprise development
- Learned the Hausa and French languages to communicate with government officials and villagers