James c. Fraser

 

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Fraser, J. C. (2017, October). The Privatization of Neighborhood Governance and the Production of Urban 

Space. Paper presented at the 5

th

 Land and Water Symposium at Kent State University, Kent, OH. 

 

Fraser, J. C. (2015, November). The Future of Public Housing. Paper presented at Amherst University, 

Amherst, MA. 

 

Fraser, J. C. (2011, October). Food Deserts and Other Imagined Geographies. Paper presented at the 

Research Integrity Conference, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN. 

 

Fraser, J. C. (2010, September). Developing Effective Floodplain Policy in the United States. Paper 

presented at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. 

 

Fraser, J. C. (2010, April). Gasses and Grasses: The impact of residential lawn fertilizers on water quality 

and health in the Richland Creek watershed. Paper presented at the Community Research Partners 

meeting, Nashville, TN. 

 

Fraser, J. C. (2009, May). Lawns and Watersheds. Paper presented at the Richland Creek Watershed 

Alliance annual meeting, Nashville, TN. 

 

Fraser, J. C. (2009, March). The Changing Role of Nonprofits for Urban Redevelopment. Paper presented 

at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. 

 

Fraser, J. C. (2009, February). Can Mixed-Income Housing Ameliorate Poverty. Paper presented at the 

Center for Community Engagement at Miami University-Ohio, Cincinnati, OH. 

 

Fraser, J. C. (2009, November). What kind of mixed-income housing and for what reasons? Paper 

presented at the School of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN. 

 

Oakley, D. A., & Fraser, J. C. (2016, September). U.S. Public Housing Transformations and the Housing 

Publics Lost in Transition. Paper presented at the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia. 

 

Fraser, J. C. (2006, September). Mitigating Repetitive Loss Properties: the significance of local capacity 

and community-based approaches. Paper presented at the North Carolina Emergency Management 

Agency, Raleigh, NC. 

 

Fraser, J. C. (2006, October). Mitigating Repetitive Loss Flood Properties. Paper presented at the Human 

and Ecological Resilience conference at Brown University, Providence, RI. 

 

Fraser, J. C. (2005, April). How to build a research center. Paper presented at Middle Tennessee State 

University, Murfreesboro, TN. 

 

Conference Presentations 

 

Logic might suggest that conference presentations should be located in this space, but I have 91 entries 

located at the end of the document in order to foreground teaching and service. 

 

 

 

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TEACHING 

 

Brief Pedagogical Statement 

 

My orientation and philosophy toward teaching begins with a belief in equality in the sense that 

students, professors, as well as the communities in which I research all create and offer valuable forms 

of knowledge, and that we all have the ability – given the enabling conditions – to generate novel and 

significant advances to fields of inquiry. In terms of classes, independent studies, as well as with 

research groups comprised of students and myself, my approach is to facilitate mutual learning through 

participatory activities that often result in various forms of academic and public scholarship being 

produced. These range from paper presentations to written pieces that form part of a student’s 

portfolio of accomplishments.   

 

Courses Taught 

 

In addition to independent studies, as well as master’s and doctoral offerings related to theses and 

dissertations, the primary areas in which I teach include urban studies, environmental studies, and social 

inequality offerings, as well as courses related to the conduct of research. 

 

Urban Studies 

1.

 

Urban Geography 

2.

 

Urban Geography & Planning 

3.

 

Urban Geography & Community Development 

4.

 

Critical Geographical Thought 

5.

 

Gentrification & Urbanization 

6.

 

Social Justice and the City 

7.

 

Urban Sociology 

 

Environmental Studies 

1.

 

Urbanization & the Environment 

2.

 

Sustainability, Justice & the City 

3.

 

Human Dimensions of Environmental Change 

4.

 

Human & Physical Dimensions of Flooding 

 

Social Inequality 

1.

 

Social Inequality 

2.

 

Theories of Inequality 

3.

 

Social Stratification 

4.

 

Social Problems 

5.

 

Community Development 

 

Research 

1.

 

Critical Methods & Epistemology 

2.

 

Research Methodology 

3.

 

Advanced Research Methods 

4.

 

Research Design in Geography 

5.

 

Qualitative Methods in Social Research 

6.

 

Development Project, Design & Evaluation 

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