Jessica Breen

PhD Candidate in Geography

University of Kentucky

Biography

Jessica Breen is a PhD Candidate in Geography at the University of Kentucky. Her research interests include digital geographies, urban geography, critical mapping and GIS, and civic engagement. She is a fellow with the New Mappings Collaboratory and a research assistant for The Food Connection, both at the University of Kentucky.

Interests

Digital Geographies
Urban Geography
Critical Mapping and GIS
Civic Engagement

Education

PhD Candidate in Geography
University of Kentucky
MS in Environmental Studies
College of Charleston
BA in Political Science
University of South Carolina

Selected Publications

Innisfree McKinnon, Jessica Breen (2019). Expanding Cartographic Practices in the Social Sciences. In The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods, 2nd Ed. L Pauwels & D Mannay, Eds. SAGE Publications.

Jessica Breen, Shannon Dosemagen, Don Blair, Liz Barry (2019). Public Laboratory: Play and civic engagement. In The Playful Citizen: Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture. R Glas, S Lammes, M de Lange, J Raessens, & I de Vries, Eds. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Colleen Miles, Jessica Breen (2017). (Micro)movements and microbrew: On craft beer, tourism trails, and material transformation(s) in the city. In Beers, Ciders and Spirits: Craft Beverages and Tourism in the United States. C Kline, S L Slocum, & C Cavaliere, Eds. New York, NY: Palgrave.

Matthew Zook, Jessica Breen (2017). Mashup. In The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. D RIchardson, N Castree, M Goodchild, W Liu, A Kobayashi, & R Marston, Eds. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley/AAG.

Jessica Breen, Patrick Hurley, Laura Taylor (2016). No (Back)Sliding: Amenity Migration, Viewsheds, and Contesting Steep Slope Ordinances in Western North Carolina. In A Comparative Politicial Ecology of Exurbia. L Taylor and P Hurley, Eds. Springer.

Matthew Zook, Jessica Breen (2016). Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). In Encyclopedia of GIS, 2nd Ed. Shashi Shekhar, Hui Xiong and Xun Zhou, Eds. Springer.

Jessica Breen, Shannon Dosemagen, Jeffrey Warren, Mathew Lippincott (2015). Mapping Grassroots: Geodata and the structure of community-led open environmental science. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 4 (3), 849-73.

Source Document

Don Blair, Jessica Breen, Shannon Dosemagen, Mathew Lippincott, Liz Barry (2013). Civic, Citizen and Grassroots Science: Towards a Transformative Scientific Research Model. In Accountability Technologies: Tools for Asking Hard Questions. D Offenhuber and K Schechtner, Eds. Vienna: Ambra Verlag.

Shannon Dosemagen, Jessica Breen, Don Blair (2013). Democratizing Environmental Research. In Enabling City: enhancing creative community resilience. Vol. 2., ed. C Camponeschi.