About

Jack is finishing my second book project, A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers, 1983-2008, which is under contract with NYU Press. His mixed ethnographic / archival approach resulted in his rethinking the construction of “data” to produce a series of LGBTQ data visualizations about queer history, a project of visualizing the invisible, which will be available on the complementary A Queer New York website.

He is conducting research on trans people’s use of Tumblr as a site of cultural production, and a hub for co-produced medical knowledge. He is also interested in theorizing the meanings and role of private space, namely through the lens of gender, sexuality, race, and disability.

Jack’s work appears in a range of journals, including American Quarterly, Professional Geographer, Area, Antipode, Radical History Review, and Qualitative Inquiry. His first book is The People, Place, and Space Reader, co-edited with William Mangold, Cindi Katz, Setha Low, and Susan Saegert, out with Routledge.

Jack 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. He is proud to have contributed to writing and reviewing the National Parks Service’s LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History, the 1,400+-page document that serves at the basis to create LGBTQ historic monuments in the US.

Jack identifies as a woman, and uses he/him/his pronouns.