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Beth A Mitchneck

  • Professor Emerita
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  • (520) 621-1652
  • Environment and Natural Res. 2, Rm. S434
  • Tucson, AZ 85719
  • bethm@arizona.edu
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  • Scholarly Contributions

Awards

  • Public Voices Fellowship
    • OpEd Project through the Women's Foundation of Southern Arizona and sponsored by SBS., Fall 2015

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Courses

2016-17 Courses

  • Geography and Global Issues
    GEOG 150B1 (Spring 2017)
  • Geograph Research Method
    GEOG 357 (Fall 2016)
  • Honors Thesis
    GEOG 498H (Fall 2016)
  • Human Geography & Global Sys
    GEOG 150B1 (Fall 2016)

2015-16 Courses

  • Independent Study
    GEOG 399 (Summer I 2016)
  • Geograph Research Method
    GEOG 357 (Spring 2016)
  • Honors Independent Study
    GEOG 399H (Spring 2016)
  • Honors Thesis
    GEOG 498H (Spring 2016)
  • Independent Study
    GEOG 399 (Spring 2016)

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Scholarly Contributions

Chapters

  • Mitchneck, B. A., Kabachnik, P., & Regulska, J. (2014). Return or Integration?: Politicizing Displacement in Georgia. In Security, Democracy and Development in the Southern Caucasus and the Black Sea Region. Academic Swiss Caucasus Net.

Journals/Publications

  • Mitchneck, B. A., Carboni, J., & Hoffman, E. (2015). Policy Streams And Immigration To Russia: Competing And Complementary Interests At The Federal And Local Levels. International Migration.
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    ;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Please specify if you select "Other collaborative" : Hofmann is a sociologist at University of Utah and Carboni is now faculty at IUPUI;The article is currently in early view.Status: Submitted But Not Yet Accepted;
  • Mitchneck, B. A. (2013). Geographies of Displacement. Refugee Survey Quarterly.
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    We are nearing submission and only have a few sections to complete.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Please specify if you select "Other collaborative" : Rutgers, CUNY faculty, post-doc at ASA;Full Citation: Geographies of Displacement, Peter Kabachnik, Beth Mitchneck, Olga Mayorova, Joanna Regulska, Julia Carboni;Status: Paper in Preparation;
  • Mitchneck, B. A. (2014). Les déplacés de Géorgie, instruments géopolitiques (French translation of "Georgian IDPs as Geopolitics"). Diplomatie, 22, 42-48.
  • Mitchneck, B. A. (2014). The Multiple Geographies of Internal Displacement: The Case of Georgia. Refugee Survey Quarterly, 33, 1-30.
  • Mitchneck, B. A., Kabachnik, P., Mayorova, O., & Regulska, J. (2014). The Multiple Geographies of Internal Displacement: The Case of Georgia. Refugee Survey Quarterly.
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    Analytical article about how spatial aspects of displacement factor into social network development.
  • Kabachnik, P., Grabowska, M., Regulska, J., Mitchneck, B., & Mayorova, O. V. (2013). Traumatic masculinities: the gendered geographies of Georgian IDPs from Abkhazia. GENDER PLACE AND CULTURE, 20(6), 773-793.
  • Mitchneck, B. A., Kabachnik, ., & Regulska, . (2012). Displacing Blame: Georgian IDP Perspectives of the Georgia-Abkhazia Conflict. Ethnopolitics.
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    ;Your Role: I helped to develop the theoretical framework, the interview questions, and I wrote and revised considerable portions of the manuscript.;Full Citation: Displacing Blame: Divergent Accounts of the Georgia-Abkhazia Conflict, co-authors Peter Kabachnik and Joanna Regulska. Ethnopolitics. 2012.;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Kabachnik was a post-doc on the project and now faculty at CUNY and Regulska is at Rutgers.;
  • Mitchneck, B. A., Kabachnik, ., Grabowska, ., Regulska, ., Mitchneck, ., & Mayorova, . (2012). Traumatic Masculinities: The Gendered Geographies of Georgian IDPs from Abkhazia. Gender, Place & Culture.
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    ;Your Role: I helped to develop the theoretical framework, the interview questions, and I wrote and revised considerable portions of the manuscript.;Full Citation: Traumatic Masculinities: Shifting Gender Roles Of Georgian IDPs From Abkhazia. Gender, Place and Culture. 2012. Co-authors Peter Kabachnik, Magda Grabowski, Joanna Regulska, and Olga Mayorova.;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Regulska is a faculty member at Rutgers, Mayorova was a post-doc at the ASA, Kabachnik was originally our post-doc and now a faculty member at CUNY, Grawbowski was originally a grad assistant on the project and now is a faculty member.;
  • Mitchneck, B. A., Kabachnik, P., & Regulska, J. (2010). Where and When is Home? The Double Displacement of Georgian IDPs from Abkhazia. Journal of Refugee Studies.
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    ;Your Role: co-author;Full Citation: Where and When is Home? The Double Displacement of Georgian IDPs from AbkhaziaJournal of Refugee Studies, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2010: 315-336, co-authors Peter Kabachnik and Joanna Regulska.;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: With faculty from Rutgers and CUNY - Staten Island;
  • Kabachnik, P., Regulska, J., & Mitchneck, B. (2009). Where and When is Home? The Double Displacement of Georgian IDPs from Abkhazia*. JOURNAL OF REFUGEE STUDIES, 23(3), 315-336.
  • Mitchneck, B. A., Mayorova, O., & Regulska, J. (2009). “Post” Conflict Displacement: Isolation and Integration. Annals of the AAG.
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    Dual peer review process: selected for a special issue on Peace and Conflict and the manuscript was peer reviewed.;Your Role: Lead author;Full Citation: “Post” Conflict Displacement: Isolation and Integration, invited submission to the Annals of the Association of American Geographers special issue on Geographies of Peace and Conflict, Vol. 99, No. 5, 2009: 1022-1032, co-authors Olga Mayorova and Joanna Regulska.;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: co-PI on a grant (Regulska) and post-doc (Mayorova);
  • Mitchneck, B. (2008). Governance and land use decision-making in Russian cities and regions. EUROPE-ASIA STUDIES, 59(5), 735-760.
  • Mitchneck, B., Mayorova, O. V., & Regulska, J. (2007). oPosto-Conflict Displacement: Isolation and Integration in Georgia. ANNALS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS, 99(5), 1022-1032.

Presentations

  • Mitchneck, B. A., & Carboni, . (2012, 2012-09-01). International Migrants in Russia: Integration?. Labor Migration in Eurasia: Links to Global Migration and Human Security Trends. Washington DC.
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    ;Your Role: lead;Invited: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Carboni is faculty at IUPUI;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;
  • Mitchneck, B. A., & Quinn, J. (2012, 2012-09-01). Return to Sender: International return migration between russia and georgia. Labor Migration in Eurasia: Links to Global Migration and Human Security Trends. Washington DC.
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    ;Your Role: lead;Invited: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;
  • Mitchneck, B. A., Carboni, ., & Regulska, . (2012, 2012-04-01). Spaces of displacement and (re)placing social networks: Internally Displaced in the Republic of Georgia. AAG. NYC.
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    ;Your Role: lead;Submitted: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: REgulska is faculty at Rutgers.;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
  • Mitchneck, B. A., Hofmann, ., & Carboni, . (2012, 2012-03-01). Policy Streams And Immigration To Russia: Competing And Complementary Interests At The Federal And Local Levels Labor Migration in the Post-Soviet World. New York City, Columbia University.
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    ;Your Role: lead;Invited: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Hofmann is at Utah.;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;
  • Mitchneck, B. A. (2011, 2011-03-01). The Geography of IDP Social Networks: From the transnational to the translocal. Living in Displacement: Prospects for Change. Tbilisi State University.
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    ;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
  • Mitchneck, B. A. (2011, 2011-04-01). Forced Migrants and Their Social Networks: Effects of Time and Space in the Republic of Georgia. AAG. Seattle, Washington.
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    ;Submitted: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Type of Presentation: Professional Organization;
  • Mitchneck, B. A., & Carboni, J. (2011, 2011-03-01). How Dynamic is the Structure of Employment and Well-Being: A comparison of IDPs from Abkhazia from the 1990s and from South Ossetia in 2008. Living in Displacement: Prospects for Change?. Tbilisi State University.
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    ;Your Role: lead author;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
  • Mitchneck, B. A., & Carboni, J. (2011, 2011-03-01). Policy and Experience: Social Networks Over Time and Space. Living in Displacement: Prospects for Change. Tbilisi State University.
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    ;Your Role: co-author;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
  • Mitchneck, B. A., & Carboni, J. (2011, 2012-03-01). Displacement and Social Networks: Making new friends and keeping the old. World Conference on Humanitarian Studies. Tufts.
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    The conference also had policy folks and practitioners;Your Role: co-lead;Submitted: Yes;Refereed: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
  • Mitchneck, B. A., & Martin, S. (2011, 2011-04-01). Spaces of Insecurity: Hegemony, Territoriality, and the Mental Maps of Russian Migrants. AAG. Seattle, Washington.
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    Poster session.;Your Role: co-author;Submitted: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
  • Mitchneck, B. A., Richardson, R., & Frisch, E. (2011, 2011-04-01). 2011 Gaining University-Wide Investment in the Self-Study. Higher Learning Commission. Chicago.
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    on the experience of conducting a university-wide accreditation review;Your Role: co-author;Submitted: Yes;Refereed: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Frisch is an associate VP at the UA.;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
  • Mitchneck, B. A. (2010, 2010-04-01). 2010 Forced Migrants and Their Social Networks: Effects of Time and Space in the Republic of Georgia. AAG. Washington, DC.
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    ;Submitted: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Type of Presentation: Professional Organization;
  • Mitchneck, B. A. (2010, 2010-08-01). Transnational Household as a livelihood Strategy: Networks of the IDP in the Republic of Georgia. American Sociological Association. Atlanta, Georgia.
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    Peace, War, and Social Conflict Roundtable;Submitted: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: collaborative with post-doc;Type of Presentation: Professional Organization;
  • Mitchneck, B. A., & Buckley, C. (2010, 2010-09-01). People Power and Conflict in the Eurasian Migration System. The Minerva Initiative: Fostering a Community of Strategic Scholarship, A Forces Transformation and Resources Seminar. Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C..
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    ;Your Role: co-author and presenter;Invited: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: with co-PI;Type of Presentation: Government/Policy Audiences;
  • Mitchneck, B. A., Richardson, R., & Uribe, G. (2010, 2010-04-01). Qualitative Approaches to Evidence-Based Evaluation in the Self-Study Process. Higher Learning Commission Annual Conference. Chicago, IL.
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    ;Your Role: co-author and presenter;Submitted: Yes;Refereed: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Type of Presentation: Professional Organization;
  • Mitchneck, B. A. (2009, 2009-03-01). 2009 Eastern Europe and the FSU: 20 Years On. AAG. Las Vega.
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    Invited panelist;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;
  • Mitchneck, B. A. (2009, 2009-03-01). 2009 Views from the Margins of Eurasian States. AAG. Las Vegas.
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    invited panelist;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;
  • Mitchneck, B. A. (2009, 2009-10-01). Post-conflict Living on the Margins: Border Displacement in the Republic of Georgia. Econ Building.
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    The University of Arizona Migration Research Dialogue Series;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Type of Presentation: University;
  • Mitchneck, B. A., & Mayorova, O. (2009, 2009-04-01). Long-term Human Displacement and Social Networks: Place and Space. Harvill Building.
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    ;Your Role: Lead;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Post-doc;Type of Presentation: University;
  • Mitchneck, B. A., & Mayorova, O. (2009, 2009-06-01). Local and transnational networks of the long-term displaced persons in Georgia. Capturing Context Conference. New York.
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    This was a small, interdisciplinary conference on networks. The proposal was submitted but competitive. Poster.;Your Role: Lead;Invited: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Post-doc;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;
  • Mitchneck, B. A., Mayorova, O. V., Breiger, R. L., & Regulska, J. (2009, 2009-11-01). Local and Transnational Networks of Long-term Displaced Persons in the Republic of Georgi. AAASS. Boston.
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    ;Submitted: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: with post-doc and co-PI;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;

Others

  • Mitchneck, B. A. (2015, December). Inside Out, How to Help Internally Displaced Refugees. Foreign Affairs.
  • Mitchneck, B. A., & Carter, T. (2015, December). Student and Faculty Diversity Movements -- Apart and Together. Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/beth-mitchneck/student-and-faculty-diver_b_9220112.html?utm_hp_ref=girls-in-stem
  • Mitchneck, B. A. (2015, February). True stories of my life as a STEM faculty member. Discov/Her.
  • Mitchneck, B. A., Kabachnik, P., & Regulska, J. (2014, August). Les déplacés de Géorgie, instruments géopolitiques (French translation of "Georgian IDPs as Geopolitics").. Diplomatie.
  • Mitchneck, B. A. (2012, November). Displacing Blame: Divergent Accounts of the Georgia-Abkhazia Conflict. Ethnopolitics.
    More info
    Based on our field research and accepted for publication.;Other collaborative: Yes;Please specify if you select "Other collaborative" : Faculty from CUNY and Rutgers;Full Citation: Displacing Blame: Divergent Accounts of the Georgia-Abkhazia Conflict, co-authors Peter Kabachnik and Joanna Regulska, Ethnopolitics, forthcoming 2013.;Status: Under Revision (Revise and Resubmit);
  • Mitchneck, B. A. (2012, November). Traumatic Masculinities: Shifting Gender Roles Of Georgian IDPs From Abkhazia. Gender, Place and Culture.
    More info
    Based on our field research in the Republic of Georgia and accepted now for publication.;Other collaborative: Yes;Please specify if you select "Other collaborative" : With a faculty member from CUNY, one from Rutgers, a post-doc at the ASA and a post-doc in Poland.;Full Citation: Traumatic Masculinities: Shifting Gender Roles Of Georgian IDPs From Abkhazia. Gender, Place and Culture. Forthcoming 2012. Co-authors Peter Kabachnik, Magda Grabowski, Joanna Regulska, and Olga Mayorova.;Status: Under Revision (Revise and Resubmit);
  • Mitchneck, B. A. (2011). State, Society, and Transformation.
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    An edited volume based upon two international and interdisciplinary workshops aimed to conceptualize the state and society nexus over time in Eurasia. ;Full Citation: Mitchneck, Beth A., editor. State, Society and Transformation. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2011.;
  • Mitchneck, B. (2010, MAR-APR). A letter to Herb. PROBLEMS OF POST-COMMUNISM.

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