Jess Bier Curriculum Vitae (web) October 2017 Email Mailing Address bier (at) essb (dot) eur (dot) nl Erasmus University Rotterdam Faculty of Social Sciences Links PO Box 1738 3000 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 2017- Assistant Professor of Urban Sociology, tenure track position, Department of Present Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam 2013-2017 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, ERC-funded Monitoring Modernity project, Visualizing Capital subproject, Principal Investigator Willem Schinkel, Erasmus University Rotterdam 2009-13 Fully-funded Ph.D. Faculty Position, Department of Technology and Society Studies, Maastricht University 2009-13 Graduate of Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology, and Modern Culture (WTMC), 4 workshops and 2 summer schools RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2014-16 Fieldworker, targeted interviews and participant observation at the Bank for 1
(3 visits) International Settlements (BIS) 2011-12 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 2010-11 Affiliated scholar, GIS Unit, Applied Research Institute Jerusalem (ARIJ) 2010-11 Affiliated scholar, Map Library, Tel Aviv University (TAU) 2006-9 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 2006-8 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. 2013 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): 53-78 2016 Bier, J. and W. Schinkel. Building Better Ecological Machines: Complexity Theory and Alternative Economic Models Engaging Science and Technology Studies 2: 266-293 2
2016 Bier, J. "Pillaged Books and Plundered Maps: Pirates and the Boundaries of Language" Krisis 2: 1-19 2013 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), 153-59 2012 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): 483-496 2010 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): 171-191 2009 Bier, J. Self-De(con)structing Vegas Human Geography 2(2): 86-90 2002 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: 297-301 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), 2017. 2015 Bier, J. Images as Maps in The History of Cartography, Volume Six: Cartography in the Twentieth Century, edited by Mark Monmonier, 804-5. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2009 Bier, J. Subaltern Studies in The Encyclopedia of Geography, edited by Barney Warf, 2711-2716. 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
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) 2013-2014 Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Travel Grant (2 awards) 2009-2013 University funded independent Ph.D. research, Maastricht University 2008-09 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) 2007-08 Chancellors Fellowship, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center 2006-07 Urban Geography Research Grant, Association of American Geographers (AAG) (2 awards) 2006 Annual Research Paper Award, City University of New York (CUNY) 2005-09 Departmental Fellowship, City University of New York (CUNY) (4 awards) 2005-08 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
TEACHING EXPERIENCE Erasmus University Rotterdam Ongoing PhD dissertation supervision, 2 students; Master s thesis supervision, 5 students annually 2017- Sociology of the Globe, Course coordinator, developer, and lecturer for third Present year B.A. required course, 35 students 2014-17 Philosophy of Science: Technology & Society, Course coordinator, developer, and lecturer for third year B.A. elective course, 35 students Maastricht University 2010-12 Science and Technology Studies: Network Society, second year B.A. core course, 30 students 2010-12 Research Methods: Ethnographic Research, second year B.A. core course, 30 students 2010-11 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 2009-10 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 2005-7 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
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 24 2017 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 27 2017 Occupied Data: Mapping the Boundaries of Israeli Settlements from the Ground at the Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design, October 13 2017 Locating Global Value: National Statistical Infrastructures and Multinational Banks at the Cosmopolis Lunch Seminar, Free University of Brussels (VUB), June 1 2017 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 8-9 2013 Discussant at colloquium in celebration of honorary doctorate awarded to Craig Calhoun, Erasmus University Rotterdam, November 8. 2013 Discussant at colloquium in celebration of honorary doctorate awarded to Trevor Pinch, Maastricht University, January 14 2012 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 13-14 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
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 3 2016 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 17-18 2014 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 20 2014 The Globalized Cartography of Israeli Settlements at the Inverting Globalisation Conference, Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS), University of Amsterdam, October 9-10 2014 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 27-29 2014 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 20-23 2014 Validating Segregated Observers: Mapping West Bank Settlements from Without and Within at the International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, July 13-19 2013 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 9-13 2013 The Colonizer in the Computer: The British Influence in Palestinian Authority Cartography at the Nordic Geographers Annual Meeting, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, June 4-7 2013 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 18-19 2013 Coding Colonial Maps in the West Bank at the Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, April 9-13 7
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 10-13 2012 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 17-20 2012 Displacement and Erasure: The Green Line Boundary in Roberto Bachi s Population Maps, 1967-1995 at the Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology, and Modern Culture (WTMC) Summer School, Ravenstein, the Netherlands, August 20-24 2012 Colonial Transnationalism and the Making of Palestinian Authority Maps at Mapping Transnational Spaces, York University, Toronto, July 23-24 2011 Co-organizer of workshop Participatory Knowleddge Production 2.0: Critical Views and Experiences with Sally Wyatt and Bas van Heur, Maastricht University, March 23. 2007 The Politics of Mapping Palestinians in New York at the Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), San Francisco, April 17-21 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 2011-12 Arabic-English translator, The Great Book Robbery documentary website 2009-10 Member of the board of directors, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee of New York (ADC-NYC), New York 2008-9 Community organizer, Communities in Support of the Khalil Gibran International Academy for Arabic-English public education, New York 2005-7 Member of the board of directors, QUIR Immigrant Rights Project, New York 2005 Organizer, Initiative for Arab American Youth, Paper Tiger Media, New York 2002-5 Instructor of social studies, mathematics, and English literature, Arab American Family Support Center, New York 8
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 2017- Affiliate Member, Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies, University of Present Amsterdam 2016- Member of the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (USA) Present 2015- 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 2013- 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 2013-2017 known as the Monitoring Modernity seminar. 2012 & 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) 2012-14 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 12-14 2010-12 Presenter and reviewer at science and technology studies research colloquia, departmental meetings, and faculty retreats, Maastricht University 2007-9 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
2008-9 Content editor of Mittermaier, A. Dreams that Matter: Imaginations in Contemporary Egypt, Ph.D. dissertation in Anthropology, Columbia University 2007-8 Literary Associate, Women s Studies Quarterly, Feminist Press, New York 2002-5 Literary Assistant, Harold Ober Associates Literary Agents, New York PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies, University of Amsterdam, http://acgs.uva.nl/ Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), http://4sonline.org/ European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), http://easst.net/ Association of American Geographers (AAG), http://www.aag.org/ American Anthropological Association (AAG), http://www.aaanet.org/ 10