Farhana Sultana

Research Director for Environmental Collaboration and Conflicts, PARCC (Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration)

Degree

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2007

Specialties

Political ecology, International development, water governance, climate change, gender, citizenship, human rights, South Asia

Personal Website

http://www.farhanasultana.com

Biography

Dr. Farhana Sultana is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary scholar whose work spans the topics of nature-society relationships, water governance, climate change, post-colonial development, sustainability, social and environmental justice, gender, citizenship, human rights, and decolonizing academia. Farhana Sultana received her A.B. (Honors) in Geosciences and Environmental Studies from Princeton University, graduating Cum Laude. She obtained her M.A. in Geography  from the University of Minnesota, where she enhanced her interdisciplinary training and was a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow. Between 1998-2001, Farhana was a Programme Officer at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) responsible for managing a large environmental management program in Bangladesh. Through this experience, she worked with a wide variety of international organizations, government agencies, and NGOs, and obtained a keener understanding of environment-development issues in theory and practice. Farhana returned to complete her Ph.D. program in the Department of Geography at the University of Minnesota, where she was both a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow and an International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Fellow. Moving across the pond to the U.K. while writing her dissertation, Farhana was a Visiting Fellow at the School of Environment and Development at the University of Manchester during 2005-2006. From 2006-2008, Farhana was a faculty member in the Geography Department at King''s College London. She relocated to the US in 2008 where she has been a faculty member in the Department of Geography at Syracuse University. Farhana was awarded promotion and tenure in 2012. 

At Syracuse, Farhana is also the Research Director for Environmental Collaboration and Conflicts at the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflicts and Collaboration (PARCC) in the Maxwell School. In addition, she is a Faculty Affiliate/Associate of the following departments/programs: Women''s and Gender Studies Department, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration (CEPA), South Asia Center, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, International Relations Program, Tolley Humanities Faculty, Asian/Asian-American Studies, and Democratizing Knowledge Collective.

Details of Farhana''s research and teaching interests are available further down on this page. Farhana''s first book is ''The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles''. _Farhana''s second book ''_Eating, Drinking: Surviving'' was published as part of the International Year of Global Understanding. Farhana was the Chair and Organizer of the highly successful international conference on ''The Right to Water'' in 2010. A write-up about the conference and Farhana''s research can be found in the Spring 2010 issue of theMaxwell Perspective, and also in the Fall 2010 Issue of the Alumni Magazine of the College of Arts and Sciences.  An additional exposé on Farhana''s international work appears in the Summer 2011 issue of the Syracuse University Magazine.Farhana''s work on climate change is one of theMaxwell 10th Decade Projects featured in the Fall 2015 issue of the Maxwell Perspective. Farhana was invited to and delivered the 2012 Faculty Convocation Speech at graduation for the College of Arts and Sciences. In 2017, Farhana delivered an invited speech on the human right to water at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican, where she met with Pope Francis. 

Given Farhana''s interdisciplinary training and interests, and her work experience across three continents, she lectures globally on a variety of topics, and engages with scholars, practitioners, activists, and communities in several projects. Further details on her research projects, publications, invited talks, conference participations, teaching, advising, service and outreach activities are provided below on this page. More information is also available on her personal website, where her publications can also be downloaded: www.farhanasultana.com. 

!2012 Faculty Convocation Speech

Photo: Farhana Sultana delivering the Faculty Convocation Speech, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University, 2012

!Farhana Sultana Pope Francis.jpeg "Farhana Sultana Pope Francis")

Photo: Farhana Sultana with His Holiness Pope Francis after her invited talk at The Pontifical Academy of Sciences, The Vatican, 2017. Watch the video of her talk.

Co-signatory with His Holiness Pope Francis in “Rome Declaration on the Human Right to Water”, 2017 

Founding Signatory of the Geneva Actions on Human Water Security, 2017 

Faculty Convocation Speaker, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University, May 2012

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow, University of Minnesota, 1996-1998, 2001-2006

Publications

 _ Many of these publications are downloadable as PDF files from Farhana''s personal website at  _www.farhanasultana.com .  

(Under Contract) Water: Governance, Justice and the Right to Water. Routledge (with Alex Loftus) Book contains 15 chapters written by 20 international academics)

2016, [Eating, Drinking: Surviving.  Springer: Netherlands. (with Peter Jackson and Walter Spiess). 
[Book contains 11 chapters written by 13 academics, and a Foreword by Benno Werlen. The book is part of the International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) series]  

!Sultana IYGU book cover

2012, The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles Earthscan Water Text Series, Routledge: London and NY. (with Alex Loftus).
[Book contains 15 chapters written by 21 academics & practitioners, and a Foreword by Maude Barlow]  

!Sultana Right to Water book cover

The book has been translated into two further languages:

Spanish version  (2014):  El Derecho Al Agua: Economia, politicia y movimientos sociales . Published by Editorial Trillas S.A. de C.V., Mexico

Polish version (2012): Prawo do wody. W perspektywie politycznej, gospodarczej i społecznej.  Polish Humanitarian Action, Warsaw, Poland. 

Reviews of the book:

Antipode by John Agnew 

Journal of Human Rights and the Environment by Lee Godden

AAG Review of Books by Kate Berry 

H2O (in Dutch) by Michael van der Valk

Documents d''Anàlisi Geogràfica  (in Spanish) by Álvaro Francisco Morote Seguido

Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development  by Rory Padfield   

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography by Manuel Prieto

!The Right to Water 3 versions

Photo: Covers of the three published versions of the book (English, Polish, Spanish):

(Accepted, under revision) “Claiming Water, Constructing Citizenship, Gendering the City: The Fluidity of Urban Citizenship in the Global South” Annals of the American Association of Geographers.

2018, “An(Other) geographical critique of development and SDGs” Dialogues in Human Geography  

2018, “The false equivalence of academic freedom and free speech: Defending academic integrity in the age of white supremacy, colonial nostalgia, and anti-intellectualism” ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. Vol. 17, No. 2, Pp. 228-57.

2018, “Water Justice: Why it’s important and how to achieve it” _Water International _Vol. 43, No. 4, Pp. 483-493.

2018, "Gender and Water in a Changing Climate: Challenges and Prospects" Water Security Across the Gender Divide, Christiane Fröhlich, Giovanna Gioli, Francesca Greco, Roger Cremades (Eds.) Springer: The Netherlands. Pp. 17-33. 

2017, “Igualdad de género, ciudadanía y agua pública en Bangladesh” Recursos, Vinculos Y Territorios Inflexiones Transversales En Torno Al Agua. Carlos Salamanca Villamizar, Francisco Astudillo Pizarro (Eds.), Rosario: UNR Editora. Pp. 128-140. (with Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Sarah Miraglia)

2017, "Reflexivity" The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology, Douglas Richardson (Ed.), Wiley-Blackwell and the American Association of  Geographers. Pp. 1-5.

2016, "Breaking the Silence: A Feminist Call to Action" Canadian Geographer 60(2): 192–204 (with Alison Mountz, Kate Parizou, Linda Peake, Beverley Mullings, Roberta Hawkins, Laura Shillington).

2016, "Gender Equity, Citizenship, and Public Water in Bangladesh" In Making Public in a Privatized World, David McDonald (Ed.) Zed Books: UK. Pp. 128-140. (with Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Sarah Miraglia) 

2016, "Introduction: Understanding the Complexities of Eating, Drinking, and Surviving" Eating, Drinking: Surviving, P. Jackson, W. Spiess, and F. Sultana (Eds.). Springer: Netherlands. Pp. 1-12. (with P. Jackson and W. Spiess)

2015, "Justice" In Companion to Political Geography , Second Edition, John Agnew, Virginie Mamadouh, and Anna Secor and Joanne Sharp (Eds.), Wiley-Blackwell, UK. Pp. 127-140.

2015, "Emotional Political Ecology" In The International Handbook of Political Ecology  , Raymond Bryant (Ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing, UK. Pp. 633-645.

2015, "The Human Right to Water: Critiques and Conditions of Possibility" WIREs Water  Vol. 2, No. 2, Pp. 97-105 (with Alex Loftus).

2015, "Rethinking Community and Participation in Water Governance" In The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development , Anne Coles, Leslie Gray and Janet Momsen (Eds.), Routledge, London. Pp. 261-272.

2014, "By Whose Words Shall We Know, and to What End? Genealogies and its Others in Geography" Dialogues in Human Geography Vol. 4, No. 3. Pp. 335-338.

2014, "Doing Development as a Critical Development Scholar" _Third World Quarterl_y, Vol. 35, No. 3, Pp. 516-519

2014, "The Right to Water" In Achieving Sustainability: Visions, Principles, and Practices , Debra Rowe (Ed.), Macmillan References USA, Detroit, Pp. 668-670.

2014, "Gendering Climate Change: Geographical Insights" The Professional Geographer  Vol. 66, No. 3, Pp. 372-381.

2014, "Producing Contaminated Citizens: Towards a Nature-Society Geography of Health and Wellbeing"  In  Geographies of Health, Disease and Well-being: Recent Advances in Theory and Method . Mei-Po Kwan (Ed.).Routledge: NY. [Reprint]

2013, "Gender justice and public water for all: Insights from Dhaka, Bangladesh" Municipal Services Project (MSP) Occasional Paper No. 18. Pp. 1-24 (with Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Sarah Miraglia). 

2013, "Water, Technology, and Development: Transformations of Development Technonatures in Changing Waterscapes" Environment and Planning D: Society and Space,  Vol 30, Issue 2, Pp. 337 - 353.  

2013, "Exploring Political Ecologies of Water and Development" Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol 30, Issue 2, Pp. 275 - 279  (with Jessica Budds)

2012, "Producing Contaminated Citizens: Toward a Nature-Society Geography of Health and Wellbeing" Annals of the Association of American Geographers,  Vol. 102, Issue 5, Pp. 1165-1172.  

2012, "Gendered Waters, Poisoned Wells: Political Ecology of the Arsenic Crisis in Bangladesh" In Diverting the Flow: Gender Equity and Water in South Asia , Margreet Zwarteveen and Sara Ahmed (Eds.), Zubaan Publications, Delhi, Pp. 240-272 [Reprint]

2012, "Water, Culture and Gender: An Analysis from Bangladesh" In Water, Cultural Diversity & Global Environmental Change: Emerging Trends, Sustainable Futures? Barbara Rose Johnston (Ed.) Springer: Netherlands, Pp. 237-252.

2012, "The Right to Water: Prospects and Possibilities" in The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles , Earthscan Water Text Series, Routledge: London, Pp. 1-18. (with Alex Loftus)

2011, "Gender, Class and Access to Water: Three Cases in a Poor and Crowded Delta" In The Geopolitics of Natural Resources , David Feldman (Ed.) Edward Elgar Publishing: UK. Pp. 311-326. (with Ben Crow). [Reprint]

2011, "Spaces of Power, Places of Hardship: Rethinking Spaces and Places through a Gendered Geography of Water" In Gendered Geographies: Interrogating Space and Place in South Asia , Saraswati Raju (Ed.) Oxford University Press: Delhi, Pp. 293-306.

2011, "Gender and Environment: Critical Tradition and New Challenges" Environment and Planning D: Society and Space Vol. 29, Issue 2. Pp. 237-253 (with Roberta Hawkins, Diana Odeja, and others).

2011, "Suffering for Water, Suffering from Water: Emotional Geographies of Resource Access, Control and Conflict" Geoforum  Vol. 42, Issue 2, Pp. 163-172.  

2010, "Living in Hazardous Waterscapes: Gendered Vulnerabilities and Experiences of Floods and Disasters" Environmental Hazards Vol. 9, Issue 1, Pp. 43-53. 

2009, "Fluid Lives: Gender, Subjectivity and Water Management" Gender, Place, and Culture Vol. 16, Issue 4. Pp. 427-444. 

2009, "Global Perspectives on Gender-Water Geographies" Gender, Place, and Culture Vol. 16, Issue 4, Pp. 381-385 (with Kathleen O''Reilly, Nina Laurie, and Sarah Halvorson) 

2009, "Community and Participation in Water Resources Management: Gendering and Naturing Development Debates from Bangladesh" Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Vol. 34, Issue 3, Pp. 346-363.

2008, "Gendered Waters, Poisoned Wells: Political Ecology of the Arsenic Crisis in Bangladesh" In Gender and Development: Critical Concepts in Development Studies , Janet Momsen (Ed.) Ch 43, Vol. III, Pp. 173-196. Routledge: London. [Reprint]

2007, "Participatory Ethics: Politics, Practices, and Institutions" ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies Vol. 6, Issue 3, Pp. 304-318 (with Caitlin Cahill and Rachel Pain) 

2007, "Reflexivity, Positionality and Participatory Ethics: Negotiating Fieldwork Dilemmas in International Research" ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies Vol. 6, Issue 3, Pp. 374-385.

2007, "Water, Water Everywhere But Not a Drop to Drink: Pani Politics (water politics) in Rural Bangladesh" International Feminist Journal of Politics Vol. 9, Issue 4, Pp. 494-502.

2007, "Arsenic" In Encyclopedia of Environment and Society ,  Paul  Robbins (Ed.) Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA. Pp. 75-76.

2007, "Water Quality" In Encyclopedia of Environment and Society ,  Paul  Robbins (Ed.) Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA. Pp. 1931-1932.

2007, "Monsoon" In Encyclopedia of Environment and Society , Paul Robbins (Ed.) Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA. Pp. 1162-1164.

2007, "Bangladesh" In Encyclopedia of Environment and Society ,  Paul  Robbins (Ed.) Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA. Pp. 100-101.

2006, "Gendered Waters, Poisoned Wells: Political Ecology of the Arsenic Crisis in Bangladesh" In Fluid bonds: Views on Gender and Water , Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (Ed.) Stree Publishers, India, with Australian National University, Canberra, Pp. 362-386.

2004, "Engendering a Catastrophe: A Gendered Analysis of India''s River-linking Project" In Regional Cooperation on Transboundary Rivers: Impact of the Indian River-linking Project . M.F. Ahmed, Q.K. Ahmad, and M. Khalequzzaman (Eds.), BAPA: Dhaka, Bangladesh. Pp. 288-305.

2002, "Gender, Class and Access to Water: Three Cases in a Poor and Crowded Delta" Society and Natural Resources , Vol. 15, No. 8, Pp.709-724 (with Ben Crow).

2014, Invited guest editor for journal SAGE Open

2013, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space , Special Issue on ''Exploring Political Ecologies of Water and Development'' (with Jessica Budds) [Special Issue contains 5 peer-reviewed articles]

2009, Gender, Place, and Culture , Special Issue on ''Gender Geographies of Water'' (with Kathleen O''Reilly, Nina Laurie, and Sarah Halvorson) [Special Issue contains 6 peer-reviewed articles]

2007, ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies , Special Issue on ''Participatory Ethics'' (with Rachel Pain and Caitlin Cahill) [Special Issue contains 10 peer-reviewed articles]

1. “The Human Right to Water, Gender Justice, and Sustainable Development: Exploring Connections and Possibilities” Proceedings of the Workshop on the Human right to water at Vatican, Cátedra del Diálogo y la Cultura del Encuentro, Argentina. Pp. 54-57. 
   

2001, "Water Concerns in Rural Bangladesh: A Gendered Perspective" In Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: Challenges of the Millennium . Proceedings of the 26th WEDC Conference, Dhaka, Bangladesh, November 2000. J. Pickford (Ed.). Loughborough University: UK. Pp. 416-419 (with B. Crow).

2000, "Water Resources and Gender: Unspoken Realities and Unfolding Crisis in Bangladesh" In Bangladesh Environment 2000 . Proceedings of the First International Conference on Bangladesh Environment, Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 2000. M. F. Ahmed (Ed.). BAPA: Dhaka, Bangladesh. Pp. 549-574 (with B. Crow).

2016, "Governance Failures in Neoliberal Times" Invited Book Review in Edited Symposium on ''Privatizing Water'', Karen Bakker, 2010, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Vol. 39, No. 5. Pp. 1047-1048.

Sultana, F. 2016, “How to reduce environmental vulnerabilities in the globalizing world?” HENVI Policy Brief 4, University of Helsinki Centre for Environment, Helsinki, Finland.

2012, Conducting Gender Study in Coastal Polders of Bangladesh. Commissioned Report, International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

2011, ''Drinking Water'' Brochure for United Nations International Year of Global Understanding , International Geographical Union  (with Olivier Graefe).

2008, Invited Book Review of ''The New Development Management'', Edited by S. Dar and B. Cooke, 2008, Zed Books, London, for Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy Vol. 26, Issue 5, Pp. 1043-1044.  

2007, "Social Dynamics of Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water: Issues for Policymakers" Tropical Agriculture Association Newsletter , Vol. 27, No. 4, Pp. 12-13.

2006, "Gender Concerns in Arsenic Mitigation in Bangladesh: Trends and Challenges" In Selected Papers on the Social Aspects of Arsenic and Arsenic Mitigation in Bangladesh , Guy Howard (Ed.), Arsenic Policy Support Unit (APSU), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Pp. 53-84.

2005, Gender Concerns in Arsenic Mitigation in Bangladesh: Trends and Challenges . Commissioned Report for the Department for International Development (DFID), UK, and the Arsenic Policy Support Unit, Department of Public Health Engineering, Government of Bangladesh.

2004, Irrigation Impacts Assessment: An Annotated Bibliography of Published Literature on Methods and Findings . International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka. (with Madhusudan Bhattarai)

2002, Irrigation Impacts: An Annotated Bibliography . Comprehensive Assessment Program on Irrigation Impacts, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka.

2000, "Water and Sanitation" and "Healthy Physical Environment" In The Common Country Assessment of the United Nations in Bangladesh , University Press Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

1997, "Novel Development Strategies in the Third World" ISEES Research Paper , Institute for Social, Economic and Ecological Sustainability (ISEES), University of Minnesota (with Anne Kapuscinski)

1995, "Academic Opportunities" In Environmental Audit of Princeton University . Princeton Environmental Reform Committee (PERC), Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. (with Marlene Hass, Amy Marr, and Mike Sze) 

2007, "Suffering for Water, Suffering from Water: Political Ecologies of Arsenic, Water and Development in Bangladesh" Ph.D. Dissertation , Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, USA. [Supervisors: Abdi Samatar (Geography, advisor), Eric Sheppard (Geography, chair), Richard Skaggs (Geography), Richa Nagar (Women''s Studies)]

1998, "In the Path of Nature''s Fury: Natural Hazards and Disaster Management in Bangladesh - A Case Study of Tropical Cyclones and Storm Surge Disasters" Masters Paper I, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, USA. [Supervisor: Richard Skaggs (Geography)]

1998, "Shrimp and Sustainability: Social and Ecological Impacts of the Shrimp Aquaculture Industry in Bangladesh" Masters Paper II, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, USA. [Co-Supervisors: Abdi Samatar (Geography), Anne Kapuscinski (Fisheries and Wildlife)]

1996, "Coastal Protection Plans for Chittagong, Bangladesh: Reducing Storm Surge Death and Destruction" Senior Honors Thesis , Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, USA. [Co-Supervisors: William Bonini (Geosciences), Kenneth Deffeys (Geosciences)]

1995, "Impact of Climate Change on Floods in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Basin" Junior Independent Paper II , Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, USA. [Co-Supervisors: George Philander (Geosciences), William Bonini (Geosciences)]

1994, "Sea Level Rise, Tropical Cyclones and Storm Surges in the Bay of Bengal" Junior Independent Paper I , Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, USA. [Supervisor: George Philander (Geosciences)] 

 

The Grist: James Hansen’s legacy: Scientists reflect on climate change in 1988, 2018, and 2048 (Summer 2018): https://grist.org/article/james-hansens-legacy-scientists-reflect-on-climate-change-in-1988-2018-and-2048/

 

Medium: A Collective Response to Racism in Academia (Spring 2018): https://medium.com/@wocfaculty/a-collective-response-to-racism-in-academia-35dc725415c1

Inside Higher Education, USA (Fall 2017): Three articles on academic publishing integrity, ethics, and standards: 

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/09/19/controversy-over-paper-favor-colonialism-sparks-calls-retraction

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/09/20/much-third-world-quarterlys-editorial-board-resigns-saying-controversial-article

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/09/26/author-third-world-quarterly-article-colonialism-wants-it-stricken-record-it-might

Benefunder Researcher Profile: http://benefunder.org/causes/579/farhana-sultana

WaterLat (International network on water issues) (Spring 2017), Water issues in South Asia: https://youtu.be/smX1ZNIdOb0 

Syracuse University News, Syracuse University, USA (Spring 2017), Meeting Pope Francis and Speaking at The Vatican: https://news.syr.edu/2017/03/maxwell-faculty-member-meets-pope-francis-during-vatican-workshop-on-water-issues/

The Guardian Newspaper, UK (Summer 2016), Urban Water Security: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/jun/27/11-ideas-urban-water-security-developing-countries 

The Maxwell Perspective, Syracuse University, USA (Fall 2015), Climate Change and Citizenship: http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/news.aspx?id=152471339129#4

The Tufts Daily, Tufts University, USA (Spring 2014), World Water Day: http://tuftsdaily.com/archives/2014/03/12/sultana-discusses-intersection-of-water-gender-citizenship/ ; http://issuu.com/tuftsdaily/docs/tuftsdaily3.12.14/1

Clark University Geography Newsletter, Clark University, USA (Page 10, Fall 2013), Nature-Society Speech:  http://www.clarku.edu/departments/geography/pdfs/Newsletters/GeographyNewsFall2013.pdf

University of Oklahoma KGOU Radio interview, USA (Fall 2012), Water and Security. Transcript available at:  http://www.kgou.org/index.php?news-management&action=view_news&news_id=4678

Syracuse University Magazine, Syracuse University, USA (Summer 2011 Issue), Research Profile: http://sumagazine.syr.edu/2011summer/supeople/farhanasultana.html

The Samakal, Leading Bengali Newspaper, Bangladesh (Summer 2011), Research in Bangladesh: http://www.esamakal.net/index.php?opt=view&page=5&date=2011-07-20

The Daily Star, Leading English Newspaper, Bangladesh (Summer 2011), Climate and Water: http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=194893  

CAS Magazine, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University, USA (Fall 2010 Issue, Pp. 23 & Cover Page), Faculty Profile: http://asnews.syr.edu/newsevents_current/_Special_Report/Water_and_Social_Justice.html

The Maxwell Perspective , Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA (Spring 2010 Issue, Pp. 9 & 11), The Right to Water Conference: http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/news.aspx?id=36507229234

Minnesota Human Rights Center, University of Minnesota, USA (Spring 2004 Issue), Research Profile:  http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/center/anniversaryproject/sultana-article2004.html

Daily Orange, Syracuse University, USA (Spring 2013), International Women’s Day: http://dailyorange.com/2013/03/panel-discusses-gender-equality-development-in-society/

Daily Orange, Syracuse University, USA (Spring 2011), Global Water Crisis: http://dailyorange.com/2011/04/activist-to-speak-on-water-crisis/

Daily Orange, Syracuse University, USA (Spring 2010), Nobel Peace Prize Winner University Lecture: http://sports.dailyorange.com/2010/02/nobel-prize-winner-to-talk-on-poverty/

 

 

Advising

Amy MacMahon (PhD), School of Social Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia (2017)

Jennifer Mateer (PhD), Geography, University of Victoria, Canada (2017)

Mohammad Anwar Hossen (PhD), Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Canada (2014)

Bimbika Sijapati (PhD), Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics, UK (2008)

Jennifer Holden (PhD), Geography Department, King''s College London, UK (2007)

Joanna Jamison (PhD), Geography Department, University College London, UK (2006)

Akemi Inamoto (Committee Member), Geography Department, Syracuse University, USA (2018-present)

Ainhoa Garaizar (Committee Member), Geography Department, Syracuse University, USA (2018-present)

Krishna Ranaware (Committee Member), Social Sciences Program, Syracuse University, USA (2018-present)

Manuela Ruiz Reyes (Committee Member), Geography Department, Syracuse University, USA (2015-present)

Ingrid Butler (Committee Member), Geography Department, Syracuse University, USA (2009-present)

Sravani Biswas (Committee Member), History Department, Syracuse University, USA (2017 completed)

Mitul Baruah (Advisor), Geography Department, Syracuse University, USA (2016 completed, with Distinction and Best Dissertation Award)

Alejandro Camargo (Committee Member), Geography Department, Syracuse University, USA (2016 completed, with Distinction and Best Dissertation Award)

Solomon Mungure (Committee Member), Environmental Studies, SUNY-ESF, USA (2014 completed)

Parvathy Binoy (Advisor), Geography Department, Syracuse University, USA (2010-2012)

Sohrob Aslamy (Committee Member), Geography Department, Syracuse University, USA (2018 completed)

Andrea Furnaro (Committee Member), Geography Department, Syracuse University, USA (2018 completed)

Katie MacDonald (Advisor), Geography Department, Syracuse University, USA (2016-2017)

Anna van de Grift (Advisor), Geography Department, Syracuse University, USA (2015-2017)

Andria Maria Aguilar (Committee Member), Geography Department, Syracuse University, USA (2017 completed)

Marian Turniawan (Committee Member), Geography Department, Syracuse University, USA (2015 completed)

Flavia Rey de Castro (Committee Member), Geography Department, Syracuse University, USA (2013 completed)

Michael Kantor (Advisor), Geography Department, Syracuse University, USA (2011)

Barbara Green (Committee Member), Geography Department, Syracuse University, USA (2010 completed)

John Giles (Committee Member), Geography Department, Syracuse University, USA (2009-2010)

Emily Stempien (Advisor), Geography Department, King''s College London, UK (2008 completed)

Colby Tarnauskas (Advisor), Geography Department, King''s College London, UK (2008 completed)

Sharmin Ahmed (Advisor), Geography Department, King''s College London, UK (2008 completed)

Hazel Webber (Advisor), Geography Department, King''s College London, UK (2008 completed)

Kalpani Nawaratne (Advisor), Geography Department, King''s College London, UK (2008 completed)

Simon O''Moore Donohoe (Advisor), Geography Department, King''s College London, UK (2008 completed)

Alpa Patel (Advisor), Geography Department, King''s College London, UK (2008 completed)

Hannah Schellander (Advisor), Geography Department, King''s College London, UK (2007 completed)

Anna Pierides (Advisor), Geography Department, King''s College London, UK (2007 completed)

Liana Vetch (Advisor), Geography Department, King''s College London, UK (2007 completed)

Kristen Unangst (Capstone Reader), Whitman School of Business, Syracuse University, USA (2018 completed)

Rachel Bass (Thesis Reader), Geography Department, Syracuse University, USA (2016 completed) 

Maddy Durbin (Thesis Reader), International Relations Program, Syracuse University, USA (2016 completed) 

Syed Shehtaaz Zaman (Thesis Reader), Geography Department, Syracuse University, USA (2010 completed)

Sebastian Park (Capstone Mentor), Policy Studies Independent Major, Syracuse University, USA (2010 completed)

Annushka Amar (Advisor), Department, King''s College London, UK (2009 completed)

Lawrence Kerr (Advisor), Geography Department, King''s College London, UK (2009 completed)

Alexandra Petrescu (Advisor), Geography Department, King''s College London, UK (2009 completed)

Sarah Quina Silva (Advisor), Geography Department, King''s College London, UK (2009 completed)

Alexa Richardson (Advisor), Geography Department, King''s College London, UK (2008 completed)

Philip Green (Advisor), Geography Department, King''s College London, UK (2008 completed)

Tomaso Lisca (Advisor), Geography Department, King''s College London, UK (2008 completed)

Kirsty Sherwood (Advisor), Geography Department, King''s College London, UK (2008 completed)

Georgia Swift (Advisor), Geography Department, King''s College London, UK (2008 completed)

 

 

Teaching Appointments

!Visit to Grameen Bank branch, Bangladesh, 2010      !Farhana Sultana Field Course 2010  

  Photo: Farhana Sultana and Maxwell students in Field Course on Development, Bangladesh, 2010

Undergraduate Courses :  

Environment and Development in the Global South 

Gendered Geographies of Development and Globalization 

Gender in a Globalizing World 

Geographies of Water 

Water: Environment, Society, and Politics

Senior Seminar

Graduate Courses:    

Development and Sustainability 

Seminar in Political Ecology 

Nature, Culture, Politics 

Geographies of Water 

Water: Environment, Society, and Politics 

IR Masters Capstone - Field Research in Development (Bangladesh) 

Directed Readings 

Undergraduate Courses: 

Global Environmental Issues 

Development Geographies: Policies and Contexts 

Gendered Geographies of Development and Globalization 

Researching Geography 

Field Methods in Human Geography - India

Directed Readings 

Graduate Courses: 

Development and Environmentalism in the South 

Environment, Livelihoods and Development in the South 

Practicing Social Research II 

Undergraduate Courses (Teaching Assistant): 

Introduction to Human Geography 

Senior Honors Program in Global Issues 

Undergraduate Course (Lab Teaching Assistant): 

Engineering and Environmental Geology 

University of Helsinki, Finland – Interdisciplinary workshop on Environmental Vulnerabilities in the Globalizing World (Graduate Course), Helsinki University Centre for Environment, Summer 2016.

Tufts University, USA - Political Science & Environmental Studies, "Water Policy and Politics" (Advanced Undergraduate Course), Spring 2014.

Syracuse University, USA - Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Executive Education Program "Mid-Career Training for the Indian Forest Service"  (Graduate Course), Summer 2010, Summer 2011.

Syracuse University, USA - Department of Women''s and Gender Studies, "Understanding Capitalism" (Advanced Undergraduate Course), Spring 2010.

University of Cambridge, UK - Institute of Continuing Education, "Social Enterprise and Community Development" (Graduate Course), Summer 2008.

London School of Economics (LSE), UK - Cities Program, "Urban Environment" (Graduate Course), Spring 2008.

University of Manchester, UK - Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM), "Environment and Development" (Graduate Course), Spring 2006.

University of Colorado at Boulder, USA - Department of Geography, "Geographies of Global Change" (Introductory Undergraduate Course), Spring 2006.

University of Minnesota, USA - Department of History, "Honors Seminar: Dams, Security and Conflict over Water" (Advanced Undergraduate Course), Spring 2004.

University of Minnesota, USA - Department of Geography, "Introduction to Human Geography" (Introductory Undergraduate Course), Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Spring 2004.

University of Minnesota, USA - Department of Geography, "The Islamic World" (Advanced Undergraduate Course), Fall 2002, Spring 2002.

 

 

Research Interests

A brief overview and video of Farhana Sultana''s research, and how to support her research, can be found here: http://benefunder.org/causes/579/farhana-sultana

Farhana Sultana is a broadly trained interdisciplinary scholar with research interests that generally fall under scholarships in nature-society relationships, political ecology, post-colonial development, feminist theories, water governance, climate change, natural hazards, human rights, citizenship, and social justice. Farhana''s research projects are critical, interdisciplinary and intersectional, where she investigates complex multi-scalar, multi-process issues, combining her insights and background in the natural and social sciences as well as in the policy world. In exploring the socio-ecological dynamics of international discourses and policies, Farhana is particularly focused on how these are articulated, negotiated, and lived in everyday lives on the ground. Her research thus sits at the confluence of a range of theoretical and epistemological framings, with the goal to inform and encourage social justice across a range of scales. Farhana has written extensively on these issues for a variety of interdisciplinary audiences inside and outside of academia. She is keenly interested in research that pushes the boundaries of existing scholarship, in order enrich conceptualizations and theorizations in Geography and beyond.

In general terms, Farhana has long been interested in issues of political ecology of development and social justice as conceptualized and enacted by variously-situated actors, and the ways by which such conceptualizations interact with local understandings of issues such as ''environmental management'', ''resource governance'', ''development'', ''social justice''. In this respect, she is interested in environmental governance and the politics of knowledge production, whereby discursive and material realities co-produce and challenge policies, projects, practices, and realities on the ground. She explores the complex ways that processes of development and globalization come to impact poverty, well-being, and socio-ecological change across sites and scales. Water often forms the lens through which Farhana studies such socio-ecological transformations.

Farhana''s past research focused on the intersectionality of gender, class, and policy implications of water management in Bangladesh, with an emphasis on drinking water problems from arsenic contamination of groundwater. Past research has investigated the ways that discourses of participation, community, and gender equity operate in water management, and in development more broadly, and the implications such discourses have on the ground. She analyzed the ways that water management policies and practices espouse such narratives, and the ways that complications arise from agencies of both humans and nature in such discourses and practices. A main thrust of the research was to understand the processes by which marginalization, inequalities, and power relations operate in the context of socio-ecological change and development endeavors.

Farhana''s current research interests have expanded to wider issues on the intersections of gender, environment, and development in the global South, and ways by which development, governance, and commodification of natural resources affect different social strata across sites and scales. She is currently researching the ways that urban water governance affects the poor, and the challenges inherent in materializing the universal call to a right to water. This research focuses on how different modalities of water governance result in social inequalities, how the right to water is understood and practiced, and what such processes mean for goals of development, citizenship, social justice, and well-being. Through such research, Farhana is querying what water justice means in theory and practice. Linked to this research program was the successful international conference on ''The Right to Water'' that Farhana organized in 2010, and as well as her recent widely-acclaimed edited book The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles (2012, Routledge, London and NY); this book has been translated into Spanish and Polish due to demand by other publishers.

Farhana''s second research interest engages with climate change, socio-ecological impacts, and social justice. This research focuses on the coastal areas of South Asia and the US, and explores the ways that climate change adaptation politics play out in the context of uneven development, gender inequalities, and social practices in places with long histories of floods and tropical cyclones/hurricanes. Water thus continues to be an important factor in this research, as cross-scalar climate justice is imbricated in water-society relationships. Farhana was a Visiting Fellow at the International Center for Climate Change and Development at the Independent University of Bangladesh in Spring 2017 to carry out field research. Her research on climate adaptation won the 2015 faculty Moynihan Challenge grant from the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, for the project "Building Community Capacity to Adapt to Climate Change across Sites, Groups and Scales". Farhana is also the lead PI in the successful Maxwell 10th Decade Project entitled ''Citizenship and Climate Change'', which investigates the complex ways notions and practices of citizenship are imbricated in climate change impacts.

Farhana''s other interests also include transboundary river sharing around the world, particularly the disputes over the Ganges River in South Asia. She is interested in the ways that socio-ecological transformation from changing river dynamics and hydrology affect not only lives and livelihoods but also international political relations, geopolitics, and discourses of development within and between nation-states.

Methodologically, Farhana engages with both quantitative and qualitative methods, with particular interest in issues of feminist fieldwork, positionality, power relations, decolonizing academia, and research ethics.

As a public intellectual, Farhana also works on issues related to academic freedom in higher education, preserving academic integrity and scholarly rigor, as well as addressing issues of marginalization and discrimination in the academy. 

Beyond academic research, Farhana participates in numerous pro-bono activities and endeavors with various organizations and networks, building community and solidarity both locally and across the globe. She is involved in several professional and academic bodies, such as the Association of American Geographers (AAG), the Institute of British Geographer with the Royal Geographical Society (RGS/IBG), the Gender and Water Alliance (GWA), Bangladesh Environment Network (BEN), Gender and Disasters Network (GDN), etc. She is also a founding member of the Participatory Geographies Research Group (PyGyRG) of the RGS/IBG, and past Chair of the Development Geographies Specialty Group (DGSG) of the AAG. Given her interdisciplinary interests and expertise, I regularly carry out reviews of grant proposals, research proposals, peer-reviewing of academic and policy papers, and participate in a wide array of activities with academics, activists, policy-makers and practitioners across the globe. She frequently delivers invited lectures and keynote addresses across disciplines at universities and institutions. Her vision is to integrate teaching, research and service/outreach in meaningful and impactful ways for transformational changes. 

 

Research Grants and Awards

Maxwell 10th Decade Project Grant, Maxwell School Syracuse University, 2016-2018

VPR Research Bourse, Syracuse University, 2016-2017

SSHRC Partnership Development Grant - International WaTERS Network (Water-related Training Education and Research in the global South), 2014-2016

Faculty Research Grant, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflicts and Collaboration, Syracuse University, 2015

Moynihan Challenge Faculty Grant, Syracuse University, 2014-2015

Conference Grant,  Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflicts and Collaboration, Syracuse University, 2014

Conference Grant, Center for Environmental Policy Analysis, Syracuse University, 2014

Appleby-Mosher Research Grant, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

Research Grant, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), 2012

Faculty Research Grant, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflicts and Collaboration, Syracuse University, 2012

Pre-Proposal Award, Geography Department, Syracuse University, 2012

Research Grant, Municipal Services Project, International Development Research Center (IDRC), 2011-2013

Faculty Research Grant, South Asia Center, Syracuse University, 2011

Curriculum Development Grant, South Asia Center, Syracuse University, 2011

Teaching Grant, Office of the Provost and Vice-Chancellor, Syracuse University, 2010

Mini Grant, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean, Syracuse University, 2010

Mini  Grant, Maxwell Dean''s Office, Syracuse University, 2010

Mini  Grant , The Africa Initiative, Syracuse University, 2010

Mini Grant , Syracuse Center of Excellence, 2010

Graduate Assistant Grant, International Relations Program, Syracuse University, 2009

Chancellor''s Finestone Grant for Multicultural Initiatives, Syracuse University, 2009

Mini Grant , Environmental Finance Center, 2009

Mini Grant , Geography Department, Syracuse University, 2009

Co-curricular Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University, 2009

Research Grant, Interdisciplinary Research Group, Syracuse University, 2009  (self-declined)

Mini Grant , South Asia Center, Syracuse University, 2009

Research Grant, Center for Environmental Policy Analysis, Syracuse University, 2009

Research Grant, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflicts and Collaboration, Syracuse University, 2009

Summer Project Assistant Grant, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, 2009

Tolley Humanities Faculty Research Grant, Syracuse University, 2009

Pre-proposal Grant, Geography Department, Syracuse University, 2009

Curricular Development Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University, 2008

Nomination for UK Higher Education Board''s University Teaching Award, King''s College London, 2008

Summer Institute in Economic Geography, University of Manchester, 2008  (self-declined)

Chartered Institute of Waste Management (CIWM), UK, 2007

Department for International Development (DFID) Field Research Grant, UK, 2005

International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - MacArthur Collaborative Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 2004-2006

Graduate Research Partnership Project Grant, University of Minnesota, 2003

Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences Graduate Student Grant, University of Minnesota, 2003

Dunn Peace Research Scholarship, University of Minnesota, 2003

MacArthur Program Administrative Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 2002

Department of Geography Graduate Assistantship, University of Minnesota, 2001 - 2004

Best Student Paper Award, Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, 2004

Kasperson Student Paper Award, Hazards Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, 2006

 

 

Selected Professional Activities

Research Director (Environment),  PARCC, Maxwell School (2016-present)

Member, Department Name Change Committee, Geography Department (2018)

Maxwell Dean Search International Sub-committee, Maxwell School, Syracuse University (2016)

Faculty Advisor, Supporting Women in Geography (SWIG), Geography Department (2015-present)

Faculty Leader, Climate Change Working Group, PARCC, Maxwell School (2014-present)

Advisory Board, South Asia Center, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Syracuse University (2012-present)

EnvGeo Listserv creator and moderator, Geography Department, Syracuse University (2010-present)

Member, Democratizing Knowledge Collective (2010-present)

Steering Committee for the 100th Anniversary of the Maxwell School , Maxwell School, Syracuse University (2014)

Maxwell Faculty Council, Maxwell School, Syracuse University (2012-2013)

Maxwell Dean Search Committee, Syracuse University (2010-2011)

Graduate Admissions and Awards Committee, Department of Geography, Syracuse University (2008-2011)

Member, Executive Education Program Project for India, Maxwell School, Syracuse University (2009-2010)

Member, Clean Water Initiative Task Force, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University (2010)

Faculty Affiliate of several departments/programs at Syracuse University (2008-present): Women''s and Gender Studies Department; Center for Environmental Policy and Administration (CEPA); Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflicts and Collaboration (PARCC); South Asia Center; Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs; Tolley Humanities Faculty; Asian/Asian-American Studies; Democratizing Knowledge Collective.

Masters Admissions Tutor, Department of Geography, King''s College London (2007-2008)

Study Abroad Coordinator/International Student Advisor, Department of Geography, King''s College London (2006-2008)

Member, Environment, Politics and Development (EPD) Research Group, King''s College London (2006-2008)

Member, Hazards and Risks Research Group, King''s College London (2007-2008)

Seminar Coordinator, EPD Research Group, King''s College London (2006-2008)

Webpage Manager, EPD Research Group, King''s College London (2006-2008)

Participant, RAE (Research Assessment Exercise of the UK Higher Education Board) (2007-2008) 

Senior Personnel, Building a Community of Practice for Household Water Insecurity (HWISE) Research (2018-2021)

Member, Management Steering Committee, WaTeRS Network (2014-2016)

Scientific Panel Member, United Nations International Year of Global Understanding, International Geographical Union (2011-present)

Member, National Screening Committee, US Fulbright Program (2013-2014)

Member, Validation Panel, Katerva Awards (2014-present)

Member, International Research and Scholarly Exchange Committee, Association of American Geographers (2013-2015)

Chair (2013-2015), Vice-Chair (2011-2013), Director (2009-2011), Development Geographies Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers

International Research Theme Leader on Gender, Action Research on Community Adaptation in Bangladesh (ARCAB), Bangladesh Center for Advanced Studies (BCAS) & International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (2011-2012)

Founding Committee Member, Participatory Geographies Working Group, Institute of British Geographers (2005-present)

Co-Founder and Co-Moderator, Water Forum (International E-discussion Group) (2006-present)

Member, Coordinating Committee,  Bangladesh Environment Network (BEN) (2009-present)

Member, Princeton University Alumni Schools Committee (1997-2004, 2009-present)

Board Member, Princeton Association of Great Britain (UK) (2006-2008)

ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies (2017-present)

World Development Perspectives (2018-present) 

ACME; Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Antipode; Applied Geography; Area; City, Culture and Society; Cultural Anthropology; Development and Change; Emotion, Space and Society; Environment and Planning A; Environment and Planning C; Environment and Society; Environmental Conservation; Environmental Hazards; Feminist Economics; Geoforum; Geografiska Annaler B; Geography Compass; Geographical Review; GeoJournal; Gender, Place and Culture; International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction; International Journal of Public Administration; International Journal of River Basin Management; International Journal of Water Governance; Journal of Geography and Regional Planning; Journal of International Development; Landscape and Urban Planning; Oxford Development Studies; Political and Legal Anthropology Review; Sage Open; Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography; Society and Natural Resources; Sociological Research Online; The Geographical Journal; The Professional Geographer; Third World Quarterly; Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers; Urban Geography; Water Alternatives; Water Research; Weather, Climate and Society; Women''s Studies International Forum

Berghahn Books; Earthscan; Guilford Press; Polity Press; Routledge Publications; Sage Publications; University of British Columbia Press; University of Minnesota Press; Yale University Press

Clark University, Department of International Development, Community, and Environment (IDCE), 2015

Vanderbilt University, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, 2013 (declined) 

National Science Foundation NSF (USA); National Geographic Society NGS (USA); Economic and Social Research Council ESRC (UK); Natural Environment Research Council NERC (UK); Leverhulme Trust (UK); CRDF Global (USA); Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Netherlands; Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Switzerland; International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Jacques May Thesis Prize, sponsored by the Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (AAG).

Member: Association of American Geographers (AAG); Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers (RGS/IBG); Bangladesh Environment Network (BEN), International Gender and Water Alliance (GWA); Gender and Disasters Network (GDN); Municipal Services Project (MSP); Future of Minority Studies (FMS); WaTeRS (Water related Training and Research in the South); Princeton University Alumni Schools Committee.

International Geographical Union''s UN Year of Global Understanding; Climate Adaptation Working Group of Global Network of Civil Society Organizations for Disaster Reduction; Gender and Water Alliance Bangladesh; Bangladesh Environment Network.

 

 

Recent Activities

2018, Wageningen University, Netherlands: Keynote Speaker “Urban water politics: Towards emancipatory governance and social justice” Exploring Urbanization: Events, Resources And Movements, Wageningen, Netherlands, 18-19 June 2018.

2018, Cornell University, USA: Invited Speaker, “Critical Questions for Policy Engagement: Accountability, Representation, and Power” and “New Openings and Next Steps: Advancing Science and Policy for Sustainable, Equitable Change” Polson Symposium on Bridging Science and Policy in the Sustainable Development Era, Polson Institute, Ithaca, NY 11 May 2018. 

2018, SUNY-New Paltz, USA: Keynote Speaker , “Decolonizing Academia: On Responsibility, Accountability, and Ethics in Academic Publishing” Whose Free Speech? New Paltz, NY, 20 April 2018.

2018, University of Kentucky, USA: The DOPE Keynote Speaker, “Fluid citizens: Embodiments and intersectionalities in constructing urban citizenship through water” Dimensions of Political Ecology Annual Conference, Lexington KY, 22-24 February 2018.

2018, University of Victoria, Canada: Keynote Speaker , Contemporary Controversies: Diversity, Freedom of Speech, and the University. Workshop of the Taskforce on Knowledge and Place in the Humanities, Victoria, Canada, 5-6 February 2018.

2017, Rutgers University, USA: The   New Geographical Thought Speaker  “Politics and Power in Water Governance: Citizenship Struggles of the Urban Poor in the Global South”, Department of Geography, New Brunswick, NJ 28 April 2017. 

2017, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican City: Keynote Speaker , “The human right to water, gender justice, and sustainable development: Exploring connections and possibilities” International Workshop ‘Human right to water: An interdisciplinary focus and contributions on the central role of public policies in water and sanitation management’ Casina Pio IV, Vatican City, Italy, 23-24 February 2017.

2017, Independent University, Bangladesh: “Social dimensions of climate change – Understanding climate research more comprehensively” International Center for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) Seminar, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 14 February 2017. 

2016, General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, USA: Keynote Speaker , “Water Justice” Imagine What''s Next (NEXT16), Atlanta, GA, 4-6 November 2016.

2016, Seba Library, USA: Invited speaker, “Water, Climate Change, and Development in Bangladesh” Atlanta, GA, 5 November 2016

2016, State University of New York (SUNY) Oswego, USA: Invited Speaker, “Laboring for Water, Laboring for Life”, Feinberg Family Fund Speaker Series, Oswego, NY, 26 October 2016.

2016, Pennsylvania State University, USA: "Gender and Water", Gender, Agriculture and Environment Initiative (GAEI) Inaugural Symposium, College of Agricultural Sciences Office of Research and Graduate Education, State College, PA, 6-7 June 2016.

2016, University of Helsinki, Finland: Keynote Speaker , “Environmental Vulnerabilities in the Globalizing World: How to Adapt and Manage Change?” Helsinki University Centre for Environment, 9-11 May 2016.

2015, Turkish Cultural Center, USA: “Understanding the Global Water Crisis” Turkish Coffee Night Lecture Series, Syracuse, NY, 19 November 2015.

2015, University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA: “Climate Change and Human Rights: Mitigation, Adaptation and Vulnerable Communities” New Politics of Human Rights, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, WI, 5-7 November 2015.

2015, General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, USA: “Ecology” Prophetic Voice and Making Peace: Theological Reflection on United Methodist Collegiate Ministries, Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse, NY, 10-15 August 2015. 

2015, Cornell University, USA: “Water and Citizenship: Politics of Development and Democracy in Water Governance in the Global South” Seminar Series, Development Sociology Department, Ithaca, NY, 10 April 2015.

2015, University of Minnesota, USA: “Water Access, Equity and Resilience in the Global South” International Center for the study of Global Change (ICGC) Roundtable, Minneapolis, MN, 3 April 2015.

2015, Syracuse University, USA: World Water Week Speaker, “The Right to Water and Water Justice”, Syracuse, NY, 26 March 2015.

2014, Harvard University, USA: “Urban water crises, informal settlements, and water for the urban poor” From SAARC to Slums: Urban Water Challenges in South Asia, South Asia Institute Annual Symposium, Cambridge, MA, 24-25 April 2014.

2014, Tufts University, USA: World Water DaySpeaker , “Gender, Water and Citizenship: Politics of Development and Democracy in Water Governance in the Global South”, Tufts University, Boston, MA, 11 March 2014.

2013, Middlebury College, USA: “Gendering climate, gendering justice” Research Colloquium, Department of Geography, Program in Environmental Studies, Franklin Environmental Center, & Program on Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies_,_ Middlebury, VT, 4 October 2013. 

2013, Clark University, USA: Keynote Speaker , “Gendering water, earth and sky: Feminist political ecologies of climate change” Nature-Society Geography Workshop, Department of Geography, Worcester, MA, 27 September, 2013

2013, Vanderbilt University, USA: “Climate change as hydro-social change: Rethinking Water Crises in the Global South” Research Colloquium, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and the Environment, & Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies, Nashville, TN, 6 September 2013.

2013, Yale University, USA: “The Social Impacts of Changing Water Patterns”, Water: The Looming Crises, Yale Climate & Energy Institute, New Haven, CT, 4-5 April 2013.

2013, SUNY School of Environmental Sciences and Forestry, USA: “Social and Policy implications of Drinking Water Contamination in Asia”, Cross-Disciplinary Seminar in Hydrological and Biogeochemical Processes, SUNY-ESF, 5 February 2013.

2012, Harvard University, USA: “Human Right to Water versus Water Rights: Ownership and Rights as Contested and Negotiated Terms”, The Human Rights to Water & Sanitation: From Theory to Practice, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 7-8 December 2012.

2012, University of Oklahoma, USA: “Gender, Water and the Politics of Development: Rethinking Social Justice and Citizenship in the Global South”, Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, 17 September 2012.

2012, Faculty Convocation Speaker : “Making a Difference”, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University, 13 May 2012.

2012, The Transatlantic Academy, USA: “Climate Change and Water Management: Policy Options for the Future” Climate, Resource Security, and the Struggle for Water and Land, 12 January 2012.

2011,  University of Maryland at Baltimore, USA: The Fourth Annual Joan S. Korenman Lecture Speaker , “Negotiating Contaminated Identities: Gender, Water, and Development in Altered Waterscapes” Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, 16 March 2011.

2010, University of Bristol, UK: Keynote Speaker , “Negotiating Rights, Experiencing Development, Managing Water: Gender-Water-Development Nexus in a Changing World” ESRC Workshop onFeminism and Futurity: New Times, New Spaces, Department of Geography, 3 December 2010.

2010, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK: “Contaminated Identities, Polluted Waters, and Disrupted Development” ResearchSeminar Series, Geography Department, 30 November 2010.

2010, University of Minnesota, USA – Plenary Speaker “Water Struggles in a Changing World” International Research Workshop on Struggling for water: Dams, Pipes and Urban-Rural Transformations in the Global South, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC), 14-15 November 2010.

2010, University of Delaware, USA: “Poisoned Waters: The Making and Unmaking of a Public Health Success Story in Bangladesh” Research Seminar Series, Departments of Geography, Geology, Women’s Studies, & Delaware Environment Institute, 23 September 2010.

2010, University of Buffalo, USA: Keynote Speaker , “Gendered Waters: Negotiating and Experiencing the Contradictions of Nature and Society in the Development Process” Gender Across Borders IV: Gender and Globalisms Conference, 2-3 April 2010.

2010, Colgate University, USA: “Watery Worlds: Power, Politics and Socio-ecological Transformations in South Asia” Brown Bag Lecture Series, Environmental Studies Program, 5 March 2010.

2009, University of Vermont, USA: “Gender, Participation and Community: Rethinking Development in Contentious Waterscapes” Research Seminar Series, Departments of Geography, Global Studies, & Women’s Studies, 1 December 2009.

2009, Cornell University, USA: “Of Purity and Pollution: Watery Geographies of Development in the Bengal Delta” South Asia Program Lecture Series, 2 November 2009. 

2009, International Center of Syracuse, USA: “Dammed Rivers, Damned Lives:  Water and Politics in South Asia” Global Lecture Series, 16 October 2009. 

2009, Community Folk Art Center of Syracuse, USA: “Brick Lane: A Transnational Feminist Critique” Film Critique and Discussion, 14 March 2009.

2008, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey: “Transboundary River Disputes and Implications for Sustainable Development: The Case of the Ganges River in South Asia” InternationalSeminar Series, Department of International Relations, 5 May 2008.

2008,  Action Against Hunger, UK: “Water and HIV: Working for Positive Solutions” World Water Day Seminar, Action Against Hunger & King’s College London, 19 March 2008.

2007, Tropical Agriculture Association, UK: “Social Dynamics of Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water: Issues for Policymakers” Arsenic Seminar, 24 October 2007.

2007,  Royal Geographical Society, UK: Plenary Speaker , “Sustainability: A Post-Mortem?” Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers, London, UK, 31 August 2007. [Plenary Panelists: Neil Smith, Michael Redclift, Bill Adams, Arthur Mol and myself]

2007, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh: “Development and Wellbeing” Discussion Seminar, Department of Sociology, 7 July 2007. 

2006, University of Manchester, UK: “Political Ecology of Water: Gender, Arsenic, and Development in Bangladesh” Research Seminar Series, Department of Geography, 10 May 2006.

2006, University of Oxford, UK: “Watery Discourses: Community and Participation in Water Resources Management” Research Seminar Series, Oxford Centre for Water Research, 26 April 2006.

2005, Rotary International, Bangladesh: “Water and Development” Speaker Series, Rotary Club of Dhaka Central, 14 June 2005.

2002, University of Minnesota, USA: Working in the Field: “Perspectives from Managing the Largest Environment Program of UNDP in Bangladesh” MacArthur Brown Bag Research Seminar Series, 21 February 2002. 

1998,University of Minnesota, USA: "Shrimp and Sustainability: Social and Ecological Impacts of the Shrimp Aquaculture Industry in Bangladesh” Coffee Hour Research Seminar Series, Department of Geography, 21 April 1998.

Invited Talks at Syracuse University:

2016, Faculty speaker, Future Professoriate Program (FPP), Geography Department, 1 December 2016.

2016, Faculty speaker, Geofest 2016, Geography Department, 22 September 2016.

2016, Faculty speaker, Supporting Women in Geography (SWIG), Geography Department, 15 April 2016.

2011, “International Women’s Issues” Maxwell Women’s Caucus Speaker Series, Maxwell School, 25 March 2011. 

2010, “So You Want to Save the World and Make a Difference? Reflections and Advice from My Work Experience at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)” The Transnational NGO Initiative, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, 21 October 2010.

2010, “Negotiating the Job Market” Nature-Society Geography Workshop, Geography Department, 2 October 2010. 

2010,  “Graduate School from a Professor’s Perspective” Geofest, Geography Department, 16 September 2010.

2010, “Job Searches in Academia and Beyond” Future Professoriate Program, Department of Geography, 18 February 2010.

2009, “Adapting to Climate Change: Who Pays the Price?” Focus the Nation Teach-in on Climate Change Solutions, 21 April 2009.

2008, “Shared Waters, Divided Peoples: Water, Conflict and Socio-ecological Transformations in South Asia” Conversations in Conflict Studies Series, Program for the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts, Maxwell School, 5 November 2008. 

2018, Lead Organizer and Chair of Paper Session: “Governance, Rights, and Justice in Water: New Ideas and Realities” A_nnual Meetings of the American Association of Geographers_, New Orleans, LA, 10-14 April 2018.

2018, Co-organizer of Discussion Panel on “Academics Under Attack in the Age of Social Media” Annual Meetings of the American Association of Geographers, New Orleans, LA, 10-14 April 2018

2018, Co-organizer and Chair of Discussion Panel on “Water and Climate Justice: In Pursuit of Equity” Annual Meetings of the American Association of Geographers, New Orleans, LA, 10-14 April 2018. (with Sarah Romano)

2017, Co-organizer of Discussion Panel on ‘Enacting an Inclusive Professional Community’ Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, 5-9 April 2017. (with Amy Piedalue)

2016, Invited Moderator: “Innovations on the Ground” Environmental Grantmakers Association Winter Briefing, Miami, FL, 1-2 March 2016.

2016, Organizer and Chair of Discussion Panel on ''Emotional Political Ecologies'' Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, 29 March-2 April, 2016.

2015, Organizer and Chair of Discussion Panel on ''Development Geographies: Looking Forward'' Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, 21-25 April 2015.

2014, Organizer and Chair of Discussion Panel on ''Development Geographies: Scales, Directions, Visions'' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers_,_ Tampa, FL, 8-12 April 2014.

2013, Co-organizer of workshop on "Islam in the Academy: Confronting Orientalism", Democratizing Knowledge Collective, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 19 April 2013. (with Dana Olwan)

2013, Lead Co-organizer of Discussion Panel on "The Right to Water: Theories and Practices" Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, 9-13 April 2013.

2011, Co-organizer and Chair of Two Discussion Panels on "Climate Change and Development: Intersections, Contradictions, Opportunities" Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA, USA, 12-16 April 2011.

2011, Co-organizer of two-day Conference "Water in South Asia: Challenges in a Changing Environment", Cornell University, 7-8 April 2011.

2011, Host and Moderator of Discussion Session with Maude Barlow (Council of Canadians) on "The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water", Syracuse University, 5 April 2011.

2010, Chair and Lead Organizer of two-day international conference "The Right to Water", Syracuse University, 29-30 March 2010.

2010, Co-organizing and Chair of two Paper Sessions on "Gender and Climate Change" Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington D.C., USA, 14-18 April 2010.

2010,  Organizer and Moderator of Discussion Sessions with Muhammad Yunus (Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Grameen Bank founder) on "Creating a World without Poverty", Syracuse University, 23 February, 2010.

2009, Organizer and Chair of two Paper Sessions on "Water, Power and Politics in South Asia" Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, 22-27 March 2009.

2009, Organizer and Presenter at Film Screening and Discussion Session for "Climate change and Bangladesh: Who will pay?" Department of Geography, Syracuse University, USA, 27 January 2009.

2008, Co-organizer and Co-chair of three Paper Sessions and one Discussion Panel on "Water and Development: A Fluid Relationship" Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, 15 - 19 April 2008.

2007, Co-organizer and Co-chair of two Paper sessions and one Discussion Panel on "Global Perspectives on Gender-Water Geographies" Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,  San Francisco, CA, 17 - 23 April 2007.

2007, Co-organizer and Co-chair of five Paper Sessions and one Discussion Panel on "Socio-ecological Nature of Water" Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,  San Francisco, CA, 17 - 23 April 2007.

2006, Organizer of Discussion Panel on "Gender and Water" Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,  Chicago, IL, 7 - 11 March 2006.

2006, Co-convener and Co-chair of two Paper Sessions on "Participatory Ethics for Human Geography" Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers, London, 31 August - 2 September 2006.

2005, Chair and Organizer of Paper Session on "Gendered geographies of water: Trends and challenges" Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, 4 - 9 April 2005.

2002, Co-organizer of Workshop Rio Plus Ten: Environment, Development, and Security, University of Minnesota, 5 - 6 April 2002.

2002, Chair and Organizer of Panel on "Water and Security" Rio Plus Ten: Environment, Development, and Security Workshop at the University of Minnesota, 5 - 6 April 2002.

2018, Invited Panelist: Controversy & Feminist Pedagogy: A Geography Workshop, York University, Toronto, Canada, 16-18 May 2018.

2018, Invited Panelist: “Using Collective biography and other forms of collaborative analysis in feminist geography” Annual Meetings of the American Association of Geographers, New Orleans, LA, 10-14 April 2018.

2018, Invited Panelist: “The Case Against Colonialism: Racism in the Academy and the Ethics of Publishing” Annual Meetings of the American Association of Geographers, New Orleans, LA, 10-14 April 2018.

2018, Invited Panelist: “Re-envisioning ‘sustainable’ deltas through critical physical geography” Annual Meetings of the American Association of Geographers, New Orleans, LA, 10-14 April 2018.

2018, Invited Panelist: “From communities of practice to communities of praxis: Public political ecology, environmental justice, and critical engagement in an era of regressive environmental politics” Dimensions of Political Ecology Annual Conference, Lexington KY, 22-24 February 2018.

2017, Invited Panelist: “Strategy Session: Teaching Against the Global Turn to the Right” Feminist Geography 2017: Insides and Outsides of Feminism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, May 18-20, 2017. 

2017, Panelist: “The International Year of Global Understanding” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, 5-9 April 2017.

2017, Invited Discussant: “New/Critical Approaches to Water and Food Security” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, 5-9 April 2017.

2017, Invited Panelist: “Quiet Social Movements & Everyday Life in the urban global South: Towards New Geographies of Social Change” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, 5-9 April 2017

2017, “Problematizing climate adaption: Querying intersectionality, power, and social justice” Gobeshona 3: The Conference for a Climate-Resilient Bangladesh, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8-11 January 2017. 

2016, “Water, Citizenship, and Development Struggles in the Global South” Paper presented at Development in Question, 5th Annual Conference of the Development Sociology section of the American Sociological Association, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 6-8 October 2016.

2016, Invited Panelist: "Dialogues in Human Geography Plenary: The UN Development Goals" Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, 29 March-2 April, 2016.

2016, Invited Panelist: "Critical Environmental Governance: Politics and Power in the Material World" Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, 29 March-2 April, 2016.

2016, Invited Panelist: "Fieldwork and Qualitative Research in Geography" Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, 29 March-2 April, 2016.

2016, Chair and Discussant: "How to make the AAG more diverse" Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, 29 March-2 April, 2016.

2016, Invited Moderator: Environmental Grantmakers Association Winter Briefing, Miami, FL, 1-2 March 2016.

2015, Invited Panelist: "A Political Ecology of Women, Water, and Global Environmental Change: a panel-audience discussion of current contributions to feminist environmental research" Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, 21-25 April 2015

2015, Invited Panelist: "International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU)" Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, 21-25 April 2015

2015, Invited Panelist: "Questioning geography''s ''healthy subject'': Cultivating an Ethic of Wellness in Geography" Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, 21-25 April 2015

2015, Invited Panelist: "Presumed Incompetent: A Conversation on Navigating Academia" Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 25 March 2015. 

2014, Invited Panelist: "Gendering a Sustainable Future: Water, Conflict and Climate Change" United Nations World Water Assessment Programme (UN WWAP), Colombella, Italy, 10-11 June 2014.

2014, Panelist: Panel session on ''Engaging Feminist Pedagogy: Gendered Spaces In/Outside the Classroom'' Feminist Geography: Who we are, what we do, why we do it. University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, 15-18 May, 2014.

2014, Panelist: Panel session on ''Importing or creating theories: Doing feminist geography in ''other'' places'' Feminist Geography: Who we are, what we do, why we do it. University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, 15-18 May, 2014.

2014, Invited Commentator and Panelist: The Public Shareholder: The ethics, regulation, and risk of public utility commercialization, Université de Montréal, Canada, 2-4 May, 2014.

 2014, Invited Panelist: Panel session of the ''Dialogues in Human Geography Annual Forum'', Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers_,_ Tampa, FL, 8-12 April 2014.

2014, Panelist: Panel session on ''Feminist Pedagogies'' Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers_,_ Tampa, FL, 8-12 April 2014.

2014, Panelist: Panel session on ''Development Geographies: Scales, Directions, Visions'' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers_,_ Tampa, FL, 8-12 April 2014.

2014, "Public Water and Citizenship: Imbrications of Belonging and Democracy in The Right to Water" Paper session on ''New Water Resources Geographies?'' A_nnual Meeting of the Association of American Geographe_rs, Tampa, FL, 8-12 April 2014

2013, Panelist: Workshop on "Islam in the Academy: Confronting Orientalism", Democratizing Knowledge Collective, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 19 April 2013.

2013, Invited Panelist: Panel Session on ''Development Geography: Can critical perspectives exist in policy and implementation?'' Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, 9-13 April 2013.

2013, Invited Panelist: Panel Session on ''Teaching Political Ecology'' Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, 9-13 April 2013.

2013, Chair and Panelist: Panel Session on ''The Right to Water: Theories and Practices'' Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, 9-13 April 2013.

2012, Invited Participant: Workshop on ''Democratizing Knowledge Project: Developing Literacies, Building Communities, Seeding Change'', Syracuse University, 3-4 November 2012.

2012, Invited Participant: Workshop on ''Urban Natures'', Rutgers University, 5-6 October, 2012.

2012, "Urban injustices in a changing climate: Informal settlements, environmental governance, and the contradictions of adaptation in Dhaka, Bangladesh" Panel on ''Governing Environmental Risks and Vulnerabilities in Cities'' ICARUS III Conference, Columbia University, NY, USA, May 17-20, 2012.

2011, "Poisoning the well of development: Water governance and development politics" Rethinking Development, An Interdisciplinary Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA, 10-12 November 2011.  

2011, "Poisoning the well of development: Water governance and development politics" Rethinking Development, An Interdisciplinary Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA, 10-12 November 2011.

2011, "Water, Vulnerability, and the Politics of Adaptation: Gendered Realities of Climate Change in South Asia" Water, Waves, and Weather: Climate Change and the Future of South Asia, Conference of the American Overseas Research Centers hosted by American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 17-21 July 2011.

2011, Invited Chair and Discussant: Paper session on ''(Re)constructing Climate Change: Insights from Critical and Feminist Science Studies'' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA, USA, 12-16 April 2011.

2011, Invited Discussant: Author-meets-Critics Session of Karen Bakker''s book "Privatizing Water" Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA, USA, 12-16 April 2011.

2011, Invited Discussant: Author-meets-Critics Session of Jamie Linton''s book "What is Water?" Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA, USA, 12-16 April 2011.

2011, Panelist: Panel Session on ''Climate Change and Development: Intersections, Contradictions, Opportunities'' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA, USA, 12-16 April 2011.

2010, Invited Discussant: Paper session on ''Dams, Science, and the Law'' at international conference Experiments on Rivers: The Consequences of Dams, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Minnesota, 11-12 November 2010.

2010, Invited Panelist: Panel Session on ''Gender and Environment: Critical Tradition and New Challenges'' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington D.C., USA, 14-18 April 2010.

2010, Invited Discussant: Paper Session on ''Green Development? Revisiting Environment and Food Systems'' Development Geographies Pre-Conference, Washington D.C., USA, 13 April 2010.

2010, "Gender, climate change and the politics of adaptation" Paper presented at the session ''Gender and climate change'' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington D.C., USA, 14-18 April 2010. 

2010,   Invited Panelist, Session on ''Gender and Environment: Critical Tradition and New Challenges'' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington D.C., USA, 14-18 April 2010

2009, "Gendering climate change: Debates from South Asia" Paper presented at the MaGrann Conference on Climate Change in South Asia: Governance, Equity and Social Justice, Rutgers University, NJ, USA, 16-17 April 2009.

2009, "Of Purity and pollution: Negotiating socio-spatial-ecological-embodied subjectivities in contaminated waterscapes" Paper presented at the session ''Water, power and politics in South Asia'' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, 22-27 March 2009

2009,  Invited panelist, Session on ''Democratizing Water Technologies'' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, 22-27 March 2009

2008, "Poisoning the Well of Development? Arsenic, Accountability and (Un)anticipated Development in Bangladesh" Paper presented at the Re-Engaging Development in a Post- Development Era? Developing Areas Specialty Group Conference, Clark University, 13 - 14 April 2008.

2008, Panelist, ''Water and Development: A Fluid Relationship?'' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, 15 - 19 April 2008.

2008, "Fluid Lives: Gender, Subjectivity and Water Management" Paper presented at the session ''Advancing Environmentality: the Materiality of the Environmental Subject'' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, 15 - 19 April 2008.

2007, Invited Plenary Speaker, "Sustainability: A Post-Mortem?" Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers, London, 31 August - 2 September 2007.

2007, "''Sorry, I can''t give you money'': Positionality, Reflexivity, and Ethics of Fieldwork in Third World Contexts." Paper presented at the session ''Giving Back: Ideas for mutually beneficial research'' Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers, London, 31 August - 2 September 2007.

2007, "Suffering for water, Suffering from water: Gendered and Classed Dimensions of Arsenic Poisoning in Bangladesh" Paper presented at the session ''Arsenic in the Natural Environment: The Geography of a Global Problem'' Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers, London, 31 August - 2 September 2007.

2007, Invited Chair, Session on "Wellbeing, Relatedness, and Collective Action" Wellbeing in International Development Conference, University of Bath, 28 - 30 June 2007.

2007, Invited Panelist, "People of Color Negotiate the Academy (Part II): Women of Color Geographers and the Crisis of Under-representation" Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, 17 - 23 April 2007.

2007, "Watery Discourses: Participation and Community in Water Resources Management" Paper presented at the session ''Global Perspectives on Gender-Water Geographies'' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,  San Francisco, CA, 17 - 23 April 2007.

2007, Panelist, "The Matter of Water: Water, Materialities, and Development" at the session ''Socio-ecological Nature of Water I''  Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,  San Francisco, CA, 17 - 23 April 2007.

2006, Panelist, "Feminist Political Ecology of Water - Wither Geography?" at the session ''Gender and Water'' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,  Chicago, IL, 7 - 11 March 2006.

2006, "Gendering Natural Hazards Research: A Feminist Analysis of the Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater in Bangladesh" Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, 7 - 11 March 2006. [Winner of the 2006 Kasperson Student Paper Award of the Hazards Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers]

2005, "Women, Water, Welfare: Debating Development and Water resources management in Bangladesh" Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers, London, 31 August - 2 September 2005.

2005, Invited Panelist, "Discourses of Participation and the Development Industry" at the session ''Participatory Geographies'' Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers, London, 31 August - 2 September 2005.

2005, "Drops of life, Drops of death: Gendered Geographies of a Drinking Water crisis in Bangladesh" Paper presented at the session ''Gendered geographies of water: trends and challenges'' Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, 4 - 9 April 2005.

2005, "Sociology of an Escalating Disaster:  Gender, Water and Arsenic in Bangladesh" Paper presented at the Midwest Sociological Society Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 31 March - 3 April 2005.

2004, "Gendered Waters, Poisoned Wells: Understanding the Social Geographies of the Drinking Water Crisis from Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh" Paper presented at the MacArthur Consortium Workshop Gender in an International Context, University of Minnesota, 16 - 17 April 2004.

2004, "Water, Water Everywhere, But Not a Drop to Drink: Analyzing the Drinking Water Crisis in Bangladesh" Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, PA, 15 - 19 March 2004. [Winner of the 2004 Best Student Paper Award of the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers]

2003, "Managing Water for Sustainable Development: The Importance of Gender, Class and Environment in National Water Policies in Bangladesh" Paper presented at the MacArthur Consortium Workshop Gender in an International Context, University of Minnesota, 11- 12 April 2003.

2002, "Political Ecology of the Ganges River: High Modernism, River Politics, and the Farakka Barrage" Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the West Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 17- 19 October 2002.

2002, "Water Resources, Water Security and the ''Rio Plus Ten'' Process: An Overview" Paper presented at ''Water and Security'' Panel of the Rio Plus Ten: Environment, Development, and Security Workshop at the University of Minnesota, 5 - 6 April 2002.

2002, "The Farakka Barrage and the Ganges River Dispute: High Modernism, River Politics and Socio-ecological Implications" Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, 18 - 23 March 2002.

2000, with Ben Crow, "Water Allocation and Gender - An Analysis from Bangladesh" Paper presented at the Berkeley Water Working Group Speaker Series, University of California - Berkeley, 4 May 2000.

2000, "Water Concerns in Rural Bangladesh: A Gendered Perspective" 26th Annual Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) International Conference, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 5 - 9 November 2000.

2000,"Water Resources and Gender: Unspoken Realities and Unfolding Crisis in Bangladesh" First International Conference on Bangladesh Environment, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 14 - 15 January 2000.

 

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SU Affiliations

Faculty Affiliate:

Women’s and Gender Studies Department; Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflicts and Collaboration (PARCC); Center for Environmental Policy and Administration (CEPA); South Asia Center; Moynihan Institute; International Relations Program; Tolley Humanities Faculty; Asian/Asian-American Studies; Democratizing Knowledge Collective.