DR. REECIA ORZECK Assistant Professor Department of Geography University of Vermont

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1 DR. REECIA ORZECK Assistant Professor Department of Geography University of Vermont 200 Old Mill 94 University Place Burlington VT USA o: h: e: ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS August Assistant Professor, Geography, University of Vermont (UVM) EDUCATION December 2007 March 2002 May 1998 PhD, Geography, Syracuse University (SU) Dissertation supervisor: Dr. Don Mitchell On the Palestinian Question: A Critique of International Law MA, Geography, York University (YU) Thesis supervisors: Drs. Valerie Preston and Jon Caulfield Recreation: Urban Revitalization and Toronto s Yonge Street BA Honours, Geography and Religion, Queens University (QU) Thesis supervisor: Dr. John Holmes Imagined and Tangible Communities: Marketing the Exotic and the Local in Kingston, ON GRANTS AND AWARDS University of Vermont 2008 Humanities Center Research Assistantship, UVM, $1,000 National 2009 Quadrant Residential Fellowship, University of Minnesota, $30, Faculty Resource Network Summer Scholar-in-Residence, New York University Antipode: Radical Journal of Geography Graduate Student Scholarship, $2,000

2 Syracuse University Graduate School Continuing Fellowship, SU, $19, Syracuse University Fellowship, $15,000 x 3 years 2007 Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and Media Fellowship, SU, $ Maxwell Dean Summer Stipend, SU, $1, Graduate School Summer Stipend (declined), SU, $ Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs Summer Research Grant, SU, $2, Maxwell School Creative Grant Competition, SU, $1, Roscoe Martin Research Grant, SU, $ Maxwell Dean Summer Stipend, SU, $1, Roscoe Martin Research Grant, SU, $ Maxwell School European Union Summer Grant, SU, $2,500 PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Orzeck, Reecia (2007) What Does not Kill You: Historical Materialism and the Body Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 25(3) PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS Orzeck, Reecia. The Difference that Scale Makes: Domestic and International Law through a Class Lens Submitted to Historical Materialism, July Orzeck, Reecia Academic Freedom, Intellectual Diversity, and the Place of Politics in Geography being revised for Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography. Orzeck, Reecia The Jewish Agency s Case before the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine: An intervention into Israel s colonial question, to be submitted to The Annals of the Association of American Geographers, October Orzeck, Reecia Hunger as Political Speech: The Hunger Strikes at Guantánamo Bay and the Department of Defense s response, solicited chapter for Body/State, Angus Cameron, Jen Dickinson and Nicola Smith (eds), to be submitted December Orzeck, Reecia. On the Palestinian Question: A Critique of International Law. Book manuscript to be completed December Orzeck / CV 2/6

3 TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS University of Vermont 2010 Discourses of Justice in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Global Village Common Hour Presentation The Jewish Agency s case before the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine Area and International Studies Fall 2008 Lecture Series. National 2010 A Historical Materialist Critique of International Law Historical Materialism Conference. Toronto, ON The Political Economy of Public International Law Department of Geography Colloquium Series. University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN The Political Economy of Public International Law Institute for Advanced Study Thursdays at Four series, University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN Equality, Justice, and Possible Models of Statehood Israel/Palestine: Mapping Models of Statehood and Paths to Peace. Toronto, ON Imperialist or Freedom fighter? Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C Hunger as Political Speech: The Hunger Strikes at Guantánamo Bay and the Department of Defense s response Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, MA 2007 The Dialectical Classroom: An Open Letter to Stanley Fish Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA 2006 All the World a Stage: Theatricality in the Trial of Saddam Hussein Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL 2005 Leveling Asymmetrical Conflict: Israeli-Palestinian Geopolitics Four Ways Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver, CO 2004 Legitimacy and Violence in Palestine, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA 2003 The United Nations Convention on Genocide: What it Permits Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA Orzeck / CV 3/6

4 2002 Neoliberalism and the Local State: The Yonge Street Example Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA 2001 No Trespassing: Land in the Fiction of Mordecai Richler Geography and Literature Special Session. Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Montreal, QC CONFERENCE SESSIONS ORGANIZED National 2007 The State of Academic Freedom Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA 2006 Rethinking Legal Geography (with Laam Hae) Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL 2005 Geographies of the Middle East and the Arab World I & II (with Dr. Colin Flint) [Innovative Pedagogy for a Dynamic Region & Research Agendas and Challenges] Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver, CO ACADEMIC SERVICE Department and University Service 2010 Curriculum Review Committee, Department of Geography, UVM 2009 ALANA Chair Search Committee, CAS, UVM 2009 Department Honors Committee, Department of Geography, UVM 2009 Learning Goals Committee, Department of Geography, UVM 2008 and 2009 Co-organizer of Middle East Film Series, CAS, UVM Delegate s Assembly member, United Academics, UVM Geography Representative, Faculty Senate, UVM Service to the Discipline Ongoing Proposal and Manuscript reviewer [NSF (n=1); Journal of Cultural Geography (n=1); Acme (n=1); Gender, Place and Culture (n=1); Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography (n=1); Maxwell Review (n=1)] 2010 Officer of Socialist and Critical Geography Specialty Group, AAG Student Officer of Middle East Speciality Group, AAG Orzeck / CV 4/6

5 Other Publisher of Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace newsletter, FFIPP PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT hours Arabic language instruction, Al Quds University, Jerusalem 2008 Fourth Summer Institute for Economic Geography, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Winter Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace delegation 2005 Geography Faculty Development Alliance Workshop, Boulder, CO hours Conflict Mediation Training (with Duke Fisher) Participant in the Future Professoriate Program, SU Member of the Human Geography Job Search Committee, SU Department Representative for the Graduate Student Organization, SU Departmental Shop Stewart for CUPE local 3903, YU PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Association of American Geographers Middle East Studies Association COURSES TAUGHT 2010 Fall International Law and Governance (200), UVM 2010 Fall Space, Place and Society: Introduction to Human Geography (00), UVM 2009 Fall Economic Geography (100), UBM 2009 Fall Space, Place and Society: Introduction to Human Geography (00), UVM 2009 Spring Geography of the Modern Middle East (100), UVM 2009 Spring Space, Place and Society: Introduction to Human Geography (00), UVM 2008 Fall Space, Place and Society: Introduction to Human Geography (00), UVM 2008 Spring Embodied Geographies (200), UVM 2008 Spring Geography of the Global Economy (00), UVM 2007 Fall Geography of the Modern Middle East (100), UVM 2006 Fall Political Geography (100), SU 2004 Fall Geography of Israel and Palestine (200), SU 2003 June World Geography (00), SU Orzeck / CV 5/6

6 REFEREES Dr. Don Mitchell - dmmitc01@maxwell.syr.edu Department of Geography 144 Eggers Hall Syracuse University Syracuse, NY Telephone: (315) Dr. Thomas Perreault - taperrea@maxwell.syr.edu Department of Geography 144 Eggers Hall Syracuse University Syracuse, NY Telephone: (315) Dr. Crystal Bartolovich - clbartol@syr.edu English Department 401 Hall of Languages Syracuse University Syracuse, NY Telephone: (315) Orzeck / CV 6/6