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Patricia J Lopez

University of Washington, Department of Geography

Box 353550 Smith Hall 408 Seattle WA

E-mail: maoquai@uw.edu      

education      

PhD Candidate (ABD) – Geography (2009-2014 – June 2014 expected completion)

University of Washington, Seattle; working dissertation title: Disease and aid: 100 yeas of the (de)construction of health citizenship in Haiti

Co-Chairs: Dr. Katharyne Mitchell and Dr. Matthew Sparke; Committee: Dr. Victoria Lawson

MA – Geography (2007-2009)

University of Washington, Seattle; thesis title: An Historically Situated Case For Children's Right To Health: The Birth of the Model Cities Clinic of Odessa Brown Children's Clinic

Co-Chairs: Dr. Katharyne Mitchell and Dr. Matthew Sparke; Committee: Dr. Victoria Lawson

BA – Comparative History of Ideas, minor in Geography (2006-2007)

            University of Washington, Seattle

grants, fellowships, and honors

2013    Presidential Graduate Fellowship, dissertation writing award. Awarded through the

Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program, University of Washington

2012    Distinguished Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants, Department of Geography, University of Washington

2012    Faculty Appreciation awardee, Mu Chapter of Sigma Kappa Sorority, University of Washington, Seattle WA

2012    Howard Martin Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Geography, University of Washington

2012    Travel Grant Award, Graduate and Professional Student Senate University of Washington – for travel to Oecumene Symposium, Open University, Milton-Keyenes, UK

2010    Association of American Geographers (AAG) – National Science Foundation  (NSF) Travel Award to Center for Global Geography Education (CGGE) workshop, “Expanding U.S.-Asia Collaborations in Geography Education” in Singapore

2009    Edward L. Ullman Masters Student Award for Outstanding Scholarly Performance and Significant Contributions to the Department, awarded at Department of Geography Commencement Ceremonies by Katharyne Mitchell, Professor and Chair

2008    Association of American Geographers (AAG)-National Science Foundation (NSF) Travel Award to attend the 2008 International Geographical Union (IGU) Congress in Tunis, Tunisia.

2007    Presidential Graduate Fellowship. Awarded through the Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program, University of Washington.

research fields

Health, political, and development geographies; citizenship; health citizenship; cosmpolitanism and cosmopolitical justice; militarism; humanitarianism; militarized humanitarianism; Marxist theory; postcolonial theories; ‘race’; care ethics; archival methodologies; feminist and gender studies; historical health care practices; geographies of the body; imperialism; global health and development industry; empire; Haiti

publications

refereed articles and projects

In Process. Lopez, Patricia, Leonie Newhouse, and Lisa Bhunghalia, eds. Special Issue in Environment and Planning A. On the Question of Violence in the Humanitarian Present.

In Process. “Clumsy beginnings: From modernizing mission to humanitarianism in the U.S. occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934,” Environment and Planning A [special issue].

Revise and Resubmit. “Cultural politics of femininity in World War I – maternal peace v. maternal war,” Gender, Place, and Culture.

Under Review. “Radical urban health care,” Social and Cultural Geography

non-refereed projects

Huong, Huang Ti, Niem Tu Huynh, Wei Li, Patricia J. Lopez, and Minori Yuda. 2010. Migration case study: Why does gender matter in migration? In Solem, M., Klein, P., Muñiz-Solari, O., and Ray, W., eds., AAG Center for Global Geography Education. Available: http://globalgeography.aag.org.

Herbert, Steve, Patricia J. Lopez, Matt Townley. 2010. Design of Evaluation Model for Three Human Services/Public Safety Programs. University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Herbert, Steve, Patricia Lopez, Matt Townley. 2009. Assessment of Three Public Safety/Human Services Projects: Court Specialized Tx & Access to Recovery Services (CO-STARS), Get Off the Streets (GOTS), and Communities Uniting Rainier Beach (CURB). Seattle: UW.

conference presentations and panels

2013, April. “Clumsy beginnings: The shifting violence of humanitarian intervention from 'modernizing mission' to development projects in the first U.S. occupation of Haiti.” Presented in the “On the Question of Violence in the Humanitarian Present” session at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 9-13, Los Angeles, CA.

2012, February. “Health citizenship and the geography of blame: Cholera in post-earthquake Haiti.” Paper presented at Oecumene Symposium: Opening the Boundaries of Citizenship, the Open University, Milton-Keynes, UK

2011, November. “Placing Blame: The ‘confluence of circumstances’ in the post-earthquake Haiti cholera outbreak.” Paper presented at the 6^th Annual Cascadia Critical Geography Mini Conference, Seattle, WA.

2011, August. “The Geography of Blame: Cholera in post-earthquake Haiti.” Paper presented in special session “Mapping the geopolitics of biopolitics” at the 6^th International Conference of Critical Geographers, Frankfurt, Germany.

2011, April. “Interrogating Humanitarian Practice” panel. Organizer and discussant at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 12-16, Seattle, WA.

2011, April. “Health enclaves: Micro-territorializing global health.” Paper presented in special session, “Geographies of Global Health Care: From spaces of exception to enclaves of individuation, experimentation, and exploitation” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 12-16, Seattle, WA.

2010, April. “A politics of care at the Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic.” Paper presented in special session, “Critical Urban Health Geographies,” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 14-18, Washington, DC.

2009, March. “Nurses and the geography of patriotism in World War I America: Red Cross recruitment posters and American Journal of Nursing in the role of identity management.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Las Vegas, NV.

2008, August. “Unionization of commercial sex workers in India:  A two city study.” Paper presented in the Gender Commission Sessions at the 31^st International Geographical Congress, Tunis, Tunisia

2008, April. “Political opportunity structure in the fight against HIV/AIDS among commercial sex workers in India.”Paper presented at the Care, Work and Diversity Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

2007, May. “Geography, cyberspace, and the application of law”. Paper presented at Comparative History of Ideas Senior Thesis Presentations, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

invited lectures, panels, and workshops

2012, May. “Looking back, looking forward.” Climate and Diversity Committee Spring Event Workshop. Co-organizer and facilitator. UW Club, University of Washington, WA.

2012, April. “Building ethical pedagogies.” Climate and Diversity Committee. Co-organizer and co-facilitator. UW Club, University of Washington, WA.

2012, February. “Cholera: History, epidemiology, and a case study in Haiti.” Presentation as guest lecturer for Geography 380, Geographical Patterns of Health and Disease, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2012, January. “Primary Health Care: The role of FQHCs in the health safety net. “ Presentation as guest lecturer for Geography 380, Geographical Patterns of Health and Disease, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2012, January. “Doing Ethnography and Interviewing.” Invited speaker for Geography 497, Tutorial in Geography for Honors Students, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

2011, November. “Kickoff event – Climate and Diversity in the department.” Climate and Diversity Committee. Co-organizer and co-facilitator. UW Club, University of Washington, WA.

2011, October. Invited discussant and guest speaker at Coffee Chat by the Critical Development Forum, University of Washing, Seattle, WA.

2011, March. “Impact of the Haitian Revolution on the Americas.” Presentation as guest lecturer for Geography 435, Social Movements in Latin America, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

2011, February. “Case study: Haiti.” Presentation as guest lecturer for Geography 331, Global Poverty and Care, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

2010, August. “Primary Health Care: The role of FQHCs and independent not-for-profit health clinics.” Presentation as guest lecturer for Geography 280, The Geography of Health and Health Care, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

2009, October. With Steve Herbert and Matthew Townley  “Assessment of three public safety / human services projects: Court Specialized Treatment and Access to Recovery Services (CO-STARS), Get off the Streets (GOTS), and Communities Uniting Rainier Beach (CURB).”Study findings presentation to the Public Safety Committee of the Seattle City Council, Seattle, WA.

2009, August. “Social safety net primary health care: FQHCs and independent not-for-profit health clinics.” Presentation as guest lecturer for Geography 280, The Geography of Health and Health Care, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

2008, November. With Josephine Ensign, Zoe Freeman, and Nancy Kenny. “Community classroom collaboration: Bringing the community to your classroom.”Panelist for Provost Workshop on Teaching and Learning, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

professional experience:  research and teaching

research

2011-2013, Doctoral Archive Research: University of Washington Federal Repository and Special Collections, Seattle, WA; National Archives and Records Administration (I & II), Washington, DC & College Park, MD; National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD; National Museum of Health and Medicine – Otis Historical Archives, Silver Spring, MD; Wellcome Library, London, England; David Nicholls Memorial Library, Regents Park, Oxford, England; Rothermere American Institute, Oxford, England; Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, NY

2010, Spring-Summer Research Associate: Design of Evaluation Model for Three Human   Services/Public Safety Programs, City of Seattle

2009, SummerResearch Associate: Odessa Brown Children's Clinic and Medical / Legal Partnership for Children through the Poverty and Race Research Action Council Grant

2009, Summer- Fall    Research Associate: Evaluation of Three Arrest Diversion Programs for the Seattle City Council, Public Safety Committee

teaching

2012, Spring                Teaching Assistant: Geography 208, Geography of the World Economy

2012, Winter               Teaching Assistant: Geography 331, Global Poverty and Care

2011, Fall                    Instructor: Geography 431, Gender and Geography

2011, Summer-A         Instructor: Geography 490, The Seattle Region: Field Research

2011, Spring                Instructor: Geography 490, The Seattle Region: Field Research

2011, Winter               Teaching Assistant: Geography 331, Global Poverty and Care

2009 – 2010                Undergraduate Adviser. University of Washington Department of

Geography, Seattle, WA

 2009, Spring                Teaching Assistant: Humanities 211, Justice and Global Health

2009, Winter               Teaching Assistant: Geography 280, Geography of Health and Health Care

2008, Fall                    Teaching Assistant: Geography 123, Introduction to Globalization

students supervised

Fall, 2011. Allison Ferguson, International Studies Honors Qualifying Paper. Title: White demon sophistry:  Exploring the Gates Foundation’s control over the production of knowledge of women of the global south; winner – Undergraduate Library Research Award

Spring, 2011. Helen Olsen, Undergraduate Library Research Award project. Title: Creating Systems of Care: Integrated Health Delivery Programs and the Work of PATH

service and administration

2012 – 2013. Co-organizer with Jason D. MacLeod. “Reading Foucault” reading group organized at Oxford University

2012, Winter and Spring. Co-organizer with Jason D. MacLeod. “Critical Race and Geography” reading group, University of Washington and Seattle University School of Law

2011, Fall. Co-organizer. 6^th Annual Cascadia Critical Geography Mini Conference held at University of Washington, Seattle, November 18-19, 2011

2011 – 2012. Diversity and Climate Committee member, University of Washington, Department of Geography

2011 – 2012. Departmental liaison to Graduate Student Union, UAW Local 4121

2010, Spring. Assistant to Vicky Lawson, PhD, Retirement Party for Professor Bill Beyers Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2009 – 2012. Adviser. Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Programs Student Advisory Committee, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2009 – 2012. Achievement Programs, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2008 – 2011. Senator. Graduate and Professional Student Senate, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2008 – 2012. Climate and Diversity Committee member. Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2008, Fall. Orientation Organizer and Lead. Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2007 – 2008. Colloquium reception committee member. Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2003 – 2008. Reach Out and Read Coordinator, Odessa Brown Children's Clinic, Seattle, WA

2003 – 2008. Volunteer. Annual Celebrity Auction, Dinner and Golf Tournament, Lenny Wilkens Foundation, Bellevue, WA

affiliations

Association of American Geographers

Affinity Groups: Cultural Geography, Development Geographies, Geographic Perspectives on Women, Graduate, Health and Medical Geography, Political Geography, Socialist and Critical Geography

IGU Gender Commission

Association of Pacific Coast Geographers

American Association of University Women