James C. Fraser, Ph.D.

01Appointments

Current Academic Positions

Honors & Recognition

Editorial Appointments

Prior Academic Appointments

02Education

03Congressional Testimony

Fraser, J. C. (2009, July 29). Academic Perspectives on the Future of Public Housing. Invited testimony before the U.S. Congressional Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.

04Publications

Edited Books

• Oakley, D., & Fraser, J. (Eds.). (2025). The Performative City: An Approach to the Study of Urban Policy. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press.

Manuscripts Under Review

• Fraser, J., & Addie, J.-P. Organizing for a New Social Horizon: The Over-the-Rhine People's Movement, Power, and the Remaking of Community in Cincinnati. Under review.
  Abstract

  In January 1978, during a blizzard, people with nowhere else to sleep entered an abandoned Teamsters Hall, laid mats, and called it a shelter. The Over-the-Rhine People's Movement has worked by that method since. Geographers have documented gentrification's displacements, but the community that gentrification dissolves is more often assumed than specified. Drawing on twenty years of collaborative research, the Movement's archive, interviews, and census analysis, this article lets the Movement's language lead: community in its oldest sense is communitas, the bond of mutual obligation, sustained as a process not a possession. We argue that gentrification, accelerated since 2003 by a private development corporation, has converted that community-as-obligation into community-as-property: an amenity that protects the propertied and displaces the obligated. Drawing from the Black radical tradition's account of internal colonization, necropolitics, and the organized-abandonment literature, our reading asserts that exemption from obligation and the extraction of value are one process, not two. The Movement named that process a land grab before geographers did; allies later supplied the word colonization. We trace how its praxis extended a particular fight toward a universal ethics of justice, and what becomes of community-as-obligation once the institutions that carried it are hollowed out.

• Fraser, J., & Oakley, D. “There Are No Losers”: The Standing Gap and a Growth Coalition's Remaking of Black Over-the-Rhine. Under review.
  Abstract

  Between 2000 and 2020, Over-the-Rhine, the predominantly Black neighborhood north of downtown Cincinnati, lost half its Black residents while a corporate-chartered nonprofit, the Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation (3CDC), remade it under the claim that there were no losers. We argue the remaking ran on a manufactured standing gap: the distance between the claims residents held on a place by producing it as a locality and the claims the city would recognize. This article offers a replicable way to measure that gap from public records, tracing who was heard and whose claims were granted through parcel, census, press, council, archival, and interview records. Standing was withdrawn from the neighborhood's People's Movement and its mostly Black residents before 3CDC acquired property, and the neighborhood's south was absorbed into a downtown redevelopment territory where incumbents' claims had no venue. 3CDC's investment fund stopped at Liberty Street, and the county's tax roll moved its steepest land-value step there. Newcomers who took over the community council were heard but held no veto; standing passed by ordinance to 3CDC. The standing gap names a mechanism that travels: accumulation organized through who is recognized as a claimant.

• Fraser, J. The Plan in the Lease: Public Land, Tax Abatement, and Planning by Delegation in Cincinnati. Under review.
  Abstract

  Problem, research strategy, and findings: Cities hand redevelopment to nonprofits that corporations charter and fund, and planning decisions move into leases, fund policies, and tax instruments that no public body reviews. I ask whether planners can audit that shift with public records, using the Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation (3CDC) in Over-the-Rhine. Liberty Street divides the neighborhood. 3CDC has rebuilt the south since 2003 and is now moving north. 3CDC's New Markets fund and a 2005 city agreement both stopped at Liberty, a line no ordinance or hearing I found authorized. Every parcel 3CDC's entities held through 2008, and all 71 of the fund's investments in the study tracts ($176.5 million), lay south of the street. The city gave 3CDC its central square, biggest park, and garages, and conveyed sites for $1 against appraisals as high as $8.5 million. Parcels 3CDC's entities have held are 15% of parcels but carry 39% of abated value, 1.65 times their share of building-value growth, against 1.17 for 23 other large owner groups. The advisory community council prevailed in one of five contested decisions on 3CDC requests, and two came before it voted. Ownership is traced by name and address, so every share is a floor, and the record cannot separate the fund's line from a citywide recovery.

  Takeaway for practice: Planners can read a redevelopment ledger and hold it against neighborhood requests. Every conveyance to a delegated entity should state its consistency with the adopted plan. Cities should publish holdings and tax expenditures by owner and parcel each year, record affordability conditions with the deed, and schedule neighborhood review before any large project reaches approval.

• Fraser, J. After Reparations Washing: Cities, Racial Capitalism, and the Spatial Politics of Repair. Under review.
  Abstract

  Since 2020, more than two dozen U.S. cities and counties have opened reparations processes, and the distance between what they acknowledge and what they redistribute keeps growing. This essay argues that municipal repair has to be judged against a harder standard than a commission's acknowledgment. Cities are where racial capitalism took built form, through eminent domain, zoning, and urban renewal, and where the wealth produced by that dispossession still circulates. Repair therefore means reconfiguring the urban circuits of accumulation, and that work runs directly into what Cheryl Harris called whiteness as property: the settled expectation, defended in law and in routine administration, that advantages won through racial domination are vested rights. Building on Williams and Steil's framework for reparative planning, I develop reparative urbanism, a politics of repair aimed at those circuits that assigns responsibility to the city, to Black-led institutions, and to the white residents and firms that profited from the takings. Asheville, North Carolina, which I have followed since 2020, is the case. Black-led organizing won a moratorium on the sale of seventy-five urban-renewal parcels and created the independent Reparations Stakeholder Authority of Asheville. Then the apparatus closed ranks. The U.S. Department of Justice warned the City and County in September 2025, the Council dissolved its Community Reparations Commission a month later, the next budget named reparations nowhere, and in July 2026 the Council adopted an anti-displacement resolution that names the harm, keeps the verb repair, and drops the beneficiary. Asheville is the only U.S. city to have closed its commission under federal threat, and it shows where the national movement is heading as designs shift from race toward place and property. Whether the paused parcels become a return or a sale will be decided in budget hearings, at the ballot, and in the street.

• Fraser, J. The Verified University: Assessment, AI Detection, and the Accountable Author. Under review.
  Abstract

  Program assessment and AI detection are bought, run, and studied separately. This conceptual article argues that they form one apparatus of verification: both answer to accreditation's demand that learning and identity be verified, both run through the learning management system, and both end in an author of record, a named person who must account for why students learned or how the work was written. I develop the concept of the accountable author, which names the condition under which Power's (2021) audit trail forms the people who keep it: an account attributed to a named person. The concept predicts that institutions will welcome tools that draft such accounts but refuse the configurations that leave no named author. I specify a test that separates this prediction from four rival explanations for keeping a person in the loop. Because continuous improvement has no endpoint, I hypothesize that its cost falls hardest where faculty carry assessment, and I close with reforms for vendors, assessment offices, and accreditors.

Refereed Journal Articles

1. 44Fraser, J., & Oakley, D. (Forthcoming). The Limits of Cash: Guaranteed Income, Basic Income, and the Reproduction of the Precarious City. Antipode.
2. 43Hightower, C., & Fraser, J. (2020). The Raced-Space of Gentrification: 'Reverse Blockbusting,' Home-selling, and Neighborhood Remake in North Nashville. City & Community.
3. 42Addie, J.-P., & Fraser, J. C. (2019). After Gentrification: Social Mix, Settler Colonialism, and Cruel Optimism in the Transformation of Neighborhood Space. Antipode.
4. 41Carrico, A. R., Raja, U., Fraser, J. C., & Vandenburgh, M. P. (2018). Household and Block Level Influences on Residential Fertilizer Use. Landscape and Urban Planning, 178, 60–68.
5. 40De Vries, D. H., & Fraser, J. C. (2017). Historical Waterscape Trajectories That Need Care: The Unwanted Refurbished Flood Homes of Kinston's Devolved Disaster Mitigation Program. Journal of Political Ecology, 24(1).
6. 39Oakley, D. A., & Fraser, J. C. (2016). U.S. Public-Housing Transformations and the Housing Publics Lost in Transition. City & Community, 15(4), 349–366.
7. 38Fraser, J., Bazuin, J. T., & Hornberger, G. (2016). The Privatization of Neighborhood Governance and the Production of Urban Space. Environment and Planning A, 48(5), 844–870.
8. 37Thurber, A., & Fraser, J. (2016). Disrupting the Order of Things: Public Housing Tenant Organizing for Material, Political, and Epistemological Justice. Cities, 57, 55–61.
9. 36Fraser, J. C., & Oakley, D. (2015). The Neighborhood Stabilization Program: Stable for Whom? Journal of Urban Affairs, 37(1), 38–41.
10. 35Oakley, D., Fraser, J., & Bazuin, J. (2015). The Imagined Self-Sufficient Communities of HOPE VI. Urban Affairs Review, 51(5), 726–746.
11. 34Fraser, J. C., & Kick, E. L. (2014). Governing Urban Restructuring with City-Building Nonprofits. Environment and Planning A, 46(6), 1445–1461.
12. 33Bazuin, J. T., & Fraser, J. C. (2013). How the ACS Gets It Wrong: The Story of the American Community Survey and a Small, Inner-City Neighborhood. Applied Geography, 45, 292–302.
13. 32Fraser, J., Oakley, D., & Levy, D. (2013). Guest Editors' Introduction: Policy Assumptions and Lived Realities of Mixed-Income Housing on Both Sides of the Atlantic. Cityscape, 15(2), 1–14.
14. 31Fraser, J. C., Chaskin, R. J., & Bazuin, J. T. (2013). Making Mixed-Income Neighborhoods Work for Low-Income Households. Cityscape, 83–100.
15. 30Fraser, J. C., Bazuin, J. T., Band, L. E., & Grove, J. M. (2013). Covenants, Cohesion, and Community: The Effects of Neighborhood Governance on Lawn Fertilization. Landscape and Urban Planning, 115, 30–38.
16. 29Fraser, J. C., Burns, A. B., Bazuin, J. T., & Oakley, D. A. (2013). HOPE VI, Colonization, and the Production of Difference. Urban Affairs Review, 49(4), 525–556.
17. 28Carrico, A. R., Fraser, J., & Bazuin, J. T. (2013). Green with Envy: Psychological and Social Predictors of Lawn Fertilizer Application. Environment and Behavior, 45(4), 427–454.
18. 27De Vries, D. H., & Fraser, J. C. (2012). Citizenship Rights and Voluntary Decision Making in Post-Disaster U.S. Floodplain Buyout Mitigation Programs. International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 30(1), 1–33.
19. 26Bacon, M. T., & Fraser, J. (2012). Spatial Analysis of Crime in the Evaluation of Public Housing Redevelopment. Crime Mapping, 4(2), 69–85.
20. 25Fraser, J., Oakley, D., & Bazuin, J. (2011). Public Ownership and Private Profit in Housing. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 5(3), 397–412.
21. 24Kick, E. L., Fraser, J. C., Fulkerson, G. M., McKinney, L. A., & De Vries, D. H. (2011). Repetitive Flood Victims and Acceptance of FEMA Mitigation Offers. Disasters, 35(3), 510–539.
22. 23Fraser, J., & Nelson, M. H. (2008). Can Mixed-Income Housing Ameliorate Concentrated Poverty? Geography Compass, 2(6), 2127–2144.
23. 22Fraser, J., & Weninger, C. (2008). Modes of Engagement for Urban Research: Enacting a Politics of Possibility. Environment and Planning A, 40(6), 1435–1453.
24. 21Fraser, J. C., & Kick, E. L. (2007). The Role of Public, Private, Non-Profit, and Community Sectors in Shaping Mixed-Income Housing Outcomes in the U.S. Urban Studies, 44(12), 2357–2377.
25. 20Fraser, J. C. (2006). The Relevance of Human Geography for Studying Urban Disasters. Space and Culture, 9(1), 14–19.
26. 19Fraser, J. C., Doyle, M. W., & Young, H. (2006). Creating Effective Flood Mitigation Policies. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 87(27), 265–270.
27. 18Kick, E. L., Fraser, J. C., & Davis, B. L. (2006). Performance Management, Managerial Citizenship, and Worker Commitment: A Study of the U.S. Postal Service. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 27(1), 137–172.
28. 17Fraser, J., & Kick, E. (2005). Understanding Community Building in Urban America. Journal of Poverty, 9(1), 23–43.
29. 16Fraser, J. C. (2004). Beyond Gentrification: Mobilizing Communities and Claiming Space. Urban Geography, 25(5), 437–457.
30. 15Fraser, J., & Lepofsky, J. (2004). The Uses of Knowledge in Neighbourhood Revitalization. Community Development Journal, 39(1), 4–12.
31. 14Fraser, J. C., Lepofsky, J., Kick, E. L., & Williams, J. P. (2003). The Construction of the Local and the Limits of Contemporary Community Building in the United States. Urban Affairs Review, 38(3), 417–445.
32. 13Lepofsky, J., & Fraser, J. C. (2003). Building Community Citizens: Claiming the Right to Place-Making in the City. Urban Studies, 40(1), 127–142.
33. 12Fraser, J. C., Kick, E. L., & Williams, J. P. (2002). Neighborhood Revitalization and the Practice of Evaluation in the United States. City & Community, 1(2), 223–244.
34. 11Fraser, J., Kick, E., & Barber, K. (2002). Organizational Culture as Contested Ground in an Era of Globalization. Sociological Spectrum, 22(4), 445–471.
35. 10Kick, E. L., & Fraser, J. C. (2000). White Attitudes and Race- and Income-Targeted Policies. Journal of Poverty, 4(3), 43–71.
36. 9Fraser, J., & Kick, E. L. (2000). Interpretive Repertoires of Whites on Race-Targeted Policies. Sociological Perspectives, 43(1), 13–28.
37. 8Fraser, J., & Hodge, M. (2000). Job Satisfaction in Higher Education: Examining Gender in Professional Work Settings. Sociological Inquiry, 70(2), 172–178.
38. 7Wang, L. Y., Kick, E., Fraser, J., & Burns, T. J. (1999). Status Attainment in America: The Roles of Locus of Control and Self-Esteem. Sociological Spectrum, 19(3), 281–298.
39. 6Fraser, J. C., & Perry, M. J. (1998). Building Bridges with the Community. Social Insight, 3(3/4), 9–14.
40. 5Foley, L., & Fraser, J. (1998). A Research Note on Post-Dating Relationships. Sociological Perspectives, 41(1), 209–219.
41. 4Donnelly, D., & Fraser, J. (1998). Gender Differences in Sadomasochistic Arousal among College Students. Sex Roles, 39(5), 391–407.
42. 3Fraser, J. (1997). Developing Definitions of an Adoptee–Birthmother Reunion Relationship. Marriage & Family Review, 25(1–2), 67–78.
43. 2Fraser, J., Davis, P. W., & Singh, R. (1997). Identity Work by Alternative High School Students. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 10(2), 221–236.
44. 1Fraser, J. (1997). Methadone Clinic Culture: The Everyday Realities of Female Methadone Clients. Qualitative Health Research, 7(1), 121–139.

Book Chapters & Reference Works

1. 11Davis, T., & Fraser, J. (2025). The Ambitions and Experiences of Black Americans. In D. Oakley (Ed.), Taking Root? Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Migrations (pp. 77–90). Kendall Hunt.
2. 10Oakley, D., & Fraser, J. (2025). Introduction. In The Performative City. Waveland Press.
3. 9Fraser, J., & Oakley, D. (2025). Urban Policy as Spatial Project. In The Performative City. Waveland Press.
4. 8Fraser, J., & Lawlor, K. (2025). The Significance of Twentieth-Century Urban Renewal Policies for Reparative Planning and Racial Reparations. In The Performative City. Waveland Press.
5. 7Oakley, D., & Fraser, J. (2025). Conclusion: Considerations for Policy Studies. In The Performative City. Waveland Press.
6. 6Oakley, D., & Fraser, J. (2019). Empowerment, Urban. In A. M. Orum (Ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies (pp. 1–4). Wiley Blackwell.
7. 5Oakley, D. A., & Fraser, J. C. (2016). The Obama Administration's Neighborhood Stabilization Program. In Urban Policy in the Time of Obama (pp. 231–245).
8. 4Fraser, J. C., & Oakley, D. A. (2015). Mixed-Income Communities and Poverty Amelioration. In The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the United States (pp. 268–274).
9. 3Fraser, J., DeFilippis, J., & Bazuin, J. (2012). HOPE VI: Calling for Modesty in Its Claims. In Mixed Communities: Gentrification by Stealth? (pp. 209–230).
10. 2Weninger, C., & Fraser, J. C. (2012). Hybrid Forms of Civic Participation in Neighborhood Redevelopment. In Deliberations in Community Development (pp. 249–264).
11. 1DeFilippis, J., & Fraser, J. (2010). Why Do We Want Mixed-Income Housing and Neighborhoods? In Davies & Imbroscio (Eds.), Critical Urban Studies: New Directions (pp. 135–148). SUNY Press. [Reprinted in Schipper & Vollmer (Eds.) (2020), Wohnungsforschung: Ein Reader (pp. 353–368). transcript Verlag.]

Book Reviews

• Fraser, J. C. (2006). Globalization, Development, and Ordinary Cities [Review essay]. Journal of World-Systems Research, 12, 189–197.
• Fraser, J. (2021). Review of The Power of Pragmatism, eds. Wills & Lake. Urban Geography, 42(6), 861–864.
• Fraser, J. C. (2020). Review of Constructing the Dynamo of Dixie, by C. E. Knapp. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 40(4), 501–502.
• Fraser, J. C. (2014). Review of Driven from New Orleans, by J. Arena. Social Service Review, 88, 194–199.
• Fraser, J. C. (2006). Review of Brave New Neighborhoods, by M. Kohn. Contemporary Sociology, 35, 158–159.
• Additional reviews in Urban Land (2001–2002) and American Anthropologist (2001).

Public Scholarship & Op-Eds

• Palmer, A., & Fraser, J. C. (2018). Open Letter to Nashville and Our Next Mayor on Affordable Housing. The Tennessean.
• Diskin, J., Fraser, J. C., & Dutton, T. A. (2017). Tax Those Who've Gained from Public Investment in OTR. Cincinnati.com.
• Fraser, J. C., & Bailey, S. (2016). A Just Nashville Means Community Housing, Not Capitalism. The Tennessean.
• Fraser, J. C., & Thurber, A. (2015). Nashvillians Should Have the Right to Stay Put. The Tennessean.
• Plus additional op-eds in The Tennessean and Cincinnati.com (2015–2017).

Selected Professional Reports

• Fraser, J., Schwartz, D., & Oakley, D. (2024). Thriving, Not Just Surviving: Making Mixed-Income Neighborhoods Work for Low-Income Households. Final Report, POAH Communities.
• Economic & Planning Systems & Fraser, J. C. (2016). Housing Policy and Inclusionary Zoning Feasibility Study. Metro Planning Dept., Nashville.
• Fraser, J. C. (2008). The Processes and Outcomes of the Durham HOPE VI Project. Durham Housing Authority & HUD.
• Fraser, J. C., De Vries, D., & Young, H. (2006). Mitigating Repetitive Loss Properties. FEMA, Washington, D.C.
• 30+ additional commissioned reports for HUD, FEMA, state agencies, and foundations (1993–2024).

05Grants, Contracts & Awards

$12M+ in federal and foundation funding across NSF, HUD, FEMA, NEH, and the Annie E. Casey Foundation over a 30-year career.

Under Review

Funded Grants & Contracts

06Invited Presentations

• Fraser, J. C. (2026). Creating Classroom and Curriculum Materials with ChatGPT, Claude, or Microsoft Copilot. Faculty Learning Community: Artificial Intelligence, Academy of Faculty Enrichment, Virginia State University.
• Fraser, J. C. (2026). Creating Classroom and Curriculum Materials with Claude. Faculty Learning Community: Artificial Intelligence, Academy of Faculty Enrichment, Virginia State University.
• Fraser, J. C. (2026). AI in the Classroom. Faculty Spotlight, Academic Innovation Center, Virginia State University.
• Fraser, J. C. (2024). Organizing for a New Social Horizon: The People's Movement in Cincinnati. 8th Annual Social Justice Conference, Virginia State University.
• Fraser, J. C. (2018). Understanding the Difference Between Gentrification and Equitable Development. International Economic Development Council, Atlanta.
• Fraser, J. C. (2017). The Making of the Precarious City. Urban Studies Institute, Georgia State University.
• Fraser, J. C. (2015). The Future of Public Housing. Amherst College, MA.
• Fraser, J. C. (2009). What Kind of Mixed-Income Housing and for What Reasons? University of Memphis.
• Fraser, J. C. (2009). Can Mixed-Income Housing Ameliorate Poverty? Miami University–Ohio, Cincinnati.
• Fraser, J. C. (2006). Mitigating Repetitive Loss Flood Properties. Brown University, Providence.
• Plus 8+ additional invited talks (2005–2017) at North Carolina State, Vanderbilt, Meharry, Kent State, and others.

07Conference Presentations

Selected from 90+ conference presentations delivered between 1993 and 2025 at the AAG, Urban Affairs Association, ASA, SSSP, and Southern Sociological Society, among others.

• Fraser, J. C., & Oakley, D. A. (2027, accepted). The Limits of Cash: Guaranteed Income and the Reproduction of the Precarious City. International Conference on Urban Affairs, New York.
• Fraser, J. C. (2025). Thriving, Not Just Surviving. Urban Affairs Association, Vancouver.
• Fraser, J. C. (2024). Being Disadvantaged in a Gentrifying Neighborhood. American Criminal Justice Society, San Francisco.
• Fraser, J. C., & Addie, J.-P. (2020). Organizing for a New Social Horizon. AAG Annual Meeting, Denver.
• Fraser, J. C., & Gilligan, J. (2019). The Making of the Smart City: Technology, Planning and Justice. UAA, Los Angeles.
• Fraser, J. C., & Addie, J.-P. (2018). Taking the Neighborhood by Strategy: Social Mix and Settler Colonialism. AAG, New Orleans.
• Fraser, J. C. (2017). The Making of the Precarious City. UAA, Minneapolis.
• Fraser, J. C. (2015). Mixed-Income Housing Ideology and Urban Redevelopment: Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati. AAG, Chicago.
• Fraser, J. C. (2010). Uneven Redevelopment and the (Re)Construction of Citizenship Through Community. AAG, Washington, D.C.
• Fraser, J. C. (2003). Developing a Theory of Community Building. ASA Annual Meeting, Atlanta.
• Earliest presentations date to 1993 (ASA, Miami; Humanist Sociology, New Orleans).

08Selected Media Appearances

• McWhirter, C. (2018). As Nashville Rapidly Expands, Residents Worry the Metropolis Is Growing Too Fast. The Wall Street Journal.
• Allyn, B. (2012). Reversing Years of Neglect on a Hill Above Nashville. The New York Times.
• Siner, E. (2015). In Music City, Rents Keep Going Up and Up. National Public Radio.
• Connolly, K. (2010). 30,000 Queue for Housing Assistance in Atlanta. BBC.
• Knight, M. (2017). Overhauling Public Housing Is Expensive. Nashville Public Radio (WPLN).
• Moskowitz, P. (2015). Nashville's Boom Prices Out Low-Income, Middle-Class Residents. Al Jazeera America.
• Plus coverage in The Boston Globe, Huffington Post, WNYC, and Voice of America (2006–2018).

09Teaching

Urban Studies

Environmental Studies

Social Inequality

Research Methods

10Graduate Advising & Committees

Chaired or served on 20+ doctoral and master's committees at Vanderbilt, Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, and Fisk University.

11Professional Service

Editorial & Association Service

Grant Panels & Review

NSF panel member and reviewer; press reviewer for Oxford University Press, University of Chicago Press, and Sage. Manuscript reviewer for 25+ journals including American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Antipode, Environment and Planning A & D, Housing Studies, IJURR, Urban Studies, and Urban Affairs Review.

12University & State Service

Virginia State University

Faculty Senate of Virginia

13Community Engagement

14Affiliations & Development

Professional Associations

Professional Development

• AI Lightning Talks Series Certificate, VSU Academy of Faculty Enrichment (March 2026).
• Learning Microsoft 365 Copilot for Work, Certificate of Completion (August 2025).
• Quality Matters Pathways Certifications for Online Teaching (2024) — TOL, DYOC, APPQMR.
• Sunbelt Cities Conference, Kinder Institute, Rice University (2017).
• The Cumberland Project, Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University (2012–2013).
• Summer Workshop on Political-Economic Geography, University of Georgia, sponsored by Antipode (2008).