Fordham University, Nov 7-9 2019
Graduate Student, Phd. History
Fordham University
Project Title
“The Siege of Antioch Project”
Bio
W. Tanner Smoot is a PhD graduate student of history at Fordham University. His area of focus centers around England during the Early and High Middle Ages. He is particularly interested in religious culture and monasticism.
Executive Director
North Brooklyn Neighbors
Project Title
“ToxiCity: Mapping Pollution in North Brooklyn”
Bio
Anthony Buissereth joined North Brooklyn Neighbors as executive director in 2018. He has more than 14 years of nonprofit management, fundraising, program development, and government and community relations experience. A native New Yorker, he has worked at several nonprofit organizations including Youth Communication, Good Shepherd Services, and Cool Culture. He is a member of Brooklyn’s Community Board 3 where is vice-chair of the Landmarks and Preservation Committee and budget director. Anthony holds a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University and a master’s degree from Long Island University – Brooklyn.
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Member
Anti-eviction Mapping Project
Project Title
“NYC Evictions Map & Oral History Narratives Map of Displacement and Resistance”
Bio
Ariana Faye Allensworth is a cultural producer, photographer, and educator with roots in New York City and San Francisco. She currently oversees teen programs and neighborhood engagement at the International Center of Photography and helped launch the New York City chapter of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project in 2017. She is passionate about bridging connections between cultural production and radical social change. She holds a Masters in Social Work from UC Berkeley and a BA in Urban Studies and African & African-American Studies from Fordham University.
Graduate Student
Fordham University
Project Title
“The Siege of Antioch Project”
Bio
Douglass Hamilton is a doctoral student of Medieval History at Fordham University working on Old French Literature and the history of the Crusades.
Interm Director
Pratt Institute, SAVI
Project Title
“ToxiCity: Mapping Pollution in North Brooklyn”
Bio
Can Sucuoglu graduated from YTU in 2005 and completed his M. Arch degree at Sci-Arc in 2007. Until 2010 Can worked at Jorge Pardo Sculpture, specializing in digital manufacturing. Can continued his career as a design coordinator at Warsaw Metro in Poland and became a partner at İyiofis in 2011. İyiofis has provided design services institutions and brands and has exhibited work in various biennials and exhibitions. In 2016 Can co-founded Bits ’n Bricks Research Group focusing on data-based design consultancy services to explore the potential of emerging digital technologies to improve the environments we design and live in.
Worker-Owner
Research Action Design
Project Title
“Durham Health Indicators Project”
Bio
Tim Stallmann is a cartographer based in Durham, NC. By day, he’s a worker-owner at Research Action Design, where he works with organizations and communities to co-design research, media and tech projects towards social change and collective liberation. His work focuses on the role maps and geographic data can play in addressing issues of racial, economic and environmental justice, especially stopping displacement and building neighborhood self-determination. Tim is a founding member of the Counter-Cartographies Collective, and a co-editor of the forthcoming A People’s Atlas of Detroit (Wayne State University Press, Fall 2019). He also loves to decorate cakes, and is still waiting for the right opportunity to make a map cake.
Clinical Associate Professor
NYU
Project Title
“Creative Cartography: The City as Site of Cultural Production”
Bio
Susanna Horng is a Clinical Associate Professor at New York University, where she teaches writing and cultural studies to undergraduates in Liberal Studies. Her digital pedagogy has been recognized by TWISA.
Post Doctoral Fellow
University of Ottawa
Project Title
“Vulnerable Bodies: Relations of visibility in the speculative smart city”
Bio
Sava is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa. Previously, as a postdoctoral fellow with the Surveillance Studies Centre (SSC) at Queen’s University, she co-created and produced ‘Screening Surveillance’ – a knowledge translation project for the Big Data Surveillance project. ‘Screening Surveillance’ is three short near-future fiction films that call attention to the potential human consequences of big data surveillance. Specifically, this project extends existing SSC work to examine the intersections and implications of big data systems, risk, and surveillance. Previously, Sava completed her PhD on Academic Twitter from New York University’s Educational Communication and Technology program.
Assistant Professor
CUNY College of Staten Island
Project Title
“Mapping Racial Capitalism: Gentrification and Legacies of Redlining in New York City”
Bio
Dr. Nerve Macaspac is a political geographer and GIS analyst. His research interests include legacies of redlining in contemporary NYC as a set of ongoing yet contested processes of the racialized production of space. He is completing a book manuscript from his earlier interdisciplinary research on the production and maintenance of community-led demilitarized geographic areas, popularly known as peace zones, in active armed conflicts. Nerve is an Asst. Professor at CUNY College of Staten Island where he teaches courses on Urban Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). He curates and facilitates a Community Mapping Project at Woodbine, an experimental hub in Ridgewood, Queens.
Co-founder
Anti-Eviction Mapping Project NYC
Project Title
“NYC Evictions Map & Oral History Narratives Map of Displacement and Resistance”
Bio
Manon situates her work at the intersection of research, design, and organizing, drawing from her experience as a tenant organizer and housing activist in Brooklyn and San Francisco. She has an MS in Design & Urban Ecologies from Parsons School of Design at The New School and co-founded the NYC chapter of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, a data visualization and storytelling collective documenting gentrification and displacement.
Cartographic Assistant
Harvard University Library Map Collection
Project Title
“A Fine and Fertile Country: How America Mapped its Meals”
Bio
Lena Denis is the Cartographic Assistant at the Harvard University Map Collection, part of the Harvard Library system. She works on digital cartographic data and metadata of various kinds, and staffs the Map Collection Reference Desk several days a week. Her current projects focus on displaying cartographic materials as linked open data.
Ph.D. Candidate
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Project Title
“Expanding Optics, Upending Illusions: Re(sident)-centering the development debate in LIC”
Bio
Kristen Hackett is a PhD candidate in the environmental psychology program at The Graduate Center, CUNY, a GC Digital Fellow in the Digital Scholarship Lab, and a co-coordinator of OpenCUNY, a academic platform made by and for GC students. She also works with the Justice For All Coalition, a group fighting for fair and decent housing and livable jobs in Western Queens. Her dissertation work examines how, why and to what ends residents in NYC are organizing through the lens of Western Queens, home of both the fastest growing neighborhood and the largest public housing development in the country.
Ph.D. Candidate
PennGSE
Project Title
“Mapping as Metaphor & Practice in Community-Immersive Teacher Education”
Bio
Christopher Rogers was born and raised in Chester, PA and is now a Ph.D Candidate within the Reading/Writing/Literacy program at PennGSE. He is a core member of Teacher Action Group Philadelphia, whose work consists of organizing teachers and other community educators to work toward education justice within the city of Philadelphia and beyond.
Assistant Professor
Illinois State University
Project Title
“Mapping as Metaphor & Practice in Community-Immersive Teacher Education”
Bio
Dr. Anna Smith received her Ph.D. at New York University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Secondary Education at Illinois State University, following an IES Postdoctoral Fellowship in Writing and New Learning Ecologies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is co-author of Developing Writers: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age and co-editor of the Handbook of Writing, Literacies, and Education in Digital Cultures. Her recent research on writing development, transliteracies, and the intersection of teaching and learning can be found in journals such as Theory into Practice, Journal of Literacy Research, and Literacy.
Assistant Professor
Kent State University
Project Title
“unARchived”
Bio
Abraham Avnisan is an experimental writer and new media artist whose work is situated at the intersection of image, text, and code. He creates mobile apps, new media installations and mixed reality performances that seek to subvert dominant narratives through embodied encounters with language, history, and philosophy. Abraham has exhibited his work at the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the Libraries at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the Vild med ORD literary festival in Aarhus, Denmark, among others. He holds an M.F.A in Poetry from Brooklyn College and an M.F.A. in Art and Technology Studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Abraham is an Assistant Professor at Kent State University.
Senior Teaching Fellow
University College London, The Bartlett Development Planning Unit
Paper Title
“An ethnography of cartographic practices to unravel the hidden”
Project Title
“Participatory Mapping to Reduce Urban Risk in Lima”
Bio
Dr. Rita Lambert is an urban development planner and architect originally from Ethiopia. She is a senior teaching fellow at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL and a co-investigator on several research projects in Africa and Latin America. Her research focuses on the relationship between planning, informality and spatial knowledge production, manipulation and circulation as well as the development of participatory tools that can be adopted by ordinary citizens to navigate institutional barriers and expand the room for maneuver towards socio-environmentally just urbanization.