Graduate Students

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

Student	Contact
	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
	Amy Braun B.S., M.A., University of Notre Dame ambraun@live.unc.edu Political economy, commons, peace and conflict studies, social theory
	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
	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
	Sherah Faulkner B.A., Agnes Scott College, M.A., Georgia State University sherah@live.unc.edu Feminist geography, social theory, the US South.
	Madeline Giefer B.S., University of Minnesota mmgiefer@live.unc.edu Research keywords: China, human-environment interaction, land use change.
	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.
	Fredy R. Grefa B.S., Universidad San Francisco de Quito; M.A., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; M.C.R.P.,UNC-CH fgrefa@live.unc.edu Environmental Planning, Urban and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Carbon Trade, Natural Resources Management, Indigenous Peoples, Amazon Region, Governance.
	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 health, black geographies, environmental racism and justice, dislocations
	Michael Hawkins BA at University of Arizona hawkins4@live.unc.edu Cultural and human geography, military bases, Philippines
	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
	Doug Hopping B.A. Brandeis University doughopp@live.unc.edu Demography, Population-Environment Interactions, Migration
	Carl Jurkowski B.S., California University of Pennsylvania; M.S., Idaho State University carljurk@ad.unc.edu Dendroclimatology, paleoclimate, water resources, historical climatology
	Corinna Keeler B.A., Grinnell College cykeeler@live.unc.edu Health geography, infectious disease, GIS modeling, spatial analytics, human-environment interactions
	Francisco Laso B.A., Columbia Univ. M.Sc., Univ.of Montpellier II, Univ. of Groningen laso@live.unc.edu Agroecosystems, complex adaptive systems, conservation, ecology, evolution, human-environment interactions, Galapagos, Ecuador.
	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.
	Angus Lyall B.A., Columbia University; M.A., Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales – Ecuador angusl@live.unc.edu Political economy of development, political ecology, agrarian studies, social mobilization, ethnography, Latin America
	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
	Sara Maxwell M.S. with Distinction, the University of New Mexico; B.A., Columbia University willmax@live.unc.edu Ethnobotany, Ecology, Actor-Network Theory, Human-Environment Interactions, Conservation, Rural Livelihoods, Indigenous People
	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
	Devran Koray Ocal B.A., Kocaeli University; M.A., Istanbul Technical University dkocal@live.unc.edu Human geography, Transnational Muslims, Turkey
	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.
	Tong Qiu B.E., Wuhan University tongqiu@live.unc.edu Remote sensing of vegetation, ecosystem modeling, land use land cover change, coupled human-environment systems.
	Nick Scheffer B.A., New College of Florida nscheff@live.unc.edu Land degradation, food security, Haiti, political ecology, science and technology studies .
	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.
	Rachel L. Woodul B.A., UNC-Chapel Hill rachel.woodul@unc.edu Health geography, GIS, climate-health vulnerability, infectious disease, hazardous extremes