Graduate Students
The GES department has a vibrant graduate student community. Graduate students are actively involved in the life of the department, from leading cutting-edge research projects to teaching undergraduate courses.
Geography, Environment & Society Graduate Students
Oforiwaa Pee Agyei-Boakye
Specialties
Spatial Investments; Transport Geography & Planning; Transit Investment Evaluation; Spatial Accessibility; Urban Mobility; Spatial Analysis; Spatial Difference-in-Difference; Spatial Causal Inference; Africa
Daniel Berti
Specialties
Bottom-up Vs. Top-Down Conceptions of Security; South Africa: Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg; Land Occupations and Informal Settlements; Xenophobia; Infastructural Colonialism; Social War
Dri C Tattersfield
Specialties
Political Ecology; Science, Technology, and Society (STS); Taiwan Studies; Critical Physical Geography
Alyssa Connaughton
Specialties
Beavers; Wetlands; Ecology; Remote Sensing; Ecohydrology
Theresa Garrison
Specialties
Dendrochronology; Oak Savannas; Habitat Restoration; Forest Ecology; Wildlife Biology
Jacob Harris
Specialties
Sustainability/climate; GIS; Machine Learning; Geocomputing; Econometrics; Spatial Optimization; Human Mobility; Behavioral Spatial Interaction Modeling
Nadine Lorini Formiga
Specialties
Urban Political Ecology; Black Geographies; Energy Justice
Zhongfu Ma
Specialties
Geographic information science (GIScience); Spatio-Temporal Analysis; Spatial Network and Evolution; Human Mobility
Paul Moss
Specialties
Human/environment interactions; Vegetal geography; Agricultural ethics; Cultural and political ecology
Mariana Peñaloza Morales
Specialties
Critical urban geography; Cultural studies & cultural geography; Black geographies & Latinx and Caribbean geographies; Environmental humanities
Kjersten Peterson
Specialties
Dendrochronology, forest and disturbance ecology, GIS, fire, climate, critical physical geography
Maiyo Saji
Specialties
Political Ecology; Geovisualization; New Media; Digital Geography; Digital Natures; Decoloniality, Postcolonialism; Climate Change
Lisa Santosa
Specialties
Feminist approaches to Political Economy; Critical Race Studies; Biopolitics and Governmentality; Land Restitution in South Africa; Securitization of Commercial Agriculture; Feminist Methodologies & Praxis; Decolonization
Dayne Walling
Specialties
Urban Redevelopment; Public Policy Analysis; Infrastructure & Planning; Regional & Economic Development; Community Engagement
Sheng Wang
Specialties
Spatio-temporal Modeling; Urban Computing; Deep Learning; Human Mobility Modeling
Ned Wilbur
Specialties
Critical geographies of human origins, migration, and relatedness; The politics of genetics and ancient DNA; Science and technology studies; Environmental theory and history; Indigenous studies; Settler colonialism; Critical race theories; Feminist theories
Onteya Zachary
Specialties
Theories of Justice; Black Geographies; Critical Urban Geography; Feminist Geography; Geographies of Alcohol; Race
Xiaohuan Zeng
Specialties
Geographic Information Science (GIS); Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis; Transportation
Ben Weilun Zhang
Specialties
Political ecology; Political economy of land and commodities; Science and technology studies; Critical urban studies; Cultural geographies of landscape, heritage and ruins; Border formations; Environmental media; China & Southeast Asian borderlands