Resume

• 2008

  PhD

  Human Geography

  Urban Geography

  Macquarie University

• 2002

  B.A.

  Urban Studies

  Urban Studies Hiring Committee

  Urban Studies Students Association

  Eugene Lang College

  The New School for Liberal Arts

• Editing

  Higher Education

  Social Media

  Teaching

  Writing

  Curriculum Development

  Public Speaking

  Policy Analysis

  Qualitative Research

  University Teaching

  Research

  Community Outreach

  Nonprofit Organizations

  Review: Home

  Nature

  and the Feminine Ideal: Geographies of the Interior and of Empire

  Elaine Stratford

  Rowman & Littlefield

  Lanham

  MD (2019)

  323 pages

  US $150.00 hardcover.

  Book review.

  Review: Home

  Nature

  and the Feminine Ideal: Geographies of the Interior and of Empire

  Elaine Stratford

  Rowman & Littlefield

  Lanham

  MD (2019)

  323 pages

  US $150.00 hardcover.

  Master-planned estates are an increasingly proliferating phenomenon in urban development. These primarily residential estates have often been explored under the terms ‘gated community’

  ‘planned community’ and ‘common interest development’

  however the development of the term ‘master-planned estate’ or MPE by Australian geographers has opened up the terminology describing this phenomenon to a variety of planned residential forms. Three key themes dominate the literature on MPEs: privatization

  socio-spatial polarization and community. Through assessing the research completed on MPEs to date

  with specific attention to Australian research using this terminology

  I explore these key themes

  as well as oversights in the literature

  particularly in the lack of research on inner-city MPEs. I conclude that new-build gentrification can offer a fruitful launching point to explore the development of inner-city MPEs.

  Master-planned estates: a summary of the research to date and opportunities for future exploration

  This study examines community discourses contesting neoliberal urban governance using a case study of opposition to a growth-oriented mega-project. Utilizing the notion of \"articulations of contestation\" in neoliberalism (Leitner et al.

  2007b)

  it seeks to understand the multiple ways that community organizations engage with neoliberal urbanism. It does so through an examination of community discourses surrounding the Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn

  New York. Employing the notion of ‘neoliberal communitarianism’ (DeFilippis

  2007)

  wherein community groups are brought into neoliberal frameworks

  this study finds this process to be highly contested by multiple community coalitions. In this case

  the developer and state economic development agency use endorsements by select community organizations to bolster local support for this controversial redevelopment project. It is argued here that community organizations are not only constrained or co-opted by neoliberal urbanism

  but they are also contesting it.

  Discourses of Community Contestation: The Fight over Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn

  New York

  Carolyn

  Medgar Evers College of The City University of New York

  Municipal Valuation Services

  LLC

  Eugene Lang College

  Housatonic Community College

  Macquarie University

  Southern Connecticut State University

  Fairfield University

  Fairfield

  CT

  Teaching Sociology courses: Cities

  Race & Poverty and Sociology of Cities & Suburbs: NYC.

  Adjunct Professor

  Fairfield University

  Bridgeport

  CT

  Plan and teach World Regional Geography. Engage students in the subject of geography and the world around them.

  Adjunct Professor

  Housatonic Community College

  New York

  NY

  Designed

  implemented and taught courses for the First Year Curriculum and for the Urban Studies Department.

  Adjunct Professor

  Eugene Lang College

  New Haven

  CT

  Plan and teach courses in the Department of Environment

  Geography and Marine Sciences

  focusing on Geography courses including Human Geography

  Geographies of Food Systems

  Physical Geography

  Introduction to Geography and Geographies of Race

  Class and Gender. Geographies of Race

  Class and Gender is a course I designed and implemented specifically for SCSU. During the temporary full-time appointment I mentored students

  was the faculty adviser for an undergraduate thesis and was the faculty adviser for the student Geography Club.

  Adjunct Professor

  Southern Connecticut State University

  Fairfield

  CT

  Organize and execute field work to collect data for municipal assessors. Visit homes and attempt to speak with homeowners/taxpayers to inspect interior and exterior of properties to verify property information for municipal assessors’ records. Coordinate with assessors’ offices and company partners to fulfill assessment revaluations. Hold informal hearings with taxpayers to begin assessment appeal processes. Utilize Vision Appraisal CAMA databases to keep public records current

  create spreadsheets to organize data for assessment of commercial properties

  various data and systems troubleshooting. Taking calls and inquiries from taxpayers and other members of the public regarding assessment revaluation processes.

  Data Collector/Taxpayer Liason

  Municipal Valuation Services

  LLC

  Brooklyn

  NY

  Plan and teach courses in Human and Physical Geography. Engage students in the subject of geography and the world and city around them.

  Adjunct Professor

  Medgar Evers College of The City University of New York

  Led tutorials for between 20-30 undergraduates for courses in the Dept. of Environment and Geography. Marked student papers and worked with lecturers to evaluate students and improve courses.

  Tutor/Marker

  Sydney

  Australia

  Macquarie University