Research interests:
Broadly speaking: political geography, cultural geography, feminist geography,
critical geopolitics, immigration, national migration policies, human smuggling,
politics of security, citizenship, Latin America, U.S. West, qualitative
methodology.
Specific research projects:
Immigration to the U.S: geographic diversification, Latino immigration, issues
of race and racialization, citizenship, and "illegality." Research conducted in
Leadville, Colorado.
Illicit migration from Latin America to the U.S.:
impacts of different national immigration policies, the politics of security in
migration policy, human smuggling networks, role of human smuggling in migrants’
and migrants’ families’ daily lives, U.S. anti-smuggling/migration activities
outside U.S. borders. Research conducted in Ecuador.
Publications
Hiemstra, Nancy A. 2008. Spatial Disjunctures and Division in the New West:
Latino Immigration to Leadville, CO. In Immigrants Outside Megalopolis:
Ethnic Transformation in the Heartland, edited by Richard C. Jones, 89-113.
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Nelson, Lise K., and Nancy A. Hiemstra. 2008. Latino Immigrants and the
Renegotiation of Place and Belonging in Small Town America.
Social and Cultural Geography 9 (3):
319-342.
Hiemstra, Nancy A. 2006. Two Worlds, One Town. In
Colorado Central Magazine (September)
151: 14-21.
Hiemstra, Nancy. Manuscript in progress.
Immigrant “Illegality” and Neoliberal Governmentality in Leadville, CO.
Book Reviews
Book Review: Hiemstra, Nancy A. 2008. Women and Change at the U.S.-Mexico
Border: Mobility, Labor, and Activism, edited by Doreen J. Mattingly and
Ellen R. Hansen. Gender, Place, and
Culture 15 (2): 214-216.
Book Review: Hiemstra, Nancy. 2008. The Geopolitics Reader, edited by
Gearóid Ó Tuathail, Simon Dalby and Paul Routledge.
Political Geography 27 (3): 374-376.
Presentations:
Immigrant “Illegality” as
Neoliberal Governance in Leadville, CO. Association of American Geographers
Annual Meeting, April 2007, San Francisco, CA.
Class, race and illegality: Latino immigrants and the politics of belonging in
Leadville, CO. Pacific Northwest
Immigration Symposium, May 2006, Vancouver, BC.
Spatial Patterns of Interaction and the Social Construction of Difference:
Latino Immigration in Leadville, CO.
Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting, October 2005, Phoenix,
AZ.
Latino Immigrants, Spaces of Interaction, and the Politics of Being Illegal in
Leadville, CO. Association of American
Geographers Annual Meeting, April 2005, Denver, CO.
Latino/a Immigrants, Spaces of Interaction, and the Politics of ‘Being Illegal’
in Leadville, CO. Center on Diversity and
Community Graduate Research Conference, April 2005, Eugene, OR.
Latino Immigration and Small Town USA: Place, Identity, and Community Dynamics. Transparent Borders: Movement, Migration, and
Globalization in the Romance World, Department of Romance Languages, November
2004, Eugene, OR.
Latino Immigration and Small Town Colorado: Place, Identity, and Community
Formation. Association of American Geographers Annual
Meeting, March 2004, Philadelphia, PA.
Awards:
Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Fellowship, National Science
Foundation, January 2008.
Summer Research Grant, Syracuse University Program
on Latin America and the Caribbean, April 2007.
Roscoe Martin Research Grant, Syracuse University Maxwell School, January 2007.
Sopher Memorial Scholarship, Syracuse University Department of Geography,
December 2006.
University Fellowship, Syracuse University Graduate School, 2006-2009.
President’s Award for Outstanding Paper by an M.A. or M.S. Student, Conference
of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, October 2005.
Honorable Mention, Bill Loy Award for Excellence in
Cartographic Design and Geographic Visualization, University of Oregon
Department of Geography, May 2005.
Graduate Research Award, University of Oregon
Center on Diversity and Community, June 2004.
Margaret Trussell Graduate Student Scholarship,
Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, July 2004.
Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation
Graduate Fellowship, March 2004.
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, March 1994; Golden
Key Honor Society, December 1992; Echols Scholar, 1991 -1994. (University of
Virginia).
Primary advisor:
Alison Mountz
Committee members:
Don Mitchell, Thomas Perreault, Jamie Winders
