Graduate Students
Emmanuel Afriyie
PhD Student
Specialties: GIS, Spatial optimization and modeling, Transportation, Health Geographies
Brij Banerji
PhD Student
Specialties: Dendrochronology, Climate, Biogeography, Ecology
Elizabeth Barnes
PhD Student
Specialties: Paleoecology, Biogeography, Climate, Fire History, Quaternary Environments
Ellen Bergan
PhD Student
Specialties: Dendrochronology, Biogeography, Climate, Queer ecology, Creative geographies
Luke Blentlinger
PhD Student
Specialties: Environmental history from lake sediments, paleoclimate, environmental change, climate change, stable isotopes, palynology, savannas, biogeography.
Brian Boyce
PhD Student
Specialties: Black Geographies & Global Black Studies – Performance, Diaspora, and Cultural Production – Public-Facing and Experimental Scholarship
Mackenzie Casteel
MS Student
Specialties: Dendrochronology, Biogeography, Hydroclimate
Hsiang-Chun Chen
PhD Student
Specialties: GIScience, Transporation Geography and Human Dynamics
Cooper Corey
PhD Student
Specialties: Climatology, severe weather, climate change, biometeorology
Sukanya Das
PhD Student
Specialties: Migration, Gender Economy, Population Geography, South Asia
Swachhatoya Das
PhD Student, Graduate Teaching Assistant
Specialties: Migration, Labor Geography, Economic Geography, Geography of Gender
Zach Dorminey
PhD Student
Specialties: Small area estimation, forest inventories, multidimensional data problems, spatial statistics
Sarah Farahpoor
PhD Student
Specialties: Feminist and queer geographies, urban geography, Home and Migration
Jordan Fazio
PhD Student
Specialties: Climatology, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Severe Weather, Natural Hazards
Zane Frentress
PhD Student
Specialties: Feminist Geography, Coastal Americas, Climate Crisis, Migration, Affective Geography
Caleb Gore
PhD Student
Specialties: political economy, Appalachia, environmental justice, energy, political ecology
Caroline Hamilton
MS Student
Specialties: Political economy, political ecology, industrial policy, manufacturing, energy justice, environmental justice, racial capitalism, labor, social reproduction, uneven development, US South, Appalachia
Shabiha Hossain
PhD Student
Specialties: Geospatial Analysis, Health Geography, Environmental Geography
Kh Shakibul (Shakib) Islam
PhD Student
Specialties: Wetland and Environmental Monitoring, Deep learning, Geographic Information Science
Wan Hee Kim
PhD Student
Specialties: Location Modeling, Spatial Optimization, Transport Geography, Spatial Statistics and GIScience
Johnathan Lynn
PhD Student
Specialties: Economic Geography, Urban Geography
Mahnaz Meem
PhD Student
Specialties: Physical geography and remote sensing
Mia Nighgroh
PhD Student
Specialties: Historical, Feminist, and Queer Geography; Placemaking and Countermapping; Housing and Homeownership; Mixed Methods
Nancy Nthiga
PhD Student
Specialties: Remote Sensing; Biogeography; Sustainability; GIS
Yangbeom Park
PhD Student
Specialties: Energy-labor nexus, Political geography, Political ecology, Urban commons, Geographical political economy, Korea, East Asia, Philosophy
Katrina Stack
PhD Candidate
Specialties: Geographies of memory, Black geographies, heritage preservation
Abel Traslaviña-Arias
PhD Student
Specialties: Political ecology (of water), traditional knowledge (resource management and infrastructure), Andean communities (Peru), GIS, remote sensing (historical photogrammetry).
Yung-Ming Tsai
PhD Candidate
Specialties: GIScience, Transportation Geography, Human Dynamics, Machine Learning, Web GIS Development
Shrabonti Zaman
PhD Student, Graduate Teaching Assistant
Specialties: Hydrology, Geographic Information System, Remote Sensing
Xinming (Andy) Zhang
PhD Student
Specialties: GIS, Remote sensing, Energy Geography
