Price, Patricia L.
 

Associate Professor
Department of International Relations

Areas of Specialization

Prof. Price is a human geographer, exploring on broad issues of human/land interaction. She specializes in cultural and urban geography. She has published a number of journal articles on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, the body, popular religiosity, and urban social movements. Her field research has taken her to Mexico for extended periods, including Veracruz, Mexico City, and Guadalajara, as well as the border cities of Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana. Professor Price is particularly fond of ethnographic methods, particularly in-depth interviewing. Her book, Dry Place: Landscapes of Belonging and Exclusion, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2004. This book explores the ways that cultural narratives, those stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, forge bonds to places that are constitutive of our identities. Dry Place focuses on the borderlands between Mexico and the United States, and the various narratives that have brought groups into solidarity and conflict here.

Current Research Interests

Professor Price is the lead author, and Co-PI with Damián Fernández, of a two-year research project funded by the National Science Foundation's Human and Social Dynamics crosscutting program. The title of the project is "Civic and Place Engagement in Three Latino Enclave Neighborhoods in Transition". Along with senior personnel in two other cities, Phoenix (Daniel Arreola and Christopher Lukinbeal at Arizona State University) and Chicago (Maria de los Angeles Torres at Depaul University and Timothy Ready at Notre Dame), we will examine how established Latinos negotiate intra and inter-group solidarities and tensions when the neighborhoods they live in experience changes in their demographic composition. Surveys and in-depth interviews in Miami's East Little Havana neighborhood comprise the Miami-based portion of this research. Our Phoenix-based colleagues will conduct similar research in the Garfield neighborhood, while our Chicago-based colleagues will conduct similar research in the Pilsen neighborhood. The project has a significant GIS component throughout. This research will be conducted from January, 2005 to December, 2006.Professor Price is co-authoring a textbook with her colleagues Mona Domosh (Dartmouth College) and Rod Neumann (Florida International University). The Human Mosaic: A Thematic Introduction to Cultural Geography will enter its 10th edition in 2005. W.H. Freeman is the publisher.Professor Price is also co-authoring a new textbook with her colleague Timothy Oakes (University of Colorado), provisionally titled The Cultural Geography Reader. Routledge is considering publication.

Courses Taught

• GEA 2000, World Regional Geography
• GEA 3400, Population and Geography of Latin America
• GEO 3602, Urban Geography
• GEO 3421, Cultural Geography
• GEO 4993 / INR 5993, Cultural Body in the Americas
• GEO 6473, Space, Place and Identity
• GEO 6019, Landscapes of Violence and Healing