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RICHARD
NISA Department of
Geography Rutgers, The State
University of New Jersey 54 Joyce Kilmer
Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 08854 rnisa[at]eden.rutgers.edu EDUCATION 2007- Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey PhD
Student in Geography Chair:
Robert W. Lake 2007
Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey Master of
Arts, Geography Thesis: Demons, Phantoms, Monsters: Law,
Bodies, and Detention in the War on Terror Advisor:
Robert W. Lake 2000 Syracuse
University Bachelor
of Architecture (cum laude) Thesis: An Americanization League for
Manhattan: Towards a Critical Architecture Advisors:
Francisco Sanin, Lawrence Davis TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2007- Co-Instructor, Department of Geography, Rutgers University: Space,
Place, Location: Introduction to Human Geography {348 students enrolled} 2007 Instructor, Department of Geography, Rutgers University: Space,
Place, Location: Introduction to Human Geography; Summer Session {21 students enrolled} 2006 Instructor, Department of Geography, Rutgers University: Space,
Place, Location: Introduction to Human Geography {319 students enrolled} 2005 Co-Instructor, Department of Geography, Rutgers University: Cities:
Urban Geography {78 students enrolled} RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2005-06 Research
Assistant Center
for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University Robert W. Lake and Kathe
Newman, Principal Investigators: Civic Engagement in Camden, New Jersey ACADEMIC
PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS 2007 Robert
W. Lake, Kathe Newman, Philip Ashton, Richard Nisa, and Bradley Wilson, Civic
Engagement in Camden, New Jersey: A Baseline Portrait, MDRC and the Ford Foundation, New York, NY. DESIGN PUBLICATIONS 2003 Haar, Clarke, and Hendrickson. 2003. Architecture for
Education: New School Designs from the Chicago Competition. Business & Professional People for the Public. {project featured, pp. 75-77} AWARDS & HONORS 2008-09 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CASTL) Graduate Student Fellow 2005-07 University
Excellence Fellowship, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 2001 Finalist:
National Endowment for the Arts Sponsored Big Shoulders Small Schools
International Design Competition {with Lubrano Ciavarra Design} 2000 James
A. Britton Memorial Award for Outstanding Thesis {Syracuse University} CONFERENCE PAPERS 2008 "Islands,
Archipelagos, and Bodies: The Legal Geography of Detention in the War on
Terror", presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, Boston, MA, April 2008. 2007 "Making
Iraqi Economies: War in the Shadows of Capitalocentrism", presented at the Middle
States' Division of the Association of American Geographers, Reading, PA,
November 2007. 2007 "Rogue
Elephants: The Legal Organization of Violent Bodies in International Conflict",
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,
San Francisco, CA, April 2007. 2006 "To
The Extent Appropriate And Consistent With Military Necessity: Space and Legal
Matter in the Neoliberal Nation-State", presented at the Second Annual Brown
University Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference: Space as a Category of
Analysis, Providence, RI, April 2006. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2004- Designer Lubrano
Ciavarra Design, LLC—New York, New York 2003-04 Intern
Architect Neumann
Monson Architects—Iowa City, Iowa Project
Team Member: West Campus Tennis and Rec.
Facility, Iowa City, IA North Central Junior High
School, North Liberty, IA 2000-03 Junior
Project Architect Lubrano Ciavarra Design LLC—New
York, New York Project
Manager: Big Shoulders Small Schools
Design Competition {finalist} Richard
Avedon Retrospective at the NY Metropolitan Museum 2000- Freelance
Architectural, Print & Digital Designer Nisa
Design Studio—New York, New York Past
Clients: Alcon Builders: 2007 NYU French Graduate Studies
Association: 2006 eXchanges
Journal of Literary Translation, University of Iowa: 2003 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Association of American
Geographers Urban Geography Specialty Group: Student Board Member Politics of Global Security
Working Group: Rutgers University US Green Building Council GRADUATE LEVEL COURSEWORK Community Development Research Design in Geography Perspectives in Geographic
Thought Industrial Ecology Social Theory and Public
Policy Globalization: Consumption and
Cities Geography and Anthropology of
Frontier Spaces Theorizing Time and Becoming Anthropology of Violence Environment and Development Terror, Affect, Biopower Cultures of Circulation Community and Economy Uneven Geographic Development Cities and Environmental
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