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Curriculum Vitae


Maureen Hickey Putnam

Email: mhhp@u.washington.edu
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EDUCATION

Ph.D. Candidate, Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Dissertation:
Driving Globalization: Bangkok Taxi Drivers and the Restructuring of Work and Masculinity in Thailand

Dissertation Committee:
Victoria Lawson, Geography (chair), Kim England, Geography, Lucy Jarosz, Geography, Charles Keyes, Anthropology

Readers:
Amara Pongsapich, Dean, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Pattana Kittirasa, Anthropologist and Research Fellow, National University, Singapore

Research interests: economic geography, political-economy, globalization and economic restructuring, labor geography, migration studies, critical development studies, cultural geography, feminist theory and gender studies, transportation and urbanization in the Global South

Regional Speciality: Asia and Southeast Asia
Languages: Thai, Lao

M.A., Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2002
Thesis: On "The Beach": Travelers' Dreams, Hollywood Magic, and Development Dilemmas in Southern Thailand

B.A., International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1991
Focus areas: international development, women and development, East Asia and Southeast Asia

GRANTS AND AWARDS

  • Gerlach Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Department of Geography, University of Washington, Winter Quarter 2007

  • Dissertation Research Grant, Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program, International Education Programs Service, U.S. Department of Education, 2004

  • Dissertation Fellowship, International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship Program, Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies, 2004

  • Research Grant, Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington, 2003

  • Ullman Award for Outstanding Masters Student, Department of Geography, University of Washington, 2002

  • Small Research Grant, Northwest Regional Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Washington, 2001

  • Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute, University of Wisconsin Madison, 2000


PUBLICATIONS

  • Hickey, Maureen and Victoria Lawson. 2005. 'Beyond Science? Human Geography, Interpretation and Critique,' in N. Castree, A. Rogers and D. Sherman (eds). Questioning Geography: Essays on a Contested Discipline, Oxford: Blackwell.


PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCES

  • Association for Asian Studies, 2006 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
    Paper Title: "Village Man/Taxi Man: Bangkok Taxi Drivers and Rural to Urban Migration in a Globalizing Thailand"
    Panel: Villagers as Urban/Overseas Migrants: Rethinking and Relocating the Vanishing Rural Worlds of Southeast Asia (a panel to honor the work of Professor Charles F. Keyes)
    April 8, 2006

  • Association of American Geographers, 2006 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
    Paper Title: "Cultural Ambassadors and Country Bumpkins: Neo-liberal Contradictions and the Disciplining Taxi Driver Identities in Bangkok, Thailand"
    Session: Southeast Asian Migration and Identities, 1
    March 11, 2006

  • Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, Labor Colloquia Series, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
    Presentation Title: "Taxi Work: Making a Living on the Streets of Bangkok"
    February 15, 2006

  • Department of Geography, Home Seminar Series, Seattle, WA
    Presentation Title: "Successful Dissertation Research Proposals and Applying for Research Funding"
    November 8, 2005

  • Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, 2005 Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ
    Paper Title: "Village Man/Taxi Man: Bangkok Taxi Drivers and Rural to Urban Migration in a Globalizing Thailand"
    Panel: Geography in Asia
    October 22, 2005

  • Social Science Research Council, 2004-05 IDRF Fellows Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
    Presentation Title: "Preliminary Reflections on Dissertation Fieldwork"
    Panel: Global Forces and Local Responses
    September 30, 2005

  • Association of American Geographers, 2002 Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA
    Paper Title: "On The Beach: Travelers' Dreams, Hollywood Magic, and Development Dilemmas in Southern Thailand"
    Session: The Politics of Media and Popular Culture
    March 21, 2002

  • Second International Critical Geography Conference, Taegu University, Taegu South Korea, Paper title: "'Clueless in Seattle'?: (re)thinking and (re)presenting resistance,"
    August 11, 2000

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT AND SERVICE

Graduate

  • Instructor, Geography 335 (Geography and Development), Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Autumn Quarter 2006

  • Instructor, Geography 335 (Geography and Development), Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Summer Quarter (B Term) 2006

  • Coordinator, Project for Critical Asian Studies, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, for 2005-6 academic year

  • Coordinator, Teachers as Scholars Program, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle WA, for 2002-3 and 2003-4 academic years

  • Lead Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle WA, for 2000-1 and 2001-2 academic years

  • Teaching Assistant, Geography 100, Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle WA, for 1999-2000 academic year

  • Senator, Graduate and Professional Student Senate, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, for the 2000-1, 2002-3 and 2003-4 academic years

  • Vice President, Geography Graduate Student Association, University of Washington, Seattle WA, 2000-1 academic year

Undergraduate

  • Intern (competitive), The Center for Defense Information, Washington, DC, October to December 1991

  • Intern (competitive), The Thailand-United States Education Foundation (Fulbright Foundation), Bangkok, Thailand, July to September 1990

  • Co-president, Student Society of International Studies Majors, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, September 1990 to June 1991

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

  • Population Education Program, Population Connection (previously ZPG), Washington, DC
    Position: Teacher Trainer and Educational Coordinator
    Dates: August 1996 to August 1999

  • The Centre for Development and Population Activities, Washington, DC
    Position: Program Assistant
    Dates: August 1995 to July 1996

  • Peace Corps of the United States, Chumphonwittayasan Secondary School, Chumphonburi District, Surin Province, Thailand
    Position: Teacher/Trainer
    Dates: November 1992 to October 1994