Graduate Students

2018 grad student cohort

Rutgers Geography’s 2018 cohort of new Master’s and PhD students

Janet Adomako

Advisor: Heidi Hausermann

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: janet.adomako@rutgers.edu

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

Zoe Alexander

Advisor: Kevon Rhiney and Richard Schroeder

Degree: M.A.

Email: zoe.alexander@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: political ecology, environment and society

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 Eisenhauer

Advisor: Robin Leichenko

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: david.eisenhauer@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: climate change, governance, adaptive capacity

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: political economy, US–Latin America relations, transnational migration, cultural geography

Stuti Govil

Advisor: D. Asher Ghertner

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: stutigovil@gmail.com

Research Interests: urban geography, cities, homelessness, social theory, media urbanism

Monica Patricia Hernandez

Advisor: Thomas Rudel

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: monica.hernandez@rutgers.edu

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

Wei-Chieh Hung

Advisor: D. Asher Ghertner

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: weichieh.hung@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: urban geography, gentrification, housing

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: Heidi Hausermann

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: sadaf.javed@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: climate change, science and technology studies, political ecology

Yan Jin

Advisor: Pam McElwee

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: yan.jin@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: conservation and community development, political economy

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

Arianna Lindberg

Advisor: Kevin St. Martin

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: a.lindberg@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: urban and suburban agriculture

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, urban geography, the politics of humanitarianism, genocide studies, archives and memory, oral history, everyday life, aesthetics, discard studies, Cambodia

Justin D. Mullikin

Advisor: Richard Schroeder and Heidi Hausermann

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

Priti Narayan

Advisor: D. Asher Ghertner

Degree: Ph.D.

Office: Lucy Stone Hall, Room B-239

Email: priti.narayan@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: urban studies, India, state-society relations, city development, displacement, social movements, citizenship, public ethnography

Khai Hoan Nguyen

Advisor: Robin Leichenko

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: knn15@rutgers.edu

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

Andrew Op't Hof

Advisor: David Tulloch

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: andrew.opthof@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: urban geography, cultural landscape, urban parks, open space and gentrification, queer and lgbt geographies

Ariel Otruba

Advisor: Richard Schroeder

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: ariel.otruba@rutgers.edu

Research Interests: feminist geopolitics, critical geopolitics, violent geographies, border studies, Eastern Europe & Eurasia (post-Soviet space), conflict resolution, postcolonial/decolonial geographies

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 Soldo

Advisor: David Robinson

Degree: M.S.

Email: lms513@scarletmail.rutgers.edu

Research Interests: climatology, meteorology, earth science

Sean Tanner

Advisor: Kevin St. Martin

Degree: Ph.D.

Email: 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