Emily Gilbert, University of Toronto — Curriculum Vitae, April 20071
Curriculum Vitae — Emily Gilbert
April 2007
1. CONTACT INFORMATION
31 Kendal AvenueCanadian Studies and Geography
Toronto, OntarioUniversityCollege
M5R 1L5University of Toronto
Phone: (416) 929 141615 King’s College Circle
M5S 3H7
Phone: (416) 978 0751
Fax: (416) 971 2027
2. DEGREES
Ph.D. (1998) Department of Geography, University of Bristol, England.
Dissertation Title: “Circulating Values: Cultural and Historical Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Canadian Paper Money.” Supervisors: Professor Nigel Thrift and Dr. Paul Glennie. External examiners: Professors Derek Gregory and Andrew Leyshon.
M.A. (1994) Graduate Programme in Geography, York University, Canada.
Thesis Title: “Home/City/Nation: Identity, Place and Ideology in Toronto Women’s Literature.” Supervisor: Dr. Paul Simpson-Housley
B.A. Honours, Cum Laude (1992) English Literature and Language, York University, Canada.
3. EMPLOYMENT
June 2006–
Cross-Appointment in the Program in Canadian Studies and Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Associate Professor.Appointed to GraduateSchoolJanuary 1, 2001.
January 1, 2001–June, 2006
Cross-Appointment in the Program in Canadian Studies and Department ofGeography, University of Toronto, Assistant Professor. Appointed to GraduateSchoolJanuary 1, 2001.
January 1, 1998–August 31, 2000
Department of Geography, Queen’s University, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor
4. HONOURS
2007: Dean’s Award of Excellence and Recognition, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto and School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto.
2005: Dean’s Award of Excellence and Recognition, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto and School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto.
5. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
Canadian Association of Geographers
Association of American Geographers
Association of Canadian Studies
B. ACADEMIC HISTORY
6. A. RESEARCH ENDEAVOURS
1. North American Integration. Includes research and writing on:
- Proposals for deeper North American integration
- Flexible citizenship and Fortress North America
- Discourses around North American community
- North American security and risk
- Biometrics, biopolitics and citizenship
2. Money and Nation-States. Includes research and writing on:
- Historical development of national currencies
- Symbolic iconography of money
- Theories of modern money
- Proposals for North American Monetary Union
- Comparative approaches to trans-national currencies
3. Literature, Space and Place. Includes research and writing on:
- Toronto women’s fiction (Margaret Atwood; Helen Weinzweig; Marian Engel)
- Turn of the century Chicago (Upton Sinclair; Theodor Dreiser; Henry Fuller)
- Chilean urban ghettos (Isabel Allende)
- Madness and institutionalization (Janet Frame)
- Newfoundland and national identity (Wayne Johnston)
6. B. MAJOR RESEARCH AWARDS
2005–08:“Money, Citizenship and the Nation-State: Canadian Currency Concerns in the Early TwentiethCentury and at the Turn of the Millennium” SSHRC Standard Research Grant ($44,471.00)
2005–08: Travel and research grant. SSHRC Institutional Grant through UniversityCollege. ($1,152.75)
2004–07:“Money and Discourses of the Public” SSHRC Institutional Grant ($1,450.00)
2001:“Cultural Geographies of Canadian Money” Connaught Fund (total: $10,000.00)
1998–2000: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral fellowship ($28,428 per annum); Queen’s University, Canada.
1994–98: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral scholarship ($14,436 per annum).
1994–97: Postgraduate Student Grant, University of Bristol, England (£4,500 per annum).
1994–95: Ontario Graduate Scholarship ($11,959 per annum). (Declined in favour of SSHRC.)
1993–94: Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Geography, YorkUniversity ($11,859 per annum).
1993: Travel Scholarship to attend the First International Conference for Young Leaders organized by the Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) in Beijing and Xian, China. August 25 to September 4, 1993. All expenses paid (approximate value: $4,000).
1992–93: Graduate Fellowship for Academic Distinction, Geography, YorkUniversity ($10,000 plus tuition).
1992: B.A. Cum Laude, Dean’s Honour Roll, YorkUniversity.
1991–92: In-Course Scholarship, Faculty of Fine Arts, YorkUniversity ($1,600).
1990–91: Temple Harris Book Prize, Faculty of Fine Arts, YorkUniversity ($100).
1989–92: Dean’s Honour Roll, Faculty of Fine Arts and Faculty of Arts, YorkUniversity.
C. SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL WORK
7.A. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS—ARTICLES
Emily Gilbert (2007) “Money, Citizenship, Territoriality and the Proposals for North American Monetary Union” Political Geography26(2): 141–158.
Emily Gilbert (2007) “Leaky Borders and Solid Citizens: Governing Security, Prosperity and Quality of Life in a North American Partnership” Antipode 39(1): 77–98.
Emily Gilbert (2005) “What is at Stake in the NAMU Debates? A Review of the Arguments for and Against North American Monetary Union” International Journal of Canadian Studies: 161–184.
Emily Gilbert (2005) “The Inevitability of Integration? Neoliberal Discourse and the Proposals for a New North American Economic Space after September 11” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95(1): 202–222.
Emily Gilbert (2005) “Common Cents: Situating Money in Time and Space,” Economy and Society 34(3): 356–387.
Emily Gilbert (1998) “‘Ornamenting the Facade of Hell’: Iconographies of Nineteenth-Century Canadian Paper Money,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 16: 57–80.
Emily Gilbert and Paul Simpson-Housley (1997) “Places and Spaces of Dislocation: LadyOracle’sToronto,” The Canadian Geographer 41(3): 235–248. Primary author.
Emily Gilbert (1996) “Situating the City: Representations of Toronto in Three Women’s Novels.” London Journal of Canadian Studies 12: 95–122.
Emily Gilbert, Deborah C. Park, Paul Simpson-Housley and Jamie S. Scott (1996) “Battles from Below: Geography and Oppression in Janet Frame’s Faces in the Water” GeoJournal, 1996, 38 (1): 19–28. Primary author.
Emily Gilbert (1994) “Naturalist Metaphors in the Literatures of Chicago, 1893–1925.” The Journal of Historical Geography 20 (3): 283–304.
7.B. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS—CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Emily Gilbert (2008) “Eye to Eye: Biometrics, Biopower and the Body Politic” in Fraser McDonald, Klaus Dodds, and Rachel Hughes, ed. Observant States: Geopolitics and Visual Culture; IB Tauris. (Solicited).
Emily Gilbert (2008) “Liberalism” in Nigel Thrift and Rob Kitchin, ed. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography; Oxford: Elsevier. (9,000 words)
Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert (2007) “Fear and the Familial in the U.S. War on Terror” in Rachel Pain, Susan J. Smith, Stephen Graham, ed. Fear: Critical Geopolitics and Everyday Life; Aldershot: Ashgate. Forthcoming.
Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert (2007) “Introduction: The Politics of War, Citizenship, Territory” in Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert, ed. War, Citizenship, Territory. New York: Routledge.
Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert (2007) “Citizenship in the ‘Homeland’: Families at War?” in Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert, ed. War, Citizenship, Territory. New York: Routledge.
Emily Gilbert (2006) entry on “Money” (2,500 words) in Austin Harrington, Barbara Marshall, Hans-Peter Muller, ed. Routledge Encyclopedia of Social Theory; London: Routledge. Solicited.
Emily Gilbert (2004) entries on “Currency” (900 words), “Royal Canadian Mint” (250 words), “Metric Conversion” (250 words), “Canada Savings Bonds” (175 words) in Gerald Hallowell, ed. The Oxford Companion to Canadian History. Toronto: OxfordUniversity Press. Solicited.
Emily Gilbert and Eric Helleiner (1999) “Introduction: Nation-States and Money: Historical Contexts, Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” in Emily Gilbert and Eric Helleiner, ed. Nation-States and Money: The Past, Present and Future of National Currencies. London: Routledge: 1–21. Joint authors.
Emily Gilbert (1999) “Forging a National Currency: Money, State-Making and Nation-Building in Canada,” in Emily Gilbert and Eric Helleiner, ed. Nation-States and Money: The Past, Present and Future of National Currencies. London: Routledge: 25–46.
Emily Gilbert (1996) “Women and the Urban Asylum: Toronto as Text,” in A.L. McLeod, ed. Commonwealth and American Women’s Discourse: Essays in Criticism. New Delhi: Sterling: 144–156.
Emily Gilbert (1994) “Transgressing Boundaries: Isabel Allende’s Santiago de Chile,” in Peter Preston and Paul Simpson-Housley, ed. Writing the City: Eden, Babylon and the New Jerusalem. London: Routledge: 306–330.
7.C. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS—BOOKS EDITED
Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert, ed. (2007) War, Citizenship, Territory.New York: Routledge. Anticipated July 2007.
Emily Gilbert and Eric Helleiner, ed. (1999) Nation-States and Money: The Past, Present and Future of National Currencies. London: Routledge. Joint co-editors.
8. NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Emily Gilbert (2008) “Banal imperialism and monetary neoliberalism” Political Geography. Forthcoming.
Emily Gilbert (2007) “Commentary on Matt Sparke’s In the Space of Theory” For special section in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. Invited.
Emily Gilbert (2007) Book review of Robert M Fishman and Anthony M Messina, ed. (2006) The Year of the Euro: The Cultural, Social and Political Import of Europe’s Common Currency (University of Notre Dame Press) for Contemporary Sociology.
Emily Gilbert (2006) “Commentary” on Brenda Chalfin, “Global customs regimes and the traffic in sovereignty: enlarging the anthropology of the state” Current Anthropology. April. Solicited.
Emily Gilbert (2005) book review of James S. Duncan, Nuala C. Johnson, and Richard H. Schein, ed. A Companion to Cultural Geography (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004) in Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95(3): 692–694.
Emily Gilbert (2003) book review of Chantal Nadeau, Fur Nation: From the Beaver to Brigitte Bardot (London: Routledge, 2001) in Gender, Place and Culture 10(1): 83–84.
Emily Gilbert (2001) book review of David M. Henkin, City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998) in Journal of Historical Geography 27(1): 105–106.
Emily Gilbert (1998) book review of William R. Taylor, ed., Inventing Times Square: Commerce and Culture at the Crossroads of the World (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) in Journal of Historical Geography 24(2): 253–255.
Emily Gilbert (1997) book review of Marc Shell, Art and Money (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995) in Religious Studies Review 23(2): 155.
Emily Gilbert (1996) Entries on Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Avison, Marie-Claire Blais, Marian Engel, Janet Frame, Mavis Gallant, Anne Hébert, Dorothy Livesay, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Katherine Mansfield, Daphne Marlatt, Alice Munro, P.K. Page, and Audrey Thomas in Bruce Murphy, ed. Benét’s Readers Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: HarperCollins. (Some entries are new, others are revisions.)
Emily Gilbert and Deborah C. Park (1995) “In and Out, Back and Forth, To and From: Here and There in the Writings of Janet Frame,” in Jacques Critchley, David Freeney, Neil Hanlon and Mike Ripmeester, ed. Paper / Scissors / Rock: Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference on Nationalism, Empire and Post-Colonialism. Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario: 145–161. (primary author)
Emily Gilbert (1995) book review of Mark C. Taylor, Disfiguring: Art, Architecture, Religion (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992) in International Journal of Comparative Religion and Philosophy 1(2): 96-100.
9. WORKS IN PROGRESS
Emily Gilbert “Beyond Survival: Wilderness and Canadian National Identity into the 21st Century.” Submitted to the British Journal of Canadian Studies.
Emily Gilbert “Risk, Vulnerability and Geopolitical Relations in the ‘North American Community’ in the Wake of 9/11.” In preparation for submission to Political Theory.
Emily Gilbert “The Politics of Monetary Territorialization.” In preparation for submission to Geography Compass. (Solicited.)
10. PAPERS PRESENTED TO MEETINGS AND SYMPOSIA
Emily Gilbert (2007) “Eye to Eye: Biometrics, the Observer, the Observed, and the Body Politic” Paper Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA. April.
Emily Gilbert (2007) Panelist: Banal Neoimperialism. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA. April. Invited.
Emily Gilbert (2007) Panelist: Relocating Nationalism: Geography and the Reproduction of the Nation. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA. April. Invited.
Emily Gilbert (2007) “Citizens and Security in Fortress North America” AMEC annual conference. Mexico City. February.
Emily Gilbert (2006) “Beyond Scale? Reconfiguring the Region in North America” International Geographical Union annual Conference, Brisbane, Australia. July.
Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert (2006) “Fear, Homeland Security and the Familial: Politicizing Emotion in US Domestic Policy, Geopolitical Relations and the War on Terror.” Emotional Geographies conference, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. May.
Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert (2006) “Family Matters: War, Citizenship, Territory.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Chicago, Illinois. March.
Emily Gilbert (2005) “From Border Lines to Border Lanes? Security Risk, Identity Documents and the Scaling of Canadian Citizenship after 9/11” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers. London, ON. May.
Emily Gilbert (2005) “Leaky borders and solid citizens: Securing Fortress North America across the continent and the production of transnational citizenship.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Denver, Colorado. April.
Emily Gilbert (2004) “What border? The Proposals for Deeper North American Integration and the Collapse of National Boundaries.” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers. Moncton, NB. May.
Emily Gilbert (2004) “What border? Discourses of inevitability and the deepening of North American Integration” Association of American Geographers. Philadelphia, USA. March.
Emily Gilbert (2003) “Sex and the City: Contemporary Urban Fiction from Small Canadian Presses” Canadian Association of Geographers. Victoria, BC. May.
Emily Gilbert(2002) “Canadian Currency and Canadian Identity: Lessons from the Past.” Social Science History Association. St. Louis, USA. October.
Emily Gilbert (2002) “North American Monetary Union: Problem or Prospect” Association of Canadian Studies in the United States. Ottawa, Ontario. September. (Closing Plenary—Refereed.)
Emily Gilbert (2002) “Grounds for Monetary Union? Proposals for Transnational Currencies in Canada and Australia.” Institute of Australian Geographers’ Conference. Canberra, Australia. August.
Emily Gilbert (2001) “National currency formation and national identity: the rise of colonial nationalism in Australia, South Africa and Canada.” International Conference of Historical Geographers. Laval, Quebec. August.
Emily Gilbert (2001) “Looking for love: Smallwood, Newfoundland, and Confederation.” Invited paper in a series of special sessions on Geography and Literature held at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers. Montreal, Quebec. June.
Emily Gilbert (1999) “Forging a National Identity: Money, State-Making and Nation-Building in Canada.” Conference on Nationalism, Citizenship and National Identity in Canada. MountAllisonUniversity, Sackville, Canada. November.
Emily Gilbert (1998) “Cash and Country: On Forging the Canadian Nation-State.” Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, USA. April.
Emily Gilbert (1995) “Banking on an Image: Money, Space, and Representation.” Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Montréal, Canada. June.
Emily Gilbert (1995) “In and Out, Back and Forth, To and From: Here and There in the Writings of Janet Frame,” Graduate Student Conference on Interdisciplinary Studies in Nationalism, Empire and Post-Colonialism. Kingston, Canada. May.
Emily Gilbert (1994) “Isabel Allende: Writing Santiago.” Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, USA. April.
Emily Gilbert (1994) “Women and the Urban Asylum: Toronto as Text.” Conference on Commonwealth and American Women’s Discourse. Institute of Commonwealth and American Studies, Mysore, India. January.
Emily Gilbert (1993) “The Survey/ance of the City: Toronto in Maps.” Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Ottawa, Canada. June.
11. INVITED LECTURES, PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
Emily Gilbert (2007) Panelist: Banal Neoimperialism. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA. April. Invited.
Emily Gilbert (2007) Panelist: Relocating Nationalism: Geography and the Reproduction of the Nation. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA. April. Invited.
Emily Gilbert (2006). Discussant: Globalizing Americas: Sawyer lecture series; University of Toronto; November 2006.
Emily Gilbert (2006). Panelist: Department of Geography seminar, “What does a feminist department look like?” November 2006.
Emily Gilbert (2006) “Risk, Vulnerability and Geopolitical Relations in the ‘North American Community’ in the Wake of 9/11.” Invited speaker to the Conference on The Future of Diasasters in a Globalizing World, The Third Annual Magrann Research Conference, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. April.
Emily Gilbert (2006)“Beyond Survival: Wilderness and Canadian National Identity into the 21st Century.” Invited speaker to the Wilderness Conference, British Association of Canadian Studies, Cambridge University, UK. April.
Emily Gilbert (2006) Invited panelist for a “Meet the Author” session at the Chicago AAG to discuss Matt Sparke’s In the Space of Theory: Postfoundational Geographies of the Nation-State (2005; University of Minnesota Press).
Emily Gilbert (2006) “Border Politics: the Security and Prosperity Agreement of North America.” UniversityCollege Seminar Series. UniversityCollege, University of Toronto. March.
Emily Gilbert (2006) “Canadian Studies” for the International Colloquium on Area Studies, Diaspora Studies, and Critical Pedagogies, Center for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto, March.
Emily Gilbert (2005) “Border Risks and New Forms of Citizenship Practice.” Invited speaker to the workshop,After Neo-Liberalism? Consequences for Citizenship, organized by Jane Jenson, Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Governance, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada. November.
Emily Gilbert (2005) “Biopolitics and the Security and Prosperity Agreement of North America.” Invited speaker to the Geospectives seminar series, Department of Geography, McGillUniversity, Montreal, Canada. October.
Emily Gilbert (2005) “Canadian Studies methods.” Invited speaker and participant at OISE national symposium on “New Canadian Studies and Critical Race Theory Approaches.” March.
Emily Gilbert (2004) “The inevitability of North American integration?” Invited seminar in the Department of Geography, The University of Western Ontario. November.
Emily Gilbert (2002) “Will Canada Survive Globalization?” debate with Dr. Stephen Clarkson, Colloquium, Canadian Studies Program, University of Toronto.
Emily Gilbert (2002) “Money Matters: Towards North American Monetary Union.” UniversityCollegeColloquium, University of Toronto. November.
Emily Gilbert (1999) “The Links between National Identities and National Currencies: Providing Historical Insights into Contemporary Questions.” Department of Geography, Queen’s University. Kingston, Canada. October.
Emily Gilbert (1999) “Nation-States and Money: Canada, Australia, South Africa.” Department of Political Studies, The Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. June.
Emily Gilbert (1999) “Cultural Economies: Exploring the Historical Relationship between Money and Nation-States.” Department of Geography, The Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. May.
Emily Gilbert (1999) “Money, Nation-Building and State-Making: Looking at the History of National Currency Formation.” Department of Geography, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. March.
Emily Gilbert (1998) “Buying into the Nation: National Identities and National Currency Formation in a Canadian Context.” Cultural-Historical Geography Series, UniversityCollege, London, UK. December.