LISA BHUNGALIA EDUCATION

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1 LISA BHUNGALIA Department of Geography The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs 144 Eggers Hall Syracuse, New York EDUCATION 2013 Ph.D. Geography, (Expected Doctoral Advisor: Don Mitchell September) Working dissertation title: From the American People : Aid and Counterinsurgency in Palestine Research Interests: Political and cultural geography, state theory and statelessness, humanitarianism, counterinsurgency, sovereignty, North Africa and the Middle East Dissertation Committee: Osamah Khalil, Alison Mountz, Jennifer Hyndman, Dan Monk and Tom Perreault 2005 M.A. Humanities and Social Thought, New York University Advisor: Sofia Shwayri Thesis title: Urbicide in the West Bank: The Politics of Development and Demolition (1967- Present) 2000 B.A. English, Ohio State University PUBLICATIONS Peer-Reviewed Articles 2012 Im/Mobilities in a Hostile Territory : Managing the Red Line. Geopolitics 17(2): A Liminal Territory: Gaza, Executive Discretion and Sanctions Turned Humanitarian. GeoJournal 75(4): Online Publications 2012 From the American People : Sketches of the U.S. National Security State in Palestine. Jadaliyya,18 September. PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCES Forthcoming Forthcoming From the American People : Sketches of the US National Security State in Palestine, paper to be presented at the American University of Beirut CASAR Transnational American Studies Conference, Beirut, Lebanon, January From the American People : A Geography of Aid Intervention in Palestine, paper to be presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, November

2 Forthcoming Breaking the Popular, Securing the Local: Aid and Its Fragmentary States, paper to be presented at the School of Oriental and African Studies Palestine Society Conference, London, UK, October 2013 'The Lesser Evil? On the Question of Violence and Aid in the Colonial Present, paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April 2012 Between Military and Humanitarian: Geographies of U.S. Counterinsurgency, paper presented at the Middle East Studies Association, Denver, CO, November 2012 Aid as Civilian Counterinsurgency, paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, NY, February 2012 Panelist, Challenges of Qualitative Methods in Illiberal Contexts, panel discussion at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, NY, February 2011 Fragmentary States: Aid and the Contours of the Political in Contemporary Palestine, paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, QC, November 2011 Earning Sovereignty: USAID and the Security-Economy Nexus in Palestine, paper presented in the Department of Geography Seminar Series,, Syracuse, NY, November 2011 Someone Else s State: U.S. Foreign Assistance Ten Years After, paper presented at the Middle East and Beyond Symposium, Local Events, Global Contexts: Thinking about 9/11 Ten Years After, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, September 2011 Strategies for Living, Struggles over How to Live: Negotiating USAID and the Politics of Liberal Governance in Palestine, paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, April 2011 Panelist, Interrogating Humanitarian Practice, panel discussion at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, April 2011 Soft Power and Paint: Negotiating the U.S. State through Aid in Palestine, presentation for the Conversations in Conflict Studies Series at the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC) at the Maxwell School,, NY, March 2008 A Liminal Territory: Gaza, Executive Discretion and Sanctions Turned Humanitarian, paper presented at the Critical Geopolitics Conference, Durham, UK, September 2008 Quarantining of Gaza: Violence, Biopolitics and International Law, paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, April 2008 Panelist, Geographies of Detention and Confinement Panel: Challenges of Fieldwork, panel discussion at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, April 2008 Panelist, What s Activist? The Next Generation Talks Praxis, panel discussion at the 2008 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, April Co-organizer and panel co-chair, Beyond Walls and Cages: Linking Immigrant Rights and Prison Abolition Movements, panel discussion at the Left Forum, New York, NY, April 2007 Urbicide in the West Bank: Politics of Development and Demolition (1967 Present), paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April

3 GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2013 Maxwell Dean s Summer Research Award, Maxwell School of Graduate Research Assistantship, Department of Geography, 2012 Maxwell Dean s Summer Research Award, Maxwell School of Graduate Research Assistantship, Department of Geography, 2011 Maxwell Dean s Summer Research Award, Maxwell School of PARC Fellowship for Dissertation Research, Palestinian American Research Center through the Council of American Overseas Research Centers 2010 Pari S. Ahmadi Scholarship, Middlebury College, Arabic Language School 2010 Yabroudi Middle Eastern Studies Research Grant for Arabic, Maxwell School of 2010 John T. Palmer Fund, Dissertation Research Grant, Maxwell School of Syracuse University National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, National Science Foundation 2009 Perryman Fellowship for Arabic at the American University in Cairo, Arabic Language Institute 2008 Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs Goekjian Summer Research Grant, Maxwell School of 2008 Maxwell Dean's Summer Research Award for dissertation research, Maxwell School of 2007 Moynihan Middle Eastern Studies Summer Research Grant for preliminary dissertation research, Maxwell School of 2007 Maxwell Dean's Summer Research Award for preliminary dissertation research, Maxwell School of Graduate Research and Teaching Assistantship Award,, includes tuition and living stipend TEACHING AND RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS Instructorships Fall 2011 Spring 2011 Primary Instructor, Geography 300: Geography of the Middle East, Department of Geography, Primary Instructor, Geography 300: Geography of the Middle East, Department of Geography, Research and Teaching Assistantships Fall 2008 Teaching Assistant to Jennifer Hyndman, Geography 273: Global Political Economy, Department of Geography, Research Assistant to Don Mitchell, Department of Geography, Spring 2007 Research Assistant to Alison Mountz, Department of Geography,

4 Fall 2006 Teaching Assistant to Don Mitchell, Geography 272: World Cultures, Department of Geography, Non-University Teaching and Professional Experience Youth Coordinator and Researcher, Desis Rising Up and Moving, Queens, NYC Humanities Teacher, Cases High School, New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NYC English Teacher, Morris High School, New York City Board of Education, Bronx, NYC FIELDWORK RESEARCH AND LANGUAGE TRAINING 2011 Middlebury Arabic School, Middlebury College, United States Palestine/Israel Conducted thirteen months of dissertation field research in the West Bank and Israel 2010 Middlebury Arabic School, Middlebury College, United States 2009 Birzeit University, Center for Development Studies Researcher and co-author of a United Nations-commissioned report on development and conflict 2009 Cairo, Egypt American University in Cairo, Arabic Language Institute 2008 Damascus, Syria Damascus University, Arabic Language Institute Dalalah Institute, Modern Standard Arabic Intensive 2007 Palestine/Israel Conducted pre-doctoral research on development and humanitarian interventions in the West Bank 2003 Palestine/Israel Conducted master s research on the transformation of Palestinian urban spaces in the West Bank from 1967 to the early twenty-first century ACADEMIC SERVICE Reviewer for the journals: Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Geopolitics; Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers; Area; Environment and Planning A; Geografiska Annaler B; Gender, Place and Culture; Territory, Politics, Governance 2011 Graduate Student Representative on the Department of Geography Graduate Committee, Reviewer for the Maxwell Review, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES Researcher and writer, Dalia Association, Ramallah, Palestine Board member, Desis Rising Up and Moving, NYC 2007 Antipode Summer Institute for the Geographies of Justice participant

5 Board member of the North Star Fund Community Funding Board, NYC Researcher and Campaign Coordinator, Desis Rising Up and Moving, NYC