Dr. Reecia Orzeck
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Research
Current Courses
GEO 235.001 Geography Of Emerging Areas: Middle East
GEO 299.001 Independent Honor Study
GEO 287.007 Independent Study - Geography
GEO 135.004 World Geography
GEO 204.001 Career Preparation in Geography/Environmental Systems and Sustainability I
GEO 287.007 Independent Study - Geography
GEO 375.001 Qualitative Research Design and Methods in Human Geography
GEO 475.001 Qualitative Research Design and Methods in Human Geography
GEO 135.002 World Geography
Teaching Interests & Areas
As a human geographer, I am interested in teaching courses on Social and Cultural Geography, Political and Economic Geography, and Geography of the Middle East. I also enjoy teaching one of the department's introductory courses: Introduction to Human Geography.
Research Interests & Areas
I have three main research interests: the political economy of public international law; the history and geography of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; and representations of the body in popular, geopolitical and legal discourse. I am also interested in academic freedom and debates about the role of the academy in society.
Ph D Geography
MA Geography
BA Geography and Religion
Shaw Teaching Fellowship
Faculty Research Award
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning University Research Grant
Faculty Research Support Award
Lattie F. Coor International Travel Fund Award
Quadrant Residential Fellowship
Humanities Center Research Assistantship
Lattie F. Coor International Travel Fund Award
Scholar-in-Residence
Antipode Graduate Student Scholarship
Book Review
Orzeck, Reecia (2020) "Will Families Be Different in the Future? A Review of Full Surrogacy Now by Sophie Lewis" Society and Space.
Orzeck, Reecia and Rosati, Clayton (2016) “Introduction: On Essex’s Development, Security, and Aid: Geopolitics and Geoeconomics at the U.S. Agency for International Development” Dialogues in Human Geography 6(1), 86-88.
Book, Chapter
Orzeck, Reecia (2013) “Hunger Strike: The Body as Resource” in Body/State, Angus Cameron, Jen Dickinson and Nicola Smith (eds), Ashgate, pp. 31-50.
Journal Article
Orzeck, Reecia (2023) "Teaching Information Literacy in an Undergraduate Class on the Geography of the Middle East" Journal of Geography in Higher Education 47(4), 637-663.
Orzeck, Reecia and Hae, Laam (2020) “Restructuring Legal Geography" Progress in Human Geography 44(5), 832-851.
Werner, Marion, Strauss, Kendra, Parker, Brenda, Orzeck, Reecia, Derickson, Kate, and Bonds, Anne (2017) “Feminist Political Economy in Geography: Why Now, What's Different, and What For?" Geoforum 79, 1-4.
Orzeck, Reecia, Leyba, Alexa, O'Donnell, Christy, and Weier, Jacklyn (2016) "Assessing Undergraduate Knowledge of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" Illinois Geographer 58(2) 19-57.
Orzeck, Reecia (2015) “The Jewish Agency’s Case Before the UNSCOP: Image and Discourse” Jerusalem Quarterly Autumn/Winter 63 & 64, 7-23.
Other
Goonewardena, Kanishka and Orzeck, Reecia (2012) “X Marks the Spot: Marxist Intercourse and Kantian Anarchism in Kojin Karatani” Dialogues in Human Geography 2(1) 64-70.
Presentations
“Undergraduate Students’ Understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” (with Alexa Leyba, Christine O’Donnell, Jacklyn Weier), Illinois Geographical Society Annual Meeting, Skokie, IL (April 2016)