Jessa Loomis

Research Interests:
financial inclusion and exclusion
geographies of wealth and inequality
social policy
urban geography
debt
economic development
everyday geographies of financialization
social reproduction
impoverishment
Current Affiliation

Dr. Jessa Loomis defended her dissertation "Financial Inclusion in the City: Examining the Democratization of Finance in Boston, Massachusetts" in August 2018 and she is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Urban-Economic Geography in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University. Dr. Loomis also received an MA in geography from the University of Kentucky and earned graduate certificates in Gender and Women's Studies (2015) and Social Theory (2013) while at UK.  

Selected Publications:

Rosenman, E., Loomis, J., & Kay, K. (2019). “Diversity, representation, and the limits of engaged pluralism in (economic) geography” Progress in Human Geography. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132519833453

Cockayne, D., Horton, A., Kay, K., Loomis, J., & Rosenman, E. (2018). "On economic geography’s “movers” to business and management schools: A response from outside “the project”. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 50(7), 1510-1518. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X18796506

Loomis, J. (2018). “Rescaling and reframing poverty: Financial coaching and the pedagogical spaces of financial inclusion in Boston, Massachusetts” Geoforum, 95, 143-152  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.06.014

Loomis, J. (2017). Review of Rebecca Kinney's Beautiful Wasteland: The Rise of Detroit as America's Postindustrial Frontier. Antipode https://radicalantipode.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/beautiful-wasteland-symposium_loomis.pdf

Murphy, M., M. Jacobsen, A. Crane, J. Loomis, M. F. Bolduc, C. Mott, S. Zupan, A.M. Debbane, & R.L. (2015). “Making space for critical pedagogy in the neoliberal university: Struggles and possibilities.” ACME 14(4): 1260-1282.https://www.acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1296