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
	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
	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
	Deanna K. Corin B.A. Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz Dea8@live.unc.edu Feminist political geography, health geography, political ecology, wildfires
	Harrison Currin B.S., Elon University; M.S., Georgia Southern University hmcurrin@unc.edu Conservation, climate change, habitat mapping, remote sensing
	Jessica Ding B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison jessding@unc.edu Zoonotic disease transmission and evolution, GIS, land use/land cover change, climate change, disease ecology
	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.
	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
	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
	Devon Maloney BS, University of St Andrews dvm@ad.unc.edu Remote sensing, GIS, arid environments, agriculture and food systems
	Jonathan Marcus B.S., Florida State University jmarc@unc.edu Meteorology, Extreme Weather, Social Vulnerability, Natural Hazards, GIS, Climatology
	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
	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.
	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.
	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
	Hilary Sandborn B.S. University of Maryland hsandborn@unc.edu Health geography, disease ecology, infectious disease, GIS, social vulnerability
	Carlos Serrano B.A., Florida International University car24@live.unc.edu Social/labor movements, critical social theory, Latin America, political geography, participatory action research
	Grey Shipman B.A., University of Colorado at Boulder grey.shipman@unc.edu Urban Geography, Planning, Smart Cities, Land-use, Sustainability, GIS
	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.
	Victoria Ting B.A., CSU, Sacramento vting@unc.edu Queer geography, LGBTQ+ issues, Feminist geography, Political geography
	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