Cindi Katz
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Cindi Katz a geographer, is a Professor in Environmental Psychology, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Women's Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center
. Her work concerns social reproduction
and the production of space, place and nature; children and the environment; the consequences of global economic restructuring for everyday life; and the intertwined spatialities of homeland and home-based security. She is a member of the Children's Environmental Research Group at the Center for Human Environments, and on the Advisory Boards of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics
and the Women's Studies Certificate Program, both of which reside at the CUNY Graduate Center. Katz received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Clark University
.
She has published widely on social reproduction and everyday as well as on social theory and the politics of knowledge in edited collections and in journals such as Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Social Text
, Signs
, Feminist Studies, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Social Justice, Gender, Place, and Culture, Cultural Geographies, Antipode (Journal)
, and "Public Culture." Katz was co-general editor of WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly
with Nancy K. Miller
, Distinguished Professor of English, from 2004 to 2008. Katz and Miller were awarded the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) 2007 Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement. This award is given to the most improved journal that has launched an overall effort of revitalization or transformation within the previous three years.
Katz is the editor (with Janice Monk) of Full Circles: Geographies of Gender over the Life Course (Routledge 1993) and of Life's Work: Geographies of Social Reproduction (with Sallie A. Marston and Katharyne Mitchell) (Blackwell 2004). Her 2004 book, Growing up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children's Everyday Lives (University of Minnesota Press), received the 2004 Meridian Book Award for the Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography from the Association of American Geographers. In 2003-04 Katz was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, where she began her current project on U.S. childhood as spectacle.
Cindi Katz Website: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Psychology/environmental/ckatz/ckatz_index.html
CUNY Graduate Center
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York brings together graduate education, advanced research, and public programming to midtown Manhattan hosting 4,600 students, 33 doctoral programs, 7 master's programs, and 30 research centers and institutes...
. Her work concerns social reproduction
Social reproduction
Social reproduction is a sociological term referring to processes which sustain or perpetuate characteristics of a given social structure or tradition over a period of time....
and the production of space, place and nature; children and the environment; the consequences of global economic restructuring for everyday life; and the intertwined spatialities of homeland and home-based security. She is a member of the Children's Environmental Research Group at the Center for Human Environments, and on the Advisory Boards of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics
Center for Place, Culture and Politics
The Center for Place, Culture and Politics, established in 2000, is an interdisciplinary center providing an intellectual forum for the discussion of a wide range of vital contemporary topics and it is located at CUNY Graduate Center. As the name suggests, most of the pressing political and...
and the Women's Studies Certificate Program, both of which reside at the CUNY Graduate Center. Katz received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Clark University
Clark University
Clark University is a private research university and liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts.Founded in 1887, it is the oldest educational institution founded as an all-graduate university. Clark now also educates undergraduates...
.
She has published widely on social reproduction and everyday as well as on social theory and the politics of knowledge in edited collections and in journals such as Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Social Text
Social Text
Social Text is an academic journal published by Duke University Press. Since its inception as an independent editorial collective in 1979, Social Text has addressed a wide range of social and cultural phenomena, covering questions of gender, sexuality, race, and the environment...
, Signs
Signs (journal)
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society is a feminist academic journal established in 1975. It is published quarterly by the University of Chicago Press. Signs publishes articles on women's studies.- See also :* Cultural studies...
, Feminist Studies, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Social Justice, Gender, Place, and Culture, Cultural Geographies, Antipode (Journal)
Antipode (journal)
Antipode is an academic journal that publishes in the field of critical geography. The journal publishes articles with Marxist, socialist, anarchist, anti-racist, and feminist approaches to geography with a left-wing focus...
, and "Public Culture." Katz was co-general editor of WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly
WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly
WSQ is a peer-reviewed academic journal of women's studies that was established in 1972. It is published by biannually The Feminist Press at the CUNY Graduate Center...
with Nancy K. Miller
Nancy K. Miller
Nancy K. Miller is an American literary scholar and memoirist.Currently a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, Miller is the author of several books on feminist criticism, women’s writing, and most recently, family memoir, biography, and...
, Distinguished Professor of English, from 2004 to 2008. Katz and Miller were awarded the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) 2007 Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement. This award is given to the most improved journal that has launched an overall effort of revitalization or transformation within the previous three years.
Katz is the editor (with Janice Monk) of Full Circles: Geographies of Gender over the Life Course (Routledge 1993) and of Life's Work: Geographies of Social Reproduction (with Sallie A. Marston and Katharyne Mitchell) (Blackwell 2004). Her 2004 book, Growing up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children's Everyday Lives (University of Minnesota Press), received the 2004 Meridian Book Award for the Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography from the Association of American Geographers. In 2003-04 Katz was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, where she began her current project on U.S. childhood as spectacle.
Cindi Katz Website: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Psychology/environmental/ckatz/ckatz_index.html