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BA, Clark University, 1988
MS, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991
D.Phil, Oxford University, 1997
I am originally from Stamford, Connecticut in the suburbs of New York City. After being raised and educated in schools in Stamford, I spent an
additional three years at Hebron Academy (https://www.hebronacademy.org/)in the village of Hebron,Maine. I then received a BA in Geography
from Clark University in Worcester, Massachussets in 1988 (http://www.clarku.edu/).This included 6 months at the Université de Dijon (now the
Université de Bourgogne). After graduating from Clark, I spent another year in France, as an English teacher in a Lycee in Paris. I then returned
to the US for my Masters of Science in Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1991)(http://www.wisc.edu) From there I decided to
undertake my D.Phil (PhD) at Oxford University (http://www.ox.ac.uk) under the supervision of David Harvey and Erik Swyngedouw. My doctoral
thesis (dissertation) focused on the "Production and regulation of North African immigrants in the Paris automobile industry, 1970-1990". While
conducting my research in Paris, I was based at an institution which was then called the Centre de Sociologie Urbaine (now part of CESSP).
While still finishing my D.Phil at Oxford, I accepted my first academic position at the University of Liverpool in 1994, and after 7 years in
Liverpool, I moved to the University of Nottingham in 2002 and eventually became a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in 2005. I left
Nottingham in 2006 to return to the United States, and accept an Associate Professorship at the University of Kentucky. I remain an Honorary
Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham.
*** For the 2013-2014 academic year, I will be in France on a Fulbright Fellowship, and based at the Universite de Lille II *** See
http://www.kyforward.com/our-universities/2013/06/05/four-university-of-kentucky-professorswin-prestigious-fulbright-program-grants/
My diverse professional experience has meant that I have lived in Oxford, Liverpool, and Nottingham in the United Kingdom; in Worcester, MA,
Madison, WI, Chicago, and now Lexington, KY in the United States. In France, I have lived in Dijon, and in the 5th and 19th arrondissements of
Paris. I have also traveled extensively throughout the EU, including spending a month in Luxembourg, undertaking grant-led research in Italy, and
grant consulting work in Belgium for the Belgian Scientific Research Council. I have also visited Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Sweden,
Switzerland, as well as China and Algeria.
Please feel free me to contact me at michael.samers@uky.edu. I would be delighted to discuss my research. You can also visit my home page
at the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky https://geography.as.uky.edu/users/msame2 or at my Linked in home page
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-samers/14/22/752
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