Graduate Students

Janet Adomako

Advisor: Heidi Hauserman

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:janet.adomako@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: Land cover/land use change, gender, livelihoods and urban geography

Elizabeth Alexander

Advisor: K. Rhiney/R. Schroeder

Degree: M.A.

Research Interests: Political ecology, environment and society

Ida Ansharyani

Advisor: Pam McElwee

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:ida.ansharyani@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: Climate change adaptation, traditional ecological knowledge, sustainable livelihood, participatory action research, conservation

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Jessica August

Advisor: D. Robinson

Degree: M.S.

Research Interests: Physical geography

Sangeeta Banerji

Advisor: Asher Ghertner

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:sangeeta.banerji@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: urban geography, slums, informal sector, planning, urban river fronts

Courtney Berne

Advisor: R. Schroeder

Degree: M.A.

Research Interests: Feminist geography, postcolonial studies

Samantha Bowden

Advisor: Robert Lake and Asher Ghertner

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:sam.bowden@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: Political economy and urban geographies of cities in the American South; decolonial politics; and social movements

Michael Brady

Advisor: Robin Leichenko

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:michael.brady@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: Arctic Alaska, climate change, water resources management, urbanization, adaptation issues, climate change and society resilience theory, GIS

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Gregory Brodie

Advisor: K. Newman

Degree: M.A.

Research Interests: Urban geography, critical theory

Thomas Crowley

Advisor: A. Ghertner

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Urban geography, India, Political Ecology

David Eisenhauer

Advisor: Robin Leichenko

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:david.eisenhauer@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: climate change, governance, adaptive capacity

Katherine (Tabby) Fenn

Advisor: Laura Schneider

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:tfenn@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: conservation, protected areas, New Jersey, remote sensing

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David Ferring

Advisor: Heidi Hausermann

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto: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: mailto:ma.garcia@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: political Economy, US-Latin America-relations, transnational migration, cultural geography

Ben Gerlofs

Advisor: Robert Lake/Asher Ghertner

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:ben.gerlofs@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: urban geography and political economy, cultural geography, right to the city, North American cities

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Ana M. Mahecha Groot

Advisor: Robin Leichenko

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:ana.mahecha@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: vulnerability, climate change, human-environment, Caribbean

Frank Halprin

Advisor: Frank Popper

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:frank.halprin@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: biodiversity conservation, political ecology, discourse analysis

Monica Patricia Hernandez

Advisor: Thomas Rudel

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:monica.hernandez@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: land property, collective land ownership, Colombia, Latin America

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Ali Horton

Advisor: Asher Ghertner

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:ali.horton@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: urban areas of the Global South, poverty eradication, slum upgrading

Wei-Chieh Hung

Advisor: Asher Ghertner and Robert Lake

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:weichieh.hung@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: urban geography, genrtrification, housing

Jenny Isaacs

Advisor: Rick Schroeder

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:jenny.isaacs@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: birds, conservation, community engagement, biodiversity, social science aspects of conservation, mapping stewardship along migratory route, biocultural diversity

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Sadaf Javed

Advisor: H. Hauserman

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Climate Change, science and technology studies, political ecology

Yan Jin

Advisor: P. McElwee

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:Yan.Jin@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: Conservation and community development. Political economy

Divya Karnad

Advisor: Bonnie McCay/Kevin St. Martin

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:divya.karnad@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: marine fisheries, common property, wildlife conservation, coupled human-natural systems

Sasha Leidman

Advisor: Åsa Rennermalm

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:sasha.leidman@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: Polar Hydrology/ Glaciology/ Sediment Transport/ Remote Sensing

Hudson McFann

Advisor: Asher Ghertner

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: political geography, discard studies, aesthetics, politics of memory, archival theory, everyday life, discourse analysis, Cambodian diaspora

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Justin Mullikin

Advisor: Rick Schroeder

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:justin.mullikin@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: Political ecology, land use/tenure, environmental movements, mixed methods, Central/East Africa

Rohi Muthyala

Advisor: Åsa Rennermalm

Degree: M.A./Ph.D.

Email: mailto:rohi.muthyala@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: climate modeling

Priti Narayan

Advisor: Asher Ghertner

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:priti.narayan@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: Urban geography, India, poverty, bureaucracy

Khai Hoan Nguyen

Advisor: Robin Leichenko

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:knn15@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: hazards, Katrina, Vietnamese community in New Orleans

Andrew Op't Hof

Advisor: David Tulloch

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:andrew.opthof@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: landscape ecology

Ariel Otruba

Advisor: Richard Schroeder

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:ariel.otruba@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: feminist critical geopolitics, critical border studies, postcolonial development, violent geographies and geographies of violence, conflict resolution and peace studies, Eastern Europe and Eurasia

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Diya Paul

Advisor: Laura Schneider and Heidi Hausermann

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:diya.paul@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: political ecology of wildlife conservation, biogeography and social theory

Alana Rader

Advisor: L. Schneider

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Land change science, resilience

Erin Royals

Advisor: Kathe Newman

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:erin.royals@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: urban development

Sean Tanner

Advisor: Kevin St Martin

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:stanner@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: rethinking economic development in Guatemala; asset-based community development; participatory action research, expertise and knowledge, theories of land reform, Latin American geographies

Natalie Teale

Advisor: David Robinson

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:natalie.teale@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: climate/hydrology

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Hoang Mai Thach

Advisor: Pam McElwee

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:hmt46@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: Neoliberalism and Conservation, Cultural Geography and Development, Environmental Anthropology and Climate Change

Sadia Baba Tijjani

Advisor: Ming Xu

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:sadia.baba@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: Climate change modelling and simulation with special in interest in effect of deforestation on carbon sequestration in Yankari Game Reserve, Nigeria

Gabriella Ulloa

Advisor: Laura Schneider

Degree: M.S.

Email: mailto:gabriela.ulloa@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: Political Ecology, Environmental Justice, Environmental Impact Assessment

Tashanna Walker

Advisor: K. Rhiney

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Climate change, vulnerability in Jamaica

Jonah Walters

Advisor: Kevin St. Martin

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:jonah.walters@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: participatory research

Jennifer Whytlaw-Rovito

Advisor: Michael Greenberg

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: mailto:jrovito@ejb.rutgers.edu

Research Interests: resilience, disasters, risk communication,vulnerable populations, climate change, NJ