Women's Studies Program

 

Deborah G. Martin, Ph.D


Associate Professor of Geography
Urban, social, political geography, law and geography, qualitative methods, social movements
Graduate School of Geography
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610-1477

Jefferson Building Room 205B
(508) 793-7104 phone
email: mailto:demartin@clarku.edu

Curriculum Vitae


Dr. Deborah (“Deb”) Martin received her M.A. (1994) and Ph.D. (1999) degrees in geography from the University of Minnesota, and her B.A. in geography and international studies from Macalester College. Before coming to Clark in the fall of 2004, she taught at the University of Georgia for five years. She is an urban geographer with interests in social movements (particularly neighborhood activism), place identity, local politics, legal geography, and qualitative methodologies. She has conducted research in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Athens, Georgia, on place meaning and representation in community organizing and local politics. Currently, she is working with Dr. Alex Scherr at the School of Law, University of Georgia, on NSF-funded research investigating the role of lawyers and the law in shaping landscapes and negotiating urban land use conflicts such as those over sitings of social service group homes. Research sites are in Massachusetts and New York. Deb advises graduate students working on a range of topics, loosely coalescing around various themes, including activism, politics, place, social theory, and qualitative research.

 

Courses Offered:

Geog 020/UDSC 020 American Cities: Changing Spaces, Community Places
Geog 241/341 Suburbia: Culture, Politics, Place
Geog 258/356 Utopian Visions, Urban Realities
Geog 141 Research Methods
Geog 310/ID 30291 Qualitative Research Methods
Geog 368 Development of Western Geographic Thought
Geog 373/4 Urban Geography Seminar

 

Selected Publications

Legal Geography

D. G. Martin, Alexander Scherr, and Christopher City, “Making Law, Making Place: Lawyers and the Production

of Space,” forthcoming in Progress in Human Geography.

 

D. G. Martin and A. Scherr, 2005, “Lawyering Landscapes: Lawyers as Constituents of Landscape,” Landscape

Research 30(3): 379-394. (Reprinted in Justice, Power, and the Political Landscape, eds. K. Olwig and D.

Mitchell, Routledge, 2008.)

Racialization Processes/Issues
Elvin Wyly, Deborah G. Martin, Pablo Mendez, and Steven R. Holloway, 2009, “Transnational tense:  immigration and inequality in American housing markets,” forthcoming in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 35 (10). 

Joshua Inwood and Deborah G. Martin, 2008, “Whitewash: white privilege and racialized landscapes at the University of Georgia,” Social and Cultural Geography 9(4): 373-395. 

Social Movements/Activism
Deborah G. Martin, Susan Hanson, and Danielle Fontaine, 2007, “What counts as activism? The role of individuals in creating change,” Women’s Studies Quarterly 35: 78-94.

D. G. Martin and B. Miller, 2003, “Space and Contentious Politics,” Mobilization: An International Journal 8(2): 143-156.

D. G. Martin, 2002, “Constructing the ‘neighborhood sphere’: gender and community organizing,” Gender, Place and Culture 9(4): 333-350.

Research Ethics/Qualitative Methods

Deborah G. Martin, 2007, “Bureaucratization of ethics: Institutional review boards and participatory research”,

ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 6(3): 319-328. 

Urban Politics/Policy/Organizing
Katherine B. Hankins and Deborah G. Martin, 2006, “Charter schools and urban regimes in neoliberal context:  Making workers and new spaces in metropolitan Atlanta,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30(3): 528-47.

D. G. Martin and S. Holloway, 2005, “Organizing Diversity: Scales of Demographic Change and Neighborhood Organizing in St. Paul, Minnesota,” Environment and Planning A 37(6): 1091-1112.

D. G. Martin, 2004, “Non-profit foundations and grassroots organizing: reshaping urban governance,” Professional Geographer 56(3): 394-405.

D. G. Martin, 2004, “Reconstructing urban politics: neighborhood activism in land use change,” Urban Affairs Review 39(5): 589-612.

Place and Place-Making

D. G. Martin, 2003, “Enacting Neighborhood,” Urban Geography 24(5): 361-385.

 

D. G. Martin, 2003, “‘Place-framing’ as place-making: constituting a neighborhood for organizing and activism,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 93(3): 730-750.

 

D. G. Martin, 2000, “Constructing place: cultural hegemonies and media images of an inner- city
neighborhood,” Urban Geography 21(5): 380-405.