Dr. Sandra Zupan Temple University Department of Geography and Urban Studies 340 Gladfelter Hall 215-204-6261 sandra.zupan@temple.edu EMPLOYMENT Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Urban Studies, 2014-present University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky Lecturer, Department of Geography, 2010-2013 Public Policy Forum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Research fellow, 2009-2010 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Instructor, Department of Geography, 2007-2010 Teaching assistant, Department of Geography, 2005-2007 Research assistant, Department of Geography, 2005 Project: Urban brownfields and green space EDUCATION University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Ph.D., Geography, 2010 Dissertation: Assessing Environmental Justice and Opportunities for Community Change: Brownfields Redevelopment in Milwaukee s Inner-City Neighborhoods. (Ryan Holifield, adviser) University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho M.S., Conservation Social Sciences, 2003 Central European University, Budapest, Hungary M.S., Environmental Sciences and Policy, 2000 University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia B.S., Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, 1997 1
FELLOWSHIPS 2011 Summer Research Fellowship, University of Kentucky 2009 Norman N. Gill Civic Engagement Fellowship, Public Policy Forum 2007 Dissertation Fellowship, Urban Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers (AAG) 2001 Ron Brown Fellowship, U.S. Department of State 1999 Soros Foundation Fellowship, Open Society Institute AWARDS 2011 Teachers Who Made A Difference Honor, University of Kentucky 2010 Urban Geography Specialty Group Graduate Student Paper Award, AAG 2010 Political Geography Specialty Group Ph.D. Student Paper Award, AAG 2009 Alma H. Young Emerging Scholar Award, Urban Affairs Association 2008 The Best Essay by Young Authors Finalist Prize, Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies/International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 2007 Society for the Study of Social Problems Student Paper Award 2007 State of Environmental Justice in America Conference Scholarship GRANTS 2012 Geographers, Awareness and Outreach: Emerging in Homelessness in Lexington, Kentucky., UK College of Arts and Sciences Mini Grant ($1,260) 2012 Young Geographers, Awareness and Practice: Emerging in Urban Homelessness in Lexington, Kentucky., AAG Enhancing Departments and Graduate Education Project Grant ($500) 2012 Social Justice Groups, Urban Homelessness and Spaces of Praxis: Lexington s Catholic Action Center., UK College of Arts and Sciences Mini Grant ($1,000) 2011 The Role and Practices of Civic Groups in Alleviating Urban Homelessness and Hunger: The Catholic Worker Movement Communities., UK College of Arts and Sciences Mini Grant ($2,200) 2009 Environmental Justice, Brownfields and Milwaukee s Inner-City Neighborhoods., with Milwaukee Urban Planning and Architecture High School and Good Jobs and Livable Neighborhoods, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, Community-University Partnership Grant ($1,500) 2
PUBLICATIONS Holifield, R. and Zupan, S. 2014. Keep Costumes Out, Keep Trains In: Defining and Defending Spaces for Good Jobs in a Rust Belt City. GeoJournal, 79 (3): 309-328. Zupan, S. 2011. Enacting an Equitable Agenda: Exploring Community Strategies in Milwaukee's Inner-City Redevelopment. Urban Geography, 32 (7): 1043 1065. Klein, P., Fatima, M., McEwen, L., Moser, S., Schmidt, D. and Zupan, S. 2011. Dismantling the Ivory Tower: Engaging Geographers in Community Partnerships. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 35 (3): 425-444. Zupan, S. 2010. Main Street Milwaukee: Program at a Crossroads. Milwaukee: Public Policy Forum. The University of Kentucky Critical Pedagogy Working Group, Mott, C., Zupan, S., Debbane, A. and Lave, R. Making Space for Critical Pedagogy in the Neoliberal University: Struggles and Possibilities. Accepted in ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies. Manuscripts in progress: Zupan, S. Main Street Milwaukee: The Failed Experiment to Re-Entrepreneurialize Inner- City Redevelopment. Expected to be submitted to Journal of Urban Affairs in January 2015. Zupan, S. Not Quite Everyone: Struggles for Sustainability, Justice and Inclusion in Milwaukee s Brownfields Redevelopment. In preparation for Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability. Zupan, S. Geography, Engaged Scholarship and Qualitative Research: Barriers and Benefits for Informing Urban Policy. In preparation for Professional Geographer. Zupan, S. Advocating for the Poor and Homeless: Non-Punitive Approaches and Spaces of Praxis in Lexington, Kentucky. In preparation for International Journal of of Urban and Regional Research. 3
COMMUNITY AND POLICY ENGAGEMENTS 2012 Co-organizer, community-university partnership, Homelessness: Immersion and Advocacy in Lexington, Kentucky., with Catholic Action Center 2012 Public comment, Mayor s Taskforce on Homelessness, Lexington, Kentucky 2010 Public testimony, Main Street Milwaukee: Program at a Crossroads., City of Milwaukee Common Council; City of Milwaukee Department of City Development and Local Initiatives Support Corporation 2009 Co-organizer, community-university partnership, Environmental Justice, Brownfields and Milwaukee s Inner-City Neighborhoods., with Milwaukee Urban Planning High School and Good Jobs and Livable Neighborhoods 2007 Participant, Milwaukee s 6th Annual Community Development Summit PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS Conference papers presented: 2013 Advocating for the Poor and Homeless: Christian Anarchism and Spaces of Praxis in Lexington, Kentucky. The AAG Annual Meeting, Los Angeles. 2013 Tales From the Neoliberal University: American Style Homelessness and Experiential Learning. The AAG Annual Meeting, Los Angeles. 2013 Social Justice, Non-Punitive Approaches and Spaces of Praxis: Advocating for the Poor and Homeless in Lexington, Kentucky. The Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference, San Francisco. 2012 The Main Street Milwaukee Program: Urban Policy Transfer, Collaborative Governance and Neighborhood Scale Changes in Inner-City Redevelopment. The Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference, Pittsburg. 2012 Keep Costumes Out, Bring Trains In: Political Geographies of Urban Brownfields Redevelopment (with Ryan Holifield). The AAG Annual Meeting, New York. 2011 Main Streets: The Economic Development and Anti-Poverty Strategy? Exploring Collaborative Governance Practices in Milwaukee s Inner-City Redevelopment. The AAG Annual Meeting, Seattle. 2011 Enacting an Equitable Community Agenda: Exploring Community Strategies in Milwaukee s Inner-City Redevelopment. Department of Geography Fall Colloquium, University of Kentucky. 4
2010 Community Participation and Environmental Justice in Milwaukee s Brownfields Projects. The Annual Mini Conference on Critical Geography, Milwaukee. 2010 Enacting an Equitable Community Agenda: Exploring Community Strategies in Milwaukee s Inner-City Redevelopment. The AAG Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. 2010 Alternative Urban Vision and Community Strategies: The Case of Good Jobs and Livable Neighborhoods in Milwaukee s 30th Street Industrial Corridor Project. The Annual Urban Studies Student Forum, Milwaukee. 2009 What Kind of Partnership? Assessing Milwaukee s Menomonee Valley and 30th Street Industrial Corridor Brownfields Redevelopment Projects. The AAG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas. 2008 The Battle for Park East: Negotiating Socio-Economic Inclusiveness in Downtown Milwaukee. The American Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Chicago. 2008 Can We Say a Word, Too? Negotiating Milwaukee s Downtown Brownfield Redevelopment. The AAG Annual Meeting, Boston. 2008 Assessing Environmental Justice in Milwaukee s Brownfield Redevelopment. The Annual Urban Studies Student Forum, Milwaukee. 2007 Community Participation and Urban Brownfield Redevelopment. The Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, New York. 2007 Grassroots Community Action and Brownfield Redevelopment in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Annual Urban Studies Student Forum, Milwaukee. Conference sessions organized and panel presentations: 2014 Precarious Academic Labor, panel participant. The Annual Mini Conference on Critical Geography, Philadelphia. 2012 New Organizing: Constraints, Opportunities and Contestation in Local and Regional Organizing, co-organizer with Judith Kenny. The AAG Annual Meeting, New York. 2011 Geography, Community Engagement and Citizenship, panel participant. The AAG Annual Meeting, Seattle. 2010 Collaborative Urban Politics and Civil Society: Challenges and Opportunities, co-organizer with Parama Roy. The AAG annual meeting, Washington, D.C. 2010 International Students Experience in Graduate Geography Programs, panel participant. The AAG annual meeting, Washington, D.C. 5
TEACHING Temple University, Department of Geography and Urban Studies: GUS/ES 0842 Sustainable Environments 25 and 100 student sections, Fall 2014, Spring 2015 GUS/ENVS 3097 Environment and Development 25 students, Fall 2014, Spring 2015 Rowan University, Department of Geography and Environment: GEOG 16290 History and Methods in Modern Geography 25 students, Fall 2014, Spring 2015 University of Kentucky, Department of Geography: GEO 160 Lands and People of the Non-Western World 125 students, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013 GEO 162 Introduction to Global Environmental Issues 125 students, Spring 2012, Spring 2013 GEO 200 Concepts and Methods in Geography 20 students, Fall 2011, Fall 2012 GEO 326 Geography of Europe 25 students, Fall 2010, Spring 2012, Fall 2012 GEO 422 Urban Geography 10 students, Spring 2011, Spring 2013 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of Geography: Geog 110 World: Regions and People 25 students, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007 Geog 125 Introduction to Environmental Geography 65 students, online with service learning component, Spring 2010, Summer 2010 Geog 306 Natural Hazards 55 students, Fall 2007 Geog 309 Nationalities and Nations of the World 55 students, Fall 2008, Spring 2009 Geog 330 Europe: East and West 55 students, Spring 2008 Geog 350 Conservation of Natural Resources 75 students, Fall 2009 6
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT University of Kentucky, Department of Geography: 2011 Publishing in Geography Seminar 2010 Teaching Workshop Association of American Geographers: 2011 Center for Global Geography Education's No Passports Required Workshop International Network for Learning & Teaching Geography in Higher Education: 2010 Workshop Session: Connecting Students and Departments to the Work of Community Organizations University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Center for Instructional and Professional Development: 2010 Online and Blended Courses 2008 Designing and Evaluating Research Proposals 2007 Desire to Learn (web-based teaching) 2007 Teaching and Learning in College: Reflections on Theory and Practice 2006 Connecting Lectures and Discussion 2005 Classroom Motivation 2005 Lessons Learned about First Year Students SERVICE Professional service: 2012-2014 Board member, Urban Geography Specialty Group, AAG 2010 Selection committee member, the Urban Affairs Association Alma H. Young Emerging Scholar Award 2008-2010 Student board member, Urban Geography Specialty Group, AAG 2007 Conference volunteer, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 2007 Conference volunteer, Common Ground Conference, UW-Waukesha Peer review of journal articles: Geoforum Journal of Geography Journal of Geography in Higher Education 7
Review and design of higher education materials: 2014, 2012 Globalization and Diversity, Prentice Hall 2013 Human Geography, Prentice Hall 2012 Environmental Geography, Wiley 2011 World Regional Geography Concepts, W.H. Freeman & Company University service: University of Kentucky 2012 Ad-Hoc Teaching Committee, Geography Department, member 2011 UK Core Courses, Citizenship Evaluation, faculty reviewer 2011-2013 UK Geographical Society, faculty mentor 2010-2013 Undergraduate Committee, Geography Department, member 2010-2012 Colloquium Committee, Geography Department, member Student advising: 2011 Matthew Morrison (International Studies) University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 2008-2009 Geography Department Colloquium Committee, member 2009 Cultures and Communities Program, workshop discussant 2007 New Graduate Student Orientation, discussant 2007 Center for International Education Culture Café, presenter 2005-2008 Open House, Geography Department, volunteer Community service: 2011-2013 Catholic Action Center, Lexington, house of hospitality volunteer 2011-2012 Maxwell Street Presbyterian Church, Lexington, soup kitchen volunteer 2010 Owsley County Community Project, Kentucky, housing project volunteer 2008-2009 Milwaukee Achiever Literacy Services, volunteer tutor 2002 Alaska Resource Library and Information Services, Anchorage, volunteer 1999-2000 Ecologia, Budapest, Hungary, environmental NGO volunteer 1993-1995 Green Action, Zagreb, Croatia, environmental NGO volunteer 8
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Association of American Geographers Urban Affairs Association International Network for Learning & Teaching Geography in Higher Education PERSONAL INFORMATION Language skills: English (fluent), Croatian (native), Spanish (elementary) Citizenship: U.S., Croatia 9
REFERENCES Dr. Ryan Holifield Assistant Professor Department of Geography University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PO Box 413 Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413 Phone: 414-229-4868 E-mail: holifiel@uwm.edu Dr. Robert W. Lake Professor Graduate Director and Director of the Doctoral Program Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy Rutgers University 33 Livingston Avenue, Room 483 New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1982 Phone: 848-932-2370 Email: rlake@rutgers.edu Dr. Susan Roberts Professor Department of Geography University of Kentucky 803 Patterson Office Tower Lexington, KY 40506-0027 Phone: 859-257-2399 E-mail: sueroberts@uky.edu 10