Cindi Katz
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Cindi Katz is Professor of Geography and Women's Studies in Environmental Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her work concerns social reproduction and the production of space, place and nature; children and the environment, and the consequences of global economic restructuring for everyday life. She is a member of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, and the Children's Environmental Research Group, both of which reside at the CUNY Graduate Center. Katz received both her B.A. and Ph.D. from Clark University.
She has published widely on these themes as well as on social theory and the politics of knowledge in edited collections and in journals such as Society and Space, Social Text, Signs, Feminist Studies, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Social Justice, Gender, Place, and Culture, Cultural Geographies, Antipode (Journal), and WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly. Katz was co-general editor of WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly with Nancy K. Miller, Distinguished Professor of English, from 2004 to 2007. Katz and Miller were awarded the CELJ 2007 Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement 2007 Modern Language Association conference. This award is given to the most improved journal that has launched an overall effort of revitalization or transformation within the previous three years.
Katz is the editor (with Janice Monk) of Full Circles: Geographies of Gender over the Life Course (Routledge 1993) and of Life's Work: Geographies of Social Reproduction (with Sallie Marston and Katharyne Mitchell) (Blackwell 2004). She recently completed Growing up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children's Everyday Lives with University of Minnesota Press in 2004. This book won the 2004 Association of American Geographers' Meridian Book Award for the Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography[1]. Katz held a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and she continues to on the project she began there concerning the shifting geographies of late twentieth century US childhood.
