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Name:  Heynen, Nik
Telephone: 706.542.1954; Fax: 706.542.2388
Email: nheynen@uga.edu
Internet: http://www.ggy.uga.edu/
Organization:
Department of Geography
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia 30607

Position at Coweeta LTER: Principal Investigator
Specialty: Political Ecology
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Education:
B.A. Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1996
M.A. Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1998
Ph.D. Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2002

Appointments:
Assistant Professor; Department of Geography University of Georgia, 2006-Present
Assistant Professor; Department of Geography, Urban Studies Program, University ofWisconsin-Milwaukee, 2002-2006

Publications (Five as examples of research foci):
Heynen, N., H.A. Perkins and P. Roy (2007) Failing to Grow ‘Their’ Own Justice? The Co-Production of Racial/Gendered Labor and Milwaukee’s Urban Forest. Urban Geography 28(8): 732-754.

Heynen, N., H.A. Perkins and P. Roy (2006) The Political Ecology of Uneven Urban Green Space: The Impact of Political Economy on Race and Ethnicity in Producing Environmental Inequality in Milwaukee. Urban Affairs Review 42(1): 3-25.

Heynen, N. (2006) Green Urban Political Ecologies: Toward a Better Understanding of Inner City Environmental Change. Environment and Planning A 38(3): 499-516.

Heynen, N. and P. Robbins (2005) The Neoliberalization of Nature: Governance, Privatization, Enclosure and Valuation.Capitalism Nature Socialism 16(1): 5-8.

Heynen, N.C. (2003) The Scalar Production of Injustice within the Urban Forest. Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography 35(5): 980-998.

Synergistic Activities:
Book Series Editor (with Andy Herod and Melissa Wright) for the Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation series at the University of Georgia Press. 2007-Present

Interventions and Review Editor for Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography. 2006-Present

Editorial Board member for Human Geography 2008-Present

Editorial Board member for Capitalism Nature Socialism 2005-Present