Curriculum Vitae

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

IDENTIFICATION

Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro

Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Professor

 

EDUCATION

Degree Date Institution and location Major field
Ph.D. 2000 Rutgers University, NJ Geography
Certificate 2000 Rutgers University, NJ Russian, Central, and East European Studies
Certificate 1995 Beloit College, WI Hungarian Language
M.Sc. 1995 University of Wisconsin-Madison Geography
M.A. 1992 University of Wisconsin-Madison Anthropology
B.A. (Honours) 1990 University of Miami, FL Anthropology, Geography
  • PhD Dissertation, “Soil use, soil science, and gender relations”: study of effects of gender relations and ideologies on soil and agronomic sciences, farming practices, and soil nutrient and reaction dynamics
  • Sc. Thesis, “A phytolith analysis of buried soils in the Young Loess Sequence of Hungary”: comparative analysis of phytogenic opaline silica remains in Pleistocene soils in light of existing palaeoecological and palaeoclimatic terrestrial records

 

PROFESSIONAL AND RELATED EXPERIENCE

Year Title/Rank Institution and location Status
2019-present Professor Geography, SUNY New Paltz 1.0
2010-2019 Associate Professor Geography, SUNY New Paltz 1.0
2006-10 Assistant Professor Geography, SUNY New Paltz 1.0
2001-2006 Assistant Professor Geography and Geology, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point 1.0
2000-2001 Visiting Assistant Professor Geology and Geography, Vassar College, NY 0.5
2000 Assistant Rutgers Soil Analysis Extension Lab, NJ 0.25
1996-2000 Teaching Assistant Geography, Rutgers, NJ 0.25
1993-1994 Instructor Mátyás K. Gimnázium, Fonyód, Hungary 1.0
1992-1995 Assistant University of Wisconsin Center for Climate Research, Madison, WI 0.25

 

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND NOMINATIONS

Dates Funding Source
2019-2023 National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Sciences Program
2022 SUNY New Paltz, Summer Undergraduate Research Experience
2019-2020 SUNY New Paltz Academic Year Undergraduate Research Experience
2019 Senior Research Fellowship, Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies, Budapest
2016 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, SUNY New Paltz
2016 Excellence in Scholarship Award, College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, SUNY New Paltz
2016 SUNY New Paltz, Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Support for Student Research Assistantship
2015 AsiaNetwork Freeman Student-Faculty Fellowship
2014 William J. Fulbright Scholar Grant (Italy)
2014 SUNY New Paltz, Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Support for Student Research Assistantship
2013 State University of New York Sustainability Fund
2011 SUNY New Paltz, Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Support for Student Research Assistantship
2006-2010 National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Sciences Program
2009-2010 SUNY New Paltz, Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Support for Student Research Assistantship
2007-2008 SUNY New Paltz, Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Support for Student Research Assistantship
2005 UW- Stevens Point Personnel Development Grant
2005 UW-Stevens Point, UPDC Publication Fund
2003-2004 UW- Stevens Point Technology Mini-Grant
2002 UW- Stevens Point Personnel Development Grant
1999 William J. Fulbright Student Full Grant (Hungary)
1998-1999 Graduate Fellowship, Rutgers University
1997 Advanced Research Fellowship, American Council of Teachers of Russian, ACCELS
1996 Graduate Fellowship, Ford Foundation/Centre for Russian and Central and East European Studies, Rutgers University
1995 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Title VI), UW-Madison

 

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Books

  1. (With G. Martin) Urban Food Production for Ecosocialism: Cultivating the City. London: Routledge.
  2. State Socialism and Environment. London: Pluto Press.
  3. Ecology, Soils, and the Left: An Eco-Social Approach. New York: PalgraveMacMillan.

 

Edited Books

  1. (With L. Brownhill, M. Löwy, A. Isla, T. Giacomini, and T. Turner) The Routledge Handbook on Ecosocialism. New York: Routledge.
  2. (With H. Bauder) Critical Geographies: A Collection of Readings. Kelowna: Praxis ePress.
  3. The European’s Burden: Global Imperialism in EU Expansion. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

 

Journal Articles

  1. Biophysical Questions: Relating Marxism to Physical Geography. Human Geography 15 (1): 129-136.
  2. (With D. Walls, A. Kinchy, T. Margalit, M.D. Ramírez-Andreotta). Confronting Legacy Lead in Soils in the United States: Community-Engaged Researchers Doing Undone Science. Environmental Science & Policy 128: 165-174.
  3. Atmospheric Sources of Trace Element Contamination in Cultivated Urban Areas: A Review. Journal of Environmental Quality 50 (1): 38-48.
  4. A kapitalizmus több száz millió áldozata és az anti­kommunizmus. Eszmélet 129, http://www.eszmelet.hu/129-szam-2021-tavasz-2/
  5. The Troubling and Troublesome Worlds of Urban Soil Trace Element Contamination Baselines. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 3 (1): 95-113.
  6. A Radikális Baloldali Mozgalmak Perspektíváiról és Kilátásairól [Radical Leftist Movements’ Perspectives and Prospects]. Eszmélet 126, https://www.eszmelet.hu/ salvatore-engel-di-mauro-a-radikalis-baloldali-mozgalmak-perspektivairol-es-kilatasairol/
  7. Learning Dialectics to Grow Better Soils Knowledge, not Bigger Crops: A Materialist Dialectics and Relationality for Soil Science. Capitalism Nature Socialism 31 (1): 52-69.
  8. Short-Term Acidification Detection in Soils along the Northern Dráva Floodplain (SW Hungary) by Means of Acid Neutralising Capacity (ANC) Analysis. Agrókémia és Talajtan 68 (Supplement): 24-39.
  9. Finding Dialectical Materialism through Soils Research. Human Geography 13 (2): 79-85.
  10. 生态社会主义的历史根源和目前动向 (The Historical Origin and Current Trend of Ecological Socialism). 理论与评论 (Theory and Review) 2019: 88-96.
  11. Urban Community Gardens, Commons, and Social Reproduction: Revisiting Silvia Federici’s Revolution at Point Zero. Gender, Place and Culture 25 (9): 1379-1390.
  12. An Exploratory Study of Potential As and Pb Contamination by Atmospheric Deposition in Two Urban Vegetable Gardens in Rome, Italy. Journal of Soils and Sediments 18 (2): 426-430.
  13. Dialectics and Biophysical Worlds. Science & Society 81 (3): 375–396.
  14. (With M. Rock, S. Chen, M. Iachetta, A. Mabey, K. McGill, and J. Zhao) Food Production in Chongqing, China: Opportunities and Challenges. Middle States Geographer 49: 55-62.
  15. From tacit to overt political commitments in physical geography. Progress in Physical Geography 39 (5): 18-24.
  16. (With C. Cattaneo) Urban squats as eco-social resistance to and resilience in the face of capitalist relations: Case studies from Barcelona and Rome. Partecipazione e Conflitto 8 (2): 343-366.
  17. (With K. Carroll) An African-centered approach to land education. Environmental Education Research 20 (1): 70-81.
  18. Minding history and world-scale dynamics in hazards research: The making of hazardous soils in The Gambia and Hungary. Journal of Risk Research 15 (10): 1319-1333.

2011. (Under Cynical Geographers Collective). Measuring impact beyond relative academic fame: An alternative social impact factor. Antipode 43 (2): 190-194.

  1. Seeing the Local in the Global: Political Ecologies, World-Systems, and the Question of Scale. Geoforum 40: 116-125.
  2. Natural Science Pedagogy and Anarchist Communism: Developing a Radical Curriculum for Physical Geography. Human Geography: A New Radical Journal 2 (2): 106-122.
  3. (With Harald Bauder) Knowledge Grab: Corporate Appropriation and Exploitation of Academic Geographers. Antipode 40 (5): 729-735.
  4. Class Struggles and Geography: Revisiting the 1886 Haymarket Square Police Riot. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 7 (1): 1-23.
  5. From organism to commodity: gender, class, and the development of soil science in Hungary, 1900-1989. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 24: 215-229.
  6. Disaggregating local knowledge: the effects of gendered farming practices on soil fertil­ity and soil reaction in SW Hungary. Geoderma 111 (3-4): 503-520.
  7. Gender relations, political economy, and the ecological consequences of state-socialist soil science. Capitalism Nature Socialism 51: 92-118.
  8. A szívós nemzeti állam: NATO-EU kapcsolatok, EU-bővítés, és a Balkán újrafelosztása [The persistent national state: NATO-EU relations, EU enlargement, and the reapportionment of the Balkans]. Replika 45-46: 45-60.
  9. A gender-sensitive methodology for research on soil management: a case study from Hungary. Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development 93 (3/4): 157-162.
  10. Farming under a regime of harder work: ecological maintenance and degradation in the Ormányság, SW Hungary. Middle States Geographer 31: 45-53.
  11. Constructing the paleovegetational record for the buried soils in the Hungarian loess sequence: A view from phytolith analysis. LoessinForm 3: 79-94.

 

Book Chapters

  1. Ecosocialism: Historical Roots and Current Movements. In The Routledge Handbook of Development and Environment, edited by B. McCusker, W. Ahmed, M. Ramutsindela, and P. Solís, 64-76. New York: Routledge.

2021. Soils, Industrialised Cities, and Contaminants: Challenges for an Agroecological Urbanism. In Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism: Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions, edited by Chiara Tornaghi and Michiel Dehaene, Chapter 6. London: Routledge Earthscan.

  1. Socialism and Communism. In, International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd edition, Volume 12, edited by A. Kobayashi, 271-280. Oxford: Elsevier.
  2. (With L. Van Sant) Soils and Commodification. In Thinking with Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory, edited by A. Krzywosynska, C. Granjou, M. Kearns, and J.F. Salazar, Chapter 4. London: Bloomsbury.
  3. (with T. Bellone, F. Fiermonte, E. Armano, and L. Quiquivix). Mapping as Tacit Representations of the Colonial Gaze. In Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication, and Humanitarianism in the Age of Digital Mapping, edited by D. Specht, Chapter 1. London: Human Rights Consortium, University of London.

2019. Urban Vegetable Garden Soils and Lay Public Education on Soil Heavy Metal Exposure Mitigation, In Green Technologies and Infrastructure to Enhance Urban Ecosystem Services. Proceedings of the smart and Sustainable Cities Conference 2018, edited by V.I. Vasenev, E. Dovletyarova, Zh. Cheng, R. Valentini, and C. Calfapietra, 221-226. Cham: Springer Geography.

  1. Soils in Eco-Social Context: Soil pH and Social Relations of Power in a Northern Drava River Floodplain Agricultural Area. In The Palgrave Handbook Critical Physical Geography, ed. R. Lave, C. Biermann, S. Lane, 393-419. New York: Palgrave.
  2. Environmental Degradation. In, Douglas Richardson, Noel Castree, Michael F. Goodchild, Audrey L. Kobayashi, Weidong Liu, and Richard Marston, eds. International Encyclopedia of Geography. People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Wiley-Blackwell.
  3. World-Systems Theory. In, Douglas Richardson, Noel Castree, Michael F. Goodchild, Audrey L. Kobayashi, Weidong Liu, and Richard Marston, eds. International Encyclopedia of Geography. People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Wiley-Blackwell.
  4. (with C. Cattaneo) Squats in urban ecosystems: overcoming the social and ecological catastrophes of the capitalist city. In, Claudio Cattaneo and Miguel Martinez, eds. The Squatters’ Movement in Europe. Commons and Autonomy as Alternatives to Capitalism. London: Pluto Press, pp. 166-188.
  5. Renewable Energy and Climate Change. In, Melvyn Dubofsky (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History. Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 119-120.
  6. Soil erosion and contamination. In, Ben Wisner, Jean-Christophe Gaillard, and Ilan Kelman (eds.). Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction. London: Routledge, pp. 347-358.
  7. (with D.S. Hadmoko). Landslides: Hazards and risk reduction. In, Ben Wisner, Jean-Christophe Gaillard, and Ilan Kelman (eds.). Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction. London: Routledge, pp. 297-309.
  8. Socialism. In, Kitchin R, Thrift N (eds), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 10. Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 212-216.
  9. Citizenship, systemic change, and the gender division of labour in rural Hungary. In, Jasmina Lukić, Joanna Regulska, and Darja Zaviršek (eds.). Women and citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, pp. 61-80.
  10. Fertilizer (organic and inorganic). Market socialism. Salinisation. In, T. Forsyth (ed.). Encyclopedia of International Development. London: Routledge.

 

Book Reviews

  1. Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. Book by Jason Moore. Human Geography 11 (2): 72-76.
  2. War and Nature: The Environmental Consequences of War in a Globalized World. By Jurgen Brauer. Geographical Review 101: 3.
  3. Karl S. Zimmerer and Thomas J. Bassett (2003). Political ecology: an integrative approach to geography and environment-development studies. New York: The Guilford Press. Cartography and Geographic Information Science 31 (2): 125-127.
  4. Market Socialist Delusions of Fair and Just Markets. Review of On the Political Economy of Market Socialism: Essays and Analyses by James A. Yunker and Market Socialism: The Debate among Socialists by Bertell Ollman (editor). New Formulation 2 (2).
  5. Smokestack diplomacy. Cooperation and conflict in East-West environmental politics, Robert G. Darst, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001. Ethics, Place and Environment 5 (2): 164-167.
  6. Ghosh, B.N., editor, 2001: Contemporary issues in development economics. Routledge studies in development economics. London: Routledge. Progress in Development Studies 2 (3): 244-245.

2001. Libri e riviste [books and periodicals]: John Bellamy Foster, Marx’s Ecology. Materialism and Nature, Monthly Review Press, New York 2000. Liberazione, 25 March, 2001.

  1. Review essay. Sociologia Ruralis 41 (4): 495-500.
  2. John Bellamy Foster: Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000. Capitalism Nature Socialism 12 (1): 150-160.

 

Other Publications

2022. Passing the Editorial Torch. Capitalism Nature Socialism 33 (4): 1-4.

  1. (with A. Liebman, T. Jonas, I. Perfecto, L. Kelley, H.A. Peller, K. Rhiney, P. Seufert, L.F. Chaves, L. Bergmann,11 K. Williams-Guillén, M. Ajl, E. Dupain, J. Gulick, R. Wallace) Can Agriculture Stop COVID-21, -22, and -23? Yes, But Not by Greenwashing Agribusiness. Pandemic Research for the People, Dispatch 6, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M-yW7JakFwSV_ZFUNZdQLdYWhlbn_L6D/view

2022. Anti-Extraktivismus, sozialistische Staaten und die Frage der zentralisierten Organisation [Anti-Extractivism, Socialist States, and the Question of Centralised Organisation]. Berliner Gazette 4 April, https://berlinergazette.de/anti-extraktivismus-sozialistische-staaten-und-die-frage-der-zentralisierten-organisation/

  1. Critical Conjunctures, Socialist Unity, Radical Prospects.Capitalism Nature Socialism 33 (1): 1-21.
  2. (with Qingzhi Huan) Introduction: China’s Eco-Civilisation in Theory and Practice. Capitalism Nature Socialism 32 (2): 61-64.
  3. Anti-Communism and the Hundreds of Millions of Victims of Capitalism. Capitalism Nature Socialism 32 (1): 1-17.

2021. Alternativen zum “Grünen” Kapitalismus: Lektionen aus dem Staatssozialismus der UdSSR [Lessons from the Eco-Politics of the USSR]. Berliner Gazette 13 August, https://berlinergazette.de/staatssozialismus-udssr-umweltpolitik/

  1. (with A. Liebman, T. Jonas, I. Perfecto, L. Kelley, H.A. Peller, K. Rhiney, P. Seufert, L.F. Chaves, L. Bergmann, K Williams-Guillén, M. Ajl, E. Dupain, J. Gulick, and R. Wallace) Can Agriculture Stop COVID-21, -22, and -23? Yes, but Not by Greenwashing Agribusiness. Pandemic Research for the People, Dispatch 6, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M-yW7JakFwSV_ZFUNZdQLdYWhlbn_L6D/view
  2. (with the Editors) Support for Black Lives Matter and the Uprisings in the US. Capitalism Nature Socialism31 (3):1-3.
  3. Raised Fists for Salvatore Ricciardi, Indefatigable Revolutionary and Prison Abolitionist. Capitalism Nature Socialism 31 (3): 16-19.

2020. The US is a powder keg—the ruling classes can barely keep the lid closed. Canadian Dimension, 10 December 2020, https://canadiandimension.com/articles/ view/the-us-is-powder-keg-ruling-classes-barely-keep-lid-closed

  1. (with D. Schwartzman) A Response to Giorgios Kallis’ Notions of Socialism and Growth. Capitalism Nature Socialism 30 (3): 40-51.
  2. James Richard O’Connor’s Ecological Marxism. Capitalism Nature Socialism 30 (4): 1-12.
  3. Nature Is Beyond Value Because We Are Part of Nature. Capitalism Nature Socialism 30 (2): 143-156.
  4. (with J. Liebman, J. Vergara-Castro, J. Rowlands, S. Rodriguez, and A. Barros). Applying Critical Physical Geographies: Territorial and Water Defense in Northern Chile. Society and Space http://societyandspace.org/2019/06/12/applying-critical-physical-geographies-territorial-and-water-defense-in-northern-chile/#
  5. Endorsement for Ana Isla, ed. Climate Chaos: Ecofeminism and the Land Question. Toronto: Inanna Publications.
  6. In Memoriam. Welcome to Golgonooza, Joel Stephen Kovel (27 August 1936 – 30 April 2018). Capitalism Nature Socialism 29 (2): 1-7.
  7. Foreword. In David Schwartzman and Peter Schwartzman. The Earth Is Not for Sale: A Path out of Fossil Capitalism to the Other World That Is Still Possible. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing.
  8. Endorsement for Melinda Kovács. Foreign Policy Discourses of the Obama Years. Lanham: Lexington Books.
  9. From the October Revolution to Revolutionary Rojava: An Ecosocialist Reading. Capitalism Nature Socialism 28 (4): 2-19.
  10. (with Barbara Laurence) In Memoriam James Richard O’Connor Capitalism Nature Socialism 28 (4): 1.
  11. The Enduring Relevance of State-Socialism. Capitalism Nature Socialism 27 (4): 1-15.
  12. Capitalism Nature Socialism. Ecología Política 25: 66-69.
  13. Ecological Civilisation and Ecosocialism. In 马克思主义与当代中国论丛第3辑[Collected Papers on Contemporary Chinese Marxism, Volume 3], 91-106. Beijing: Government Documents Press.
  14. Never Mind COP21, Here Came and Went the International Year of the Soil: Requiems, Symphonies, Rhapsodies. Capitalism Nature Socialism 26 (4): 127-140.
  15. Rojava. Capitalism Nature Socialism 26(1): 1-15.
  16. Introduction. In, John Clark. Tragedy of Common Sense. Changing Suns Press.
  17. Postface. In, Anne Clerval, Antoine Fleury, Julien Rebotier, and Serge Weber, eds.. Espaces et Rapports de Domination. Paris: PUR, pp. 377-388.
  18. Future Prospects for Capitalism Nature Socialism. Capitalism Nature Socialism 25 (4): 1-2.
  19. A More Than Twenty-Fifth Anniversary for More Than a Journal. Capitalism Nature Socialism 25 (1): 1-9.

2013. Bridging Indigenous and Socialist Perspectives: An Introduction to the Special Issue. Capitalism Nature Socialism 24 (3): 141-146.

  1. Introduction to the Symposium: Hints of Post-Capitalist Prefiguration in Val di Susa (NW Italy). Capitalism Nature Socialism 24 (2): 7-13.
  2. Socialism and settler colonialism on Great Turtle Island. Capitalism Nature Socialism 24 (1): 1-5.
  3. Introduction to Degrowth Symposium. Capitalism Nature Socialism 23 (1): 26-29.
  4. Urban farming: the right to what sort of city? Capitalism Nature Socialism 23 (4): 1-9.
  5. Prison Abolition as ecosocialist struggle. Capitalism Nature Socialism 23 (1): 1-5.
  6. La radicalización de la pedagogía en la geografía física. In, Susana Barrera Lobaton (ed.). Memorias. Seminario Geografía Crítica: Territorialidad, Espacio y Poder en América Latina. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, pp. 110-126.
  7. Towards much fuller, more politically engaged geographies. Antipode Symposium on PyGyRG’s ‘Communifesto for Fuller Geographies: Towards Mutual Security’, http://radicalantipode.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/engel-di-mauro-response1.pdf
  8. On ecosocialism, objectives, and the role of the natural sciences. Capitalism Nature Socialism 22 (3): 1-7.

2010. On the People’s Declaration from Klimaforum09. Capitalism Nature Socialism 21 (1): 37-40.

  1. Beyond the Barrows-McLaren Debate: The Importance of Studying the Rest of Nature in Formulating Alternative Curricula. Capitalism Nature Socialism 19 (2): 88-95.
  2. Class struggles and geography: revisiting the 1886 Haymarket Square massacre. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 7 (1): 1-23.
  3. Reflections on ‘The struggle against the rebel body’. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 17 (3): 66-73.
  4. Ungheria – Il governo della terra [Hungary – governing the land]. In, Riccardo Bocci and Giovanna Ricoveri (eds.). Agri-Cultura. Terra, lavoro, ecosistemi [Agri-culture. Land, labour, ecosystems]. Quaderno n.2 della rivista CNS-Ecologia Politica. Bologna: Editrice Missionaria Italiana.
  5. Dynamics of the lithosphere and location and impact of human activities; Soils and food production. In Wells, Edward, Ginger Fisher, Dean Goodwin, and Tori Haidinger (eds.). AP Instructor’s Guide for Miller’s Living in the Environment, 14th Edition. Pacific Grove, California: Brooks-Cole.
  6. Capitalist Expansionism, Imperialism, and the European Union. State of Nature 2, December 2005
  7. USA. Studi di caso [Case studies from the USA]. In, G. Ricoveri (ed.). Beni comuni fra tradizione e futuro [The commons between tradition and future]. Quaderni della rivista CNS – Ecologia politica. Bologna: Editrice Missionaria Italiana, pp. 141-143.

2004. I menòmini tra resistenza anticoloniale e silvicoltura ecologicamente sostenibile [The Menominee experience between anti-colonial resistance and ecologically sustainable forestry]. Ecologia Politica 57-58 (1-2): 1-10.

  1. (with CNS New York Editorial Group) Introduction to the symposium: socialism and ecology. Capitalism Nature Socialism 13 (3): 49-51.
  2. (with M. de Kadt) Rejoinder to Paul Burkett and Jason W. Moore. Capitalism Nature Socialism 45/12 (3): 139-141.
  3. (with M. de Kadt) Marx’s ecology or ecological Marxism? Failed promise. Capitalism Nature Socialism 45/12 (2): 50-56.

 

Translations of Other Authors’ Works

  1. (From Spanish) Renán Vega Cantor. “Romanticism, the Critique of Progress, and Ecosocialism.” In The Routledge Handbook on Ecosocialism, edited by L. Brownhill, S. Engel-Di Mauro, M. Löwy, A. Isla, T. Giacomini, and T. Turner. New York: Routledge.
  2. (From Spanish) José Luis Haro García. “Ecosocialism and Workplace Democracy.” In The Routledge Handbook on Ecosocialism, edited by L. Brownhill, S. Engel-Di Mauro, M. Löwy, A. Isla, T. Giacomini, and T. Turner. New York: Routledge.
  3. (From Italian) Laura Corradi. “Intersectional Alliances in Soledad Prison: The Exemplary Life of John Brown Childs.” Capitalism Nature Socialism
  4. (From Italian) Giovanna Ricoveri. “The Legacy of James O’Connor: An Atypical Marxist.” Capitalism Nature Socialism 30 (4): 13-16.
  5. (From Italian) Alfredo Agustoni. “From The Fiscal Crisis of the State to the Second Contradiction of Capitalism: James O’Connor’s Intellectual Journey.” Capitalism Nature Socialism 30 (4): 36-41.
  6. (From Italian) Pier Paolo Poggio. “Giorgio Nebbia: An Ecologist Open to Hope.” Capitalism Nature Socialism 30 (4): 42-43.
  7. (From Italian) Giovanna Ricoveri. “Valentino Parlato and the Question of the Environment.” Capitalism Nature Socialism 28 (4): 21-23.

2016 (From Italian) Giovanna Ricoveri. “Giuseppina Ciuffreda, a Concrete Utopian.” Capitalism Nature Socialism 27 (4): 16-27

2012 (From French) Serge Latouche. “Can the Left Escape Economism?” Capitalism Nature Socialism 23 (1): 74-78

 

VI. PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS AND RELATED ACTIVITIES

2023

Speaker, “Fascism and the Role of the Karl Polanyi Centre” (asynchronous video presentation), The Future of the Karl Polanyi Centre Workshop, Central European University, Budapest, 2 February

2022

Keynote Speaker (online), Socialist State Economies and Environmental Impact, Conference on Non-Capitalist Mixed Economies, Budapest, 26-28 November

Invited Speaker, Soils as Ecosocial Processes: Explaining Farmland Soil pH Differences in SW Hungary, Cornell University, 4 November, https://cals.cornell.edu/soils-ecosocial-processes-explaining-farmland-soil-ph-differences-sw-hungary

Presenter (online), Progress in the Development and Spread of Ecosocialism in Latin America, Socialist Eco-Civilization and Social-Ecological Transformation, PhD Workshop Seminar Series, Peking University, School of Marxism, 24 June

Co-Presenter with Labib Sarikin Samari et al., Soil Profiles in Bioswale: Implications on Soil Development and Bioswale Management, 57th Annual Meeting of The Geological Society of America, Northeastern Section (Paper No. 23-7), Lancaster, PA, 21 March, https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2022NE/webprogram/Paper375302.html

2021

Presenter, Eco-Social Soil Epistemology, Epistemologies of Soil Symposium (Online), Centre for Global Knowledge Studies, Cambridge University, UK, 26 November

Paper Presenter, The Ecological Challenges of State-Socialist Modernisation under Capitalist World System Pressures, Third World Congress of Marxism, Beijing, 18 July

Organiser, Translator, and Panelist, Conference on Non-Capitalist Mixed Economies (Theory, History and Future), Karl Polanyi Research Centre, Budapest, 25 June

Organiser and Convener, Critical Physical Geography Workshop (Online), Seattle, WA, 3-6 April

2020

Guest Lecturer, Globalisation and Environment (for the course titled “Global Social Change and Inequalities”), Corvinus University, Budapest, 15 April

2019

Paper Presenter, 4th International Conference on “Marxism and Socialism in the 20th Century”, School of Marxism, Wuhan, 15-17 November

Paper Presenter, Critical Physical Geography and Historical Materialist Dialectics, 14th Annual Critical Geographies Mini-Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, 18-19 October

Invited Speaker, Socialist States and Environments: Fictions, Contexts, and Contradictions, University of Oregon, Eugene, 17 October

Invited Speaker, A Critical Physical Geography Perspective on Soil Degradation, Department of Geography, Rutgers University, 27 September

Paper Presenter, Les  Jardins  Communautaires  Urbains comme Espaces  Politiques  et  Écologiques  Troublés (Urban  Community  Gardens  as  Troubled  Political  and  Ecological  Spaces), Approches Critiques de la Dimension Spatiale des Rapports Sociaux: Débats Transdisciplinaires et Transnationaux, 26-28 June

Paper Presenter, Problemáticas e Implicaciones de la Construcción de la Ciencia y de la Naturaleza, Normar la Naturaleza, Normar la Sociedad, Day-Long Seminar Titled “Gobernanza Ambiental: Perspectivas, Controversias y Desafíos en un Contexto de Cambio Global”, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, 31 May

Paper Presenter, Ecosocial Challenges and Impacts of Urban Food Production in Chongqing, Student Research Conference on Asia and the Environment, Vassar College, 27 April

Panellist, The Geographer Marx, American Association of Geographers Meeting, Washington, DC, 7 April

Chair, Migration Policies: Illegalization and Criminalization of Bodies, Solidarity and Practices of Resistance I, American Association of Geographers Meeting, Washington, DC, 5 April

Panellist, Critical Environmental Justice (IV), American Association of Geographers Meeting, Washington, DC, 4 April

Paper Presenter, Ecosocial Challenges and Impacts of Urban Food Production: A Dialectical Ecology Perspective, Critical Physical Geography and Agrarian Transformations I, American Association of Geographers Meeting, Washington, DC, 4 April

Discussant, Teaching Critical Physical Geography, American Association of Geographers Meeting, Washington, DC, 4 April

Guest Lecturer, Soil Degradation in the Global South: An Ecosocialist Perspective, Howard University, 3 April

Organiser and Convener, Critical Physical Geography Workshop, Washington, D.C., 1-2 April 2019

Paper Presenter, El Papel de la Ciencia en las Luchas por el Ecosocialismo, III Congreso Latinoamericano de Ecologia Politica, Bahia-Salvador, Brazil, 18-20 March 2019

2018

Participant, Urban Soils Symposium, New York City, 6-7 December 2018

Panellist, The Socialist and Critical Geography Specialty Group of the AAG: Past Experiences and Future Prospects, Critical Geography Conference, Temple University, Philadelphia, 20 October

Paper Presenter, The Troublesome World of Soil Trace-Element Contamination Assessment: Towards a Context-Sensitive Alternative, “Shifting Baselines, Altered Horizons: Politics, Practice, and Knowledge in Environmental Science and Policy,” Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany, 21-22 June

Paper Presenter (paper accepted, unable to attend due to visa impediment), Vegetable Garden Soils and Lay Public Education on Soil Heavy Metal Exposure Mitigation, Smart and Sustainable Cities Conference, People’s Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russia, 23-26 May

Guest Lecturer, Ecosocialism: Historical Roots and Current Movements, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 9 May

Guest Lecturer, The Second Contradiction Thesis and Ecological Marxism, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 8 May

Guest Lecturer, Ecosocialism: Historical Roots and Current Movements, Renmin Normal University, Beijing, 7 May

Guest Lecturer, Ecosocialism: Recent Developments, BeiHang Normal University, Beijing, 7 May

Paper Presenter, The Contributions of James O’Connor to the Development of Ecological Marxism and to Prospects for Ecological Civilisation, The Second World Congress of Marxism, Peking University, Beijing, 5-6 May

Paper Presenter, Politics from the Underground: Soils and Leftist Projects, American Association of Geographers Meeting, New Orleans, 14 April

Panellist, Teaching Critical Physical Geography, American Association of Geographers Meeting, New Orleans, 14 April

Discussant, Academics under Attack in the Age of Social Media, American Association of Geographers Meeting, New Orleans, 13 April

Discussant, Capitalism Nature Socialism Keynote: Land, Autonomy, and Inclusivity in the Tiny House Strategy, American Association of Geographers Meeting, New Orleans, 13 April

Discussant and Organiser, Integrating Radical Scholarship and Activism inside the Neoliberal University, American Association of Geographers Meeting, New Orleans, 12 April

Introducer, Ecosocialist Pedagogies and Everyday Activism, American Association of Geographers Meeting, New Orleans, 10 April

Introducer, Migrants’ Struggle beyond Activism, Repression and Solidarity I, American Association of Geographers Meeting, New Orleans, 13 April

Invited Speaker, Soil Trace Element Contamination in Urban Gardens: Environmental and Political Implications, Department of Geology and Geography, Georgia Southern University, 1 March

2017

Paper Presenter, The October Revolution, Natural Science, and Dialectical Materialism, Third International Symposium on “Marxism and Socialism in the 21st Century”, Wuhan, China, 17-19 November

Presenter (via skype), Editors Meeting, Revolutions Conference, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 29 September

Paper Presenter, Crop Diversity and Soil Quality in Informal Urban Vegetable Gardens in Chongqing, China, International Symposium on Greener Cities, International Society of Horticultural Science, Bologna, Italy, 12-15 September

Scientific Committee Member, International Symposium on Greener Cities, International Society of Horticultural Science, Bologna, Italy, 12-15 September

Keynote Speaker, Soils and Leftist Struggles, “Rediscovering Soils” Workshop, University of Sheffield, UK, 19-21 June

Invited Speaker, Some Political Repercussions Buried in Urban Soils Research, SET Seminar Series, University of Brighton, UK, 17 May

Seminar Presenter, Marxism and Ecology, KTH, Stockholm, 22 May

Poster Presenter, Urban Vegetable Garden Soils and Lay Public Education on Soil Heavy Metal Exposure Mitigation, Agricultures Urbaines Durables: Vecteur pour la Transition Ecologique, Toulouse, France, 6-9 June

Presenter (with Melissa Rock), Urban farming on the margins: Interstitial spaces of food production in Chongqing, China, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, 5-9 April

Panellist, Feminist Geographies II: Silvia Federici meets critics, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, 5-9 April

Organiser, Trump, environmental injustice, and the ecological crisis of American capitalism, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, 5-9 April

2016

Presenter, Urban Gardening as Activism in Chongqing, China, The 8th Meeting of East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography, Hong Kong, 6-8 December

Invited Speaker, Growing Crops in Cities and Heavy Metal Contamination, Syracuse, NY, 28 October

Invited Speaker (via skype), A Soils Research Agenda. “Going to Ground”: A Workshop on the Social Life of Soil, Earth & Land. Sydney, Australia, 28 October

Presenter, An Exploration of Potential Airborne Contamination of Urban Garden Vegetables in Rome, Italy, Growing Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Gardening International Conference, Basel, Switzerland, 9-10 September

Presenter, Urban farming’s aims and challenges: Comparative notes on heavy metal contamination and land access dynamics in New York, Rome, and Chongqing, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, 6 July

Presenter, Degrading Dirt: Political Economy of Soil Degradation, Slow Emergencies Workshop, Adelaide, Australia, 2-4 July

Presenter, Soil Destruction as a Slow Eco-Social Emergency, Institute of Australian Geographers, Adelaide, 29 June-1 July

Presenter, An eco-social approach to soil pH variability on cultivated land: A case study from the Drava River floodplain, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 29 March-2 April

Organiser and Chair, The 2016 Capitalism Nature Socialism Lecture: ‘State regulation and environmental justice: The need for strategy reassessment’ by Laura Pulido, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 29 March-2 April

Panellist, Author-Meets-Critics: Jason Moore’s Capitalism in the Web of Life, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 29 March-2 April

Convener, Organiser, Critical Physical Geography Workshop, Berkeley, CA, 27-28 March

Chair, Political Ecologies of Capital and Struggles, ‘Undisciplined Environments,’ International Conference of the European Network of Political Ecology (ENTITLE), Stockholm, Sweden 20-24 March

Poster Presenter, Urban Farms in Chongqing, China: Examining Opportunities and Challenges of Food Production in the City, AsiaNetwork Conference, St. Petersburg, FL, 4-6 March

2015

Invited Speaker, Ecological Civilisation and Ecosocialism, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 26 November

Invited Speaker, Ecosocialism, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 26 November

Invited Speaker, Ecosocialism, Eco-Marxism, and Ecological Civilisation, Southwestern University of Economics and Finance, Chengdu, 25 November

Invited Speaker, Ecosocialism, Yigong Daxue, Wuhan University of Technology, 23 November

Invited Speaker, Ecosocialism and Eco-Marxism, College of Marxism, Wuhan University, 22 November

Paper Presenter, Ecological Civilisation and Ecosocialism, Second International Symposium on “Marxism and Socialism in the 21st Century”, Wuhan, China, 21-22 November

Invited Speaker, Ecosocialism and Ecological Civilisation, Huazhong Shifan Daxue,Wuhan Normal University, 20 November

Co-Presenter, Urban Farms in Chongqing, China: Examining Opportunities and Challenges of Food Production in the City, New York Conference on Asian Studies, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 17 October

Organiser, Chair, Environmental Crisis and Sustainability, New York Conference on Asian Studies, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 17 October

Presenter, Workshop: Explore the Hidden Culture of Squatting in Europe, Interference Archive, Brooklyn, NY, 27 September

Poster Presenter, Soil As and Pb contamination processes in two urban gardens in Rome, Italy, SUITMA8, Mexico City, 20-25 September

Presenter, Ecosocialismo, Huertos Urbanos y Okupaciones, La Escuela de Cultura Popular de Los Mártires de ’68, Mexico City, 23 September

Organiser, Translator, Presenter, Squatting Houses, Social Centres and Workplaces: A Workshop on Self-Managed Alternatives, Squatting Europe Kollective Meeting, Barcelona, 20-25 May

Paper Presenter, A Dialectical Approach to Soils, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, 21-25 April

Panellist, Critical Pedagogy in Geography I: Expanding Critical Geography: K12, AP, GIS, & Physical Geography, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, 21-25 April

Discussant, Marxist Geography 3: Harvey, Capitalism, Technologies and Nature, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, 21-25 April

Panellist, Physical Geography/Social Theory/Radical Politics: Engaging Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro’s “Ecology, Soils, and the Left”, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, 21-25 April

Organiser, Steven Salaita Plenary Talk, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, 21-25 April

2014

Presenter, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Desafíos y Oportunidades para la Publicación: Experiencias de Revistas Anglo y Chilenas, Congreso Latinoamericano de Ecología Política, Santiago, Chile, 23 October

Presenter, Emergency Regime: Discussion on the Journal Capitalism Nature Socialism and Waste and Conflicts in Campania Region, “Ambiente: storie, conflitti, politiche, buone pratiche,” Ex Asilo Filangieri, Napoli, 4 July

Guest Lecturer, Analisi dei Suoli Urbani sul Campo, Field Lecture for Prof. Attili’s course “Analisi Ambientale dei sistemi Urbani e Territoriali,” Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile e Ambientale, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, 21 May

Guest Lecturer, Analisi dei Suoli negli Orti Urbani, Field Lecture for Prof. Cellamare’s course “Progettazione Urbana e Ambientale,” Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile e Ambientale, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, 21 May

Guest Lecturer, Orti e Suoli Urbani, Lecture for Prof. Cellamare’s course “Progettazione Urbana e Ambientale,” Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile e Ambientale, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, 16 May

Guest Lecturer, I Suoli e le Città, Lecture for Prof. Attili’s course “Analisi Ambientale dei sistemi Urbani e Territoriali,” Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile e Ambientale, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, 12 May

Organiser, Translator, Presenter, Squatting Europe Kollective Meeting, Rome, Italy 21-25 May

Panellist, Unsettling Place: A Celebration of New Works on Land Education, SUNY New Paltz, 17 April

Paper Presenter, Acid Neutralising Capacity (ANC) Decline without Significant pH Change in Farmed Soils of the Drava Floodplain, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Tampa, 8-12 April

Discussant, Professional and intellectual triage for emerging and early career scholars (a subconference resource session), Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Tampa, 8-12 April

Chair, STOP criminalizing the Migrant-other … PROMOTE radical autonomy resisting borders and b/ordering mechanisms- I, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Tampa, 8-12 April

Panellist, Teaching Geography Critically II, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Tampa, 8-12 April

Panellist, Ideology, Hegemony and Discourse, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Tampa, 8-12 April

Organiser, The 2014 Capitalism Nature Socialism Lecture, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Tampa, 8-12 April

2013

Invited Lecture, The Dirt on Dirt: Soil Degradation, Catastrophism, and Capitalist Ideology, Brock University, St. Catharine, Ontario, Canada, 25th October

Plenary Presentation, Leftist Failures on the Environment: The Case of Soil Degradation, Union for Radical Political Economics Conference, “Political Economy of the Environment, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, New York, 5th October

Paper Presenter, Urban garden soils and the prospects for lay public involvement in soil heavy metal exposure mitigation, 7th International Conference of the Urban Soils Working Group, SUITMA, of the International Union of Soil Sciences, Toruń, Poland, 20th September

Workshops Organiser and Leader, Soil analysis, urban gardens in Albany, Brooklyn, Delmar, Manhattan, Syracuse, and Troy, NY, March through September

Invited Lecture, Urban agriculture and soil contamination, Shawangunk Correctional Facility, 22 May

Paper Presenter, Settler colonialism and socialism in Great Turtle Island, Historical Materialism Conference, New York, 27 April

Organiser, Indigenous Marxisms, Historical Materialism Conference, New York, 27 April

Organiser and Workshop Presenter, Growing a new world: soil science, permaculture, local agriculture, community gardens, Changing the Climate Ecosocialist Convergence, Troy, NY, 22-24 March

Paper Presenter, Anarchism and environmental degradation, The Fourth Annual North American Anarchist Studies Network Conference, New Orleans, 4-6 January

2012

Paper Presenter, Soils and socialism, From the soil to the sky, Northampton/Amherst, MA, 1 December

Paper Presenter, Ecosocialist organising and emerging struggles from oppressed communities, From the soil to the sky, Northampton/Amherst, MA, 30 November

Conference Organiser, From the soil to the sky, Northampton/Amherst, MA, 30 November – 1 December

Invited Lecture, Geografía urbana radical, huertos urbanos y la polución de los suelos: el derecho a cuál tipo de ciudad, Auditorio Margarita González, Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia, 1 October

Discussant, Medio ambiente, desarrollo sostenible y agua en Tunja, 2ª Convención Nacional de Educación Geográfica, Tunja, Colombia, 29 September

Paper Presenter, Por una pedagogía crítica en la geografía física y en las geociencias. 2ª Convención Nacional de Educación Geográfica, Tunja, Colombia, 28 September

Discussant, Perspectivas de la Investigación Geográfica en el Siglo XXI. 2ª Convención Nacional de Educación Geográfica, Tunja, Colombia, 26 September

Discussant, Séance plénière: Approches radicales de l’espace (2). Espace et rapports sociaux de domination, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, Paris, France, 21 September

Discussant, Séance plénière: Approches radicales de l’espace (1). Espace et rapports sociaux de domination, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, Paris, France, 20 September

Invited Lecture, Environmental determinism, Shawangunk Correctional Facility, 22 June

Paper Presenter, Overcoming Climate Change: The Ecosocialist Path, Left Forum, New York, NY, 18 March

Organiser, Occupy the World – Life without Money, Left Forum, New York, NY, 18 March

Paper Presenter, Urban Community Gardens and Soil Contamination, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, NY, 26 February

Discussant, Neoliberalism as an Everyday Hazard, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, NY, 25 February

Discussant, Squatting and Social Centers: Resistance and Production of Critical Spaces V, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, NY, 24 February

2011

Paper Presenter, Exclusion through differential integration: Gendered and racialised class relations and the control over agricultural soils in Hungary, 1900s-1990s, Structures of Exclusion in South Asia, University of Delhi, India, 23-25 November

Panellist, Author vs Critics:  The Revolution in Venezuela and the Global Left, 18th Annual Critical Geography Conference, Clark University, Worcester, MA, 4-6 November

Invited Lecture, Dirty and Dangerous: The Making of Hazardous Soils in The Gambia and Hungary, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 26 October

Invited Lectures (in Spanish), Espacio y poder en la geografía física. Radicalización de la pedagogía en geografía física [Space and power in physical geography: Radicalising physical geography education] and Degradación medioambiental y imperialismos, colonialismos capitalistas [Environmental degradation and capitalist imperialism and colonialism]. Geografía crítica: territorialidad, espacio y poder en América Latina. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, 28-30 September

Paper Presenter, Contours of an Ecologically Rational Society, Historical Materialism Conference, New York City, 6-8 May

Paper Presenter, Gender and the Control of Water: A Case Study from The Gambia, “Green Feminisms: Women, Sustainability and Environmental Justice,” The 29th Women’s Studies Conference at SUNY New Paltz, 30 April

Conference Organiser, “Green Feminisms: Women, Sustainability and Environmental Justice,” The 29th Women’s Studies Conference at SUNY New Paltz, 30 April

Invited Lecture, Gender and Grassroots Environmental Movements, Women’s Studies 220, SUNY New Paltz, 29 April

Paper Presenter, Soil Acidification in SW Hungary: Preliminary Results, Environmental Contamination in Soils and Sediments, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 12-16 April

Chair and Organiser, Developing an Ecosocialist Politics of Technology II: Building an Ecosocialist Politics of Technology, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 12-16 April

Organiser, Developing an Ecosocialist Politics of Technology I: Dialectics of Technopolitics, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 12-16 April

Panellist, Developing an Ecosocialist Politics of Technology: Panel Discussion, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 12-16 April

Discussant, The Shock of the Poetic: Critical Dialogues with Magical Marxism, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 12-16 April

Invited Lecture (in Hungarian), A kritikai földrajz [Critical geography], Frisco Klub, Budapest, 28 March

Chair and Organiser, Ecological and Economic Crises: Making Linkages, Left Forum, New York City, 18-20 March

Chair and Organiser, Interconnections between Ecological and Economic Crises and Implications for International Solidarity, Left Forum, New York City, 18-20 March

Chair and Organiser, Degrowth and Socialism: Is Anti-growth Anti-capitalist?, Left Forum, New York City, 18-20 March

Paper Presenter, Soils, Science for the People: Empowerment through Scientific Literacy, Left Forum, New York City, 18-20 March

Invited Intervention, Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration and Celebration SUNY New Paltz, 31 January

2010

Conference Organiser, 3rd First World Diaspora Conference, SUNY New Paltz, 16 October

Discussant, International Ecosocialist Conference, Paris, 26-27 September

Paper Presenter, Soil as hazard: Exploring the social determinants of risky soils, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 17 April

Chair and Organiser, Fascism: Its origins and development I and II, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 16 April

Panellist, Social geography of risk: Which approaches? IV, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 17 April

Paper Presenter, The 2008 state financial breakdown in Hungary as a product of class struggles since 1956, for the Panel “The ‘PIIGS,’ Baltics, and Hungary: Economic Crisis on the EU’s Internal Periphery”, Left Forum, New York City, 19-21 March

Invited Lecture (in Hungarian), Talaj erózió és a világ-rendszer elmélet [Soil erosion and world-systems theory], Tomori Pál Főiskola, Kalocsa, Hungary, 2 March

2009

Inaugural Address, On Not Confusing Regions with the Product of Ideological Confrontations between Opposing Ruling Classes: The Case of Eastern Europe, Region Formation in Contemporary South Asia, Delhi, India, 25-28 November

Paper Presenter, Session Organiser, Building an Ecosocialist Revolutionary Movement: Comparative Lessons from Anticolonial Struggles and the First and Second Internationals, New Marxian Times, Amherst, MA, 5-8 November

Invited Lecture, Soil degradation, food production, and the myth of population pressure, Shawangunk Correctional Facility, 20 November

Invited Lecture, Gender relations of soil management, Women’s Studies Colloquium, SUNY New Paltz, 25 October

Invited Lecture, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Shawangunk Correctional Facility, 12 October

Paper Presenter, Team Presentation Organiser, Corporate appropriation of academic knowledge, AAUP 95th Annual Conference, “Globalization, Shared Governance, and Academic Freedom: An International Conference,” Washington, D.C., 12-13 June

Paper Presenter, Facts and fictions about soil degradation: Ecosocialist alternatives to capitalist soil use, Left Forum, New York City, 17-19 April

Paper and workshop facilitator, Capitalism and soil degradation, destruction and formation, “Climate Catastrophe and Social Change” Conference, Oakland, CA, 10-11 January

Invited Lecture, The 2008 bail-out of the Hungarian state: From state-socialist to liberal democratic financial dependence, Shawangunk Correctional Facility, 12 February

2008

Conference Organiser, 2nd First World Diaspora Conference, SUNY New Paltz, 18 October

Paper Presenter, Imperialism, patriarchy, and resource extraction in the semiperiphery: soil use in Hungary, 1960-1990, Lecture presented at Clark University, Worcester, MA, 28 March

Paper Presenter, Inter-imperial rivalry, capital accumulation, and resource extraction: soil use in Hungary, 1960-1990, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, 18 April

Discussant, Radical Geography 40 years on 1, Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, 18 April

Organiser, Radical teaching and critical geographies I: Student autonomy and participatory approaches to pedagogy, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, 19 April

Organiser, Radical teaching in critical geographies II: Classroom activities for radical geography, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, 19 April

Moderator, Race and privilege: the construction of white identity, Second First World Diaspora Conference, SUNY New Paltz, 18 October

2007

Conference Organiser, 5th International Critical Geography Group Meeting, Mumbai, India, December

Invited Lecture and Featured Contributor, Social position, institutional context, and the development and promotion of radical geographies, Lecture presented at the First Summer Institute for the Geographies of Justice, Athens, GA, May-June

Paper Presenter, Protecting diminishing forested area through long-term anti-colonial struggle: the case of Menominee forestry, Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April

Lecture, Global imperialism and EU expansion, Shawangunk Correctional Facility, May

Discussant, Radical Pedagogy in Geography I, Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April

Discussant, Anarchism and Geography: Praxis and Pedagogy, Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April

Discussant, Geographies of militarism II, Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April

Chair and Organiser for two sessions, 5th International Critical Geography Group Meeting, Mumbai, India, December

Chair, 1st Annual James Blaut Award and Memorial Lecture, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April

2006

Paper Presenter, Historical contingencies of resource preservation: Menominee anti-colonial resistance and forestry, The Sixth International Conference of Rethinking Marxism, University of Massachusetts Amherst, October

Paper Presenter, Variability within indigenous soil knowledge systems: gender and soil classification in SW Hungary, World Congress of Soil Science (1.4B Indigenous Soil Classification Systems), Philadelphia, July (Paper presentation accepted, but subsequently withdrawn due to insufficient funds)

Paper Presenter, Households, social differentiation, and world-system: a case study from SW Hungary, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, March

Discussant, Roundtable: rethinking communism ecologically, The Sixth International Conference of Rethinking Marxism, University of Massachusetts Amherst, October

Discussant, Conservation and social justice: An examination of linkages, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, March

Chair and Organiser, Production relations, environmental struggles, and political strategy, The Sixth International Conference of Rethinking Marxism, University of Massachusetts Amherst, October

Chair, Conservation and social justice: An examination of linkages, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, March

Organiser, ACME Debate: Professional and Pedagogical Practice in Geography, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, March

Organiser, Class war and geography: revisiting the 1886 Haymarket Square massacre, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, March

2005

Conference Organiser, chair for one session, and organiser for five sessions, 4th International Critical Geography Group Meeting, Mexico City, Mexico, January

Invited Lecture, Ecology and politics, Instituto de Geografía (Geography Institute) at UNAM, Mexico City, January

Invited Lecture, Human-induced environmental change in Eastern Europe: Myths and Realities, UW-Madison Summer Teacher Workshop, Environmental problems and politics in Europe and Asia, Center for European Studies, Center for Russia, East Europe & Central Asia, Global Studies Program, June

Invited Lecture, Introduction to ecofeminism, Women’s Studies 105, Introduction to Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, November

Invited Lecture, Italian environmental issues, Sociology 395, Comparative Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, October

Invited Lecture, Geopolitics, World Economy, and the Extraction of ‘Natural’ Resources: A Framework for Researching and Understanding their Interconnections, workshop and lecture held at the “Second festival of ideas”, “Earth week”, University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, April

Invited Lecture, Marxist ecofeminism, “Earth week”, UW-Stevens Point, April

Workshop Leader, Geopolitics, world economy, and the extraction of ‘natural’ resources: a framework for researching and understanding their interconnections, “Earth week”, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, April

Paper Presenter, Productions of scale and unequal scales of power: political ecologies and world-system theories, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver, April

Paper Presenter, ‘Working together for peace and prosperity’: securing profitability and reinforcing inequalities through European Union expansion, International Critical Geography Group Meeting, Mexico City, Mexico, January

Discussant, Discussion on the documentary “The Corporation”, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, November

Discussant, Militarism, human health, and environmental destruction, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver, April

Discussant, Teaching critical political economy to undergraduates, or, how to smuggle in Marx without scaring off your students? American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver, April

Chair and Organiser, Militarism, human health, and environmental destruction, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver, April

Chair of Student Panel, American popular culture and how we are desensitized to violence against women, Women’s Studies’ Women’s History Month Programme Series, “The Elimination of all Forms of Violence against Women” University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, March

Chair and organiser, Capitalism, regional blocs, and national states: imperial reconfigurations, renetworking and redividing territories and workers, International Critical Geography Group Meeting, Mexico City, Mexico, January

Workshops Organiser for Festival of ideas II keynote lectures and workshops, “Earth week “, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, April

2004

Invited Lecture, Yi-Fu Tuan Lecture, Soils, Men and Profit: Gender and Class Limits of a Physical Science in Hungary, 1900-1989, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, November

Invited Lecture, Small cities and environmental problems in the capitalist world-system, The Small City and Regional Community, 15th Conference, UW-Stevens Point, September-October

Paper Presenter, Gendered and classist underpinnings of environmental practices under liberal democracy and state socialism in Hungary, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, April

Discussant, Capitalism Nature Socialism at 15, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, April

Discussant, Socialism in an Age of Ecological Scarcity, Socialist Scholars Conference, New York, March

Workshop Organiser for first Festival of ideas, UW-Stevens Point, April

Environmental problems and the capitalist world-system: dealing with a global contradiction, “Festival of ideas”, UW-Stevens Point, April

2003

Paper Presenter, Sustainable soil management in the US: political economy and the production of scientific knowledge, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans, March

Invited Lecture, Gender and sustainable development, Panel discussion entitled “Professionals speak on sustainable development”, UW-Stevens Point, April

Chair and Organiser, Marxists and poststructuralists in dialogue, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans, March

Organiser, From soil to food: contradictions, inequalities, and in/efficiencies in agro-food systems, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans, March

Workshop Leader, Warfare, environmental degradation, and the capitalist world-system, “Globalization of dissent teach-in”, UW-Stevens Point, April

2002

Invited Lecture, The Enduring National State: NATO-EU Relations, EU-Enlargement, and the Reapportionment of the Balkans, 3rd International Critical Geography Group Meeting, Békéscsaba, Hungary, June

Invited Lecture, Systemic change, farming, and soil conservation in Hungary: gender and the political economy of soil management, College of Natural Resources Spring Colloquium, February

Paper Presenter, The persistence of unsustainable soil management in the US: tailoring scientific knowledge to farming policies, Conference on the human dimensions of global environmental change “Knowledge for the Sustainability Transition: The Challenge for Social Science”, German Political Science Association, Berlin, December

Paper Presenter, Disaggregating local knowledge: gendered farming practices and soil classification in SW Hungary, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March

2001

Invited Lecture, Presentation and discussion, Women’s Resource Centre, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, The impact of gender relations on soil management: a case study from SW Hungary, November

Invited Lecture, Gender, environmental practice, and soil dynamics: social relations as ecosystemic process, Department of Geography, UW-Stevens Point, WI, April

Invited Lecture, The significance of gender relations to soil quality evaluation, Department of Environmental Studies, University of Richmond, VA, March

Paper Presenter, Exposing the EU’s chimeras: toward a more reflexive and comparative approach to culture, EuroConference: “Europe’s rediscovered wealth – What the accession-candidates in Eastern and Central Europe have to offer”, Institute for the Danube Region and Eastern Europe, October

Paper Presenter, East Central European “transition” as a phase of gendered capitalist restructuring, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, April

Paper Presenter, NATO-EU relations and eastward enlargement, 6th Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, New York, Columbia University, April

2000

Invited Lecture, Soil use and gender relations in the Ormánság, SW Hungary, The Center for Sustainable Living, Wilson College, PA, April

Invited Lecture, Gender and science: the case of soil science in Hungary, late 1960’s-present, “Gender in Transition: Women in Europe Workshop”, Center for European Studies, New York University, March

Paper Presenter, The political economic ends and ecological consequences of “state-socialist” soil science, “Marxism2000”, Rethinking Marxism Editorial Board, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, November

Paper Presenter, The gendered foundations of soil science: bridging farming and science in Hungary, 1960s-1990s, “The nature of gender – the gender of nature”, 5th Symposium on Gender Research, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany, October

Paper Presenter, State-socialism, capitalism, and gendered soil management, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, March

Paper Presenter, The difference that states make: the return of capitalism and the continuity of patriarchy in rural Hungary, Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Conference, Brighton, United Kingdom, January

1999

Invited Lecture, Mixing qualitative and quantitative methods, Geography 412 (“Geography Research Methods”), Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, September

Invited Lecture, Gender, agriculture, and soil use in an economically impoverished area of Hungary, Fulbright Fellows Conference, Budapest, Hungary, April

Paper Presenter, Gendering the political ecology of soil use: the case of the Ormánság, SW Hungary, International conference entitled “Gender and Rural Transformations in Europe: Past, Present and Future Prospects” Wageningen, The Netherlands, October

Paper Presenter, Feminist environmentalist perspectives on soil management and their regional applicability, Association of American Geographers Annual Middle States Conference West Chester, PA, October

Paper Presenter, Gendering soil maintenance and degradation in the Ormányság, SW Hungary. Association of American Geographers 95th Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, March

Discussant, Gender, labour and livelihoods in organic agriculture: defining the research agenda, International conference entitled “Gender and Rural Transformations in Europe: Past, Present and Future Prospects”, Wageningen, The Netherlands, October

Discussant, Political identity, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, Northeast Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, September

1998

Invited Lecture, Organic farming in the Ormányság, Hungary, Department of Environmental Studies, Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA, March

Paper Presenter, Farming under the new regime of harder work: ecological maintenance and degradation in the Ormányság, SW Hungary, Association of American Geographers Annual Middle States Conference, New Brunswick, NJ, October

Discussant, The perpetual “transition” and/or “transformation in Central and Eastern Europe: some reflections on current and past academic eschatology, Association of American Geographers Annual Middle States Conference, New Brunswick, NJ, October

Organiser, The perpetual “transition” and/or “transformation in Central and Eastern Europe: some reflections on current and past academic eschatology, Association of American Geographers Annual Middle States Conference, New Brunswick, NJ, October

1997

Paper Presenter, Resistance as activism: gendering relations of agricultural production in Hungary, Institute for Research on Women, Women’s Activism, the 15th Annual Celebration of Our Work, New Brunswick, NJ, April

Paper Presenter, State-socialism, development, and gender relations in rural Hungary, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Ft. Worth, March

Discussant, Women and agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe, Institute for Research on Women, Women’s Activism, the 15th Annual Celebration of Our Work, New Brunswick, NJ, April

Chair and Organiser,Food systems and the inadequacies of rural development, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Ft. Worth, March  

Organiser, Women and agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe, Institute for Research on Women, Women’s Activism, the 15th Annual Celebration of Our Work, New Brunswick, NJ, April

1996

Paper Presenter, Gender relations in the “transformation” of Hungarian rural society, Institute for Research on Women, The Third Annual Graduate Student Conference, New Brunswick, NJ, November

Paper Presenter, The poverty of public space: gendered spatial praxis in the production of rural Hungary, Association of American Geographers Annual Middle States Conference, Philadelphia, October

Paper Presenter, Historical continuities and changes in the gendered relations of production of Hungarian agriculture, European Society for Rural Sociology Summer School, Veszprém, Hungary, June

Paper Presenter, A phytolith analysis of Pleistocene buried soils in Hungary, The Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Charlotte, April

Organiser, The Meanings of Feminism in the Reconfigured Public/Private Spaces of Central and Eastern Europe, New Brunswick, NJ, Center for Russian and Central and East European Studies/Women’s Studies Program, October

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES IN PUBLIC AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE

 University Service

2023

Department Chair

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

2022

Department Chair

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

2021

Department Chair

Academic Senator

Environmental Studies

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

2020

Academic Senator

Environmental Studies

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

2019

Academic Senator

Environmental Studies

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

2018

Academic Senator

Chair, Departmental Committee on Re-appointment and Tenure

Grand Marshall, Letters & Science Graduation Ceremony, 19 May

Environmental Studies

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

2017

Academic Senator

Chair, Departmental Committee on Re-appointment and Tenure

Member, Departmental Committee on Re-appointment and Tenure

Environmental Studies

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

UUP Women’s Rights and Concerns Committee

2016

Academic Senator

Co-Chair, Departmental Committee on Re-appointment and Tenure

Environmental Studies

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

UUP Women’s Rights and Concerns Committee

2015

Academic Senator

LA&S Senator

Co-Chair, Departmental Committee on Re-Appointment and Tenure

Environmental Studies

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

UUP Women’s Rights and Concerns Committee

UUP Affirmative Action Committee

2014

LA&S Senator

Department Search Committee for two Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Posts

Departmental Committee on Re-appointment and Tenure

Environmental Studies

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

UUP Affirmative Action Committee

2013

LA&S Senator

Department Search Committee for Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Post

Environmental Studies

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

UUP Delegate

UUP Affirmative Action Committee

2012

Department Search Committee for Temporary Lecturer

Environmental Studies

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

UUP Delegate

2010-2011

Chair, Departmental Committee on Re-appointment and Tenure

Environmental Studies

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

UUP Delegate

2008-2010

Department Committee on Promotion and Salary Increase

Environmental Studies

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

2010-2011

Representative for LA&S Committee for Research, Awards, and Leaves

Environmental Studies

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

2006-2009

Academic Senate Representative LA&S

Environmental Studies

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

2003-2006

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Student Affairs Committee

2002-2006

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Sustainability Committee

2005-2006

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Department of Geography and Geology Faculty Merit and Awards Committee

2004

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Department of Geography and Geology Ad Hoc Chairperson Selection Committee

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Department of Geography and Geology Budget Committee

2002-2003

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Department of Geography and Geology Faculty Merit and Awards Committee

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Department of Geography and Geology Curriculum Committee

2001-2002

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Department of Geography and Geology Library Budget Committee

 

External Service

Academic Publishing

Current

Senior Editor, Capitalism Nature Socialism, since 2023

Reviews Editor, Human Geography: A New Journal, since 2023

Book Series Editorial Advisory Board, Alternatives and Futures: Cultures, Practices, Activism and Utopias, Palgrave Macmillan, since 2017

Editorial Board, Studies in Social Justice, since 2015

Past

Editor-in-Chief, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2012-2022

Editorial Board, Human Geography: A New Journal, 2012-2022

Ediorial Board, Geotema (Associazione dei Geografi Italiani), 2018-2020

Book Series Editor, Radical Natures, West Virginia University Press, 2015-2019

Book Review Editor, Human Geography: A New Journal, 2008-2012

Editor, ACME: an international e-journal for critical geographies, 2003-2010

Editorial Board, ACME: an international e-journal for critical geographies, 2011-2015

Editorial Board, CNS Ecologia Politica (Italy), 2003-2016

Commissioning Editor, Praxis (e)Press, 2006-2010

Co-Editor, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2010-11

Senior Editor, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2005-2009

Editorial Board, New York Group, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2000-2005

 

Consulting

2022

Grant Proposal Reviewer, Institute of Human Geography (11 proposals)

Consultant, National Science Foundation Social and Economic Science; Award 1922257: “Improving Methods of Participatory Soil Science through Interdisciplinary and International Collaboration”

Advisory Board, National Science Foundation Division of Research and Learning; Award 2005750: “Resting Safe: Collaborative Informal STEM Learning Between Researchers and Homeless Communities”

Book Proposal Reviewer, Routledge Environment and Sustainability

2021

Consultant, National Science Foundation Social and Economic Science; Award 1922257: “Improving Methods of Participatory Soil Science through Interdisciplinary and International Collaboration”

Advisory Board, National Science Foundation Division of Research and Learning; Award 2005750: “Resting Safe: Collaborative Informal STEM Learning Between Researchers and Homeless Communities”

2020

Consultant, National Science Foundation Social and Economic Science; Award 1922257: “Improving Methods of Participatory Soil Science through Interdisciplinary and International Collaboration”

PhD Thesis Rapporteur (Thesis Committee Member), Université Paris-Est (Romain Filhol, “Travailleurs agricoles migrants et tomates à industrie en Italie du Sud: les enjeux d’une délocalisation sur place”)

PhD Thesis External Examiner, Department of Geography, York University, Canada (Mizhar Mikati, “The International Food Crisis: A Geographical Investigation of the Egyptian Context”)

2019

Reviewer, Book Proposal (A People’s Green New Deal), Pluto Press

Reviewer, Book Proposal (Urban Ecosystem Justice), Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City Series

2018

Reviewer, NSF BCS, CAREER grant application

2017

Reviewer, Chapters 4-5, Living Physical Geography, Macmillan (WH Freeman & Co.)

Reviewer, PalgraveMcMillan book series proposal

Reader, AP Environmental Science Reading, ETS, June

2016

PhD Thesis Reader (Lector, Miembro Tribunal), Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Quito, Ecuador (William Sacher, “Segunda Contradicción del Capitalismo y Megaminería; Reflexiones Teóricas y Empíricas a Partir del Caso Argentino”)

Reviewer, Fulbright (Hungary), one grant application

2015

Reviewer, World Scientific Publishing manuscript proposalReviewer, NSF BCS, Geography and Environmental Sciences grant applicationReviewer, NWO Council for Earth and Life Sciences grant application

Reviewer, Palgrave Pivot manuscript proposal

Reader, AP Environmental Science

2014

MSc Thesis Co-Rapporteur (Co-relatore), University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Facoltà di Ingegneria, Corso di Laurea in Ingegneria per l’Ambiente e il Territorio (Katia Circelli, “Studio sulle Potenziali Fonti di Contaminazione da Pb e As in Orti Urbani della Città di Roma”)

Reviewer, Fulbright (Hungary), three grant applications

2013               

Consultant, Regione Autonoma della Sardegna, Coastal Erosion Study of Northern Sardegna, under direction of Professor Ginesu (University of Sassari)

Reviewer, Chapters 14-18, Living Physical Geography, WH Freeman & Co.

Reviewer, Fulbright (Hungary), two grant applications

2008-2013

Table Leader, AP Environmental Science Reading, ETS, June

2011

Reviewer, four chapters, Fouberg and Moseley, Understanding World Regional Geography, John Wiley & Sons

2008-2010

Editor/Translator, A.A. Santucci (2005) Antonio Gramsci, Monthly Review Press

2009               

Reviewer, Chapter 3, Environmental Science: Concepts and Implications, 1st edition, WH Freeman & Co.

2001-2007      

Reader, AP Environmental Science Reading, ETS, June

2006

Reviewer, NSF BCS, Geography and Environmental Sciences grant application

2003

GIS Instructor for Teachers, Treehaven Research Station, February

2001

Teacher Mentor, W. Wilson Nat. Fellowship Foundation, Princeton, NJ, June-July

1998

Translator/Editor, Center for Russian Central and East European Studies, Rutgers University, September-November

 

Membership and Activity in Professional Organisations

Current

Polányi Károly Globális Társadalmi Tanulmányok Kutatóközpont, since 2020

Soils of Urban, Industrial, Traffic and Mining Areas, since 2016

Soil Care Network, since 2017

Past

Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies, Corvinus University, Budapest, 2020-2021

Association of American Geographers, 1996-2019

International Critical Geography Group Organising/Steering Committee, 2002-2010

Chair, Soc. and Crit. Geog. Specialty Group, Assoc. of American Geographers, 2004-2006

Co-President, TAUWP, AFT local 3535, UW-Stevens Point Chapter, 2003-2006

Vice-Chair, Soc. and Crit. Geog. Specialty Group, Assoc. of Am. Geographers, 2002-2004

Soil Science Society of America, 2001-2006

International Awards Committee, Soil Science Society of America, 2002-2004

Magyar Szociológiai Társaság (Hungarian Sociological Association), 1995-1997

 

Peer Reviewing

2023

Manuscript Reviewer: Capitalism Nature Socialism (five manuscripts)

2022

Manuscript Reviewer: Antipode; Capitalism Nature Socialism (all manuscripts); Journal of Environmental Quality; The Canadian Geographer; Urban Geography; Urban Planning

2021

Manuscript Reviewer: Capitalism Nature Socialism (all manuscripts); Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space; Environmental Education Research; Human Geography; Eszmélet; Journal of Soils and Sediments; Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales; Urban Geography

2020

Manuscript Reviewer: Agriculture and Human Values; Antipode; Area Development and Policy; Capitalism Nature Socialism (all manuscripts); Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space; Human Geography; Journal of Soils and Sediments (two manuscripts); Partecipazione e Conflitto

2019

Manuscript Reviewer: Antipode; Capitalism Nature Socialism (all manuscripts); Geotema; Interface; International Critical Thought; Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems; Partecipazione e Conflitto

2018

Manuscript Reviewer: Antipode; Capitalism Nature Socialism (all manuscripts); Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space; Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space; Gender Place and Culture; Human Geography; Journal of Soils and Sediments; Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems; Smart and Sustainable Cities Conference Proceedings (Springer Geography)

2017

Manuscript Reviewer: Antipode; Capitalism Nature Socialism (all manuscripts); Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space; Gender Place and Culture; International Critical Thought; Journal of Cleaner Technologies

2016

Manuscript Reviewer: Capitalism Nature Socialism (all manuscripts); Futures; Journal of Cleaner Technologies; Journal of Soils and Sediments

2015

Article Editor: SAGEOpen

Manuscript Reviewer: Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Capitalism Nature Socialism (all manuscripts); Disaster Prevention and Management; Human Geography; Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

2014

Manuscript Reviewer: Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Antipode; Geoforum; Human Geography; Capitalism Nature Socialism (all manuscripts); Journal of Soils and Sediments; The Professional Geographer; Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

2013

Manuscript Reviewer: ACME (13 manuscripts); Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Environmental Education Research; Capitalism Nature Socialism (all manuscripts); Géographie et cultures; Human Geography; Journal of Applied Geography

2012

Book Proposal Reviewer: English translation of Beni comuni vs Merci (Commons vs Commodities); Pluto Press

Manuscript Reviewer: ACME (six manuscripts); Environmental Education Research; Capitalism Nature Socialism (all manuscripts); Human Geography (all book reviews); Journal of Applied Geography

2011

Manuscript Reviewer: ACME; Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie; Capitalism Nature Socialism (more than 10 manuscripts); Human Geography (all book reviews)

2010

Book chapter Reviewer: Human Health in Areas with Local Industrial Contamination; World Health Organisation

Manuscript Reviewer: Society and Natural Resources; Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie; Capitalism Nature Socialism (more than 10 manuscripts); ACME (several manuscripts); Human Geography (all book reviews)

2009

Book Proposal Reviewer: America*: dispossession and resistance in US military colonies; Pluto Press

Manuscript Reviewer: Geoforum; Capitalism Nature Socialism (more than 10 manuscripts); ACME (several manuscripts); Human Geography (all book reviews)

2008

Manuscript Reviewer: Capitalism Nature Socialism (several manuscripts); ACME (several manuscripts)

2007

Manuscript Reviewer: Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography; Capitalism Nature Socialism (several manuscripts); ACME (several manuscripts)

2006

Proposal reviewer: National Science Foundation

Manuscript Reviewer; GeoJournal; Capitalism Nature Socialism (several manuscripts); ACME (several manuscripts)

2005

Manuscript Reviewer: Annals of the Association of American Geographers; ACME (several manuscripts); Capitalism Nature Socialism (several manuscripts)

2000-2004

Manuscript Reviewer: Capitalism Nature Socialism (several manuscripts)