Ph.D. with highest distinction, Sociology, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY

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1 MIRIAM GREENBERG Department of Sociology University of California Santa Cruz 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA, United States (831) * miriam@ucsc.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. with highest distinction, Sociology, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY B.A., Eugene Lang College, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY, ACADEMIC POSITIONS Associate Professor, Sociology, University of California Santa Cruz, Sept 2010-Present Director, Urban Studies Research Cluster, University of California Santa Cruz Present Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of California Santa Cruz, Sept Assistant Professor (tenure track), Social Science and Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. September Co-Founder, Critical and Visual Studies Program Visiting Professor Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Área de Estudios Urbanos, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, March-September, 2011 Center for Urban Research and Policy, Columbia University. September 2007-June 2008 PUBLICATIONS Books Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans. (Co-authored with Kevin Fox Gotham.) Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, Branding New York: How a City in Crisis was Sold to the World. New York: Routledge, (Cultural Spaces Series). Winner of 2009 Robert Park Award, American Sociological Association 1

2 Book Chapters The Sustainability Edge: Competition, Crisis, and the Rise of Green City Branding, in Melissa Checker, Cindy Isenhour, and Gary McDonough, eds., Sustainability in the Global City: Myth and Practice. (New Directions in Sustainability and Society Series) Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, Luxury and Diversity: Marketing the Exclusive City as Global Utopia. In Melissa Aronczyc and Devon Powers, eds., Blowing up the Brand: Critical Perspectives on Promotional Paradigms. New York and Oxford: Peter Lang, (Popular Culture and Everyday Life Series, edited by Toby Miller) Branding New York: From the Big Apple to the Summer of Sam in Routledge Social Issues Collection. New York: Routledge, Marketing the City in Crisis: Branding and Restructuring of New York City in the 1970s and the Post-9/11 Era, in Kevin Hetherington and Anne Cronin, eds., Consuming the Entrepreneurial City: Image, Memory, Spectacle. New York: Routledge, The Rise of Urban Lifestyle Magazines and New City Branding Strategies, in The American Metropolis: Image and Inspiration, J.L. Krabbendam, M. L. Roholl, and T. de Vries, eds., European Contributions to American Studies Series. Amsterdam: VU University Press, Journal Articles "The Disaster Inside the Disaster: Hurricane Sandy and Post-Crisis Redevelopment." New Labor Forum, January-February "What in the World is Sustainable? Toward Critical Sustainability Studies," Boom: A Journal of California. "Futures" Issue. Fall Urbanización, Crisis, y la Reescalación del Riesgo: Trazando las Raíces del Desastre. Quid 16 Revista del Area de Estudios Urbanos del Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires; Number 1, "From 9/11 to 8/29: Post-Disaster Response and Recovery in New York and New Orleans" (with Kevin Fox Gotham). Social Forces 87(2), December, 2008, The World Trade Center, Fiscal Crisis, and the Marketing of Recovery. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Vol. 27, Number 2, June, Branding Cities: A Social History of the Urban Lifestyle Magazine, , Urban Affairs Review, Volume 35, no 6, November, *Graduate Student Research Paper Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association Coney Island and Las Vegas in the Social Imaginary: A Study in Urban Decline and Renewal, with Sharon Zukin, et al., Urban Affairs Review, Vol. 33, no 3, May,

3 HONORS Awards Robert Park Book Award of the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, for best book in urban sociology in the last two years, for Branding New York: How a City in Crisis Was Sold to the World Graduate Student Research Paper Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association for article Branding Cities: A Social History of the Urban Lifestyle Magazine, Grants & Fellowships - U.C. Humanities Research Institute, Residential Research Group in Urban Ecologies, Spring Santa Cruz Faculty Association Creative Responses to the Crisis Grant for Budget Cut Impact Survey, University of California Humanities Research Institute, California Studies Workgroup Grant, Critical Sustainabilities: Analyzing Competing Discourses of Urban Development in California UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research, support for Urban Studies Research Cluster, UC Santa Cruz Special Research Grant, $20,000 - UC Santa Cruz, Division of Social Science Research Award, $2,500 - UC Santa Cruz Faculty Research Award "Disaster and Neoliberal Urbanism: A Social - Reading of Crisis and Recovery in New Orleans and New York," $2,500 - Faculty Fellowship, The Pratt Center for Community Development, 2005, Larry J. Hackman Research Residency, New York State Archives, Albany, Mellon Faculty Development Grant, Pratt Institute, 2000 and Doctoral Fellowship, Center for Place, Culture, Politics, CUNY Grad Center, PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (since 2010) Chair, Space and Place panel, American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 18, 2014 What Is to be Sustained? Toward a Critical Theory of Urban Sustainability. Sustainability and Social Justice panel, International Sociological Association World Congress, Yokahama, Japan, July 16, Situating Sustainability in Buenos Aires: "Ciudad Verde" as a Global Urban Campaign, Tensions between the Global and the Local: Reconfiguring Environmental Politics panel, Latin America Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Washington D.C., May 30, Critical Sustainabilities: Competing Discourses of Urban Development in California, Sustainable California? panel, American Association of Geographers, Los Angeles, California, April 13, Chair, Urban Redevelopment in a Comparative Perspective: Discourse by Policy Makers and Protestors. Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology. American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, Nov. 14,

4 New Urban Imaginaries in the Branded City: Towards a Critical and Comparative Approach. RC21 panel: The role of design and social justice in 21st century cities. International Sociological Association, Buenos Aires, August 2, 2012 Landscapes of Risk and Resilience: The Socio-Spatial Production of Environmental Crisis in the U.S. and Latin America. RC24 panel: Current Research in Environmental Sociology, International Sociological Association, August 2, 2012 Session organizer, The Changing Dynamics of the Urban Crisis panel, American Sociological Association Meeting, Atlanta, August 17, "Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans," on the panel "Redevelopment States and Redevelopmentalities," American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. April 26, 2010 Respondent on the panel "Inequality and Urban Growth." Pacific Sociological Association Conference. Oakland, CA. April 10, 2010 INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS (since 2010) Competing and Contested Sustainabilities in California and Beyond in Democratizing the Green City Series, Institute for Public Knowledge and Urban Democracy Lab, New York University, March 13, Crisis-Driven Urbanization and Contemporary Capitalism in the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Series, Humanities Research Institute, UC Santa Cruz. December 3, Whose City? What Image?: The Role of Urban Branding in Post-Crisis Urban Contestation. Whose City? Conference. Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong. May 24-25, 2013 Talk in honor of David Harvey for Social Justice and the City : 40 th Anniversary Celebration. The Graduate Program in Design and Urban Ecologies at Parsons The New School for Design and The Center for Place Culture and Politics, City University of New York. May 4, "Branding Cities: From New York to Buenos Aires." TAULA/ Latin American Cities Workshop, University of Connecticut, Storrs. February 27, 2012 "Los Desafíos de la Investigación Sobre Política Urbana en Nueva York: Estudiando las Élites y el Poder en Tiempos Neoliberales. Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales. Buenos Aires. June 22, 2011 "The Abandoned Movie Set: Art, Space, and the Politics of Crisis in 1970s-Era New York City." Talk given for workshop "Cultural Landscapes of Boom and Bust" for conference, Creative City Limits: Urban Cultural Economy in a New Era of Austerity. Urban Laboratory, University College London, June 1,

5 "Seminario Abierto: Presentación del libro Branding New York: How a City in Crisis was Sold to the World. Área de Estudios Urbanos del Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires. April 26, 2011 "Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans." Department of Geography Colloquium Series. UC Berkeley. November 3, 2010 "Urban Utopia or Luxury City?" for Open Sourcing the City: Invited and Uninvited Participation, at The Change You Want to See Gallery. Brooklyn. August 24, 2010 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE - Editorial Board, City and Community, Journal of the Committee on Urban and Community Sociology, Fall 2012 to present - Robert Park Book Award Committee, Committee on Urban and Community Sociology, American Sociological Association, September April 2010 SELECTED COURSES (2010-present) Undergraduate - Classical Social Theory - Issues and Problems in American Society - Global Cities - Media, Marketing and Culture - Eco-Metropolis: Bridging Urban & Environmental Studies - Urban Sociology Graduate - The Making of Classical Sociological Theory - Culture, Knowledge, Power - Social Science Research and Representation - Readings in Urban Political Ecology CONFERENCES & SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED Critical Sustainabilities: Competing Discourses of Urban Development in Northern California (funded by the California Studies Grant of UCHRI). Workshops: Nov 5, 2012; Feb 15, 2013; April 26, 2013; and June 14, Public event, April 26, Whose City? Labor and the Right to the City Movements. A national conference at UC Santa Cruz. Lead organizer, with the Urban Studies Research Cluster and Center for Labor Studies, February 26, Coastal Cities: Urbanization, Water, and Environmental Justice. A symposium at UC Santa Cruz. Lead organizer, with the Urban Studies Research Cluster. October 18, 2010 Representing New Orleans: Challenges and Responsibilities. A symposium at UC Santa Cruz. Lead organizer and presenter, with the Urban Studies Research Cluster. October 4, LANGUAGES Spanish fluent; French reading and speaking References available upon request 5