Joel Correia

Joel Correia, Assistant Professor, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 17:17:51 +0000

Joel Correia, Assistant Professor, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 04/30/2021 - 11:17

Joel Correia , PhD 2017

Joel Correia graduated with a PhD from ��Ƶ Geography in August 2017. It has been a bit of a whirlwind since then. After parking his rented U-Haul truck in the dirt parking lot of a Starbucks in Santa Fe during the post-defense move from Boulder to Tucson, Correia poached the coffee shop’s Wi-Fi to submit the final version of his dissertation hours before the final deadline. With a shot of espresso in hand, he continued down the road where his postdoc in the Center for Latin American Studies at University of Arizona began one week later. At UA LAS, Correia developed courses on human rights and environmental justice in Latin America while also writing up publications from his dissertation work.

In July 2018, he found himself in the cab of another U-Haul truck with two cats and his partner driving cross-country to Gainesville, Florida to begin a position as tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Center for Latin American Studies at University of Florida. Since arriving at UF, Correia has been conducting research on mega-infrastructure projects and environmental change in the South American Gran Chaco with field research in Paraguay, Bolivia, and Argentina. With support of a Fulbright Flex Scholar award, he is preparing the next phase of this research on a multi-year field analysis of road construction and plantation geographies in Paraguay’s Chaco during 2021-2022. Additionally, Correia coordinates the Center’s Indigenous Studies specialization and is core faculty in the Tropical Conservation and Development program as well as the Masters in Sustainable Development Practice Program. He teaches graduate and undergraduate seminars on environmental justice, political ecologies of development, and human rights in Latin America.

In addition to this work, he collaborates with colleagues at UA to facilitate a multi-year interdisciplinary working group with Indigenous and Afro-descendant activist intellectuals from across Latin America. To date, the project that has resulted in four conferences and will inform an edited volume written with and by workshop participants. As a 2021 American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, Correia is currently completing his first book Disrupting the Patrón: Unsettling Racial Geographies in Pursuit of Indigenous Environmental Justice. The training in political ecology, critical development geographies, science studies, proposal writing, and teaching that Correia received during his studies at ��Ƶ were instrumental in preparing him for a career in academia.

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Department of Geography Excellence in Graduate Teaching Awards for Spring 2017

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Department of Geography Excellence in Graduate Teaching Awards for Spring 2017 Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 05/10/2017 - 13:35 Joel Correia , Adam Mahood , Robert (Robbie) Andrus

The Department of Geography is pleased to announce the Excellence in Graduate Teaching Awards for Spring 2017. These awards recognize excellent teaching practices from our Department's graduate students while teaching or assisting with undergraduate classes or working with undergraduate students in a research setting. Joel Correia has been awarded the Excellence in Graduate Teaching-Graduate Part-Time Instructor (GPTI) award. Robert Andrus has been awarded the Excellence in Graduate Teaching-Teaching Assistant (TA) award. Adam Mahood has been awarded the Excellence in Graduate Teaching-Graduate Student Mentoring Award.

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Seven Geography Graduate Students Receive Beverly Sears Research Grants

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Seven Geography Graduate Students Receive Beverly Sears Research Grants Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 03/27/2017 - 12:14 Robert (Robbie) Andrus , Joel Correia , Angela Cunningham , Zhaxi Duojie , Mehran Ghandehari , Eric Lovell , Kyle Rodman

Robert Andrus, Joel Correia, Angela Cunningham, Zhaxi Duojie, Mehran Ghandehari, Eric Lovell and Kyle Rodman have each received a Beverly Sears Research Grant. These grants provide funds to assist the student with their PhD research.

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Joel Correia Receives Graduate School International Travel Award

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Joel Correia Receives Graduate School International Travel Award Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 03/27/2017 - 12:13 Joel Correia

Joel Correia has been selected to receive a Graduate School International Travel Award. This award assists students with travel costs to an international conference to present their research.

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Joel Correia Receives a 2017 Summer Graduate School Fellowship

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 18:09:19 +0000

Joel Correia Receives a 2017 Summer Graduate School Fellowship Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 03/27/2017 - 12:09

This fellowship is used to support research work during Summer 2017.

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Three Geography Graduate Students receive Spring 2017 Department Teaching Awards

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 18:02:15 +0000

Three Geography Graduate Students receive Spring 2017 Department Teaching Awards Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 03/27/2017 - 12:02 Joel Correia , Robert (Robbie) Andrus , Adam Mahood

The Department of Geography Annual Awards for Excellence in Graduate Teaching have been awarded to Joel Correia (GPTI award), Robert Andrus (TA award), and Adam Mahood (Mentoring Award).

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Joel Correia awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 03:51:34 +0000

Joel Correia awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 03/02/2015 - 20:51

Joel was awarded a DDRI grant by the Geography and Spatial Sciences Program of the National Science Foundation. The award will support his dissertation research on indigenous rights, law, and territory in Paraguay. See the NSF award page for more information.

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Joel Correia Awarded Fulbright-Hays Fellowship

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 16:13:25 +0000

Joel Correia Awarded Fulbright-Hays Fellowship Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 10/16/2014 - 10:13

The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship will support Joel's dissertation fieldwork in Paraguay from February 2014 to January 2015. Joel's research comprises a comparative case study of three Inter-American Court of Human Rights cases in favor of indigenous territorial claims in the Paraguayan Chaco. Using a variety of qualitative methods he will investigate how international indigenous rights law intersects with domestic politics to create new indigenous subjectivities and governable spaces. Joel's study draws from political ecology, legal geography, and cultural geography to question how the process of making territorial claims before the Court renders identity and territory governable by the state in new ways. Joel will work closely with local partners from the Universidad Colombia del Paraguay Faculty of Human Rights and Law, the Universidad Catolica de Asunción Center for Anthropological Studies, Tierraviva, and each of the three communities that his research focuses on--Sawhoyamaxa, Yakye Axa, and Xákmok Kásek. Joel's research will advance debates on the "territorial turn", indigenous rights and the role of the Court, and cultural politics.

See US Department of Education Fulbright-Hays for more information.

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Joel Correia Receives The Best Should Teach Silver Award 2014

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 15:57:54 +0000

Joel Correia Receives The Best Should Teach Silver Award 2014 Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 08/15/2014 - 09:57

The Best Should Teach Initiative strives to acknowledge excellence in teaching and academic leadership.

See more at Best Should Teach Initiative (link no longer available)

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Joel Correia Named Lead Graduate Teacher

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 15:56:49 +0000

Joel Correia Named Lead Graduate Teacher Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 08/01/2014 - 09:56

Joel ill serve as the Lead Graduate Teacher for the Department of Geography for the 2014-15 academic year.

See more at Graduate Teacher Program >

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