- 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
Graduate Students
Rutgers Geography’s 2018 cohort of new Master’s and PhD students
- 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: political and historical geography, the politics of humanitarianism, aesthetics, everyday life, archives and the politics of memory, oral history, 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 critical geopolitics, critical border studies, postcolonial development, violent geographies and geographies of violence, conflict resolution and peace studies, Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- 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
- 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: Ph.D.
- Email: sean.thatcher1990@gmail.com
- Research Interests: physical geography, remote sensing
- 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
- 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: Richard Schroeder and Pam McElwee
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Email: tyler.young46@gmail.com
- Research Interests: political ecology, governance, land-use and settlement patterns in southeastern Senegal
