Katharyne W Mitchell

User Katharyne W Mitchell

User Distinguished Professor

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Social Sciences Division

Distinguished Professor

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Institute of the Arts and Sciences

Katharyne

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Katharyne Mitchell is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Recent books include Making Workers: Radical Geographies of Education (2018), the Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration (2019), and the Routledge Handbook of Critical Philanthropy and Humanitarianism (2023). Mitchell has been a Visiting Professor at St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, and an Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellow at the National University of Singapore. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016, a Brocher Foundation Fellowship in Switzerland in 2019, a Max Planck Fellowship in Göttingen, Germany, in 2023 and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in 2023. Mitchell is the author or editor of 13 books and special issues and over a hundred articles and chapters, and is recipient of grants from the MacArthur Foundation, Spencer Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, and National Science Foundation.

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.

 

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