CURRICULUM VITAE

Maureen Helen Hickey

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Candidate, Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Doctoral Dissertation Title: Driving Globalization: Bangkok Taxi Drivers and the Restructuring of Work and Masculinity in Thailand

• Defense scheduled: March 15, 2010

• Dissertation Field Research: Bangkok and Roi Et Province, Thailand, September 2004 ’Äì August 2005 (funded by the U.S. Department of Education and the Social Science Research Council)

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

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

Regional Specialty: Asia and Southeast Asia
Languages: Thai (advanced), Lao (conversational)

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

• Fieldwork/Research: June-September 2001, Southern Thailand
• Winner: Outstanding Masters Student, Department of Geography, University of Washington, 2002

B.A., International Studies, International Development Focus, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1991

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND GRANTS

Doctoral Fellowships and Grants:

• Distinguished Scholar Award, The Project for Empowering Network for International Thai Studies, Institute of Thai Studies, Institute for Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 2009-2010

• 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

Additional Awards and Fellowships:

• Gething Conference Travel Funding Award, Southeast Asia Program Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, 2009

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

• 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

• Incoming Graduate Student Funding, Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002 (initial two-year offer, renewed for a third year)

PUBLICATIONS

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

• Hickey, Maureen. 2002. ’ÄúAn Interview with Teachers as Scholars Professor Stephanie Camp.’Äù Seattle Arts & Lectures: 15th Anniversary Season newsletter, Seattle: Seattle Arts & Lectures

• Hickey Maureen (co-author and co-designer). 1999. The Countdown to Six Billion: The world population will reach six billion this school year.  Washington, DC: Population Education Program, ZPG publications (a free wall-chart distributed to 42,000 teachers in the United States and Canada, includes sections on poverty, gender, health and education)

• Hickey, Maureen. 1999. ’ÄúLiving on $500 a Year’Äù in P. Wasserman (ed). Earth Matters: Studies for our Global Future (a curriculum for grades 9-12), Washington, DC: Population Education Program, ZPG publications, pp. 150-157

• Hickey, Maureen. 1999. ’ÄúA Woman’Äôs Place’Äù in P. Wasserman (ed). Earth Matters: Studies for our Global Future (a curriculum for grades 9-12), Washington, DC: Population Education Program, ZPG publications, pp. 176-179

• Hickey, Maureen. 1999. ’ÄúGender Quest’Äù in P. Wasserman (ed). Earth Matters: Studies for our Global Future (a curriculum for grades 9-12), Washington, DC: Population Education Program, ZPG publications, pp. 180-181

INVITED PAPERS & PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

The Project for Empowering Network for International Thai Studies, Institute of Thai Studies, Fellowship Colloquium and Research Presentation, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Paper Title: Driving Globalization: Neoliberal Initiatives, ’ÄòThai’Äô Values, and Economic Realities for Bangkok’Äôs Taxi Drivers
July 6, 2010

The Sixth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL

Paper Title: Monstrous Researchers and Inappropriate/d Subjects: Feminist Research Praxis, Reflexive Perspectives and Revisiting Donna Haraway ’ÄòIn the Field’Äô’Äù
Session: TBD
May 26-29, 2010 (exact date and time TBD)

Association of American Geographers, 2010 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC

Paper Title: ’ÄúLabor Auto/Mobility: Taking Transportation Work into Account in Bangkok and Beyond ’Äù
Session: Desakota and Beyond:  Interrogating Everyday Urban Geographies in Asia

April 14-18, 2010 (exact date and time TBD)

Cultures of Movement: Mobile Subjects, Communities, and Technologies in the Americas, Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC, Canada

Paper Title: ’ÄúMigration, Mobility and Automobility: The Need for New Avenues of Critical Geographic Research on Transportation Work and Transportation Workers in the Global South and Beyond.’Äù
Session: TBD

April 8-10, 2010 (exact date and time TBD)

Colloquium Series, Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Paper Title: ’ÄúDriving Labor: Neoliberal Initiatives, ’ÄòThai’Äô Values, and Economic Realities for Bangkok’Äôs Taxi Drivers’Äù
March 6, 2009

Roundtable Discussion on the Thai Political Crisis, Southeast Asia Studies Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, Seattle, WA

Invited Discussant
Comments: ’ÄúTaxi Drivers, the Airport Crisis and Deepening Class Divisions in Thai Society’Äù
December 11, 2008

Association of American Geographers, 2008 Annual Meeting, Boston, MA

Paper Title: ’Äú'I Work for Myself': Labor Markets, Self-Employment and the Question of Class Among Bangkok's Taxi Drivers’Äù
Session: Labor and Economic Space in South and Southeast Asia

April 19, 2008

• Religion, Ethniciy and Modernity: Identity and Social Practice in Asia, Twentieth Anniversary Celebration Conference, 2007, Southeast Asian Center, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Paper Title: ’ÄúThai Rak Taxi: driving politics and navigating neoliberalism in Thaksin's heyday and beyond’Äù
Session: Graduate Student Panel in honor of Professor Charles F. Keyes
October 5, 2007

• Association for Asian Studies, 2006 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA

Paper Title: ’ÄúVillage Man/Taxi Man: Bangkok Taxi Drivers and Rural to Urban Migration in a Globalizing Thailand’Äù
Panel: Villagers as Urban/Overseas Migrants: Rethinking and Relocating the Vanishing Rural Worlds of Southeast Asia
April 8, 2006

Association of American Geographers, 2006 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL

Paper Title: ’ÄúCultural Ambassadors and Country Bumpkins: Neo-liberal Contradictions and the Disciplining Taxi Driver Identities in Bangkok, Thailand’Äù
Session: Southeast Asian Migration and Identities, Part 1
March 11, 2006

Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, Labor Colloquia Series, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Presentation Title: ’ÄúTaxi Work: Making a Living on the Streets of Bangkok’Äù
February 15, 2006

Department of Geography, Home Seminar Series, Seattle, WA

Presentation Title: ’ÄúSuccessful Dissertation Research Proposals and Applying for Research Funding’Äù
November 8, 2005

• Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, 2005 Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ

Paper Title: ’ÄúVillage Man/Taxi Man: Bangkok Taxi Drivers and Rural to Urban Migration in a Globalizing Thailand’Äù
Panel: Geography in Asia
October 22, 2005

• Social Science Research Council, 2004-05 IDRF Fellows Workshop, Philadelphia, PA

Presentation Title: ’ÄúPreliminary Reflections on Dissertation Fieldwork’Äù
Panel: Global Forces and Local Responses
September 30, 2005

Association of American Geographers, 2002 Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA

Paper Title: ’ÄúOn The Beach: Travelers’Äô Dreams, Hollywood Magic, and Development Dilemmas in Southern Thailand’Äù
Session: The Politics of Media and Popular Culture
March 21, 2002

• Second International Critical Geography Conference, Taegu University, Taegu South Korea, Paper title: ’ÄúClueless in Seattle?: Henri Lefebvre and (re)thinking and (re)presenting resistance’Äù

Session: The Battle in Seattle: The WTO and the Rise of an Anti-globalization Movement
August 11, 2000

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University Teaching Experience:

• Advisor/Mentor, Undergraduate, Senior Paper/Independent Study, Krista Meyer (Autumn 2009, Social Sciences, Evening Degree Program), Callista Bevans (Summer 2007, International Studies) Carissa Tyler (Autumn 2006, International Studies), Alexandra Valentine (Autumn 2006, International Studies)

• Instructor, Humanities and Sciences 280 (New Labor Geographies: Work and Workers in the Global Economy), Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA, Spring Semester 2010

• Instructor, Geography 344 (Migration in the Global Economy), Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Autumn Quarter 2009

• Instructor, Geography 123 (Introduction to Globalization), Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Summer Quarter (A Term) 2009

• Instructor, Geography 395: Special Topics (New Labor Geographies: Work and Workers in the Global Economy), Sponsored by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies and the Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Spring Quarter 2009

• Teaching Assistant, Geography 280 (Geography of Health and Health Care), Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle WA, Winter Quarter 2009

• Instructor, Geography 431 (Gender and Globalization), Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Autumn Quarter 2008

 

• Instructor, Geography 335/International Studies 335 (Theories and Practices in International Development), Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Summer Quarter 2007, Autumn Quarter 2006, Summer Quarter (B Term) 2006

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

• Teaching Assistant, Geography 100 (Introduction to Human Geography) Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle WA, for 1999-2000 academic year

Additional Teaching Experience:

• Teacher Trainer and Education Program Coordinator, Population Connection Organization, Washington, DC, August 1996 ’Äì August 1999

Designed, facilitated, and taught workshops for K-12 teachers and education majors across the United States. Topics included environmental education, demographics, food and hunger, and women in the developing world

Middle and Secondary School Teacher, Peace Corps of the United States, Chumphonwittayasan Secondary School, Chumphonburi District, Surin Province, Thailand, November 1992 ’Äì October 1994

 

ACADEMIC SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Research Assistant and Qualitative Data Manager, Digital Archive of Research on Thailand (DART), project funded by Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA), Title IV, United States Department of Education, jointly managed by University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA, the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Center (SAC), Bangkok, Thailand, and the Institute of Population and Social Research at Mahidol University (IPSR), Bangkok, Thailand, Winter Quarter 2010

Co-organizer and chair (with Matthew Wilson, Ball State University), Cyborg Spaces and Monstrous Places: Critical Geographic Engagements with Harawayian Theory (panel session), Association of American Geographers, 2010 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 14-18, 2010 (exact date and time TBD)

• Co-organizer and discussant (with Arnisson Andre Ortega, University of Washington) ’ÄòDesakota’Äô and Beyond: Interrogating Everyday Urban Geographies in Asia  (paper session), Association of American Geographers, 2010 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 14-18, 2010 (exact date and time TBD)

• Conference co-organizer, Religion, Ethnicity and Modernity: Identity and Social Practice in Asia, SEA Center Twentieth Anniversary Celebration Conference (in honor of Charles F. Keyes), Southeast Asian Center, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, October 5-6, 2008

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

Fully Funded (tuition and stipend) Student Assistantship

• Coordinator, Teachers as Scholars Program, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle WA, for 2002-3 and 2003-4 academic years (full year position)

Fully Funded (tuition and stipend) Student Assistantship. Jointly funded and administered by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and Seattle Arts & Lectures (a non-profit literary organization).

• Organizer, Thai Cinema Screening Group, Center for Southeast Asian Studies & Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2002-2003 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

• Program Assistant, The Centre for Development and Population Activities, Washington, DC, August 1995 ’Äì July 1996

 

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

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

• Task Force Leader, Jackson School of International Studies, Senior Task Force Project (JSIS 495), Winter 1991

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

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• Association of American Geographers
• Association of Pacific Coast Geographers
• Association for Asian Studies
• Cultural Studies Association

REFERENCES:

Victoria Lawson, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Washington
Address: Department of Geography, Box 353550, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
Phone: 206) 543-5196
Fax: (206) 543-3313
Email: lawson@u.washington.edu
Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/lawson/
Relationship: Graduate Advisor, Chair of Doctoral Committee

Charles F. Keyes, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington
Address: Department of Anthropology, Box 353100, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
Phone: (206) 523-9466
Fax: (206) 543-3285
Email: keyes@u.washington.edu
Website: http://depts.washington.edu/anthweb/people/assoc_faculty/CKeyes.php
Relationship: Mentor in Southeast Asian Studies, Doctoral Committee member

Kim England, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Washington
Address: Department of Geography, Box 353550, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
Phone: (206) 685-2509
Fax: (206) 543-3313
Email: england@u.washington.edu
Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/england/
Relationship: Doctoral Committee member

Lucy Jarosz, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Washington
Address: Department of Geography, Box 353550, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
Phone: (206) 543-7933
Fax: (206) 543-3313
Email: jarosz@u.washington.edu
Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/jarosz/
Relationship: Doctoral Committee member