2025gradcohort

Rutgers Geography Welcomes the 2025 Cohort of Graduate Students

Leonardo Calzada

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Lucy Stone Hall, room B272
Research Interests: tropical dry forests, land change science, political ecology

Nia Cambridge

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Research Interests: climate adaptation and resilience, environmental justice, political ecology, postcolonial thought, Caribbean region

Katherine Cann

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Research Interests: climate and environmental justice, adaptation, knowledge co-production & community engaged research, political ecology, coastal and urban geography, Northeast U.S.

Wan Chantavilasvong

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Research Interests: urban marine ecology, biodiversity, marine-urban governance, geospatial, economic valuation, ecosystem services

Thomas Crowley

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Research Interests: urban geography, political economy, political ecology, India, caste

Ali Hocine Dimerdji

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Nuzhat Fatema

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Research Interests: climate change and adaptation, coastal resilience, traditional ecological knowledge, community development, gender, disaster management, sustainable development

David Ferring

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Research Interests: political ecology, environmental governance, social theory, mixed methods, land-use change, health geography

Danny Foster

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Research Interests: trans studies, racial capitalism, everyday life

Jamie Gagliano

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Research Interests: political ecology, feminist geography, land, agriculture, Latin America

Dhruv Gangadharan

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Research Interests: political ecology, artisanal fisheries, biodiversity conservation, community economies, anthropocenes

María Alexandra García

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Research Interests: uneven development, globalization, modernity, mobilities, decolonial feminism, social reproduction, Andes, Ecuador, Latin America, Caribbean, Latinx geographies in the U.S., Latino studies, transnational migration and solidarity, feminist geographies, critical human and cultural geographies, cooperatives and solidarity economies

Md Arafat Hassan

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Research Interests: glaciology, Arctic hydrology, remote sensing

Nyla Howell

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Research Interests: Black geographies, disasters, and climate adaptation

Jeffrey Immanuel

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Research Interests: caste, space, nationalism (liberal and fascist), undercommons, small scale fisheries, aquaculture

Sadaf Javed

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Research Interests: agrarian studies, agroecology, food systems, human-environment relations, agrarian political economy, political ecology, digital governance, climate change adaptation, India

Raymond Jennings

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Research Interests: Urban Geography, Black European & Sonic Geographies, Race (blackness) & Representation, Mobility Studies, Postcolonial France

Liana Katz

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Research Interests: labor, mechanization, racial capitalism, STS

Arianna Lindberg

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Research Interests: agriculture, agricultural labor, food systems, diverse economies, agrarian political economy, and political ecology

Javiera Madrid

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Research Interests: critical resource geography, political ecology, Science and Technology Studies, postcolonial and decolonial thought, Latin America

Daniela Mosquera Camacho

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Research Interests: property, peasants, campesinos, campesinas, protected areas, solidarity, energy transition, Colombia, U.S.

Laurian Rosa Rosa

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Research Interests: interests: political ecology, privatization of beaches, environmental justice, Puerto Rico

Ben Barsotti Scott

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Research Interests: infrastructure, climate justice, mutual aid disaster relief, anarchism and anti-statism, queer theory

Safiyeh Tayebi

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Lucy Stone Hall, room B272
Research Interests: geospatial data analysis, GIS, GeoAI, urban digital infrastructure, data centers

Zuleima Vazquez-Carrillo

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Research Interests: political ecology, agrarian studies, cultural foodways, critical food studies, Puerto Rico, diaspora

Sahithya Venkatesan

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Research Interests: fisheries, political ecology, alternative economies, India

Calvin Walds

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Research Interests: Black geographies, Africa and the diaspora, sound studies, carcerality and abolition, poetics, mobility studies

Alexis Wiley

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Research Interests: Black Geographies, agroecology, Black agrarian practice, Black ecologies

Sweta Xess

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Research Interests: urban geography, political ecology, environmental justice, toxic geographies, caste, India

Sauvanithi Yupho

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Research Interests: water governance, climate urbanism, institutions, political ecology, infrastructure, flood management, Southeast Asia

Yi Zou

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Research Interests: political ecology, critical food studies, rural studies, STS, agroecology, china