EDUCATION Sophie Laura Goldschmid Gonick 247 Missouri Street San Francisco, CA 94107 415-513-3183 gonick@berkeley.edu Ph.D University of California, Berkeley City & Regional Planning, August 2015 Qualifying Exams: Distinction across all areas At the Margins of Europe: Immigrant Homeownership, Evictions, and Multicultural Solidarities in Contemporary Madrid Nezar AlSayyad (chair), Mia Fuller, Helga Leitner Ananya Roy Specializations: Global Metropolitan Studies (Designated Emphasis), housing, international development, immigration and inclusion, social movements, race, gender, Europe M.C.P University of California, Berkeley City & Regional Planning, 2010 The Third Worlding of Madrid: Squatting, the State, and Ethnic Informality in the Cañada Real Nezar AlSayyad (chair), Teresa Caldeira, Ananya Roy Specializations: Housing, Community, and Economic Development, urban informality, urban poverty, inequality AB Certificate, Hispanic Studies Harvard University Cum Laude, High Honors in Field, History, 2005 Universidad Carlos Tercero de Madrid Humanities Department, 2003 TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS AND EXPERTISE Feminist Geography Race, Gender, and Ethnicity Immigration Urban Theory Social Movements and Activism Qualitative Research Methods TEACHING AND MENTORING POSITIONS University of California, Berkeley, As Instructor CP 280C: Doctoral Colloquium (Fall 2014) Redesigned the curriculum to reflect the needs of both the department and doctoral students, transforming an informal lecture series into a forum for professional development. I arrange for outside speakers, faculty members, and advanced doctoral candidates to speak on a host of topics related to academic careers. 1
CP 111: Housing, An International Survey (Spring 2014) An upper division undergraduate course. Requirement for City Planning minors and Urban Studies majors. Lecture format; 65 students. Designed course syllabus, midterm simulation game, final exam. Planned weekly lectures. As Teaching Assistant CP 111: Housing, an International Survey (Spring 2011) An upper division undergraduate course. Responsible for mandatory 25 student section, grading. Suffolk University, Madrid Campus. A small international campus, where students can both study abroad and begin their higher education. The home campus is both ethnically and economically diverse, which is reflected in the Madrid Campus student body. Student Activities Coordinator (2005-2007) Responsible for all cultural activities and study trips. Regularly accompanied groups of up to 50 students on weekend excursions. Planned class field trips with instructors. Aided students in finding internships and volunteer work. EXTRAMURAL FELLOWSHIPS Social Science Research Council (SSRC), International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Finalist National Science Foundation (NSF), Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, Finalist, Geography and Spatial Sciences Fulbright Commission, Research Grant, Finalist, Spain Wenner Gren Foundation, Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Finalist Social Science Research Council (SSRC), Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, Field: Provincializing Global Urbanism California Planning Foundation, Outstanding Student Fellowship, Finalist Fulbright Commission, Research Grant, Alternate Candidate, Spain 2012-2013 2011 2009 2005-2006 PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Under Review Gonick, Sophie. Indignation and Inclusion: Gendered Activisms and Emergent Urban Politics in Post- Crash Madrid. Environment and Planning D. Submitted September 12, 2014. Gonick, Sophie. Interrogating Madrid s Slum of Shame: Urban Expansion, Race, and Place-Based Activisms in the Cañada Real Galiana. Antipode. Submitted July 29, 2014. In Print Gonick, Sophie. 2012. Disciplining the Metropolis: Grand Paris, Immigration, and the Banlieue. Berkeley Planning Journal. Volume 24. 26-45. 2
Gonick, Sophie. 2012. Making Madrid Modern: Globalization and Difference in a European Capital. Lucero Journal. Volume 21. 20-34. OTHER WRITTEN WORK Working Papers Gonick, Sophie. 2010. Urbanization, Inequality, and the Right to the City: Notes from the Cañada Real. Global Metropolitan Studies Working Paper Series. University of California, Berkeley. 30 pages. Unpublished Work Gonick, Sophie. 2010. The Third-Worlding of Madrid: Squatting, the State, and Ethnic Informality. Master s Thesis., University of California, Berkeley.120 pages. Gonick, Sophie. 2005. From Pueblo to Capital: Francisco Franco, the Autarky, and the Gran Madrid. Undergraduate thesis. Department of History, Harvard College. 125 pages. ACADEMIC SERVICE AND ENGAGEMENT The International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), Center for Environmental Design Research, University of California, Berkeley Advisor and Board Member (Since 2012) Advise current IASTE staff on an upcoming conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia IASTE Coordinator (2009-2012) Responsible for all aspects of the daily operations of a small, international academic association that holds biennial conferences and publishes a semiannual journal, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review. Conference Coordinator (2008-2012) Coordinated and executed all aspects of IASTE s biennial conferences, which are held in partnership with host universities from across the globe. Wrote, edited, and published the Call for Papers. Coordinated the review process. Selected and corresponded with keynotes, presenters, and discussants. Planned conference programs for the following conferences: The Myth of Tradition. Portland, Oregon. Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments. Co-hosted with the University of Oregon. October 4-7, 2012. The Utopia of Tradition. Beirut, Lebanon. Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments. Co-hosted with American University of Beirut. December 15-18, 2010. Interrogating Tradition. Oxford, United Kingdom. Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments. December 12-15, 2008. Editor, Working Papers Series (2008) Edited and published the biennial Working Papers Series for the Interrogating Tradition conference. The Series brings together around 80 papers. 3
Harvard University, Center for European Studies Undergraduate Board Member (2003-2005) Member of the inaugural Undergraduate Advisory Board at the Center for European Studies. Organized undergraduate events and advised the Center on integrating undergraduates into its curriculum, programs and mission. ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE NYU Madrid, Urban Studies Department (Spring 2013) Guest discussant in Experiential Learning 1 (EXLI-UF 9301) Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Department of Sociology () Visiting student under supervision of Dr. Miguel A. Martinez. Fundación Juan March, Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Ciencias Sociales (2012-2013) Invited scholar under supervision of Dr. Andrés Walliser. Provincializing Global Urbanism (Since 2011) Invited junior scholar in an interdisciplinary workshop series sponsored by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), and lead by Helga Leitner and Ananya Roy. Harvard University, Real Colegio Complutense (Summer 2005) Invited participant at the first Seminar on Sociological and Political Research. ADDITIONAL GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS Departmental Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, University of California, Berkeley Global Metropolitan Studies Conference Travel Grant, University of California, Berkeley Dean s Normative Time Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley Simpson Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley Institute of International Studies Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley Institute for European Studies Michael Teitz Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley Institute for European Studies Mellon Travel Grant, University of California, Berkeley Center for Middle Eastern Studies 2014-2015 2009-2012 2014 2014 2012; 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 4
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Presenter. Paper: The Promise of Property: Immigrants, Homeownership, and Domestic (In)Security in Contemporary Madrid. European Sociological Association. RC 37 Urban Sociology Mid-Term Conference: Public Spaces and Private Lives in the Contemporary City. Lisbon, November 19-21, 2014. Presenter. Paper: Disrupting Neoliberalism s Ideologies: From Civil Death to Civil Disobedience in Madrid s Right to Housing Movement. New Urban Languages: Urban Ideologies in Post-Ideological Times. Madrid Polytechnic University. Madrid, Spain, June 25-27, 2014. Presenter. Paper: Autonomous Mobilization in the Spanish Housing Movement: From Isolation to Solidarity? RC43: Housing and the Built Environment. International Sociological Association. Amsterdam, July 10-12, 2013. Invited Young Scholar. Paper: At the Margins of Europe: Mobilizing Precarity in Madrid s Cañada Real. Conference: Urban Revolutions in the Age of Global Urbanism. Joint Conference between the Social Science Research Council, University of California, Berkeley, University of Minnesota, and Tarumanugara University. Jakarta, Indonesia, March 16-20, 2012. LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH Spanish, fluency across all areas. Portuguese, basic proficiency. ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Translator, Santillana Editorial, Madrid, Spain. Translator and editor for primary and secondary textbooks in History and Geography for use in bilingual classrooms in Spain. Staff Assistant, Center for European Studies, Harvard University. Developed undergraduate programs for the Center. Publications Intern, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University. Sourced, compiled, and edited the Center s monthly newsletter. Managed another student intern. Bilingual work in English and Spanish. Assistant Project Manager, The Parks Conservancy, San Francisco, CA. Assistant planner and designer in the projects department of a non-profit that provides assistance to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the Bay Area s National Park. 2007-2008 2005 2001-2005 Summers, 2002-2004 REFERENCES Nezar AlSayyad (Chair) 345 Wurster Hall #1800 College of Environmental Design University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-1800 (510) 642-4852 nezar@berkeley.edu 5
Ananya Roy (Committee Member) Department of City & Reigonal Planning 228 Wurster Hall College of Environmental Design University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-1850 (510) 642-4938 ananya@berkeley.edu Mia Fuller Department of Italian Studies 6315 Dwinelle Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 (510) 642-6220 miafull@berkeley.edu 6