Ingrid Behrsin - Geography Graduate Group

Ingrid Behrsin
CURRICULUM VITAE
1148 Cragmont Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94708
(510) 499-8071
iabehrsin@ucdavis.edu
Geography Graduate Group
University of California, Davis
One Shields Ave.
Davis, CA 95616
EDUCATION
2012 - Present
University of California, Davis
PhD Candidate, Geography Graduate Group
• Area of concentration: Nature and Society
• Working dissertation title: Dirty, Clean Power: Constructing and
contesting waste as a renewable energy source in the European
Union
2010 - 2013
University of California, Davis
MSc, Community and Regional Development
• Thesis: Urban Mobility Environments, Subjectivities, and the
Paradoxes of Transit Politics: Advancing an Urban Political Ecology
Agenda
2000 - 2004
University of California, Berkeley
BA, Development Studies (Honors)
• Emphasis: Political Economy
2002
School for Field Studies, Costa Rica
• Study abroad program: Sustainable Development – Atenas, Costa
Rica
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS and DISTINCTIONS
External
2014
Ernst Mach Grant, Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in
Education and Research (OeAD-GmbH), Centre for International
Cooperation and Mobility
2014
Herbert F. York Global Security Dissertation Fellowship, University of
California Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation
2014
Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
2014
EU Center of Excellence Graduate Research Workshop on the EU
• Award to attend two-day workshop – Boulder, CO
2013
EU Network of Political Ecology
• Selected to attend “Commons, Conflicts, Disasters” summer school
– Ermoupolis, Greece
BEHRSIN
2013
US Composting Council Research and Education Foundation Young
Investigator Scholarship (Honorable Mention)
Internal
2014
Geography Graduate Group Fellowship, UC Davis
2014
Jastro Shields Research Scholarship, UC Davis
2013
Geography Graduate Group Fellowship, UC Davis
2013
Jastro Shields Research Scholarship, UC Davis
2012
Geography Graduate Group Fellowship, UC Davis
2012
Orville and Edna Thompson Research Scholarship, UC Davis
2011
Jastro Shields Research Scholarship, UC Davis
TEACHING and RESEARCH
Guest Lectures:
April 2015
October 2013
“Power Streams and Pipe Dreams: A More-than-Urban Political Ecology
of European Energy and Waste Infrastructures”. Economic Geography
Colloquium, Department of Geography. University of Zurich.
“What’s ‘State’ Got To Do With It?”. Community and Regional
Development 141: Organization of Economic Space. UC Davis.
Courses Taught as Teaching Assistant:
Winter 2014
Community and Regional Development 156: Community Economic
Development. UC Davis.
Fall 2013
Community and Regional Development 141: Organization of Economic
Space. UC Davis.
Fall 2012
Community and Regional Development 2: Race and Ethnicity in American
Communities. UC Davis.
Research Appointments:
2013 - 2014
California Center for Sustainable Communities, UCLA
Center for Regional Change, UC Davis
Jonathan London, PhD
• Graduate student researcher
2013
The Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona – Spain
Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade initiative
• Contributor of Austrian resource conflict case studies
2011 - 2012
TransForm – Oakland, CA
• Bus Rapid Transit project volunteer researcher
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BEHRSIN
2010 - 2012
Department of Human Ecology, UC Davis
Chris Benner, PhD
• Graduate student researcher
2009 - 2010
Bay Area Open Space Council – Berkeley, CA
• Park Connections program research manager
2003 - 2004
Environmental Science Teaching Program
Department of Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley
Steve Andrews, PhD
• Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program participant
CONFERENCES and PRESENTATIONS
2015
Session co-organizer and presenter. “Power Streams and Pipe Dreams:
A More-than-Urban Political Ecology of European Energy and Waste
Infrastructures”, in Urbanization, Cityness, and the Site Multiple – Urban
Political Ecology Beyond Methodological Cityism (session). Royal
Geographic Society Annual International Conference. Exeter, UK.
2015
Co-organizer and panelist. Practicing Political Ecology: A Left Coast
Workshop. Berkeley, California.
2014
Poster. "Dirty, Clean Power? The emergence and implications of
municipal waste as a renewable energy source in Austria.” First Austrian
Conference on International Resource Politics: Towards International
Resource Fairness - Theories, Conflicts and Policies. Vienna, Austria.
2014
Presenter. “Fueling Consent? Theorizing spectacular waste-to-energy
infrastructure.” Dimensions of Political Ecology: Conference on
Nature/Society. Lexington, Kentucky.
2013
Presenter. “Pathways to Power: A comparative case study analysis of
two advocacy coalitions' efforts to influence decision makers in public
transportation planning initiatives.” Association of American Geographers
Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, California.
2013
Presenter. “Reverse Greenwashing: Discrepancies between motivation
and rhetoric within public transportation advocacy coalitions.” Dimensions
of Political Ecology: Conference on Nature/Society. Lexington, Kentucky.
2012
Co-presenter. “Collective Action, Web 2.0 and the Careers of
Itinerant Professionals.” Employment Relations and Alternative
Organizing Strategies for Workers in High-tech Occupations Workshop,
LERA Annual Meeting. Chicago, Illinois.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2013 - 2014
President
GLOBAL: The Graduate Student Association of the Geography Graduate
Group, UC Davis
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BEHRSIN
2013 - 2014
Co-Organizer
Geography Graduate Group Speaker Series, UC Davis
• Secured $2,000 of additional support to invite guest speakers
2012 - 2013
Representative, Geography Graduate Group
UC Davis Graduate Student Assembly
2010 - 2012
Student Representative
Community Development Graduate Group Executive Committee,
UC Davis
Professional
Membership
Academic Association for Contemporary European Studies
Association of American Geographers
International Critical Geography Group
LANGUAGES and CITIZENSHIP
English – Native Speaker
German – Advanced
Spanish – Proficient
Italian – Basic
Citizenship – USA and EU (Austria)
TRAVEL
9/2014 – 9/2015
8 - 9/ 2013
7 / 2013
3 - 6 / 2012
7 / 2012
3 - 6 / 2005
1 - 3 / 2005
9 - 12 / 2002
Vienna, Austria – Dissertation research
Vienna, Austria – Exploratory dissertation research
Ermoupolis, Greece – Summer school: “Commons, Conflicts, Disasters”
Vienna, Austria
Barcelona, Spain – Masters thesis research
Salzburg, Austria – Internship
Antigua, Guatemala – Spanish language study
Atenas, Costa Rica – Study abroad
Other:
Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Canada, Czech Republic, Costa Rica,
Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy,
Jordan, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Peru, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain,
South Africa, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey, United Kingdom
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