Author: Jen Jack Gieseking

Jen Jack Gieseking is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Digital and Computational Studies Initiative at Bowdoin College and hold a Ph.D. in environmental psychology. Jack’s work as an urban cultural geographer and environmental psychologist examines the everyday co-productions of space and identity support or inhibit social, spatial, and economic justice with a special focus on sexuality and gender. S/he is working on her first book, Queer New York: Constellating Lesbians’ and Queer Women’s Geographies in New York City, 1983-2008. S/he has held fellowships with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation as German Chancellor Fellow; The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics; The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies; and the Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Dissertation Fellows Program. S/he has published in Area, Qualitative Inquiry, Journal of Urban Studies, and Journal of Social Issues. Jack can be found at jgieseking.org and @jgieseking.