Jenna Loyd Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow jloyd@maxwell.syr.edu Ph.D. Geography, University of California, Berkeley, 2005

Biographical Information

Jenna M. Loyd will be part of the Department of Geography as a Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow in the Humanities for 2006-2007.  She graduated from University of California, Berkeley in December, 2005 with a Ph.D. in Geography, and previously taught Women’s Studies at California State University, Fullerton.  Jenna’s research focuses upon issues of health and social justice in U.S. cities.  Her dissertation, ‘Freedom’s Body,’ is a political geography of three strands of health activism that took place in Los Angeles during the 1960s and 1970s.  She analyzed how the civil rights, third world left, and women’s movements identified and sought to transform specific manifestations of urban crisis that were simultaneously health crises, namely racial segregation, economic abandonment, and welfare retrenchment.  Activists from these movements linked urban crisis with the war in Vietnam as two expressions of racism and human abandonment, and came together to stop the war.  As part of the new Humanities Center freshman writing courses, this fall Jenna is teaching ‘Whose City?: Social Justice and Everyday Life.’  In the spring she will be teaching a course entitled ‘Finding the Invisible City.’  You can reach Jenna at jloyd@maxwell.syr.edu to talk more about issues of war, social justice, and adventures in finding good coffee in Syracuse.