Education
2002 - present Doctoral Candidate
Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Department of Geography. Syracuse, New York.
“The Image Technicians: Urban Design and the Production of Public Space in Belleville, Paris.” Advisor: Dr. Don Mitchell.
2004 - present Doctoral Candidate (post-DEA)
L’école des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales.
Département de l’aménagement urbain et régional, Etudes comparatives du développement. Paris, France. Advisors : Georges Benko (Université de Paris I) et Jacques Sapir (EHESS).
2000 Master of Landscape Architecture
State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry. (SUNY-CESF) Faculty of Landscape Architecture. Syracuse, NY.
1997 - 98 UCLA Program in Landscape Architecture.
University of California, Los Angeles, California.
1992 Bachelor of Arts
Ithaca College, Department of Philosophy. Ithaca, New York.
University Teaching
2006-7 Lecturer, English.
Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille I
Aix-en-Provence, France.
2001 Teaching Assistant, World Regional Geography.
Syracuse University. Syracuse, NY.
2000 Teaching Assistant, Advanced Undergraduate Studio.
SUNY-CESF. Syracuse, NY.
1999 Teaching Assistant, Graduate Graphic Design Studio.
SUNY-CESF. Syracuse, NY.
1991 Teaching Assistant, Français, langue étrangère.
Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY.
Professional Appointments
1996 - 98 Director, Information Technology, Singer Lewak Greenbaum and Goldstein, LLP, Certified Public Accountants. Los Angeles, CA.
1993 - 95 Special Administrative Assistant, The Ridley Group, Inc. Political Consulting Firm, Washington, D.C.
Awards and Grants
2003 - 04 Graduate School Fellowship. Syracuse University.
2002 - 04 Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. National Science Foundation.
2003 Maxwell Dean’s Summer Stipend. Syracuse University.
2002 - 03 Fulbright Fellowship. Commission franco-américaine d’échanges universitaires et culturels. Paris, France.
European Union Center Summer Stipend. Syracuse University.
Roscoe Martin Research Scholarship. Syracuse University.
Maxwell Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship. Syracuse University. (declined; too much funding).
2001 David E. Sopher Memorial Award. Syracuse University.
Publications
Van Deusen, R. (2005). « Urban Design and the Production of Public Space in Syracuse, NY. » in Wastl-Walter, D., Staeheli, L. A., Dowler, L. (Eds), Right to the City. Rome: Società Geografica Italiana, pp. 87 - 102.Van Deusen, R. (2004). Book Review: Rendell, Jane. (2002) The Pursuit of Pleasure: Gender, Space and Architecture in Regency London. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. Gender, Place and Culture 11: 614 - 616.
Van Deusen, R. (2004). « The State, Culture and Rights: A Response to Sallie Marston’s Space, culture, state: uneven developments in political geography. » Political Geography 23: 27-34.
Van Deusen, R. (2002). « Public Space Design as Class Warfare: Urban Design, the ‘Right to the City’ and the Production of Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY. » GeoJournal 58: 149-158.
Mitchell, D. and Van Deusen, R. (2001). « Downsview Park: Open space or public space? » in Czerniak, J. (Ed.), CASE: Downsview Park. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Graduate School of Design & Prestel, pp. 102 – 115.
Under Review Van Deusen, R. « Re-ordering Space for Post-Industrial Uses: Parc de Belleville, the Urban Design Industry, and the Culture Economy of Paris. » Special GeoJournal issue on Paris.
Conferences
2005 “The Promise of Urban Design: Social Movements and Urban Design in 1990s Belleville, Paris.” Invited Guest Speaker for “Studio 88a: Entwurfsstrategien und plnungsakteurInnen (Design Process Strategies and Participatory Planning)”, sponsored by the Institut für Landschaftsarchitektur, Vienna Austria.
“How to Counter Neoliberal Political Strategies: Social Movement and Urban Design in 1990s Belleville, Paris.” Organized session on Neoliberalism and Urban Policy, 101st Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, Colorado.
2004 “La lutte pour l'espace public: urbanisme, le ‘droit à la ville,’ et la production de Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY.” Opening paper for Architecture Routière aux Etats-unis: Photographies de John Margolies, Ecole d’Architecture de Nancy, Nancy, France.
“Re-ordering Space for Post-Industrial Uses: Parc de Belleville, the Urban Design Industry, and the Culture Economy of Paris,” in session entitled, “Paris, C’est Paris: Contemporary Geographies of Paris.” 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“Review of Michael Brown’s Closet Space: Geography of metaphor from body to the globe.” 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2003 “The State, Culture and Rights: Response to Sallie Marston’s Space, culture, state: uneven developments in political geography.” Student Commentator for Political Geography Specialty Group Plenary Lecture, 99th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, Louisiana.
“Urban Designers and the Production of Public Space in Syracuse, NY.” École Municipale Supérieure d’Arts de Rueil-Malmaison, 3, rue du Prince Eugène 92500 Rueil-Malmaison, France.
2002 “The Image Technicians: Urban Designers and the Production of Public Space in Syracuse, NY.” International Geography Union conference Right to the City, Rome, Italy.
People’s Geography Project Session Organizer. Third International Critical Geography Conference, Békéscsaba, Hungary.
“The Work of Urban Design in the Transformation of Public Space.” 98th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA.
2001 “The Production of Nature in Mitigating Brownfields.” Annual Middle States Division of the Association of American Geographers, CW Post College, Long Island University, New York.
People’s Geography Project Session Organizer at Center for Working Class Studies Conference, Youngstown, Ohio.
People’s Geography Project Session Organizer. 97th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, New York.
2000 “Henri Lefebvre and the Production of Cyberspace.” East Coast Geography Graduate Student Conference, Syracuse University. Syracuse, New York.
Diverse Scholarly and Professional Activities
Translation Rousset-Deschamps, Marcel, 2004, “The Spatial dynamics of capital market development in Paris.” Under review, GeoJournal.
Simon, Patrick, 2003, “France and the unknown second generation: Preliminary results on social mobility.”
Simon, Patrick, 2003, “Challenging the ‘French model of integration’: Discrimination and the labour market case in France.”
Manuscript Review Anonymous Reviewer, 2005, 2006 Political Geography.
Anonymous Reviewer, 2006, Social and Cultural Geography.
Anonymous Reviewer, 2004, Journal of Latin American Geography.
Manuscript reviewer for Council for Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2002 (Syracuse, New York) Conference.
Contributor Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2005, Edited by Barney Warf
Website Design Sexuality and Space Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. http://mapage.noos.fr/rvdsyracuse/
People’s Geography Project. http://peoplesgeography.org
Selection Committees Juror for Aurore Dudevant, “Régards sur la ville contemporain,” Diplôme d’Architecture (Master’s equivalent), Ecole de l’Architecture de Nancy, September 2004.
Juror in selection process for French Fulbright candidates wishing to study in the United States. (Spring 2003, Spring 2004).
Invited Presenter Tour of Belleville for incoming Fulbright students, Commission franco-américaine d’échanges universitaires et culturels. Paris, France, October 2004, October 2005.
Tour of Belleville, Paris for Paris limitrophe: Collaborative Architecture/ Landscape Architecture Studio, Cornell University, taught by Jeremy Foster, March 2004.
Tour of eastern arrondissements of Paris for undergraduate students from Syracuse University’s Strasbourg Center, January 2003.
“Situationism, power and landscape.” Theories of Landscape Architecture, advanced graduate seminar of Dr. M. Elen Deming, Associate Professor. SUNY- College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry. Syracuse, New York, October 2000.
Memberships Association of American Geographers since 2000 (Sexuality and Space, Urban Geography and Political Geography specialty groups).