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Brenda Allen

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      • Program: M.S.
      • Advisor: David Tulloch
      • Research interests/areas: physical geography, GIS, water resources

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


Ida Ansharyani (PhD Student)
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Toby Applegate (PhD Student)
Research Interests: Human rights, state power, globalization, Slovenia, Eastern Europe


Ariele Baker (PhD Student)
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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


Daniel Barone

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      • Program: PhD
      • Advisor: Karl Nordstrom
      • Research interests/areas: Coastal processes, Coastal Zone Management, Geospatial Analysis,Modeling, Remote Sensing, GIS
      • Previous Degree:
        MA Instructional Technology, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey;
        B.A. Marine Science, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

Neiset Bayouth (PhD Student)
Research Interests:immigration, identity politics, ethnic entrepreneurship, religion, Middle East


Ekaterina Bezborodko (MA Student)
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Jennifer Bjerke

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        • Program: PhD
        • Advisor: Trevor Birkenholtz
        • Research interests/areas: Environmental geography, groundwater, political ecology, justice, social theory, pedagogy
        • Previous Degree: B.S. Environmental Geography, California State Polytechnic University,Pomona;
          A.A. Liberal Arts, College of the Sequoias, Visalia, California

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 K. Campbell

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      • Program: Ph.D
      • Advisor: Bob Lake
      • Research Area: Urban geography, civil society, natural resource management, environmental governance, political ecology
      • Website: http://nrs.fs.fed.us/people/lindsaycampbell
      • Research interests/areas:
      • Previous Degrees: Master of City Planning, MIT, 2006; BA, Princeton University, 2002

Stella Capoccia

      • Previous Degrees: BS, Biology, Lake Erie College , Clark University, IDCE/Environmental Policy

Weizhi Cheng (MS Student)
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Daniel Danza (MA Student)
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Luke Drake (PhD Student)

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      • Program: PhD
      • Advisor: Kevin St. Martin
      • Research interests/areas: Urban geography, community gardens, diverse economies, participatory research
      • Previous Degree:
        MA Geography, University of Miami, 2010
        B.S. Business Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002

Amelia Duffy-Tumasz

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          • Program: Ph.D
          • Advisor: Richard Schroeder
          • Research Interests:political ecology, gender and development, fisheries, Senegal
          • Previous degrees:MA, BA

Colleen Earp

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          • Program: M.S.
          • Advisor: Laura Schneider
          • Research interests/areas: Human environment interactions, biogeography, vegetation change
          • Previous Degree: BA, Geography, University of Mary Washington

Katherine Fenn (PhD Student)
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Jacob Gable (PhD Student)
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Nate Gabriel

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          • Program: Ph.D
          • Advisor: Kevin St. Martin
          • Research interests/areas: urban political ecology, diverse economies, social theory, the public sphere, actor-network theory.
            Website: http://www.nategabriel.com
            Previous degrees:
            MA, Temple University
            BA, Prescott College (BA)

Katherine Gloede (MA Student)
Research Interests: gender/climate/African Cities


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


Ali Horton

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            • Program: Ph.D
            • Research interests/areas: Urban areas of the Global South, poverty eradication, slum upgrading
            • Previous degrees:
              BA, Geography and French, State University of New York at Albany, 2006

Victoria Huber (PhD Student)

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James Jeffers

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            • Program: Ph.D
            • Advisor: James K. Mitchell
            • Research interests/areas: Human dimensions of global environmental change, natural hazards,
              cities, coastal environments, environmental policy, Ireland
            • Website: http://sites.google.com/site/jimjeffersphdcandidate/
            • Previous degrees:
              M.Phil., Rutgers University
              B.A., LL.B., LL.M., National University of Ireland, Galway

Divya Karnad (PhD Student)
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Jeannine Kopec-Zanghi ( Student)
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Samuel T. Ledermann (PhD Student)
Research Interests:agricultural Development, Spatial Econometrics, Africa, Globalization/Inequalities
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John A Legrid

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              • Advisor: Joanna Regulska
              • Research interests/areas: Political geography; urban geography; hazards,disasters; political sociology;
                East Central Europe and the Balkans; Natural resource geopolitics;ethnicity and nationalism;
                post-communist political restructuring; displaced people; European Union; Roma
              • Previous degrees:
                MS, Geography, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
                BS, Landscape Architecture Studies, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville
                BA, Sociology University of Arkansas-Fayetteville

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 Kyle Loewen

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                • Program: M.A.
                • Advisor: James DeFilippis
                • Research interests/areas: The State, Citizenship

Raysa Martinez-Kruger (PhD Student)

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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 Mioduszewski (PhD student)
Research Interests:
arctic climatology, snow cover, remote sensing, radiation balance over snow


Samiah Moustafa ( student)
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Richard Nisa

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                • Program: Ph.D
                • Advisor: Bob Lake
                  Research interests/areas: Political Geography, Historical Geographies of Detention and
                  Confinement, Technologies of Warfare and Control, Security; Speculation
                  and Preemption, Discourses of Power and the Body
                  Website: http://www.crisisofenclosure.com
                  Previous degrees:
                  MA Geography, Rutgers University, 2007
                  BArch, Syracuse University School of Architecture, 2000

John Norton (PhD Student)
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Laura Pangallozzi (PhD Student)
Research Interests: urban geography and the intersection of economic and cultural factors, especially race, in suburban settings


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


 Eric Sarmiento (PhD Student)
Research Interests: Alternative approaches to food provision, wholesale food distribution systems in Spain, cooperatives in Oklahoma, knowledge, identity and emergent subjectivity; taste-making, the swerve, and the limits of control; non-capitalist approaches to making and distributing music;migratory bird conservation and environmentality.
 


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


Abidah Setyowati

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              • Program: Ph.D
              • Advisor: Richard Schroeder
              • Research interests/areas: Climate Governance, REDD+, Neoliberal environmental governance,decentralization and forest governance, community based resources management, identity politics and indigenous movement, gender and resource management.
              • Previous degrees:
                MA – Geography, University of Hawaii at Manoa - 2006
                BS – Biology, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia - 2001

Charlene Sharpe (PhD Student)
Research Interests: food security, climate change, Caribbean/SIDS, human environment dimensions of hazards management


Asher Siebert (PhD Student)
Research Interests:Climate, Climatic Extremes, GIS, climate risk management in a developing world context


Adam Steinberg

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    • Program: Ph.D
    • Advisor: Bob Lake
    • Research interests/areas: urban geography, urban planning, nonprofit management, gentrification

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


Sean Tanner

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                    • Program: Ph.D
                    • Advisor: Kevin St. Martin
                    • Research interests/areas: Rethinking economic development in Guatemala; Asset-based community development; participatory action research; expertise and knowledge;
                      theories of land reform; Latin American geographies
                    • Previous degrees:
                      MA, Geography, Hunter College - CUNY, 2009
                      BA, Spanish and Latin American Studies, University of Oregon, 2002

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Adelle Thomas

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                    • Program: Ph.D.
                    • Advisor: Robin Leichenko
                    • Research interests/areas: tourism, Caribbean, climate change, globalization, resilience
                    • Previous degrees:
                      BA, Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota
                      BS, Engineering Science, Macalester College

Kimberley Thomas (PhD Student)
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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:Relationships between climate and society; climate change and adaptation in India; diverse community economies as sites for alternate adaptations to climate change; knowledge, power, expertise and hybrid subjects


Kathleen Woodhouse (PhD Student)
Research Interests: insecurity, migration, virtual spaces,
comic books, Islam, France


Irene Zager

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                    • Program: Ph.D.
                    • Advisor: Dr. Laura Schneider
                    • Research interests/areas: land change science, landscape ecology, remote sensing, GIS
                      applications, biodiversity conservation
                    • Previous degrees:
                      MS, Ecology, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas,Caracas, Venezuela Licenciado en Biologia. Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela.

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