Curriculum Vitae
E. JEFFREY POPKE
Department of Geography
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858
(252) 328-6087
popkee@ecu.edu
Education
Ph.D. 1999, University of Kentucky, Geography
Dissertation: “Deconstructing Apartheid Space: Negotiating Alterity and History in Durban’s Cato Manor” Faculty Advisor: John Pickles
M.A. 1993, University of Kentucky Major Field: Geography
Thesis: "Recasting Geopolitics: The Discursive Scripting of the International Monetary Fund"
Faculty Advisor: Susan Roberts
Certificate in Social Theory, 1995 University of Kentucky
B.A. 1989, Dartmouth College Major Field: Geography
Other Education
Institute of World Affairs, Salisbury, CT
Seminar "The International Financial System: How Well is it Working? July 18-31, 1993.
Teaching and Research Positions
2004- Associate Professor, Department of Geography, East Carolina University
1998-2004 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, East Carolina University
1997 Research Assistant, “Social Impact Assessment of Pipeline Effluent in
Durban’s South Coast Region” (with Dr. Dianne Scott)
1996 Leave Replacement Lecturer, Department of Geographical and Environmental
Sciences, University of Natal Durban, South Africa
1996 Visiting Instructor, Department of Geography, University of Natal,
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
1994 Research Assistant, West Virginia Regional Research Institute,
Morgantown, WV
1992-1997 TA Instructor, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky,
Lexington, Kentucky
Honors and Fellowships
2006 Distinguished Teacher Achievement Award
National Council for Geographic Education
2002 Selected Participant, “Collaborative Workshop on ‘Space, Race and Urban
Development’”, Johannesburg, South Africa
International Research and Scholarly Exchange Committee,
Association of American Geographers
2002 College Research Award, College of Arts and Sciences, ECU
1997 J. William Fulbright Dissertation Award, South Africa
1996 University of Kentucky Dissertation Year Fellowship
1995 Association of American Geographers Africa Specialty Group Outstanding
Student Paper Award: "Sites of Power, Spaces of Identity: Conceptual
Frameworks for a History of the Present in South Africa"
1993 William A. Withington Award in Human/Cultural Geography for paper,
"Sources of Geopolitical Power: Critical Geopolitics and the IMF"
Department of Geography, University of Kentucky
1991-1992 University Fellowship, University of Kentucky
Publications
a. Journal Articles
Jones, K. and Popke, J. In Press. Re-Envisioning the City: Lefebvre, HOPE VI, and the Neoliberalization of Urban Space. Urban Geography.
Popke, J. 2009. Geography and Ethics: Nonrepresentational Encounters, Collective Responsibility and Economic Difference. Progress in Human Geography 33(1): 81-90.
Popke, J. 2007. Geography and Ethics: Spaces of Cosmopolitan Responsibility. Progress in
Human Geography 31(4): 509-518.
Mitchelson, M., Alderman, D. and Popke, J. 2007. Branded: The Economic Geographies of
Streets Named in Honor of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Social Science Quarterly,
88(1): 120-145
Popke, J. 2006. Geography and Ethics: Everyday Mediations through Care and Consumption. Progress in Human Geography, 30(4): 504-512.
Popke, E. J. 2004. The Face of the Other: Zapatismo, Responsibility and the Ethics of Deconstruction. Social and Cultural Geography, 5(2): 301-317.
Popke, E. J. and Ballard, R. 2004. Dislocating Modernity: Identity, Space and Representations of Street Trade in Durban. Geoforum, 35: 99-110.
Popke, E. J. 2003. Managing Colonial Alterity: Narratives of Race, Space and Labor in Durban, 1870-1920. Journal of Historical Geography, 29(2): 248-267.
Popke, E. J. 2003. Poststructuralist Ethics: Subjectivity, Responsibility and the Space of Community. Progress in Human Geography, 27(3): 298-316.
Alderman, D. and Popke, E. J. 2002. Humor and Film in the Geography Classroom:
Learning from Michael Moore’s TV Nation. Journal of Geography, 101(6): 228-239.
Popke, E. J. 2001. The African Mirror: Geography, Identity and the Epistemology of Modernity. African Geographical Review 21: 5-27.
Popke, E. J. 2001. Modernity’s Abject Space: The Rise and Fall of Durban’s Cato Manor. Environment and Planning A, 33(4):737-752.
Popke, E. J. 2000. Violence and Memory in the Reconstruction of South Africa’s Cato Manor. Growth and Change, 31(2):235-254.
Popke, E. J. 1994. Recasting Geopolitics: The Discursive Scripting of the International Monetary Fund. Political Geography, 13(3):255-269.
b. Book Chapters
Popke, J. In Press. The Spaces of Being In-Common: Ethics and Social Geography. In The
Handbook of Social Geography, S. Smith, R. Pain, S. Marston and J. P. Jones III (eds). London: Sage.
Torres, R., Popke, E. J. and Hapke, H. 2006. The South’s Silent Bargain: Rural Restructuring, Latino Labor and the Ambiguities of Migrant Experience. In H. Smith and O. Furuseth (eds), The New South: Latinos and the Transformation of Place. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, pp. 37-67.
c. Anthologies
Popke, E. J. 2004. The ‘Politics of the Mirror’: On Geography and Afro-Pessimism (Originally published in African Geographical Review, 2001). In Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial African Issues, 1st Ed. William Moseley, Ed. Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, pp. 9-16.
d. Encyclopedia Entries
Popke, J. 2006. “Modernity”. In Encyclopedia of Human Geography, B. Warf (ed), pp. 307-308.
e. Book Reviews
2004. Review of A. Merrifield, Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City (Routledge, 2002) for Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 22(3):469-470.
2000. Review of G. Ó Tuathail, Critical Geopolitics: The Politics of Writing Global Space, (Routledge, 1996) for Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 90(3):649-651.
1997. Review of J. Painter, Politics, Geography and 'Political Geography' (Arnold, 1995) for Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 87(2):396-397.
f. Non-Refereed Publications
Torres, R., Popke, J., Hapke, H, Suarez, M., Serrano, H., Chambers, B. and Castaño, P. 2003.
Transnational Communities in Eastern North Carolina: Results from a Survey of Latino Families in Greene County. The North Carolina Geographer, 11: 88-107.
Popke, E. J. 1997. Postcolonialism, the Question of Identity, and the South African Transition. History and African Studies Seminar Series, No. 21 of 1997. University of Natal, Durban.
"Space, Power and the Academy: An Interview with Doreen Massey" (with Brenda Weber Ijams and Kakie Urch). disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory Issue #4, Winter 1994-1995.
Popke, E. J., Hanna, S. and Pickles, J. 1994. Chemical Production in the Kanawha Valley. West Virginia University Regional Research Institute, Research Paper #9419. Morgantown, WV: Regional Research Institute.
"An Interview with Samuel Bowles" (with Todd Lewis and Caedmon Staddon). disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory, Issue #3, Autumn, 1993. pp. 105-117.
Grant Activity
2008 ECU Division of Research and Graduate Studies, “Employers and Hispanic/Latino
Workers in Eastern North Carolina.” Research Development Seed Grant,
$39,888 P.I. (with Rebecca Powers, Department of Sociology)
2005 ECU Division of Research & Graduate Studies (2005 - 2006) “Rural Transformation & Latino Transnational Migration & Settlement in the U.S. South.” Research Development Seed Grant. $19,317 (Co-P.I.)
2005 Research/Creative Activity Grant, East Carolina University, $17,620
“Transnational Migration from the Tierra Caliente region of Mexico”
2002 Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, $65,000
“Los Puentes: Dual Language Immersion and Multicultural Education and Research Program” (Co-P.I.)
National Science Foundation, $228,007 (Rejected)
“Dynamics of Latino Transnational Space in the Rural South” (Co-P.I.)
Golden LEAF Foundation, $809,273 (Rejected)
“Project GREENE: Grassroots Rural Economic & Educational Network for Empowerment” (P.I.: Holly Hapke and Mark L’Esperance)
Project Participant
2001 Golden Leaf Foundation, $60,000
(P.I.: Holly Hapke and Rebecca Torres)
Project Participant
2000 Oceans Connect Travel Grant, Duke University, $3,360
1999-2000 Ford Foundation – “Crossing Boundaries” (Duke University, $350,000)
(P.I.: Martin Lewis, Duke University)
Local P.I., East Carolina University, Institutional Partnership
1996 Association of American Geographers Dissertation Improvement Grant
1995 University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences Enrichment Grant
For lecture series: "Mexico at a crossroads" (with Oliver Froehling and Susan Roberts)
1992 Academic Improvement Grant, University of Kentucky
To attend Institute of World Affairs Seminar
Research Presentations
2009 “Re-Envisioning Social Space: Lefebvre, HOPE VI, and the Right to the City.”
Association of American Geographers, 104th Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, March.
Powers, R., Popke, J., & Torres, R. Reports from The Boss about Hispanic/Latino Workers in Eastern North Carolina. Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2008 “Neoliberalization, Transnational Migration and New Subjectivities in Rural Mexico”. Association of American Geographers, 103rd Annual Meeting, Boston, April.
“Latin America’s Turn to the Left” Presentation for the ECU Great Decisions Lecture Series, Foreign Policy Association
2007 “The Antinomies of Neoliberal Transnationalism: Latino Migration and the Case For a Rural Cosmopolitanism” Association of American Geographers, 103rd Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March.
2006 “Negotiating Globalization: Lessons from San Salvador Atenco” Southeastern Council of Latin America Studies, 53rd Annual Meeting, Charlotte, April.
Geographies of Relational Thinking, panel presentation, Association of American Geographers, 102nd Annual Meeting, Chicago, March.
2005 “Constructing the Multitude” Association of American Geographers, 101st Annual Meeting, Denver, April.
“Latino Transnationalism and the Negotiation of Citizenship in the Rural South”
(with Rebecca Torres) Association of American Geographers, 101st Annual Meeting, Denver, April.
“Globalization and its Critics: Lessons from the Mexico City Airport Saga”
Invited Colloquium Presentation, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, March.
“Labor, Espacio y Comunidad en la Lucha Contra el Aeropuerto en D.F.”
Fourth International Critical Geography Conference, Mexico City, January
2004 “(Re)working Resistance: Labor, Space and Community in the Mexico City Airport Saga” Association of American Geographers, 100th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.
Panel Discussion - ‘The Role of Geographic Methods, Approaches and Perspectives in Addressing African Development Challenges’, Association of American Geographers, 100th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, March.
“Dynamics of Latino Transnational Migration to the U.S. South” (with Holly Hapke and Rebecca Torres), Association of American Geographers, 100th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, March.
“The African Mirror: Area Studies, Geography and the Epistemology of Modernity”
Invited Colloquium Presentation in the Series “African Geography: Theory and/or Area Studies” Department of Geography, Miami University, February.
2003 “(Re)working the Commodity Fetish: Space, Time and the Communal Subjectivity
of Labor” Rethinking Marxism Conference, Amherst, MA, November.
“Negotiating Modernity: Strangers, Traders and Spaces of Hospitality in Durban”
Invited Colloquium Presentation, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, October.
2002 “Transforming the Urban Space Economy: The Politics of Informal Trade in Durban”
African Studies Association, 45th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., December.
“Negotiating Modernity: Urban Space and Identity in Durban”
Association of American Geographers, 98th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 2002.
2001 “Deconstructing Capitalism: Value, Labor and the Space of Transformation” Association of American Geographers, 97th Annual Meeting, New York, NY, March.
2000 “Spatial Alterity and the Ethics of Deconstruction”
Association of American Geographers, 96th Annual Meeting,
Pittsburgh, PA, March
Panel Discussion - Ethics, Values and Justice Specialty Group Plenary Session, Association of American Geographers, 96th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March.
Panel Discussion – ‘Finding Democracy in a New South Africa,’ Association of American Geographers, 96th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March.
1999 “South Africa’s Haunted Transition: Democracy and Space in Durban’s Cato Manor,” African Studies Colloquium Series, East Carolina University, December.
“Founding Colonial Subjectivity: Indian Indentured Labor and the Geopolitical Imaginary” Colloquium Presentation, Duke University, April.
“The Space of Deconstruction and the Politics of Change”
Conference, “Retheorizing Space and Time and the End of the Millennium,” Athens, GA, April.
“Apartheid’s Ghosts: Deconstruction, Difference, and the Event of Transition,”
Association of American Geographers, 95th Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, March.
“Apartheid Space and the Politics of Memory in South Africa”
Colloquium Presentation, International Studies Association,
East Carolina University, February.
“On the Importance of Ghosts in International Studies”
Keynote Address, Phi Beta Delta Induction Ceremony,
Gamma Rho Chapter, East Carolina University, January.
1998 “Postcolonial Space: Negotiating Alterity and History in Durban’s Cato Manor” Association of American Geographers, 94th Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts March, 1998
“The Specter that Haunts: Marx and Derrida in Eastern Europe, South Africa and Mexico” (with John Pickles) Association of American Geographers, 94th Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts March, 1998
1997 “Post-Colonial Geographies: Negotiating Space and History in Cato Manor”
Colloquium Presentation, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa,
October 20, 1997.
1996 "Spatial Difference and Poststructuralist Marxism" Conference entitled "Languages of Contemporary Marxism" Amherst, Massuchusetts, December 6, 1996.
"Specters of Apartheid: Space, Identity and Reconstruction in Post-Apartheid South
Africa" Colloquium Presentation, Department of Geographical and Environmental
Sciences, University of Natal, Durban So uth Africa, July, 1996.
"Discursive Turns and Reason in Contemporary Development Theory" (with Oliver Froehling and John Pickles) Association of American Geographers, 92nd
Annual Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina May, 1996.
1995 "Marxism and (Post)modernity: New Spaces of Liberty" (with Oliver Froehling). 2nd Annual Miniconference on Critical Geography, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 14, 1995.
"(De)Constructing Urban Space: Capital Restructuring and the Construction of
Meaning in Downtown Lexington" Association of American Geographers, 91st
Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 17, 1995.
1994 "Post-Marxist Geographies? Identity, Discourse and Space" 1st Annual
Miniconference on Critical Geography, Cincinnati, Ohio, November 12, 1994.
"Writing, Representation and Space" Conference entitled 'Textual Regions/Regions of the Text' Department of English, University of Kentucky, October 22, 1994, Lexington, KY.
"Selling Capital: Economic Development and Community identity in Lexington, KY" (with Deborah Dixon). Association of American Geographers, 90th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April 2, 1994.
"Community Politics, Economic Development and Risk in the Kanawha Valley" (with Stephen Hanna). Association of American Geographers, 90th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 31, 1994.
1993 "The Discursive Scripting of the International Monetary Fund," Association of
American Geographers, 89th Annual Meeting, April 7, 1993, Atlanta, Georgia.
"Power, Discourse, and the International Monetary Fund," 4th Annual Geography
Graduate Student Conference, February 27, 1993, Lexington, Kentucky.
1992 "The World in Focus: The Potential Uses for Photography in Geographic Research," Southeast Division of the Association of American Geographers 47th Meeting, November 23, 1992, Louisville, Kentucky.
Editorial Service
Co-Editor, The North Carolina Geographer, 2000-2003
Editorial Board Member, The African Geographical Review, 2001-2003
Associate Editor, The North Carolina Geographer, 1999-2000.
Head Editor and Production Editor, disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory, Issue #4, 1993-1994
Production Editor, disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory, Issue #3, 1992-1993
Manuscript Reviews:
African Geographical Review (2)
Annals of the Association of American Geographers (2)
Antipode (2)
Gender, Place and Culture
Geoforum (4)
Geography Compass
Journal of Social and Cultural Geography
Journal of Urban Affairs
Political Geography
Progress in Human Geography
Radical Philosophy Review
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Southeastern Geographer (2)
Urban Geography
Urban Affairs Review
Urban Studies
Textbook Reviews:
Jones and Gomez, Research Methods in Geography: A First Course
Marston, Knox and Liverman, World Regions in a Global Context, Prentice Hall.
Aryeetey-Atoh (ed), Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa, Prentice Hall.
Professional Service
a. Organizations and Committees
Member, Honors Committee, Southeastern Division,
Association of American Geographers, 2009-2010.
Chair, Ethics, Justice and Human Rights Specialty Group,
Association of American Geographers, 2003-2006
Secretary/Treasurer, Ethics, Values and Justice Specialty Group,
Association of American Geographers, 2000-2009
Web Site Manager, Ethics, Values and Justice Specialty Group,
Association of American Geographers, 2004-2007
Member, Tellers Committee, Southeastern Division,
Association of American Geographers, 2003-2004
Member, Steering Committee, North Carolina Geographical Society, 1999-2003
b. Conferences
Panelist, ‘Latinos in the American South: New Southerners in a New South?’
Panelist, ‘Navigating the Murky Waters of the Tenure and Promotion Process’, Southeast Division of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Charleston, SC, November, 2007.
Paper Discussant, Southeast Division of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Charleston, SC, November, 2007.
Session Discussant, ‘Care-Full Geographies’, Association of American Geographers, 103st Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March, 2007.
Session Discussant, ‘Ethics and Organizations’, Association of American Geographers, 101st Annual Meeting, Denver, March, 2005.
Session Moderator, ‘Learning to Publish: The Rules, Risks and Rewards’, Southeast Division of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Biloxi, MS, November, 2004.
Co-organizer (with Derek Alderman) of a special plenary session on ‘Ethics, Justice and Culture’ at the Association of American Geographers 100th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, March, 2004.
Paper Discussant, Southeast Division of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC, November, 2003.
Member, Coordinating Committee, “Curing the Future: Issues & Strategies in Remaking Tobacco-Dependent Communities in North Carolina”. Conference held in Greenville, NC, February 28-March 1, 2002.
Organizer of two sessions on “Rethinking Africa” Sponsored by the Africa Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, 98th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 2002.
Session Moderator, ‘Alternative Crops, Emerging Technologies & Farm
Income Diversification’, Curing the Future Conference, February 28, 2002.
Paper Discussant, Southeast Division of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Richmond, VA, November, 2002.
Panel Moderator, ‘Human Geography in the 21st Century’. Southeast Division of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Noveber 2000.
Paper Discussant, Southeast Division of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL, November, 1999.
Paper Discussant, “New Urbanism,” paper session, Southeast Division of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Memphis TN, November, 1998
Co-Organizer of three sessions on "Restructuring the Urban Landscape" Sponsored by the Urban Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, 91st Annual Meeting, Chicago, 1995.
Chair of session "Struggles Over Place: Community Politics and Urban Spatial Change" Association of American Geographers, 91st Annual Meeting, Chicago, 1995.
Co-Organizer, 4th Annual Geography Graduate Student Conference, Lexington, Kentucky.
University Service
a. East Carolina University
Member, East Carolina University African Studies Committee, 1998-
Member, East Carolina University Honors Program Committee, 1999-2001
Member, Research/Creative Activity Grant Committee, 2004-5
Member, Scholarship Committee, EC Scholars Program, 2004
Judge, Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Symposium, 2004
Member, Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship Committee, 2004
b. College of Arts and Sciences
Chair, Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, 2005-2008
Member, East Carolina College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, 2000-2008
Member, College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program Liaison Committee, 1999-
c. Department of Geography
Director of Graduate Studies, 2005-2008
Chair, Department of Geography Curriculum Committee, 2001-5
Member, Department of Geography Curriculum Committee, 1999-2007
Organizer, Department of Geography Colloquium Series, 2000-2006
Member, Department of Geography Undergraduate Committee, 2001-2002
Member, Department of Geography Social Committee, 1998-2001
Faculty Advisor, GeoClub 2000-2002
Faculty Advisor, Gamma Theta Upsilon, Geography Honor Society 1999-2002
Member, Department of Geography Search Committee, 2000
Member, Department of Geography Ad-Hoc Self-Study Committee, 1998-2000
d. University of Kentucky
Co-Organizer, speaker series "Crisis in Mexico"
President, UK Geography Graduate Student Union
Graduate Student Representative, Department of Geography Undergraduate Committee
Graduate Student Representative, Department of Geography Colloquium Committee
Founding Member, UK Geography Graduate Student Union
Thesis Advising
Conor Harrison, current
Travas Hunter, current, “Non-Traditional Exports and Migration streams from Guatemala to NC”
Ben Deck, current, “Social Capital and Latino Migration: A Comparative Analysis”
Jesse Messina, 2009, “A Word Frequency Analysis of HIV/AIDS Policies in Africa”
Shamaury Myrick, 2006, “Advocacy Planning and Greenville’s West End Redevelopment Plan”
Matt Mitchelson, 2005. “The Economic Landscapes of MLK Streets”
Robert Best, 2005. “Community of Interest: Demographic or Geographic? An Analysis of Discourse in Two Southern Congressional Districts”
Rebecca Bertrand, 2000. “A Geography of Environmental Impact Statements”
Thesis Committees
a. East Carolina University
Matt Watterson, current
Micheal Cockerham, 2009
Ryan Covington, 2009
Andrew Bennett, 2009
Katie Baucom, 2009
Biance Gentile, 2008
Arnold Modlin, 2008
Melissa Wicks, 2008
Anna Eskridge, 2007
Caleb Parker, 2007
Laura Heavner, 2006
Chris McPhillamy, 2004
Glenn Gentry, 2004
Velvet Nelson, 2003
Neil McFadyen, 2002
Elin Langholm, 2002
Bill Edwards, 1999
b. University of Natal
Rodney Jones, 1998
Courses Taught
a. Graduate Seminars
History and Philosophy of Geography, ECU
Global Issues (MAIS Program), ECU
Seminar in Rural Development, ECU
Seminar in Economic Geography, ECU
Honors Political Geography, University of Natal
b. Advanced Undergraduate
Latin America, ECU
The Geography of Africa, ECU
Political Geography, ECU
Urban Geography, ECU
Research Methods, University of Natal
Quantitative Techniques in Geography, University of Kentucky
c. Introductory Undergraduate
World Geography – Developed Regions, ECU
World Geography – Less Developed Regions, ECU
Human Geography, University of Natal
Lands and Peoples of the Non-Western World, University of Kentucky
World Regional Geography, University of Kentucky
Memberships
Association of American Geographers
Institute of British Geographers
South East Division, Association of American Geographers
North Carolina Geographical Society
Latin America Specialty Group, AAG
Socialist Geography Specialty Group, AAG
Ethics, Justice and Human Rights Specialty Group, AAG