Mark Graham: Resume ::

Office: 1457 Patterson Office Tower
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0027
(859) 257-2931

Home: 34 Hillside Crescent
Edinburgh EH7 5EF
+44 (131) 623-2425

email: mark.graham(..at..)uky.edu

Printable copy of resume can be downloaded from this link.

Background

My dissertation work focuses on economic development projects in the Thai silk industry. Specifically, it looks at the effects that the Internet is having, and can have, on small scale textile producers in Thailand. The Internet is often touted as a panacea for perceived deficiencies in economic development, and a host of government agencies, NGOs, and private actors highlight its space-transcending abilities, which can instantly connect producers with consumers. Using interviews and surveys with producers and sellers of silk in the Isaan region of Thailand, my research examines how the Internet has been integrated into flows of silk and money as they move between producers and consumers. The Internet is frequently simplistically viewed as an easy way to shrink relative distance between producers and consumers in the context of economic development, and my research provides an empirical and critical look at this process. My work reveals that contrary to the widespread idea that the Internet can disintermediate commodity chains, and thereby bring economic gains to silk producers, it is instead being most often employed to consolidate the power of intermediaries.

Education

2004 - 2007. Ph.D. program in Geography, University of Kentucky; Lexington, KY. Dissertation: New Silk Roads: Promises and Perils of the Internet in the Thai Silk Industry. Advisors: Dr. Matthew Zook; Dr. Thomas Leinbach; Expected graduation in 2008; GPA 4.0

2002 - 2004. M.Sc. in Geoscience, Western Kentucky University; Bowling Green, KY. Thesis: Understanding Perceptions of Accessibility and Mobility through Structuration Theory. Advisor: Dr. Katie Algeo; GPA 4.0

1999 - 2002. B.Sc. in Geography with a minor in Philosophy, Western Kentucky University. Cum Laude; GPA in major 4.0

1998 - 1999. South Oldham High School Louisville, Kentucky. Certificate of Completion

1996 - 1998. John F. Kennedy Business School Esslingen, Germany. Studied towards the German Abitur, majoring in Business Studies

1994 - 1996. John F. Kennedy High School Berlin, Germany. Realschulabschluss – German certificate of High School graduation

Publications

Graham, M. 2008. Warped Geographies of Development: The Internet and Theories of Economic Development. Geography Compass, 2(3), 771-789.

Brunn, S., R. Ghose, & M. Graham. 2008 (in press). Cities of the Future and the Future of Cities. In Cities of the World, 4th edition, eds S. Brunn, M. Hays-Mitchell, and D. Ziegler. Rowman and Littlefield.

Zook, M. & M. Graham. 2007. The Creative Reconstruction of the Internet: Google and the Privatization of Cyberspace and DigiPlace. Geoforum, 38, 1322-1343.

Zook, M. & M. Graham. 2007. From Cyberspace to DigiPlace: Visibility in an Age of Information and Mobility. In Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access. Ed. H. J. Miller. Springer, 231-244. (request copy by email).

Zook, M. & M. Graham. 2007. Mapping DigiPlace: Geocoded Internet Data and the Representation of Place. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design. 34(3) 466 – 482.

Graham, M. 2007. Globalization, Culture, and Inequality. Book review essay scheduled for publication in Progress in Development Studies.

Graham, M. 2006 For Space. Book review essay in Growth and Change, Vol 37:4, 643-645.

Zook, M. & M. Graham. 2006. Wal-Mart Nation: Mapping the Reach of a Retail Colossus. In Wal-Mart World. Ed. S. Brunn. Routledge, 15-25. (request copy by email).

Graham, M. 2005. Working in Silicon Valley. Book review essay in Urban Studies Vol. 42:13, 2535-2537.

Graham, M. 2005. Music and the Middle. RIFLe (University of Kentucky student magazine). Fall.

Publications Currently Under Review

Graham, M. 2007. The Place of Space in Internet Matrimony. Revised and resubmitted to the Indian Geographical Journal.

Graham, M. 2007. Different Models in Different Spaces or Liberalized Optimizations? Competitive Strategies among Budget Air Carriers. Revised and resubmitted to the Journal of Transport Geography.

Academic Honours

2007 University of Kentucky Dissertation Year Fellowship

2007 University of Kentucky Graduate Student Incentive Program

2007 AAG Dissertation Grant

2007 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Award

2007 University of Kentucky Dissertation Enhancement Award

2007 University of Kentucky Commonwealth Research Award

2006 Withington Endowment Fund

2004 Transportation Fellow (Kentucky Transportation Center)
- Fellowship awarded for 1-year program of experiential learning on a self-chosen transportation issue.

2004 Outstanding Graduate Student (Western Kentucky University)

2003 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Professional Certification

2003 Ogden College Thesis Grant

2003 Yeager Scholarship (The Kentucky Library)

2002 President's Scholar (Western Kentucky University)

2001 President's Scholar (Western Kentucky University)

2000 Dean's Scholar (Western Kentucky University)

2003-2006 Nine research/conference travel scholarships (Western Kentucky University, Hoffman Environmental Research Institute, University of Kentucky)

Selected Presentations

2008 The Internet and Reconfigured Chains in the Thai Silk Industry. The 10th International Conference on Thai Studies. Bangkok, Thailand.

2007 Hybrid Space, Technology, and Development Discourse in the Thai Silk Industry. The Second Global Conference on Economic Geography. Beijing, China.

2007 The Creative Reconstruction of the Internet: Google and the Privatization of Cyberspace and DigiPlace (invited speaker and co-author with Matthew Zook). the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. San Francisco.

2006 The Soft-Ware and Hard-Where of GoogleEarth: Privatizing DigiPlace? (invited speaker and co-author with Matthew Zook). Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Chicago.

2005 GoogleSpace and the Variable Geometries of DigiPlace (co-author with Matthew Zook). Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. West Palm Beach.

2005 The Making of DigiPlace: Merging Soft-Ware with Hard-Where (co-author with Matthew Zook). Symposium on Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access. Salt Lake City.

2005 Patterns of Internet Dating and Partner Search (invited speaker). Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Denver.

2004 Spatial Differences in Perceptions About Transportation. Thesis Presentation and Western Kentucky University Geography Departmental Seminar.

2004 In search of the Underground River:, Hunan Province, PRC. Western Kentucky University Geography Departmental Seminar

2004 Interrelationships Between Transportation Preferences, Social Structures, and the Built Environment in Kentucky and England. American Geographers Annual Meeting. Philadelphia.

2004 Developing Custom GIS Applications to Explore Digitally Vectorized Geologic Quadrangles (co-author with Andrew Wulff and Chris Groves). Northeastern Section and Southeastern Section of the Geologic society of America Annual Meeting. Washington D.C.

2003 Urban Form in Bowling Green, Kentucky and Penzance, England. Presented at the Kentucky Academy of Sciences. Bowling Green, KY.

2003 Integrating Geologic Data into a Customizable GIS. Presented at the Western Kentucky University Geology Faculty.

2003 The Uses of GIS in Source Water Protection. Presented to the Kentucky Rural Water Association.

2003 An Empirical Test of Structuration Theory: Transportation Preferences in Bowling Green, Kentucky and Penzance, England. Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Charlotte.

Work Experience

2005 - 2006 Graduate Research Assistant on NSF award to study e-commerce. University of Kentucky.

2004 - 2005 Graduate Research Assistant at the Kentucky Transportation Center. University of Kentucky.

2005 Disk Jockey at WRFL 88.1FM. Lexington, Kentucky.

2004 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Coordinator for the Hoffman Environmental Research Institute Cave Expedition. Hunan, China.

2004 Instructor for GEO 315: ‘Introduction to GIS.’ Western Kentucky University.

2003 Graduate Research Assistant at the Western Kentucky University GIS Research and Development Laboratory.

2002 - 2004 Graduate Research Assistant at the Hoffman Environmental Research Institute. Western Kentucky University.

2002 GIS Internship at the Bowling Green Public Works Department.

Other Professional Experience

2007 Series of interactive maps created of Internet content production as part of a project to study the global network society. Helsinki Institute for Information Technology.

2004 Series of maps created for the Canadian Internet Registration Authority.

2004 Series of maps related to environmental justice created for the Kentucky Office of Geographic Information Annual Map Gallery.

Research Interests

Economic Geography, Urban Geography, Cyberspace, Globalization, Development, Transportation Geography, Flows of Information, Social Networking, Geomusicology, Computer Mediated Communication, Critical Geography, Social Theory, Cultural Geography, Regional Specialty: Southeast Asia

Professional Memberships

The American Association of Geographers (China, Economic, GIS, Transportation, and Urban specialty groups)
Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers

Computer Skills

GIS & GPS: ArcGIS ArcINFO 9.x incl. extensions (Spatial Analyst, Geostatistical Analyst, 3D Analyst, ArcScene, ArcPress), Mapwindow, ERDAS Imagine Pro 8, Trimble GPS Pro XRS, MapWindow GIS, Google Maps API

Programming: ArcObjects, ESRI Object Browser, Visual Basic 6, MapObjects, VBA, QBasic, C++, Perl

Statistics: S-Plus, S+ Spatial Stats, S+ for ArcView, SPSS, Excel

Web and Design: Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Distiller, Dreamweaver, HTML, Large format plotters.

Service Activities

Volunteer on the Minority recruitment committee. University of Kentucky (2006-present).

Volunteer at GIS workshop for 4th and 5th graders, Bowling Green, Kentucky (April 2004)

Volunteer at the International Conference on Karst Hydrogeology and Ecosystems, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 2003.

Co-organizer of Geography Awareness Week and GIS Day 2002 for the Western Kentucky University Department of Geography and Geology.

Interests and Activities

Founder of www.wikichains.com. A wiki website that focuses on mapping and describing commodity chains in order to inspire ethical consumption.

Co-founder and co-manager (2004 – present) of ImmediumPress: a non-profit publishing company.

Founding member, officer, and web designer (2003 – 2004) of the Western Kentucky University Graduate Geoscience Society

Founder, manager, and web designer (2003 – present) of an Internet radio station (www.smoothmusic.org)

Founding member and president (2001 – 2002) of the Western Cinema Club at Western Kentucky University.

Captain of an Intramural soccer team at Western Kentucky University

Member of the Outdoor Recreation and Adventure Center

Languages

English native Language
German proficient (I attended high school in Germany for four years)
Thai, French currently learning

World Experience

I am a half-English, half-Iranian, British citizen. Currently, I am living between Thailand and the U.S.A.

I have lived in: England, France, Germany, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Thailand, the U.S.A.

I have traveled in: Austria, Belgium, Barbados, Cambodia, Canada, China, Cyprus, England, France, Germany, Iceland, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, Saint Lucia, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Singapore, Switzerland, Thailand, the U.S.A.

Mark Graham Resume
Office: 1457 Patterson Office Tower University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0027 (859) 257-2931 Home: 34 Hillside Crescent Edinburgh EH7 5EF +44 (131) 623-2425 email: mark.graham(..at..)uky.edu Printable copy of resume can be downloaded from this link. Background My dissertation work focuses on economic development projects in the Thai silk industry. Specifically, it looks at the effects that the Internet is having, and can have, on small scale textile producers in Thailand. The Internet is often touted as a panacea for perceived deficiencies in economic development, and a host of government agencies, NGOs, and private actors highlight its space-transcending abilities, which can instantly connect producers with consumers. Using interviews and surveys with producers and sellers of silk in the Isaan region of Thailand, my research examines how the Internet has been integrated into flows of silk and money as they move between producers and consumers. The Internet is frequently simplistically viewed as an easy way to shrink relative distance between producers and consumers in the context of economic development, and my research provides an empirical and critical look at this process. My work reveals that contrary to the widespread idea that the Internet can disintermediate commodity chains, and thereby bring economic gains to silk producers, it is instead being most often employed to consolidate the power of intermediaries. Education 2004 - 2007. Ph.D. program in Geography, University of Kentucky; Lexington, KY. Dissertation: New Silk Roads: Promises and Perils of the Internet in the Thai Silk Industry. Advisors: Dr. Matthew Zook; Dr. Thomas Leinbach; Expected graduation in 2008; GPA 4.0 2002 - 2004. M.Sc. in Geoscience, Western Kentucky University; Bowling Green, KY. Thesis: Understanding Perceptions of Accessibility and Mobility through Structuration Theory. Advisor: Dr. Katie Algeo; GPA 4.0 1999 - 2002. B.Sc. in Geography with a minor in Philosophy, Western Kentucky University. Cum Laude; GPA in major 4.0 1998 - 1999. South Oldham High School Louisville, Kentucky. Certificate of Completion 1996 - 1998. John F. Kennedy Business School Esslingen, Germany. Studied towards the German Abitur, majoring in Business Studies 1994 - 1996. John F. Kennedy High School Berlin, Germany. Realschulabschluss – German certificate of High School graduation Publications Graham, M. 2008. Warped Geographies of Development: The Internet and Theories of Economic Development. Geography Compass, 2(3), 771-789. Brunn, S., R. Ghose, & M. Graham. 2008 (in press). Cities of the Future and the Future of Cities. In Cities of the World, 4th edition, eds S. Brunn, M. Hays-Mitchell, and D. Ziegler. Rowman and Littlefield. Zook, M. & M. Graham. 2007. The Creative Reconstruction of the Internet: Google and the Privatization of Cyberspace and DigiPlace. Geoforum, 38, 1322-1343. Zook, M. & M. Graham. 2007. From Cyberspace to DigiPlace: Visibility in an Age of Information and Mobility. In Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access. Ed. H. J. Miller. Springer, 231-244. (request copy by email). Zook, M. & M. Graham. 2007. Mapping DigiPlace: Geocoded Internet Data and the Representation of Place. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design. 34(3) 466 – 482. Graham, M. 2007. Globalization, Culture, and Inequality. Book review essay scheduled for publication in Progress in Development Studies. Graham, M. 2006 For Space. Book review essay in Growth and Change, Vol 37:4, 643-645. Zook, M. & M. Graham. 2006. Wal-Mart Nation: Mapping the Reach of a Retail Colossus. In Wal-Mart World. Ed. S. Brunn. Routledge, 15-25. (request copy by email). Graham, M. 2005. Working in Silicon Valley. Book review essay in Urban Studies Vol. 42:13, 2535-2537. Graham, M. 2005. Music and the Middle. RIFLe (University of Kentucky student magazine). Fall. Publications Currently Under Review Graham, M. 2007. The Place of Space in Internet Matrimony. Revised and resubmitted to the Indian Geographical Journal. Graham, M. 2007. Different Models in Different Spaces or Liberalized Optimizations? Competitive Strategies among Budget Air Carriers. Revised and resubmitted to the Journal of Transport Geography. Academic Honours 2007 University of Kentucky Dissertation Year Fellowship 2007 University of Kentucky Graduate Student Incentive Program 2007 AAG Dissertation Grant 2007 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Award 2007 University of Kentucky Dissertation Enhancement Award 2007 University of Kentucky Commonwealth Research Award 2006 Withington Endowment Fund 2004 Transportation Fellow (Kentucky Transportation Center) - Fellowship awarded for 1-year program of experiential learning on a self-chosen transportation issue. 2004 Outstanding Graduate Student (Western Kentucky University) 2003 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Professional Certification 2003 Ogden College Thesis Grant 2003 Yeager Scholarship (The Kentucky Library) 2002 President's Scholar (Western Kentucky University) 2001 President's Scholar (Western Kentucky University) 2000 Dean's Scholar (Western Kentucky University) 2003-2006 Nine research/conference travel scholarships (Western Kentucky University, Hoffman Environmental Research Institute, University of Kentucky) Selected Presentations 2008 The Internet and Reconfigured Chains in the Thai Silk Industry. The 10th International Conference on Thai Studies. Bangkok, Thailand. 2007 Hybrid Space, Technology, and Development Discourse in the Thai Silk Industry. The Second Global Conference on Economic Geography. Beijing, China. 2007 The Creative Reconstruction of the Internet: Google and the Privatization of Cyberspace and DigiPlace (invited speaker and co-author with Matthew Zook). the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. San Francisco. 2006 The Soft-Ware and Hard-Where of GoogleEarth: Privatizing DigiPlace? (invited speaker and co-author with Matthew Zook). Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Chicago. 2005 GoogleSpace and the Variable Geometries of DigiPlace (co-author with Matthew Zook). Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. West Palm Beach. 2005 The Making of DigiPlace: Merging Soft-Ware with Hard-Where (co-author with Matthew Zook). Symposium on Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access. Salt Lake City. 2005 Patterns of Internet Dating and Partner Search (invited speaker). Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Denver. 2004 Spatial Differences in Perceptions About Transportation. Thesis Presentation and Western Kentucky University Geography Departmental Seminar. 2004 In search of the Underground River:, Hunan Province, PRC. Western Kentucky University Geography Departmental Seminar 2004 Interrelationships Between Transportation Preferences, Social Structures, and the Built Environment in Kentucky and England. American Geographers Annual Meeting. Philadelphia. 2004 Developing Custom GIS Applications to Explore Digitally Vectorized Geologic Quadrangles (co-author with Andrew Wulff and Chris Groves). Northeastern Section and Southeastern Section of the Geologic society of America Annual Meeting. Washington D.C. 2003 Urban Form in Bowling Green, Kentucky and Penzance, England. Presented at the Kentucky Academy of Sciences. Bowling Green, KY. 2003 Integrating Geologic Data into a Customizable GIS. Presented at the Western Kentucky University Geology Faculty. 2003 The Uses of GIS in Source Water Protection. Presented to the Kentucky Rural Water Association. 2003 An Empirical Test of Structuration Theory: Transportation Preferences in Bowling Green, Kentucky and Penzance, England. Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Charlotte. Work Experience 2005 - 2006 Graduate Research Assistant on NSF award to study e-commerce. University of Kentucky. 2004 - 2005 Graduate Research Assistant at the Kentucky Transportation Center. University of Kentucky. 2005 Disk Jockey at WRFL 88.1FM. Lexington, Kentucky. 2004 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Coordinator for the Hoffman Environmental Research Institute Cave Expedition. Hunan, China. 2004 Instructor for GEO 315: ‘Introduction to GIS.’ Western Kentucky University. 2003 Graduate Research Assistant at the Western Kentucky University GIS Research and Development Laboratory. 2002 - 2004 Graduate Research Assistant at the Hoffman Environmental Research Institute. Western Kentucky University. 2002 GIS Internship at the Bowling Green Public Works Department. Other Professional Experience 2007 Series of interactive maps created of Internet content production as part of a project to study the global network society. Helsinki Institute for Information Technology. 2004 Series of maps created for the Canadian Internet Registration Authority. 2004 Series of maps related to environmental justice created for the Kentucky Office of Geographic Information Annual Map Gallery. Research Interests Economic Geography, Urban Geography, Cyberspace, Globalization, Development, Transportation Geography, Flows of Information, Social Networking, Geomusicology, Computer Mediated Communication, Critical Geography, Social Theory, Cultural Geography, Regional Specialty: Southeast Asia Professional Memberships The American Association of Geographers (China, Economic, GIS, Transportation, and Urban specialty groups) Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers Computer Skills GIS & GPS: ArcGIS ArcINFO 9.x incl. extensions (Spatial Analyst, Geostatistical Analyst, 3D Analyst, ArcScene, ArcPress), Mapwindow, ERDAS Imagine Pro 8, Trimble GPS Pro XRS, MapWindow GIS, Google Maps API Programming: ArcObjects, ESRI Object Browser, Visual Basic 6, MapObjects, VBA, QBasic, C++, Perl Statistics: S-Plus, S+ Spatial Stats, S+ for ArcView, SPSS, Excel Web and Design: Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Distiller, Dreamweaver, HTML, Large format plotters. Service Activities Volunteer on the Minority recruitment committee. University of Kentucky (2006-present). Volunteer at GIS workshop for 4th and 5th graders, Bowling Green, Kentucky (April 2004) Volunteer at the International Conference on Karst Hydrogeology and Ecosystems, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 2003. Co-organizer of Geography Awareness Week and GIS Day 2002 for the Western Kentucky University Department of Geography and Geology. Interests and Activities Founder of www.wikichains.com. A wiki website that focuses on mapping and describing commodity chains in order to inspire ethical consumption. Co-founder and co-manager (2004 – present) of ImmediumPress: a non-profit publishing company. Founding member, officer, and web designer (2003 – 2004) of the Western Kentucky University Graduate Geoscience Society Founder, manager, and web designer (2003 – present) of an Internet radio station (www.smoothmusic.org) Founding member and president (2001 – 2002) of the Western Cinema Club at Western Kentucky University. Captain of an Intramural soccer team at Western Kentucky University Member of the Outdoor Recreation and Adventure Center Languages English native Language German proficient (I attended high school in Germany for four years) Thai, French currently learning World Experience I am a half-English, half-Iranian, British citizen. Currently, I am living between Thailand and the U.S.A. I have lived in: England, France, Germany, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Thailand, the U.S.A. I have traveled in: Austria, Belgium, Barbados, Cambodia, Canada, China, Cyprus, England, France, Germany, Iceland, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, Saint Lucia, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Singapore, Switzerland, Thailand, the U.S.A.