Biography
Elizabeth Sibilia is a Doctoral Candidate who specializes in human geography in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research interests include, political economy, uneven geographic development, maritime history, trade and development, Indian Ocean studies, global environmental policy, development geography, shipbreaking, production of ocean-space, and labor. Her research has been supported by a CUNY Graduate Dissertation Fellowship, ARC Knickerbocker Award for Archival Research, Human Geography Grant, American Institute of Bangladesh Studies Pre-dissertation Fellowship, and CUNY Doctoral Student Research Grants.
Elizabeth is currently a Visiting Student Researcher in the Geography Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a Lecturer in the Geography and Global Studies Department at San Jose State University. Prior to these positions she was a Teaching Fellow at City College, CUNY between 2012-2014, where she taught International Studies courses in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. In 2012 she was an Adjunct Instructor at the Macaulay Honors College Instructor, College of Staten Island in the Department of Political Science and Global Affairs. Teaching Peopling of New York. In a series of place-based exercises and required fieldwork she incorporated the landscape and cultural institutions of Staten Island as primary sources of information gathering for second year students in the Honors program.
Prior to 2009 Elizabeth was a Visual Artist based in New York City. She received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2006, and in 2005 she received the Graduate Award of Excellence for her research and work on container ports, ocean transportation, and the global supply chain. Her work was shown nationally in gallery's and project spaces between 2006-2009. At RISD she was invited to be an Instructor of Record for an undergraduate course in the Department of Painting.
She received her BFA from the New School For Social Research and studied Painting and Art History at Parsons School of Design in Paris for one year. Upon graduating she worked as a Painting and Drawing Instructor in the Parsons Pre-College Academy and Summer Intensive Studies Program. Between 2001-2004 she worked as a Teaching Artist in New York City public high schools for the New York based non-for profit Working Playground Inc. She held a four year assignment at East Side Community High School and worked with Humanities and Social Studies teachers to integrate the arts into their coursework.
She has an unwavering passion for education, and commitment to, public school students and the public school system and philosophy at all stages of education.
Elizabeth is currently a Visiting Student Researcher in the Geography Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a Lecturer in the Geography and Global Studies Department at San Jose State University. Prior to these positions she was a Teaching Fellow at City College, CUNY between 2012-2014, where she taught International Studies courses in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. In 2012 she was an Adjunct Instructor at the Macaulay Honors College Instructor, College of Staten Island in the Department of Political Science and Global Affairs. Teaching Peopling of New York. In a series of place-based exercises and required fieldwork she incorporated the landscape and cultural institutions of Staten Island as primary sources of information gathering for second year students in the Honors program.
Prior to 2009 Elizabeth was a Visual Artist based in New York City. She received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2006, and in 2005 she received the Graduate Award of Excellence for her research and work on container ports, ocean transportation, and the global supply chain. Her work was shown nationally in gallery's and project spaces between 2006-2009. At RISD she was invited to be an Instructor of Record for an undergraduate course in the Department of Painting.
She received her BFA from the New School For Social Research and studied Painting and Art History at Parsons School of Design in Paris for one year. Upon graduating she worked as a Painting and Drawing Instructor in the Parsons Pre-College Academy and Summer Intensive Studies Program. Between 2001-2004 she worked as a Teaching Artist in New York City public high schools for the New York based non-for profit Working Playground Inc. She held a four year assignment at East Side Community High School and worked with Humanities and Social Studies teachers to integrate the arts into their coursework.
She has an unwavering passion for education, and commitment to, public school students and the public school system and philosophy at all stages of education.
