Ecological justice coordinator, Regions Refocus ([email protected])
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Personal website
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Research & Teaching Interests
Feminist political economy; agrarian studies; science and technology studies; Black studies; queer and trans studies
Educational Background
Ph.D., Rutgers University
MSc, University of Minnesota
B.A., Macalester College
Awards & Fellowships
Rutgers Department of Geography, Graduate Research Excellence Award, 2024
Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University, research seminar: “Possession”, 2023-2024
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2021-2022
Rutgers Presidential Fellowship, 2019-2024
Selected Publications
Liebman A., D. Campo Palacios, A. Rojas, eds. Forthcoming. Fugas de Mateo Mina: 50 años de Esclavitud y Libertad. Popoyan, Colombia: Universidad del Cauca Press.
Gagliano, J. and A. Liebman 2024. “Trans*-agrarian marxisms? On unruly matters, rural sexualities, and problematic campesinxs.” Transgender Studies Quarterly 11(2): 385-412.
Liebman, A., L. Katz, A. Marston. 2023. “Aporias at the Intersection of Geography and Feminist STS: Critical Engagements with Black Study.” Progress in Human Geography.
Liebman, A. 2021. “‘Nothing to practice’: Julius Eastman, queer composition, and Black sonic geographies.” cultural geographies.
Selected Presentations
Liebman, A. “Campesino refusal and agroecological experimentation in the marijuana boom of northern Cauca, Colombia”, Exploring the situated politics of agroecology – paper session, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, March 2025.
Liebman, A. “Thinking Through Detroit Techno: A Panel Discussion”, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, March 2025.
Liebman, A. “¿Fugas de Mateo Mina? Interrogating the legacy of Michael Taussig’s Esclavitud y Libertad en el Valle del Rio Cauca”, Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), Fall Research Symposium, November 15, 2024, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
Liebman, A. and J. Henderson. “Black studies and social reproduction theory”, Institute for Human Geography Marxist Geography Workshop, October 12-13, 2024, The People’s Forum, New York, NY.
Liebman, A. “Land Clenching: geographies of agrarian (counter)power and the plantation bloc in northern Cauca, Colombia”, Land Deal Politics Initiative, International Conference on Global Land Grabbing, March 19-21, 2024, Bogotá, Colombia.
Professional Service
Peer-reviewer: Urban Studies, The Canadian Geographer (2021 special issue, “Practicing Critical Physical Geography”), cultural geographies, Agriculture and Human Values, Environment and Planning F, GeoJournal, Revista de Ciencias Agricolas of Universidad de Nariño Colombia
