Graduate Students
Rutgers Geography Welcomes the 2023 Cohort of Graduate Students
- Samantha Bowden Akbari
- Email: sam.bowden@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: urban public policy, community development, public space/memory, cultural landscapes, decolonial/social movements, political economy of difference
- Advisor: Robert W. Lake
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Leonardo Calzada
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall, room B272
- Office Hours:
- Email: leonardo.calzada@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: tropical dry forests, land change science, political ecology
- Advisor: Laura Schneider
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Nia Cambridge
- Email: nia.cambridge@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: climate adaptation and resilience, environmental justice, political ecology, postcolonial thought, Caribbean region
- Advisor: Kevon Rhiney
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Katherine Cann
- Email: kdc133@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: coastal land use, climate adaptation and resilience, community conservation regimes, political ecology
- Advisor: Karen O'Neill
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Thomas Crowley
- Email: thomas.crowley@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: urban geography, political economy, political ecology, India, caste
- Advisor: D. Asher Ghertner
- Degree: Ph.D.
- David Ferring
- Email: david.ferring@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: political ecology, environmental governance, social theory, mixed methods, land-use change, health geography
- Advisor: Heidi Hausermann
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Daniel (Danny) Foster
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall, room B243
- Office Hours:
Tuesday 1:00-2:00 PM
Thursday 1:00-2:00 PM
- Email: danny.foster@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: social movements and freedom struggles; racial capitalism and solidarity economies; feminist, queer and trans geographies; ethics and the critique of everyday life
- Advisor: James DeFilippis
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Daniel Friedman
- Email: dsf91@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: production of living spaces, politics of extraction, decolonialism, urban geography, GIS
- Advisor: Andrea Marston
- Degree: M.S.
- Jamie Gagliano
- Email: jcg243@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: political ecology, feminist geography, land, agriculture, Latin America
- Advisor: Andrea Marston
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Dhruv Gangadharan
- Email: dhruv.gangadharan@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: political ecology, artisanal fisheries, biodiversity conservation, community economies, anthropocenes
- Advisor: Kevin St. Martin
- Degree: Ph.D.
- María Alexandra García
- 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
- Advisor: James DeFilippis
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Stuti Govil
- Email: stutigovil@gmail.com
- Research Interests: urban geography, cities, homelessness, social theory, media urbanism
- Advisor: D. Asher Ghertner
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Md Arafat Hassan
- Email: arafat.hassan@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: glaciology, Arctic hydrology, remote sensing
- Advisor: Åsa Rennermalm
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Jeffrey Immanuel
- Email: Jeffrey.immanuel@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: caste, space, nationalism (liberal and fascist), undercommons, small scale fisheries, aquaculture
- Advisor: Kevin St Martin
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Sadaf Javed
- Email: sadaf.javed@rutgers.edu
- 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
- Office Hours:
- Email: rsj49@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: Black geographies, urban geography, sonic studies, politics of belonging and citizenship, mobility and surveillance studies, postcolonial theory, France
- Advisor: D. Asher Ghertner
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Liana Katz
- Email: liana.katz@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: labor, mechanization, racial capitalism, STS
- Advisor: Andrea Marston
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Laura F. Landau
- Email: laura.landau@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: disaster organizing, mutual aid, social infrastructure, civic stewardship, climate change
- Advisor: Robin Leichenko
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Sasha Leidman
- Email: sasha.leidman@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: glaciology, polar sciences, hydrology, geomorphology, remote sensing
- Advisor: Åsa Rennermalm
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Alexander M. Liebman
- Email: alex.liebman@rutgers.edu
- 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
- Email: a.lindberg@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: agriculture, agricultural labor, food systems, diverse economies, agrarian political economy, and political ecology
- Advisor: Kevin St. Martin
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Hudson McFann
- 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
- Advisor: D. Asher Ghertner
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Daniela Mosquera Camacho
- Email: daniela.mosquera@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: extractivism, territorial planning, state formation, participatory methods, Colombia, Latin America
- Advisor: Andrea Marston
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Fatema Nuzhat
- Email: nuzhat.fatema@rutgers.edu
- 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
- Email: laurian.rosa@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: interests: political ecology, privatization of beaches, environmental justice, Puerto Rico
- Advisor: Kevon Rhiney
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Erin Royals
- 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
- Advisor: Kathe Newman
- Degree: Ph.D.
- William K. Simmons
- Email: william.simmons@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: political ecology; Portland, Oregon; food geographies; food justice; alternative food networks.
- Advisor: Kevon Rhiney
- Degree: M.A.
- Hoang Mai Thach
- 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
- Advisor: Pam McElwee
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Sadiya Baba Tijjani
- Office: Walton Center, Room 137
- Email: st743@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: process-based models, remote sensing, GIS, R and Python programming, machine learning, big data analytics
- Advisor: Ming Xu
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Sahithya Venkatesan
- Email: sahithya.venkat@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: fisheries, political ecology, alternative economies, India
- Advisor: Kevin St. Martin
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Calvin Walds
- Email: c.walds@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: Black geographies, Africa and the diaspora, sound studies, carcerality and abolition, poetics, mobility studies
- Advisor: Dr. Priscilla Pinto Ferreira
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Tashanna J. Walker
- Email: tjw121@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: urban militarization, urban redevelopment, political economy, social justice, ethnography
- Advisor: Kevon Rhiney
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Sweta Xess
- Email: sweta.xess@rutgers.edu
- 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
- Office Hours:
- Email: j.xiao@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: glaciology, climatology
- Advisor: Åsa Rennermalm
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Tyler Young
- Email: tgy3@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: political ecology, governance, land-use and settlement patterns in southeastern Senegal
- Advisor: Kevin St. Martin
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Sauvanithi Yupho
- Email: s.yupho@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: water governance, climate urbanism, institutions, political ecology, infrastructure, flood management, Southeast Asia
- Advisor: Pamela McElwee
- Degree: Ph.D.
