Dr. Reecia Orzeck
Associate Professor of Geography
Office
FHS Felmley Hall Of Science 207b
Office Phone
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- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected 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
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
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
MA Geography
York University
Toronto, ON
BA Geography and Religion
Queens University
Kingston, ON
Shaw Teaching Fellowship
College of Arts and Sciences
2023
Faculty Research Award
2023
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning University Research Grant
Illinois State University
2019
Faculty Research Support Award
University of Vermont
2011
Lattie F. Coor International Travel Fund Award
University of Vermont
2010
Quadrant Residential Fellowship
University of Minnesota
2009
Humanities Center Research Assistantship
UVM Humanities Center
2008
Lattie F. Coor International Travel Fund Award
University of Vermont
2008
Scholar-in-Residence
Faculty Resource Network
2008
Antipode Graduate Student Scholarship
Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography
2004
Grants and Contracts
Douglas Clay Ridgley Endowed Fellowship
Reecia Orzeck.
Department of Geography, Geology, and the Environment. July 1 2020 - June 30 2022
Developing and Assessing an Information Literacy Module for an Undergraduate Area Studies Geography Class
Reecia Orzeck.
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning University Research Grant. July 1 2019
Pre-tenure Faculty Initiative Grant
Reecia Orzeck.
College of Arts and Sciences. July 2015
New Faculty Initiative Grant
Reecia Orzeck.
College of Arts and Sciences. July 1 2014
Quadrant Residential Fellowship
Reecia Orzeck.
University of Minnesota. - 2010
Book Review
Will families be different in the future? A review of Full Surrogacy Now by Sophie Lewis
Reecia Orzeck.
(2020), Society and Space
Introduction: On Essex’s Development, Security, and Aid: Geopolitics and Geoeconomics at the U.S. Agency for International Development
Reecia Orzeck, Clayton Rosati.
(2016), 6, 86-88, Dialogues in Human Geography
Book, Chapter
Nicholas Blomley
Laam Hae, Reecia Orzeck.
(2024), Key Thinkers on Space and Place, Sage
Hunger Strike: The Body as Resource
Reecia Orzeck.
(2013), 31-51, Body/State, Ashgate
Journal Article
Teaching information literacy in an undergraduate class on the geography of the Middle East
Reecia Orzeck.
Journal of Geography in Higher Education, (2022), 10.1080/03098265.2022.2155802
Restructuring Legal Geography
Reecia Orzeck, Laam Hae.
Progress in Human Geography, 44 (5), 832–851, (2020), https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132519848637
Feminist Political Economy in Geography: Why Now, What's Different, and What For?
Marion Werner, Kendra Strauss, Brenda Parker, Reecia Orzeck, Kate Derickson, Anne Bonds.
Geoforum, 79, 1-4, (2017)
Assessing Undergraduate Knowledge of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Reecia Orzeck, Alexa Leyba, Christy O'Donnell, Jacklyn Weier.
Illinios Geographer, 58 (2), 19-57, (2016)
The Jewish Agency's Case Before the UNSCOP: Image and Discourse
Reecia Orzeck.
Jerusalem Quarterly, (63/64), 7-23, (2015)
Normative Geographies and the Debate over the 1940 Land Transfer Regulations in Palestine
Reecia Orzeck.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 39 (3), 345-359, (2014)
On Dittmer’s "Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity" as a Classroom Resource
Reecia Orzeck, James Craine, Christina Dando, Katrinka Somdahl-Sands.
Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 38 (3), 415-424, (2014)
Academic Freedom, Intellectual Diversity, and the Place of Politics in Geography
Reecia Orzeck.
Antipode, 44 (4), 1449–1469, (2012)
What Does Not Kill You: Historical Materialism and the Body
Reecia Orzeck.
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 25 (3), 496-514, (2007)
Assessing Undergraduate Knowledge of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Reecia Orzeck, Alexa Leyba, Chisty O'Donnell, Jacklyn G Weier.
Illinois Geographer, 58 (2), 19-58
Other
X Marks the Spot: Marxist Intercourse and Kantian Anarchism in Kojin Karatani
Kanishka Goonewardena, Reecia Orzeck.
Dialogues in Human Geography, 2, 64-70, (2012)
Presentations
Who learns about graduate school and how?: Knowledge transfer and the social reproduction of the discipline
Reecia Orzeck.
University of Illinois Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science Colloquium Series, Urbana, IL, April 18, 2025
Geographers in Higher Ed Labor Organizing
Reecia Orzeck.
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Detroit, MI, March 27, 2025
Getting to grad school: how undergraduate students learn about and apply to Geography graduate programs
Reecia Orzeck.
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Detroit, MI, March 25, 2025
Belonging/Inclusion in Campus Spaces: Considering Caregiving and Intersectional Identities
Luke Russell, Chang Su-Russell, Elke Altenburger, Reem Bagais, Amy Bardwell, Reecia Orzeck, Gabriela Fonseca Pereira.
Annual Conference of the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR), Bellevue, WA, November, 2024
Teaching Students to Ask their Own Questions: The Question Formulation Technique
Reecia Orzeck.
Illinois Geographic Alliance Conference, Normal, Illinois, November 4, 2023
Who learns about graduate school and how? Professional knowledge transfer and the social reproduction of the discipline
Reecia Orzeck.
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, March, 2023
On the politics of comparing capitalisms
Reecia Orzeck.
A Critical Political Economy of Covid Capitalism, Online, May, 2021
Teaching information literacy in an undergraduate area studies class
Reecia Orzeck.
Applied Geography Conference, Online, October 20, 2020
Labor and families in Sophie Lewis’ Full Surrogacy Now
Reecia Orzeck.
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 4, 2019
Undergraduate Students’ Understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Reecia Orzeck, Alexa Leyba, Christine O'Donnell, Jacklyn Weier.
Historical Materialism Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 14, 2016
Undergraduate Students’ Understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Reecia Orzeck, Alexa Leyba, Christine O'Donnell, Jacklyn Weier.
Illinois Geographical Society Annual Meeting, Skokie, Illinois, April 30, 2016
Normative Geographies and the 1940 Land Transfer Regulations in Palestine
Reecia Orzeck.
University of Illinois Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science’s Colloquium Series, Urbana, IL, April 18, 2014
International Criminal Trials as Bourgeois/Epic Theatre
Reecia Orzeck.
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April 9, 2013
Normative Geographies and the 1940 Land Transfer Regulations in Palestine
Reecia Orzeck.
University of Toronto Department of Geography and Planning Colloquium Series, Toronto, ON, February 8, 2013
Restructuring Legal Geography
Reecia Orzeck, Laam Hae.
Historical Materialism Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 12, 2012
Law, Political-Economy, and Locality
Reecia Orzeck, Laam Hae.
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, NY, February 28, 2012
States of Anachronism, States of Exception: Calls for Justice in Israel and Palestine
Reecia Orzeck.
Illinois State University Department of Geography-Geology Colloquium Series, Normal, IL, , 2011
Geographies of Dispossession in the Middle East
Reecia Orzeck.
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., , 2010
Discourses of Justice in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Reecia Orzeck.
Global Village Common Hour Presentation, Online, , 2010
A Historical Materialist Critique of International Law
Reecia Orzeck.
Historical Materialism Conference, Toronto, Canada, , 2010
The Difference that Scale Makes: International Law through a Class Lens
Reecia Orzeck.
Historical Materialism Conference, London, UK, , 2010
The Political Economy of Public International Law
Reecia Orzeck.
Thursdays at Four” series, Minneapolis, MN, , 2010
The Political Economy of Public International Law”
Reecia Orzeck.
University of Minnesota Department of Geography Colloquium Series, Minneapolis, MN, , 2010
The Middle East in the Media
Reecia Orzeck.
Community College of Vermont, Burlington, VT, , 2009
Equality, Justice, and Possible Models of Statehood
Reecia Orzeck.
Israel/Palestine--Mapping Models of Statehood and Paths to Peace Conference, Toronto, Canada, , 2009