Geography Graduate Students
Sohrob Aslamy, PhD (staslamy@syr.edu)
Advisor: Natalie Koch
Interests: Political geography, urban space and (post)conflict reconstruction, nature-society relations, Afghanistan and Central Asia
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
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
Xiwei Guo, PhD (xguo18@syr.edu)
Advisor: Peng Gao
Interests: Fluvial geomorphology, sedimentology, river restoration, human-environment interactions
Madeleine Hamlin, MA (mrhamlin@syr.edu)
Advisor: Don Mitchell
Interests: Culture, justice, urban space
Justin Hartnett, PhD (jjhartne@syr.edu)
Advisor: Susan Millar
Interests: Climatology, meteorology, and hydrology
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
James Lindberg, MA (jtlindbe@syr.edu)
Advisor: Robert Wilson
Interests: Environmental history; infrastructure; landscape; urbanization; American West
Katie MacDonald, MA (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
Patrick Oberle, PhD (poberle@syr.edu)
Advisor: Mark Monmonier, Jonnell Robinson
Interests: Urban geography, GIS and society, community geography, urban planning
Khila Pecoraro, MA
Advisor: Jane Read
Interests: Political ecology, geospacial methods, and environmental change
Stephen Przybylinski , PhD (sprzybyl@syr.edu)
Advisor: Don Mitchell
Interests: Urban geography, production of urban spaces, socio-spatial inequality
Alex Pustelnyk, MA (ampustel@syr.edu)
Advisor: Matt Huber
Interests: Political economy, the informal sector, critical urban studies
Jesse Quinn, PhD (jquinn@syr.edu)
Advisor: Natalie Koch
Interests: Political geography, political ecology, post-Soviet studies
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
Carlo Sica, PhD (cesica@syr.edu)
Advisor: Matt Huber
Interests: Political economy, resource geography, historical geography
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
Anthony Walker, MA (ajwalker@syr.edu)
Advisor: Jonnell Robinson
Interests: Food justice, community geography
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, MA (dowilkin@syr.edu)
Advisor: Robert Wilson
Interests: Environmental values and religion
Kelsey Young, PhD (kcarlson@syr.edu)
Advisor: Don Mitchell
Interests: Indigenous geographies and public space