- 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 Welcomes the 2020 Cohort of Graduate Students
- 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: urban public policy, community development, public space/memory, cultural landscapes, decolonial/social movements, 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
- Leonardo Calzada
- Advisor: Laura Schneider
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Email: leonardo.calzada@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: tropical dry forests, land change science, political ecology
- Maravilla Clemens
- Advisor: Kevon Rhiney
- Degree: M.S.
- Email: mdc249@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: coastal resiliency, climate adaptation, environmental justice, coastal communities, Caribbean region
- 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, political ecology, 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
- Jamie Gagliano
- Advisor: Andrea Marston
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Email: jcg243@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: political ecology, feminist geography, land, agriculture, Latin America
- 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.
- Email: hudson.mcfann@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: historical geography, political geography, the history and politics of humanitarianism, aesthetics, oral history, political violence, waste, Cambodia and Southeast Asia
- 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: New York City, waterfront development, climate resilience, industrial retention, public policy and planning
- 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.
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall, Room B-109
- Email: hmt46@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: science and technology studies in nature conservation, rewilding nature, conservation values and ethics, environmental stewardship, nature conservation in the Anthropocene, ethnoprimatology and multispecies ethnography, science and communication
- 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 Venkatesan
- Advisor: Kevin St. Martin
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall, Room B-247
- Email: sahithya.venkat@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: fisheries, political ecology, alternative economies, India
- 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
- Sauvanithi Yupho
- Advisor: Pamela McElwee
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Email: s.yupho@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: water governance, climate urbanism, institutions, political ecology, infrastructure, flood management, Southeast Asia
