JOSHUA F. J. INWOOD

CURRICULUM VITAE

111 Vaughan Ave

Opelika, AL 36801

334-745-3093

jfi0001@auburn.edu

Department of Geology and Geography

210 Petrie Hall

Auburn, AL 36849-5305

334-844-4229

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Urban geography with an emphasis on the construction of racialized places and identities; urban redevelopment; memorialization; landscape studies, and social justice.

EDUCATION

University of Georgia

Ph.D. Geography, 2007

Dissertation: Sweet Auburn: Contesting the Racial Identity of Atlanta’s Most Historically Significant African American Neighborhood.

Advisor: Dr. Steve Holloway

Kent State University

M.A. Geography, 2002

Masters Thesis: Hearing the Blind: A Critical Geo-Humanist Perspective

on the Visually Impaired and Blind.

Advisor: Dr. James Tyner

Michigan State University

B.A. Geography, 2000

B.A. History, 2000

PUBLICATIONS

Publications in Refereed Journals:

Inwood, J. (In Press) “Intervention: Forty Years On: Marking the

Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee.” Antipode.

Inwood, J. and Martin, D. (In Press) “Whitewash: White Privilege and Racialized

Landscapes At the University of Georgia.” Social and Cultural Geography.

Inwood, J. 2007. “Thinking Through the Concept of Social Justice: Preliminary

Thoughts.” Southeastern Geographer 47 (1) 101-103.

Inwood, J. 2005. “Making the Legal Visible: Wilhelmina Griffin Jones’

Experience of Living in Alabama during Segregation.” Southeastern

Geographer 45 (1) 54-66.

Inwood, J. 2002. “Seeing the Blind: Humanism and the Blind Experience of

Place.” Geographic Bulletin 44 (1) 42-50.

In Progress:

Inwood, J. (Under Review) “Contested Memory in the Birthplace of a King: A Case

Study of Auburn Avenue and the Martin Luther King Jr. National Park. Cultural Geographies. Revise and Resubmit November 2007. Resubmitted February 2008.

Inwood, J. (In preparation) Reclaiming the Spirit? The African American Counterpublic

and the Construction of Urban Space: A Case Study of Auburn Avenue.” To be submitted to Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, January 2008

Inwood, J. (In preparation) I see the Promised Land: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s

Concept of the Beloved Community as Geographic Space. To be submitted to Antipode, December 2007.

Book Reviews:

Inwood, J. (Forthcoming). Review of Jessica Adams, Wounds of Returning: Race,

Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation. Chapel Hill: The

University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 226 pp. Historical Geography.

Inwood, J. 2006. Review of Martin Kenzer, On Becoming a Professional

Geographer. Caldwell, NJ: The Blackburn Press, 2000. 211 pp.

Southeastern Geographer 46 (1) 161-163.

Inwood, J. 2005. Review of Hubbard et al., Thinking Geographically: Space,

Theory and Contemporary Human Geography. London, UK: Continuum, 2002. 275 pp. Cultural Geographies 12 (4) 535-535.

Inwood, J. 2005. Review of Manning Marable, The Great Wells of Democracy:

The Meaning of Race in American Life. New York: Basic Civitas Books,

2002. 365 pp. Antipode 37 (1) 192-194.

Editorial Activities:

Guest Co-Editor, (in preparation) Geojournal. Special Issue on the Process of

Racialization. With Dr. Robert Yarbrough.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2008. Faculty Mentoring Program. (under review) Auburn University. Assessing the

Potential Impacts of Hunting Reservations on Economic Development in the Black Belt. With Bobby Wilson (University of Alabama) ($4000.00).

2007. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. The University of Georgia. Annual

Award from the University of Georgia which recognizes the top 10% of all

University teaching assistants.

2006. John Fraser Hart Award, Best PhD Student Paper. Annual Meeting of the SouthEastern Division of the Association of American Geographers. Morgantown, WV. ($1,000.00)

2006-2007. Graduate School Dissertation Completion Award. The University of

Georgia ($15,600)

2006. Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant. Department of Geography. University of Georgia.

2005. National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

Geography and Regional Sciences Program for project titled: “Sweet Auburn: Contesting the Racial Identity of Atlanta’s Historically Significant African-American Neighborhood.” ($10,236)

2005. Terry Jordan-Bychov Doctoral Paper Award. Cultural Geography Specialty

Group Paper Competition. “Whitewash: Investigating the Role of White Privilege in the Construction of Racialized Landscapes.” ($350)

2004. University of Georgia Student Organization Committee. Wrote a successful grant application for the Department of Geography’s Graduate Student Speaker Series. ($2100)

2004 Graduate Student Research and Performance Grant. From the Center for

Humanities and Arts Advisory Board, University of Georgia. ($1,000)

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

Assistant Professor. Department of Geology and Geography, Auburn University, 2007-

Present. (affiliated faculty with the Africana Studies Program 2007-present).

Graduate Teaching Instructor: Department of Geography, University of Georgia, 2004-

2007.

Graduate Teaching Assistant: Department of Geography, University of Georgia,

2002-2005

Research Assistant: Dr. Deborah Martin, Department of Geography, University of

Georgia, Summer 2003

Graduate Teaching Assistant: Department of Geography, Kent State University,

2000-2002.

CONFERENCE/PAPER PRESENTATION

Panel Participant: African American Commemorative Politics: The Confederate Battle

Flag and Beyond, Annual Meeting of the SouthEastern Division of the Association of American Geographers; Charleston, SC November 2007.

Sweet Auburn: Contesting the Racial Identity of Atlanta's Historically Significant African American Neighborhood, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; San Francisco, CA April 2007.

Sweet Auburn: Contesting the Racial Identity of a significant African American Neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia, Honors Competition, Annual Meeting of the SouthEastern Division of the Association of American Geographers; Morgantown, WV. November 2006.

Contested Memory in the Birthplace of a King: A Case Study of Auburn Avenue and the Martin Luther King Jr. National Park, Race, Ethnicity and Place III. Association of American Geographers; San Marcos, TX. November 2006.

A Northerner Comes South: The Significance of Place and Positionality, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Chicago, IL March 2006.

Panel Participant: Toward a Critical Understanding of Social Justice and Geography in the American South, Annual Meeting of the SouthEastern Division of the Association of American Geographers; West Palm Beach, Florida, November 2005.

Whitewash: Investigating the Role of White Privilege in the Construction of Racialized

Landscapes, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Denver, Colorado, April 2005.

Whitewash: Investigating the Role of ‘Race’ in the Landscape, Race, Ethnicity and Place II. Association of American Geographers; Washington, DC, October 2004.

Placing the Person: Wilhelmina Jones’ Experience of Living in Alabama During Segregation, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2004.

Making the Legal Visible: Wilhelmina Jones’ Experience of Living in Alabama During Segregation, Annual Meeting of the SouthEastern Division of the Association of American Geographers; Charlotte, North Carolina, November 2003.

Spatial Dissidents: The Blind and the Experience of Walking, Annual Meeting of the SouthEastern Division of the Association of American Geographers; Richmond, Virginia, November 2002.

Seeing the Blind: Humanism and the Experience of Place, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Los Angeles, California, March 2002.

Heterosexing Space at the Turn of the Century: The Case Study of Jack Johnson,

Annual Meeting of the SouthEastern Division of the Association of American Geographers; Lexington, Kentucky, March 2001.

Humanism, Place, and the Experience of the Blind, Annual Meeting of the East Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers; Cincinnati, Ohio, October 2001.

Sessions Organized:

Racialized Places, Racialized Bodies: The Impact of Racialization on Individual and

Place Identities, Co-Organizer with Dr. Robert Yarbrough at the Annual Meeting

of the Association of American Geographers, Session I, II, III; San Francisco, California, April 2007.

Critical Perspectives on the American South Co-Organizer with Dr. Derek Alderman

and Scott Whitlock at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Session I, II; Chicago, Illinois, March 2006

Toward a Critical Understanding of Social Justice and Geography in the American

South, Co-Organizer with Dr. Derek Alderman at the Annual Meeting of the SouthEastern Division of the Association of American Geographers; November, 2005. (Panelists Included: Hilda Kurtz, University of Georgia; Heather Smith, UNC-Charlotte;

Barney Warf, Florida State University; Gerald Webster, University of Alabama; Bobby Wilson,

University of Alabama; Tony Plakas, Director Compass GLCC; Jamie Foreman, West Palm

Human Rights Council.)

Invited Lectures:

Sweet Auburn: Contesting Racialized Identity in Atlanta. Georgia State University,

Atlanta, Georgia, October, 2006.

Living With Disability at the University. Leadership, Education, and Advocacy for Disabilities Student Group. University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, January 2003.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Participant, Summer Institute for the Geographies of Justice. May 28-June 1, Athens, Georgia.

Participant, Geography Faculty Development Alliance. June 4-11, 2005, Boulder, Colorado.

Participant in Teaching Workshop: “Effective Teaching for Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty.” January 2005, Dr. Eric J. Fournier.

COURSES TAUGHT

Auburn University:

Geography 1010. Global Geography. Spring 2008. (one section, 90 students).

Geography 1017. Honors Global Geography. Spring 2008. (one section, 10 students).

Geography 3140. Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa. Fall 2007. (One Section, 49 students).

Geography 5010. Urban Geography. Spring 2008. (one section, 15 students).

The University of Georgia:

University of Georgia Study Abroad Program: New Zealand and Australia
Sustaining Human Societies and the Natural Environment. Geography 1101. Introduction to Human Geography. March 4-9. (One Section, 22 students) Brisbane, Australia.

Freshman College Summer Experience. Geography 1103. Cultural Geography of the

United States. Summer 2006. (One Section, 55 students)

Geography 1103.  Cultural Geography of the United States.  Fall 2004-Summer 2006. (Four Sections, 55-88 students each section)

TEACHING INTERESTS

Introductory: Political Geography; World Geography, Cultural Geography, Human Geography

Intermediate: Urban Geography, Economic Geography.

Advanced/Seminars: Urban Theory, Race Critical Theory, Qualitative Methods.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

2002-Present: SouthEastern Division of the Association of American Geographers

2000-Present: Association of American Geographers

2000-2002: East Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers

SERVICE

To the Discipline of Geography

Manuscripts Reviewed (#)

Social and Cultural Geography (1)

Geojournal (1)

Southeastern Geographer (3).

2008-2009: Member SouthEastern Division of the Association of American Geographers Audit Committee.

2008: Judge, Cultural Geography Specialty Group Graduate Student Paper Competition.

Auburn University

2008: Contributed to the annual Science Olympiad.

2007-2008: Member of College of Science and Mathematics Diversity Council.

Auburn University.

2007-Present: Member Department website design committee.

The University of Georgia

2005-2006: Graduate Student Representative on Human Geography Search Committee, University of Georgia.

2004-Present: Reviewer, The Southeastern Geographer (3).

2003-2004: Organized departmental Colloquia. This is the formal departmental colloquium for the academic year. I was responsible for a budget of about 2,000 dollars. My duties included contacting and subsequent correspondence with speakers, planning the colloquium schedule, making travel arrangements and making sure that the colloquium speaker’s visit went well.

2003-2004: Organized “Brown Bag Speaker Series”, Department of Geography, University of Georgia. The purpose of this group is for graduate students and faculty to discuss professional development issues. Topics have included “Navigating I.R.B. Procedures”, “Networking Your Way to AAG Success”, “Preparing an NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant”, “Show Me the Money: Successful Grant Writing”, and “Best Teaching Practices”.

2003-2004: President of the Geography Student Association, Department of Geography, University of Georgia

2003: Judge for the Undergraduate Student Paper Competition, Department of Geography, University of Georgia

2002-Present: Member of the “Publish or Perish” Graduate Writing Group, Department of Geography, University of Georgia. An informal support group of four human geography graduate students. We meet regularly to share our writing and provide constructive feedback to one another.

Kent State University

2002-2003: President of the Graduate Student Association. Department of Geography, Kent State University

2002-2003: Graduate Representative to the Faculty, Department of Geography, Kent State University

PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES

Dr. Steve Holloway, Professor, Department of Geography, University of

Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, ph. 706-542-4109, email: holloway@uga.edu

Dr. Kavita Pandit, Professor and Associate Dean, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences,

University of Georgia; President of the Association of American Geographers

Athens, GA 30602, ph. 706-542-3400, email:pandit@uga.edu

Dr. Deborah Martin, Assistant Professor, School of Geography, Clark University,

Worcester, MA 01610, ph. 508-793-7104, email: demartin@clarku.edu

Dr. James A. Tyner, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Kent State

University, Kent, Ohio 44240, ph. 330-672-7863, email: jtyner@kent.edu