Hillary Angelo Curriculum Vitae August 8, 2014 Department of Sociology Phone: 917-485-2927 New York University hillary.angelo@nyu.edu 295 Lafayette Street, 4 th Floor New York, NY 10012 EDUCATION 2015 (expected) PhD in Sociology, New York University Specializations in urban theory, social theory, environmental sociology, historical sociology Dissertation: How green became good: urban greening as social improvement in Germany s Ruhr Valley Committee: Craig Calhoun (co-chair), Neil Brenner (co-chair), Colin Jerolmack, Richard Sennett 2012-2013 Visiting Scholar, Dortmund Technical University, Dortmund, Germany 2011-2012 Visiting Scholar, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany 2010 MA in Sociology, New York University 2003 Bachelor of Arts, Vassar College (Major: Urban Studies) Phi Beta Kappa, general and departmental honors. ARTICLES 2014 Urbanizing Urban Political Ecology: A Critique of Methodological Cityism (with David Wachsmuth). International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12105 Reprinted in Neil Brenner, ed., Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization (Berlin: Jovis, 2014). 2013 Bird in Hand: How Experience Makes Nature. Theory and Society 42(4): 351-368. 2013 More than Exception: Categories and the Problem of Nature in the Ruhr. Moving the Social Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements (formerly Mitteilungsblatt des Instituts für soziale Bewegungen) 50: 7-24. 2011 Hard-Wired Experience: Sociomateriality and the Urban Everyday. City 15(5): 570-576.
Angelo CV 2 BOOK CHAPTERS AND SHORTER ESSAYS Forthcoming City Chickens and the Democratization of Urban Nature, in Craig Calhoun and Richard Sennett eds. Edges. New York University Press. 2012 Nature s Looking-Glass (with Colin Jerolmack). Contexts 11(1): 24-29. Reprinted in Deborah McCarthy Auriffeille and Leslie King eds., Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action (Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013). 2009 New Faces in Public Spaces: Immigrant Integration and City Parks (with Neerja Vasishta) Progressive Planning 179: 24-27. ARTICLES IN PREPARATION Infrastructure, experience, and the mechanics of inequality (forthcoming - introduction to special feature for City, co-organized and co-authored with Christine Hentschel) From The City as a Lens to Urbanization as a Way of Seeing: Refocusing Social Categories for an Urban Planet (under review) Beneath the Social: An Invitation to Infrastructural Sociology (with Craig Calhoun) Politics of Naturalization: Same-Sex Marriage Debates as a Case of the Production and Use of the Natural (with Ruth Braunstein) NON-ACADEMIC WRITING & REPORTS 2013 The Academic and the Fiction Writer Meet in the Wilderness (with Ray Daniels), in Nancy Seaton and Marie Warsh (eds.), Wildernesses. Prospect, 2013. 2009 The Immigrants and Parks Collaborative (with Neerja Vasishta), Urban Omnibus: <http://urbanomnibus.net/2009/10/the-immigrants-and-parks-collaborative/>. 2009 People Make Parks (with Anooradha Siddiqi), Urban Omnibus: <http://urbanomnibus.net/2009/07/people-make-parks/>. 2008 Catalyst Program Final Reports and Evaluation, City Parks Foundation, New York. FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS 2014-2015 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2
Angelo CV 3 2011-2014 Einstein Research Fellowship funding grant (Humboldt University, Berlin) 2012 Department of Sociology Dissertation Grant (New York University) 2011 Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences (Humboldt University, Berlin) 2010-2012 Institute for Public Knowledge funding grant, for Poiesis Fellowship (New York University) 2011 Travel Grant (New York University) 2008-2012 McCracken Fellowship (New York University) 2003 Finalist, Howard R. Swearer Student Humanitarian Award 2001 Everett Public Service Intern, Municipal Art Society, New York INVITED TALKS 2014 Nature and Urban Development: Intersections in Berlin, presentation for undergraduate seminar, NYU s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York: May 2. 2013 Urban Nature in the Ruhr, 1910-2010, presentation at Modern History Colloquium, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany: June 17. 2013 Urban Nature in the Ruhr, 1910-2010, presentation for Planning Department at Dortmund Technical University, Germany: April 18. 2009 Democracy and Public Space: the High Line and the High Bridge (with Kate Louis), workshop for The Public School, New York. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2014 From The City as a Lens to Urbanization as a Way of Seeing: Refocusing Social Categories for an Urban Planet, presented at the Junior Theorists Symposium, American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California. 2013 Old Categories, New Planet? City Binaries and Contemporary Urban Theory, presented at the RC21/Sociology of Urban and Regional Development, International Sociological Association Conference, Berlin, Germany. 2013 What s Urban about Urban Wastelands? Historicizing Nature in the City, presented at the RC21/Sociology of Urban and Regional Development, International Sociological Association Conference, Berlin, Germany. 3
Angelo CV 4 2012 Bird in Hand: How Experience Makes Nature presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Denver, Colorado. 2012 Urbanization as Experience presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, New York. 2011 A Right to Urban Nature? presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, Washington. 2011 Bird in Hand, presented at NYLON Research Network, NYU-LSE-Goldsmiths College annual conference, London, England. 2010 Slaughter in the City: Immigrants, Transgression, and the Urban Chicken, presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C. 2010 Slaughter in the City: Immigrants, Transgression, and the Urban Chicken, presented at the Graduate Student Spring Conference, Department of Sociology, New York University. RESEARCH ASSISTANCE AND GRADUATE EMPLOYMENT 2011-2014 Research assistant for professor Craig Calhoun at Humboldt University in Berlin. Founded and led interdisciplinary graduate research group; reviewed and edited papers for publication (journal special issue forthcoming); co-authored with professor Calhoun. 2010-2012 Research assistant and coordinator at the Institute for Public Knowledge for the Poiesis Fellowship: Remaking the City, Directed by professors Craig Calhoun and Richard Sennett. Supported 30 international scholars, architects, designers, journalists, and artists to pursue collaborative, interdisciplinary research, organized conferences and group meetings, and supported project development. 2009-2011 Research Assistant for professor Richard Sennett for the preparation of Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation (Yale University Press, 2012). TEACHING 2012 Materialities and Imaginaries of the Urban (Masters-level seminar), instructor (with Stefan Höhne), Humboldt University Department of Cultural Studies. 2010 Visual Investigations (graduate seminar), teaching assistant. 2009 Introduction to Metropolitan Studies, teaching assistant. 4
Angelo CV 5 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Journals and Institutes 2013-present 2011-present Urban Theory Lab-GSD, Harvard University, international advisory board member City, Project Editor Occasional reviewer for City, Ethnography, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Public Culture Events/Panels Organized 2014 Organizer (with Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Daniel Aldana Cohen), 3-part seminar series Democratizing the Green City, sponsored by NYU s Urban Democracy Lab, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, and the Institute for Public Knowledge. 2013 Organizer (with Matthew Gandy), paper session on Exploring Urban Wastelands, RC21/Sociology of Urban and Regional Development, International Sociological Association Conference, Berlin. 2011 Organizer (with Nik Janos and David Wachsmuth), paper session on Right to the City, Right to Nature, Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Seattle. Professional Association Memberships American Sociological Association, Association of American Geographers, Research Committee 21 (Sociology of Urban and Regional Development, International Sociological Association), American Association of University Women DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE 2009-2010 Representative, Graduate Student Association (New York University) 2009 Organizer, Graduate Student Conference (New York University) 2008 Organizer, Graduate Student Conference (New York University) 5
Angelo CV 6 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 2008-2010 Freelance project management, grantwriting, and program evaluation, New York City. 2005-2008 Director, Technical Assistance Program, Partnerships for Parks, New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. 2003-2005 Senior Development Associate, City Parks Foundation, New York City. 2003 Exhibition Research, Van Alen Institute, New York City. REFERENCES Professor Neil Brenner Harvard University Graduate School of Design 617-495-2521 nbrenner@gsd.harvard.edu Professor Craig Calhoun Director and President London School of Economics +44 (0)20 7852 3601 c.calhoun@lse.ac.uk Assistant Professor Colin Jerolmack New York University Department of Sociology (212) 998-8340 jerolmack@nyu.edu 6