Julie Urbanik, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Geosciences (B.A. Randolph-Macon College, 1992; M.A. University of Arizona, Tucson, 2000; Ph.D. Clark University, 2006).  Cultural geography, human-animal studies, gender and environment.  My published articles include "Hooters for Neuters: Sexist or Transgressive Animal Advocacy Campaign?"  Humanimalia, v. 1/i.1, online: http://www.depauw.edu/humanimalia (2009); "Animal geographies: exploring the spaces and places of animal encounters." In Teaching Human Animal Studies, edited by Margo DeMello (Boston: Lantern Press. In press); "Locating the transgenic landscape: animal biotechnology and politics of place in Massachusetts." Geoforum, v. 38, pp. 1205-1218 (2007).

My research focuses on how issues of identity, globalization, and technology are (re)configuring human relationships with the natural world. I teach courses in cultural geography, economic geography, political geography, animals and society, gender and environment, and issues in environmental science.