Michael R. Goldman
- Personal History and Professional Experience
A.Educational Background
Northwestern University, B.S., History and Journalism, 1982
University of California at Santa Cruz, MA, Sociology, 1990
University of California at Santa Cruz, Ph.D., Sociology, 1994
Dissertation title: “’There’s a Snake on Our Backs’: Development and State Crisis in India’s Desert” (Advisor: James O’Connor)
Research Areas of Expertise
Transnational Sociology of Development, Environment, Financial Institutions, Knowledge/Power, Expertise, and Global Urbanisms/Cities
Working on a book manuscript, tentatively titled: “Cities on Fire”
B.List of Academic Positions since Final Degree
Assistant Professor, Lewis and Clark College, Sociology and Anthropology, 1997
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Department of Sociology, 1998 to April 2004
Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Department of Sociology, May to August 2004
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Sociology and Institute for Global Studies, Fall 2004
Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Sociology and Institute for Global Studies, Fall 2005 to present
McKnight Presidential Fellow, University of Minnesota 2005-2008
C.Honors, Recognitions, and Outstanding Achievements
1991Fulbright Dissertation Research Fellowship (in Rajasthan, India)
1991Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, India
1994-1996 S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Research Fellowship,Sociology Department, University of California-Berkeley
1996-1998John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship in Peace and International
Cooperation, Research and Writing Grant, Sociology Department, University of California-Berkeley
1993-2000Associate Fellow, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1993-1996European Union grant for the Ecopolitics Commons Project, through the
Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, invited investigator
2000-2001 “Incomplete List of Teachers ranked Excellent”, both semesters
2001-2002 Fellow, Yale University’s Program in Agrarian Studies, in residence in New Haven
2001-2002 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois
2004 “Incomplete List of Teachers ranked Excellent”, Spring semester
2005-2008 McKnight Presidential Fellow, University of Minnesota
2006-2008 American Institute for Indian Studies, Senior Fellow award, for research in India
2008 Residential Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota
2008Book Award, for Imperial Nature, Political Economy of the World-System, American Sociological Association
2013-14 Arthur Motley Exemplary Teaching Award
2016 Residential Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota
2016-2018 Awarded the Dr. V.K.R.V. Rao Chair Professor, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India
D.Invited Lectures and Invited Conference Presentations (jumping to 1992)
1992International Sociological Association, Environmental Sociology meeting, Netherlands
1992Annual South Asia Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison
19928th World Congress for Rural Sociology (IRSA), Penn State University
1992Colloquium Lecture, University of Chicago, South Asia and Middle East Seminar
1993American Sociological Association Meetings, Environment and Technology panel
1993Colloquium Lecture (STARE series), Sociology Department, University Wisconsin-Madison
1993Association for Asian Studies 45th Conference, Los Angeles
1993International workshop on Environment and Development, Korean Sociological Association, Seoul
1993European Union/Transnational Institute “Ecopolitics and the Commons” workshop, Amsterdam
1994 International Society for Ecological Economics, 3rd International Meeting, Costa Rica
1994European Union/Transnational Institute’s “Ecopolitics” workshop, Bonn, May
1994EU/Transnational Institute’s “Ecopolitics” workshop, Frankfurt, October
1995Invited Talks: Central Arid Zone Research Institute; Desert Medical Research Institute, Jodhpur, India; Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, India
1996Working Group Workshop on “Social Capital and Politics of Sustainability,” sponsored by AAAS and the Social Capital and Public Affairs Project, University Californian, Berkeley
1996American Sociological Association Meetings, Political Economy of World-Systems panel
1996International Common Property Conference (IASCP), panel organizer and presenter
1996Energy and Resources Group Colloquium, University Californian, Berkeley
1996Annual South Asia Conference, University Californian, Berkeley
1997American Sociological Asc. Meetings, Sociology of Knowledge and Intellectuals Panel
1997Instituto de Estudios Indígenas, Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco, Chile: “The New Politics of Development Science: Indigenous Peoples, Sustainability, Resistance” Ford Foundation/University of Oregon/Lewis and Clark College Conference on Asian Studies: “‘Greening’ the Mekong: The World Bank and Environmentally Sustainable development”
1998Yale University (Institute for Social and Policy Studies and the Program in Agrarian Studies), Cost-Benefit Analysis Dilemma Conference
1998The Transnational Institute, Amsterdam: “Globalization and the Environment” conference, Keynote Speaker: de Baile Cultural Center, Amsterdam, and Public Debut of Privatizing Nature
1998Invited Talks at The Social Research Institute in Frankfurt, University of Bielefeld, and Freiburg University, Germany: “The Politics of Green Science at the World Bank” and “Transnational Institutions and the Production of Green Knowledge”
1999Geography Department, Colloquium Series, University of Illinois
2000Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Colloquium Series, UIUC
2000American Sociological Association, Annual Meetings, Chicago, Panel on Property Institutions and Resource Regimes
2000Illinois Wesleyan University, Environmental Studies Lecture Series
2000International Sociological Association, RC-24 Section, Conference on “The Environmental State Under Pressure,” Chicago, closing plenary panel
2000Yale University, Program in Agrarian Studies, Colloquium Series, “The Art of Eco-government: The New Agenda of a ‘Green’ World Bank”
2001Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, Environmental Knowledge Workshop
2001University of Chicago, Transnational Sociology symposium, invited presenter
2002 American Sociological Association, Sociology of Development panel presentation
2002Sociology Department Colloquium Series, UIUC
2002Program in Environmental and Resource Economics Colloquium Series, UIUC
2002Cornell University, keynote address, Landscape Transformations conference
2002Yale University, Colloquium Presentation, Program in Agrarian Studies
2002Witwatersrand University, World Summit on Sustainable Development,
Johannesburg, South Africa, Invited Speaker
2003UIUC African Studies/International Studies, 29th Annual Spring Symposium
2003Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Invited Speaker, “Changing Properties of Property” conference, Halle, Germany (declined)
2003 Chiang Mai University, Thailand, Plenary Speaker, “Politics of the Commons” conference (declined)
2003Invited Speaker, University of Minnesota, Sociology and Institute for Global Studies
2004Invited Organizer and Presider, Thematic Session on “The Environment,” by the ASA Program Committee for the Annual Sociological Meetings, San Francisco
2004Panelist, “Environment and Technology” special session, ASA, SF
2004Invited Presenter, International Rural Sociology Conference, Trondheim, Norway.
2004Invited Presenter, Joint-Area Studies Conference, “Globalization and Water”, University of Illinois, November
2004Invited Speaker, Environmental Politics Colloquium Series, Institute for International Studies, University of California-Berkeley, October
2005Invited Speaker, IV Encuentro Salamanca, “Politicas de la Tierra,” sponsored by the former vice president of Spain, the foundation, Fundacion Sistema, and journal,Revista Temas, May
2005Paper presentation, “Ecology, Imperialism, and the Contradictions of Capitalism” conference, York University, Toronto, June
2005Invited Speaker, Social Ecology series, School of Environmental Studies and Forestry, and guest lecturer in a graduate course in conservation and development, Yale University, October
2006Paper presentation, on Neoliberalism and Nature panel, American Association of geographers (AAG), annual meetings, Chicago, March.
2006University of California-Santa Cruz, Sociology Speakers Series
2006Stanford University Humanities Institute and Anthropology Department
2006Two-day workshop, invited speaker, European Commission-funded initiative for a policy paper on the History and Future of Knowledge and Science Production, Brussels, Belgium
2006Boston University, Sociology Colloquium Series
2006Boston College, Sociology Colloquium Series
2006 Dartmouth College, two-day campus visit for three invited lectures
2006University of Paris, CNRS, and Natural Science Museum, invited lecture, Paris
2006University of Avignon (France) and the Ecodevelopment Institute for 2-day workshop on my book
2006Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (PhD-granting institution), Bangalore
2006National Law School, Bangalore
2006Public Talk, Centre for Film and Drama, Bangalore
2006Manchester University, Development and Poverty Institute, Manchester UK
2006Rutgers University, Invited speaker, Center for Global Change and Governance
2006Keynote Speaker, for the Annual Conference of Nicaragua Sister City Organization, Minneapolis
2006Two talks at Washburn High School, Minneapolis, Public Outreach for IGS, U-M
2006Guest presentation via teleconference, in graduate seminar reading my book, Penn State University
2006Hour-long radio interview on water and international finance, WEFT radio, Urbana, Illinois
2006Book launch and reading at U-M Bookstore
2006Public Talk for Continuing Education Series, University of Minnesota
2007Madras Institute for Development Studies, Chennai/Madras, India
2007National Institute for Advanced Studies, Indian Institute for Science, Bangalore
2007Workshop on Water in Greater Bangalore, NIAS/IISc, Co-organizer and speaker
2007Co-Keynote with Timothy Mitchell, Conference on Rule of Experts, Institute of International Studies, UC-Berkeley
2007Mellon Sawyer Seminar Invited Speaker, Duke University
2007 South Asia Speakers Series, University of Minnesota, “Getting Bangalored”
2008Panel on my book, Imperial Nature, Annual Geography (AAG) Meetings, Boston
2008Special Panel addressing World Bank’s 2008 World Development Report, Annual geography meetings, Boston
2008Special Address, Tata Institute for Social Sciences, Mumbai, India
2008 Public Talk, Environmental Support Group, Bangalore, India
Recorded and shown on the cable station, Real Estate Channel throughout India
2008Keynote Address, Clarke Forum on Public Issues, Davidson College (PA)
2008Selected presenter, SSRC Workshop, “Inter-Referencing Asia: Urban Experiments and the Art of Being Global,” Dubai School of Government, UAE, February
2008 Max Planck Institute (Berlin) sponsored workshop on Global Governance and Science, CNRS and EHESS, Paris, France, May
2008 Hamline University, St. Paul
2008 St. Olafs College, Northfield, MN
2008University of Colorado-Boulder, Sociology Colloquium Series
2008University of Michigan’s Ford School of Policy, Science, Technology, and Policy Colloquium Series
2009Consortium on the Study of the Asias, “Comparing Global Cities: China and India”, U-Minnesota (January 30, 2009), with a Chinese specialist
2009ESRC National UK Seminar Series—New Castle/Northumbria/Edinburgh Universities-on Volunterism, Citizenship, and Activism (May 19-20, 2009); three presentations, in New Castle, UK
2009Public Talk, co-sponsored by the Centre for Internet and Society and CASUUM, an urban issues organization, “Indian Cities, Speculative Real Estate, and the Financial Crisis,” June, Bangalore, India
2009ASA Annual Meetings, SF, August, “Speculating on the Next World City,” on the Globalization panel.
2009ICGC Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium Series, September
2010Co-sponsors: University of Minnesota, Peking University in Shenzhen, China, National University of Singapore, and Hong Kong University: “Making Global Cities and the Global Economic Crisis” (January 4-7, 2010). Co-organizer and presenter.
2010“Anthropology of International Institutions,” funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Paris, June 10-12, a workshop to produce an edited book, on the latest on questions of knowledge and governance in global institutions. Co-sponsored by Institut Interdisciplinaire d’Anthropologie du Contemporain (IIAC), LAOIS, and CNRS/EHESS, 10-12 June.
2010
Invited presenter, resident scholar, at INRA-Avignon, France’s national Ecodevelopment Institute, on a French government grant, to collaborate over the long-term with an interdisciplinary team on urban expansionism and its effects on rural economies, two weeks, June 2010.
Public presentation, sponsored by SETER (Agropolis Fondation/CIRAD), and INRA-Ecodeveloppement, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France, 1 July.
2010Sociology Colloquium Series, Rutgers University November.
2011 Colloquium Speaker for a Public Event, National Institute for Advanced Studies, IISc-Bangalore, India,“Why the ‘Urban Turn’ in Global Policymaking?,” February.
Public Workshop on my article, “Speculative Urbanism and the Making of the Next World City”, at a public venue, Jaaga, February, Bangalore.
Talk based on my article, “Speculative Urbanism and the Making of the Next World City”, at Tata Institute of Social Studies, Mumbai, India, February.
2011 Co-organizer of and presenter at a SSRC pre-dissertation set of workshops on “provincializing global urbanism,” with Helga Leitner, Eric Sheppard, Ananya Roy, in Monterey, CA in June and Philadelphia in September.
UC-Berkeley, Colloquium Speaker, sponsored by Global Metropolitan Studies, “Speculation in an Age of Urban Revolution,” and an all-day graduate student workshop focused on my work on political ecology and global urbanism, October
Cornell University, Keynote Speaker, Rethinking Development Conference, November
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual International Conference, Paper presentation, Madrid, Spain, June
GPS Alliance, Colloquium Series Speaker, UofM, September
European Studies Colloquium Series, “From Cairo to Madrid to London: Are We Entering the Age of Urban Revolution?,” UofM, November
2012
Co-organizer and Presenter, 4 day International Conference, “Urban Revolutions in an Age of Global Urbanism,” Jakarta, Indonesia, March 2012
Plenary Panel Organizer and Presenter, “Sustainable Cities?” American Sociological Association, Annual Meetings, Denver, August 2012
Colloquium Talk, Sociology, University of Wisconsin (Oct), 2012
Colloquium Talk, Sociology, University of Illinois, (Nov) 2012
2013
Presenter, Presidential Plenary Panel, “Genres of Global Urbanism,”
American Association of Geographers, Annual Meetings, Los
Angeles, April 2013
Invited Keynote Speaker, Institut Francilien Recherché Innovation Societe (IFRIS), Paris, “Le Global et les Processus de Globalisation comme objets de Sciences Socialies.” In Florence, Italy, 14-18 May, a workshop for PhDs and postdocs, across Europe. (declined)
Invited presenter, SSRC Conference on InterAsian Connections, paper presenter in the workshop on social class and labor, three days at Koc University, Istanbul, October
Invited speaker, Sociology Colloquium Series, Bogazici University, Istanbul, October
Invited Speaker, Centre for Historical Studies, J Nehru University, New Delhi, September
Invited Speaker, Delhi School of Economics and Sociology, New Delhi, September
2014
Invited Workshop presentation, NYU-New School collaboration, on the “Urban Zone”, February
Invited talk, Interdisciplinary Seminar on Urban Democracy, NYU, A Public Forum at the Cooper Union, May
Panelist, Globalization and Inequality, ASA Annual Meetings, SF, August
Invited Talk, Geography Department, UCLA, November
2015
Invited Paper Presentation, to workshop a paper in progress, UCLA, Social Comparative Analysis Seminar, Sociology, March
Keynote Address, International Urban Studies Congress, sponsored by Institute of Urban Research (Ankara), Journal of Urban Research, and Anadolu Universitesi, Eskisehir, Turkey
Invited speaker, Sociology, Bilgi University, Istanbul, and Adnan Menderes University, Izmir, Turkey, April
Invited speaker, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and invited to participate in workshops with faculty and deans to help design an Endowed Chair Program in Global South Cities, two weeks in May
Featured Speaker, International Studies Program, Hamline University, October
E.Editorships of Journals
Founding editorial board of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, and Ecologia Politica (Rome, Italy), Contributing editor (2015-).
Co-editor, with Wendy Wolford (Cornell) and Nancy Peluso (Berkeley), launching a new book series on Land: New Perspectives in Territory, Development and Environment with Cornell University Press (2016-)
Invited (but declined) Contributing Editor, American Journal of Sociology (2007-2010).
Editorial Advisory Committee (or COP), University of Minnesota Press (2007-2010)
F.Grants Received Since 1999
1999-2000University of Illinois, Critical Research Initiative Planning Grant, with Michael Irwin, an interdisciplinary (natural and social sciences) project on biodiversity,($10,000, returned when group disbanded)
1999-2000 University of Illinois, Research Board Grant, for final research on the World Bank, ($16,373)
1999-2000 UI Environmental Council Course Development Grant ($9,837)
2002-2003University of Illinois, Research Board Grant, to complete World Bank book ($6,288)
1998-2003 UI Research Board Travel Grants, each year for domestic or international conferences
2005-2008 McKnight Presidential Fellow, three year research grant, U of Minnesota
2006-2007Sabbatical and Sabbatical Supplement Awards, UM
2006 International Travel Grant, Office of International Programs, UM
2006-2007 American Institute for Indian Studies, Senior Fellow(ship)
2006 GRRP Award with graduate student Jin Woong Kang
2007 GRRP Award with graduate student Raphi Rechitsky
2007Title VI Grant, IGS and ICGS, to run a Symposium, and start a research collaborative on Making Global Cities, Spring 2008, with U of M and Global South cities’ scholars (Bangalore, Istanbul, Singapore, Taipei, Shanghai, Cape Town)
2008 International Travel Grant, OIP/IGS, U of M, Winter (Bangalore)
2008-09 Institute for Advanced Study, co-PI, Research Collaborative, housed in IAS, to develop a campus collaborative on Making Global Cities, $12,500
2008-09Office of International Programs, Co-PI, Making Global Cities, to initiate research collaboratives and projects among UM faculty and research institutes in Global South cities, $25,000
2009 NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant, with graduate student Jin Woong Kang on North Korean State Micro-Politics (his co-signatory on the grant)
2009 GRRP award with graduate student Sinan Erensu
2010 Semester Leave Grant, U of Minnesota, for Spring 2011
2011“Urban Revolutions in an Age of Global Urbanism”, a highly competitive grant from the Urban Studies Journal Foundaton (UK) for its first-ever international workshop on innovation in urban theory, proposal co-authored with Profs. Helga Leitner, Vinay Gidwani, Eric Sheppard, Ananya Roy from UC Berkeley, and Prof. and Dean Jo Santoso from Tarumanagara University, Jakarta, Indonesia. We ran an international workshop in Jakarta, March 2012, and a special issue of Urban Studies
2012 We (Profs. Sheppard, Gidwani, Leitner, and myself) as Co-PIs received a $65,000 grant from Global Spotlight International Major Grant (GPS Alliance of OIP at the UofM), with another $15,000 from other sources, for a collaborative project with colleagues in Bangalore and Jakarta, “The Great Transformation: Urban Land Markets, Livelihoods and the Growing Ecological Crisis in Asia’s Cities.”
2013Sabbatical Funding with supplement.
2014Institute of the Environment, UofM, seed grant funding for a project with PhD student, Devika Narayan on the new politics of land and water in Bangalore
2014Our Integrated Water Research Training Network was funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Council. I am a senior collaborator working alongside the Co-PIs: Leila Harris (U of British Columbia), Chris Sneddon (Dartmouth), Jackie Goldin (U. of Western Cape). ($200,000 over three years) For developing a global interdisciplinary network and training program on water research for global South institutes/projects. Will fund three pilot research projects on urban water politics and ecology, including one led by me in Bangalore, and two others in Lima and Cape Town. Received funding for two UofM PhD students. Plan to use this grant as seed money for a $2 million proposal from the Canadian equivalent of NSF.
II. Publications and Creative Works
A.Doctoral thesis title
1.“’There’s a Snake on Our Backs’: Development and State Crisis in India’s Desert”, adviser Prof. James O’Connor
B.Books Authored
1.Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization, New Haven, CT and London, UK: Yale University Press, June 2005, paperback version 2006. Published by Orient Longman, India (2006), and in Japanese by Kyoto University Press, 2008, with plans for a Bahasa translation in Indonesia.