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I am Jack Jen Gieseking, PhD, an environmental psychologist, researcher, writer, and academic coach and book development editor. My research examines how marginalized groups produce, sustain, survive, and thrive in urban and digital environments. I use he/him/his and they/them/their pronouns.

I am a Research Fellow at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center where I’m working on

Here are some previous project highlights:

  • A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers, 1983-2008 (NYU Press, 2020) on contemporary lesbian-queer society, economies, and spaces in New York City
  • LGBTQ data visualizations about queer histories and spaces
  • Subject matter expertise for the New York Times, Vox, Slate, Jezebel, Atlas Obscura, Washington Post, BBC World Services, among others
  • UX and DEI Strategy Consultant with Perry Street Software (Scruff & Jack’d)
  • An Everyday Queer New York website of interactive maps of LGBTQ+ organizing and place-making
  • Research into trans Tumblr re how social media as a site of cultural production and a hub for co-produced medical and health knowledge for trans, nb, and gnc people
  • Contributing author and editor to the LGBTQ Heritage Theme Study, which is the basis for US LGBTQ historic sites and monuments
  • Co-editor of popular reader, The People, Place, and Space Reader (Routledge, 2014), with William Mangold, Cindi Katz, Setha Low, and Susan Saegert