Curriculum Vitae
NAME
Janelle Knox-Hayes
OFFICE ADDRESS
77 Massachusetts Ave. 9-320
Cambridge, MA 02139
PHONE
617-452-2697
academic positions
2015-present
Associate Professor of Economic Geography and Planning
Lister Brothers Career Development Chair
Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
2009-2015
Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy
School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
2009-2013
Senior Visiting Research Associate
School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University
Education
June 2009
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
PhD, Geography and Environment
Fields: Economic Geography, Environmental Finance
September 2006
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
M.Sc. (Distinction), Nature, Society, and Environmental Policy
Outstanding Graduate, Recipient of the Director’s Prize
December 2004
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
B.A. (Distinction)
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Summa Cum Laude)
International Affairs, and Japanese Language and Civilizations
Outstanding Graduate, College of Arts & Sciences
Specialization: Environmental Policy
HONORS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
HONORS
2013
Visiting Fellowship at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
2010
Georgia Tech ‘Class of 1969’ Teaching Scholar
2009
Truman National Security Fellow
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2010
Summer Institute in Economic Geography, University of British Columbia
2010
Institute for Qualitative and Multi-method Research, Syracuse University
OTHER TRAINING
2006
President, Oxford Women in politics
2006
Energy Analyst, New Energy Finance
2005
Program Assistant, Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center
2005
Energy Analyst, United States Government Accountability Office
Service
ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP
Association of American Geographers
American Planning Association
Academy of Management
International Sociological Association
International Studies Association
EDITORIAL
2016-2018
Book Review Editor for the Journal of Economic Geography
2014-Present
Editor for the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
2015
Editor Board Member for the Journal Urban Planning
OFFICE
2013-2015
Organizing Committee Member of for the Fourth Global Conference on Economic Geography
Oxford University, Oxford, England
2010-2012
Association of American Geographers Economic Geography Specialty Group
At Large Board Member
PUBLIC OUTREACH
2011
Representative
Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship Association Executive Committee
2009
Member of the Truman National Security Fellowship
Atlanta Chapter
PEER REVIEW JOURNAL REFEREE
American Sociological Review
Antipode
Applied Geography
Business and Politics
Competition and Change
Climate Policy
Economic Geography
Environment and Planning A
Geoforum
Geographical Review
Geography Compass
Global Environmental Politics
Global Environmental Change
Journal of Business Ethics
Journal of Economic Geography
Journal of Geography in Higher Education
Organization and Environment
Organization Studies
Progress in Human Geography
Science and Public Policy
Transactions of The Institute of British Geographers
PEER REVIEW BOOK REFEREE
Routledge
Sage
MIT Press
CONFERENCE CHAIR AND DISCUSSANT
August 19-22, 2015
Section Convener
for “Environmental Economies”
at the Fourth Global Conference on Economic Geography
Oxford, UK
April 21-25, 2015
Panel Chair and Organizer
“New Economic Geographies of Resources and the Environment I-III”
at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers
Chicago, Illinois
April 21-25, 2015
Panel Chair and Organizer
“Towards a Geography of Use Values I-II”
at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers
Chicago, Illinois
August 26-29, 2014
Panel Chair and Organizer
“New Economic Geographies of Resources and the Environment I-IV”
at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference
London, UK
April 8-12, 2014
Panel Chair and Organizer
“Investment, market creation and urban infrastructure I-IV”
at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers
Tampa, Florida
December 16-18, 2013
Invited Panel Chair and Organizer
“Environmental Finance”
at the Regional Studies Association Conference on Global Urbanisation: Challenges and Prospects
Los Angeles, CA
April 1-4, 2012
Invited Discussant
“Beyond Space and Geography: The politics behind the creation of cities, nations and social identity”
at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association
San Diego, CA
February 24-28, 2012
Invited Panel Chair
“Environmental Finance as Environmental Governance in the New Global Economy I-II”
at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers
New York, NY
April 14-18, 2010
Chair and Organizer
“Carbon economy: assessing the impact of carbon markets and green jobs I-II”
at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers
Washington, DC