Katharyne Mitchell

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Katharyne Mitchell is an American geographer who is currently a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and previously the Dean of the Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. [1]

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Background

Mitchell grew up in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. in Art and Archaeology. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley under the direction of Allan Pred. Mitchell was previously Professor of Geography at the University of Washington, and held the inaugural position as Simpson Professor of the Public Humanities from 2004 to 2007. [2] She was a visiting professor at St. Catherine's College and Hertford College at the University of Oxford in 2000–2001.

Scholarship

The recipient of Guggenheim Foundation [3] and Brocher Foundation [4] fellowships, as well as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award and Max Planck Institute senior fellowship, [5] Mitchell's research spans several categories including migration, citizenship, transnationalism, urban political geography, philanthropy, and education. Her current research examines the spaces of migration, faith, and sanctuary in the context of the current refugee situation in Europe. [6]

Mitchell's 2004 book, Crossing the Neoliberal Line: Pacific Rim Migration and the Metropolis, is regarded as “an important contribution to urban and transnational studies.” [7] Her 2008 edited volume, Practising Public Scholarship: Experiences and Possibilities Beyond the Academy, brings together work from scholars such as Terry Eagleton, Howard Zinn, Doreen Massey, and Michael Burawoy, [8] and has been called “one of the best books on what it really means to be a public intellectual.” [9]

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Selected recent publications

References

  1. "Social Sciences Dean Katharyne Mitchell steps in to leadership, asks others to step up, too".
  2. "Public Scholarship Archive – Simpson Center for the Humanities". simpsoncenter.org. Archived from the original on 2017-08-01. Retrieved 2017-10-27.
  3. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Katharyne Mitchell".
  4. "Fondation Brocher – Katharyne Mitchell". www.brocher.ch.
  5. Smith, Elisa. "Social Sciences dean wins prestigious research award, visiting fellowship in Germany". UC Santa Cruz News. Retrieved 2023-04-16.
  6. "European migrant crisis influenced by faith groups pursuing 'alternative justice'".
  7. "Katharyne Mitchell: Crossing the Neoliberal Line – Print". www.temple.edu.
  8. "Book Review: For Contributors to This Collection, "Public" Is the Defining Identity – JCES". jces.ua.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-04-07. Retrieved 2017-10-27.
  9. "Practising Public Scholarship: Experiences and Possibilities Beyond the Academy". Wiley.com. 27 October 2008.
  10. "Katharyne Mitchell: Crossing the Neoliberal Line". www.temple.edu.
  11. Waters, Johanna L. (1 March 2006). "Crossing the Neoliberal Line: Pacific Rim Migration and the Metropolis". Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 96 (1): 212–214. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.2006.00510_6.x. S2CID   128608391.
  12. Mitchell, Katharyne; Kallio, Kirsi Pauliina (2 January 2017). "Spaces of the Geosocial: Exploring Transnational Topologies". Geopolitics. 22 (1): 1–14. doi: 10.1080/14650045.2016.1226809 .[ permanent dead link ]
  13. Mitchell, Katharyne (October 1997). "Different Diasporas and the Hype of Hybridity". Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 15 (5): 533–553. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.496.4652 . doi:10.1068/d150533. S2CID   144917376.
  14. Mitchell, Katharyne (October 1993). "Multiculturalism, or the united colors of capitalism?". Antipode. 25 (4): 263–294. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.1993.tb00220.x.
  15. Mitchell, Katharyne (26 December 2017). "Educating the National Citizen in Neoliberal Times: From the Multicultural Self to the Strategic Cosmopolitan". Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 28 (4): 387–403. doi:10.1111/j.0020-2754.2003.00100.x. JSTOR   3804388.
  16. Mitchell, Katharyne; Elwood, Sarah (July 2012). "Engaging Students through Mapping Local History". The Journal of Geography. 111 (4): 148–157. doi:10.1080/00221341.2011.624189. PMC   4306806 . PMID   25635145.