Dr. Reecia Orzeck
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Research
Current Courses
204Career Preparation in Geography/Environmental Systems and Sustainability I
235Geography Of Emerging Areas: Middle East
142Human Geography
287Independent Study - Geography
Teaching Interests & Areas
As a human geographer, I am interested in teaching courses on Social and Cultural Geography, Political and Economic Geography, and Geography of the Middle East. I also enjoy teaching one of the department's introductory courses: Introduction to Human Geography.
Research Interests & Areas
I have three main research interests: the political economy of public international law; the history and geography of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; and representations of the body in popular, geopolitical and legal discourse. I am also interested in academic freedom and debates about the role of the academy in society.
Ph D Geography
MA Geography
BA Geography and Religion
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning University Research Grant
Faculty Research Support Award
Lattie F. Coor International Travel Fund Award
Quadrant Residential Fellowship
Humanities Center Research Assistantship
Lattie F. Coor International Travel Fund Award
Scholar-in-Residence
Antipode Graduate Student Scholarship
Book Review
Orzeck, Reecia and Rosati, Clayton (2016) “Introduction: On Essex’s Development, Security, and Aid: Geopolitics and Geoeconomics at the U.S. Agency for International Development” Dialogues in Human Geography 6(1) 86-88.
Book, Chapter
Orzeck, Reecia (2013) “Hunger Strike: The Body as Resource” in Body/State, Angus Cameron, Jen Dickinson and Nicola Smith (eds), Ashgate, pp. 31-50.
Journal Article
Orzeck, Reecia and Hae, Laam (2019) “Restructuring Legal Geography" Progress in Human Geography, 44(5), 832-851 https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132519848637
Werner, Marion, Strauss, Kendra, Parker, Brenda, Orzeck, Reecia, Derickson, Kate, and Bonds, Anne (2017) “Feminist Political Economy in Geography: Why Now, What's Different, and What For?" Geoforum 79 1-4.
Orzeck, Reecia, Leyba, Alexa, O'Donnell, Christy, and Weier, Jacklyn (2016) "Assessing Undergraduate Knowledge of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" Illinois Geographer 58(2) 19-57.
Orzeck, Reecia (2015) “The Jewish Agency’s Case Before the UNSCOP: Image and Discourse” Jerusalem Quarterly Autumn/Winter 63 & 64 7-23.
Orzeck, Reecia (2014) “Normative Geographies and the Debate over the 1940 Land Transfer Regulations in Palestine” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 39(3) 345-359.
Orzeck, Reecia, Craine, James, Dando, Christina, and Somdahl-Sands, Katrinka (2014) “On Dittmer’s Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity as a Classroom Resource” The Journal of Geography in Higher Education 38(3) 415-424.
Orzeck, Reecia (2012) “Academic Freedom, Intellectual Diversity, and the Place of Politics in Geography” Antipode 44(4) 1449-1469.
Orzeck, Reecia (2007) “What Does not Kill You: Historical Materialism and the Body” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 25(3) 496-514.
Presentations
“Undergraduate Students’ Understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” (with Alexa Leyba, Christine O’Donnell, Jacklyn Weier), Illinois Geographical Society Annual Meeting, Skokie, IL (April 2016)
“Undergraduate Students’ Understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” (with Alexa Leyba, Christine O’Donnell, and Jacklyn Weier), Historical Materialism Conference, Toronto, Canada (May 2016)
“Normative Geographies and the 1940 Land Transfer Regulations in Palestine,” University of Illinois, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science’s Colloquium Series, Urbana, IL (April 2014).
“International Criminal Trials as Bourgeois/Epic Theater,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA (April 2013).
“Normative Geographies and the 1940 Land Transfer Regulations in Palestine,” University of Toronto, Department of Geography and Planning Colloquium Series, Toronto, ON, Canada (February 2013).
“Law, Political-Economy, and Locality” (with Laam Hae), Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, NY (February 2012).
“Restructuring Legal Geography” (with Laam Hae), Historical Materialism Conference, Toronto, ON, Canada (May 2012).