Curriculum Vitae

FERNANDO JAVIER BOSCO

PROFESSOR and CHAIR
Department of Geography
San Diego State University

310 Storm Hall

5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-4493
Phone 619-594-7187
Fax: 619-594-4938
Email: fbosco@sdsu.edu
Web page: https://geography.sdsu.edu/People/Faculty/bosco.php

I - EDUCATION

Ph.D. (2002), Geography, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Dissertation title: The Spatiality of Collective Action: Flexible Networks and Symbolic
Performances among the "Madres de Plaza de Mayo" in Argentina. (Advisor: Nancy Ettlinger)

M.A. (1997), Geography, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Thesis title: State-Society Relations and National Development: A Comparison of Argentina and
Taiwan in the 1990s. (Advisor: Nancy Ettlinger)

B.A. Cum Laude, (1994), Geography, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH

II - ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND RANKS HELD

San Diego State University

• Professor and Chair, Department of Geography (2020-present)
• Professor and Joint Doctoral Program Director, Department of Geography (2013-2020)
• Co-Chair and Undergraduate Adviser, Interdisciplinary Program in Urban Studies (2008-2016)
• Co-Director, Center for Youth, Environment, Society and Space (YESS), College of Arts and
Letters, SDSU (2006-present)
• Affiliated Faculty, Center for Latin American Studies, College of Arts and Letters SDSU (2003-
present)
• Associate Professor, Department of Geography (2008-2013)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, SDSU (2002-2008)

The Ohio State University

• Graduate Teaching Associate, Department of Geography, (1995-2002)

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III - PROFESSIONAL GROWTH

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS

Bosco, Fernando (2020) “Geographies of Food: Place, Space and Scale in Food Studies”. The Geography
Teacher https://doi.org/10.1080/19338341.2020.1796744

Bosco, F. and Joassart Marcelli, P. (2018) “Relational Space and Place and Food Environments:
Geographic Insights for Critical Sustainability Research. Journal of Environmental Studies and
Sciences (JESS) https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-018-0482-9

Bosco, F., Joassart-Marcelli, P. and O’Neil, B. (2017) “Food Journeys: Place, Mobility and the
Everyday Food Practices of Young People”. Annals of the American Association of Geographers
107, 6: 1479-1498 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2017.1310019

Joassart Marcelli, P., Speed Rossiter, J. and Bosco, F (2017) “Ethnic Markets and Community Food
Security in an Urban Food Desert” Environment and Planning A 49, 7:1642-1663
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518X17700394

Curti, G., Aitken, S.A. and Bosco, F. (2016) “A Double Articulated Cartography of Children and Media
as Affective Networks-at-Play” Children Geographies 14, 2
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2015.1127325

Bosco, F. and Joassart Marcelli, P. (2015) “Participatory Planning and Children’s Emotional Labor in
the Production of Urban Nature ” Emotion, Space and Society 16: 30-40
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2015.07.003

Joassart-Marcelli, P. and Bosco, F. (2014) "Alternative Food Projects, Localization and Urban
Development: Farmers’ Markets in Southern California" Metropoles 15: 2-22

DeJesus, K., Bosco. F. and Humanydan, I. (2014) "Enforced Disappearance: Spaces, Selves, Societies,
Suffering" ACME: International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 13, 1: 73-78

Curti, G., Aitken, S., Bosco, F. and Goerisch, D. (2011) “For Not Limiting Emotional and Affectual
Geographies: A Collective Critique of Steve Pile’s ‘Emotions and Affect in Recent Human
Geography’” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 36,4:590-94
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2011.00451.x

Bosco, F., Aitken, S. and Herman, T. (2011) “Women and Children in a Neighborhood Advocacy
Group: Engaging Community and Refashioning Citizenship at the United States-Mexico Border”
Gender, Place and Culture 18, 2: 155-178 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2010.551652

Bosco, F. (2010) “Play, Work and Activism: Broadening the Connections Between Political and
Children’s Geographies”. Children’s Geographies 8, 4: 381-390
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2010.511003

Crotty, S. and Bosco, F. (2008) “Racial Geographies and the Challenges of Day Labor Formalization: A
Case Study from San Diego County” Journal of Cultural Geography 25, 3: 223-244
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08873630802433830

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 Bosco, F. (2007) “Mother Activism and the Geographic Conundrum of Social Movements” Urban
Geography 28, 5: 426-431

Bosco, F. (2007) "Emotions that Build Networks: Geographies of Two Human Rights Movements in
Argentina and Beyond". Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 98, 5: 545-563
http://doi:10.1111/j.1467-9663.2007.00425.x

Bosco, F. (2007) “Hungry Children and Networks of Aid in Argentina: Thinking About Geographies of
Responsibility and Care”. Children’s Geographies, 5, 1-2: 55-76
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14733280601108171

Bosco, F. (2006) “The Madres de Plaza de Mayo and Three Decades of Human Rights Activism:
Embeddedness, Emotions and Social Movements”. Annals of the Association of American
Geographers, 96, 2: 342-365 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8306.2006.00481.x

Bosco, F. (2004) “Human Rights Politics and Scaled Performances of Memory: Conflicts among the
Madres de Plaza de Mayo in Argentina”. Social and Cultural Geography 5, 3, 381-402
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1464936042000252787

Ettlinger, N. and Bosco, F. (2004) “Thinking through Networks and their Spatiality: A Critique of the
US (Public) War on Terrorism and its Geographic Discourse”. Antipode 36, 2: 249-271
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2004.00405.x

Bosco, F. (2001) “Place, Space, Networks, and the Sustainability of Collective Action: the Madres de
Plaza de Mayo.” Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs 1, 4: 307-329
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1471-0374.00018

Bosco, F. (1998) “State-Society Relations and National Development: A Comparison of Argentina and
Taiwan in the 1990s” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 22, 4: 623-642.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.00166

EDITED THEME ISSUES IN REFEREED JOURNALS

DeJesus, K., Bosco. F. and Humanydan, I. (2014) Special theme section on "Enforced Disappearances"
ACME: International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 13, 1

Aitken, S., Swanson, K., Bosco, F. and Herman, T., eds. (2010) “Young People, Border Spaces and
Revolutionary Imaginations” Children’s Geographies 8, 4.

EDITED SCHOLARLY BOOKS

Jackiewicz, E and Bosco, F., eds. (2020) Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in
Geography, 4th Edition. Boulder, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
• 3rd edition published in 2016
• 2nd edition published in 2012
• 1st edition published in 2008

Joassart Marcelli, P. and Bosco, F., eds. (2018) Food and Place: A Critical Exploration. Boulder, CO,
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

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 Aitken, S., Swanson, K., Bosco, F. and Herman, T., eds. (2011) Young People, Border Spaces and
Revolutionary Imaginations. London, Routledge.

CHAPTERS IN REFEREED BOOKS

Bosco, F. (2020). Imagining and Creating Latin America as a Region. In Jackiewicz, E and Bosco, F.,
(Eds) Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Geography, 4th Edition. Boulder,
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, pp. 7-16.

Jackiewicz, E. and Bosco, F. (2020) Historical Geography: 500 Years of Change from within and
without. In Jackiewicz, E and Bosco, F., (Eds) Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in
Geography, 4th Edition. Boulder, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, pp. 17-29.

Salim, Z. and Bosco, F. (2020) Latin American Cities: Transitions and Transformations. In Jackiewicz,
E and Bosco, F., (Eds) Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Geography, 4th
Edition. Boulder, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, pp. 61-87.

Bosco, F. (2020) Latin American Social Movements: Places, Scales, and Networks of Action. In
Jackiewicz, E and Bosco, F., (Eds) Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in
Geography, 4th Edition. Boulder, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, pp. 207-221.

Joassart-Marcelli, P., and Bosco, F. (2020) The Taste of Gentrification: Difference and Exclusion at the
Urban Frontier. In Alison Hope Alkon, Yuki Kato, and Joshua Sbicca (Eds.), A Recipe for
Gentrification: Food Power and Resistance in the City. New York, New York University Press,
pp. 31-53.

Joassart-Marcelli, P., and Bosco, F. (2020) Contested Ethnic Foodscapes: Survival, Appropriation, and
Resistance in Gentrifying Neighborhoods. In Julian Agyeman and Sydney Giacalone (eds.), The
Immigrant-Food Nexus: Borders, Labor and Identity in North America. Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press, pp. 59-80.

Bosco, F. and Joassart Marcelli, P. (2018) Spaces of Alternative Food: Urban Agriculture, Community
Gardens and Farmers Markets. In Joassart Marcelli, P. and Bosco, F., eds. Food and Place: A
Critical Exploration. Boulder, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, pp. 187-207.

Joassart-Marcelli, P. and Bosco, F. (2018) Food and Gentrification: How Foodies are Transforming
Urban Neighborhoods. In Joassart Marcelli, P. and Bosco, F., eds. Food and Place: A Critical
Exploration. Boulder, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, pp.129-146.

Joassart-Marcelli, Pascale, and Bosco, F. (2018) Food and Place: An Introduction. In Pascale Joassart-
Marcelli and Fernando J. Bosco (Eds.), Food and Place: A Critical Exploration. Lanham, MD:
Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 3-12.

Joassart-Marcelli, P., and Bosco, F. (2018) A Place Perspective on Food: Key Concepts and Theoretical
Foundations. In Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando Bosco (Eds.), Food and Place: A Critical
Exploration. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 13-32.

Joassart Marcelli, P. and Bosco, F. (2018) Alternative Food and Gentrification: How Farmers’ Markets
and Community Gardens are Transforming Urban Neighborhoods. In Curren, W. and Hamilton, T.

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 (eds) Just Green Enough: Urban Development and Environmental Gentrification. New York,
NY: Routledge, pp. 92-106.

Bosco, F. and Joassart Marcelli, P. (2017) Gardens in the City: Community, Politics and Place in San
Diego, CA. In WinklerPrins, A. (ed.) Global Urban Agriculture: Convergence of Theory and
Practice between North and South, pp. 50-65. Boston, MA, CABI Publishing.

Bosco, F. (2017) Interviews. In Richardson, D., Castree, N., Goodchild, M., Kobayashi, A., Liu, W. and
Marston, R., eds. The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, The Earth,
Environment and Technology. Wiley-Blackwell.
https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0385

Bosco, F. (2016) Latin American Social Movements: Places, Spaces and Scales of Action. In
Jackiewicz, E. and Bosco, F., eds. Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Geography
(3E), pp. 159-174. Boulder, Rownman and Littlefield.

Salim, Z. and Bosco, F. (2016) Urban Latin America: Evolving Forms and Functions. In Jackiewicz, E.
and Bosco, F., eds. Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Geography (3E), pp. 53-
79. Boulder, Rownman and Littlefield.

Joassart-Marcelli, P. and Bosco, F. (2015) Planning for Resilience: Urban Nature and the Emotional
Geographies of Children’s Political Engagement. In Blazek, M. and Kraftl, P., eds. Children’s
Emotions in Policy and Practice: Mapping and Making Spaces of Childhood. Palgrave
Macmillan, pp. 87-106.

Bosco, F. (2015) Actor-Network Theory, Networks, and Relational Geographies. In Valentine, G. and
Aitken, S., eds. Approaches to Human Geography (2nd edition) London, Sage.

Bosco, F. (2013) Disappearing, Struggling, and Resisting in Buenos Aires: Chronicle of an Escape. In
Curti, G., Craine, J. and Aitken, S., eds. The Fight to Stay Put: Social Lessons Through Media
Imaginings of Gentrification, Displacement and Resistance, pp. 72-84. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner
Verlag.

Bosco, F. (2013) The Relational Turn and the Political Geographies of Youth. In Kenreich, T. ed.
Geography and Social Justice in the Classroom, pp. 12-25. London, Routledge.

Bosco, F. (2012) Social Movements: Places, Spaces and Scales of Action. In Jackiewicz, E. and Bosco,
F., eds. Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Geography (2E), pp. 159-173.
Boulder, Rownman and Littlefield.

Bosco, F. and Salim, Z. (2012) Urbanization: Socio-spatial Dimensions, Challenges and Prospects. In
Jackiewicz, E. and Bosco, F., eds. Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Geography
(2E), pp.57-79. Boulder, Rownman and Littlefield.

Jackiewicz, E. and Bosco, F. (2012) The Making of a Region: Five Hundred Years of Change from
Within and Without. In Jackiewicz, E. and Bosco, F., eds. Placing Latin America: Contemporary
Themes in Geography (2E), pp. 31-43. Boulder, Rownman and Littlefield.

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 Bosco, F. (2011) Play, Work and Activism: Broadening the Connections Between Political and
Children’s Geographies. In Aitken, S., Swanson, K., Bosco, F. and Herman, T., eds. Young People,
Border Spaces and Revolutionary Imaginations, pp. 55-64. London, Routledge

Bosco, F. (2010) Actor-Network Theory. In Barney Warf, ed., Encyclopedia of Human Geography.
London, Sage.

Bosco, F. and Herman, T. (2010) Focus Groups as Collaborative Research Performances. In DeLyser,
D., S. Aitken, M. Crang, S. Herbert and L. McDowell, eds. The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative
Geography, pp. 193-207. London, Thousand Oaks & New Delhi: Sage Publications.

Bosco F. and Moreno C. (2009) Fieldwork. In Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N., eds. International
Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 1, pp. 119–124. Oxford: Elsevier

Bosco, F. (2008) The Geographies of Latin American Social Movements. In Jackiewicz, E. and Bosco,
F., eds. Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Human Geography, pp. 177-190.
Boulder, Rownman and Littlefield.

Bosco, F. (2008) Hungry Children and Networks of Aid in Argentina: Thinking About Geographies of
Responsibility and Care. In S. Aitken, A. T. Kjorholt, and R. Lund, eds. Global Childhoods, pp.
55-76. New York, Routledge.

Bosco, F. (2006) Actor-Network Theory, Networks, and Relational Approaches in Human Geography.
In Valentine, G. and Aitken, S., eds. Approaches to Human Geography, pp.136-146. London,
Sage

BOOK REVIEWS AND REVIEW ESSAYS

Bosco, F. (2015) The Routledge Companion to Urban Regeneration, eds. M. E. Leary and J. McCarthy.
Journal of Regional Science, 55, 2: 326-327

Bosco, F. (2014) Spaces of Contention: Spatialities of Social Movements, eds. W. Nicholls, B. Miller
and J. Beaumont. Social and Cultural Geography, doi: 10.1080/14649365.2014.923675

Bosco, F. (2009) Global Culture Industry, by Scott Lash and Celia Lury. The Professional
Geographer, 61,3:417-418.

Aitken, Stuart C. (2008) The End of Capitalism as George W. Bush and his Dad Knew it: A review
essay on Julia and Kathy Gibson-Graham’s A PostCapitalist Politics. Reviewed by the Fall 2007
critical pedagogy seminar of San Diego State University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of
Youth and Space (ISYS) -- Giorgio Curti, Philip Stephens, Emily Powers, Ryan Goode, Fernando
Bosco, Sean Crotty, Stuart Aitken, Chris Moreno, Will Anderson, Jon Rossiter and Dominic
Abbenante. Emotion, Space and Society 1(2) 145-147.

Bosco, F. (2007). Questioning Geography: Fundamental Debates, eds. N. Castree, A. Rogers and D.
Sherman. Social and Cultural Geography 8, 3: 495-502.

Bosco, F. (2005) Culture and Public Action, eds. V. Rao and M. Walton. Journal of Regional Science
45, 4: 865-90

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POLICY AND OTHER REPORTS

Joassart Marcelli, P., Bosco, F. and Delgado, E. (2014) Southeastern San Diego's Food Landscape:
Challenges and Opportunities. San Diego State University, Published with support from National
Science Foundation Award# 1155844. https://fep.sdsu.edu

Fernando J. Bosco (2014). An Evaluation of Student Civic Learning Outcomes: Learning Geography
through Community Research: Food and Place. Service Learning and Community Engagement
Program, Division of Undergraduate Studies, San Diego State University 


Bosco, F. and Aitken, S. (2010) Report of the Seventy-Second Annual Meeting: San Diego, California
September 30–October 3, 2009. Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 72
(1): 131-134.

RESEARCH GRANTS AND COMPETITIVELY AWARDED PROFESSIONAL LEAVES

CSU sabbatical leave. Research project: Food Establishments, Neighborhood Change and Urban
Citizenship in Buenos Aires (2017)

National Science Foundation (NSF). Food, Ethnicity and Place: Feeding Families and Nourishing
Communities (Co-PI, with PI Pascale Joassart Marcelli) $250,000 (2012-2016)

TFK Foundation Open Spaces, Sacred Places Planning Grant “The Space Within” (with Pascale Joassart
Marcelli, Stuart Aitken [SDSU], Groundwork San Diego-Chollas Creek, Estrada Land Planning and Jim
and Drew Hubbell) $60,000. (2012)

College of Arts and Letters Micro-grant, San Diego State University $500 (2011)

CSU sabbatical leave. Research project: Geographies of Memory in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2010)

Canadian Embassy Grant. Project: Mapping North American Youth Cultures (with Stuart Aitken and
Tom Herman, through ISYS Center at SDSU). $13,861 (2008)

University Grant, San Diego State University. Project: Immigrant Families, Young People, and their
Community Involvement: A Preliminary Investigation of Community Leaders in Chula Vista, CA $5,000
(2007)

College of Arts and Letters Research Grant. Project: Young People in Latino Immigrant Families:
Gender, Citizenship and Global Change (Co-Pi with Stuart Aitken and Doreen Mattingly) $4,300
(2005)

Faculty Development Program (FDP) Research Award, San Diego State University. Project:
Redevelopment in City Heights, San Diego (2004)

Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Award (RSCA), San Diego State University. Project:
Redevelopment in City Heights, San Diego $4,990 (2004)

Economic Geography Scholarship. Awarded to attend 1st Summer Institute in Economic Geography at
University of Wisconsin-Madison (2003)

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 Best Paper. Latin American Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers.
Awarded at the AAG annual meeting in Los Angeles (2002)

Best Paper. Ethics, Justice and Human Rights Specialty Group of the Association of American
Geographers. Awarded at the AAG annual meeting in Los Angeles (2002)

Professional Development Fund Award. Council of Graduate Students, The Ohio State University
(2002)

Presidential Dissertation Fellowship, The Ohio State University (2001)

E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Fellowship, The Ohio State University (2000)

Graduate Student Alumni Research Award, The Ohio State University (1999)

Huntington Academic Achievement Award, The Ohio State University (1998)

International Dissertation Grant. International Studies, The Ohio State University (1999)

Graduate Student Grant, Latin American Studies, The Ohio State University (1997)

PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS

Joassart Marcelli, P. and Bosco, F (in preparation) The Cosmopolitan Foodscape: Food and Social
Encounters in an Immigrant Neighborhood

Joassart-Marcelli, Pascale, and Bosco, Fernando J. Food and Gentrification: Displacements in the
Foodscapes of Buenos Aires, Los Angeles and Paris. Paper in progress.

INVITED ACADEMIC LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

“The Madres” Post-show featured speaker. Moxie Theatre, San Diego, CA (May 24, 2018)

“Journeys in a ‘Food Desert’: Place, Mobility, and the Everyday Food Practices of Young People”
Global Change and Sustainability Center Seminar Series, University of Utah (November 1, 2016)

“Human Rights and the Politics of Memory in Argentina: A Geographic Perspective” SELACH
(Sociedad Estudiantil de Lenguas, Artes y Culturas Hispánicas), Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
San Diego State University (November 7th, 2014)

"San Diego's Uneven Food Landscape: Rethinking Food Justice" (with Pascale Joassart Marcelli)
Department of Geography, San Diego State University (October 17h 2014)

“Southeastern San Diego’s Food Landscape: Challenges and Opportunities” (with Pascale Joassart
Marcelli). 14th annual Cesar E. Chavez Community Tribute and Celebration, Project New Village, San
Diego, CA (April 2014)

"Food, Ethnicity, and Place: An Exploration of San Diego's Diverse Food Landscape and its
Consequences on Health and Wellbeing" (with Pascale Joassart Marcelli). Human Dimensions of the

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 Mobile Age Lightning Talk Series, San Diego State University (December 11, 2013) Available at:
http://humandynamics.sdsu.edu/lightningTalk/announce/lightningTalk121113.html

"Thinking about Memory and Place: Intersections between Social Science and Arts "Memory and Place
Interdisciplinary Symposium. University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
(November 19th 2011)

"The Right to Remember in Place in Contemporary Argentina". Department of Geography, University

of California, Santa Barbara (May 12th 2011)

“Human Rights Activism and ‘Remembering in Place’ in contemporary Buenos Aires” Department of
Geography, San Diego State University (San Diego, CA) (March 25th 2011)

“Place and the Politics of Memory in Buenos Aires” Department of Geography and Program in
Planning, University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada) (November 19th2010)

“Mother Activism and the Geographic Conundrum of Social Movements” Urban Geography Plenary
Session (invited discussant). Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
(April, 2007)

“Emotions that Build Networks: the Transnational Dimensions of Argentine Human Rights Activism”.
Department of Geography and Center for Latin American Studies, University of Arizona (Tempe, AZ)
(November 5th, 2005)

“Emotions, Geography and Social Movements: Trans-local Human Rights Activism in Argentina”
Department of Geography, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA (February 25th
2005)

"Argentina – The Piquetero Movement and Future Possibilities" San Diego Independent Media Center,
San Diego, CA (March 11th 2003)

"Social Consequences of Argentina's Economic Crisis: A geographic perspective" Center for Latin
American Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (February 2002)

"Trans-nationalism and Social Movements: the Global Connections of Argentina's Madres de Plaza de
Mayo" Amnesty International, Columbus, OH (June 2001)

"Spatial Strategies of Collective Action: The Madres de Plaza de Mayo and the Struggle for Human
Rights in Argentina" Hale Black Cultural Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (March 2001)

"Argentina's Madres de Plaza de Mayo: Space, Power, and Human Rights." Gendering Peace and
Security Lecture Series, Association for Women in Development and Department of Geography, Ohio
State University, Columbus, OH (November 2000)

PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

Conference Papers:

“The Evolving AP Human Geography Framework and Exam”. Presented at the AP Annual Conference
in Orlando, FL (July 19, 2019)

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“Food and Gentrification: Displacement in Buenos Aires, Los Angeles and Paris Foodscapes” (with
Pascale Joassart Marcelli) Presented at the Association of American Geographer’s annual meeting in
Washington, DC (April 2019)

“The Cosmopolitan Foodscape: Food and Social Encounters in an Immigrant Neighborhood” (with
Pascale Joassart Marcelli) Presented at the Association of American Geographer’s annual meeting in
New Orleans, LA (April 2018)

“The Taste of Gentrification: How Foodies Are Transforming Urban Neighborhoods” (with Pascale
Joassart Marcelli) Presented at the Association of American Geographer’s annual meeting in Boston,
MA (April 2017)

“Placing Young People’s Food Practices in the Urban Foodscape” (with Pascale Joassart Marcelli and
Blaire O’Neil) Presented at the Sixth International Conference in Food Studies at the University of
California, Berkeley, CA (October 2016).

“Alternative Food Practices and Gentrification: How Foodies Are Transforming Urban Neighborhoods”
(with Pascale Joassart Marcelli and Blaire O’Neil) Presented at the Sixth International Conference in
Food Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, CA (October 2016).

“Food Journeys: The Everyday Food Practices of Young People in City Heights, San Diego” (with
Pascale Joassart Marcelli and Blaire O’Neil) Presented at the Association of American Geographer’s
annual meeting in San Francisco, CA (April 2016)

“Improving Community Food Security in a ‘Food Desert’: The Role of Ethnic Markets” (with Jaime
Speed Rossiter and Pascale Joassart Marcelli). Presented at the Association of American Geographer’s
annual meeting in San Francisco, CA (April 2016)

“Everyday Food Practices of Young People in City Heights, San Diego”. Presented at the Association of
Pacific Coast Geographer’s 78th annual meeting in Palm Spring, CA (October 2015)

“Improving Food Security in City Heights, San Diego: The Role of Ethnic Markets” (with Jaime Speed
Rossiter and Pascale Joassart Marcelli). Presented at the Association of Pacific Coast Geographer’s 78th
annual meeting in Palm Spring, CA (October 2015)

“Gardens in the City: Community, Politics and Place” (with Pascale Joassart Marcelli). Presented at the
Association of American Geographer’s annual meeting in Chicago, IL. (April 2015)

“Farmers’ Markets and Gentrification: How the Greening of San Diego’s Food System is Transforming
Urban Neighborhoods.” (with Pascale Joassart Marcelli). Presented at the Association of American
Geographer’s Annual meeting in Chicago, IL (April 2015)

“Participatory Planning and Children’s Emotional Labor in the Production of Urban Nature
in San Diego, CA” (with Pascale Joassart Marcelli). Presented at the 4th International Conference on the
Geographies of Children, Youth and Families in San Diego, CA (January 12 to 15th, 2015)

"Food Deserts, Stigmatized Neighborhoods and the Potential for More Just Food Landscapes" Presented
at the Association of Pacific Coast Geographer’s 77th annual meeting in Tucson, AZ (September 2014)

"Territorial Stigmatization and The Emotional Geographies of Food Deserts" (with Pascale Joassart
Marcelli). Presented at the Joint Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Food and

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Society and the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society at the University of Vermont, Burlington,
VT (June 19 2014)

"Children’s Emotional Geographies and the Construction of Urban Nature in San Diego, CA" (with
Pascale Joassart Marcelli). Presented at the International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional
Geographies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. (July 1-3 2013)

“Non-White” Spaces, the Construction of Difference and the Emotional Geographies of Food Justice
(with Pascale Joassart Marcelli). Presented at the International and Interdisciplinary Conference on
Emotional Geographies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. (July 1-3 2013)

“Children’s Participatory Planning in the Construction of Urban Nature in San Diego, CA” (with
Pascale Joassart Marcelli and Stuart Aitken). Presented at the Association of American Geographer’s
annual meeting in Los Angeles, CA. (April 2013)

“The Geographies of Chronicle of an Escape: Dissapearing and Resisting in the City” Presented at the
Association of American Geographer’s annual meeting in New York City, NY. (February 2012)

“Disappearing, Struggling and Resisting in the City: Chronicle of an Escape” Presented at the
Association of Pacific Coast Geographer’s 74th annual meeting in San Francisco, CA. (September 2011)

“Positioning the Right to Remember in Place in Contemporary Buenos Aires as a Human Right”
Presented at the Association of American Geographer’s annual meeting in Seattle, WA. (April 2011)

“Human Rights Politics and Competing Strategies for the Construction of Places of Memory in Buenos
Aires, Argentina” Presented at the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers’ annual meeting in
Bogotá, Colombia. (May 2010)

“Play, Work and Activism: Bridging the Gap between Political and Children’s Geographies” (With Tom
Herman). Presented at the Association of Pacific Coast Geographer’s 72nd annual meeting in San Diego,
CA. (October 2009)

“Becoming Child/Adult: Other – Bodies and Media as Networks at Play” (with Giorgio Curti and Stuart
Aitken). Presented at the Association of American Geographer’s annual meeting in Las Vegas, NV.
(March 2009)

“A Kid Has the Right to Speak to Anybody they Want in the World: Children as Institutional Brokers in
a Border Community” (with Stuart Aitken and Tom Herman) Presented at the Association of American
Geographers' annual meeting in San Francisco, CA (April 2007)

“The Legacy of Jane Jacobs: Waterfront Redevelopment in Buenos Aires and Democratic Urban
Spaces” Presented at the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers annual meeting in Eugene, OR
(September 2006)

“Young People Creating Pathways to Political Incorporation” (with Stuart Aitken and Doreen
Mattingly) Presented at the Association of American Geographers' annual meeting in Chicago, IL
(March 2006)

“Governance, post-development, and responsibility: Solidarity Networks in Argentina”. Presented at the

Association of American Geographers' annual meeting in Denver, CO (April 2005)

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 “Examining Redevelopment in City Heights, San Diego” Presented at the California Geographical
Society annual meeting in Long Beach, CA (with Larry Ford and Brenda Kayzar) (April 2004)

"Neighborhoods and Networks: Keeping Track of the Players in Urban Redevelopment" Presented at the
Association of Pacific Coast Geographers annual meeting in Portland, OR (with Brenda Kaizar and
Larry Ford) (September 2003).

"Emotions and the Organizational Geographies of Social Movements" Presented at the Association of
American Geographers' annual meeting in New Orleans, LA. (March 2003)

"Scaling Commemoration: Conflicting Landscapes of Memory among the Madres of Argentina"

Presented at the Association of American Geographers' annual meeting in Los Angeles, CA. (March
2002)

"Social Networks, Emotions, and the Flexible Geography of Embeddedness: Sustaining Human Rights
Activism in Argentina" Presented at the Association of American Geographers' annual meeting, New
York City, NY. (February 2001)

"Social Networks and the Geography of Collective Action" Presented at the East and West Lakes
Division of the Association of American Geographers' annual meeting, Oxford, OH. (October 2000)

"Spatializing Social Movement Networks" Presented at the Association of American Geographers'

annual meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. (March 2000)

"Uncovering the Spatialities of Social Movements" Presented at the Association of American

Geographers' annual meeting, Honolulu, HI. (March 1999)

"Space and Social Movement Effectiveness" Presented at the East Lakes Division of the Association of
American Geographers' annual meeting, Columbus, OH. (October)

"Mapping Movements: Social Movements, Space, and Their Place in Theory" Presented at the
Association of American Geographers' annual meeting, Boston, MA. (March 1998)

"Explaining Economic Growth Without Social Change: the Case of Argentina in the 1990s" Presented
at the Association of American Geographers' annual Meeting, Ft. Worth, TX. (April 1997)

"Newly Industrializing Countries and Social Change: a Comparative View" Presented at the Geography
Graduate Student Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. (October 1996)

Conference panels and posters:

Invited panelist. “Finding Funding for Qualitative Research” Association of American Geographer’s
Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA (April 2016)

Poster presentation. “A Cartographic Analysis of AP Human Geography” Donald J. Zeigler, Lisa

Benton-Short, Darren Purcell and Fernando Bosco. Poster presented at the Association of American
Geographer’s Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA (April 2016)

Invited discussant “Metatrends in Professional Geography: The Rise of AP Human Geography”.

Association of Pacific Coast Geographer’s 78th annual meeting in Palm Spring, CA (October 2015)

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 Invited panelist. “Neoliberalism as an Everyday Hazard”. Association of American Geographer’s
Annual Meeting in New York City, NY. (February 2012)

Invited panelist. “Information and Communication Technology Geographies: Strategies for Bridging
the Digital Divide”. Association of American Geographer’s Annual Meeting in New York City, NY.
(February 2012)

Invited panelist at the workshop “Mapping North American Youth Cultures: Local Settings for Global
Lives” Center for the Interdisciplinary Studies of Youth and Space, San Diego State University, CA
(August 2008)

Invited panelist. “Strategies for Teaching Latin American Geography” Presented at the Association of
American Geographers' annual meeting in Boston, MA (April 2008)

Invited panelist “Teaching the History of Geographic Thought” Panel presentation at the Association of
American Geographers annual meeting in San Francisco, CA (April 2007)

Invited panelist “Boundaries of Dissent: A Critical Review” Panel presentation at the Association of
American Geographers' annual meeting in Chicago, IL (March 2006)

Invited panelist “On the Challenges of Qualitative Analysis” Panel presentation at the Association of
Pacific Coast Geographers annual meeting in Phoenix, AZ (October 2005)

Invited panelist “The Silent Third: Service in the Academy” Panel presentation at the Association of
American Geographers' annual meeting in Denver, CO (April 2005)

Invited panelist. “Writing Proposals and Finding Funding for Qualitative Research in Geography” Panel
presentation at the Association of American Geographers' annual meeting in Denver, CO (April 2005)

Invited panelist. "Issues and Strategies in Teaching Qualitative Methods in Geography" Panel
presentation at the Association of American Geographers' annual meeting in Philadelphia, PA (March
2004)

Invited panelist. "Where are the boundaries of economic geography?" Panel presentation at the First
Summer Institute in Economic Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison. (July 2003)

Special Sessions at Academic Conferences

Co-organizer. "Emotional Geographies of Food Justice" Special session organized at the International
and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
(July 1-3 2013)

Organizer. “Writing Proposals and Finding Funding for Qualitative Research in Geography” Special
session on Qualitative Research at the Association of American Geographers' annual meeting in Denver,
CO (April 2005)

Organizer. "Spatializing Emotions" Three special sessions at the annual meeting of the Association of
American Geographer in New Orleans, LA (March 2003)

Organizer. "Spatializing Network Theory" Organizer of special paper session at the annual meeting of
the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, PA (March 2000)

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MANUSCRIPT AND PROPOSAL REVIEWS

For Academic Journals (review of papers, ongoing):

Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Political Geography; Gender Place and
Culture; Geography Compass; Emotion, Space and Society; Environment and Planning D: Society
and Space; Social and Cultural Geography; Social Movement Studies; Memory Studies; Antipode;
Space and Culture; International Journal of Urban and Regional Research; Children’s Geographies;
Professional Geographer; Environment and Planning A; Historical Geography; Global Networks;
Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography; Progress in Human Geography; Journal of Urbanism;
Social Problems; Area; Cultural Geographies; Geoforum

For Funding Agencies (review of proposals):

National Science Foundation, Austrian Science Fund, Economic and Social Research Council (UK)

For Academic Publishers (review of completed book manuscripts and book proposals):
Prentice Hall / Pearson Publishing, Routledge/Taylor and Francis, Blackwell Publishers, Sage
Publishers, University Press of Universitat Jaume I (Castellon de la Plana, Spain)

EDITORIAL POSITIONS
• Editorial Board, Geography Compass - Urban, Wiley (2015-present)
• Editorial Board, Emotion Space and Society, Elsevier Publishers (2014-present)
• Editorial Board, Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers (2008-present)
• Book Review Editor, Emotion Space and Society (2009-2010)

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Association of American Geographers (AAG),
Association of Pacific Coast Geographers (APCG)
Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (CLAG)

MEDIA

Why doesn’t everyone have access to food? Dame Magazine. Amy Roost. September 6, 2018.
https://www.damemagazine.com/2018/09/06/why-doesnt-everyone-have-access-to-food/

Global Change and Sustainability Center Presents Dr. Fernando Bosco. Sustainable Utah: Green
News at the University of Utah. https://sustainableutah.wordpress.com/2016/10/25/gcsc-presents-
seminar-speaker-dr-fernando-bosco/

Foodtrucks Bring Unique Flavors To Del Mar Fairgrounds. KPBS. Priyanka Nanayakkara.
September 1st, 2015. http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/sep/01/foodtrucks-bring-unique-flavors-del-
mar-fairgounds/

Is Southeastern San Diego’s “Food Desert” a Mirage? SDSU geographers analyzed the food
landscape of Southeastern San Diego and found reasons for optimism. SDSU News. Michael Price.
April 9, 2014. http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news_story.aspx?sid=74890

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 Geographers find reasons for optimism in Southeastern San Diego food landscape. Medical Xpress.
Michael Price. April 10, 2014. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-04-geographers-optimism-
southeastern-san-diego.html

It’s not a food desert, it’s a food swamp. San Diego Union-Tribune. Arturo Garcia Sierra. May 7th,
2014. http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2014/may/07/food-desert-swamp-sdsu-study/

IV - TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND EFFECTIVENESS

COURSES AND SEMINARS DEVELOPED AND TAUGHT AT SDSU

• GEOG 590 Community Based Geographic Research
• GEOG 496 Food and Place (co-teach with Pascale Marcelli, SDSU Community Engagement
and Service Learning Program)
• GEOG 496 Learning Service Through Geography: Food Justice ( co-teach with Pascale
Marcelli, SDSU Community Engagement and Service Learning Program)
• GEOG 596 Urban Social Geography (2 semesters)
• GEOG 760 Graduate Seminar: Place, Space and the Politics of Memory (Spring 2020)
• GEOG 740 Graduate Seminar in Urban Social Geography: Gentrification, Authenticity and
Consumption (Fall 2017)
• GEOG 740 Graduate Seminar in Human Geography: The City and Memory (Spring 2011)
• GEOG 740 Graduate Seminar in Human Geography: Space, Relationality and Politics (Spring
2008)
• GEOG 740 Graduate Seminar in Human Geography: Place and the Politics of Memory (Spring
2006)
• GEOG 740 Graduate Seminar in Human Geography: Geographic Perspectives on Citizenship,
Development and Representation (Spring 2005)

OTHER COURSES TAUGHT AT SDSU

• GEOG 701 Graduate Seminar: Development of Geographic Thought
• GEOG 740 Graduate Seminar: Research Methods in Geography
• GEOG 353 Economic Geography
• GEOG 556 Location and Spatial Structure of Cities
• GEOG 312 Culture Worlds (Human Geography)
• GEOG 324 Latin America
• GEOG 102 People Places and Environments

COMPLETED & CURRENT GRADUATE DISSERTATION/THESIS ADVISING & COMMITTEES

(* CHAIR)

Geography Doctoral Graduate Students (Ph.D):

*Curti, Giorgio (Ph.D., Geography, 2010) The Body Geographic: Imagination and the Relationality of
Be(com)ing, or Movements through Spinozan Earth-Writings (Co-Chair with Stuart Aitken)

Moreno, Chris (Ph.D., Geography, 2010) Geographies of Addiction and Recovery: Drugs, Spaces and
Body Politics

*Crotty, Sean (Ph.D., Geography, 2012) The Geographies of Day Labor in San Diego County

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 *Salim, Zia (Ph.D., Geography, 2014) Building Community? Analyzing Gated Housing Compounds in
Bahrain

*Carter, Norman (Ph.D., Geography, 2014) The Struggle to Create a Residential Community in
Downtown Los Angeles.

O’Neal, Blaire (2019) Nature, Technology and the Pursuit of Justice: Urban Agriculture Networks in
San Diego County.

Quimbi, Barbara (2020) Power and Participation in the Gataifale: A Compartive Analysis of Samoan
Coastal Marine Management

External Examiner for Doctoral Dissertations (Ph.D.):

Parizeau, Kate (Ph.D., Geography, 2010) Urban Dirty Work: Labour Strategies, environmental health
and coping among informal recyclers in Buenos Aires, Argentina. University of Toronto, Canada.

Geography Graduate Students (MA/MS):

Joel Jennings (M.A, Geography; 2003) Discourses and Discipline: Interpreting Children's Experiences
with the San Diego Maritime Museum Living History Program.

Alicia Cox (M.A., Geography; 2005) Canyon Frags and the City: Nature-Culture in San Diego’s City
Heights

Molly Schmelze (M.A., Geography, 2005) A Gendered Analysis of Embodiment: A Case of Female
Collegiate Soccer Players

*Will Cimarosa (M.A., Geography, 2006) San Diego's East Village Community Action Network: Scales
of Power and Citizenship within the Contemporary American City

Jeff Rose (M.A., Geography, 2006) Examining Human-Environment Relations through Outward Bound,
Leave No Trace, and the National Park Service.

*Sean Crotty (M.A., Geography, 2007) Social Relations and Power Structures Surrounding Urban Day
Labor in San Diego

*Scott Therkalsen (M.A., Geography, 2007) Globalization and Tourism in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica

*Will Anderson (M.A., Geography, 2009) Korean Transnational Migration to Guatemala: An

Exploration of Maquila Connections, Social Exclusion and Urban Insecurity

*Jonathan Rossiter (M.A., Geography, 2010) New Urbanism, Transportation Mode Choice, and
Communitarian Behavior: A Case Study from Kentlands, Maryland.

Dragan, Chad (M.A, Geography, 2012) Modeling Neighborhood Boundaries and Definitions: A Mixed
Methods Approach

Wood, Lydia (M.A., Geography, 2013) Memory and Place as Generational Bridges: Mental Maps,
Community Walks and Childhood Geographies in San Diego’s Little Italy

*Van Ramshorst, Jared (M.A., Geography, 2014) ‘I suffer a lot, we all suffer so much’: Contexts of
Mobility, Migration, and Connectedness in Oaxaca and Southern California

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 Garcia, Leticia (M.A., 2014) Feeling at Home with the Unfamiliar: Motivating People Through Visceral
Engagement with Food

Allison, Steve (M.A., 2014) A Hole-in-the-Wall: Mobility Through Individually Owned Foreign
Restaurants in Suzhou, China.

Taflin, Helena (M.S., 2017) Food Retail Environment and Health Outcomes among Urban Ghanaian
Women

Gilliam, Shea (M.A., 2018) Gender Rolls: The Contentious Integration of Transgender Identities into
the Feminist Spaces of Women’s Roller Derby

*Tenenbaum, Jessee (M.A., 2019) Identity, Connectivity and Governance: Perspectives from
Contemporary Rapa Nui

Latin American Studies Graduate Students (M.A.):

*Stevie Ruiz (M.A., Latin American Studies, 2007) The Gendered Politics of Carving Public Spaces: A
Case Study of Las Madres de Ciudad Juarez

Wetherbee, Shane (M.A., Latin American Studies, 2007) A Role Model for Others? A Study of A
Nongovernmental Organization in Paraguay and its Effectiveness

Rodriguez, Octavio (M.A., Latin American Studies, 2009) Transnational Considerations, Migration and
Community Formation.

Graduate Students in other Disciplines (M.A.)

Dennis Larson (M.A, Economics; 2003). School Quality and Residential Location Choice of Same-Sex
Unmarried Partner Households

Chris Adcock (M.A., Political Science, 2004) U.S. Colombian Relations: Continuity and Change during
the Cold War and the War on Drugs.

Cara Fraker (M.A., Political Science; 2004) Debtor's Jubilee: Global Civil Society and Third World
Debt.

Prisca Bermudez (M.A, Latin American Literature, 2005) Ciudad y Memoria: La Integracion de la
Memoria Colectiva al Paisaje Urbano en La Ciudad Ausente de Ricardo Piglia

Groves, Andrea (M.A., City Planning, 2006) Transforming “Blight” and the People who Live There: A
Study of Redevelopment Planning and Neighborhood Change

Johnny Gonzales (M.A., History, 2006) Growth and Politics in the Citrus Belt: Woodlake, CA in the
Twentieth Century.

Eric Stottlemyer (M.A., English, 2006) Zen Buddhism and American Nature Writing: Philosophical
Foundations in Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Abbey, and Peter Matthiesen

Ceballos, Beatriz (M.A., Spanish, 2006) Los italianismos integrados al español rioplatense entre los
años 1870-1950 y su vitalidad actual: Una mirada hacia los campos semánticos, las connotaciones y
las actitudes sociales de la sociedad receptora hacia los inmigrantes italianos.

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 Klesynski, Keith (M.A., Anthropology, 2006) Sport Participation and Community Development: the
Mexican Migrant Experience

Conor Muirhead (M.A., Anthropology, 2009) Old Town, San Diego: Re-Imaginations of Symbolic
Space.

Yanmaz, Selen (M.A, Sociology, 2009) Globalization and Alternative Youth in Turkey

Michaels, Elaine (M.A., Anthropology, 2009) The Sunrise Power Link and San Diego Backcountry
Identities

Basset, Malia (M.A., City Planning, 2011) The Role of Historic Resources in Fostering Sense of Place:
A Study of Place in Uptown and Tierrasanta, San Diego.

Crowder, Marisa (M.A., Psychology, 2012) An Experimental Test of the Production of Individualism
within the United States

Nugent, Benjamin (M.A., Anthropology, 2012) Argentina’s Transforming Cattle Rancher: A Political
Economic Look at Instability and Resilience.

Erin Gorman (M.A., Interior Design, 2016) Continuum of Design: Creating a Storyline of Local Culture
and Design.

Rachel Droessler (M.A., Anthropology, 2017) Reconstruction of San Diegan Food Culture through
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Faunal Remains, San Diego, California

TEACHING AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

Most Influential Faculty Member, Urban Studies (May 2015)

Food Equity Hero Award, Project New Village, San Diego, California. Award given to individuals and
organizations that have supported and inspired the People’s Produce Urban Agriculture Initiative work
for food justice (October, 2014).

Mentor Recognition Award, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) (2007).

TEACHING IMPROVEMENT AND PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITIES AND INNOVATION

Leadership role and participant, Human Geography AP Reading, The College Board (June 2020)

Leadership role and participant, Human Geography AP Reading, The College Board (June 2019)

Leadership role and participant, Human Geography AP Reading, The College Board (June 2018)

Leadership role and participant, Human Geography AP Reading, The College Board (June 2017)

Participant, Human Geography AP Reading, The College Board, Cincinnati, OH (June 2016)

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 Co-organizer of student panel competition for San Diego State University’s 2014-2014 Common
Experience “Food” at the SRS (Student Research Symposium), San Diego State University (March
2015)

Co-organizer of Food Film Series for San Diego State University’s 2014-2014 Common Experience
“Food”, Academic Engagement Programs, Division of Undergraduate Studies. (September-April 2015)

“Integrating SDSU Civic Capacities and Student Learning Outcomes with a Geography Undergraduate
Course on Community-Based Research: Geography 496-Community-Based Geographic Research: Food
and Place” Report prepared for San Diego State University’s Service Learning and Community
Engagement Program (August 2013)

Participant on a panel on “Teaching the History of Geographic Thought” at the Association of American
Geographers annual meeting in San Francisco, CA (April 2007)

Participant on seminar “Assessing and Grading Student Performance”, Center for Teaching, San Diego
State University (2005)

Participant on seminar and book discussion “Geography of Thought”, Center for Teaching and
Learning, San Diego State University (2005)

Participant on seminar "Writing Student Learning Outcomes" organized by the Center for Teaching and
Learning, San Diego State University (March 8) (2004)

Participant in four new faculty seminars organized by the Center for Teaching and Learning, San Diego
State University (October through March 2003-2004)

Participant in six new faculty seminars organized by the Center for Teaching and Learning at San Diego
State University (September through April, 2002-2003)

Participant in Faculty Service-Learning Workshop, Center for Community Based Service-Learning, San
Diego State University (2002).

V - SERVICE TO DISCIPLINE, UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY

TO DISCIPLINE

Development Committee Co-Chair-Higher Education, AP (Advanced Placement) Program-Human

Geography, The College Board, New York, NY (2018-present)

Development Committee Member, AP (Advanced Placement) Program-Human Geography, The

College Board, New York, NY (2015-2018)

Senior Panelist, National Science Foundation, Geography and Spatial Sciences Program, Washington,
DC (2011-2014)

LATS (Latino/a American Travel Scholarship) Committee, Association of Pacific Coast Geographers
(2010-present)

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 Co-chair and Co-organizer, Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA,
October (2009)

Student Awards Committee, Association of Pacific Coast Geographers (2007-2009)

Co-Chair, Qualitative Research Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers (2005-2007)

Board Member, Economic Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers (2005-
2007)

Judge for committee for the “Best Dissertation Competition”, Economic Geography Specialty Group,
Association of American Geographers (2007)

Organizer, Graduate Student Research/Paper Grant Competition, Qualitative Research Specialty Group,
Association of American Geographers (2004-2005)

Board Member, Qualitative Research Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers (2004)

Graduate Student Board Member, Qualitative Research Specialty Group, Association of American
Geographers (2001)

TO SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY

College and University Level

Graduate Council, College of Arts and Letters Representative (2018-present)

Undergraduate Assessment Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Major in Urban Studies (2014-2016)

Co-Chair and Undergraduate Student Advisor, Interdisciplinary Major in Urban Studies (2008-present)

College of Arts and Letters Research Committee (2012-2014)

Faculty Committee, Center for Latin American Studies (2003-present)

Judge, SDSU’s Student Research Symposium (2011, 2012, 2015)

Ad Hoc FLAS Fellowship Selection Committee, Center for Latin American Studies (2006 to 2009)

Department Level

Doctoral Program Adviser (elected) (2013-present)

Policy Advisory Committee (elected) (2013-2015; 2017-present)

Personnel Committee (2011-2015; 2017-present)

Scholarships and Awards Committee (2002 to 2004) (Chair 2004-2013)

Hiring Committee (2010 to 2012; 2005 to 2007)

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 Internal Resources Committee (2008 to 2012)

Ph.D. Advising Committee (2005 to 2011)

Speakers Committee (Chair) (2002 to 2004; 2008 to 2009; 2015-2016)

Masters Advising Committee (2002 to 2005)

Curriculum Development Committee (2003 to 2005)

TO COMMUNITY

Scholarly consultant to dramaturg and cast for “The Madres” play, Moxie Theatre, San Diego, CA (May
and June 2018)

Participant and contributor in the Community Food System group of Project New Village, a non-profit
organization in South East San Diego to community and communal wellness (2012-present)

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