I am currently a Clinical Associate Professor at NYU's School of Professional Studies where I teach in the Tisch Center for Hospitality and Tourism.
In particular, I am interested in exploring the relationships between the planning, execution, and impacts of sports mega-events with those that occur with "unplanned" events such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and other disasters. As a prelude to this research, I led Team Rubicon USA's Puerto Rico Long Term Recovery project between February and June 2018.
Between 2015 and 2017 I held a post as a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Zurich and was the editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Latin American Geography between 2014-2018. Between 2009-2014 I lived in Rio de Janeiro and was a Visiting Professor in the Graduate School of Architecture and Urbanism at the Universidade Federal Fluminense. I also worked on projects with colleagues at IPPUR/UFRJ and at UERJ during this time.
My research focuses on the intersection of sport and the city, specifically looking at the ways in which the political economy of the global sports industrial complex intersects with the political economy of host cities. I have examined the conflicts and contradictions of these processes in a number of different contexts, but have maintained a strong focus on Rio de Janeiro and the unfortunate outcomes there after a decade of mega-events.
My academic articles and journalistic pieces can be accessed here.
I currently live in New York City and am working on a more elaborate articulation of the ideas that are explored in the video lectures that appear on the blog. This is no longer an active site where I catalogue the travails of Rio and Brazil, but has become a repository of information for scholars and researchers.
I can be reached at cg151 at nyu dot edu and you can follow me on Twitter@geostadia.
In particular, I am interested in exploring the relationships between the planning, execution, and impacts of sports mega-events with those that occur with "unplanned" events such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and other disasters. As a prelude to this research, I led Team Rubicon USA's Puerto Rico Long Term Recovery project between February and June 2018.
Between 2015 and 2017 I held a post as a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Zurich and was the editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Latin American Geography between 2014-2018. Between 2009-2014 I lived in Rio de Janeiro and was a Visiting Professor in the Graduate School of Architecture and Urbanism at the Universidade Federal Fluminense. I also worked on projects with colleagues at IPPUR/UFRJ and at UERJ during this time.
My research focuses on the intersection of sport and the city, specifically looking at the ways in which the political economy of the global sports industrial complex intersects with the political economy of host cities. I have examined the conflicts and contradictions of these processes in a number of different contexts, but have maintained a strong focus on Rio de Janeiro and the unfortunate outcomes there after a decade of mega-events.
My academic articles and journalistic pieces can be accessed here.
I currently live in New York City and am working on a more elaborate articulation of the ideas that are explored in the video lectures that appear on the blog. This is no longer an active site where I catalogue the travails of Rio and Brazil, but has become a repository of information for scholars and researchers.
I can be reached at cg151 at nyu dot edu and you can follow me on Twitter
