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 Change