Education
Clark University, Graduate School of Geography, 2021
- PhD, Human Geography, Graduate School of Geography
- Research focus in Migration Studies, Human Rights, Political Geography, Political and Critical Theory, Post/de colonial Theory
- Dissertation: On Migration and Justice: Rights, Law, and Resistance in the Age of Removal
Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2011
- MA Postcolonial Culture and Global Policy
- Research Focus: migration, global flows, migrant labor-exploitation and detention, state racism
- Dissertation: Autonomy and Migration: Spinoza through Mezzadra, or The Politics of Statelessness
University of Southern Maine, 2009
- BA Philosophy
- Thesis: Disconnections of Desiring: Consumer Society and Global Labor Exploitation
Publications
Books:
Chamberlain, J. (Forthcoming). Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal: Rights, Law, and Resistance against Territory’s Exclusions. University of Georgia Press.
Peer Reviewed Articles:
Chamberlain, J. (2024). “Territory, Rights, and Migrant Justice: Undocumented First Amendment Rights, or the Deterritorialization of Rights Access.” Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544241230958.
Chamberlain, J. (2023). “Countering Hegemonic Human Rights Norms through Migrant Labor Organizing: The Case of Migrant Justice.” Antipode. 56 (4). https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13010.
Chamberlain, J. (2016). “Žižek, Antagonism and the Syrian Crisis.” International Journal of Žižek Studies. 10:3. http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS/article/view/966.
Chamberlain, J. (2016). Review of S.E. Wilmer and Audronė Žukauskaitė (eds.) Resisting Biopolitics: Philosophical, Political and Performative Strategies in Theory Culture & Society (Routledge, 2016). Theory Culture & Society. October, 2016.
Chamberlain, J. (2015). "On Autonomy and Migration: The Politics of Statelessness." In Dislocating Globality: Deterritorialization, Difference and Resistance. Ed. Šarūnas Paunksnis. Brill. pp. 3-28.
Work at CommonDreams.org: https://www.commondreams.org/author/jacob-chamberlain
Research and Non-Profit Employment
Research Consultant (Contract), The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), November 2023 - March 2024
- Research, data analysis, data presentation, report writing, white papers
- Qualitative and quantitative research projects per the needs of the organization
- Academic and public facing research analysis, writing, and communication
- Assisted in development of policy proposals in order to mobilize advocacy and campaign effectively for structural change
- Presented research at virtual and in person meetings
- Provided content and administrative support for virtual and in person workshops with stakeholders
- Stakeholder outreach, collaboration, and communication
Editor, Dyson and Womack, 2020 - 2022
- Editor of art book for world’s largest permanent collection of artworks addressing air quality and the effects of climate change
- Collection of essays by renowned art critics and journalists
- California Air Resource Board, Public Art Program
http://www.dysonwomack.com/portfolio_page/california-air-resource-board-public-art-program/
Examiner, International Baccalaureate Diploma Program, May 2021 - Present
- Essay grader
AP Human Geography Reader, June 2017-Present
- Advanced Placement High School Exam Grader, Educational Testing Services
Assistant Stakeholder Relations Officer, IELTS USA, September 2014 - August 2015
- Assisting incoming student test takers with logistical needs
- Assisting Universities and other Stakeholders with test administration needs
- Traveling with company to inform and teach aspects of tests to English as a second language educators and admissions counselors - Company based communications and data upkeep
Associate Editor at CommonDreams.org, January 2012 - May 2014
- Wrote and edited online news articles
- Managed online content and supervised Video and Progressive Newswire sections of the website
- Proofread online submissions from expert commentators
- Assisted in social media output and management
- Articles I have written for this site have been referenced by renowned journalists and media experts such as Amy Goodman, Glenn Greenwald and Juan Cole
Teaching Experience
Visiting Instructor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2023, Fall 2023
Department of Geosciences: Geography and University without Walls
Course: Geography of U.S. and Canada, Critical Perspectives
- Lecturing, mentoring
- Online teaching
- Course design
Visiting Instructor, Mt. Holyoke College, Spring 2020
Department of Geology and Geography
Course: Political Geography
- Lecturing, mentoring
- Course design
Teaching Assistant, Clark University, 2015 to Fall 2020
- Assisting and tutoring students
- Lecturing
- Grading written essays and other assignments
- Assisting instructor in class with students and in class activities
- Have lectured on topics such as Human Geography, Qualitative Methods, Political Theory, Psychogeography
Courses include:
Urban Ecology, Professor Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Spring 2020
Discover Worcester, Professor Jessa Loomis, Fall 2019
Research Design and Methods, Professor Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Spring 2017
Psychogeography, Professor Mark Davidson, Fall 2016
Research Design and Methods, Professor Miles Kenney- Lazar, Spring 2016
Other Academic Employment:
Research Assistant, Dr. Mark Davidson, Piper Fellowship, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Clark University
Research Assistant, Dr. Richard Peet, Human Geography Fellowship, Fall 2015, Clark University
Conference Presentations
Rights, Law, and Resistance in the Age of Removal. Upcoming AAG 2024.
Scales of Justice, Scales of Resistance: Economic Migration, Human Rights and Organizing against the Schizo-Border
Canadian Association of Geographers 2019, Panel: At the limits of migrant justice, resistance, and solidarity, organized by Leah Montange, Sarah Hughes.
Human Rights and Migrant Labor Struggles in the Era of Deportation: Novel Approaches to Organizing in the Case of Migrant Justice AAG 2019, Panel: Liquidity of borders: Exploring meanings and effects of (non)autonomy of contemporary, organized by Md Azmeary Ferdoush and Borjana Lubura
Honors and Recognition
First-Class Honors and Distinction, University of London 2011
Honors Program Graduate, University of Southern Maine 2009
Completion of intensive four-year program focused on interdisciplinary learning, research and community service. Magna Cum Laude, University of Southern Maine 2009
Grants and Awards
Human Geography Fellowship, Fall 2015: $8,500
Piper Fellowship, Fall 2017, Spring 2018: $17,000
Pruser Dissertation Enhancement Award, May 15, 2018, Clark University: $1,000
Smith-Thompson Dissertation Enhancement Award, Summer 2018, Clark University: $3,500
Graduate Student Council Skills Award, Fall 2018, Clark University: $300
Graduate School of Geography Conference Travel Award, Spring 2019: $300
Graduate Student Council Travel Award, Fall 2019, Clark University: $300
Academic and Departmental Service
Referee, Geography Compass, article currently in revisions, journal ed. Professor Mark Davidson, 2023
Referee, Interventions International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Special Issue: "Balkan Transnationalism at the Time of Neoliberal Catastrophe," journal ed. Professor Dusan Bjelic, 2018
Promotion Committee, Professor Karen Frey, Clark,Graduate School of Geography, Fall 2019 – Spring 2020
Prospective Student Committee, Clark, Graduate School of Geography, 1 year, Fall 2017 – Spring 2018
Editor, The Monadnock: Clark Geographical Society Magazine, 1yr, Fall 2017 – Spring 2018
Colloquium Committee, Clark, Graduate School of Geography, 3 years, Fall 2015 – Spring 2018
Volunteer and Public Service
Migrant Justice, Burlington, VT, U.S. 2018 – 2020
- Research Assistant
- Volunteer
Praxis Migrant Resource Center, London, UK 2010 - 2011
- Assistant Case Worker
- Supplied advice, support, and services placement to migrants and refugees in East London
- Helped “Reaching Communities” project excel at reaching out to refugees in need in the London area - Raised up to 10,000 GBP for migrants in need
Institute of Race Relations, London, UK 2010 - 2011
- Assistant educational journalist
- Online research, publication, and information distribution on race issues in the UK
Provisions Library, Washington DC 2009 - 2010
- Online Content Production, Publication and Communications, Resource Research and Compilation, Social Change Research