I'm a PhD Candidate in Geography at the University of Kentucky. I'm also a fellow with the New Mappings Collaboratory and the research assistant for The Food Connection. In my spare time, I'm a volunteer at Broke Spoke, Lexington's community bike shop, and I co-organize MaptimeLEX.
My primary interests can be summed up as art, code, maps, and cities, and my research endeavors to combine those four things to varying degrees of success.
I make a lot of maps. You can see some of the work I've done with Mapshop in our online portfolio. My current focus is on digital maps, but I also do print and hand-drawn work. I'm available for hire!
McKinnon, I, and J 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.
Breen, J, S Dosemagen, D Blair, and L 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.
Miles, C and J 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 U.S., C Kline, S L Slocum, & C Cavaliere, Eds. New York, NY: Palgrave.
Zook, M, and J 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
Zook, M, and J Breen. 2016. Volunteered Geographic Information, in Encyclopedia of GIS, 2nd Ed. Shashi Shekhar, Hui Xiong and Xun Zhou, Eds. Springer.
Breen, J, P Hurley, and L 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.
Breen, J, S Dosemagen, J Warren, and M Lippincott. 2015. Mapping Grassroots: Geodata and the structure of community-led open environmental science. ACME: an International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 14(3), 849–873.
Blair, D, J Breen, S Dosemagen, M Lippincott and L 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.
Dosemagen, S, J Breen and D Blair. 2013. “Democratizing Environmental Research.” In Enabling City: enhancing creative community resilience. Vol. 2., ed. C. Camponeschi.
Send me an email or find me on Twitter @jessibreen.