• Children's and youth geographies
• Youth organizations
• Student debt
• College affordability
• Faculty and student labor

San Diego State University and University of California, Santa Barbara - Geography, PhD, 2013

Goerisch, Denise, Jae Basiliere, Ashley Rosener, Kimberly McKee, Jodee Hunt, and Tonya M. Parker. Mentoring with: Reimagining Mentoring across the University. Gender, Place & Culture 26, no. 12 (2019)

Kendall, Nancy, Denise Goerisch, Esther C. Kim, Franklin Vernon, and Matthew Wolfgram. The True Costs of College. Springer Nature, 2020.

Goerisch, Denise. Doing Good Work: Feminist Dilemmas of Volunteering in the Field.The Professional Geographer 69, no. 2 (2017): 307-13. 

Goerisch, Denise. Safe Spaces or Spaces of Control? Racial Tensions at Predominately White Institutions. In Landscapes of Hate Tracing Spaces, Relations, and Responses, edited by Edward Hall, Clayton, John, and Donavan, Catherine. Bristol University Press, 2022.

Goerisch, Denise, Ty Krueger, and Madison Edwards. Considering Ethics of Care in Online Learning Spaces. Digital Geography and Society 6 (June 2024): 100087. 

Dr. Goerisch research focuses on the socio-economic lives of children and young people. She is currently researching college students' engagements with the costs of pursuing higher education in the US, labor practices on university campuses, and care ethics in higher education. She has published on topics related to online learning, mentoring, faculty labor, emotional labor and girlhood, children's work and play, and leadership in informal educational spaces.