Adam Moore
Department of Geography
UCLA
1255 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Academic position
Assistant Professor of Geography, UCLA: July 2011-present
Education
PhD Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison: 2010
MA Geography, California State University, East Bay: 2004
BA History, Pomona College: 1998
Areas of interest
Political geographies of ethnic conflict; Post-war peacebuilding; Nationalism and ethnic identity; Cultural
diversity and the state; Geographic theory; Qualitative methods; Southeastern European politics
Publications
Refereed journal articles
Moore, Adam. 2011 “The eventfulness of social reproduction” Sociological Theory 29(4): 294-314
Moore, Adam. 2008. “Rethinking scale as a geographical category: from analysis to practice” Progress
in Human Geography 32(2): 203-225
Non-refereed journal articles
Moore, Adam. 2008. “Iza Dejtonske Bosne” (Beyond Dayton Bosnia) Odjek - Revija za umjetnost, nauku i
drustvena pitanja (Odjek – Review for Art, Science and Social Issues) Summer, 2008: 23-28
Conference presentations
"International arbitration and contested political authority in post-war Bosnia." Annual Conference of the
Association of American Geographers, Seattle: April 16, 2011
“Ethno-territoriality, conflict and commemoration.” Annual Conference of the Association of American
Geographers, Washington D.C.: April 14, 2010
“The socio-spatiality of peacebuilding divergence.” Annual Political Geography Specialty Group
Pre-conference, Alexandria, VA: April 11, 2010
“Events, order and change.” Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Las
Vegas, NV: March 26, 2009
“Grounding consociational democracy.” Annual Political Geography Specialty Group Pre-conference, Las
Vegas, NV: March 21, 2009
“The making of the ‘new’ Arizona market: a case study in ‘local’ political processes.” American
Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA: November 21, 2008
“The end of Dayton Bosnia?” Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Boston,
MA: April 18, 2008
“Scale as a geographic category: critique and reformulation.” Annual Conference of the Association of
American Geographers, Chicago, IL: March 11, 2006
“Beyond identity: ethno-territoriality and ethnic conflict in Bosnia.” Annual Conference of the Association
of American Geographers, Denver, CO: April 5, 2005
Academic awards and fellowships
Dissertation fellowships
Whitbeck Dissertator Award, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008-9
Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship, United States Institute of Peace, 2007
Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) Fellowship, International Research and Exchanges
Board (IREX), 2006
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, Council for European Studies, 2005
Scott Kloeck-Johnson International Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005
(Declined)
Other honors and awards
Outstanding Publication by a Graduate Student, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, 2008
PhD Student Paper Award, Association of American Geographers Political Geography Specialty Group,
for paper titled: “Scale as a Geographic Category: Critique and Reformulation”, 2006
Foreign Languages and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2004-5:
Serbo-Croatian
FLAS Fellowship, University of Kansas/University of Zagreb, Summer 2004: Serbo-Croatian
FLAS Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2003-4: Serbo-Croatian
Professional service
Manuscript reviewer for: Progress in Human Geography, Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift (Norwegian
Journal of Geography), Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers and Sociological Theory
Languages
Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian (intermediate level speaking and reading)
