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JEN GIESEKING
jgieseking AT gmail DOT com
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Psychology, with a Certificate in Women’s Studies, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
- Visiting Scholar, Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt Universität. Berlin, Germany. 2010 – 2011.
- M.A. in Psychiatry and Religion, Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University. New York, NY, May, 2004. High honors.
- B.A. in Geography and Urban Studies, Mount Holyoke College. South Hadley, MA, 1999.
- Institute in Social Movements and Strategic Nonviolence, Tufts University. Medford, MA, 1998.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
- Gieseking, J., W. Mangold, C. Katz, S. Low, and S. Saegert. 2012 (In Preparation). People, Place, and Space: A Reader. New York, Routledge.
ARTICLES
- Low, S.M., G.T. Donovan, and J. Gieseking. 2012. Shoestring Democracy: Gated Condominiums and Market Rate Co-operatives in New York. Journal of Urban Affairs. (Presently available online.)
- Opotow, S., and J. Gieseking. 2010. Foreground and Background: The Environment as Site and Social Issue. Journal of Social Issues [75th Anniversary Issue], 67(1): 179-96.
- SpaceTime Research Collective. 2009. To What Will We Resort When Capitalism Is Over? Human Geography, 2(2):101-4.
- 283 Collective. 2008. What’s Just? Afterthoughts on the Summer Institute for the Geographies of Justice 2007. Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography, 40(5):736-50.
- Gieseking, J. 2007. (Re)Constructing Women: Scaled Portrayals of Privilege and Gender Norms on Campus. Area, 39(3): 278-86.
- Gieseking, J. 2011 (In Preperation). Data Beyond Words: the Mental Mapping Methodology and Its Analytic Components for Social Science Data Gathering. Qualitative Inquiry.
BOOK REVIEWS
- Gieseking, J. 2009. Review of Working-Class Lesbian Life: Classed Outsiders by Yvette Taylor. Gender, Place and Culture, 16(3): 353-4.
- Gieseking, J., and Y. Hung. 2008. Review of A Postcapitalist Politics by J.K. Gibson-Graham. Environment & Planning A, 40(2): 505-6.
- Gieseking, J. 2007. Review of Changing Gender Relations, Changing Families: Tracing the Pace of Change Over Time by Oriel Sullivan. Contemporary Sociology, 36(4): 341-2.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY
- Gieseking, J. 2008. “Queer Theory” in Encyclopedia of Social Problems (eds. V.N. Parrillo, M. Andersen, J. Best, W. Kornblum, C.M. Renzetti, and M. Romero). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 737-8.
HONORS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
- Instructional Technology Fellow, Macaulay Honors College CUNY. 2009 – 2010, 2011 – present.
- German Chancellor Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2010 – 2011.
- Joan Heller – Diane Bernard Fellowship in Lesbian and Gay Studies, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, 2009 – 2010.
- University Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center, 2004 – 2005, 2005 – 2006, 2006 – 2007, 2007 – 2008, 2008 – 2009, 2009 – 2010.
- Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 2008 – 2009.
- Proshansky Dissertation Award, CUNY Graduate Center, 2008 – 2009.
- Fellowship, Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center, 2008 – 2009.
- Doctoral Students Research Grant, CUNY Graduate Center, 2008 – 2009.
- Writing Fellow, Hunter College CUNY, 2007 – 2009.
- Lesbian and Gay Studies Student Travel Award, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, 2009.
- Urban Studies Geography Specialty Group Travel Award, Association of American Geographers, 2009.
- Who’s Who in America, 2009.
- CUNY Graduate Center Travel Award, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.
- Fellow, Summer Institute of Geographies of Justice, University of Georgia with Antipode, 2007.
- CUNY Graduate Center Environmental Psychology Department Travel Award, 2006, 2007.
- Graduate Center Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center, 2004 – 2005, 2005 – 2006.
- Class of 1905 Fellowship, Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Association, 2005 – 2006.
- Distinguished Honors for Masters Thesis, Union Theological Seminary, 2004.
- James D. O’Brien Fund in Psychiatry and Religion Fellowship, Union Theological Seminary, 2003 – 2004.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Visiting Adjunct Professor, “Environmental Theory,” Interior Design Department, Pratt Institute. 2007 – 2008.
- Visiting Adjunct Professor, “Human/Nature: Perception of the Environment,” Geography Department. Mount Holyoke College. 2005.
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
- Instructional Technology Fellow, Macaulay Honors College CUNY. 2009 – 2010, 2011 – 2012.
- Writing Fellow, Writing Across the Curriculum, Hunter College CUNY. 2007 – 2009.
- 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.
- Teaching Assistant: Course in Geographic Information Systems, Geography Department, Mount Holyoke College. 1998 – 1999.
- Lead Research Assistant, Geography and Geology, Mount Holyoke College. 1998 – 1999.
INVITED LECTURES
- Gieseking, J. 2012 (forthcoming). “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, New York, NY.
- Gieseking, J. 2011. “Mental Mapping as a Participatory Method” with graduate student workshop. Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham, UK.
- Gieseking, J. 2009. “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.
- Gieseking, J. 2009. “How Do We Write the Histories of the Silenced and Invisible?(!): What Lesbians’ and Queer Women’s NYC Places Over Time Tell Us about Justice.” Women’s Studies Department, Kingsborough Community College CUNY.
- Gieseking, J. 2005. “Gender, Space, and Power: A Historical Tour through the Architecture of Mount Holyoke College.” Mount Holyoke College Club of New York City Annual Brunch.
- Gieseking, J. 2005. “How Can & Do We Stay Connected?” Mount Holyoke College New York City Young Alumnae, The Andy Warhol Foundation.
- Gieseking, J. 2005. “One Foot on the Floor: A Historical Tour through the Physical Architecture and Social Practices of Heterosexual Dating at Mount Holyoke College from 1837 through Today.” Mount Holyoke College Alumnae, South Hadley, MA.
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
PAPERS
- Gieseking, J. 2012 (forthcoming). “The Dyke Gayze: Queering LGBTQ Politics of Visibility through Lesbian-Queer Spaces and Experiences of Justice and Oppression in New York City, 1983-2008.” Association of American Geographers, New York City.
- Gieseking, J. 2011. “The Space between Our Destiny and Their Reality in the American Neighborhood: the Lesbian-Queer Geographical Imagination in the Everyday Productions of Urban Space.” American Studies Association, Baltimore.
- Gieseking, J. 2011. “Dyke Bodies in Motion in the City: Beyond Lesbian-Queer Social Networks to Lesbian-Queer Spaces as Constellations.” Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers, London.
- Gieseking, J. 2011. “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.
- Gieseking, J. 2011. “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.
- Gieseking, J. 2011. “Where Do We (Women) Go from Queer?: The Forced Migration Lesbians’ and Queer Women’s Urban Spatialities (New York City, 1983-2008).” Association of American Geographers, Seattle.
- Gieseking, J. 2010. “What are We Doing Queer?: The Present State of Geography and Queer Theory in a Case Study of Lesbians’ Spatialities in New York City.” Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C.
- Gieseking, J. 2010. “(Re)Thinking about How we Imagine the City: Using Queer Theory and Feminism to Get Beyond Gay Men’s ‘Neighborhood’ + Lesbians’ ‘Bar’ = LGBTQ Space.” Fifteen Years After Mapping Desire: Where Are the Geographies of Sexualities? (in absentia), Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France.
- Gieseking, J. 2009. “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.
- Gieseking, J. 2008. “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.
- Gieseking, J. 2008. “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.
- Gieseking, J. 2007. “Gracious Empowerment: Women’s Gender Identity Development on an Elite College Campus.” Mini-Conference on Critical Geography, Louisville, KY.
- Gieseking, J. 2007. “Methods of Cognitive and Mental Mapping and Their Role in Defining the Geographical Imagination.” Association of American Geographers, San Francisco.
- Low, S., G. Donovan, and J. Gieseking. 2007. “Shoestring Democracy: Private Governance in Coops and Gated Communities in New York City.” International Conference on Private Urban Governance & Gated Communities (in absentia), Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France.
- Gieseking, J. 2006. “Constructing Women: Women’s Development on the Campus and in Society.” Association of American Geographers, Chicago.
- Gieseking, J. 2006. “Spatial Analysis as a Method of Feminist Pedagogy: Alumnae and Students’ Production of Feminist Identity and Space at a Women’s College.” Women, Gender, Pedagogy Conference, CUNY Graduate Center.
PANELS
- Davis, M., D. Edel, J. Enszer, J. Gibbs, J.Gieseking (discussant), and S. Soderling. 2010. “Lesbian Spaces in the 1970s.” Lesbians in the 1970s, A Conference, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY Graduate Center.
- Gieseking, J., G. Henderson, B. Mullings, K. Senner, K. Wells. 2010. “AAG Panel: Theoretical Interventions: Writing Across Ism’s.” Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C.
- Davis, M., D. Edel, J. Gibbs, J.Gieseking, and S. Soderling. 2010 (forthcoming). “The Production of Lesbian Spaces in the 1970s.” Lesbians in the 1970s, A Conference, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY Graduate Center.
- Chitty, C., D. Cloud, J. Gieseking (discussant), and J. Gilmore. 2010. “Sexuality and Marriage.” Historical Materialism Conference, New York City.
- Beachdel, T., A. Borst, J. John, A. Larson, and S. McClelland. 2009. “’Lessons,’ or Connecting Our Dissertation Writing to Our Work as Writing Fellows.” CUNY Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, CUNY Graduate Center.
- Chancellor, C., J. Johnson, J. Morse, T. Sands, S.N. Diamond, M. Franks, J. Gieseking, et al. 2008. “Queer Worlds / What’s Queer about Queer Studies Now?: A Seminar in Queer Cultural Studies.” With seminar, Cultural Studies Association, New York.
- Gieseking, J., J. John, I. Leopando, S. McClelland, K. McGruder, and M. Theeman. “ESL and ELL: Of Course It Matters, But Does It Work?” CUNY General Education Requirement Conference, Baruch College, New York.
- Bigger, P., D. Correla, J. Fluri, J. Gieseking, L. Lands, K.C. Somdahi-Sands, and A. Trauger. 2008. “Radical Teaching in Critical Geographies: Classroom Activities for Radical Geography.” Association of American Geographers, Boston.
- Gieseking, J., R. Hart, R. Oppenheim, B. Stoudt, and M. Torre. 2008. “Conducting Participatory Research in Very Different Settings.” American Educational Research Association, New York.
- Chawla, L., G. Donovan, J. Gieseking, R. Hart, Y. Hung, L. Rivlin, S. Saegert, and M. Theeman. 2007. “The Future of Environmental Psychology.” 2007 Environmental Psychology Conference: A Tribute to Leanne Rivlin and Harold Proshansky, CUNY Graduate Center.
- Garrett-Goodyear, H., and J. Gieseking. 2006. “Symposium: Reflection on College Citizenship – What Does &/or Ought It to Do?” Regional video-conference and online discussion in association with the Mount Holyoke College Collaborative Learning Project, New York and South Hadley, MA.
- Campagna, G., J. Gieseking, K. Libman, D, Luey, and L. Tenney. 2005. “Policy and Design for Housing: Lessons of the Urban Development Corporation 1968-1975.” Exhibit at the American Institute of Architects, New York; presentation at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York.
CONFERENCE LEADERSHIP
- Co-Organizer, Paper Sessions, “Subjectivities – in Crisis?” With A. Strüver and I. Dzudzek. International Conference on Critical Geographz, Frankfurt, Germany, 2011 (forthcoming).
- Co-Organizer, Paper Session, “Materializing Queer Space: Towards a Radical Pragmatics.” With M. Detamore. Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C., 2010.
- 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, 2009.
- Co-Organizer, Conference, “Fifteenth Annual Mini-Conference on Critical Geography.” University of Ohio, Athens, OH, 2008.
- Co-Organizer, Paper Session & Workshop: “What’s Just?: Mapping the State of Geographies of Justice.” With S. Koopman. Association of American Geographers, Boston, 2008.
- Chair, Conference: “What’s Feminist about Feminist Pedagogy?: The Second Annual Feminist Pedagogy Conference.” With A. Levy. CUNY Graduate Center, 2007.
- Co-Chair, Panel Presentation: “Do We Need Another Wave?: An Intergenerational Dialogue on the Legacy of Feminist Thought and Activism.” With A. Levy. LeftForum, New York, NY, 2007.
- Co-Organizer, Paper Session: “Geographical Imagination: Power, Memory, Imagery, and Possibility.” With Y. Hung. Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, 2007.
- Co-Organizer, Conference: “The Global & the Intimate: Gender Studies and the Present Crisis of Global Citizenship – Mount Holyoke College Gender Studies Conference & Launch.” With M. Renda, E. Townsley, H. Garrett-Goodyear, C. Katz, N.K. Miller, G. Pratt, and V. Rosner. South Hadley, MA, 2007.
- Co-Organizer, Panel: “The Future of Environmental Psychology.” Environmental Psychology Conference: A Tribute to the Work of Leanne Rivlin and Harold Proshansky. CUNY Graduate Center, 2007.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
- Principal Investigator, Independent Research: “Lesbians’ and Queer Women’s Spaces and Economies in Berlin, 1983- 2008.” Environmental Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center, and Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt Universität. 2010 – present.
- Principle Investigator, Dissertation Research: “Living in an (In)Visible World: Lesbians’ and Queer Women’s Spaces and Economies in New York City, 1983- 2008.” Environmental Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center. Dissertation Committee: Cindi Katz (Chair), Michelle Fine, and Melissa Wright. 2007 – present.
- Research Assistant, Public Space Research Group, Center for Human Environments: Private Governance In Co-ops and Gated Communities in New York City, CUNY Graduate Center. Principal Investigator: Setha Low. 2006 – 2008.
- Principal Investigator, Independent Research: “Mental Mapping: The Methods and Its Analytics.” Environmental Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center. 2005 – present.
- Principal Investigator, Independent Research: “Constructing Women: Women’s Gender, Sexual, and Class Identity Development on Campus and in Society.” Environmental Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center. 2005 – 2009.
- Principal Investigator, Independent Work-In-Progress: Feminist Architectural Criticisms of Mount Holyoke College. Environmental Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center. 2005 – present.
- Co-Principal Investigator, Group Project: “Does Design Matter?: A Study of the Intentional, Social Design of the Low-Rise, High-Density Housing in Marcus Garvey Village, East Brooklyn, NY.” Environmental Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center. Principal Investigator: Susan Saegert. 2004.
- Masters Thesis: “Ecstasy Has Been Given to the Tiger: Aggression in Quaker Meeting for Worship.” Psychiatry & Religion Department, Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University. 2004.
- Senior Independent Research: “Section 8 Housing Certificates: Better Economic Base or Better Living?” Geography Department, Mount Holyoke College. 1998 – 1999.
- Independent Project: Spatial Analysis of England and Wales’ Transportation Modernization and the Effect of Population, 1851 – 1911, History Department, Mount Holyoke College, 1997 – 1998.
- Directed Project: Application of Landscape Level Planning to a Small Coastal Watershed, The School for Field Studies. Vancouver Island, British Columbia, 1997.
UNIVERSITY & ORGANIZATIONAL SERVICE
- Member, Committee for the Gender Perspectives on Women Group (GPOW), Association of American Geographers, 2011 – present.
- Member, OpenCUNY.org Governance Committee, CUNY Graduate Center, 2010 – present.
- Mentor, College & Community Fellowship for Formerly Incarcerated Women, CUNY Baccaluareate Program, 2009 – 2011.
- Member, Advisory Board of the Women’s Studies Certificate Program, CUNY Graduate Center, 2008 – 2010.
- Member and Founder, Spatial Scholars Study Group, renamed the SpaceTime Research Collective (STREAC), CUNY Graduate Center, 2007 – present. Co-Chair, 2007 – 2008, 2009 – 2010.
- Chair, QUNY: Queer CUNY Graduate Students Collective, CUNY Graduate Center. 2007 – present.
- Member, Participatory Action Research Collective, CUNY Graduate Center. 2007 – present.
- Member, Annual Fund Committee, Mount Holyoke College. 2006 – present.
- Executive Committee, Environmental Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center. 2006 – 2010.
- Member, Feminist Studies Group, CUNY Graduate Center. 2004 – present.
- Curriculum Committee, Environmental Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center. 2005 – 2008.
- Admissions Committee, Environmental Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center. 2005 – 2006.
- Founding Member and Alumnae Representative, Collaborative Learning Project, Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Association, 2005 – 2007.
- President, Mount Holyoke College Class of 1999, 2004 – 2009.
- Institutional and Community Affairs Committee, Union Theological Seminary. 2003 – 2004.
- Member, Feminist Caucus, Union Theological Seminary. 2002 – 2004.
- Underclass Academic Advisor, Mount Holyoke College. 1997 – 1999.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Critical geography; geographic perspectives on the spatiality and economies of women’s gender and sexuality, particularly lesbians and queer women; urban studies; methodologies of qualitative mapmaking and geographic information systems; power, privilege, and justice; queer theory and feminist theory; qualitative methods and analysis
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
Social and Cultural Geography
Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy
ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Studies Association, 2009 – present.
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, 2009 – present.
Urban Affairs Association, 2009 – present.
Royal Institute of Geographers with the Institute of British Geographers, 2008 – present.
National Women’s Studies Association, 2006 – present.
American Association of University Women, 2006 – present.
American Association of Geographers, 2005 – present.
LANGUAGE
German (intermediate).
