Curriculum Vitae - details
RECENT APPOINTMENTS & AFFILIATIONS
Research Affiliate. Minnesota Design Center
College of Design, University of Minnesota. 2019 - present
Assistant Professor in Residence in Political Ecology & Design
Rhode Island School of Design. 2017 - 2019
Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Urban Studies Foundation
University of Glasgow. January 2016 - July 2017
Scholar in Residence. Institute for Advanced Study
University of Minnesota. Fall Semester 2015
EDUCATION
PhD, Geography. University of Minnesota, 2015
Master of Architecture. University of California - Berkeley, 2005
Bachelor of Arts. Swarthmore College, 2000
Biology and Sociology & Anthropology
BOOK
Lang U Living with Yards: Negotiating Nature and the Habits of Home. McGill Queens University Press, 2022.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS & PROJECTS
Hartman S, P Krieg & U Lang Series editors, Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities. Bloomsbury Publishing. (In progress - if you are interested to contribute your work, please be in touch to find out more.)
Lang U “Submerging the City in Its Own Past”: Tracing Glasgow’s Architectures of Inhabitation.” chapter in B. Linder (ed) “Invisible Cities” and the Urban Imagination. Palgrave (2022)
Garcia Lopez G, U Lang & N Singh “Commons, Commoning & Co-Becoming: Nurturing Life-in-Common and Post-Capitalist Futures.” Introduction and Co-Editors for a Special Issue of Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211051081
Strunk C & U Lang. “Gardening as more-than-urban-agriculture: Perspectives from smaller cities on urban gardening policies and practices.” Case Studies in the Environment. (2018) https://doi.org/10.1525/cse.2018.001545
Lang U “Keep off the grass! New Directions for Geographies of Yards and Private Gardens.” Geography Compass. (2018) https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12397
Lang U "Connective Tissues: Everyday engagements with yards." GeoHumanities. (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2018.1447388
Lang U “Yards and Everyday Life in Minneapolis”, in J. Archer, P. Sandul and K. Solomonson (eds), Making Suburbia: New Histories of Everyday America, University of Minnesota Press. (2015) [link to book page]
Lang U “The Common Life of Yards” Urban Geography. (2014) 35(6): 852-869.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2014.926621
Lang U “Cultivating the Sustainable City: Urban Agriculture Policies and Gardening Projects in Minneapolis, MN,” Urban Geography. (2014) 35(4): 477-485.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2014.916142
Arnold J and Lang U. “Changing American home life: trends in domestic leisure and storage among middle-class families,” Journal of Family and Economic Issues. (2007) 28(1): 23-48.
Lang U “FoodSpace: forms for food production in the city,” Urban Agriculture Magazine, Resource Centers on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF). Netherlands. (2005) Dec., 37-38.
Lang, U. Antipode (2014) Review of: Harris, D. Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (2013) LINK
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Project Architect, Arkin Tilt Architects – Berkeley, CA (FT, 2005 – 2007)
Research Assistant & Field Assistant, Biology & Ecology - various ecosystems and continents, from labs to prairies to rainforests to alpine meadows…