CURRICULUM VITAE
MARGARET MARIETTA RAMIREZ
Department of Geography // Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 CANADA
EDUCATION
2017. University of Washington, Seattle. Ph.D. in Geography.
2011. University of Washington, Seattle. M.A. in Geography.
2006. University of California, Berkeley. B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies, Concentration: Political Economy of Latin America.
EMPLOYMENT
2019 – Present. Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University.
2018 – 2019. Creative Cities Fellow, Stanford Arts Institute, Stanford University.
2018. Lecturer, Department of Urban Studies, San Francisco State University.
AWARDS & HONORS
2018. Early Career Scholar Award. Race, Ethnicity & Place Conference, Austin, Texas
2017. Gerlach Dissertation Award. Department of Geography, University of Washington
2015 – 2016. Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow. National Academy of Sciences
2015. Institute for the Geographies of Justice Fellow. Antipode Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa
2013. Howard Martin Dissertation Research Grant. Department of Geography, University of Washington
2011. Distinguished Teaching Award. Department of Geography, University of Washington
2009. Bergen Summer Research School Fellow. University of Bergen, Norway – Theme: ‘Climate, Environment & Energy’
2008 – 2009. GO-MAP Diversity Fellow. University of Washington Graduate Opportunity & Minority Achievement Program
PUBLICATIONS
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Ramírez, M.M. (2019) City as Borderland: Gentrification & the Policing of Black & Latinx geographies in Oakland. Environment & Planning D, online first: https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775819843924.
Ramírez, M.M. (2019) ‘Propertied liberalism in a borderland city’, in Porter, L., Sanyal, R., Bergby, S., Yotebieng, K., Lebuhn, H., Ramírez, M.M., Figueirdo Neto, P., and Tulumello, S. Borders and Refuge: Citizenship, Mobility and Planning in a Volatile World. Journal of Planning Theory & Practice, 20 (1), 99-128. DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2018.1558566
Daigle, M. and Ramírez, M.M. (2019) Decolonial Geographies. Keywords in Radical Geography: Antipode at 50, 78-84. DOI: 10.1111/anti.12455
Ramírez, M. M. (2018) ‘Reckoning with decolonial praxis’, in Naylor, L., Daigle, M., Zaragocín, S., Ramírez, M. M., and Gilmartin, M. Intervention: Bringing the decolonial to political geography. Political Geography, 66, 199-209.
Ramirez, M. M. (2015) The elusive inclusive: black food geographies and racialized food spaces. Antipode, 47 (3), 748-769.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Ramírez, M.M. (Forthcoming, 2020) Imagining Bay Area Futures. Epilogue to the edited volume, Counterpoints: Visualizing Bay Area Displacement and Resistance. Under contract with PM Press.
Kilner, S. and Ramírez, M.M. (Forthcoming, 2020) Indigenous Geographies of Resistance. Chapter Introduction to an edited volume: Counterpoints: Visualizing Bay Area Displacement and Resistance. Under contract with PM Press.
MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS
Daigle, M. and Ramírez, M.M. Relationality as Constellation. Book chapter in preparation for a collection edited by Victoria Lawson and Sarah Elwood, Abolishing Poverty: Towards Pluriverse Futures and Politics, proposed to University of Georgia Press, under review.
Best, A. and Ramírez, M.M. Urban Specters. Invited contribution for a Special Issue “Dwelling in Liminalities: Propositions from the urban margins”, Edited by Michele Lancione and AbdouMaliq Simone, presented to Environment and Planning D, under review.
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
Daigle, M. and Ramírez, M.M. (2019, January) Relationality as Constellation: A conversation on decolonization and liberation. Relational Poverty Network’s Podcast series.
Hashimoto, Y., Ramírez, M.M., Valencia, Y., & Wideman, T. (2016, March) Collaborative Blog Post: The RPN at Urban Color-Lines: thinking through inequality, democracy and a politics of hope.
Ramírez, M.M. (2015, August) Interview with Soong, C.S. Race, Privilege and Food Justice. Against the Grain, KPFA.
Ramirez, M.M. (Interviewer of Karma Chavez) (2014, April) Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities. Fembot Collective: Books Aren’t Dead Series [Audio Interview].
RECENT/UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS
2020//May. Invited respondent for Sarah Hunt’s Dialogues in Human Geography plenary. Annual meetings of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Victoria, British Columbia.
2020//April. Invited participant in an Author Meets Critics panel session for Tiffany Lethabo King’s book, The Black Shoals. Annual meetings of the American Association of Geographers, Denver, Colorado.
2020//April. Invited participant in an Author Meets Critics panel session for Brandi Summers’ book, Black in Place. Annual meetings of the American Association of Geographers, Denver, Colorado.
2020//April. Co-organizer (with Madelaine Cahuas, Michelle Daigle and Yolanda Valencia) and participant of a panel session, titled: ‘Getting Free: Bridging Black, Indigenous and Latinx Geographies’. Annual meetings of the American Association of Geographers, Denver, Colorado.
2019//November. Co-organizer (with Savannah Kilner, Katie Keliiaa, and Stephanie Lumsden) of a panel session, titled: ‘Indigenous Geographies of Resistance in the San Francisco Bay Area’. National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, California.
2019//November. Co-organizer (with Pavithra Vasudevan, Willie Jamaal Wright and Michelle Daigle) of a paper session, titled: ‘Earth/Body/Futures: Reframing Colonial and Racial Capitalist Geographies through Relational Genealogies’. American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii.
2019//May. Invited speaker for a symposium, entitled: 'Racial Capitalism and Imagining Worlds Otherwise'. Department of Geography, Dartmouth University.
2019//April. Invited speaker for a panel: 'Long Live Our Mother: Indigeneity, Land History and Environmental Justice'. Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Stanford University.
2019//April. Co-organizer (with Michelle Daigle and Michael Fabris) of a panel session, titled: ‘Decolonizing the Urban’. Annual meetings of the American Association of Geographers, Washington, DC.
2019//April. Co-organizer (with Madelaine Cahuas and Yolanda Valencia) of a panel session, titled: ‘Doing Latinx Geographies in the Borderlands: Luchas, Corazón y Compromiso’. Annual meetings of the American Association of Geographers, Washington, DC.
2019//April. Participant in a paper session, titled: ‘Racial Regimes of Property’, organized by Malini Ranganathan and Anne Bonds. Paper titled: ‘Urban specters: Black women’s geographies and the afterlives of property’. Co-presented with Asha Best. Annual meetings of the American Association of Geographers, Washington D.C.
2019//February. Invited Colloquium Speaker in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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