Geography Graduate Students
Sohrob Aslamy, PhD (staslamy@syr.edu)
Advisor: Tod Rutherford
Interests: Political economy, political geography, urban space, Afghanistan and Central Asia
Dakota Bailey, MA (djbailey@syr.edu)
Advisor: Jane Read
Interests: GIS/geospatial technologies, physical geography
Jewell Bohlinger PhD (bbohling@syr.edu)
Advisor: Matt Huber
Interests: Political ecology, carceral geographies
Emily Bukowski, PhD (ebukowsk@syr.edu)
Advisor: Jake Bendix
Interests: Biogeography, environmental history, urban forestry
Chad Chambers, PhD (chchambe@syr.edu)
Advisor: Matt Huber
Interests: Geography of oil, geospatial visualization
Collin Chambers, PhD (cchamber@syr.edu)
Advisor: Matt Huber
Interests: Political economy, environment & society, China, Marxism
Tina Catania, PhD (rtcatani@syr.edu)
Advisor: Robert Wilson
Interests: Creative Writing, Immigration, Feminism, Race, Youth
Michael Commons, PhD (mgcommon@syr.edu)
Advisor: Jake Bendix
Interests: Biogeography - fire and landscape ecology
Miguel Contreras, PhD (macontre@syr.edu)
Advisor: Tom Perreault
Interests: Space and place, critical theory
Claudia Diaz-Combs, PhD (cidiazco@syr.edu)
Advisor: Tom Perreault
Interests: Political ecology, water, natural resource extraction, environmental justice, Latin America
Joey DiStefano, MA (jpdistef@syr.edu)
Advisor: Peng Gao
Interests: Fluvial geomorphology, urban water systems, environmental justice
Jamie Gagliano, MA (jcgaglia@syr.edu)
Advisor: Tom Perreault
Interests: Political ecology, critical theory, social movements, Latin America
John Giles, MA (jhgiles@syr.edu)
Advisor: Alison Mountz (now at Wilfrid Laurier University)
Interests: Cultural justice, urban space
Jonathan Glass, MA (jnglass@syr.edu)
Advisor: Mark Monmonier
Interests: Media-related issues as they relate to geography
Nicole Moeller Gonzalez, PhD (nicole.y.gonzalez@gmail.com)
Advisor: Matt Huber
Interests: Marxism, labor and environmental movements
Xiwei Guo, PhD (xguo18@syr.edu)
Advisor: Peng Gao
Interests: Fluvial geomorphology, sedimentology, river restoration, human-environment interactions
Madeleine Hamlin, PhD (mrhamlin@syr.edu)
Advisor: Don Mitchell
Interests: Culture, justice, urban space
Brian Hennigan, PhD ( brhennig@syr.edu)
Advisor: Don Mitchell
Interests: Culture, justice and urban space
Akemi Inamoto, PhD (ainamoto@syr.edu)
Advisor: Tom Perreault
Interests: Feminist political ecology, agrarian politics in Colombia
Mike Kelly, MA (mtkell01@syr.edu)
Advisor: Matt Huber
Interests: Urban geography, housing justice
James Lindberg, MA (jtlindbe@syr.edu)
Advisor: Robert Wilson
Interests: Environmental history; infrastructure; landscape; urbanization; American West
Katie MacDonald, PhD (kmacdona@syr.edu)
Advisor: Tom Perreault
Interests: Rural development, water management, food and agriculture, Central Asia
Ainhoa Mingolarra, PhD (amingola@syr.edu)
Advisor: Tom Perreault
Interests: Political ecology, water, Latin America and the Caribbean
Khila Pecoraro, MA (kspecora@syr.edu)
Advisor: Jane Read
Interests: Political ecology, geospacial methods, and environmental change
Mirella Pretell, PhD (mpretell@syr.edu)
Advisor: Tom Perreault
Interests: Political ecology, resource extraction, indigenous movements, Peruvian Amazon
Stephen Przybylinski , PhD (sprzybyl@syr.edu)
Advisor: Don Mitchell
Interests: Urban geography, production of urban spaces, socio-spatial inequality
Manuela Ruiz, PhD (mruizrey@syr.edu)
Advisor: Tom Perreault
Interests: Political ecology, agrarian studies, feminist theory
Pamela K. Sertzen, PhD (pksertze@syr.edu)
Advisor: Robert Wilson
Interests: Memory, justice, and urban space
Kriangsak Teerakowitkajorn, PhD (kteerako@syr.edu)
Advisor: Tod Rutherford
Interests: Labor geography, political economy, industrialization urbanization, labor activism
Tiago Teixeira, PhD (taalvest@syr.edu)
Advisor: Tod Rutherford
Interests: Political geography, economics
Jared Van Ramshorst, PhD (jpvanram@syr.edu)
Advisor: Jamie Winders
Interests: Transnational migration, borders, emotions and space
Yunrui Si, MA (ysi103@syr.edu)
Advisor: Peng Gao
Interests: Fluvial geomorphology, flooding, GIS/geospatial technologies
Sean Wang,
PhD (shwang13@syr.edu)
Advisor: Jamie Winders
Interests: Human geography
Jared Whear, PhD (jcwhear@syr.edu)
Advisor: Robert Wilson
Interests: Environmental geography; social movements; water and energy resources
Dominic
Wilkins, PhD (dowilkin@syr.edu)
Advisor: Robert Wilson
Interests: Social movements, political ecology, religion, and the environmental humanities
Kelsey Young, PhD (kcarlson@syr.edu)
Advisor: Don Mitchell
Interests: Indigenous geographies and public space