Gary Schnakenberg is an academic advisor and instructor in the Department of Geography at Michigan State University. He holds a PhD in Geography from MSU, focusing on agriculture and landscape in Jamaica. He has over 30 years of teaching experience at the secondary and post-secondary levels. His research and teaching interests include political ecology, ecojustice education, place-based education, and geography of Latin America and the Caribbean.

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CURRICULUM VITAE
GARY R. SCHNAKENBERG, Ph.D.
Academic Advisor and Instructor, Department of Geography
673 Auditorium Rd., 104 Geography
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1115
Home Address: 517 Fairview Circle, Ypsilanti MI 48197
Phone: (517) 353-9875 (office), (603) 731-5119 (personal), MSU dept. office/FAX: (517) 355-4649/(517) 432-1671
email:schnake2@msu.edu/gschnak1@gmail.com
EDUCATION
June 2013 Ph.D.,Geography, Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
 Concentration in Nature-Society Studies program area
 Graduate Certificate in Gender, Justice and Environmental Change
 Antoinette M.G.A. WinklerPrins, Ph.D.,Advisor and Committee Chair
 Dissertation topic: “What is a Farm? Agriculture, Discourse, and Producing
Landscape in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica”
 3.96 GPA
1998 Master of Arts in Teaching (Geography concentration), Keene State College
Keene,NH
1980 Bachelor of Arts in Secondary Social Studies (History concentration), State University of
New York College at Cortland
Cortland, NY
CURRENT POSITION
June 2013 Academic Advisor and Instructor, Geography department, Michigan State University
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
College/University
2009-present INSTRUCTOR
Department of Geography, Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
2008-2010 TEACHER EDUCATOR,Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI
Southeast Michigan Stewardship Coalition, Teacher ProfessionalDevelopment
2009 TEACHINGASSISTANT
Department of Geography, Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
1998-2008 ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR
Department of Geography, Keene State College
Keene,NH

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE (College/University), cont.
1986-1990 ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR
(Summers) Department of Education, Franklin Pierce College
(Social studies content module in teacher certification program)
Rindge, NH
Secondary
August 1992-2011 SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHER
Souhegan Cooperative High School
Amherst, NH (on leave to pursue Ph.D. coursework August 2008- August 2010)
1985-1992 SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHER
Milford AREA Senior High School
Milford, NH
TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIP, MICHIGAN STATEUNIVERSITY
2009 (Spring) GEO 221 Introduction to Geographic Information (Adrienne Domas, Instructor)
GEOGRAPHYCOURSES TAUGHT AT SECONDARYAND POSTSECONDARY LEVELS
Institution and Year Semester Course # Title Level
Michigan State Univ.
2016 Fall GEO 151 Intro to Human Geography Undergraduate
2015-2016 Spring,Fall ISS 310 People and Environment Undergraduate
2014 Fall Indep. Study Advanced Study Human Geog Graduate
2011-2014 Fall, Spring GEO 151 Intro to Human Geography Undergraduate
2010 Summer I(online) GEO 330V Geography of US & Canada Undergraduate
2009
Summer II
(online) GEO 204V World Regional Geography Undergraduate
2009 Fall (online) GEO 330V Geography of US & Canada Undergraduate
2008
Summer II
(online) GEO 204V World Regional Geography Undergraduate
Keene State College
2007 Spring ISGEOG 100 Introduction to Geography Undergraduate
2006 Fall ISGEOG 203 The Human Cultural Mosaic Undergraduate
2005 Spring GEOG 100 Introduction to Geography Undergraduate
2003 Spring GEOG 203 Cultural Geography Undergraduate
2002 Spring GEOG 100 Introduction to Geography Undergraduate
1999 Spring GEOG 100 Introduction to Geography Undergraduate
1998 Summer II GEOG 101 World Regional Geography Undergraduate
Souhegan High School
2001-2011 Year APHG AP Human Geography Secondary
2006-2008 Year Senior Seminar Food Systems & Sustainability Secondary
1995-2000 Year WRGEOG Geography of World Regions Secondary
1993-2008 Year WS World Studies Secondary
Milford High School
1991 Fall GEOG Geography (General) Secondary

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GRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISED
2013-2016 Laura Johnson (Ph.D.,Geography; Committee Chair): Farm tours, civic agriculture, and
geographies of care: Exploring the potential of new spaces of (re-)connection in North Carolina’s
High Country (Completed)
2014-present Kristen George (Ph.D. Educational Studies, Eastern Michigan University; External Committee
Member): An EcoJustice analysis of nursing education.
2015 David Baylis (Ph.D. Geography, Committee Member): "A Shriek in the Wasteland": Population,
health, gender, and place in the early Turkish Republic. (Completed)
OTHER GEOGRAPHYEDUCATIONEXPERIENCE
2010 Learning Objectives development
Ancillary Web resources for deBlij, H.J.,P.O. Muller, J. Naiman, and A. WinklerPrins. 2011. The
World Today, 5th
edition. New York: John Wiley.
2004-2005 New Hampshire Dept. of Education State Social Studies Framework and Standards Revision
Committee, Geography Subcommittee
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2015-2016 Proposal reviewer/session facilitator: EcoJustice and Activism Conference,Eastern Michigan
University.
2014 Manuscript reviewer: Gendered Perspectivesin International Development,ISSN 1947-4768
(print); 1947-4776 (online), Gender, Development, and Globalization Program,Michigan State
University.
Program development: served on committee developing new BS in Economic Geography degree
program. Department of Geography, Michigan State University
Online course development and revision: GEO 151 (Intro to Human Geography), GEO 204 (World
Regional Geography), GEO 330 (Geography of the US and Canada). Department of Geography,
Michigan State University
2013 Program development: served on committee creating new BS Economic Geography degree
Learning Objectives and Outcomes development for new degree programs’ entry and capstone
courses (BA Human Geography, BS Environmental Geography, Minor in Environmental Policy
and Practice),Department of Geography, Michigan State University
2006-2008 School Safety Committee, Souhegan High School
2006-2007 Sustainability Education Steering Committee, Souhegan High School
2006-2007 Co-Chair, “Leadership and Organization” Subcommittee, New England Association of Schools
and Colleges decennial accreditation process, Souhegan High School
2004-2005 New Hampshire Dept. of Education State Social Studies Framework and Standards Revision
Committee, Geography Subcommittee
1998-2000 Lead Teacher in NEH "Schools for a New Millennium" Planning Grant project, Souhegan High
School
1995-1999 Faculty Steering Committee, Souhegan High School
1993 Completed NH Dept. of Ed. Alternative #5 Mentor Training Program, Notre Dame College (NH)
1987-1992 Social Studies Curriculum Committee, Milford AREA Senior High School
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
2008-2010 STEERING COMMITTEE
Southeast Michigan Stewardship Coalition
Eastern Michigan University

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Ypsilanti, MI 48197
1999-2005 SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT COORDINATOR
Souhegan High School
Amherst, NH 30343
GRANTS AND AWARDS RECEIVED
2012 Michigan State University Graduate Office Fellowship Grant recipient for field study
Michigan State University Geography Department: Lawrence and Marjorie Sommers Geography
Graduate Fellowship for International Research and Travel
Michigan State University Graduate School Research Enhancement Award
2011 Ph.D. LevelField Study Award recipient, Association of American Geographers Latin America
Specialty Group
Michigan State University Graduate Office Fellowship Grant recipient for continued field study in
Jamaica
2010 Michigan State University Graduate Office Fellowship Grant recipient for followup field study in
Jamaica
2009 Michigan State University Graduate Office Fellowship Grant recipient for initial field study in
Jamaica
2005 “Exemplary Practices” designee,NH Council for Social Studies
“Geography Educator of the Year,” Clark University Graduate School of Geography
JURIED PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters
Gary R. Schnakenberg, Rebecca Martusewicz,Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci. 2015. Learning racism: An
EcoJustice approach to racial inequality. In Martusewicz, R., J. Edmundson, & J. Lupinacci. EcoJustice
Education: Toward Diverse, Democratic and Sustainable Communities, 2nd
ed. 206-253. New York:
Routledge.
Gary R. Schnakenberg, Rebecca Martusewicz,Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci. 2011. Learning racism: An
EcoJustice approach to racial inequality. In Martusewicz, R., J. Edmundson, & J. Lupinacci. EcoJustice
Education: Toward Diverse, Democratic and Sustainable Communities, 156-207. New York: Routledge
(Jury selected as a 2010-2011 “Critic's Choice” award winner by the American Educational Studies
Association).
Rebecca A. Martusewicz and Gary R. Schnakenberg. EcoJustice, community-based learning, and social studies
education. In DeLeon, A. P. and E.W. Ross (Eds.). 2010. Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies, and
Social Education: Towards NewPerspectives for Social StudiesEducation, 25-41. Rotterdam,
Netherlands: Sense Publishers (Jury selected as a 2010-2011 “Critic's Choice” award winner by the
American Educational Studies Association).
Rebecca A. Martusewicz,John Lupinacci, and Gary R. Schnakenberg. EcoJustice Education for science educators.
In Tippins, D., M. Mueller, M. van Eijck & J. Adams (Eds.). 2010. Cultural Studiesand
Environmentalism: The Confluence of Ecojustice,Place-based (science) Education, and Indigenous
Knowledge Systems, 11-28. New York:Springer.

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JURIED PUBLICATIONS, Cont.
Articles
Johnson, Laura B., Gary R. Schnakenberg, and Nicholas A. Perdue. 2016. Placing local food systems: Farm tours
as place-based education. Journal of Sustainability Education 11:February 2016.
Book Review
Gary R. Schnakenberg. 2009. Review of PaulRobbins, Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction. (2004, Malden,
MA: Blackwell Publishing). In The EcoJustice Review
(http://www.ecojusticeeducation.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=4&Itemid=36.
NOTE: This online peer-reviewed journal has folded)
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Op-Ed/Commentary
Gary R. Schnakenberg. 2010. Now for Some Other News from Jamaica. The Sunday Telegraph (Nashua,NH),June
6, 2010.
CONFERENCE ANDPAPER PRESENTATIONS
2016 “Potential Sites of Resistance to Industrial Agriculture Maladaptation: Examples from Jamaica.”
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
2015 “‘This Is Not the World of Your Parents:’ Modernity, Farming, and Landscape in
Jamaica's 'Breadbasket.'” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
(Accepted) “‘A modern-day farmer:’ Food production, discourse, and place-making in
Jamaica's breadbasket.” Food and its relation(s) to placemaking: A look at place/identity
building through consumption session,Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference,Lexington,
KY (JURIED)
2014 “Modernity’s Footprint: Agriculture, Discourse, and Landscape in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica.”
Capturing Hearts and Minds session, EcoJustice and Activism Annual Conference,Ypsilanti,
Michigan (JURIED)
2013 “Old Knowledge, Modernity, and Globalization: Producing the Agricultural Landscape.” Studies in
the Global Food System session,EcoJustice and Activism Annual Conference,Ypsilanti, Michigan
(JURIED)
2012 “'What is a Farm?' Markets,Discourse, and Agriculture in St Elizabeth, Jamaica.” Agrarian
Change: Critical Geographiesof Land, Social Mobilization, and Agrarian Political Economy
session, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, NY
2011 “Complicating Human Rights Discourses Through Political Ecology.” Complicating Education
and Human Rights: Perspectives fromEcoJustice, Political Ecology, Anarchism, and Queer
Theory panel, American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri
(JURIED)
“Malthus, Markets,and Marginalization: Gendered Dimensions of the Global Food Crisis.”
Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference,Lexington, KY (JURIED)

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CONFERENCE ANDPAPER PRESENTATIONS, cont.
2010 “Political Clientelism in Jamaica: A Ghost in the Machine?” Geopolitics Around the World
session, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, DC
2009 “EcoJustice, Community-based Learning, and Social Studies Education” (with Dr. Rebecca
Martusewicz, Eastern Michigan University). Critical Theories,Radical Pedagogies,and Social
Education panel,American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania (JURIED)
2008 “Toward Eco-democratic Reforms in K-12 Education: Place-based Education and School-
Community Coalition Building in an EcoJustice Framework” (with Dr. Rebecca Martusewicz,
Eastern Michigan University), American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting,
Savannah, Georgia (JURIED)
2007 “Food for Thought: How Sustainability Education Solidifies Family, Community, and
Democracy,” Coalition of Essential Schools Fall Forum, Denver, Colorado (JURIED)
2007 “Teaching AP Human Geography in an Age of Social and Environmental Crises,” National
Council for Geographic Education Annual Meeting, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
“Ladakh: Lessons on the Local,” National Council for Geographic Education Annual Meeting,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2006 “Food Security and Sustainability in Rural and Urban Contexts” (with Dr. Rebecca Martusewicz,
Eastern Michigan University, and Ken Boisselle, Souhegan High School), American Educational
Studies Association Annual Conference,Spokane, Washington (JURIED)
“Food For Thought: An Interdisciplinary Senior Seminar on Food Systems and Sustainability”
(with Dr. Rebecca Martusewicz,Eastern Michigan University, and Melissa Chapman, Souhegan
High School), National Council for Geographic Education Annual Meeting, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
“EcoJustice Education” (with Dr. Rebecca Martusewicz and Johnny Lupinacci, Eastern Michigan
University), “Beyond the Monoculture” Conference sponsored by the International Society for
Ecology and Culture in Leh, Ladakh (State of Jammu and Kashmir), India (INVITED)
2005 “2005 Exemplary Practices Workshop,” New Hampshire Council for the Social Studies Annual
Conference,Manchester,New Hampshire. (INVITED)
“Personalization in Education: Habits of Mind and Heart” International Center for Leadership in
Education Annual Conference,Nashville, Tennessee (INVITED)
2004 “Authentic Geographic Learning in an Interdisciplinary Classroom,” National Council for
Geographic Education Annual Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri.
2001 “Developing a High School AP Human Geography Course,” New Hampshire Council for the
Social Studies Annual Conference,Manchester,New Hampshire.
1999 "Internet Education Forum" sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus,Washington D.C

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CONFERENCE ANDPAPER PRESENTATIONS, cont.
1993 “Effective Teaching in a Heterogeneous Classroom,” Coalition of Essential Schools Fall Forum,
Louisville, Kentucky. (JURIED)
OTHER PRESENTATIONS (INVITED)
2016 Public talk, University of Tampere (Finland) School of Education. May 12. Topic: “What is a
‘farm’? Political Ecologies of Jamaican Smallholder Farmers.”
Co-facilitator, graduate student seminar, University of Tampere (Finland) School of Education.
May 11. “Neoliberalism: Analytical Perspectives from Political Ecology and EcoJustice
Education.”
2015 Guest presenter,GEO 335 (Geography of Latin America), Morris Thomas, Instructor. Michigan
State University, October 15. Topic: “Jamaica : A Geographic Overview.”
2013 Guest presenter,EDST 802 (Education, Communities, and Globalization), Rebecca Martusewicz,
Instructor. Eastern Michigan University, October 10. Topic: “Origins of the Bretton Woods
System.”
2012 Guest presenter,GEO 204 (World Regional Geography), Morris Thomas, Instructor. Michigan
State University, October 31. Topic: “Ladakh: Northwest India's 'Little Tibet'.”
President's Brunch, Michigan State University, September 29. Invited graduate student speaker.
Guest presenter,EDST 802 (Education, Communities, and Globalization), Rebecca Martusewicz,
Instructor. Eastern Michigan University, September 21. Topic: “Discourses of Globalization:
Colonization and Legacies.”
RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIP, MICHIGANSTATE UNIVERSITY
2010 (Spring) Supervisor: Dr. Antoinette WinklerPrins, Geography. Duties included research bibliography
development, assignment creation and editing for online course (GEO 204V), writing learning
objectives for textbook project (deBlij, H.J., P.O. Muller, J. Naiman, and A. WinklerPrins. 2011.
The World Today, 5th
edition. New York: John Wiley.
FIELD STUDY/EXPERIENCE
2009-2012 Pre-dissertation and dissertation research conducted in St. Elizabeth, Manchester,Spanish Town,
and Kingston, Jamaica
2006 “Beyond the Monoculture” Fieldwork and Conference sponsored by the International
Society for Ecology and Culture in Leh, Ladakh (State of Jammu and Kashmir), India
2003 “South Africa Past and Present” (through University of Florida African Studies Department): Cape
Town, Western Cape,Pretoria,Bophuthatswana, and Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa
1994 “Ecuador’s Amazonia,” (Keene State College Geography Department): Quito, Otavalo, Lago
Agrio, Cuyabeno Preserve,Aguarico River, Selvas, Ecuador

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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Gamma Theta Upsilon, the International Geographic Honor Society
Association of American Geographers (Latin America Specialty Group)
Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers
National Council for Geographic Education
New Hampshire Geographic Alliance (Founding Member)
American Anthropological Association (past)
American Educational Studies Association (past)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2001 Attended week-long institute on “Developing an AP Human Geography Class” sponsored by Iowa
Geographic Alliance, University of Northern Iowa, Waterloo, Iowa.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FACILITY
Jamaican Creole; day-to-day interaction level
German; day-to-day interaction level
COACHING EXPERIENCE
1998-2005 Assistant Boys' Soccer Coach,Souhegan High School, Amherst, NH
1986-1992 Assistant Boys' Soccer Coach,Milford AREA Senior High School, Milford, NH
(Nominated for NH Coaches' Association Assistant Coach of the Year,1991 Fall Season)
COMMUNITYSERVICE
1985-2007 Francestown (NH) Improvement and Historical Society Labor Day Committee
1988-1996 Francestown Village Water Association, Board Member
1992-1996 Francestown Village Water Association, Vice President
1989-1992 Old Meetinghouse of Francestown Board Member
OTHER EXPERIENCE
2008 Moderator for State of New Hampshire Final/Championship Round for The National Geographic
Society National Geography Bee,Keene State College, Keene,New Hampshire
2003-2011 Black Sword Aikido, Lyndeborough, NH. Awarded rank of Shodan (1st
Degree Black Belt), June
2006
1989-1998 Organized and led student trips to Germany and Austria (High school credit available for trips from
1996-1998).