Jess Bier Curriculum Vitae (web) October 2017

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1 Jess Bier Curriculum Vitae (web) October Mailing Address bier (at) essb (dot) eur (dot) nl Erasmus University Rotterdam Faculty of Social Sciences Links PO Box DR Rotterdam Personal site: jessbier.org Google Scholar: scholar.google.com/citations?user=aciqrruaaaaj Erasmus University: eur.nl/fsw/english/sociology/contact/staff/profiel_mis/12349/ EDUCATION Degrees Attained 2014 Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies, Maastricht University. Advisors: Sally Wyatt, and Bas van Heur 2008 M.Phil. in Geography, City University of New York Graduate Center. Committee: Cindi Katz, Neil Smith, Joseph Massad, and Marianna Pavlovskaya, GPA summa cum laude 2002 B.A. in Mathematics, Middlebury College, GPA cum laude ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor of Urban Sociology, tenure track position, Department of Present Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, ERC-funded Monitoring Modernity project, Visualizing Capital subproject, Principal Investigator Willem Schinkel, Erasmus University Rotterdam Fully-funded Ph.D. Faculty Position, Department of Technology and Society Studies, Maastricht University Graduate of Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology, and Modern Culture (WTMC), 4 workshops and 2 summer schools RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Fieldworker, targeted interviews and participant observation at the Bank for 1

2 (3 visits) International Settlements (BIS) UN consultant, Barrier Monitoring Unit, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) 2011 Fieldworker, six months of ethnographic research on how segregated landscapes shape cartography in Jerusalem and the West Bank, Maastricht University Affiliated scholar, GIS Unit, Applied Research Institute Jerusalem (ARIJ) Affiliated scholar, Map Library, Tel Aviv University (TAU) Research assistant in collaborative ethnography of daily economic life among Russian-, Arabic-, and Spanish-speaking immigrants in New York City, City University of New York (CUNY) Hunter College GIS cartographer for Immigration Atlas, City University of New York (CUNY) Center for Geographic Learning 2005 GIS consultant for community-lead alternative urban planning and development, Council for Brooklyn Neighborhoods 2005 Ethnographer in collaborative field course on gendered labor in Machu Picchu, Peru, City University of New York (CUNY) Hunter College PUBLICATIONS Books and Special Issues 2017 Bier, J. Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, forthcoming in May Harris, A., S. Wyatt, B. van Heur, and J. Bier. Participatory Knowledge Production 2.0, special issue of Information, Communication, and Society 16(2) Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles 2017 Bier, J. Palestinian State Maps and Imperial Technologies of Staying Put Public Culture 29(1 81): Bier, J. and W. Schinkel. Building Better Ecological Machines: Complexity Theory and Alternative Economic Models Engaging Science and Technology Studies 2:

3 2016 Bier, J. "Pillaged Books and Plundered Maps: Pirates and the Boundaries of Language" Krisis 2: Wyatt, S., J. Bier, A. Harris, and B. van Heur. Participatory Knowledge Production 2.0: Critical views and experiences, introduction to Participatory Knowledge Production 2.0, special issue of Information, Communication, and Society 16(2), Pavlovskaya, M. and J. Bier. Mapping Census Data for Difference: Towards the Heterogeneous Geographies of the Arab American Communities of the New York Metropolitan Area Geoforum 43(3): Bier, J. How Niqula Nasrallah Became John Jacob Astor: Syrian Emigrants aboard the Titanic and the Materiality of Language The Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 18(2): Bier, J. Self-De(con)structing Vegas Human Geography 2(2): Sunehag, A.L., K. Louie, J. Bier, S. Tigas, and M. W. Haymond. Hexoneogenesis in the Human Breast during Lactation The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 87: Book Chapters 2018 Bier, J. Mapping the Archive for Arab American Women s Labor in the New York Metropolitan Area in Arab American Women, edited by Suad Joseph. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, accepted for publication 2017 Bier, J. Quantification and Classification: The Politics of Counting and Sorting in Wegwijs in STS: Knowing your Way in STS, edited by Harro van Lente, Tsjalling Swierstra, Sally Wyatt, and Ragna Zeiss. Maastricht : Maastricht University Science, Technology and Society Studies (MUSTS), Bier, J. Images as Maps in The History of Cartography, Volume Six: Cartography in the Twentieth Century, edited by Mark Monmonier, Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2009 Bier, J. Subaltern Studies in The Encyclopedia of Geography, edited by Barney Warf, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Professional Publications Bier, J. Geographies of Knowledge, ongoing academic blog on science, technology, geography, and postcolonialism at jessbier.org/blog 3

4 2016 Bier, J. Young Astronauts Club in Nautilus magazine Spark of Science series, published online at spark.nautil.us/p/40/young-astronauts-club 2011 Bier, J. Geographic Information Science (GIS) Assessment: Analysis of Mapmaking Goals and Achievements. Special report to the Barrier Monitoring Unit (BMU) of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Ramallah, November 23 GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2016 Maastricht University dissertation prize, awarded to the best dissertation submitted to the university during the previous two years. Dissertations are selected from among faculty nominations in all disciplines except medicine and the life sciences 2013 PhD paper prize, Middle East Section (MES) of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Travel Grant (2 awards) University funded independent Ph.D. research, Maastricht University Writing Fellowship, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center 2008 Qualitative Research Grant, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center Professional Staff Congress (PSC) 2008 Qualitative Research Grant, Association of American Geographers (AAG) Chancellors Fellowship, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center Urban Geography Research Grant, Association of American Geographers (AAG) (2 awards) 2006 Annual Research Paper Award, City University of New York (CUNY) Departmental Fellowship, City University of New York (CUNY) (4 awards) Science Fellowship, National Science Foundation (NSF) GK-12 Program (3 awards) 2004 Emerging Writers Award, Center for Book Arts 2000 Scholarship in Modern Standard Arabic, American University in Cairo 4

5 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Erasmus University Rotterdam Ongoing PhD dissertation supervision, 2 students; Master s thesis supervision, 5 students annually Sociology of the Globe, Course coordinator, developer, and lecturer for third Present year B.A. required course, 35 students Philosophy of Science: Technology & Society, Course coordinator, developer, and lecturer for third year B.A. elective course, 35 students Maastricht University Science and Technology Studies: Network Society, second year B.A. core course, 30 students Research Methods: Ethnographic Research, second year B.A. core course, 30 students Development Studies: Globalization and Inequality, final year B.A. elective special seminar in development studies, 30 students 2011 Cartography: Open Source Cartography and GIS (workshop), second year B.A. elective, 15 students Mentoring: Thesis Advisor, final year core B.A. theses in Anthropology and Urban Studies, Migration Studies focus, 25 Students 2009 Political Theory: The Appeal of Totalitarianism, final year B.A. elective special seminar, 30 students City University of New York 2009 History: The History of Mathematics, second year B.A. elective, 20 students 2009 English: Academic Writing, first year B.A. core course, 40 students 2008 GIS Analysis: Mapping the Virtual Earth, final year secondary school elective, as National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellow and curriculum developer Physics: Introduction to Mechanical and Electrical Physics, final year A.P. (university level) secondary school core course, 60 students, as National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellow 5

6 INVITED LECTURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS 2017 Book discussion of Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology, and Modern Culture (WTMC), organized by Sally Wyatt with respondants Chunglin Kwa and Annalisa Pelizza, November Segregation and Entanglement in the Mapping of Israeli Settlements at the Entangled Cities Seminar of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, October Occupied Data: Mapping the Boundaries of Israeli Settlements from the Ground at the Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design, October Locating Global Value: National Statistical Infrastructures and Multinational Banks at the Cosmopolis Lunch Seminar, Free University of Brussels (VUB), June Discussant at workshop, Feminizing the City? International Workshop on Productions of Space for the Post-Fordist Sexual Contract with Linda Peake, organized by Marguerite van den Berg, University of Amsterdam, May 18. Awarded UvA Urban Studies Seed Grant 2016 Locating Globality in Multinational Banking Statistics at the 8 th Conference of the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics, Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, September Discussant at colloquium in celebration of honorary doctorate awarded to Craig Calhoun, Erasmus University Rotterdam, November Discussant at colloquium in celebration of honorary doctorate awarded to Trevor Pinch, Maastricht University, January Co-Presenter with Wiebe Bijker of An Illustrated History of STS in 100 Pictures at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology, and Modern Culture (WTMC), December SELECTED PRESENTATIONS 2016 Co-organizer of session Monitoring Circulation with Willem Schinkel at the joint conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), Barcelona, August 31-September 3 6

7 2016 Locating Global Value: National Statistical Infrastructures and Multinational Banks at the joint conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), Barcelona, August 31-September Visibility, Value, and the Measure of a Life: Body Recovery and Identification after the Sinking of the Titanic at Corpses, Cadavers and Catalogues: The Mobilities of Dead Bodies and Body Parts, Past and Present, Barts Pathology Museum and the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons, London, May Organizer of session Visualising society: Monitoring practices in migration policy and climate science at the 2015 annual meeting of the Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology, and Modern Culture (WTMC), Amsterdam, November The Globalized Cartography of Israeli Settlements at the Inverting Globalisation Conference, Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS), University of Amsterdam, October No-Man s Land in the West Bank: Seen and Unobserved at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) and Institute of British Geographers (IBG) Annual International Conference, Imperial College London, August The Cartography of Israeli Settlements and the Overlap of Colonial and Postcolonial Forms of Control at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting, Buenos Aires, August Validating Segregated Observers: Mapping West Bank Settlements from Without and Within at the International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, July Panelist at Geographies towards Revolution session in honor of the memory of Neil Smith, the Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, April The Colonizer in the Computer: The British Influence in Palestinian Authority Cartography at the Nordic Geographers Annual Meeting, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, June The Colonizer in the Computer: The British Influence in Palestinian Authority Cartography at Postcolonial Transitions in Europe: Conflict, Transitional Justice and Cosmopolitanism, Utrecht University, April Coding Colonial Maps in the West Bank at the Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, April

8 2013 The Legacy of British Colonial Cartography in Palestine at Shaping landscapes and building expertise: The Role of Imperial Technology in the Making of the 19th and 20th Century World, Lisbon University, March Mapping Sovereignty: The Influence of Colonial Materialities on Palestinian State Maps at Design and Displacement, joint conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), Copenhagen Business School, October Displacement and Erasure: The Green Line Boundary in Roberto Bachi s Population Maps, at the Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology, and Modern Culture (WTMC) Summer School, Ravenstein, the Netherlands, August Colonial Transnationalism and the Making of Palestinian Authority Maps at Mapping Transnational Spaces, York University, Toronto, July Co-organizer of workshop Participatory Knowleddge Production 2.0: Critical Views and Experiences with Sally Wyatt and Bas van Heur, Maastricht University, March The Politics of Mapping Palestinians in New York at the Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), San Francisco, April PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT 2015 Cartographer for Nepal Earthquake Task, Humanitarian Open Street Map Team, crowd sourced digitization of aerial images for relief services in Nepal 2012 Database rectification and organization, Syria Crisis Tracker, crowd sourced social media map of the ongoing conflict in Syria Arabic-English translator, The Great Book Robbery documentary website Member of the board of directors, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee of New York (ADC-NYC), New York Community organizer, Communities in Support of the Khalil Gibran International Academy for Arabic-English public education, New York Member of the board of directors, QUIR Immigrant Rights Project, New York 2005 Organizer, Initiative for Arab American Youth, Paper Tiger Media, New York Instructor of social studies, mathematics, and English literature, Arab American Family Support Center, New York 8

9 SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Reviewer for: The MIT Press, The University of Minnesota Press, Theory, Culture & Society, American Ethnologist, Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy, Journal of Middle East Women s Studies (JMEWS), Canadian Journal of Communication, and Mediterranean Politics Affiliate Member, Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies, University of Present Amsterdam Member of the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (USA) Present Participant in the StateTS working group on science and technology studies Present (STS) and the state, organized by Lieke Wissink and Rogier van Reekum, Erasmus University Rotterdam Participant in Reconstructions:Power and Contemporary Forms of Life Present seminar, organized by Willem Schinkel and Eva van Gemert with additional collective organization, Erasmus University Rotterdam, from known as the Monitoring Modernity seminar & 2016 Regular meeting Mentor and Mentee, joint conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Elected Ph.D. representative to the board of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) 2011 Organizer and leader of pedagogical training workshops for new faculty and students, Maastricht University, September Presenter and reviewer at science and technology studies research colloquia, departmental meetings, and faculty retreats, Maastricht University Co-organizer, Arabic Conversation Group and Geographies of Foucault Reading Group, Postcolonial Studies Reading Group, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2013 University Teaching Qualification Certificate Awarded: Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs (BKO) 9

10 Content editor of Mittermaier, A. Dreams that Matter: Imaginations in Contemporary Egypt, Ph.D. dissertation in Anthropology, Columbia University Literary Associate, Women s Studies Quarterly, Feminist Press, New York Literary Assistant, Harold Ober Associates Literary Agents, New York PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies, University of Amsterdam, Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), Association of American Geographers (AAG), American Anthropological Association (AAG), 10