Kate Driscoll Derickson, PhD

Associate Professor 

Department of Geography, Environment, and Society

University of Minnesota

Contact Information

435 Social Science                                                                                      (717) 979-4566

265 19th Ave S                                                                                        kdericks@umn.edu

Minneapolis, MN 55455

Research Interests

Race and racialization, urban political economy and governance, feminist epistemology, Anthropocene politics, environmental justice, urban environmental politics, social and political theory

Education

Dual Ph.D. 2011. The Pennsylvania State University, Departments of Geography and Women’s Studies 

M.A. 2005. Clark University, Department of International Development, Community, and the Environment

B.A. 1999. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Social Thought and Political Economy (STPEC) and Journalism. 

Academic Appointments

2017 – present            Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Environment, and Society, University of Minnesota

2017 – present            Associate, Institute on the Environment

2015 – 2017                McKnight Land-Grant Professor, University of Minnesota

2013 – 2017                Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Environment, and Society, University of Minnesota

2013 - present            Affiliate Faculty, Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies

                                    Affiliate Faculty, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Social Change

2011 – 2013                Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, Georgia State University

2010 – 2011                Urban Studies Research Fellow in Urban Political Economy, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow

Publications (* indicates graduate student co-author)

Wright, Robin*, Eric Goldfischer*, Aaron Mallory* and Kate Derickson (forthcoming) “The spatial technologies of racialized knowing: on visuality, measurement and the law” in Geographies of Power Mat Coleman and John Agnew, eds.

Cesafsky, Laura* and Kate Derickson (forthcoming) “Worlding cities and comparative urbanism” in Handbook of Urban Geography Tim Schwanen, ed.

Routledge, Paul, Andrew Cumbers and Kate Derickson (forthcoming) “States of just transition: realizing climate justice in and through the state” Geoforum.

Derickson, Kate Driscoll. 2017. “Masters of the Universe” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space Online first.

Derickson, Kate Dricoll. 2017. “Anthropocene Urbanism” Progress in Human Geography 79 1 – 4.

Werner, Marion, Kendra Strauss, Brenda Parker, Reecia Orzeck, Kate Derickson and Anne Bonds. 2016. Feminist political economy in geography: why now, what is different, and what for?. Geoforum online first.

Derickson, Kate Driscoll. 2016. “Taking account of the ‘part of those that have no part’” Urban Studies. 54(1) 44 – 48.

Derickson, Kate Driscoll. 2016. “The racial state and resistance in Ferguson and beyond” Urban Studies. 53(11) 2223 – 2237.

Derickson, Kate Driscoll. 2016. “Resilience is not enough” CITY 20(1) 161 – 166.

Derickson, Kate Driscoll. 2016.  “The assassination of Clementa Pinckney” Southeastern Geographer. 56(1): 38 – 44.

Derickson, Kate Driscoll.  2016. “Urban Geography in the Age of Ferguson” Progress in Human Geography. 31(2) 230 – 244.

Derickson, Kate Driscoll.  2015. “On the politics of recognition in critical urban scholarship” Urban Geography. 37(6) 824 – 829. 

Hankins, Katherine, Andy Walter, and Kate Derickson. 2015 “’Committing to a place’: the place-based, faith-based legacies of the Civil Rights movement” Political Geography 48: 159 – 168.

Routledge, Paul and Kate Driscoll Derickson. 2015 “Situated solidarities and the practice of scholar-activism” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 33: 391 -407.

Derickson, Kate Driscoll and Danny MacKinnon. 2015. “Toward an interim politics of resourcefulness for the Anthropocene” in Annals of the Association of American Geographers 105(2) 304 – 312.

Derickson, Kate Driscoll, Gehan MacLeod, and Verene Nicolas.  2015. “Knowing about crisis” Space and Polity 19(1) 91 – 96.

Derickson, Kate Driscoll. 2015. “Locating Urban Theory in the Urban Age” Progress in Human Geography 39(5) 647 – 657.

Derickson, Kate Driscoll and Paul Routledge. 2015. “Resourcing scholar-activism: collaboration, transformation, and the production of knowledge” The Professional Geographer 67(1) 1 – 7.

Derickson, Kate Driscoll. 2014. “The racial politics of neoliberal regulation in post-Katrina Mississippi” The Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 104(4) 889-902.

MacKinnon, Daniel and Kate Driscoll Derickson. 2013. “From resilience to resourcefulness: a critique of resilience policy and activism” Progress in Human Geography 37(2) 251-268.

Hankins, Katherine, Robert Cochrane, and Kate Driscoll Derickson. 2012. “Making space, making race: Reconstituting white privilege in Buckhead, Atlanta” Social and Cultural Geography 13(12) 379-397.

McCarthy, James and Kate Driscoll Derickson. 2011. “Manufacturing consent for engineering earth: social dynamics in Boston’s Big Dig” pp. 697 - 715 in Engineering Earth: The impacts of megaengineering projects Stanley Brunn, ed. The Netherlands: Springer Science and Business Media.

Laliberte, Nicole, Kate Driscoll Derickson, and Lorraine Dowler. 2010.  “Advances in Feminist Thought: Geography’s Contribution to International Studies” in Political Geography: International Studies Compendium Colin Fint, ed. Malden: Blackwell.

Derickson, Kate Driscoll. 2009. “Toward a non-totalizing critique of capitalism” Geographical Bulletin 50(1) 3-15.

Derickson, Kate Driscoll. 2009. “Gendered, Material and Partial Knowledges: A feminist critique of neighborhood level indicator systems” Environment and Planning A 41(4) 896-910.

283 Collective (contributing author). 2008. “What’s Just?  Reflections on the Summer Institute of Geographies of Justice” Antipode 40(5).  736-750.

Derickson, Kate Driscoll and Robert J.S. Ross. 2007.  “Asia Comes to Main Street and May Learn to Speak Spanish: Globalization in a poor neighborhood in Worcester” Journal of World Systems Research 13(2). 179-199. 

Grants

2017. Principle Investigator (with Bonnie Keeler, Sarah Hobbie, Steve Polasky, Fred Rose and Susan Galatowitsch) “Water and Equity: Co-developing research and engaged approaches to transforming environments” $730,000. University of Minnesota Grand Challenges Research 

2015. Principle Investigator “Disya who WEBE: Decolonizing the Archive of the Gullah/Geechee Nation” University of Minnesota Grant-in-Aid $24,000

2014. Co-investigator “Resource sovereignty as a strategy toward securing social transformation, environmental sustainability, and human well-being” International Social Science Council Transformations to Sustainability Program.  €30,000 ($39,300).  Dr. Paul Routledge, PI.  Seed grant to establish knowledge network. 

2014. Co-investigator “The Global Midwest: Vulnerability and Resourcefulness” Humanities Without Walls Mellon Foundation seed grant.  $10,000.

2011. Key personnel for “REU Site: Addressing Social and Environmental Disparities through Community Geography and Geographic Information Systems” National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates, Dr. Timothy Hawthorne (PI), Dr. Katherine Hankins (Co-PI).

2011. Principle Investigator “Resilience from Below: Community collaboration and international comparative urbanism in Glasgow and Atlanta.” International Studies Initiative, Georgia State University. $9,500.  

2010. Co-Investigator with D. MacKinnon, D. Featherstone, K. Strauss, and A. Cumbers. Progressive Localism in the United Kingdom” College Research Fund, University of Glasgow. £15,000 

Awards and Fellowships

2015 – 2017 McKnight Land-Grant Professor, University of Minnesota $50,000 in research funds and salary supplement

Named “Environmental Hero” by ECO-Action, Atlanta, GA 2014.

Penn State Department of Geography Outstanding Graduate Student Award. 2008.  

E. Willard Miller Award in Geography, 1st Place (paper competition). 2008. 

Winner, Glenda Laws Paper Competition. AAG Geographic Perspectives on Women Specialty Group. 2008.

Fellowships

Urban Studies visiting fellowship. 2012.

Society of Women Geographers Graduate Student Fellowship. 2009.

Penn State Department of Geography Miller Graduate Student Fellowship. 2008.

E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Geography. 2006 - 2007

Anne C. Wilson Graduate Fellowship. 2006-2007.

Clark University Graduate Fellowship. 2004-2005.

Clark University Graduate Fellowship. 2005-2006.

Invited talks

2017. May 3. Dartmouth College Departmental Colloquium. “Speculations on land, governance the chronopolitics of racialization in Gullah/Geechee Nation.”

2015. October 10.  Panelist.  Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota.  Frontiers in the Environment: Big Questions.   “How can we ‘green’ our most vulnerable communities?” 

2015. April 23. Discussant, Urban Geography Plenary. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois.  “On the politics of recognition in critical urban theory” 

2015. March 19. University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and the Environment.  Invited colloquium. “Resilience is not enough.”

2014. October 23.  Clark University Departmental Colloquium. “Toward an interim politics of resourcefulness for the Anthropocene”

2014. April 25. University of Minnesota Department of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies.  Departmental colloquium. “Toward an interim politics of resourcefulness for the Anthropocene.”

2012. December 7. University of Minnesota.  Invited talk. “Politics in the city: neoliberalism, resilience, and resourcefulness.”

2012. November 30. University of Glasgow, UK, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences.  Departmental colloquium. “Resilience, resourcefulness, and the post-political city” 

2012.  November 7. University of Manchester, UK. Cities@Manchester invited colloquium. “Resilience, resourcefulness, and the post-political city” 

2012. October 12. University of Georgia Department of Geography.  Departmental colloquium. “Resilience, resourcefulness, and the post-political city” 

Conference presentations

2016. Panelist and organizer. “The method of political economy in feminist geography” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA.

2016. Panelist. “Author meets critics: Marion Werner’s Global Displacements” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA.

2016. Invited panelist. “Radical crosscurrents: environmental justice, urban political ecology, and traveling theory” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA.

2015. Organizer and chair. “Situated solidarities and the practice of scholar-activism” panel discussion.  Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois.

2015. Invited panelist on panel hosted by CITY “Resilience is not enough” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois.

2015.  Invited panelist. “Beyond Marxist Urban Political Ecology” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois.

2014. “Toward an interim politics of resourcefulness for the Anthropocene” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, Florida.

2014. “Toward an interim politics of resourcefulness for the Anthropocene” Dimensions of Political Ecology. Lexington, Kentucky.

2012. ‘Resilience, resourcefulness, and the post-political city’ presenter at annual meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, Edinburgh, Scotland.

2012. In, against, and beyond neoliberalism.  Conference organizer and panelist.  Glasgow, UK.

2012. “Politics and practice in Feminist Economic Geography” organizer and panelist. At annual meeting of Association of American Geographers, NYC, NY.

2012. Toward a community geography. Organizer and panelist at annual meeting of Association of American Geographers NYC, NY.

2011. “Community geography as radical geography” Organizer and panelist at Critical Geography Conference, Worcester, MA.

2011. The political economy of race.  Organizer and presenter at annual meeting of Association of American Geographers NYC, NY.

2010. “Making space for neoliberalism” at annual meeting of Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC.

2010. Organizer and Chair. “Right to the City: Washington DC” at annual meeting of Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC.

2009.  “Political economy at the nexus of place and the built environment” at Rethinking Marxism, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

2009. “Discerning the spatial logic of neoliberalism: an agenda for research” with James McCarthy at annual meeting of Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV.

2009. Organizer and chair. “Right to the City: Las Vegas” at annual meeting of Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV.

2009. Invited chair. “Politicizing State Spatial Theory” at annual meeting of Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA.

2008. “ ‘God made the elevations, not FEMA’: the role of environmental politics in creating discursive and physical space for neoliberal reconfiguration in Biloxi, MS” at annual meeting of Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA.

2008. Organizer and chair. “Right to the City: Boston” at annual meeting of Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA.

2008. Organizer and chair. “Radical Geography 40 years on” at annual meeting of Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA.

2007. “Discourses of (re)development: Imagining alternatives for Biloxi, MS post-Katrina” at annual meeting of Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA.

2007. Panelist, “Post-Katrina redevelopment” at meeting of Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA.

2005. “Gendered, Material and Partial Knowledges: How a feminist geographic perspective can improve neighborhood level indicators” at the New England Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Dartmouth, MA.

Academic Service

2017 -                          Editor, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

2015 – present            Editorial Board member Southeastern Geographer

2014 – present            International Corresponding Editor Urban Studies 

2014 – present            Inaugural Editor (with Danny Dorling and Jenny Pickerill), Radical Geography book series, Pluto Books

2014 – present            International Editorial Board member Antipode 

2012 – 2014                Elected to Urban Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers

2012                            Co-organizer, “In, Against, and Beyond Neoliberalism” conference, University of Glasgow.

2012                            Elected to Georgia State University Council of Cities Coordinating Committee

2011—2012                Co-organizer CSAW speaker series

2011.                           Co-Founder, Scottish Feminist Geography Network

2008.                           Participant, Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Manchester, UK.

2008.                           Representative, Women’s Studies Graduate Organization.

2007 -2008.                 Student representative, Department of Geography Graduate Program Committee.

2007 -2008.                 Graduate Student Representative, Faculty Senate Libraries Committee.

2007.                           Participant, Summer Institute in Geographies of Justice, Athens, GA.

2006 – 2010                Active Member, Supporting Women in Geography, Penn State branch.

Invited reviewer

(*indicates number of reviews in a single year where greater than 1)

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (2013, 2014, 2015), National Science Foundation Geography and Spatial Sciences Program (2013, 2015), Economic Geography (2013), Progress in Human Geography (2013), Antipode (2011**, 2012, 2013***), Global Environmental Change (2013), Annals of the Association of American Geographers (2012), Urban Studies (2010, 2011, 2012**, 2013, 2015*), Regional Studies (2012), Environment and Planning A (2010, 2012, 2013, 2014), Geographical Bulletin (2012), Capitalism Nature Socialism (2010), Urban Geography (2010), Geography Compass (2009, 2014), Economic Geography (2013), Space and Polity (2015), Regional Studies (2015)

Courses Taught:

University of Minnesota:

#Ferguson 

Social Justice and the City 

Nature and Society in the Anthropocene 

Our Globalizing World

The Event of the Anthropocene (Graduate seminar, co-taught with Bruce Braun)

Politics and Epistemology (Graduate seminar)

Georgia State:

Community Development for Social Change (Graduate course)

Poverty in American Cities

Introduction to Human Geography

Economic Geography

Other institutions:

Introduction to Geography (Salem State College)

Introduction to Cultural Geography (Penn State)

Mapping our Changing World (Penn State)

World Regional Geography (Endicott College)

Graduate Students

­­­­­­­­­­University of Minnesota:

Primary advisor to:

Aaron Mallory (PhD in progress)

Eric Goldfischer (PhD in progress)

Robin Wright (PhD in progress)

Emma DeVries (PhD in progress)

Geosciences MS students at Georgia State:

Traci Dahl (committee member) MA conferred Fall 2012

Cheryl Nye (committee member) MA conferred Fall 2012

Paul Foster (committee member) MA conferred Fall 2012