(In progress: derived from dissertation chapters)

• “Post-socialist urban geography of Bratislava, fifteen years after the velvet revolution” Journal of Urban Geography
• “Post socialist Architecture and Monumentality” Journal of Cultural Geography or The Annals of the American Association of Geographers
•  “The Dissolution of Czechoslovakia—the role of the capital city” Journal of National Identities
• “European Union Eastward Expansion and the Post-Socialist Transformation of Bratislava” Journal of European and Regional Studies
• “Forging National Identity in a City that Rejects It: Slovaks and Bratislava” Journal of National Identities

(2002)

• Wrote Vignettes for Agnew, John. 2002. Making Political Geography
• Vignette 1: “Drug Traffickers Have No Respect for National Boun
• Vignette 1: “Drug Traffickers Have No Respect for National Boundaries”
• Vignette 2: “Why Israel and Palestine Cannot Coexist on the Same Territory”
• Vignette 3: “Hail Ruthenia! Nation Building for the Sub-Carpathian Rusyns”
• Vignette 4: “Stamp Collecting Makes the World Go Round: National Identity in Nagorno-Karabakh”

American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting

• (Spring 2003).  Session Chair: Places, Cities, and the Political Geography of Europe
• Paper/Presentation Title: Prague—The Capital City and the Dissolution of Federal Czechoslovakia

Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

• (Spring 2001). Presented two lectures to undergraduate urban studies students. Topics
• Geography of Consumption, the Culture of Materialism and the Making of the Shopping Mall
• Making Slovakia, A Narrative of Place and National Identity Formation in Post Velvet Revolutionary East Central Europe.

• (September 1999).  Paper presented: Territory, Identity, and Politics in the post-Socialist Czechoslovak Context

Dissertation:

Making a Capitol City— National Identity and the Post Socialist Transformation of Bratislava (UCLA 2005)

I. Theoretical Orientation

• National identity and nationalism in a post-socialist context
• The nationalization of place
• Architecture, monumentality and place
• Capital cities and national identity

II. Historical Geography—Poszon-Pressburg-Bratislava and the Creation of an Enduring
“Pressburger” Identity

• Ethnicity and national identity in the city

III. National Identity and Bratislava—the Making of a Slovak Territory and a Slovak Capital
Bratislava and Czechoslovakia’s VII. Architecture and Monumentality in Post-Socialist Bratislava

• Socialist architecture and the city
• Post-socialist architecture and the city

• primate capital—Prague

IV. Post 1989 National Identity Resurgence and the Capital City

• Regionalism and Slovak nationalism
• Bratislava during the era of Meciarism
• Post 1989/1993 political-administrative reforms

V. Socialist Urbanization and Urbanism

• The “idea” of the socialist city
• Bratislava, urbanism, and the socialist city experience

VI. Post-Socialist Urban Transformation

• De-industrialization, industrial blight and re-industrialization
• Expansion of the CBD
• Housing sector, transportation, and infrastructure transformation