.current position

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, 2008-present.

.education

Ph.D. in Geography, University of Washington, 2008.
.....Examination areas: political geographies of citizenship, cultural geographies of international migration, gender and feminist geographies.
.....Dissertation: Defining extraterritorial citizenship: the case of American citizens living abroad.
......Committee: Kim England (supervisor), Katharyne Mitchell, Matthew Sparke.

MA in Geography and MCRP in City & Regional Planning, The Ohio State University, 2002.
.....Thesis: Perceptions of safety and the rights to space: limitations and strategic responses.
.....Committee: Eugene McCann (co-supervisor), Jack Nasar (co-supervisor), Mei-Po Kwan, Hazel Morrow-Jones.

Hon. BA (with high distinction) in Geography, University of Toronto, 2000.
.....Undergraduate thesis: The effect of service sector employment on inequality and polarization in Canadian cities.
.....Supervisor: Larry S. Bourne.

Additional Qualifications
.....Graduate Certificate in Women Studies, University of Washington, 2006.
.....Certificate of Proficiency in French, McGill University, 2005.
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Sarah Starkweather. 2009 (forthcoming). Watching the U.S. election from abroad: normative theory and the publics of American politics. Antipode (in press).

Sarah Starkweather. 2009. Governmentality, territory and the U.S. Census: the 2004 Overseas Enumeration Test. Political Geography 28(4), 239-247.
[PDF] Author Posting. (c) Elsevier, 2009. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Elsevier for personal use,
not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Political Geography 28(4), September 2009. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2009.06.001.

Sarah Starkweather. 2009. My children, myself: speaking for young citizens abroad. Children's Geographies 7(1), 99-103.
[PDF] Author Posting. (c) Taylor & Francis, 2009. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Taylor & Francis for personal use,
not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Children's Geographies 7(1), February 2009. DOI: 10.1080/14733280802576093.

Sarah Starkweather. 2007. Gender, perceptions of safety and strategic responses among Ohio university students. Gender, Place and Culture 14(3), 355-370.
[PDF] Author Posting. (c) Taylor & Francis, 2009. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Taylor & Francis for personal use,
not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Gender, Place and Culture 14(3), June 2007. DOI: 10.1080/09663690701325000.

Sarah Starkweather, Adrienne Low and Kenneth Pearlman. 2004. Managing growth: recent legal literature. Journal of Planning Literature 18(3), 267-308.
DOI: 10.1177/0885412203260477

Larry S. Bourne, Sarah Starkweather and Ranu Basu. 2000. People and places: a portrait of the evolving social character of the Greater Toronto Region. Report for the Neptis Foundation, Portrait of a Region project.

Larry S. Bourne and Sarah Starkweather. 1999. Social polarization and income inequalities in Toronto: are they increasing? A graphical and statistical report. Report for the City of Toronto.

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BOOK REVIEWS

Sarah Starkweather. 2009 (forthcoming). Review of Stéphane Dufoix (trans. William Rodarmor), 2008: Diasporas. The Geographical Journal (in press).

Sarah Starkweather. 2009. Review of Peter J. Spiro, 2008: Beyond Citizenship: American Identity After Globalization. Social & Cultural Geography 10(7), 809-10.

Sarah Starkweather. 2002. Review of Mona Domosh and Joni Seager, 2001: Putting Women in Place: Feminist Geographers Make Sense of the World. Journal of Planning Literature 16(3), 379.

.research grants

Faculty Research Committee Tier 1 Grant. Singapore Ministry of Education, 2009-2011. S$30,174.
.....Project title: Migration, transnational families and national identities across two generations: American and Chinese families
.....in Singapore. (With Shirlena Huang (PI) and Brenda S.A. Yeoh.)

Howard Martin grant in support of doctoral research. Department of Geography, University of Washington, 2005. US$1,000.
.....Project title: The Association of Americans Resident Overseas (AARO): reconceptualizing American citizenship.

.fellowships

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Geography. Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, 2008-2010.

Project for Interdisciplinary Pedagogy Teaching Fellowship. Program in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington-Bothell, 2006-2007.

Institute on the Public Humanities Fellowship. Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, 2006. (Award declined.)

Chester Fritz Fellowship for International Study and Exchange. Graduate School, University of Washington, 2006.

Foreign Language and Area Studies Academic Year Fellowship. Canada Studies Center, University of Washington, 2004-2005 and 2005-2006.

Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Fellowship. Canada Studies Center, University of Washington, 2004 and 2005.

Gerlach Recruitment Fellowship. Department of Geography, University of Washington, 2003.

University Fellowship. School of Graduate Studies, The Ohio State University, 2000.
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Master's Paper Award. Qualitative Research Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, 2003.

Honorable mention. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Competition, 2002.

Jerrold R. Voss Scholarship. Program in City & Regional Planning, The Ohio State University, 2002.

Outstanding Planning Student Award. American Institute of Certified Planners and Program in City & Regional Planning, The Ohio State University, 2002.

Faculty Prize for Academic Merit. Program in City & Regional Planning, The Ohio State University, 2001 and 2002.

Outstanding First Year Graduate Student Award. Program in City & Regional Planning, The Ohio State University, 2001.

Israel Stollman Award. Program in City & Regional Planning, The Ohio State University, 2001.

Best Graduate Paper. Program in City & Regional Planning, The Ohio State University, 2001.

Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award (for best undergraduate thesis). Department of Geography, University of Toronto, 2000.

Howard Ferguson Provincial Scholarship. University College, University of Toronto, 1996-2000.
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Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Washington, 2008.
.....Field Fesearch: The Seattle Region (GEOG490)

Lecturer, Program in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington-Bothell, 2007-2008.
.....Topics in Geography: The Seattle Region (BIS314)
.....Exploring American Culture: Race, Ethnicity and Immigration (BIS367)
.....Independent Study (BIS398)
.....The City in American Culture (BIS423)....

Teaching Fellow, Program in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington-Bothell, 2006-2007.
.....Topics in Geography: Gender and Spaces from the Nation to the Body (BIS314)
.....Topics in Geography: Globalization, Migration and Citizenship (BIS314)
.....Exploring American Culture: Race, Ethnicity and Immigration (BIS367)

Predoctoral Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Washington, 2005.
.....Immigrant America (GEOG310)

Director and Tutor, Geography & Anthropology Writing Center, University of Washington, 2003-2006.

Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Washington, 2003-2004.
.....Introduction to Human Geography (GEOG 100)
.....U.S. Population Diversity (GEOG 245)
.....Geography of Cities (GEOG 277)
.....Introduction to Geographic Research (GEOG 326)

Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, 2001-2002.
.....World Regional Geography (GEOG 200)
.....Honors World Regional Geography (GEOG 200H)

Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Toronto, 1999-2000.
.....Geographic Information and Mapping I (GEOG 272)
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Watching the 2008 US election from Singapore: political transnationalism and extraterritorial electoral geography. Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, 2009.

American extraterritorial citizenship in theory and practice. Department of Geography, West Chester University, 2008.

Defining extraterritorial citizenship: the case of Americans living abroad. Department of Geosciences, Georgia State University, 2008.
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Raising extraterritorial citizens: the American family abroad in the 1970s. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Las Vegas, Nevada, 2009.

'A nation of immigrants': emigration in the American imagination. CENS Workshop on The Nation: Narratives and Community, Nanyang Technical University. Singapore, 2009.

The persistence of paper: voting from abroad in the 'digital age.' Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts, 2008.

Census, representation and the limits of governance: on (not) counting Americans living abroad. Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting. Long Beach, California, 2007.

The Project for Interdisciplinary Pedagogy: preparing graduate students for interdisciplinary careers. (With Bruce Burgett and Jeanette Sanchez.) Association for Integrative Studies Annual Meeting. Tempe, Arizona, 2007.

Enumer-nation: Census and the technical limits of the 'imagined community.' Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, University of Washington (conference theme: Imagination: Pubilc or Private?). Seattle, Washington, 2007.

Unknown and unknowable: the politics of counting Americans abroad. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California, 2007.

Globalizing electoral geographies: getting out the expat vote. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Chicago, Illinois, 2006.

The Association of Americans Resident Overseas (AARO): defining extraterritorial citizenship. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2004.

Gender in talk of safety: three aspects of control. Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Victoria, British Columbia, 2003.

What can a (feminist) geographer do with mirrors? Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana, 2003.

Students on perceptions of safety and the use of space: implications for university policy. International Geographical Union, Placing Gender / Making Policy conference. Toronto, Ontario, 2002.

Toronto's Olympic bid campaign: 'world city' imagery at overlapping scales. Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Toronto, Ontario, 2002.

Perceptions of safety and women's rights to space: constraints and strategies. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, California, 2002.
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Facilitator (with Erik Velasco) of Graduate Research Seminar: Proposal Writing. Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, 2009.

Facilitator (with Colin Danby) of Workshop on Quantitative and Qualitative Pedagogies. Project for Interdisciplinary Pedagogy, University of Washington-Bothell, 2007.

Panelist for Interacting on Interdisciplinarity: Opportunities and Successes. Graduate and Professional Education Week, Graduate School, University of Washington, 2007.
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Reviewer for Urban Studies, 2008.

End to Capital Punishment Movement / Ensemble Contre la Peine de Mort. Document translation (French-to-English), 2006-2007.

Education Access Network. Assisting in the development of low-cost LSAT and GRE preparation courses, 2004-2005.

Senator representing the Department of Geography, Graduate and Professional Student Senate, University of Washington, 2003-2004.

Vice-Chair, Graduate Student Affinity Group, Association of American Geographers, 2003-2004.

Graduate Student Orientation Co-ordinator, Department of Geography, University of Washington, 2003.

Secretary-Treasurer, Graduate Student Affinity Group, Association of American Geographers, 2002-2003.