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.edu Feminist political geography, agrarian studies, food justice, autonomy, resistance
	Lauren Babinetz B.A., the George Washington Univ. babinetz@unc.edu Spatial analysis, extreme weather, human health impacts, geographies of crime
	James Bryan B.A., M.A., University of Delaware jameb@unc.edu Black, historical, and political geographies, U.S. South, labor markets
	Julia Cardwell B.A, Davidson College jmcard@email.unc.edu Social vulnerability, extreme weather, climate change, land-use planning, GIS
	Tara Di Cassio B.A., North Carolina State University; M.A., UNC-Chapel Hill tldicass@unc.edu Political geography, social movements, youth political practice, art activism, the Middle East
	Shannon Chambers B.S., B.A., Salisbury Univ.; M.A., Univ. of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa smchamb@unc.edu Political ecology, political economy, land tenure, agrarian studies, aquaculture, Indonesia
	Harrison Currin B.S., Elon University; M.S., Georgia Southern University hmcurrin@unc.edu Conservation, climate change, habitat mapping, remote sensing
	Liv Davis B.A, Indiana University Bloomington livdavis@unc.edu Extreme weather hazards, resilience, social vulnerability, climate change
	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
	Georgina Lily Gemayel A.S. Bunker Hill Community College; B.S. University of Southern California ggemayel@unc.edu Human-environmental interactions, environmental & climate migration, livelihoods, vulnerability, Middle East & North Africa.
	Sara Aregai Ghebremicael B.S University of San Diego sghebremicael@unc.edu Climate change, food security, migration, population, survey and statistical methods.
	Ben Gilvar-Parke B.A. Oberlin College gilvar@unc.edu Energy transition, political economy, political ecology, environmental contention, left governance.
	Sophia Graybill B.A., M.Sc. Clark University Sophia.graybill@unc.edu Climate displacement, human-environment interactions, GIS, livelihoods, community-based research.
	Adrienne Hall B.S., University of Southern California; MPH, San Francisco State University adriennh@live.unc.edu Critical public health, Black Geographies, digital humanities
	Lindsey Jackson BA- UC Santa Cruz; MA- Columbia University lijac@unc.edu Climate change, food security, extreme weather, sustainable agriculture
	Bikesh Jojiju B.S., Tribhuvan University bikesh@unc.edu Land use/Land cover change, Vegetation dynamics, Hydrology, Climate Change
	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.
	Yu-Hsiu Lien B.S., M.S., National Taiwan University yslien@unc.edu Political geography, territory, border, marine resource, fishery, East Asia.
	Andreina Malki B.A., Furman University; M.A., UNC-Chapel Hill amalki@email.unc.edu Legal geography, territory, sovereignty, corporate power, Latin America
	Klaus Mayr B.A. UNC-Chapel Hill klausm@unc.edu Critical pedagogy, land and data sovereignty, environmental justice, legal geography, political ecology
	Caitilin McMillan BA,Queen’s University;MSc,University of Oxford, UK caitilin@live.unc.edu Political geography, migration, belonging, contested space, the dynamics of care in humanitarian work, gender and peacebuilding.
	Ingrid Diaz Moreno BA, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana;MA, Universidad Nacional de Colombia ingrida@live.unc.edu Political ecology, development studies, gender, labor, Latin America
	Fowota Mortoo B.A., UNC Chapel Hill fowotam@live.unc.edu Black geographies, Land-based pedagogies, Mapmaking
	Natalia Mushegian B.S, University of California, Berkeley nmu@unc.edu Land use/land use change, causal inference, forest carbon, carbon governance
	Sophia Nissler B.A. Davidson College, M.A. UNC-Chapel Hill snissler@unc.edu Feminist geography and geopolitics, labor migration, climate migration, and the feminization and racialization of migration
	Kingsley Oppong Diploma in Nursing, Nursing & Midwifery College; B.A., Geography; Univ. of Cape Coast; M.S. Geography; Univ. of New Mexico odk@unc.edu Black Geographies, Health Geography, Climate Change, Nature, Race and Environment
	Andrew Robinson B.S., UNC Charlotte; M.S., UNC Charlotte arobi120@unc.edu Climate change, extreme heat forecasting & impacts, wet bulb globe temperature, urban climate, climate & heat policy.
	Sophia Ryan B.A., Univ. of Vermont; M.A., Appalachian State Univ. rcsophia@ad.unc.edu Health geography, community health, mental health, maternal health, climate change and health, compound climate events and health.
	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.
	Nguyen Tien Anh Quach B.S., Troy University; M.S., Towson University ntaquach@unc.edu Freshwater ecology, aquatic biogeochemistry, benthic macroinvertebrates, greenhouse gas emissions, food web ecology
	Kayla Roulhac B.A., M.S., Univ. of Tennessee kroulhac@unc.edu Black, feminist, and urban geographies; tourism, memory, and the U.S. South
	Hilary Sandborn B.S. University of Maryland hsandborn@unc.edu Health geography, disease ecology, infectious disease, GIS, social vulnerability
	Ina Shkurti B.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst ishkurti@unc.edu Critical cartographies, GIS-remote sensing, political ecology, Amazonia, Indigenous politics in Latin America
	Prabisha Shrestha B.S., Asian University for Women; M.S., SIU-Carbondale prabisha@live.unc.edu Critical physical geography, energy poverty and public health, gender, GIS
	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.
	Pern Supranee MA Environmental Security and Governance, Univ. for Peace, Costa Rica skamp@unc.edu Marine Protected and Conserved Areas, Marine resource governance, co-management, stakeholder engagement, conflict resolution, community based management.
	Victoria Ting B.A., CSU, Sacramento vting@unc.edu Queer geography, LGBTQ+ issues, Feminist geography, Political geography
	Sarah Ulrich B.A. UNC-Chapel Hill; M.A. Appalachian State University ulrichs@unc.edu climate change; spatial methods; GIS; health outcomes; environmental justice
	Narmada Venkateswaran B.S., M.P.H., Univ. of Minnesota- Twin Cities narmada1@unc.edu Health geography, infectious disease ecology, One Health, social networks
	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.
	Bryttani Wooten B.S., The Pennsylvania State Univ. bwooten@unc.edu black geographies, health geographies, critical public health, climate change