Recent PhDs
Saalem AderaHydrology, land-atmosphere feedbacks, rainfall recycling in Brazil, hydrologic modeling, water resources management in California, data-driven methods for analysis of complex environmental systems |
Glenna Anton |
Alexander Arroyo |
Erin Beller“Fast Forward: Using History to Inform Multi-Benefit Ecosystem Management in Human-Dominated Landscapes” (Advisor Dr. Laurel Larsen) |
Seth Denizen“Five Soils and a Letter: profiles in the political ecology of Mexico City (Advisors Dr. Michael Watts and Dr. Jake Kosek) |
Peter EkmanAmerican landscapes; cultural and historical geography; urban and suburban form; intellectual histories of planning and urbanism; social and geographic thought; materiality and material culture; ruins. |
John Elrick
Histories of the Urban Present; Political Economies and Ecologies of Cities; Cultural Landscapes; Political Theory; Science and Technology Studies |
Meleiza FigueroaUrban agriculture, agroecology & agroforestry, political ecology, capitalist social relations & crises, peasant studies, food politics in marginalized communities, migration, rural-urban interconnections, informal settlements, land struggles, dynamics of urbanization in the Global South, Amazônia, North & Northeast Brazil, Latin American studies, Black Atlantic & diaspora studies, production of space |
Ilaria GiglioliBorders, cities, water, colonialism, migration |
Camilla HawthorneDiaspora, Black Europe, Science and Technology Studies |
Kaily HeitzVisual narratives through photography, representation, Black Diaspora studies, identity formation, migration & displacement, borderlands, American Western landscape, community resilience |
Yi JiaoAtmospheric Chemistry |
Wenwen Kong“Westerly Jet and Seasonal Transition of the East Asian Summer Monsoon” (Advisor Dr. John Chiang) |
Nicole List |
Hong-Xu Ma |
Bridget K. MartinMilitarized space and urbanism in South Korea |
Jeff Vance Martin“In the Shadow of the Wolf: Wildlife Conflict and Land Use Politics in the New West (Advisor Dr. Nathan Sayre) |
Brittany Meché“Securing the Sahel: Nature, Catastrophe, and the Empire of Expertise” (Advisor Dr. Michael Watts) |
Gustavo De L.T. OliveiraBrazil, China, global agroindustrial restructuring, geopolitics, political ecology |
Lance R. OwenUrban Geography, Metropolitan Development, Suburban History, Architecture, Urban Culture |
Meredith A. Palmer“Land, Family, Body: Measurement and the Racial Politics of US Colonialism in Haudenosaunee Country” (Advisor: Dr. Jake Kosek) |
Will Payne“Algorithmic Gentrification: Locating Value in Urban Information Systems (Advisors: Dr. Michael Watts and Dr. David O’Sullivan) |
Jesse Rodenbiker"Ecological States: Science, Nature and Cities in China" (Advisor Dr. You-tien Hsing) |
Erin Torkelson“Taken for Granted: Geographies of Social Grants in South Africa” (Advisor: Dr. Gillian Hart) |
Alessandro Tiberio |
Shu-Wei Tsai“Heritage Modernity: The Preservation of the Grand Canal and Everyday Life in Hangzhou, China” (Advisor: Dr. You-Tien Hsing) |
Mollie Van Gordon |
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