Kate Coddington Curriculum Vitae/ page 1

Department of Geography
Durham University
DH1 3LE
United Kingdom
Email: kate.coddington@durham.ac.uk
Website: http://katecoddington.weebly.com/index.html

Education
2014 Ph.D. with distinction, Geography, Syracuse University
Dissertation: Geographies of Containment: Logics of Enclosure
in Aboriginal and Asylum Seeker Policies in Australias
Northern Territory
Chair: Alison Mountz. Committee members: Jackie Orr, Margaret
Walton-Roberts, Jamie Winders, John Western

2012 Certificate of Advanced Study (C.A.S.), Womens and Gender

Studies, Syracuse University

2009 M.A., Geography, Syracuse University

Thesis: Living and Breathing Bodies and States: Stories of Park
and Place in Seward, Alaska

2003 B.A. with distinction, magna cum laude, History, Carleton

College

Academic Employment
2015- Assistant Professor, Geography Department, Durham
University
10/2016-3/2017 Maternity Leave
2014-2015 Post Doctoral Research Associate, IBRU Centre for Borders
Research, Geography Department, Durham University
2009-2012 Syracuse University Fellow
2008-2011 Research Assistant, Dr. Alison Mountz, Wilfrid Laurier
University (ethnographic research in Australia, Indonesia)
2007-2011 Teaching Assistant, Syracuse University

Research Interests
Borders and mobilities
Migration, asylum and detention
Settler colonialism
Citizenship and belonging
Feminist epistemology and research methods
Australia and the Indian Ocean region
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Publications
Guest edited special issue journal
Micieli-Voutsinas, J. and Coddington, K. (2017) Spatializing Shattered Subjects:
Mapping Geographies of Trauma, Emotion, Space and Society

Refereed publications
Coddington, K. (2017) The re-emergence of wardship: Aboriginal Australians and
the promise of citizenship, Political Geography, 61: 67-76

Burke, S., Carr, A., Casson, H., Coddington, K., Colls, R., Jollans, A., Jordan, S., Smith,
K., Taylor, N. and Urquhart, H. (equal authorship) (2017) Generative Spaces:
Intimacy, Activism and Teaching Feminist Geographies, Gender, Place and
Culture, 24(5) Special issue on Emergent and Divergent Spaces in the
Womens March: The Challenges of Intersectionality and Inclusion: 661-673

Coddington, K. and J. Micieli-Voutsinas. (in press) On trauma, geography, and

mobility: towards geographies of trauma, Emotion, Space and Society

Coddington, K. (in press) Settler colonial territorial imaginaries: maritime

mobilities and the tow-backs of asylum seekers, in Peters, K. Steinberg, P.
and Stratford, E. (eds) Territory Beyond Terra. London: Rowman & Littlefield
International.

Coddington, K. (2017) The mobility of carceral logics: enclosure tactics and violent
consequences for Aboriginal communities and asylum seekers in Australia, in
Turner, J. and Peters, K. (eds) Carceral Mobilities: Interrogating Movement in
Incarceration. London and New York: Routledge: 17-29.

Coddington, K. (2017) Intimate Economies of Erasure and Ambiguity: Darwin as

Australias 2011-2012 Capital of Detention, in Hiemstra, N and Conlon, D
(eds) Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention: Critical Perspectives
London and New York: Routledge: 140-154.

Coddington, K. (2017) Voice Under Scrutiny: Feminist Methods,

Anticolonial Responses, and New Methodological Tools, The Professional
Geographer, 69(2): 314-320.

Coddington, K. (2016) Contagious trauma: Reframing the spatial mobility of

trauma within advocacy work, Emotion, Space and Society,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2016.02.002

Steinberg, P. and K. Coddington. (2015) From Ice Law to ICE LAW: Constructing an
Interdisciplinary Research Project on the Political-Legal Challenges of Polar
Environments, in L. Heininen, H. Exner-Pirot, and J. Plouffe (eds.) Arctic
Yearbook 2015, Akureyri, Iceland: Northern Research Forum, pp. 445-451.
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Coddington, K. (2015) The entrepreneurial spirit: Exxon Valdez and nature

tourism development in Seward, Alaska, Tourism Geographies, 17(3): 482-
497.

Coddington, K. (2015) Feminist geographies beyond gender: de-coupling feminist

research and the gendered subject, Geography Compass, 9(4): 214-224.

Coddington, K., and A. Mountz. (2014) Countering isolation with use of technology:
how asylum-seeking detainees on islands in the Indian Ocean use social
media to transcend their confinement. Journal of the Indian Ocean Region,
10(1): 97-112.

Coddington, K., R. T. Catania, J. Loyd, E. Mitchell-Eaton, and A. Mountz. (2012)

Embodied Possibilities, Sovereign Geographies, and Island Detention:
Negotiating the right to have rights on Guam, Lampedusa, and Christmas
Island. SHIMA: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures, 6(2):
27-48.

Mountz, A., K. Coddington, J. Loyd, and R. T. Catania. (2012) Conceptualizing

detention: mobility, containment, bordering, and exclusion. Progress in
Human Geography, 37(4): 522-541.

Coddington, K. (2011) Spectral geographies: haunting and everyday state practices

in colonial and present-day Alaska. Social & Cultural Geography, 12(7): 743-
756.

Manuscripts in progress
Under review
Coddington, K. Precariousness across landscapes of refugee protection, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers

Coddington, K. Fractures in Australias Asia-Pacific border continuum: deterrence,

detention, and the production of illegality, Jones, Mitchell and Fluri (eds)
Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration (Edward Elgar Press)

Contracted
Coddington, K. The slow violence of cashless technologies: state logics of care and
control in Australia and the UK. Geographical Review

Book reviews
Coddington, K. (forthcoming 2018) Neoliberal Apartheid: Palestine/ Israel and
South Africa after 1994. By Andy Clarno. Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 287. $30.00. American Journal of Sociology, 123(6).
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Coddington, K. (2014) Values and Vulnerabilities: The Ethics of Research with

Refugees and Asylum Seekers, edited by Karen Block, Elisha Riggs, and Nick
Haslam, (eds). International Migration Review, 48(3): 916-917.

Non-refereed publications
Coddington, K. (2016) Precarious passage: refugees and asylum-seekers navigate
the landscape of protection in Thailand. Borderlines, 14.

Coddington, K. (2014) Stopping the boats at all costs? Australia's Operation

Sovereign Borders. Borderlines, 12.

Grants, awards & honors

2016-2018 Sub-project co-leader for Leverhulme Trust International
Networks Programme Project on Indeterminate and Changing
Environments: Law, the Anthropocene, and the World (The ICE
LAW Project) (124,925)
2015 British Council Researcher Links Travel Grant (5,530)
2013 Maxwell Deans Summer Research Award ($1,500)
2012 David Sopher Paper Award, Geography Department, Syracuse
University
2012 Sopher Memorial Scholarship ($1,800)
2012 Maxwell Deans Summer Research Award ($2,000)
2011 Syracuse University Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
2011 Maxwell Deans Summer Research Award ($3,500)
2010 Maxwell Deans Summer Research Award ($3,400)
2009-2012 Syracuse University Fellowship ($22,000/year)
2009 Glenda Laws Student Paper Competition Award, Geographic
Perspectives on Women Specialty Group, Association of
American Geographers
2009 Syracuse University PLACA Research Award ($2,100)
2009 Maxwell Deans Summer Research Award ($1,650)
2008 Maxwell Deans Summer Research Award ($1,650)
2002 Richard A. Salisbury Fellowship ($1,800)
2002 Carleton College Class of 1963 Fellowship ($1,800)

Invited lectures, panels & discussion

The slow violence of cashless technologies: state logics of care and control in
Australia and the UK, Critical Nationalism Studies Workshop: National
Imaginaries and Beyond, Durham University and Tokyo University, Durham,
UK, 14-15 September 2017

Materiality and embodiment, Materiality, Migration and Movement Seminar,

Durham University, Durham, UK, February 23, 2017

Precarious Lives beyond the Convention: Refugees in Thailand, First Joint

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Workshop: Critical Nationalism Studies, Durham University and the University

of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, September 24, 2016 (in-abstentia).

Constructing territory through circulations: Bodies, logics, and Australias tow-

backs of asylum seeker vessels, International Law and Geography: A spatial
turn in international legal scholarship, Durham University, Durham, UK, May
6, 2016.

Spaces of statelessness: Everyday life for refugees in Thailand beyond the

Convention, Seminar on Movement and Identity, The Ustinov Seminar and
Ustinov Intercultural Forum, Durham University, Durham, UK, December 16,
2015.

A global perspective on refugees and asylum seekers: how forced migration trends
in Europe and Australia can inform Thai policy-making and practical
experience, Asian Research Center for Migration, Chulalongkorn University,
Bangkok, Thailand, August 20, 2015.

Asylum Seekers and Detention Networks Darwin Press Club, Darwin, Australia,
March 6, 2012

Research in progress: critical junctures between migration, law, and medicine in

Guatemala, Program on Latin American and the Caribbean, Syracuse
University, October 28, 2009

Conference session organizing

(Re)Imagining Borders in an Era of Migration and Deportation I-III, organized with
Jill Williams, Clark University, Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, Los Angeles, April 9-13, 2013

Spatializing Shattered Subjects: Geographies of Trauma I & II, organized with

Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas, Syracuse University, Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, April 9-13, 2013

Feminist Geography Re-Examined: Topical Considerations, Epistemological

Frameworks, Methodological Approaches, organized with Jill Williams, Clark
University, and Tina Catania, Syracuse University, Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, Seattle, April 12-16, 2011

Ten Years On: Feminisms and the 'War on Terror I & II,' organized with Roberta
Hawkins, Clark University and Destiny Aman, Penn State University, Annual
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, April 12-16,
2011

What's feminist about this work? Challenges and insights from feminist research
methodologies I & II, organized with Roberta Hawkins, Clark University and
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Destiny Aman, Penn State University, Annual Meeting of the Association of

American Geographers, Seattle, April 12-16, 2011

Theoretical Interventions: Writing Across Ism's, organized with Katie Wells,

Syracuse University, Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, Washington D.C., April 14-18, 2010

Gender, Sexuality and Space: In Memory of Glen Elder, organized with Destiny
Aman, Penn State University, Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, Washington D.C., April 14-18, 2010

Gender, Feminisms, and Violence I & II, organized with Destiny Aman, Penn State
University, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,
Washington D.C., April 14-18, 2010

Sovereign Natures: Un/bounding Political Ecologies: Political Geographies of

Political Ecology I & II, organized with Keith Lindner, Syracuse University,
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, March
22-27, 2009

Presentations at professional meetings

Panelist: Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention: Critical Reflections on the
Book and Beyond, Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, Boston, April 4-9, 2017

Governing through illegality: The differential treatment of refugees across Thai

state space Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,
Boston, April 4-9, 2017

Producing territory through mobility: asylum seekers and true Australian spaces
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, April 21-
25, 2015
Discussant: Enforcing Borders, Controlling Immigration 3: Immigration control at
the scale of the local and the community, Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Geographers, Chicago, April 21-25, 2015
Grieving witnesses: The politics of grief in the field (I), Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, Chicago, April 21-25, 2015

Panic! Border control and containment policies in Australia Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, April 9-13, 2013

Conceptualizing detention on Christmas Island: mobility, containment, bordering,

and exclusion Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,
Los Angeles, April 9-13, 2013
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Who feels the fear? Panicked Asylum and Aboriginal Policies in Australia
Decolonizing Cascadia? Rethinking Critical Geographies 7th Annual Regional
Mini-Conference, Vancouver, Canada, November 16-17, 2012.

Conceptualizing detention on Christmas Island: mobility, containment, bordering,

and exclusion Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Conference,
Waterloo, Canada, May 28-June 1, 2012

Flesh and Blood Ghosts: The Utility of the Specter for Feminist Political
Geography, National Womens Studies Association Annual Conference,
Denver, November 11-14, 2010

Feminist Political Geographies: Beyond Bodies, National Womens Studies

Association Annual Conference, Denver, November 11-14, 2010

It Was Just This Wild West Crazy Town: Post-Exxon Valdez Transformations of
Nature and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Seward, Alaska, Annual Meeting of
the Association of American Geographers, Washington D.C., April 14-18, 2010

Spectral Geographies: Haunting and the Everyday State, Royal Geographical

Society-IBG (RGS-IBG) Geography, Knowledge, and Society, Manchester,
England, August 26-28, 2009.

The building that isnt there: contesting land and sovereignty in Seward, Alaska,
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, March
22-27, 2009

Natural constructions: Ecotourism and womens work, Identity, Territory and

Social Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean, Syracuse University,
February 28-29, 2008.

Teaching
Feminist Geographies of Intimacy, 2017, Durham University
40-student course involving lectures, seminars and workshops. Co-designer and
co-instructor.
Geographies of Development, 2016, Durham University
120-student course involving lectures and seminars. Taught 25% of course (4
lectures and accompanying seminars)
Social Research in Geography, 2016, Durham University
120-student course involving lectures, fieldtrips, and seminars. Taught visual
methods module (40 students, 4 lectures and seminars) and fieldtrip
component (40 students, 4 lectures and 5-day field course).
Global Political Economy, 2010, Syracuse University, Teaching Assistant
60-student course. Taught weekly seminars (3 of 20+ students each).
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Human Geography, 2009, Syracuse University, Teaching Assistant

120-student course. Taught weekly seminars (3 of 20+ students each).
The Natural Environment, 2008 and 2009, Syracuse University, Teaching Assistant
120-student course. Taught weekly seminars (3 of 20+ students each).
World Geography, 2007, Syracuse University, Teaching Assistant
120-student course. Taught weekly seminars (3 of 20+ students each and taught
one guest lecture.

Postgraduate education
Student supervision
Student Degree and thesis title Date Status
Muh Taufiqurrohman PhD, The Role of NGOs in Building 2015- In
Community Resilience to Terrorism and progress
Violent Extremism in Indonesia in 2011-
2014

Chair: Social and Development Geographies, Level 1 Human Geography Postgraduate

Conference, Durham, May 10, 2017
Discussant: Academic Job Interviews, Applying for Jobs in Geography, Durham, March
17, 2017
Discussant: Urban Geography, Level 3 Human Geography Postgraduate Conference,
Durham, March 16, 2016
Discussant: Space for resistance? Tactics, solidarities and political subjectivities,
Contested Spaces of Citizenship Postgraduate Conference, Durham, April 29,
2015
Interventions in Australias border continuum: Territory, security and failure,
Durham University Geography Department Research Frontiers, January 15,
2015

Academic leadership
2015- Steering Committee Member, IBRU Centre for Borders
Research, Durham University
2014- Reviewer for Environment and Planning D: Society and Space,
Political Geography, SAGE Open, Marine Policy, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, American Ethnologist,
Geography Journal, Societies, Area, Antipode, International
Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, Environment and
Planning C: Politics and Space, Journal of Refugee Studies
2009-2011 Graduate student representative to the Geographic
Perspectives on Women Specialty Group, Association of
American Geographers
2009 Assisted with the organization of the Critical Geography
Graduate Student Workshop, Syracuse University
2008-2009 Student leader of Future Professoriate Program, Geography
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Department
2008-2009 Graduate representative to faculty of Geography Department
2009 Member of Geography Department faculty search committee
2008 Reviewer for the Maxwell School Review

Engagement and outreach

2016 Delivered training regarding changes to A-level curriculum at
Ripon Grammar School, Ripon, North Yorkshire for grammar
school instructors
2010 Panelist at the Geography Undergraduate Career Night,
Syracuse University