Ryan B. Holifield, Assistant Professor

Office: Bolton 434
Phone: 414-229-4868
Email: holifiel@uwm.edu
Office Hours: MW 10:00 am-12:00 pm or by appointment

Mailing Address:
Professor Ryan Holifield
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201

Education:
Ph.D., Geography, University of Minnesota, 2007
M.A., Geography, University of Georgia, 2001
A.B., English, Duke University, 1993

Spring 2008 Courses:
Geography (GEOG) 125-402
MW 9:00-9:50am

Office Hours:
10:00 to 11:00am or by appointment

Research and Teaching Interests:
Environmental Geography / Human-Environment Relations
Environmental Justice / Urban Political Ecology
Hazardous Waste Site Risk Assessment and Remediation
Science Studies / Geographies of Scientific Knowledge
Critical Geographic, Social, and Political Theory
Great Lakes States, Provinces, and Tribal Lands

Representative Publications:
How to speak for aquifers and people at the same time: Environmental justice and counter-network formation at a hazardous waste site. Forthcoming, Geoforum.

Neoliberalism and environmental justice policy. In N. Heynen, J. McCarthy, S. Prudham, and P. Robbins, eds. Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural Consequences. London: Routledge, 2007.

Neoliberalism and environmental justice in the United States Environmental Protection Agency: Translating policy into managerial practice in hazardous waste remediation. Geoforum 35 (3): 285-297, 2004.

Defining environmental justice and environmental racism. Urban Geography 22 (1): 78-90, 2001.

Under Review/In Preparation:
Making boundaries matter: Neoliberalization and territorial jurisdiction at a hazardous waste site in Indian Country.

Regulatory science and risk assessment in Indian Country: Taking tribal publics into account. Under review for Geographies of Science Vol. 3, Knowledge and Space, edited by David Livingstone, Peter Meusburger and Heike Jöns. Springer Science & Business Media B.V., Dordrecht.