- Janet A. Adomako
- Advisor: Heidi Hausermann
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Email: janet.adomako@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: political ecology, gender, livelihoods, development, ethnography, Ghana
Graduate Students
Rutgers Geography’s 2019 cohort of new Master’s and PhD students
- Jessica August
- Advisor: David Robinson
- Degree: M.S.
- Email: jma355@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: physical geography
- Sangeeta Banerji
- Advisor: D. Asher Ghertner
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Email: sangeeta.banerji@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: urban studies, bureaucracy, state space, development, brokerage
- Samantha L. Bowden
- Advisor: Robert W. Lake
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall, Room B-243
- Email: sam.bowden@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: social movements, public space/memory, decolonial politics, cultural landscapes, political economy of difference
- Christopher Butrico
- Advisor: Richard G. Lathrop
- Degree: M.S.
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall, Room B-249
- Email: chris.butrico@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: geospatial science, coastal resilience
- Thomas Crowley
- Advisor: D. Asher Ghertner
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall, Room B-245
- Email: trc90@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: urban geography, political economy, India, caste
- David Ferring
- Advisor: Heidi Hausermann
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Email: david.ferring@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: political ecology, environmental governance, social theory, mixed methods, land-use change, health geography
- María Alexandra García
- Advisor: James DeFilippis
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Email: ma.garcia@rutgers.edu
- 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
- Stuti Govil
- Advisor: D. Asher Ghertner
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Email: stutigovil@gmail.com
- Research Interests: urban geography, cities, homelessness, social theory, media urbanism
- Mónica P. Hernández Ospina
- Advisor: Thomas Rudel
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Email: monica.hernandez@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: Latin America, Colombia, Afro Latin American communities, political ecology, territory, land ownership, rural communities
- Jenny Isaacs
- Advisor: Richard Schroeder
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Email: jenny.isaacs@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: birds, conservation, community engagement, biodiversity, social science aspects of conservation, mapping stewardship along migratory route, biocultural diversity
- Sadaf Javed
- Advisor: D. Asher Ghertner
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Email: sadaf.javed@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: agroecology, local food systems, human-environment relations, agrarian change, political ecology
- Liana Katz
- Advisor: Robert Lake
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Email: liana.katz@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: critical university studies, circulation of experts and expertise, militarization of space, racial capitalism, decolonial praxis
- Steven King
- Advisor: Laura Schneider
- Degree: M.A.
- Email: srk154@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
- Laura F. Landau
- Advisor: Robin Leichenko
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall, Room B-243
- Email: laura.landau@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: social infrastructure, community organizing, emergency management, public space, civic stewardship, coastal resilience
- Sasha Leidman
- Advisor: Åsa Rennermalm
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall, Room B-257
- Email: sasha.leidman@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: glaciology, polar sciences, hydrology, geomorphology, remote sensing
- Alexander M. Liebman
- Advisor: Kevon Rhiney
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Email: alex.liebman@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: political ecology, data science, agrarian studies, race, financialization of land
- Arianna Lindberg
- Advisor: Kevin St. Martin
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Email: a.lindberg@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: agriculture, agricultural labor, food systems
- Ana Mahecha
- Advisor: Robin Leichenko
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Email: ana.mahecha@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: agroecology, solidarity economies, climate change, challenges of change and transformation, local food systems
- Hudson McFann
- Advisor: D. Asher Ghertner
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall, Room B-119B
- Email: hudson.mcfann@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: historical geography, the politics of humanitarianism, urban studies, archives and memory, oral history, aesthetics, discard studies, Cambodia
- Justin D. Mullikin
- Advisor: Heidi Hausermann and Kevon Rhiney
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall, Room B-243
- Email: justin.mullikin@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: Central/East Africa, Rwanda, human-environment relations, agricultural land-use/cover change, development policy, assemblage geographies, feminist political ecology, mixed methods
- Rohi Muthyala
- Advisor: Åsa Rennermalm
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall, Room B-272
- Email: rohi.muthyala@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: arctic hydrology, glaciology, hydrological modeling, surface hydrology
- Khai Hoan Nguyen
- Advisor: Robin Leichenko
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Email: knn15@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: hazards, Katrina, Vietnamese community in New Orleans
- Alana Rader
- Advisor: Laura Schneider
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Email: amr461@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: land change science, biogeography, resilience
- Erin Royals
- Advisor: Kathe Newman
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall, Room B-253
- Email: erin.royals@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: race, urban governance, racial spatialization, business improvement districts, special taxing districts, black geographies, urban geography, Kansas City, nightlife, urban security
- Logan M. Soldo
- Advisor: David Robinson
- Degree: M.S.
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall, Room B-172
- Email: lms513@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: Earth science, climatology, cryosphere climatology, meteorology, atmospheric science
- Natalie G. Teale
- Advisor: David Robinson
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall, Room B-272
- Email: natalie.teale@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: climatology, hydroclimatology, precipitation patterns, climate change, applied climatology
- Hoang Mai Thach
- Advisor: Pam McElwee
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Email: hmt46@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: neoliberalism and conservation, cultural geography and development, environmental anthropology and climate change
- Sean Thatcher
- Advisor: Richard G. Lathrop
- Degree: M.S.
- Email: sean.thatcher1990@gmail.com
- Research Interests: remote sensing, coastal sciences, coastal resilience, education, disability inclusion and equal access
- Sadia Baba Tijjani
- Advisor: Ming Xu
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Office: Walton Center, Room 137
- Email: sadia.baba@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: process-based models, remote sensing, GIS, R and Python programming, machine learning, big data analytics
- Sahithya Venkatusan
- Advisor: Kevin St. Martin
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Email: sv574@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: Political Ecology, coastal economy, agrarian change, aquaculture
- Tashanna J. Walker
- Advisor: Kevon Rhiney
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall, Room B-245
- Email: tjw121@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: urban militarization, urban redevelopment, political economy, social justice, ethnography
- Jonah Walters
- Advisor: Kevin St. Martin
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall, Room B-235
- Email: jonah.walters@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: socialism, development, workers cooperatives, economic history, Nicaragua
- Jing Xiao
- Advisor: Åsa Rennermalm
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall, Room B-272
- Email: j.xiao@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: glaciology, climatology
- Tyler Young
- Advisor: Kevin St. Martin
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Email: tyler.young46@gmail.com
- Research Interests: political ecology, governance, land-use and settlement patterns in southeastern Senegal
