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Jenna M. Loyd is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work focuses on feminist geography, racism, state violence, and migration governance. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Syracuse University and The CUNY Graduate Center.
Her research explores health inequities, migration detention, and carceral systems. Notable projects include Boats, Borders, and Bases (2018) and Health Rights Are Civil Rights (2014). Current projects examine trauma in refugee resettlement and climate-driven migration health vulnerabilities.
Loyd has received the Vilas Research Associate award (2025) and the Past President Book Gold Award (2014). She collaborates on projects like the Geopolitics of Trauma (NSF-funded) and a policing justice study in Milwaukee.
Her work bridges academia and activism, advocating for abolitionist frameworks in migration and health policy.
