Education. Research Interests. Fellowships and Research Support. Degrees

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1 Emma J. Slager Department of Geography, University of Washington Smith Hall 408, Seattle, WA Education Degrees In progress PhD Geography University of Washington, Seattle, WA Dissertation Title: Infrastructures of survival: digital justice and black poetics in community Internet provision Committee: Sarah Elwood (chair), Luke Bergmann, Vicky Lawson, Daniela Rosner Graduate Certificate in Public Scholarship University of Washington, Seattle, WA Certificate advisor: micha cárdenas 2013 MA Geography University of Oregon, Eugene, OR Thesis Title: Touring Detroit: Ruins, Representation, and Redevelopment Committee: Katie Meehan (chair), Xiaobo Su 2010 BA Geography, History (with honors) Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI Research Seminars and Institutes 2017 Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme, Univ. of Oxford. Oxford, UK International Political Economy and Ecology Summer School, York Univ. Toronto, ON. Research Interests Digital Geographies (community technology, critical GIS, queer and feminist digital geography) Urban Geographies (urban spatial politics, neoliberalization, urban commoning) Black Geographies (geographies of survival, Afrofuturism, poetic imaginaries) Infrastructure Studies (post-colonial infrastructure, infrastructure and scale, (in)visibility) Fellowships and Research Support National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Proposal: Technologies of citizenship: evaluating community-based responses to the digital divide, $132, Howard Martin Research Grant, Dept. of Geography, University of Washington, $1,500 1

2 2016 Graduate Student Research Grant, Urban Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers, $ Lilly Graduate Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities, $9, Margaret Trussell Scholarship, Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, $1, Larry Ford Fieldwork Scholarship in Cultural Geography, Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, $ Summer Research Award, Dept. of Geography, University of Oregon, $ Trustee Scholarship, Calvin College, $40, John and Lillian Van Oosten Scholarship in Sciences, Calvin College, $2, Earl Strikwerda Memorial Scholarship in History, Calvin College, $2, McGregor Summer Research Fellowship, Calvin College, $3, Michigan Merit Award Scholarship, $1, Howard J. Wiarda Scholarship in Government, Calvin College, $400 Awards and Honors 2015 Outstanding, University of Washington Department of Geography 2012 President s Award for Outstanding Paper by a Master s Student, Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting 2010 Top Student in Geography, Calvin College 2010 John DeBie Essay Prize for best History paper, Calvin College 2010 Michigan Press Association College Newspaper Awards, first place div. II news story 2008 Michigan Press Assoc. College Newspaper Awards, second place div. II feature story 2008 Best paper in Gender Studies, Calvin College 2007 Michigan Press Assoc. College Newspaper Awards, third place div. II non-deadline story Publications Peer reviewed journal articles Slager, E. (Under Review). Ruin Tourism: Performing and Consuming Decay in Detroit. Urban Geography. Slager, E. (In Preparation). Commentary: Gun Violence Protests and the Politics of Objects. Society and Space Online. Other published work Slager, E. (2014, July 8). Fighting with Family and Seeking Transformation through Care. Relational Poverty Network Blog. Available at Slager, E. (2008, January). Victorio Communion. Perspectives: a Journal of Reformed Thought. 2

3 Academic Teaching Experience University of Washington Instructor Introduction to Globalization (GEOG 123 online course) Digital Geographies (GEOG 258) GIS & Mapping (GEOG 360 under contract for summer 2018) Digital Geographies (GEOG 258) Introduction to Urban Geography (GEOG 277) Urban GIS (GEOG 461) GIS and Geovisualization Workshop (GEOG 469) University of Oregon Introduction to Human Geography (GEOG 142) World Regional Geography (GEOG 201) Geography of Europe (GEOG 202) Geography of Pacific Asia (GEOG 205) Geography of U.S. and Canada (GEOG 208) Calvin College Introduction to Cartography and GIS (GEOG 261) Human Impacts on the Environment (ENVS 210) History and Philosophy of Environmental Thought (ENVS 395) Community Teaching Experience Detroit Community Technology Project, Allied Media Projects. NextGen Apps Instructor (16-week intensive after-school coding program for middle and high-school students), Telluride Association Sophomore Seminar, University of Michigan. Factotum (6 week-residential summer program in critical Black studies for high school students), Service Learning Center, Calvin College. Community Garden Manager (summer-long community garden manager leading weekly gardening workshops), Conference Participation Paper presentations The infrastructure of digital justice: mesh networking in Detroit, MI. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. April

4 Ruin Tourism: Consuming Decay in Detroit. Transformations Graduate Conference in Anthropology. Wayne State University. Detroit, MI. March Comparing media framings of wireless mesh networks. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. April Touring Detroit: ruins, representation, and redevelopment. Critical Geographies Conference. Port Angeles, WA. October Niche tourism, urban redevelopment, and the representation of industrial decline in Detroit. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, CA. April Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting. Olympia, WA. October Tourism, urban redevelopment, and the representation of industrial decline in Detroit, MI. Women s leadership in the CRC: A social movement analysis, (with Helen Sterk). Annual Conference of the Organization for the Study of Language, Communication, and Gender. Nashville, TN. October Poster Presentations Political boundaries and obscured barriers: rethinking food desert mapping. Graduate Student Research Forum, University of Oregon. February Sessions organized Anti-Racism Politics in the City: a Graduate Student Roundtable, (with Rachael Baker). American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA, April Guest Lectures & Invited Talks 2015 Long-term learning and professional development for professional geographers, Geography 469: GIS and Geovisualization Workshop, Instructor: Sarah Elwood. June SPSS for quantitative analysis, Geography 469: GIS and Geovisualization Workshop, Instructor: Sarah Elwood. May Urbanization in Detroit: economy, culture, and urban change, University of Washington. Geography 277: Urban Geography, Instructor: Kim England. October Europe East, West and Central: Central Europe as frontier zone through history, University of Oregon. Geography 202: Europe, Instructor: Alec Murphy. March Political Economy and North American Cities, University of Oregon. Geography 208: U.S. & Canada, Instructor: Susan Hardwick. January Honors Convocation keynote address, Calvin College. April 21. Leadership & Service Professional Service Digital Geographies Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. Student Board Member,

5 Urban Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. Student Board Member, University Service Department of Geography Diversity and Inclusivity Committee, University of Washington. Member, Academic Workers for a Democratic University, University of Washington. Organizing Member, Geography Graduate Student Writing Group, University of Washington. Organizer, Geography Graduate Student Association, University of Washington. Co-President, Geography Department Colloquium Committee, University of Oregon. Member, Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation, University of Oregon. Department Steward, American Federations of Teachers-Oregon. Annual Convention Delegate, Community Service Telluride Association (educational non-profit). Ithaca, NY and Ann Arbor, MI. Board of Directors, Central Advisory Committee (elected), and Non-Harassment Officer (appointed) present. Uniting Detroiters/Detroit People s Platform. Detroit, MI. Data analyst, mapping assistant, community mapping workshop leader Michigan Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. Detroit, MI. Legal Observer Tricycle Collective/United Community Housing Coalition. Detroit, MI. Canvasser and data analyst City/University Community Advisory Committee (CUCAC). Seattle, WA. University of Washington Graduate Student Representative Washington Geodetic Survey. Seattle, WA. Data analyst Current Professional Memberships American Association of Geographers (AAG) Black Geographies Specialty Group Digital Geographies Specialty Group Urban Geography Specialty Group Association of Pacific Coast Geographers (APCG) Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA) United Auto Workers, Local 4121 (UAW) 5