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Tatiana Matejskova

612-625-6021
Geography 360 Soc Sci

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • Cultural politics of immigration and citizenship
  • Urban geographies of immigrant incorporation
  • Gender and migration
  • Critical population geography
  • Europe, Germany

Educational Background

  • PhD: Geography, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, ABD 12/2006.
  • M.A.: Geography, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1/2005.
  • Magister (Mgr/M.A.): Political Science, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 6/2001.

Publications

  • Straights in a Gay Bar: Negotiating Boundaries Through Time-Spaces: Matejskova, Tatiana, Ashgate: Aldershot, Geographies of Sexualities. Theory, Practices and Politics, (Eds) Browne, K., Kim, J., & Brown, G. 137-150, 2007.
  • German-Polish Migration of the Highly Skilled: Re-thinking the Border: Matejskova, Tatiana, Bergrstrom, C., Probusiness: Berlin, Transborder Relations: Going Local in Frankfurt/Oder and Slubice, (Eds) Minkenberg, M. , 2005.

Professional Activities

  • Becoming Citizens in Marzahn: Aussiedler, Integration & Everyday Economies of Difference in the Post-Socialist Berlin: AAG session "Refuge in the City I: 'Citizen-Others' and Geographies of Citizenship , April, 2008, Boston
  • "Post-soviet Migrants in Post-socialist Berlin: Citizenship, Economies of Difference and the Geopolitical in the Everyday: “Europe’s Borderlands” Conference, UCLA, May 2008
  • "”Mimetic Germans”? Narrative, Citizenship and Integration of Post-socialist Migrants in Germany". Association of American Geographers, Chicago: Paper Presentation , April 2006
  • “Mixed" Gay Bar: Beyond Strategic Essentialism”. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver: Paper presentation , March 2005
  • “Germany in the Age of Globalization”: TASI Summer Institute Participant at the Ludwig-Maximillian Universität, Munich, Germany , July-August 2004
  • "Trans-Border Relations": TIRES Academic Consortium Summer Institute Participant at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany , July 2003

Awards

  • FUTURE (Future Urban Research in Europe) Fellow, "Ethnically Diverse City", EU, 2008
  • Voices of Vienna Scholarship, CAS, UMN, 2008-2009
  • Alexander Dubcek Grant, OIP, UMN, 2008
  • AAG Ethnic Specialty Group Best Dissertation Proposal, 2008
  • NSF DDIG, 2007-2008
  • GRPP 2007; Graduate School, UMN
  • Ralph H. Brown Award for Best Student Publication, 2007, Department of Geogra
  • Summer Research Fellowship, 2005; Department of Geography, UMN
  • TASI Summer Fellow, 2004; Center for German and European Studies, UMN
  • TIRES Summer Fellow, 2003; Institute for Global Studies, UMN
  • Department of Geography Fellowship for International Students, 2002-2003, UMN

Courses Taught

  • GEOG 3371W: Cities, Citizens, and Communities (Instructor)
  • GEOG 3374W: City in the Film (Teaching Assistant)
  • GEOG 3381W: Population in an Interacting World (Teaching Assistant)
  • GEOG 1301W: Introduction to Human Geography (Teaching Assistant)
  • GEOG 3985W: Senior Project Seminar Spring (Teaching Assistant)
  • GEOG 3381W: Population in an Interacting World (Instructor)
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