Curriculum Vitae, August, 09
Clayton Rosati
crosati@bgsu.edu www.claytonrosati.com www.y2clay.com				Bowling Green State University School of Media and Communication Department of Telecommunication, 205 West Hall Bowling Green, OH 43402 (419) 372-7654
Education
2005	Ph.D., Geography, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, NY, with Distinction Dissertation: The Image Factory: MTV, Geography and the Industrial Production of Culture
2001	M.A. Maxwell School, Syracuse University, NY, Sociology
1997	B.A. Syracuse University, NY, African American Studies & Political Science, Cum Laude
Awards
2008	AAG Economic Geography Specialty Group Summer Institute Scholarship, $750 (1 of 4 awarded, mine sponsored by AAG Economic Geography Specialty Group)
2007	Class of 2007 Teaching Honor, University of Vermont
2005	Maxwell Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention, Syracuse University
2004	David Sopher Award, Department of Geography, Syracuse University
2003	Maxwell Summer Stipend, Maxwell School of Citizenship, Syracuse University
2002	Summer Research Grant, Maxwell School of Citizenship, Syracuse University
2002	Maxwell Deans Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Geography, Syracuse University
1999	Summer Fellowship, Department of Sociology, Syracuse University
1993-6	Syracuse University Scholarship
1994	Hugh E. Watts Memorial Scholarship (Essay Contest), United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
1993	W.M. Van Allen Scholarship for academic achievement
Research & Teaching Interests:
· Political Economy: Culture, Information and the Built Environment; Rent, Finance and Media; Cities and Consumption; Globalization, Cities, Labor
· Urban and Media Geography: Cyber-Cities; Urban Landscapes and Media/ Telecommunications Infrastructure; Crowds and Consumerism; Cultural Creative Labor; Race and Ethnicity
· Cultural Theory and Geographic Thought
· Qualitative Methods: Ethnography and Activist Research Methods
Teaching and Professional Appointments
Fall 2007- present	Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State University, Department of Telecommunications (TCOM), School of Media and Communication (COMS) TCOM486/GEO400, Media Industry and Events (cross listed with Geography) TCOM475, Electronic Surveillance and Privacy TCOM365, History of Broadcasting TCOM103, Introduction to Media and the Information Society (GRAD) COMS729, Media, Space, and Power ACS782/COMS729, Media and Cultural Studies (cross listed with the School of Media and Communication)
Fall 2005-Spring 2007	Research Associate/Lecturer, University of Vermont, Geography GEO060, The Geography of Race and Ethnicity in the U.S. (cross listed with Ethnic Studies) GEO272 (Grad/Undergrad Seminar), Space, Power, and Identity: Global Media and Popular Culture (Fall only) (associated with Film and Media Studies Program)
Spring 2005	Lecturer, World Geography (GEO105, 200 Students/4 TAs), SU
Fall 2004	Lecturer, World Geography (GEO105, 150 Students/2 TAs), SU
Spring 2004	Lecturer, World Cultures (GEO172, 150 Students/2 TAs), SU
Fall 2003	Lecturer, World Cultures (GEO172, 150 Students/2 TAs), SU
Spring 2002	Teaching Assistant, World Geography (GEO105), SU
Fall 2001	Research Assistant, the People’s Geography Project, SU
Spring 2001	Teaching Assistant, Urban Sociology (SOC), SU
Fall 2000	Teaching Assistant, New York City Urban Environment (SOC), SU
Spring 2000	Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Sociology, (SOC101) SU
Fall 1999	Teaching Assistant, NYC Urban Environment (SOC), SU
Fall 1998-Spring 1999	Teaching Assistant, Social Problems (SOC102), SU
1997	AmeriCorps, Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)/Project Coordinator, Literacy Volunteers, Warrenton, VA
1996	Research Assistant, Dr. Suzanne Mettler, Political Science, SU
1996	Research Assistant, Dr. Micere Mugo, African American Studies, SU
Publications
Monographs in Preparation
The Image Factory: MTV and Struggles for the Geography of Culture. To be resubmitted for review by Cornell University Press, July, 2009.
Journal Articles
Rosati, Clayton and Mitchell, Don. (2009). "‘Live Monster’: Black Friday and the All-Consuming City." Human Geography, 2(1).
Rosati, Clayton. (2007). “MTV: 360^o of the Industrial Production of Culture.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 32 (4): 556-575.
Rosati, Clayton. (2007). “Media Geographies: Towards a Spatial Politics of the Image.” Geography Compass 1 (5): 995-1014.
In Press
Rosati, Clayton. "Walkout NYC!: On Strike in a World of Fetishes, Fictions, and Beleaguered Workers." ACME: An International E-Journal of Critical Geographies.
Under Review
"Formatting Death: Dead Labor, Media, and the Cultural Politics of Realization." Submitted to Antipode, January 2009.
Revise and Resubmit
“Detroit’s ‘Fabulous’ Ruins: New narratives of the city-scape in online communities.” Co-authored with Joshua Atkinson, to be resubmitted to Critical Studies in Media Communication, June 2009.
“Groundwork for Hegemony: Toward an Economic Turn in Cultural Geography.” Antipode, June 2009.
“Grounding ‘Cyber-space’: Landscapes of the Internet and the Political Economy of ‘Cyber-Spatial’ Production.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, June 2009.
In Preparation
“The Ecstasy of Alienation: Media Landscapes and the Spatial Struggles of Cultural Production.” To be submitted to Social and Cultural Geography, May 2009.
“Into the Red: ‘Black Friday,’ Consumer Crisis and a Return to ‘Proletarian Culture’.” To be submitted to Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, May 2009.
“Ghettosuperstar: Hip Hop, Geography, and the Industrial Production of Politics.” To be submitted to Cultural Geographies, August 2009.
“The Terror of Communication: Critical Infrastructure and the Culture of Security.” To be submitted to Annals of the Association of American Geographers, October 2009.
“Modern Racism as Mass Deception: Race and Revisionism in the Culture Industry, the case of MTV’s ‘Hip-Hop Week’.” Co-authored with Linda Waldron, to be submitted to the Howard Journal of Communications, November 2009.
Book Chapters
2008		“It’s Black Friday and So the Wind Must Blow: Consumption, Culture, and the New City.” Co-authored with Don Mitchell, for Alejandro Mercado, Miriam Alfie and Graciela Martinez (Eds.) Encrucijadas, Encuentros y Divergencias en las Ciudades/Region de America del Norte. Centro de Estudios Sobre America del Norte, UNAM and Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana- Cuajimalpa, Mexico.
2006		“The Globalization of ‘Culture’: Geography and the Industrial Production of Culture.” Co-authored with Don Mitchell, for D. Conway and N. Heynen (Eds.) Globalization’s Contradictions: Geographies of Discipline, Destruction and Resistance? New York, Routledge, 2006.
Instructional Publications
Encyclopedia Entries
2006	“Social Justice.”  Co-authored with Bob Ross, for B. Warf, Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Sage.
Other Instructional Publications
1999	Readings in Social Problems (Third Edition), Co-Editor with Banerjee and DasGupta, Pearson Custom Publishing, Needham Heights, MA.
Book Reviews
forthcoming	Managing the Infosphere: Governance, Technology, and Cultural Practice in Motion. Professional Geographer.
2004	Race and Place: Equity Issues in Urban America. Contemporary Sociology 33 (4): 427-428.
Featured News Press
1996	Rodriguez, C. “An SU Student Tries to be ‘Part of the Solution’.” Syracuse Post-Standard, February 1, B1.
Grants
Research/Development Grant Proposals Under Review
National Endowment for the Humanities, “Into the Red: A Documentary Film about Black Friday, Urban Development, and the Consumer Economy in Crisis.” Submitted, January 2009.
Research Grant Proposals in Preparation
National Science Foundation, “Crypto-Geographies: Critical Infrastructure, Communication and the Network Security Society.” To be submitted, October 2009.
Presentations
Invited Paper Presentations
March 2008	"Infrastructures of Feeling: Aspiration, Ecstasy, and Struggles for the Landscapes of Culture." Miami University (Ohio), Department of Geography Colloquium Series (Oxford, OH).
November 2007	"Infrastructures of Feeling: Aspiration, Ecstasy, and Struggles for the Landscapes of Culture." University of Kentucky, Department of Geography Colloquium Series (Lexington, KY).
December 2006	“’The Aspiration Factor’: MTV, Celebrity, and the Geography of Industrial Cultural Production.” University of Toronto, Department of Geography Colloquium Series (Toronto, Canada).
February 2005	“’The Aspiration Factor’: MTV, Celebrity, and the Geography of Industrial Cultural Production.” Syracuse University Department of Geography Colloquium Series (Syracuse, NY).
March 2005	“The Ecstasy of Alienation: Struggles over the Media Landscape.” University of Miami, American Studies Program, (Miami, FL).
March 2004	“The Ecstasy of Alienation: Struggles over the Media Landscape.” University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Department of Communication, (Amherst, MA).
Invited Community Speaking Engagements
December 2007	Geography and the Study of Media. Graduate Seminar, Bowling Green State University, School of Communication Studies (Bowling Green, OH).
December 2006	Radical Methodologies and the Geographies of Popular Culture. Graduate Seminar, University of Toronto, Department of Geography (Toronto, Canada).
November 2004	“Soylent Present: Environmental Crisis, the Cadaver Trade, and Soylent Green.” People’s Geography Film Series, Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY).
April 2004	“Racial Boundaries, Culture, and Hip-Hop Tourism in 8-Mile” (with Don Mitchell). People’s Geography Film Series, Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY).
March 2004	“Culture, Science, and Cyber-Landscapes: New York City and Northern Virginia.” Invited Guest Lecture, (SOC 400) Technology and Society, Sociology, Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY).
Panel Sessions/Round Tables at Professional Meetings
April 2009	Panelist in There Goes the Neighborhood? University Entrepreneurialism, the City, and Globalization. Association of American Geographers national meetings (Las Vegas, NV).
April 2009	Panelist in Hear No Evil?: Interviewing the Powerful. Association of American Geographers national meetings (Las Vegas, NV).
April 2008	Panelist in Interrogating the Creative Class. Association of American Geographers national meetings (Boston, MA).
April 2008	Panelist in Geographies of the First Amendment. Association of American Geographers national meetings (Boston, MA).
April 2008	Panelist in What to Make of Labor Politics. Association of American Geographers national meetings (Boston, MA).
April 2007	“The Means of Free Speech: Infrastructures of Democracy, Imagination.” Panelist in The First Amendment: Critical Geographies. Association of American Geographers national meetings (San Francisco, CA).
April 2007	“Remembering the Built Environment.” Panelist in Being Virtually There: Roundtable on Virtual Methodologies. Association of American Geographers national meetings (San Francisco, CA).
Papers Presented at Professional Meetings
April 2009	“Walkout NYC!: Class Mobilization and the Media Labor Struggles of 2007.” The Left Forum, international meetings (NY, NY).
April 2009	“The Ecstasy of Alienation: Infrastructures of Feeling and Struggles for the Geography of Culture.” Media Fields 2: Infrastructures, UC Santa Barbara Department of Film and Media (Santa Barbara, CA).
March 2009	“Into the Red: Consumer Crisis and a Return to ‘Proletarian Culture’.” Association of American Geographers national meetings (Las Vegas, NV).
October 2008	“Necromancing: Dead Labor, Media, and the Cultural Politics of Realization.” Critical Geography Conference (Athens, OH).
October 2007	“The Illest March in History: MTV, Hip-hop, and the Industrial Production of Politics.” Critical Geography Conference (Lexington, KY).
March 2006	“The Terror of Communication: Critical Infrastructure, Property, and the Culture of Security.” Association of American Geographers national meetings (Chicago, IL).
November 2005	“The Terror of Communication: Critical Infrastructure, Property, and the Culture of Security.” American Studies Association national meetings (Washington, DC).
April 2005	“Yes…and Capital Won: 2004, Prediction, and the Industrial Production of Politics.” Panelist in Current Topics Roundtable: The 2004 US Elections as 'Culture War'? Association of American Geographers national meetings (Denver, CO).
April 2005	“The Groundwork for Hegemony: Towards an Economic Turn in Cultural Geography.” Association of American Geographers national meetings (Denver, CO).
January 2005	“The Terror of Communication: Policing the Infrastructure of Communication.” Fourth International Conference of Critical Geographers (Mexico City, Mexico).
March 2004	“The Globalization of ‘Culture’: Geography and the Industrial Production of Culture.” Panelist in Globalization’s Dimensions: Forces of Discipline, Destruction and Resistance? Association of American Geographers national meetings (Philadelphia, PA).
March 2004	“The Ecstasy of Alienation: MTV, Media Landscapes, and the Spatial Struggles of Cultural Production.” Association of American Geographers national meetings (Philadelphia, PA).
October 2003	“The Ecstasy of Alienation: MTV, Media Landscapes, and the Spatial Struggles of Cultural Production.” Canadian Association of Geographers, Ontario Meetings (Kingston, Ontario).
May 2003	“Getting in the Picture: Gender, Space, and Creative Labor on Total Request Live.” Center for Working Class Studies Conference (Youngstown, OH).
March 2003	“Grounding ‘Cyberspace’: Landscapes of the Internet and the Political Economy of ‘Cyber-Spatial’ Production.” Association of American Geographers national meetings (New Orleans, LA).
June 2002	“Humiliation for Accumulation’s Sake: Logistics, Prospects and Problems for Taking the Space of the Media.” Third International Conference of Critical Geographers (Bekescsaba, Hungary).
March 2002	“The Image Factory: MTV, Geography, and the Industrial Production of Culture” Association of American Geographers national meetings (Los Angeles, CA).
April 2000	“Broadcasting the Ill-Nana: Race, Sexuality and Commodification on MTV’s ‘Hip-Hop Week’.” Midwestern Sociological Society Meetings (Chicago, IL).
March 2000	“New School Flava, Same Old Taste Buds: Race, Revisionism and Commodification on MTV’s ‘Hip-Hop Week’.” Co-presented with Linda Waldron, Eastern Sociological Society Meetings (Baltimore, MD).
October 1999	“Hustlers of Culture: Apparently the Revolution will be Televised.” Co-presented with Linda Waldron, Sociology Writing Workshop Series, Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY).
March 1999	“Pressing Agendas: ‘Modern Racism’ and the New York Times’ Coverage of the Million Man March”. Sociology Writing Workshop Series, Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY).
Sessions Organized at Professional Meetings
April 2009	Session co-organizer (w/ Jamey Essex and Bob Ross), Panel Session—“Hear No Evil?: Interviewing the Powerful,” Association of American Geographers national meetings (Las Vegas, NV).
March 2008	Chair and Session co-organizer (w/ Jamey Essex), Paper Session—“Spatial Turns and Cutting Edges: Geographers Engage with Interdisciplinarity,” Association of American Geographers national meetings (Boston, MA).
March 2008	Chair and Session co-organizer (w/ Carrie Breitbach), Paper Session—“What to Make of Labor Politics,” Association of American Geographers national meetings (Boston, MA).
March 2008	Chair and Session co-organizer (w/ Carrie Breitbach), Panel Session—“What to Make of Labor Politics,” Association of American Geographers national meetings (Boston, MA).
March 2006	Chair and Session co-organizer (w/ Bob Ross), Paper Session—“Infrastructures of Feeling,” Association of American Geographers national meetings (Chicago, IL).
April 2005	Session organizer, Paper Session—“The Economic Turn in Cultural Geography,” Association of American Geographers national meetings (Denver, CO).
January 2005	Chair and Session organizer, Paper Session—“Surveillance, Control, Exclusion and Struggle,” 4^th International Conference of Critical Geographers (Mexico City, Mexico).
June 2002	Chair and Session organizer, Roundtable Debate—“People's Geographies of and after 11 September 2001: How can we tell the geographies of terrorism so as to promote the struggle for justice?”, 3^rd International Conference of Critical Geographers (Bekescsaba, Hungary).
June 2002	Session organizer, Paper Session—“Forget Producing Space, Now’s the Time to Take It,” 3^rd International Conference of Critical Geographers (Bekescsaba, Hungary).
Creative/Arts Projects
Spring 2008- present	Political art and “visual interventions,” produced for Human Geography, A New Journal. (See www.y2clay.com/projects.html)
In Production / Filming Begun 11/22/06	Documentary Film, “Into the Red: A Documentary Film about Black Friday, Urban Development, and the Consumer Economy in Crisis.” With Philip Rosati.
In Preparation	“Archeology of the Projects: Political Sculpture, Ambivalence, and the Death of Public Housing.” Collaborative sculpture installation/research project with Jason Bulluck.
2005-present	Web designer, People’s Geography Project (Syracuse, NY). (see www.peoplesgeographyproject.org)
2004-2005	Grundrisse Trio, Avante Jazz Project (Syracuse, NY).
Service
Editorial Board Member
2009	Visuals Editor, Human Geography: A New Radical Journal, Institute for Human Geography, Inc.
2002	Editorial Review Board, Maxwell Review, , Syracuse University (SU)
Occasional Grant Referee for:
	National Science Foundation
Occasional Journal Referee for:
	Antipode
	Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
	Environment and Planning A
	Cultural Geographies
	Geografiska Annaler B
	ACME
	Journal of Geography
University Service
2007-present	Institute for the Study of Culture and Society Writing Group, BGSU
2005	Co-organizer, Geography’s “Women in Science Lecture Series,” co-sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology, UVM.
School / Departmental Service
2008/9	Graduate Programming Committee, Bowling Green State University
2008/9	Undergraduate Programming Committee, Bowling Green State University
2007/8	Departmental Liaison with Recreation and Tourism, Bowling Green State University
2007-9	Recruitment Committee, Bowling Green State University
2007	Preview Day Organizer, Bowling Green State University
2007/8	Undergraduate Programming Committee, Bowling Green State University
2006	NESTVAL Geography Conference Planning Committee, University of Vermont
2005	Remodeling the Undergraduate Geography Major, Syracuse University
2005-present	Web Design, The People’s Geography Project, Syracuse, NY
2004	Faculty Moderator, Presidential Debate Student Forum Series, sponsored by the Student Association and College Democrats, Syracuse University
2004	Undergraduate Committee, Syracuse University Department of Geography
2003	Graduate Committee, Syracuse University Department of Geography
1996-1997	Co-Chair, Concerned African American Studies Majors and Minors
Community Service
2005	Syracuse Green Party, campaign consultant
1999-2005	Eastside Neighborhood Arts Culture and Technology (ENACT), volunteer & research consultant
1999-2005	SSMI, Syracuse Social Movement Initiative
1996	Chair of Housing and Community Committee, SU NAACP
1996	Volunteer, Onondaga Democratic Committee, Swing District Targeting
1993-1996	WERW, DJ (Hip-Hop, Jazz and Politics show)
Professional Training/Engagement
2008			Economic Geography Summer Institute (competitive), Manchester, UK
2007-present			Social Theory Research Cluster (BGSU)
2007-present			Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, Writing Group (BGSU)
2001			ESRI Arcview GIS Certificate
1999-2001			Future Professoriate Program
1997			English as a Second Language Tutor Trainer
1997			VISTA Training
Professional Memberships
	Association of American Geographers
	American Studies Association
	People’s Geography Project

References
	Don Mitchell: (315) 443-2605 dmmitc01@maxwell.syr.edu Distinguished Professor, Department of Geography 144 Eggers Hall Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13244-1020
	Matt Hannah: (01970) 622580 mch@aber.ac.uk Professor, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences Aberystwyth University, Wales
	Jim Glassman: (604) 822-1892 glassman@geog.ubc.ca Department of Geography, University of British Columbia
	Jackie Orr: (315) 443-2346 jtorr@maxwell.syr.edu Associate Professor, Department of Sociology 302 Maxwell Hall Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13244
	Beverley Mullings: (613) 533-6030 mullings@post.queensu.ca Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Queens University
	Scott Kirsch: (919) 962-3874 kirsch@email.unc.edu Department of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill