Justin G. Wilford
646-509-3957
E-mail: jwilford@ucla.edu
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Office: Bunche A113

EDUCATION

CPhil, UCLA, Geography, 2007
M.A. Arizona State University, Political Science, 2003
Thesis: Deliberative Democracy and the City: Rethinking Space as a Source of Political and Communicative Practice; B.A. Arizona State University, Psychology, 2000

SUBFIELDS

Cultural geography, urban geography, geography of religion

RESEARCH

Spatial strategies of American evangelicalism, cultural geography of suburbia and postsuburbia, transnational evangelical networks

PUBLICATIONS

“Sacred Archipelagos: Geographies of Secularization.” Progress in Human Geography (Forthcoming).

“Televangelical Publics: Secularized Publicity and Privacy in the Trinity Broadcasting Network.” Cultural Geographies. 16:4, 505-524 (2009).

“Beyond the Culture Industry: Space, Place and Adorno’s Non-identity.” In Cultural Studies, Education, and Youth, edited by Ben Frymer. Lexington Books: Lanham, MD (2009)

“Out of Rubble: Natural Disasters and the Materiality of the House.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 26:6 (2008).

“Towards a Morality of Materiality: Adorno and the Primacy of the Object.” Space and Culture 11:4 (2008).

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2007-2008 Graduate Student Research Mentorship (with John Agnew)
2007 Departmental Summer Fellowship
2006 Graduate Student Research Summer Mentorship (with J. Nicholas Entrikin)

ADVISORS

J. Nicholas Entrikin
John Agnew
Michael Curry
Richard Flory (USC, Center for Religion and Civic Culture)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

"Purpose Driven Planet: The Democratization of Missionary Work in Contemporary American Evangelicalism." Annual Conference of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers. San Diego, CA (2009).

"Purpose Driven Publics: The Saddleback Civil Forum and the New Civility of Evangelism." (2009) Annual Conference
Conference of the Association of American Geographers. Las Vegas, NV.

"The Rise of 'New Paradigm' Evangelicalism: Postsuburbia as a Counter-Secularization Strategy." (2008) Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers. Boston, MA.

"Secularization and the Geography of Religion." (2007) Annual Meeting of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers. Long Beach, CA.

"Out of Rubble: Natural Disaster and the Materiality of the House." (2007) Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. San Francisco, CA.

"Beyond the Culture Industry: Spatial Theory and Adorno's Non-Identity." (2005) Culture Matters: A Conference on Cultural Studies and Education. Teachers College, Columbia University.