Concurrent Degrees: Public Policy and International & Area Studies University of California, Berkeley, 2010

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1 JENNIFER TUCKER 228 Wurster Hall #1850, Berkeley, CA (510) / jennifertucker@berkeley.edu EDUCATION PhD MPP/MA City & Regional Planning, Dissertation: Geographies of the extra-legal: The regulation and spatial politics of a Paraguayan transborder economy and frontier city. Designated Emphasis: Global Metropolitan Studies Expected: May 2016 Concurrent Degrees: Public Policy and International & Area Studies, 2010 BS Biology, Minors in Spanish & Women s Studies, Bradley University, 2000 Areas of Expertise: Urban Theory; Critical Poverty Studies; Feminist Geography; Development Studies; Anthropologies of the State; Interdisciplinary & Ethnographic Methodologies Dissertation Committee: Chair: Teresa Caldeira, Professor of City & Regional Planning Ananya Roy, Professor of Urban Planning & Social Welfare, UCLA Gillian Hart, Professor of Geography Charisma Acey, Professor of City & Regional Planning PUBLICATIONS Refereed Journal Articles 2015 City-stories: Narrative as diagnostic and strategic resource in planning practice in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay. Planning Theory, available online stract Conference Proceedings 2015 On the frontiers of governance: Regulatory infrastructures in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, Latin American Studies Association Congresses Proceedings, Precariedades, exclusiones, emergencias, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 27 30, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2 2012 Soy frontiers: Dispossession and the politics of responsibility in Eastern Paraguay, Land Deals Politics Initiative Conference Proceedings, Cornell University, New York, October Cornell, New York. Manuscripts Under Review 2015 Affect and uncertainty: Governing and producing a frontier city, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. Book Reviews 2012 Populist anxiety and transparency politics in modern Paraguay, AmeriQuests, 9(1-2). Other Publications 2016 Reckonings: Feminist and postcolonial lineages in planning theory, In C. Mukhopadhyay (Ed.) AESOP Booklet Series B: Conversations with Planning Theorists: Patsy Healey in conversation with Mona Abdelwahab, AESOP Young Academics Network, forthcoming Are Mexico s conditional cash transfers missing the target?, PolicyMatters Journal,7(2), Food within reach: Strategies for increasing participation in the Food Stamp Program in California, A Report of the California Budget Project, with Scott Graves. FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS External Fellowships 2013 International Dissertation Research Fellow $20,000 Social Science Research Council 2013 Fulbright Fellowship $19,500 US Department of State Honors 2014 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award Winner 2011 Woman of the Year for Assembly District 14 Nominee Nominated for organizing work with the graduate student union J. Tucker, Page 2 of 7

3 Grants & Fellowships Departmental Grants, City & Regional Planning Department $20,500 UC Berkeley 2015 Center for Race & Gender Graduate Student Grant $500 UC Berkeley Dissertation Completion Fellowship $18,000 UC Berkeley Graduate Division Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship $22,500 Advanced Spanish, UC Berkeley 2012 Foreign Language & Area Studies Summer Fellowship $9,000 Advanced Guaraní, IDIPAR, Asunción, Paraguay 2012 Human Rights Fellowship $4,500 UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Centro de Documentación y Estudio, Asunción, Paraguay 2011 Tinker Field Research Grant $6,000 Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley Chancellor's Public Fellow $3,000 American Cultures Engaged Scholarship Program, UC Berkeley CONFERENCE ACTIVITY Panels Organized 2015 Storytelling & Planning, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, October 22 25, Huston, Texas Rethinking urban governance: Making theory from ordinary cities, Latin American Studies Association Congress, May 27 30, San Juan, Puerto Rico Locating the Tri-border Area: Latin American conversations at a crossroads, Latin American Studies Association Congress, May 27 30, San Juan, Puerto Rico Theorizing from the frontier: Lawlessness, accumulation and modes of governance, Association of American Geographers, May 27 30, Los Angeles, California. J. Tucker, Page 3 of 7

4 Conferences Organized 2013 Urban circulations: The politics of scale, UC Berkeley Global Metropolitan Studies Workshop Series, April 23 & May 9, Berkeley, California. Papers Presented 2014 Clientelism, the urban poor, and street vendor politics in Paraguay, invited presentation for the Relational Poverty Network Annual Meeting, October 27, Seattle, Washington Critical geographies of corruption and the emotional politics of clientelism, invited presentation for the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 8 12, Tampa, Florida Urban informality in an economy of circulation, Metropolis Nonformal: Anticipation, Launching Conference of the UN-Habitat Hub on Informal Urbanism, November 20 23, Munich, Germany Frontiers of the formal in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, presentation for the Annual Meeting of Association of American Geographers, April 9 13, Los Angeles, California State informality in Paraguay s frontier economy, invited presentation for the Global Ethnographies Workshop, May 10, Stanford, California. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor Race & The Urban Community in Post-Ferguson America (Summer 2015) Teaching Assistant Global Poverty: Challenges & Hopes for the New Millennium (Fall 2014) International & Area Studies Academic Program Qualitative Research Methods for Planners (Spring 2014, Masters & PhD students) The Ethics, Methods & Pragmatics of Global Practice (Spring 2011 & Fall 2009) J. Tucker, Page 4 of 7

5 International & Area Studies Academic Program Women, Poverty & Globalization (Fall 2010) Gender & Women s Studies Department Introduction to Visual Communication (Spring 2010) Media Studies Department Introduction to Economics (Summer 2009) Economics Department Introduction to Public Policy (Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009) The Goldman School of Public Policy SERVICE Professional Service 2015 Reviewer, REVISCO, Instituto de Ciencias Sociales de Paraguay 2014 Reviewer, Berkeley Planning Journal University & Departmental Service 2015 Student Representative, PhD Committee, UC Berkeley 2015 Doctoral Colloquium (Develop & lead weekly workshops for PhD students) Editor, PolicyMatters Journal, UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy Community Involvement 2015 Appointed Advisory Committee Member, Domestic Workers Employers Research Project (A project of the UCLA Labor Center, the Workers Institute at Cornell and the California Domestic Workers Coalition) 2015 Volunteer organizer, Hand in Hand (A national network of domestic workers employers), Oakland, California Chair, Berkeley Unit of UAW 2865 (The graduate student union) Board Member, Planned Parenthood Shasta Diablo, Berkeley Board Fellow J. Tucker, Page 5 of 7

6 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2015 Dissertation research, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay (March April) 2013 Dissertation research, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay (February October) 2012 Pre-dissertation research, Asunción, Paraguay (July August) 2011 Pre-dissertation research, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay (June August) Policy Analysis, The California Budget Project, Sacramento, California Quantitative analysis of California social services programs in STATA (January May 2009 & May August, 2010) 2008 Policy Research, The Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley (January May) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2009 Fellow, The Advocacy Project, Trujillo, Peru Peace Corps Volunteer, U.S. Peace Corps, Paraguay 2003 Field Organizer, Citizen Works, Washington, DC 2002 Organizer, NARAL Virginia (National Abortion & Reproductive Rights Action League), Arlington, Virginia Organizer, Public Interest Research Group, New Jersey, Connecticut and Washington DC LANGUAGES Spanish, Excellent spoken and written language skills Guaraní, Proficient spoken language skills PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Association of American Geographers Latin American Studies Association American Anthropological Association, SUNTA Global Anthropology Section Relational Poverty Network J. Tucker, Page 6 of 7

7 REFERENCES Teresa Caldeira, Professor 326C Wurster Hall, #1850 Berkeley, California, (510) Ananya Roy, Professor Luskin School of Public Affairs University of California, Los Angeles 3250 Public Affairs Building, Box Los Angeles, California, (510) Gillian Hart, Professor Department of Geography 551 McCone Hall Berkeley, California, (510) Additional references available upon request. J. Tucker, Page 7 of 7

University of Southern California Hayward R. Alker Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for International Studies,

University of Southern California Hayward R. Alker Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for International Studies, JORDAN BRANCH Department of Political Science Box 1844, 36 Prospect Street Providence, RI 02912 jordan_branch@brown.edu CURRENT POSITION Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, 2012 present