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Geography
Jen Gieseking (2010-11)
Jen Gieseking is a geographer and Ph.D. candidate in environmental psychology at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is interested in the co-production space and identity with a special focus on sexuality and gender, cognitive and mental mapping methodologies, and theories of justice, oppression, and the everyday. Her dissertation research focuses on the production of lesbians' and queer women's urban spaces and places in New York City from 1983 to 2008 in order to understand what the shifts in these environments say about these women's changing experiences of justice and oppression, and she will continue this work by performing a comparison study in Berlin during 2010-2011. She has held fellowships from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, Woodrow Wilson Women's Studies Dissertation Fellows Program, and the Instructional Technology Fellows Program at Macaulay Honors College CUNY, as well as receiving the CUNY Graduate Center Proshansky Dissertation Award. She received her high honors for her M.A. in Psychiatry and Religion from Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University, and took her B.A. at Mount Holyoke College.(8/15/10)
Joshua Hagen (2000-01)
Since completing his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003, Josh has been a professor in the Department of Geography at Marshall University. As a German Chancellor Fellow, he spent the year researching the intersection of historical preservation and national identity in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Bavaria. The book based on this research, titled Preservation, Tourism, and Nationalism: The Jewel of the German Past, was published in 2006. Josh has also published several journal articles on geopolitics, international borders, nationalism, historical preservation, urban planning, and architecture, with an emphasis on Germany. He is currently finishing co-editing a book titled Borderlines and Borderlands: Political Oddities at the Edge of the Nation State. In addition to general editorial duties, Josh also co-authored the volume's introductory and concluding chapters. The book is being published by Rowman & Littlefield and should appear in late 2009 or early 2010. As this project nears completion, Josh has begun work on two new book projects. The first, titled Borders: A Very Short Introduction, discusses the historical development and contemporary forces of international borders with a focus on the evolution of the modern state system in the early twenty-first century. The book is under contract with Oxford University Press. The second book project examines the wide ranging construction programs sponsored by the Nazi regime. This book, titled Building Nazi Germany: Place, Space, Architecture and Ideology, is under contract with Rowman & Littlefield. (6/26/09)
Karen Till (1992-93)
Karen is an Associate Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech University. Her book, The New Berlin: Memory, Politics, Place (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005), is based upon ten years of ethnographic research in Berlin, including her research as a German Chancellor Fellow and during subsequent follow-up trips. Karen continues to conduct research in Berlin and is working on, Wall Remnants, a book about the spaces, networks, and environments of the city that continue to be marked by the legacy of division. Her current book project, Interim Spaces, examines historic, yet marginalized urban spaces in Bogotá, Cape Town, Berlin and Minneapolis, cities in which urban and settlement clearances have produced spaces so steeped in violent pasts that their redevelopment has been challenged by residents and citizens who inherit the ‘rootshock’ of systematic displacement. Karen received her Ph.D. in cultural-historical geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her M.A. in ecosystems-geography at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). (7/9/09)
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