Lauren L. Martin

Postdoctoral Research Fellow // Borders, Mobilities, and Identities Research Group // Department of Geography // University of Oulu, Finland

Education

2011    PhD in Geography,  Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.

Dissertation: “Technologies of Apprehension: The Family, Law, Security, and Geopolitics in US Noncitizen Family Detention Policy and Practice.”

Committee: Dr. Anna Secor (Chair), Dr. Tad Mutersbaugh, Dr. Sue Roberts, Dr. Patricia Ehrkamp; Dr. Jeffory Clymer (English).

2007   Certificate in Women’s Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies Program, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.

2005    M.A. in Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.

Thesis: “A Spatial Politics of Irony and Sarcasm: Seeing, Speaking, and Being in the Heteroglossic Spaces of Airport Security.”

Committee: Dr. Tad Mutersbaugh (Chair), Dr. Anna Secor, Dr. Richard Schein.

2001        B.A. in Philosophy, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa.

Honors and Awards

2010 Association of American Geographers Graduate Student Affinity Group Student Paper Competition, Second Place.

2009-2010 Dissertation Year Fellowship. The Graduate School, University of Kentucky: $16,000. (Competitive.)

2008 National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science. $9,504. Project: “Doctoral Dissertation Research: Immigrant Family Detention: The Family, Law, Security, and Space in U.S. Immigration Policy and Practice.”  BCS 0825843.  Funded from August 1, 2008 to January 31, 2010. (Competitive.)

2008 Graduate Student Academic Year Fellowship, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky: $7,500.

2008 CGES Fellow, Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute, University of Minnesota.

2008  Dissertation Enhancement Award, University of Kentucky: $3,000 (Competitive.)

2007-2008 Presidential Fellowship, The Graduate School, University of Kentucky: $15,000. (Competitive.)

2004-2006 Daniel Reedy Achievement Award, The Graduate School, University of Kentucky: $3,000 per year. (Competitive.)

Publications

If you are interested in reading an article, but do not have access to a university library or specific journal, please contact me!

Peer Reviewed

2012 Chris Harker and Lauren L. Martin.* “Guest Editorial: Familial relations: Spaces, Subjects, and Politics.” Environment and Planning A. 44(4): 768-775.

2012 Lauren L. Martin. “Governing through the Family: Struggles over US Noncitizen Family Detention Policy.” Environment and Planning A. 44(4): 866-888.

2012 Lauren L. Martin. ” ‘Catch and Remove’: Detention, Deterrence, and Discipline in US Noncitizen Family Detention Practice.” Geopolitics. 17(2): 312-334.

2012 Tad Mutersbaugh and Lauren L. Martin. ”Dialectics of Disassembly: hiefer-care protocols and alienation in a village dairy cooperative.” Environment and Planning A. 44(3): 723-740.

2011 Lauren L. Martin. “The Geopolitics of Vulnerability: Migrant Families in U.S. Immigrant Family Detention Policy.” Gender, Place, & Culture. 18(4): 477-498. **Currently available to download for free from the journal website**

2010 Lauren L. Martin. “Bombs, Bodies, and Biopolitics: Securitizing the Subject at the Airport Security Checkpoint.” Social & Cultural Geography, 11(1): 17-34.

2009 Lauren Martin and Matthew Mitchelson.* “Geographies of Detention and Confinement: Interrogating Spatial Practices of Confinement, Discipline, Law, and State Power.”Geography Compass, 3(1): 459-477. (Invited article.)

2008 Lauren Martin and Stephanie Simon.* “A Formula for Disaster: The Department of Homeland Security’s Virtual Ontology.” Space and Polity. 12(3): 281-296.

2008 Oliver Belcher, Lauren Martin, Anna Secor, Stephanie Simon, Tommy Wilson.* “Everywhere and Nowhere: The Exception and the Topological Challenge to Geography.”Antipode, 40 (5): 499-503.

2005 Laura Gomez Tovar, Lauren Martin, Manuel Angel Gomez Cruz, Tad Mutersbaugh. “Certified Organic Agriculture in Mexico: Market Connections & Certification Practices in Large and Small Producers,”Journal of Rural Studies, 21(4): 461-474.

Book Chapters

2011 Lauren Martin. “Constructing the Border Wall–The Social and Environmental Impacts of Border Mexico-US  Border Policy,” In Stanley D. Brunn (Ed.) Engineering Earth: The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects.  Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer Science+Business Media, pp. 1701-1723. 

Submitted. Bob Libal, Lauren Martin, and Nicole Porter.* “A Prison is Not a Home: Notes from the Campaign to End Immigrant Family Detention.” In Andrew Burridge, Jenna Loyd, and Matt Mitchelson (Ed.s) Beyond Cages and Walls.

Submitted Hutto Visitation Project [Collaborative Writing Project]. “Visiting Women in Detention: Friendship, Solidarity, and Human Rights.” To be included in Human Rights in the Heart of Texas.  Ed. Dr. Shannon Speed, University of Texas. 

Books Reviews, Interviews, Op-eds

2010  Bob Libal and Lauren Martin.* “Devastated then Detained: Will the US Incarcerate Haitians at Gitmo?” Huffington Post, January 27, 2010. 

2010 Lauren Martin. “Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Jasbir K. Puar. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. xxviii and 335pp., $24.95 paperback (ISBN 978-0-8223-4114-7).”  Annals of the Association of American Geographers,  100(3): 707-709.

2007 Lauren Martin. “Interrogating ‘Experience’: Phenomenology, Architecture, and Erudition. disClosure interviews Mark Jarzombek.” disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory, 16: 91-99.

2007 Lauren Martin. “Book Review: Butler, Judith. 2004. Precarious Life: the Powers of Mourning and Violence. Verso, New York, NY.” disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory, 16: 143-145.

*Denotes equal authorship.

Additional Training

2008 “Immigration in Europe and North America: Representations of Self and Other.” Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute, Center for European and German Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. (June 9-21, 2008)

2005 90+ hours of immersion instruction in Spanish, Center for Intercultural Exchange and Dialogue, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Academic Teaching Experience 

2011 Instructor, “Cities of the World,” Department of Geography, University of Kentucky.

2010 Teaching Assistant, “Lands and Peoples of the Non-Western World,” Department of Geography, University of Kentucky.

2007 Facilitated capstone project for 5 Latin American Studies Majors.

2006-2007 Instructor, “Introduction to Latin American Studies,” Latin American Studies Program, University of Kentucky.

2006 Assistant to Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky.

2005 Teaching Assistant, “Lands & People of the Non-Western World.” Department of Geography, University of Kentucky.

2004-2005 Research Assistant, NSF-funded project on Mexican fair trade coffee certification. PI: Dr. Mutersbaugh. Department of Geography, University of Kentucky.

Extra-curricular Teaching & Applied Research Experience

2010-2011 Consulting Geographer: “Documents,” manuscript in development by Mia Chung, The Civilians Center for Investigative Theater, New York City, NY.

2008-2010 Scholar-in Residence, Grassroots Leadership.2008-2009 Consulting Geographer: “We Give Up,” Directed by Maureen Towey, Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York City, New York.

Teaching Interests

Contemporary Global Issues, Migration and Mobility, Latin America, Global Cities, Borders, Gender, Nationalism, Security.

Service

2009-present Geopolitics Listserv Moderator.

2006-2007 Coordinated Latin American Studies Film Series.

2006-2007 Interim Vice President, Graduate Student Congress, University of Kentucky.

2005-2006 Secretary, Geography Graduate Student Union, University of Kentucky.

2005-2006 Interview Editor and Peer Reviewer, disClosure Interdisciplinary Journal, University of Kentucky

2004-2006 Personnel Committee, Geography Graduate Student Union, University of Kentucky.

Colloquia and Seminar Presentations

2011   “Detention, Security, and Biopolitics in US Immigrant Family Detention Policy.” Colloquium in the Geography Department, University of Oulu, November 10, 2011.

2010  “Domesticating Detention: The Family, Law, and Security in US Immigration Enforcement Policy.” Colloquium in the University of Kentucky Department of Geography, October 29, 2010.

2010  “Sisyphean myths and development protocols: science, technology.”
 University of Kentucky Political Ecology Working Group Paper Workshop with Dr. Tad Mutersbaugh (lead author), September 29, 2010.

Conferences

Organized Sessions

2011 “Rethinking Borders.” October 28, 2011 at the Annual Finnish Geographers Conference, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.

2011 “The Exception, the Rule, and the Project of Geography.” August 19, 2011 at the International Conference of Critical Geography, Frankfurt Germany.

2011 “Mobilities, Borders, and Imprisonment.” April 16-16, 2011, at the Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, Seattle, WA.

2010 “Finding the Family in Geographical Research I, II.” April 14-18, 2010, at the Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, Washington, D.C.

2009 “Geographies of Closed Doors I, II: Interrogating Security Research and Methodology.” March 27, 2009. Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, Las Vegas, NV.

2008 “Geographies of Detention and Confinement I, II, III.” April 16, 2008. Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, Boston, MA.

2008 “Geographies of Detention and Confinement: Challenges of Fieldwork.” April 16, 2008. Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, Boston, MA.

2007 “Reassessing Sovereignty I, II.” April 19, 2007, Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, San Francisco, CA.

Panel Participation

2011 “What’s Missing in Critical Political Geography?” October 26, 2011 at the Annual Finnish Geographers Conference, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.

2010 “Beyond the campaign, beyond the job: Scholar-Activist Perspectives on Abolition & Decolonization.” To be held February 20, 2010 at Abriendo Brecha: Annual Conference on Scholarship, Activism, Social Justice, University of Texas, Austin, TX.

2010 “Organizing Against Immigrant Detention: Advocacy Research and Movement Building.” To be held February 18, 2010 at Abriendo Brecha: Annual Conference on Scholarship, Activism, Social Justice, University of Texas, Austin, TX.

2009 “Practices and Landscapes of Militarization VI: Reflections and New Directions.” To be held March 24, 2009, Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, Las Vegas, NV.

2008 “On the Political and Territoriality.” April 17, 2008, Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, Boston, MA.

Research Presentations

2011 “Assembling Borders: Conceptualizing the US Detention and Deportation System.” October 28, 2011 at the Annual Finnish Geographers Conference, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.

2011 “Expedited Removal, Habeas Corpus and Home Raids: Time, Space, and Discretion in US Immigration Enforcement Policy.” June 4, 2011 at the Law and Society Association Conference, San Francisco, CA.

2011 “Domesticating Detention, Securitizing the Home: Contested Imaginaries of Immigrant Family Detention Policy and Practice.” To be presented April 12-16, 2011 at the Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, Seattle, WA.

2011  “Sisyphean protocols and the dialectics of disassembly: heifer- care, encounter value, and alienation.” To be presented February 19, 2011, at the Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.

2010 “ ‘Catch and Return’: The Geopolitics of Deterrence in U.S. Immigration Enforcement Policy and Practice.” Presented April 14-18, 2010 at the Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, Washington, D.C.

2010 “The Geopolitics of Vulnerability: Children’s Legal Subjectivity, Immigrant Family Detention, and US Immigration Law and Enforcement Policy.” Presented April 12, 2010, at the Association of American Geographers Political Geography Specialty Group Conference, Alexandria, VA.

2009 “Il/legal Bodies & Biopolitics: On Judith Butler’s ‘Precarious Subject.’ ”  Presented October 24, 2009, at the Mini-Conference on Critical Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

2009 “Custody versus Care: Challenging the Detention of Immigrant and Asylum-Seeking Families in the United States.” Presented October 17, 2009, at the Conference on Undocumented Hispanic Migration, Connecticut College, New London, CT.

2009 With Bob Libal and Nicole Porter. “A Prison is Not a Home: Organizing against Immigrant Family Detention.” Presented August 7, 2009 at The International Prison Privatization Experience: A Transatlantic and Transpacific Dialogue, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX.

2009 “Contesting Family Detention: Rights of the Child, Homeland Security and Executive Privilege in U.S. Family Detention Policy.” Presented March 26, 2009. Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, Las Vegas, NV.

2008 “Saving the child or saving the family?: Ventriloquist politics in the legal case against family detention in the US.” Presented August 29, 2008, International Conference of the Royal British Geographers/ Institute of British Geographers, London, England.

2008 “From Catch and Release to Catch and Return: Immigrant Family Detention in U.S. Immigration Policy.” Presented April 16, 2008, Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, Boston, MA.

2007 “Violence, Neoliberalism, and Value: Gendering the Exception.” Presented April 19, 2007, Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, San Francisco, CA.

2007 “Gendering the Exception: Feminist Engagements with Giorgio Agamben.” Presented April 13, 2007, University of Kentucky Graduate Student Congress Interdisciplinary Conference, Lexington, KY.

2006 “Code Green or the New Normal? Governmentalizing the State of Exception in the Department of Homeland Security.” Presented October 14, 2006, Critical Geography Conference, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

2006 “Famine, Flu, and Terror, Oh My!: Delimiting the Topographies of Post-9/11 Security.” Presented May 18-21, 2006, International Consortium of Social Theory Conference, Roanoke, VA.

2006 “Speech Acts on the Head of a Pin: Regulation of Joking and Sarcasm in the Post-9/11 Airport.” Presented March 11, 2006, Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, Chicago, IL.

2005 “Reproducing Ambiguity?: The Spatial Politics of Irony and Sarcasm,”  Presented October 29, 2005.  Critical Geography Conference, Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, OH.

2005 “‘El Venemo del Pueblo’: Dairy development’s socio-cultural impacts in Santa Cruz, Oaxaca Mexico.”  Presented April 9, 2005. Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, April 4-9, 2005, Denver, CO.