Rutgers Geography

Margo Andrews (PhD Student)
Research Interests: political Ecology (1st & 3rd world), critical conservation and devemopment, technology and society, Northeastern US

Toby Applegate (PhD Student)
Research Interests: folk material culture; nationalism; Slovenia, Eastern Europe

Pasquale Baldino (MA Student)
Research Interests: political geography, land use and development, Inuit society

Mark Barnes (PhD Student)
Research Interests: climate change, risk, hazard, U.S. cities, policy, sectoral impact

Elizabeth Barron (PhD Student)
Research Interests: land management, forestry, conservation, non-timber forest products, alternative economies
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Neiset Bayouth (PhD Student)
Research Interests: immigration, identity politics, ethnic entrepreneurship, religion, Middle East

Alexis Buckley (PhD Student)
Research Interests: memory, identity, & place; public art, visuality & territoriality, colonialism, segregation & transitional societies

Kari Burnett (PhD Student)
Research Interests: international migration, forced migration, integration, migration policy

Lindsay Campbell (PhD Student)
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Stella Capoccia (PhD Student)
Research Interests: wildlife conservation and rehabilitation; Africa

Monalisa Chatterjee (PhD Student)
Research Interests: hazards, cities, development, environment, climate change

Weizhi Cheng (MS Student)
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Nicole Davi (PhD Student)
Research Interests: dendrochronology, paleoclimatology, tree-ring based drought reconstructions, climate change

Robert Donovan (PhD Student)
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Colleen Earp (MS Student)
Research Interests: biogeography, forestry, changes in vegetation,
human environment interactions

Dinali Fernando (PhD Student)
Research Interests: hydro-climatology, climate applications, remote sensing, drought monitoring and forecasting

Carolin J. Ferwerda (MS Student)
Research Interests: GIS and remote sensing, ecological niche modeling, natural resource management

Carl B. Figueiredo (MS Student)
Research Interests: environment, GIS, natural resources

Nathaniel J. Gabriel (PhD Student)
Research Interests: urban political ecology, post-structuralism, diverse economies, anarchism

Rosana Grafals (PhD Student)
Research Interests: coastal geomorphology and management,physical geography
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Giovani Graziosi (PhD Student)
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Deborah Greenwood (PhD Student)
Research Interests: urban agriculture, feminization of agriculture, alternative farming methods, local food production systems

Marilyn Guidry (PhD Student)
Research Interests: public health, local environments, spatial analysis & GIS

David Gwynn (PhD Student)
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Victoria Huber (PhD Student)
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James Jeffers (PhD Student)

Research Interests: Human dimensions of global environmental change, natural hazards, coastal environments, cities, Ireland
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Jessica Kelly (PhD Student)
Research Interests: human-environment interface, economic and environmental geography, gendered migration, forestry, Latin America

Jeanine Kopec (PhD Student)
Research Interests: GIS, critical theory of GIS,
natural resource management, environmental justice

Mariana Leckner (PhD Student)
Research Interests: response to hazardous events by special needs populations.

Samuel T. Ledermann (PhD Student)
Research Interests: Agricultural Development, Spatial Econometrics, Africa, Globalization/Inequalities
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Isabel Linkenbach (MA Student)
Research Interests: climate change, natural hazards

Charles McGlynn (PhD Student)
Research Interests: freshwater resources & management, saltwater intrusion,
sustainable water use, the Phillippines

Christopher Mikolajczyk (MS Student)
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John Mioduszewskii (PhD student)
Research Interests: snow, ice, polar climates, climate change

Michael Mohammed (PhD student)
Research Interests: climate change, media, representation

James Myers (PhD Student)
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Benjamin Neimark (PhD Student)
Research Interests: bioprospecting, political ecology, uneven development, africa, Madagascar
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Richard Nisa (PhD Student)
Research Interests: critical geopolitics, critical legal studies, technologies
of warfare, state spatiality, detention and confinement, globalization,
relationships between power and the human body
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Laura Pangallozzi (PhD Student)
Research Interests: human geography, particularly urban/metropolitan geography and the intersection of economic and cultural factors, especially race, in suburban
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Kavita Ramsamy (PhD Student)
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James Riely (MA Student)
Research Interests: security, disaster relief, cultural geography

Purba Rudra (PhD Student)
Research Interests: medical and wellness tourism, socially responsible tourism, Incredible India campaign

Eric Sarmieneto (PhD Student)
Research Interests: post-structural marxism, political ecology, alternative food networks, Spain

Deborah Scot (PhD Student)
Research Interests: human - environment interactions, political ecology, and food sovereignty

Abidah Setyowati (PhD Student)
Research Interests: Neoliberal environmental governance, decentralization,community based resources management, identity politics and indigenous movement

Tamara Shapiro (PhD Student)
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Asher Siebert (PhD Student)
Research Interests: Climate, Climatic Extremes, and GIS

Adam Steinberg (MA/PhD Student)
Research Interests: urban geography, nonprofit management
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Jennifer Stevens (PhD Student)
Research Interests: political ecology, social theory

Brian R. Stromberg (MS Student)
Research Interests: urban geography, capital & the construction of urban space, alternative housing models

Rachel Sutton (MS Student)
Research Interests: urban geography, community development, social and environmental justice

Sean Tanner (PhD Student)
Research Interests: critical geographies of Latin America, GIS, qualitative research methods, and social theory

Adelle Thomas (MA/PhD Student)
Research Interests: climate change, tourism, Caribbean, human-environment relations

Irene Tung (PhD Student)
Research Interests: China, labor, housing, suburbanization, neoliberalism, GIS, and political economy

Peter Vancura (MA/PhD Student)
Research Interests: international development; globalization, geographic education

Kalpana Venkatasubramanian (PhD Student)
Research Interests: climate and society, and relationships between climate and development

Anastasia Wincorn (MS Student)
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Bradley Wilson (PhD Student)
Research Interests: social theory, gendered space, consumption, commodity chain analyses, cultural politics and Latin America

Kathleen Woodhouse (PhD Student)
Research Interests: security, migration, citizenship, France

Irene Zager (PhD Student)
Research Interests: land change science, landscape ecology,
remote sensing & GIS applications, biodiversity conservation