Graduate Students

Below is a directory of current graduate students in the Geography Department.

Student	Contact
	Betül Aykaç B.A., Marmara University; M.A., UNC-Chapel Hill aykac.betul@unc.eduFeminist political geography, agrarian studies, food justice, autonomy, resistance
	Mary Biggs B.A., Bryn Mawr College mbiggs22@live.unc.edu Political ecology, cultural landscapes, memory, U.S. South
	Rajesh Bista B. S., Tribhuvan Univ., Nepal; M.A., Purbanchal Univ., Nepal raaj@live.unc.edu Human-Environment Interactions, Land Use Land Cover Change, Geospatial Analysis, Community Based Climate Change Adaptation
	Kate Brandt BA, Rutgers Univ.-New Brunswick, BS, Rutgers Univ.-New Brunswick kebrandt@live.unc.edu health geography, energy poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, human-environmental relationships, community based research
	KD Brown B.S Univ. of Georgia, MPH Univ. of North Carolina brownkat@live.unc.edu Environmental racism, political ecology, social justice, STS, public health, queer ecology, and the necropolitics of discard
	Julia Cardwell B.A, Davidson College jmcard@email.unc.edu Social vulnerability, extreme weather, climate change, land-use planning, GIS
	Jordan Clark B.A., UNC-Chapel Hill jordan.clark@unc.edu Climatology, meteorology, GIS, health geography
	Deanna K. Corin B.A. Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz Dea8@live.unc.edu Feminist political geography, health geography, political ecology, wildfires
	Montana A. Eck B.A., UNC at Asheville. M.A., Appalachian State University maeck@live.unc.edu Climatology, Extreme Weather, Meteorology, Natural Hazards, Appalachian Mountains
	Leiha Edmonds B.A., American University; M.U.P.P., University of Illinois at Chicago ledmonds@unc.edu Aging in cities, care work, feminist everyday geographies, spatialized structural inequities, multi-method and participatory methodologies
	Annie Elledge B.A., The University of Texas at Austin annieme@email.unc.edu Feminist geography, political geography, gender, care, labor, development
	Sherah Faulkner B.A., Agnes Scott College, M.A., Georgia State University sherah@live.unc.edu Feminist geography, social theory, the US South.
	Sophia Graybill B.A., M.Sc. Clark University Sophia.graybill@unc.edu Climate displacement, human-environment interactions, GIS, livelihoods, community-based research.
	Varun Goel B.A, M.S, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign varung@live.unc.edu Health Geography/ Disease Ecology, Spatial Epidemiology, GIS, Landscape genetics, Spatial Statistics.
	Angélica María Gómez B.S. Universidad de Antioquia, B.S. Institución Universitaria de Envigado, M.S. Universidad de Antioquia amgomez@live.unc.edu Tropical hydrology; Remote sensing; Ecohydrological Modeling.
	Pallavi Gupta M.A., Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and BSL LLB , Indian Law Society’s (ILS) Law College, Pune pallavigupta@unc.edu Human geography, Feminist Geography, Gender, and Law.
	Adrienne Hall B.S., University of Southern California; MPH, San Francisco State University adriennh@live.unc.edu Critical public health, Black Geographies, digital humanities
	Michael Hawkins B.A., University of Arizona; M.A., UNC-Chapel Hill hawkins4@live.unc.edu Historical and political geography, Philippine Studies, Southeast Asia, ethnography
	Lily Herbert B.A., UNC-Chapel Hill lherbert@live.unc.edu Feminist geography, geographies of religion, Middle East.
	Manuel Hernandez B.S., M.S. – Texas A&M University mhernan@live.unc.edu Climate modeling, large-scale climate dynamics, water resources, climate variability, paleoclimate, monsoons
	Carl Jurkowski B.S., California University of Pennsylvania; M.S., Idaho State University carljurk@ad.unc.edu Dendroclimatology, paleoclimate, water resources, historical climatology
	Michelle Lanier B.A. English, Spelman College;M.A. Folklore, UNC-Chapel Hill mlanier2@unc.edu Womanist cartography and the folklore of AfroCarolina. Black South geographies, Afro-futures, and the restorative journey. Ethnopoetics and experimental counter-mapping.
	Lara Lookabaugh BA,Univ. of Florida,MLIS, Florida State Univ.,MA, Univ. of Florida lwl@live.unc.edu Political ecology, gender and climate change, post-development, feminist methodologies, environmental justice, Mexico, Guatemala.
	Andreina Malki B.A., Furman University; M.A., UNC-Chapel Hill amalki@email.unc.edu Legal geography, territory, sovereignty, corporate power, Latin America
	Devon Maloney BS, University of St Andrews dvm@ad.unc.edu Remote sensing, GIS, arid environments, agriculture and food systems
	Caitilin McMillan BA,Queen’s University;MSc,University of Oxford, UK caitilin@live.unc.edu Indigenous peoples, refugees, belonging, contested space, peacebuilding, conflict resolution
	Ingrid Diaz Moreno BA, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana;MA, Universidad Nacional de Colombia ingrida@live.unc.edu Political ecology, development studies, gender, labor, Latin America
	Trey Murphy B.S., M.S., Texas A&M University murphyt@unc.edu Energy geography, fracking, political-economy/ecology, hydrocarbon governance, Texas
	Andrew Murray B.A., M.A., Univ. Of Cincinnati armurray@live.unc.edu Surface/Groundwater Hydrology,Geocomputation,Data Visualization
	Christopher Neubert B.A., Grinnell College neubertc@live.unc.edu Cultural geography, social theory, biopower, spaces of resistance, postcolonial feminism, Sri Lanka
	Mark Ortiz B.A., The University of Alabama marcoso@live.unc.edu Political Ecology, Climate Politics, Environmental Humanities, Critical development studies
	Michelle Padley B.A., Trinity University mpadley@live.unc.edu Feminist Geography, Political Geography, Legal Geography, Urban Neoliberalisms.
	Rebecca Patterson-Markowitz B.A., M.A., University of Arizona beckypm@live.unc.edu Feminist geographies, ontologies of the body, trauma, geographies of healing, the ethics and politics of care.
	Hilary Sandborn B.S. University of Maryland hsandborn@unc.edu Health geography, disease ecology, infectious disease, GIS, social vulnerability
	Karly Schmidt-Simard B.S., M.S. Indiana University schmidkr@live.unc.edu Dendroclimatology, hydroclimate, water resources, paleoclimate, stable isotopes
	Carlos Serrano B.A., Florida International University car24@live.unc.edu Social/labor movements, critical social theory, Latin America, political geography, participatory action research
	Cyrus Sinai B.A. University of California, Los Angeles sinai@unc.edu Health geography; spatial epidemiology; infectious diseases; energy poverty and health in sub-Saharan Africa; disease surveillance in remote, resource-limited settings.
	Kriddie Whitmore B. S., Guilford College, NC ; M.S., Virginia Tech kriddie@email.unc.edu Biogeochemical cycling of carbon and nitrogen, Aquatic ecology, Urban systems, Field research, In-situ sensors.
	Rachel L. Woodul B.A., UNC-Chapel Hill rachel.woodul@unc.edu Health geography, GIS, climate-health vulnerability, infectious disease, hazardous extremes