Katharyne Mitchell is an American geographer who is currently a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and the Dean of the Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
[1] Mitchell grew up in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from Princeton University with a B.A.
and Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley under the direction of Allan Pred.
The recipient of Guggenheim Foundation[3] and Brocher Foundation[4] fellowships, as well as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award and Max Planck Institute senior fellowship,[5] Mitchell's research spans several categories including migration, citizenship, transnationalism, urban political geography, philanthropy, and education.
[6] Mitchell's 2004 book, Crossing the Neoliberal Line: Pacific Rim Migration and the Metropolis, is regarded as “an important contribution to urban and transnational studies.”[7] Her 2008 edited volume, Practising Public Scholarship: Experiences and Possibilities Beyond the Academy, brings together work from scholars such as Terry Eagleton, Howard Zinn, Doreen Massey, and Michael Burawoy,[8] and has been called “one of the best books on what it really means to be a public intellectual.”[9]