Actor Details

Professor of Geography
Adjunct Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, 98195-3550

I am an urban social and feminist geographer interested in the interconnections between inequalities, labor markets, and care work in North America. My research triangulates between power, space and social difference, mapping the ways in which social identities, both shape and become shaped by consequential geographies of power. In particular my research takes account of discourses and practices of gender, but in various projects I also address class, race/ethnicity, (dis)ability, national identities and sexualities. Generally my research focuses on four themes: (1) economic and social restructuring, local labor markets and workplaces, especially in terms of gender and femininities (e.g. office work, child care arrangements, and home health care work); (2) households, paid care work and ‘the home’, especially in terms feminist theories of ‘the state’, social policy formation and welfare systems; (3) the gendering of urban spaces, places and landscapes; and (4) the interconnections between critical theories, epistemologies and research methods, including the politics and ethics of doing research.