Professor Deborah ("Deb") Martin received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in geography from the University of Minnesota (1999), and her B.A. in geography and international studies from Macalester College. Before coming to Clark in the fall of 2004, she taught at the University of Georgia. She is an urban geographer with interests in social movements (particularly neighborhood activism), place identity, local politics, and qualitative methodologies. She has conducted research in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Athens, Georgia, on place meaning and representation in community organizing and local politics. Currently, she is working with Dr. Steven Holloway at the University of Georgia on a mixed-methods investigation of the impacts of racial and demographic changes in St. Paul neighborhoods on community organizing and identity. Deb is also working with Dr. Alex Scherr at the University of Georgia law school on the role of professionals such as lawyers in shaping landscapes and negotiating urban land use conflicts. Deb is a member of the Community in Context Working Group of the NIMH (National Institutes of Mental Health)-funded Center for Family Research Rural Intervention and Prevention Services at the University of Georgia.
Selected Publications
Hankins, Katherine B., and Deborah G. Martin. 2006. Charter schools and urban regimes in neoliberal context: Making workers and new spaces in metropolitan Atlanta. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30 no. 3: 528-547.
Martin, D. G., and S. Holloway. 2005. Organizing diversity: Scales of demographic change and neighborhood organizing in St. Paul, Minnesota. Environment and Planning A 37 no. 6: 1091-1112.
Martin, D. G., and A. Scherr. 2005. Lawyering landscapes: Lawyers as constituents of landscape. Landscape Research 30 no. 3: 379-394.
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