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Curriculum
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Jen
Gieseking is a Ph.D.
candidate in environmental
psychology at The
Graduate Center of the City University of New York. |
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Conferences Leadership |
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Relevant Work Experience |
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University & Organizational
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EDUCATION |
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The
Graduate Center of the City University of New York  ,
New York, NY. |
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: Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Psychology .
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Advanced Certificate Candidate, Women’s Studies . |
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2004 |
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Union
Theological Seminary at Columbia University
, New York, NY. |
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M.A. in Psychiatry and Religion. High honors. |
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1999 |
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Mount
Holyoke College ,
South Hadley, MA. |
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B.A. in Geography and Urban Studies. |
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1997 |
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Center
for Coastal Rainforest & Fisheries Studies, School for Field Studies
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Bamfield, British Columbia, Canada. |
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Geographic information systems team expert. |
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HONORS |
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2008 |
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Who's Who in
America. |
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2008 |
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Shortlisted
Finalist, Sarah Pettit Dissertation Fellowship, LGBT Studies at Yale University. |
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2007 |
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Fellow,
Summer Institute of Geographies of Justice ,
University of Georgia Geography Department in association with Antipode. |
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2004 |
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Distinguished
Honors for Masters Thesis, Union Theological Seminary. |
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1999 |
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Student
Elected Baccalaureate Speaker, Mount Holyoke College. |
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1998 |
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Fellow,
Institute in Social Movements and Strategic Nonviolence, Tufts University. |
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GRANTS |
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2009-∞ |
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Instructional
Technology Fellow, Macaualy Honors College. |
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2004-10 |
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University
Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center. |
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2009 |
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The
Joan Heller - Diane Bernard Fellowship in Lesbian and Gay Studies, Center
for Lesbian and Gay Studies. |
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2008-9 |
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Woodrow
Wilson Women's Studies Dissertation Fellowship, The Woodrow Wilson National
Fellowship Foundation. .
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2008-9 |
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Proshansky
Dissertation Award, CUNY Graduate Center. |
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2008-9 |
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Fellow,
Center for Place, Culture, and Politics ,
CUNY Graduate Center. |
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2009 |
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CLAGS
Student Travel Award, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. |
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2009 |
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Urban
Studies Geography Specialty Group Travel Award, Association of American
Geographers. |
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2008-9 |
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Doctoral
Students' Research Grant, CUNY Graduate Center. |
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2008-9 |
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Fellow, Writing
Across the Curriculum Program, Hunter College CUNY. |
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2009, -8, -7,-6 |
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CUNY
Graduate Center Travel Award. |
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2007,-6 |
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CUNY
Graduate Center Environmetal Psychology Department Travel Award. |
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2004-6 |
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Graduate
Center Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center . |
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2005 |
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Mount
Holyoke College Alumnae Association 1905 Fellowship .
Award given by Association for field work or study based on merit, strength
of proposal, and letters of recommendation. |
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2004,-3 |
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James
D. O’Brien Fund in Psychiatry and Religion Fellowship, Union Theological
Seminary. Award given by Seminary Board of Trustees based on merit and field
of study. |
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2003 |
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Health
Care Chaplaincy Fellowship, Health Care Chaplaincy, New York. |
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PUBLICATIONS |
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Papers |
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2011 |
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Gieseking,
J. 2010 (in preparation). Data Beyond Words: the Mental Mapping Methodology
and Its Analytic Components for Social Science Data Gathering. Qualitative
Inquiry. |
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2011 |
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Gieseking,
J. 2010 (in preparation). Finding Our Way Methodologically: Mental Mapping,
the Methodology and Its Meaning for the Field. Progress in Human Geography. |
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2011 |
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Opotow,
S., and J. Gieseking. 2010 (under review). Space, Place, and SPSSI’s
Environmentalism: The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues’
75 Years of Work Regarding the Environment. The Journal of Social Issues. |
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2010 |
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Low,
S.M., G.T. Donovan, and J. Gieseking. 2010 (Under Review). Collective Ownership
and Private Governance in Co-ops and Gated Condominium Communities in New
York. Urban Affairs. |
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2009 |
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SpaceTime
Research Collective. 2009. To What Will We Resort When Capitalism Is Over?
Human Geography, 2(2):101-4 |
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2008 |
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283
Collective. 2008. Proceedings of the First Summer Institute for the Geographies
of Justice. Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography, 40(5):736-50.
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2007 |
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(Re)Constructing Women: Scaled Portrayals of Privilege and Gender Norms
on Campus. Area, 39.3:278-86.
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Book Reviews |
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2009 |
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Gieseking,
J. Review of Working-Class Lesbian Life: Classed Outsiders by Yvetter
Taylor, Gender, Place and Culture, 16(3): 353-4. |
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2008 |
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Gieseking,
J., and Y. Hung. Review of A Postcapitalist Politics by J.K. Gibson-Graham,
Environment & Planning A, 40(2): 505-6. |
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2007 |
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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. |
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Encyclopedia
Entries |
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2007 |
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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. |
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Papers |
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2010 |
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Gieseking,
J. 2010 (forthcoming). “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. |
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2010 |
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Gieseking,
J. 2010 (forthcoming). “(Re)Thinking about How we Imagine the City:
Using Queer Theory and Feminism to Get Beyond Gay Men’s ‘Neighborhood’
+ Lesbians’ ‘Bar’ = LGBTQ Space.” Urban Affairs
Association, Honolulu, Hawaii. |
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2009 |
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“Combating
an ‘Invisible’ Framework of a Visible World: Lesbians' and Queer
Women's Spaces and Economies in New York City (1983-2008).” Paper
presentation at Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas. |
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2008 |
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"Mental
Mapping as a Methodology: Its Evolution, Its Usefulness, and the Ways in
Which We May Analyze Them." Royal Geographical Society with the Institute
of British Geographers, London. |
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2008 |
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“Gracious
Empowerment meets Liberal Feminism: Women's Gender and Class Identity Development
on an Elite College Campus.” Association of American Geographers,
Boston. |
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2007 |
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“Gracious
Empowerment: Women's Gender Identity Development on an Elite College Campus.”
Mini-Conference on Critical Geography, Louisville, KY.
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2007 |
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“Methods
of Cognitive and Mental Mapping and Their Role in the Definition of the
Geographical Imagination.” Association of American Geographers, San
Francisco. |
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2007 |
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“Shoestring
Democracy: Private Governance in Coops and Gated Communities in New York
City” presented by Gregory Donovan, and co-written with Setha Low.
International Conference on Private Urban Governance & Gated Communities,
Paris, France. |
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2006 |
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“Constructing
Women: Women's Development on the Campus and in Society.” Paper presentation
at Association of American Geographers, Chicago. |
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2006 |
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“Spatial
Analysis as a Method of Feminist Pedagogy: Alumnae and Students’ Production
of Feminist Identity and Space at a Women’s College.” CUNY Graduate
Center’s Feminist Pedagogy Conference: Women, Gender, Pedagogy. |
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2005 |
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“Policy
and Design for Housing: Lessons of the Urban Development Corporation 1968-1975”
co-written & presented with Grace Campagna, Kimberly Libman, Dorian
Luey, and Lauren Tenney. Environmental Psychology Lecture Series, CUNY Graduate
Center. |
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Panels |
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2010 |
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Gieseking,
J., V. Lawson, and G. Mann. 2010 (forthcoming). “’Beyond
Just Space and Identity.” Association of American Geographers, Washington,
D.C. |
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2009 |
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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. |
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2008 |
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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.” Panel presentation at Association of American
Geographers, Boston. |
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2008 |
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Chancellor,
C., J. Johnson, J. Morse, T. Sands, S.N. Diamond, M. Franks, J. Gieseking,
C. Hannabach, G. Harkins, J. Hoffman, T. Perry, L.M. Perry, J. Reid, and
V. Stephens. "Queer Worlds / What's Queer about Queer Studies Now?:
A Seminar in Queer Cultural Studies." Panel & seminar at Cultural
Studies Association, New York .
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2008 |
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Gieseking,
J., R. Hart, R. Oppenheim, B. Stoudt, and M. Torre. “Conducting Participatory
Research in Very Different Settings.” Panel presentation at American
Educational Research Association, New York. |
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2008 |
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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. |
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2007 |
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Chawla,
L., G. Donovan, J. Gieseking, R. Hart, Y. Hung, L. Rivlin, S. Saegert, and
M. Theeman. “The Future of Environmental Psychology." Panel presentation
at Environmental Psychology Conference: A Tribute to Leanne Rivlin and Harold
Proshansky, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City. |
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2007 |
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Moderator:
“Learning Cell Conversation: The Global & the Intimate –
Gender Studies and the Present Crisis of Citizenship.” Discussion
group of alumnae and students in association with the Mount Holyoke College
Collaborative Learning Project, New York and South Hadley, MA. |
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2006 |
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Gieseking, J., H. Garrett-Goodyear. “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. |
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2005 |
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Bieber,
E., J. Gieseking, H. Garrett-Goodyear. “Mary Lyon’s 'Patriots':
Mount Holyoke Alumnae & Students Respond to the U.S.A. Patriot Act and
Globalization.” Regional video-conference and online discussion in
association with the Mount Holyoke College Collaborative Learning Project,
New York and South Hadley, MA. |
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Exhibits |
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2005 |
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“Policy
and Design for Housing: Lessons of the Urban Development Corporation 1968-1975.”
With Campagna, G., J. Gieseking, K. Libman, D, Luey, and L. Tenney. Exhibit
at the American Institute of Architects, New York. |
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2010 |
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Co-Organizer,
Paper Session, “Materializing Queer Space: Towards a Radical Pragmatics.”
With M. Detamore. Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C. |
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2009 |
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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. |
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2008 |
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Co-Organizer,
Conference, “Fifteenth Annual Mini-Conference on Critical Geography.”
University of Ohio, Athens, OH. |
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2008 |
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Co-Organizer,
Paper Session & Workshop: “What’s Just?: Mapping the State
of Geographies of Justice.” With S. Koopman. Association of American
Geographers, Boston. |
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2007 |
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Co-Chair,
“What’s Feminist about Feminist Pedagogy?: The Second Annual
Feminist Pedagogy Conference,” CUNY Graduate Center.
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2007 |
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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. ,
Panelists Ann Snitow (NYU), Michael Kimmel (SUNY Stony Brook), Melody Berger
(Temple), Barbara Winslow (CUNY-Brooklyn), and Andrea Smith (INCITE!). LeftForum,
New York City . |
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2007 |
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Co-Chair,
Paper Session: “Geographical Imagination: Power, Memory, Imagery,
and Possibility.” With Y. Hung. Association of American Geographers,
San Francisco. |
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2007 |
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Co-Organizer:
“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, V. Rosner, and G. Pratt. South Hadley, MA. |
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1998-9 |
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Student
Representative, Weismann Center for Writing, Speaking, and Arguing “Focus
on Environmental Justice,” Mount Holyoke College. |
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INVITED
LECTURES |
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2009 |
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“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. |
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2009 |
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“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, Brooklyn,
NY. |
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2005 |
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“Gender,
Space, and Power: A Historical Tour through the Architecture of Mount Holyoke
College.” Invited guest speaker at Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Association
Faculty, Staff, and Alumnae Lecture Series, South Hadley, MA. Podcast of
this talk available here: .
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2005 |
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“One
Foot on the Floor: A Historical Tour through the Physical Architecture of
and Social Practice of Heterosexual Dating at Mount Holyoke College from
1837 through Today.” Mount Holyoke College Club of New York City Annual
Brunch. |
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2005 |
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“How
Can We Stay Connected?” Mount Holyoke College New York City Young
Alumnae Networking Event, The Andy Warhol Foundation (NY). |
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TEACHING
EXPERIENCE |
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2009 |
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Guest
Lecturer, “Homosexuality and the City in New York City,” Geography
Department, Newcastle University. |
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2009 |
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Guest
Lecturer, “LGBTQ Studies in the University,” Humanities Program,
Hunter College CUNY. |
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2007-8 |
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Visiting
Adjunct Professor, “Environmental Theory,” Interior Design Department,
Pratt Institute . |
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2008 |
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Guest
Lecturer, “Mental Mapping Methodology,” A Survey of Geographic
Methods, CUNY Graduate Center. |
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2007,-6 |
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Guest
Lecturer, “Human Sexuality,” Introduction to Psychology, LaGuardia
Community College CUNY. |
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2006 |
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Guest
Lecturer, “The Census,” Introduction to Urban Studies, Hunter
College CUNY. |
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2005 |
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Visiting
Adjunct Professor, “Human/Nature: Perception of the Environment,”
Geography Department, Mount Holyoke College . |
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RELEVANT
WORK EXPERIENCE |
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2009 -∞ |
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Instructional
Technology Fellow, Macaulay Honors College CUNY . |
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2007-9 |
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Writing
Fellow -- Writing Across the Curriculum Program, CUNY Hunter College . |
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2006-8 |
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Research
Assistant, Exclusionary Practices of Housing Co-ops in New York City. Public
Space Research Group
-- Center for Human Environments, Principal Investigator: Setha Low. |
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2004-7 |
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Administrative
Associate, WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly ,
Feminist Press
at the CUNY Graduate Center. |
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2003-4 |
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Archival
Assistant, Assistant Librarian, Burke Library ,
Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University. |
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2002 |
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Poetry
Editor, Marketing Assistant, Soft Skull Publishing, Inc. |
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1999-02 |
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Management
Consultant, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP .
New York, Boston, D.C. |
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1998-9 |
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Teaching
Assistant: Courses in Geographic Information Systems and Human Geography,
Geography Department, Mount Holyoke College. |
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1998 |
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Policy
Intern and GIS Technician, Massachusetts Department of Environment ,
Boston, MA. |
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1997-9 |
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Lead
Research Assistant, Geography and Geology, Mount Holyoke College. |
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1997 |
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GIS
Intern, Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests ,
Concord, NH. |
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UNIVERSITY
& ORGANIZATIONAL SERVICE |
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University |
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2009-∞ |
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Mentor,
College & Community Fellowship for Formerly Incarcerated Women, CUNY
Baccaluareate Program. |
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2008-∞ |
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Member,
Advisory Board of the Women’s Studies Certificate Program ,
CUNY Graduate Center. |
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2007-∞ |
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Founder
and Member, Spatial Scholars Publishing Group, CUNY Graduate Center; Co-Chair,
2007-8, 2009-∞. |
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2007-∞ |
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Co-Chair,
QUNY Queer Students Group, CUNY Graduate Center. |
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2007-∞ |
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Member,
Participatory Action Research Collective of the CUNY Graduate Center. .
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2006-∞ |
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Executive
Committee, Environmental Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center. |
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2007-5 |
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Curriculum
Committee, Environmental Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center. |
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2006-5 |
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Admissions
Committee, Environmental Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center. |
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2004-∞ |
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Feminist
Caucus, CUNY Graduate Center. |
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2003-4 |
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Institutional
and Community Affairs Committee, Union Theological Seminary at Columbia
University. |
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2002-4 |
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Feminist
Caucus, Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University. |
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1997-9 |
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Student
Representative, Geography and Geology Department Committee, Mount Holyoke
College. |
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1997-9 |
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Underclass
Academic Advisor, Mount Holyoke College. |
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1997-9 |
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Student
Representative, Geography and Geology Department Committee, Mount Holyoke
College. |
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Organizational |
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2006-∞ |
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Member,
Annual Fund Committee, Mount Holyoke College Development Office. |
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2005-∞ |
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Founding
Member and Alumnae Representative, Collaborative Learning Project, Mount
Holyoke College Alumnae Association. |
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2004-9 |
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President,
Mount Holyoke College Class of 1999. |
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2002-4 |
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Development
Committee of the Board of Directors, Union Theological Seminary at Columbia
University. |
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2000-4 |
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Board
Member, Mount Holyoke College New York Alumnae Club. |
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2003-4 |
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Co-Chair,
Mount Holyoke College NYC Young Alumnae. |
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2000-3 |
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Chair
and Director, Mount Holyoke College NYC Vespers Concert .
Led committee of 25 to organize sold-out holiday concert at St. Bartholomew’s
Cathedral on Park Avenue to raise over $11,000 profit per event for college
scholarship fund. |
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Editorial
Board |
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2007 -∞ |
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Member,
Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy.
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Peer Review |
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Gender,
Place and Culture. |
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Transformations:
The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy. |
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RESEARCH
EXPERIENCE |
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2007 -∞ |
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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.
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2006-9 |
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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. |
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2005-8 |
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Principal
Investigator, Independent Research: “Constructing Women: Women’s
Identity Development on Campus and in Society.” Environmental Psychology,
CUNY Graduate Center. |
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2005-6 |
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Principal
Investigator, Independent Work-In-Progress: Feminist Architectural Criticisms
of the Mount Holyoke College. Environmental Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center.
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2004 |
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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 Department,
CUNY Graduate Center. Principal Investigator: Susan Saegert. |
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2003-4 |
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Masters
Thesis: “Ecstasy Has Been Given to the Tiger: Aggression in Quaker
Meeting for Worship” .
Psychiatry and Religion Department, Union Theological Seminary at Columbia
University. |
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1998-9 |
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Senior
Independent Research: “Section 8 Housing Certificates: Better Economic
Base or Better Living?” Geography Department, Mount Holyoke College.
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1998 |
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Independent
Project: Spatial Analysis of England and Wales’ Modernization and
the Effect of Population, 1851 – 1911, History Department, Mount Holyoke
College. |
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1997 |
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Directed
Project: Application of Landscape Level Planning to a Small Coastal Watershed,
The School for Field Studies. Vancouver Island, British Columbia. |
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ORGANIZATIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS |
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2009-∞ |
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American Studies
Association. |
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2009-∞ |
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Society for
the Psychological Study of Social Issues. |
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2009-∞ |
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Urban Affairs
Association. |
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2008-∞ |
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Royal
Institute of Geographers with the Institute of British Geographers
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2006-∞ |
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National
Women's Studies Association. |
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2006-∞ |
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American
Association of University Women . |
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2005-∞ |
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American
Association of Geographers . |
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