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Social Sciences Division
Distinguished Professor
Faculty
Institute of the Arts and Sciences
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Katharyne Mitchell is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received her PhD in Geography from UC Berkeley and her BA in Art and Archaeology from Princeton University. Before joining UCSC she was a professor and the chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Washington, Seattle. She has held positions as the Simpson Professor of Public Scholarship and the Director of Canadian Studies at the University of Washington, and the Dean of Social Sciences at UCSC. She has held a visiting professorship at St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford, and many residential fellowships, including an Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellow at the National University of Singapore, and a distinguished senior fellowship at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, Germany. She is the recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, Brocher Foundation, and MacArthur Foundation, and a senior research award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She was the editor of the journal Progress in Human Geography, book reviews editor of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, and has served on the editorial boards of multiple other journals. Mitchell is the author or editor of 13 books and special issues and over a hundred articles and chapters. Her work examines processes related to migration, transnationalism, urban restructuring, and dispossession.
Urbanization, urban development, refugees, asylum, sanctuary, migration, transnationalism, philanthropy, humanitarianism, spaces of containment, built environments, displacement, coerced labor
Urbanization, urban development, migration, educational theory
● Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Award, 2023-25.
● Sigma Xi, Scientific Research Honor Society, 2024.
● Max Planck Institute Distinguished Fellowship, Göttingen, Germany, 2023.
● Brocher Foundation Fellowship, Geneva, Switzerland, 2019.
● Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence Fellow, 2014-2019.
● Whiteley Center, Friday Harbor Labs Fellow, University of Washington, 2017.
● John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2016-2017.
● Brocher Foundation Fellowship, Geneva, Switzerland, 2016.
● National Council for Geographic Education, Journal of Geography Best Article, (with Sarah Elwood) 2013.
● Edward J. Taaffe Distinguished Lecture in Human Geography, Ohio State University, 2012.
● Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellowship, National University of Singapore, 2011.
● Whiteley Center, Friday Harbor Labs, University of Washington, 2011.
● Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellowship, Stanford University, 2001. Declined.
● National Academy of Education Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1997-1999.
● Junior Faculty Mentoring Award, University of Washington, 1996.
● Izaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of British Columbia, 1993-1995. Declined.
● Council of Graduate Schools’ University Microfilms’ International Dissertation Prize Finalist, 1993.