Héctor Agredano,PhD
Assistant Professor of Geography
Natural Sciences Division
Pasadena City College
hagredano[at]pasadena.edu
Education
Graduate Center, CUNY, PhD, Geography, 2019
Lehman College, CUNY, Advanced Certificate in GISc, 2017
University of California at Santa Cruz, BA Sociology (Honors), 2008
Teaching Appointments
08/2017-present Assistant Professor in Geography, Pasadena City College
08/2012-05/2014 Adjunct Instructor, City College of New York
02/2014-05/2014 Adjunct Instructor, Bronx Community College
Research Assistant
09/2012-05/2013 Cindi Katz, PhD, CUNY Graduate Center
09/2010-05/2012 Neil Smith, PhD, CUNY Graduate Center
09/2009-05/2010 Ines Miyares, PhD, Hunter College-CUNY Graduate Center
Publications
Book review for Transport in Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility by Jacob Shell The AAG Review of Books. 5(2).pp. 138-145. 2017.
Book review for Geographies, mobilities, and rhythms over the life-course: adventures in the interval by Elaine Stratford. Journal of Cultural Geography, 34(1), pp.117-118. 2016.
Entry for “Mexico City Metro” in Selima Sultana and Joe Weber, eds. Minicars, Maglevs, and Mopeds: Modern Modes of Transportation Around the World. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press. 2016.
Agredano, Hector. “Explaining the Crisis, interview with David Harvey.” International Socialist Review. Issue 73, Sept-Oct 2010.
Presentations
Panel, Revolting New York: How 400 Years of Riot, Rebellion, Uprising, and Revolution Shaped a City. Critic. Association of American Geographers Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Spring 2018.
Author-Meets-Critics Session for Transport in Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility. Critic. Association of American Geographers Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Spring 2016.
“El Ferrocarril Como Sujeto en la División del Norte”. Seminario de Estudios Históricos Sobre Las Fuerzas Armadas. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia—Dirección de Estudios Históricos, Mexico City, Mexico. Winter 2015.
“Michoacán, Guerrero and Mexico’s Uneven Geographies of Struggle.” Historical Materialism Conference, New York, NY. Spring 2015.
“Social Spaces and Politicized Infrastructures: Exploring the Environments of Railroad Workers in Northern Mexico Using Historical GIS.” Discussant and Session Organizer. Association of American Geographers Meeting, Chicago, IL. Spring 2015.
“Railroads, Railroad Workers and Geographies of the Mexican Revolution of 1910.” CUNY, Graduate Center Archival Research Conference, New York, NY. Fall 2014.
“20 years after NAFTA: Neoliberalism and Resistance in Mexico.” Center for Economic Research and Social Change, Chicago, IL. Summer 2014.
“Transport in Revolt: Railroad Infrastructures and Democratic Movements in Mexico 1910-1911.” Collective of Critical Transport Scholars, New York, NY. Spring 2014.
“Rails to Revolution: Preliminary Findings on Railroads, Railroad Workers and the Geographies of the Mexican Revolution.” Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Panama City, Panama. Winter 2014.
“Preliminary Research on Railroads, Railroad Workers and the Geographies of the Mexican Revolution.” North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, MI. Fall 2013.
“Geography Towards Revolution for Neil Smith Part I: Nature & Development.” Panelist. Annual Association of American Geographers Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. Spring 2013.
“Trends in Outreach Strategies Among NSF-OEDG Supported Geoscience Programs.” Annual Association of American Geographers Meeting, Washington, DC. Spring 2010.
Grants, Fellowships and Awards
Research Travel Fellowship, Center for Latin America, Caribbean and Latino Studies (2016)
Student Fellow, Center for Place, Culture and Politics (2016)
Ford Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Honorable Mention (2016)
Provost’s Digital Innovation Grant (2015)
Neil Smith Research Travel Award (June 2015).
Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award, ID 1459108, National Science Foundation (March 2015-March 2016).
Advanced Research Collaborative Knickerbocker Award for Archival Research in American Studies (Summer 2014).
Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers Field Study Award (Summer 2014).
Doctoral Student Research Grant (June-July 2013).
Conference Presentation Support (Spring 2013); (Fall 2013); (Spring 2014).
Dean K. Harrison Fellowship (2009-2014).
Extracurricular activities
10/12-present Founding Member, Collective of Critical Transport Scholars, CUNY Graduate Center/Columbia University
08/09-present Member of the Space-Time Research Collective (Streac)
Spring 2012 Coordinator, workshop by Professor James Biles “Writing a Strong Proposal for the NSF DDRI Program.” Spring 2012.
Languages
English—Fluent
Spanish—Fluent
French—Proficient
Italian—Beginner
Graduate advisors
Juliana Maantay, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center and Lehman College, CUNY
Ruth W. Gilmore, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center
Don Mitchell, Uppsala University, Sweden
