JEN JACK GIESEKING

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EDUCATION

• 2013. Ph.D., Environmental Psychology, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Dissertation Title: Living in an (In)Visible World: Lesbians’ and Queer Women’s Spaces and Experiences of Justice and Oppression in New York City, 1983-2008.
  Committee: Dr. Cindi Katz (advisor), Dr. Michelle Fine, Dr. Melissa Wright, Dr. Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Dr. Jessie Daniels, and Dr. Tiffany Muller Myrdahl.
• 2004. M.A. in Psychiatry and Religion, Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University. New York, NY.
• 1999. B.A. in Geography and Urban Studies, Mount Holyoke College. South Hadley, MA,

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Visiting Assistant Research Professor / Project Manager, JustPublics@365, a Ford Foundation Grant ($550,000) at the Graduate Center CUNY, 2012 – 2013.
• Research Assistant, Public Space Research Group. New York, 2006 – 2008.
• Administrative Associate, WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, The Feminist Press. New York, 2004 – 2007.
• Management Consultant, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. New York, 1999 – 2002.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

• Gieseking, J., W. Mangold, C. Katz, S. Low, and S. Saegert. 2013 (forthcoming). People, Place, and Space: Key Readings Across the Disciplines. New York, Routledge.

ARTICLES

• 2013 (under review). Gieseking, J. “Crossing Over,” Again and Again: Lesbian-Queer Bodies Producing and Un/Doing Urban Territories and Borders in New York City, 1983-2008. Area.
• 2013 (forthcoming). Gieseking, J. Where We Go from Here: the Spatial Mental Mapping Method and Its Analytic Components for Social Science Data Gathering. Qualitative Inquiry. 19(9).
• 2011 (published online; print forthcoming). Low, S.M., G.T. Donovan, and J. Gieseking. Shoestring Democracy: Gated Condominiums and Market Rate Co-operatives in New York. Journal of Urban Affairs,  34(3): 279-296.
• 2010. Opotow, S., and J. Gieseking. Foreground and Background: Environment as Site and Social Issue. Journal of Social Issues [75^th Anniversary Issue], 67(1): 179-96.
• 2009. SpaceTime Research Collective. To What Will We Resort When Capitalism Is Over? Human Geography, 2(2):101-4.
• 2008. 283 Collective. What’s Just? Afterthoughts on the Summer Institute for the Geographies of Justice 2007. Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography, 40(5): 736-50.
• 2007. Gieseking, J. (Re)Constructing Women: Scaled Portrayals of Privilege and Gender Norms on Campus. Area, 39(3): 278-86.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• 2013 (forthcoming).Gieseking, J. Queering the Meaning of ‘Neighborhood’: Reinterpreting the Lesbian-Queer Experience of Park Slope, Brooklyn, 1983-2008. In M. Addison and Y. Taylor, eds. Queer Presences and Absences. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 178-200.
• 2013 (forthcoming). Gieseking, J. Introduction: Theory for Reading Queer Art Geographies. In L. Lau ed. These Queer Art Geographies: Making Art Spaces with, by, and for Queers in Lebanon, Copenhagen, and Tijuana. Berlin, Germany: b-books.
• 2013 (forthcoming). Gieseking, J. What and Where Next?: Some Thoughts on a Spatial, Queer Recommended Reading List. In L. Lau ed. These Queer Art Geographies: Making Art Spaces with, by, and for Queers in Lebanon, Copenhagen, and Tijuana. Berlin, Germany: b-books.
• 2013 (forthcoming). Low, S.M., G.T. Donovan, and J. Gieseking. Gates Not Walls as a Securitization Strategy: Gated Communities and Market Rate Co-operatives in New York. In M. Stephenson and L. Zanotti, eds. Building Walls, Securitizing Space, and the Making of Identity. London: Ashgate.

BOOK REVIEWS

• 2013 (forthcoming). Gieseking, J. Review of Queer Methods and Methodologies: Intersecting Queer Theories and Social Science Research by K. Browne, and C.J. Nash, eds, and Queer Spiritual Spaces: Sexuality and Scared Places by K. Browne, S.R. Munt, and A.K.T. Yip, eds. Annals of the Association of American Geographers Review of Books.
• 2009. Gieseking, J. Review of Working-Class Lesbian Life: Classed Outsiders by Yvette Taylor. Gender, Place and Culture, 16(3): 353-4.
• 2008. Gieseking, J., and Y. Hung. Review of A Postcapitalist Politics by J.K. Gibson-Graham. Environment & Planning A, 40(2): 505-6.
• 2007. Gieseking, J. Review of Changing Gender Relations, Changing Families: Tracing the Pace of Change Over Time by Oriel Sullivan. Contemporary Sociology, 36(4): 341-2.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

• 2013 (forthcoming). Gieseking, J. “Environmental Psychology.” In T. Teo, M. Barnes, Z. Gao, M. Kaiser, R. Sheivari, and B. Zabinski, eds. International Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology. New York: Springer.
• 2008. Gieseking, J. “Queer Theory.” In V.N. Parrillo, M. Andersen, J. Best, W. Kornblum, C.M. Renzetti, and M. Romero, eds. Encyclopedia of Social Problems. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 737-8.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• 2012. Distinction for Doctoral Dissertation, Graduate Center CUNY.
• 2010 – 2011. Visiting Scholar, Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt Universität. Berlin, Germany.
• 2009. Who’s Who in America.
• 2004. Distinguished Honors for Masters Thesis, Union Theological Seminary.

FELLOWSHIPS

• 2010 – 2011. German Chancellor Fellowship for Prospective Leaders, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. (€33,000)
• 2009 – 2010. Joan Heller – Diane Bernard Fellowship in Lesbian and Gay Studies, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) at the Graduate Center CUNY. ($5,000)
• 2009 – 2010, 2008 – 2009, 2007 – 2008, 2006 – 2007, 2005 – 2006, 2004 – 2005. University Fellowship, Graduate Center CUNY. (tuition & fees)
• 2011 – 2012, 2009 – 2010, 2008 – 2009 (all rejected). Five College Women’s Studies Research Center Fellowship, Mount Holyoke College.
• 2008 – 2009. Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. ($1,500)
• 2008 – 2009. Proshansky Dissertation Award, Graduate Center CUNY. ($20,000)
• 2008 – 2009. Fellowship, Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the Graduate Center CUNY. ($10,000)
• 2007. Fellow, Summer Institute of Geographies of Justice, University of Georgia with Antipode. ($3,000 costs covered)
• 2005 – 2006, 2004 – 2005. Graduate Center Fellowship, Graduate Center CUNY. ($17,500)
• 2005 – 2006. Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Association 1905 Fellowship. ($1,500)
• 2003 – 2004. James D. O’Brien Psychiatry and Religion Fellowship, Union Theological Seminary. ($2,500)

GRANTS

• 2012. University Alternate, Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of British Columbia.
• 2012 – 2013. Co-Grantee, Antipode Foundation Regional Workshop Award: New York City Geographical Expedition & Institute. With M. Bissen, C. Cahill, Z. Gluck, J. Goldstein, C. Katz, A. Matles, M. McCleave Marhawal, D. Spataro, J. Tang, and M. Torre. (£10,000)
• 2012, 2008. Leanne Rivlin Travel Award, Graduate Center CUNY. ($500)
• 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006. Graduate Center CUNY Zalk Travel Award. ($500)
• 2010, 2009. Urban Studies Geography Specialty Group Travel Award, Association of American Geographers. ($100)
• 2009. Lesbian and Gay Studies Student Travel Award, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) at the Graduate Center CUNY. ($500)
• 2008 – 2009. Doctoral Students Research Grant, Graduate Center CUNY. ($5,000)
• 2007, 2006. Graduate Center CUNY Environmental Psychology Department Travel Award. ($250)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

RECENT INVITED LECTURES

• 2013 (forthcoming). Gieseking, J. “Another Way of Mobilizing for Queer Social and Spatial Justice: Constellations as the Formations of Lesbian-Queer Urban Space in New York City, 1983-2008.” Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), New York.
• 2013 (forthcoming). Gieseking, J. “So Far, So Close: Feminism in the Production of Lesbian-Queer Spaces in Berlin and New York City, 1983-2008.” Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt Universität. Berlin, Germany.
• 2012. Gieseking, J. “Das Berlinprojekt, Das Newyorkprojekt: Comparative Urbanisms of Lesbians’ and Queer Women’s Spaces and Experiences of Justice and Oppression in New York City andBerlin, 1983 – 2008.” SpaceTime Research Collective, Graduate Center CUNY.
• 2011. Gieseking, J. “Mental Mapping as a Participatory Method” with graduate student workshop. Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham, UK.
• 2009. Gieseking, J. “Rethinking an ‘Invisible’ Framework for a Visible World: Lesbians’ and Queer Women’s Spaces and Economies in New York City (1983-2008).” Geography Department, Clark University, Worcester, MA.
• 2009. Gieseking, J. “How Do We Write the Histories of the Silenced and Invisible?: What Lesbians’ and Queer Women’s New York City Places Over Time Tell Us about Justice.” Women’s Studies Department, Kingsborough Community College CUNY. New York.

RECENT PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

SELECTED PAPERS

• 2013 (forthcoming). Gieseking, J. “At Home and Abroad, from Promised Land to Land of the Free: Tracing Contemporary Pinkwashing in Everyday Lesbian-Queer Lives in NYC.” Homonationalism & Pinkwashing, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the Graduate Center CUNY, New York.
• 2012. Gieseking, J. “Queering the Right to the City: The Geographical Imagination of Lesbian Cities in Chako Paul, New York, and Berlin.” American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• 2012. Gieseking, J. “The Dyke Ga(y)ze: Reinterpreting LGBTQ Politics of Visibility through Lesbians’ and Queer Women’s Spaces and Experiences of Justice and Oppression in NYC, 1983-2008.” Association of American Geographers, New York.
• 2012. Gieseking, J. “A Countertopography of Pinkwashing.” The Fifth Israeli Conference of Qualitative Research, Tel Aviv, Israel.
• 2011. Gieseking, J. “The Space between Our Destiny and Their Reality: Understanding the Lesbian-Queer Geographical Imagination in the Everyday Productions of Urban Space in New York City, 1983-2008.” American Studies Association, Baltimore.
• 2011. Gieseking, J. “Is This Liberation?: Reckoning with the (In)Justice of the Mobilities, Immobilities, and Moorings of Lesbians & Queer Women as Gentrified and Gentrifiers.” Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers, London.
• 2011. Gieseking, J. “Dyke Bodies in Motion: How to Think about Lesbian-Queer Spaces Beyond Social Networks, and Why It’s Important Today.” International Conference of Critical Geographers, Frankfurt, Germany.
• 2011. Gieseking, J. “Living in an (In)Visible World: Lesbians’ and Queer Women’s Spaces in Berlin.” Warum Deutschland? Perspektiven der internationalen Zusammenarbeit im Bereich Wissenschaft, Ausbildung, Kultur, Wirtschaft und Politik, Assoziation der Stipendiaten des Bundeskanzlerprogramms der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in der Russischen Föderation, Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
• 2010. Gieseking, J. “What are We Doing Queer?: The Present State of Geography and Queer Theory in a Case Study of Lesbians’ Spatialities in New York City.” Mapping Desire: Where are the Critical Geographies of Sexualities? (in absentia), Université Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France.
• 2010. Gieseking, J. “Getting Over the Neighborhood: Contesting the Ideal LGBTQ Space via Everyday Productions of Lesbians’ and Queer Women’s Urban Spatialities (New York City, 1983-2008).” Association of American Geographers, Washington D.C.
• 2009. Gieseking, J. “Hey, Gay, Going My Way?: Theorizing Lesbians’ and Queer Women’s Urban Productions of Space as Constellations (1983-2008).” Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas.
• 2008. Gieseking, J. “Mental Mapping as a Methodology: Its Evolution, Its Usefulness, and the Ways in Which They May Be Analyzed Them.” Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers, London.
• 2008. Gieseking, J. “Gracious Empowerment Vs. Liberal Feminism in the Twentieth Century: Women’s Gender and Social Class Identity Development on an Elite College Campus.” Association of American Geographers, Boston.

SELECTED PANELS

• 2012. Cahill, C., G.T. Donovan, M. Fine, J. Gieseking, C. Katz, S. Opotow, et al. “Bodies, Spaces, & Protest: What Critical Social Psychology & Geography Say to One Another.” Association of American Geographers, New York.
• 2012. Caldwell, H., J. Gieseking (chair), R. Liebert, W. Liu, E. Manoff, and P. Segalo. “Reflecting on Critical Methods of Inquiry: A Workshop on Participatory Action Research.” The Fifth Israeli Conference of Qualitative Research, Tel Aviv, Israel.
• 2010. Davis, M., D. Edel, J. Enszer, J. Gibbs, J. Gieseking (discussant and chair), and S. Soderling. “Lesbian Spaces in the 1970s.” Lesbians in the 1970s, A Conference, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Graduate Center CUNY.
• 2010. Chitty, C., D. Cloud, J. Gieseking (discussant), and J. Gilmore. “Sexuality and Marriage.” Historical Materialism Conference, New York City.
• 2008. Bigger, P., D. Correla, J. Fluri, J. Gieseking, L. Lands, K.C. Somdahi-Sands, and A. Trauger. “Radical Teaching in Critical Geographies: Classroom Activities for Radical Geography.” Association of American Geographers, Boston.
• 2007. Chawla, L., G. Donovan, J. Gieseking, R. Hart, Y. Hung, L. Rivlin, S. Saegert, and M. Theeman.  “The Future of Environmental Psychology.” 2007 Environmental Psychology Conference: A Tribute to Leanne Rivlin and Harold Proshansky, Graduate Center CUNY.
• 2006. Garrett-Goodyear, H., and J. Gieseking. “Symposium: College Citizenship – What Is It & Ought It Do?” Mount Holyoke College Collaborative Learning Project, New York and South Hadley, MA.
• 2005. Campagna, G., J. Gieseking, K. Libman, D, Luey, and L. Tenney. “Policy & Design for Housing: Lessons of the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) 1968-1975.”  Exhibit at the American Institute of Architects, New York; presentation at the Graduate Center CUNY.

SELECTED CONFERENCE, SYMPOSIA, AND EVENT LEADERSHIP

• 2013 (forthcoming). Co-Organizer, Conference, “Summit: Re-imagining Scholarly Communication for the 21^st Century.” With C. Robinson, J. Daniels, and M. Gold. JustPublics@365, Graduate Center CUNY, New York.
• 2012. Co-Organizer, Paper Session. “Right to the City! But Right to Empire?: The Unequal Geopolitics of Identity and Belonging.” With J.-F. Cheng, J. Lovaas, and K. Holmes. American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• 2012. Co-Organizer, Panel. “Bodies, Spaces, & Protest: What Critical Social Psychology & Geography Say to One Another.” With C. Katz. Association of American Geographers, New York.
• 2012. Chair, Paper Session. “Sexualities on the Move.” Association of American Geographers, New York.
• 2012. Discussant, Paper Session. “Feminist Research Methods and ‘the Everyday.’” Association of American Geographers, New York.
• 2010. Co-Organizer, Paper Sessions. “Materializing Queer Space: Towards a Radical Pragmatics.” With M. Detamore. Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C.
• 2009. Organizer, Paper Sessions. “Space & Identity || Speaking From and Across Categories: [1] Connecting through the Everyday; [2] In/Through/Of Bodies; [3] Mobilities in Space, Time, and Identity; [4] (Re)(De)(Un)Constructing Place.” Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas.
• 2008. Co-Organizer, Conference. “Fifteenth Annual Mini-Conference on Critical Geography.” University of Ohio, Athens, OH.
• 2007. Chair, Conference. “What’s Feminist about Feminist Pedagogy?: The Second Annual Feminist Pedagogy Conference.” With A. Levy. Graduate Center CUNY, New York.
• 2007. Co-Organizer, Conference. “The Global & the Intimate: Gender Studies and the Present Crisis of Global Citizenship – Mount Holyoke College Gender Studies Conference.” With M. Renda, E. Townsley, H. Garrett-Goodyear, C. Katz, N.K. Miller, G. Pratt, and V. Rosner. South Hadley, MA.

RECENT UNIVERSITY & ORGANIZATIONAL SERVICE

• 2011 – present. Member, Committee for the Geographic Perspectives on Women (GPOW) Research Group, Association of American Geographers. Webmaster: GPOW (gpow.org) and Gender & Geography Bibliography (spatiallyinclined.org/gendergeog).
• 2010 – 2012. Member, OpenCUNY.org Governance Committee, Graduate Center CUNY.
• 2009 – 2011. Mentor, College & Community Fellowship for Formerly Incarcerated Women, CUNY Baccalaureate Program.
• 2008 – 2010. Member, Advisory Board of the Women’s Studies Certificate Program, Graduate Center CUNY.
• 2007 – present. Member, The Public Science Project: Participatory Action, Research & Design for a Just World, Graduate Center CUNY.
• 2007 – 2012. Member and Founder, Spatial Scholars Study Group, renamed the SpaceTime Research Collective (STREAC), Graduate Center CUNY. Co-Chair, 2007 – 2008, 2009 – 2010.
• 2007 – 2012. Member, QUNY: Queer CUNY Graduate Students Collective, Graduate Center CUNY. Chair, 2007 – 2010.
• 2006 – 2014. Chair and Member, Young Alumnae Annual Fund Committee, Mount Holyoke College.
• 2006 – 2013. Member, Annual Fund Committee, Mount Holyoke College.
• 2006 – 2010. Executive Committee, Environmental Psychology, Graduate Center CUNY.
• 2005 – 2008. Curriculum Committee, Environmental Psychology, Graduate Center CUNY.
• 2005 – 2006. Admissions Committee, Environmental Psychology, Graduate Center CUNY.

PRESS COVERAGE

• 2012. Beetham, Gwendolyn. “Lesbian in the city: Maria Rodó-de-Zárate and Jen Gieseking, two academic feminists, examine lesbian identity in public spaces.” Salon.com. August 25, 2012.
• 2012. Beetham, Gwendolyn. “The Academic Feminist: Lesbians in Space.” Feminist.com. August 23, 2012.
• 2006. Winter, Erica C. “This Place We Know: Mount Holyoke’s Architecture Reveals the Changing Roles of Women.” Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly. Summer 2006.
• 1999. Lublin, Joann S. “Some Hot Job Seekers Pick Up A Number of Personal Recruiters.” Wall Street Journal. August 10, 1999.

EDITORIAL BOARD

Member, Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, 2007 – present.

JOURNAL PEER REVIEW

Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography
Children, Youth and Environments
Gender, Place and Culture
Geoforum
Social and Cultural Geography
Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy
WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly

ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

2009 – present. American Studies Association.
2009 – present. Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.
2008 – present. Royal Institute of Geographers with the Institute of British Geographers.
2005 – present. American Association of Geographers.

LANGUAGES

German (intermediate).