Graduate Students

Tamee Albrecht

Ph.D. Student

Graduate Research Associate

• Water resources geography
• Science-policy interface
• Transboundary water

Heather Altherr

MDP Student

Talia Anderson

M.A. Student

Graduate Research Assistant

Yesenia Andrade

Ph.D. Student

Avery Julian Baker

MDP Student

Sophia Borgia

Ph.D. Candidate

• Water conflicts
• Law
• Indigenous rights

Sophia Layser Borgias

Ph.D. Student

Michael Brasher

Ph.D. Candidate

Graduate Assistant

Natalia Ann Cachora

MDP Student

Tony Colella

Ph.D. Candidate

James Cunningham

M.A. Student

• Climate change adaptation
• Global change ecology
• Environmental governance

Julia Davies

Ph.D. Candidate

• Climate change adaptation
• Agriculture
• Urban food security

Jack DeBoer

MDP Student

Alison Elder

Ph.D. Student

Graduate Research Assistant

Abbey Eversole Fluckiger

MDP Student

Lauren Fritzsche

Ph.D. Student

• Refugee resettlement
• Place and place-making
• Identity and belonging

Pradnya Garud

Miriam Gay-Antaki

Ph.D. Candidate

Fiona Gladstone

Ph.D. Student

• Food systems
• Political ecology and economy
• Critical pedagogy

Julian Hartman

Robert Hartwell

MDP Student

Robert Hibberd

Ph.D. Student

Graduate Research Assistant

• Urban geography and planning
• GIS
• Regional and economic development

Amata R. Inshuti

MDP Student

Joey Iuliano

Ph.D. Candidate

Graduate Teaching Associate

• Urban planning

Philana Jeremiah

Richard Johnson

Ph.D. Candidate

Nupur Joshi

Ph.D. Candidate

Graduate Research Assistant

• International development
• Urban environmental health
• Gender and climate vulnerability

Surabhi Karambelkar

Ph.D. Candidate

• Water governance and policy
• International environmental policy
• Renewable energy policy

Sonia Kaufman

M.A. Student

Eden Kinkaid

Ph.D. Student

• Rural change
• Development
• Agarian identities

Jed Kinnison

Ph.D. Candidate

• Colonial studies
• Critical race theory
• International human rights

Aaron Krupp

M.A. Student

• Water governance
• Water policy
• Participatory decision making

Emma Lawlor

Ph.D. Student

• political ecology of health
• Labor geography
• Environmental history

Kang San Lee

Ph.D. Student

• Remote sensing
• Wildfire

Elena Louder

Ph.D. Candidate

• political ecology of health
• Labor geography
• Environmental history

Annita Sophia Lucchesi

Ph.D. Student

Sehdia Mansaray

MDP Student

Diego Martinez-Lugo

M.A. Student

Graduate Assistant

• Critical race theory
• Political ecology
• Climate justice

Laura McCann

MDP Student

Charles Meisch

MDP Student

Dugan Meyer

Ph.D. Student

Research Assistant

• Political geography
• Cultural geography
• Urban geography

Jake Meyers

MDP Student

Taylor Miller

Ph.D. Candidate

• Colonial/postcolonial theory
• Urban geography
• Political geography of the contemporary Middle East and Mediterranean

Megan Mills-Novoa

Ph.D. Candidate

• Climate change adaptation
• Water governance
• Food systems

Isabella Moreno

MDP Student

Mary Ngugi

MDP Student

Ava Obrecht

M.A. Student

Özlem Ayse Özgür

Ph.D. Candidate

Multimedia Design Specialist

• Political geography
• Economic Geography
• Film geography

Alex Pakalniskis

Graduate research assistant

Ph.D. Student

• Climate risk
• Food scarcity in Zambia

Hiram Peña

MDP Student

Katrina Pietromica

M.A. Student

Graduate Teaching Assistant

• Critical geographies of education
• Place-making
• Compulsory schools

Robert Riley

MDP Student

Sofia Rodriguez McGoffin

Bokjin Roh

Ph.D. Student

• Urban resilience
• Urban risk governance
• Extreme weather events

Patricia Schwartz

M.A. Student

Padmendra Shrestha

Ph.D. Student

Abdul Sigal

MDP Student

Noah Silber-Coats

Ph.D. Candidate

Shelby Smith

Ph.D. Candidate

• Socio-spatial theory
• Urban and state theory
• Sanctuary cities

Elisa Sperandio

Ph.D. Student

Teaching Assistant

• Migration
• Borders
• Citizenship and belonging

Joshua Steele

Tom Stieve

Ph.D. Student

Thomas Sullivan

Ph.D. Student

Senior Coordinator

Leland Sutter

Ph.D. Student

• Soil carbon and water flux
• Pedology
• Ecosystem Ecology

Lara Tarantini

Ph.D. Student

WIll Tintor

Ph.D. Student

Graduate Research Assistant

Nathan Treacy

M.A. Student

Teaching Assistant

Samantha Jane Turner

MDP Student

Georgia Weiss-Elliott

M.A. Student

Graduate Research Assistant

• U.S.-Mexico border
• Geospatial visualization

Yinan Zhang

Qing Zhong

Ph.D. Candidate

Research Assistant

• Spatial optimization
• Location analysis and modeling
• GIS

Andrew Zimmer

Ph.D. Student

Graduate Research Assistant