Graduate Students

2024 grad cohort

Rutgers Geography Welcomes the 2024 Cohort of Graduate Students

Leonardo Calzada
Office: Lucy Stone Hall, room B272
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Research Interests: tropical dry forests, land change science, political ecology
Advisor: Laura Schneider
Degree: Ph.D.

Nia Cambridge
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Research Interests: climate adaptation and resilience, environmental justice, political ecology, postcolonial thought, Caribbean region
Advisor: Kevon Rhiney
Degree: Ph.D.

Katherine Cann
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Research Interests: coastal land use, climate adaptation and resilience, community conservation regimes, political ecology
Advisor: Karen O'Neill
Degree: Ph.D.

Thomas Crowley
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Research Interests: urban geography, political economy, political ecology, India, caste
Advisor: D. Asher Ghertner
Degree: Ph.D.

Ali Hocine Dimerdji
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Degree: Ph.D.

David Ferring
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Research Interests: political ecology, environmental governance, social theory, mixed methods, land-use change, health geography
Advisor: Heidi Hausermann
Degree: Ph.D.

Danny Foster
Office: Lucy Stone Hall, room B243
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Research Interests: trans studies, racial capitalism, everyday life
Advisor: James DeFilippis
Degree: Ph.D.

Jamie Gagliano
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Research Interests: political ecology, feminist geography, land, agriculture, Latin America
Advisor: Andrea Marston
Degree: Ph.D.

Dhruv Gangadharan
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Research Interests: political ecology, artisanal fisheries, biodiversity conservation, community economies, anthropocenes
Advisor: Kevin St. Martin
Degree: Ph.D.

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
Advisor: James DeFilippis
Degree: Ph.D.

Stuti Govil
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Research Interests: urban geography, cities, homelessness, social theory, media urbanism
Advisor: D. Asher Ghertner
Degree: Ph.D.

Md Arafat Hassan
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Research Interests: glaciology, Arctic hydrology, remote sensing
Advisor: Åsa Rennermalm
Degree: Ph.D.

Nyla Howell
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Degree: Ph.D.

Jeffrey Immanuel
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Research Interests: caste, space, nationalism (liberal and fascist), undercommons, small scale fisheries, aquaculture
Advisor: Kevin St Martin
Degree: Ph.D.

Sadaf Javed
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Research Interests: agroecology, local food systems, human-environment relations, agrarian change, political ecology
Advisor: D. Asher Ghertner
Degree: Ph.D.

Raymond Jennings
Office: Lucy Stone Hall, room B245
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Research Interests: Black European and Atlantic studies, urban geography, cultural studies (sonic/blues and hip-hop geographies), postcolonial France, mobility and surveillance studies, politics of belonging and citizenship.
Advisor: D. Asher Ghertner
Degree: Ph.D.

Liana Katz
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Research Interests: labor, mechanization, racial capitalism, STS
Advisor: Andrea Marston
Degree: Ph.D.

Sasha Leidman
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Research Interests: glaciology, polar sciences, hydrology, geomorphology, remote sensing
Advisor: Åsa Rennermalm
Degree: Ph.D.

Alexander M. Liebman
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Research Interests: agrarian studies, race and ethnicity, marxisms, Latin American studies (spec. Colombia), feminist science and technology studies, Black studies, de- and anti-colonial thought
Advisor: Kevon Rhiney
Degree: Ph.D.

Arianna Lindberg
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Research Interests: agriculture, agricultural labor, food systems, diverse economies, agrarian political economy, and political ecology
Advisor: Kevin St. Martin
Degree: Ph.D.

Javiera Madrid
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Degree: Ph.D.

Daniela Mosquera Camacho
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Research Interests: extractivism, territorial planning, state formation, participatory methods, Colombia, Latin America
Advisor: Andrea Marston
Degree: Ph.D.

Fatema Nuzhat
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Research Interests: climate change and adaptation, coastal resilience, traditional ecological knowledge, community development, gender, disaster management, sustainable development
Advisor: Victoria Ramenzoni
Degree: Ph.D.

Laurian Rosa Rosa
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Research Interests: interests: political ecology, privatization of beaches, environmental justice, Puerto Rico
Advisor: Kevon Rhiney
Degree: Ph.D.

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Erin Royals
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Research Interests: race, urban governance, racial spatialization, business improvement districts, special taxing districts, black geographies, urban geography, Kansas City, nightlife, urban security
Advisor: Kathe Newman
Degree: Ph.D.

Ben Barsotti Scott
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Research Interests: infrastructure, climate justice, mutual aid disaster relief, anarchism and anti-statism, queer theory
Advisor: Kevin St. Martin
Degree: Ph.D.

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Safiyeh Tayebi
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Research Interests: public health, urban environmental health, climate change, urban heat island, urbanland use planning
Advisor: Dr.Ubydul Haque
Degree: Ph.D.

Sahithya Venkatesan
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Research Interests: fisheries, political ecology, alternative economies, India
Advisor: Kevin St. Martin
Degree: Ph.D.

Calvin Walds
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Research Interests: Black geographies, Africa and the diaspora, sound studies, carcerality and abolition, poetics, mobility studies
Advisor: Dr. Priscilla Pinto Ferreira
Degree: Ph.D.

Alexis Wiley
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Degree: Ph.D.

Sweta Xess
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Research Interests: urban geography, political ecology, environmental justice, toxic geographies, caste, India
Advisor: D. Asher Ghertner
Degree: Ph.D.

Jing Xiao
Office: Lucy Stone Hall, room B272
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Research Interests: glaciology, climatology
Advisor: Åsa Rennermalm
Degree: Ph.D.

Tyler Young
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Research Interests: political ecology, governance, land-use and settlement patterns in southeastern Senegal
Advisor: Kevin St. Martin
Degree: Ph.D.

Sauvanithi Yupho
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Research Interests: water governance, climate urbanism, institutions, political ecology, infrastructure, flood management, Southeast Asia
Advisor: Pamela McElwee
Degree: Ph.D.

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