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.
Oforiwaa Pee Agyei-Boakye
Specialties
Transportation; Accessibility; Mobility; Food Security; Political Economy; Sustainability; Transit Investment Evaluation
Mohsen Ahmadkhani
Specialties
Geographic Information Science (GIS); GeoAI; Geocomputing; CyberGIS; Spatial and spatiotemporal data analysis
Isaac Asante-Wusu
Specialties
Water and development; Democracy; Political economy; Globalization; Environmental Justice; Urban planning; Public Policy; Africa
Daniel Berti
Specialties
Insecurity & Securitisation; Alternatives to Policing; South Africa; Land Occupations; Anarchist Studies; Violence, Psychosocial Transformation and Pedagogy; Technical Subjection; Modern Race; Masculinity
Elizabeth Calhoun
Specialties
feminist theory; critical race theory; theories of technology; society and technology; urban planning; U.S. Urban History; cybernetics
Theresa Garrison
Specialties
Dendrochronology; Oak Savannas; Habitat Restoration; Forest Ecology; Wildlife Biology
Jacob Harris
Specialties
Sustainability/climate; GIS; GeoAI; Geocomputing; Econometrics; Spatial Statistics; Human Mobility
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
Climate change; Political ecology; Visual culture; Critical race theory; Geovisualization
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
Sandy Wong
Specialties
Dendrochronology; Global change biology; Hydroclimate extreme; Forest ecology
Onteya Zachary
Specialties
Theories of Justice; Black Geographies; Critical Urban Geography
Xiaohuan Zeng
Specialties
Geographic Information Science (GIS); Spatio-Temporal Analysis; Urban Transportation
Ben Weilun Zhang
Specialties
Multispecies ethnography; Political ecology; Science and technology studies; Race and alterity; Environmental media; Materiality, heritage, ruination; Critical urban studies; China & Southeast Asian borderlands