Nate Millington

Department of Geography 817 Patterson Office Tower Lexington, KY 40506 natemillington@gmail.com (608) 215 9697 http://tinyurl.com/natemillington

Education Department of Geography University of Kentucky Lexington, KY PhD Student in Geography, 2010 - Present Specializations: Urban Geography, Science and Technology Studies, Environmental History, Urban Political Ecology, Architecture, Memory Escola de Portugus, Summer 2011 Seven-week Portuguese immersion Program

Middlebury College School of Portuguese Middlebury, VT Department of Geography University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin

MS in Geography, 2010 MS Thesis: "Post-Industrial Imaginaries: Nature, Representation, and Ruin in Detroit, Michigan." MS Committee: Kris Olds, William Cronon, Anna Andrzejewski Coursework in Geographic Information Systems, Sep Dec 2007 BA in History, 2006 Minor: Urban Studies Specializations: American Postwar Urban History, Intellectual History, Critical Social Theory

University of Washington Extension Seattle, WA Department of History University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia

Publications Millington, Nate (forthcoming) Post-Industrial Imaginaries: Nature, Representation, and Ruin in Detroit, Michigan. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Millington, Nate. (accepted, pending revisions). Producing a Post-Political Landscape: Urban Wilderness, Race, and Nature in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Antipode. Book Reviews and Contributions Millington, Nate. (forthcoming) Book Review: Mobile Urbanism, McCann, Eugene, and Kevin Ward (eds). Journal of Planning Education and Research. Reading an Urban Landscape, University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Culture, History, and Environment, http://envhist.wisc.edu/cool_stuff/landscapetips.shtml

Awards 2012 University of Wisconsin Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Fellowship ($7,500) University of Kentucky Department of Geography Travel Funding Award ($180) University of Kentucky Graduate School Student Travel Funding Award ($400) University of Kentucky Department of Geography Barnhart-Withington Award ($2,340) University of Kentucky Latin American Studies Travel Grant ($850) AAG Urban Geography Specialty Group Graduate Student Paper Award ($200) University of Kentucky Graduate School Student Travel Funding Award ($400) Middlebury College Financial Assistance ($4,610) Vernacular Architecture Forum Presenters Fellowship Award ($500) University of Wisconsin Department of Geography Trewatha Graduate Research Award ($400)

2011

2010

Teaching Experience 2012 2013 Primary Instructor, University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences Arts & Sciences 100: Community 101 (Fall 2012)

2011 - 2012 Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences Arts & Sciences 100: Learning Lexington (Fall 2011, Spring 2012) 2010 2011 Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Kentucky Department of Geography Geography 160: Lands and Peoples of the Non-Western World (Spring 2011) Arts & Sciences 100: American Cities (Fall 2010) 2009 - 2010 Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin Department of Geography Geography 339: Environmental Conservation (Fall 2009, Spring 2010) 2008 2009 Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin Department of Geography Geography 101: Introduction to Human Geography (Fall 2008, Spring 2009) Conference Presentations and Involvement 2013 Seeing the High Line: Urban Political Ecology, Aesthetics, and the Post-Political Landscape. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 9-13, 2013, Los Angeles, CA (paper accepted) Session Organizer, Apocalyptic Anxiety, Climate Resignation, Post-Politics: Accommodating the Post-Climate Change World. Third Annual Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, Feburary 28-March 3, 2012 (upcoming). 2012 Impermeable Assemblages: Flooding, Urban Infrastructure, and Post-Politics in So Paulo, Brazil. 19th Annual Conference on Critical Geography, November 2-4, 2012 (paper accepted).

Producing a Post-Political Landscape: Urban Wilderness, Race, and Nature in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, April 13-15, Lexington, KY. Session Organizer and Chair, Environmental History & Historical Political Ecology I & II Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, April 13-15, 2012, Lexington, Kentucky. Session Organizer, Industrial Ecologies, Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, April 13-15, 2012, Lexington, Kentucky. Session Organizer and Chair with Sarah Watson, Racialized Landscapes: Embodiment, Mutable Natures, and Environmental Politics I & II Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, April 13-15, 2012, Lexington, KY. Landscapes of Purification and Contestation: Milwaukees North Avenue Dam. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, February 24-18, 2012, New York, NY. 2011 Post-Industrial Imaginaries: Nature, Representation, and Ruin in Detroit, Michigan. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 12-17, 2011. Received AAG Urban Geography Specialty Group Graduate Student Paper Award. Session Organizer and Chair with Jason Nu, Representing and Imagining the City I, II, and III, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 12-17, 2011, Seattle, Washington. Chair, Urban Ecologies and Rural-Urban Interfaces, Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, February 18-19, 2011, Lexington, Kentucky. 2010 Envisioning Detroit: The Michigan Central Station and the Politics of Representation. Vernacular Architecture Forum, May 19-22, 2010, Washington, DC. Urban Nature and the Cultural Landscape: Milwaukees North Avenue Dam. University of Wisconsin Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Program Student Symposium, Milwaukee, WI, May 7, 2010. Wild, Wild Midwest: Landscape, Vision, and Nature in Detroit, MI. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 14-18, 2010, Washington, DC. Wild, Wild Midwest: Landscape, Vision, and Nature in Detroit, MI. University of WisconsinMadison, 9th Annual Graduate Student Symposium, April 8-9, 2010, Madison, Wisconsin. Wild, Wild Midwest: Landscape, Vision, and Nature in Detroit, MI. Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, February 12-13, 2010, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 2009 Envisioning Detroit: Detroits Michigan Central Station and the Politics of Representation. Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians Fourth Annual Student Symposium, September 26, 2009, Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Participant, University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Culture, History, and Environment, Place-Based Workshop to Chicago and Indiana Dunes, May 16, 19-22, 2009. Invited Presentations 2011 Envisioning Detroit: Photography, Ruin, and the Politics of Representation. Geography 305: Introduction to the City (Instructor: Dr. Kris Olds). Madison, WI, September 29.

Research Experience 2012 Research Assistant, Summer 2012 Social Justice/Faith Groups, Urban Homelessness and Spaces of Praxis: Lexingtons Catholic Action Center (Primary Investigator: Dr. Sandra Zupan, University of Kentucky). Research Assistant, Summer Field School in Vernacular Architectural History (Primary Organizer: Dr. Anna Andrzejewski, University of Wisconsin-Madison).

2010

Conference Organizing 2013 Facilitator, 3rd annual Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, February 28 - March 3, 2013. Co-Organizer, Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, April 13-15, 2012, Lexington, Kentucky. Organizer, UK Political Ecology Bi-weekly Film Series, Fall 2011 (schedule available at http://www.politicalecology.org/2011/09/political-ecology-film-series-fall-2011.html). Co-Organizer, Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, February 18-19, 2011, Lexington, Kentucky. 2009 Coordinator, Theoretical, Human, and Urban Geography Scholarship Discussion Group. Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring semester.

2012

2011

University and Departmental Involvement Committee Member, Graduate Curriculum Committee Department of Geography, University of Kentucky August 2010 - Present Graduate Student Representative to Faculty/Staff Meetings Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison June 2009 August 2010 Graduate Affiliate, Center for Culture, History, and Environment

Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison April 2009 August 2010

Professional Memberships Association of American Geographers Vernacular Architecture Forum University of Kentucky Political Ecology Working Group (Facilitator)