Dr. Cindi Katz, professor of environmental psychology at the City University of New York,was our fall 2000 women's studies resident. Dr Katz visited WVU the week of October 16.
October 19, 2000
SPEAKER: Cindi Katz, CUNY, Department of Environmental Psychology TOPIC: "Topographies of Global Change: Reworking the Contours of Everyday Life" PLACE: , Assembly Rooms A & B, Main Floor TIME: Thursday, October 19, 7:30 p.m. October 20, 2000
SPEAKER: Cindi Katz, CUNY, Department of Environmental Psychology TOPIC: "The Hidden Geographies of Social Reproduction" PLACE: Rhododendron Room, Mountainlair TIME: Light lunch at noon, presentation 12:30-1:30 p.m. Dr. Cindi Katz
Dr. Katz received her A.B. (1975), M.A. (1979), and Ph.D. (1986), all in geography, from Clark University. She is presently the deputy executive officer of the psychology program of the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, and she has taught in this program since 1987. She was associate director of the Center for Human Environments of the Graduate School and University Center of CUNY (1987-94) and co-directed the Children's Environments Research Group of the GSUC of CUNY (1987-93). In 1993, she was the visiting Eliel Saarinen Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Helsinki University of Technology and was a visiting lecturer at Khartoum University (Sudan) in 1979.
Her books include: Full Circles: Geographies of Women Over the Life Course (London and New York: Routledge, 1993, co-edited by Janice Monk); Disintegrating Developments: Global Economic Restructuring and the Struggle over Social Reproduction (forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press), and Fieldwork (forthcoming from Routledge, Frontiers series, co-edited by Derek Gregory and Linda McDowell).
Check the WVU Bookstore to purchase Dr. Katz’s books.
Her recent articles are entitled: "Disciplining Interdisciplinarity,""War, Poverty and Deforestation: A Political-Ecology of Environmental Degradation in Sudan," "Excavating the Hidden City of Social Reproduction,""Whose Nature, Whose Culture? Private Productions of Space and the Preservation of Nature," "On the backs of Children: Children and Work in Africa," "The Expeditions of Conjurors: Ethnography, Power, and Pretense," "Non-Masculinist Planning, ""Growing Girls/Closing Circles: Limits on the Spaces of Knowing in Rural Sudan and the United States Cities," and "In the Nature of Things: The Environment and Everyday Life," among many others.
She has organized conferences on New York City: A Region at Risk," Metaphor and Materiality: The Politics of Space and Nature, Schoolyards," and Environment and Development in Eastern and Southern Africa and has given presentations around the world.
Her professional service includes being an invited participant with the People's Geography Project (New York City) and the National Science Foundation Sponsored Workshop on Geography of Young People and Young People's Geographies. She has been a consultant on the Chinatown Neighborhood History Project (New York City) and Children's Television Workshop. She was also the UNICEF representative to the International Association for the Child's Right to Play. She is the editor of the Journal of Social and Cultural Geography and associate editor of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
The Center wishes to thank Suzanne Temple, whose support made this residency possible.
