Dr. Kenneth R. Young, Chair
GRG 334, Mailcode A3100, Austin, TX 78712 • 512-471-5116
Graduate Students Directory
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| Name | Sharon W. Adams |
| Program | Doctoral |
| SEWilcox@mail.utexas.edu | |
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| Research Interests | Cultural Geography, Representation, Animal Geographies, Large Carnivores, Borderlands (U.S./Mexico), Third Sector Geographies, Museums, Documentary Film, Belize. |
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| Name | Nancy C. Aguirre |
| Program | Doctoral |
| cnaguirre@mail.utexas.edu | |
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| Name | Kevin M. Anderson |
| Program | Doctoral |
| Kevin.Anderson@ci.austin.tx.us | |
| Site | CER Website |
| Research Interests | Urban Ecology and Sustainability, Urban Wastelands and Nature, Sewage Treatment and Recycling, Soil Ecology and Agriculture, Riparian Ecology and Rivers, Environmental History and Philosophy |
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| Name | Katia Avilés-Vázquez |
| Program | Doctoral |
| kr.avivaz@gmail.com | |
| Site | www.katiaravilesvazquez.info |
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| Name | Augustine Avwunudiogba |
| Program | Doctoral |
| avwunu@mail.utexas.edu | |
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| Name | Mario Cardozo |
| Program | Doctoral |
| mcardozo@mail.utexas.edu | |
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| Research Interests | Resource Management, Land Use, Conservation, Latin America |
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| Name | Lindsey Carte |
| Program | Doctoral |
| lindsey.carte@mail.utexas.edu | |
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| Research Interests | Lindsey's research focuses on international migration, Latin America, and feminist and political geography. She engages all of these interests through her ongoing fieldwork on Mexico's southern border with Guatemala and Belize. |
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| Name | Emily Duda |
| Program | Master's |
| ejduda@mail.utexas.edu |
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| Research Interests | Cultural geography, geographies of media (literature, film, popular culture, etc.), communication, gender studies |
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| Name | Jessica Gordon |
| Program | Master's |
| jdgordon@mail.utexas.edu |
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| Name | Ingrid Haeckel |
| Program | Doctoral |
| ingrid.haeckel@gmail.com |
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| Research Interests | Cultural Biogeography, Population Ecology, Resource Management, Ethnobotany, Latin America |
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| Name | Matt LaFevor |
| Program | Doctoral |
| matt.lafevor@mail.utexas.edu | |
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| Research Interests | Human-Environment Interactions, Historical Geography, Cultural/Political Ecology, Mountain Slopes, Earthworks, Water, Mexico |
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| Name | Maria José LaRota |
| Program | Master's |
| mj.larota@mail.utexas.edu |
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| Research Interests | Biogeography and Conservation Biology, Cultural/Political Ecology in Latin America, Land Change and Human-Environment Interactions. GIS applications for Conservation |
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| Name | Joomie Lee |
| Program | Doctoral |
| joomilee@mail.utexas.edu |
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| Site | webspace.utexas.edu/jl22675/www/ |
| Research Interests | Urban Cultural Politics, Political Economy of Urban Restructuring, Politics of Arab Authoritarianism, Postcolonial Theory, Medina Revitalization, Morocco, Middle East and North Africa |
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| Name | Paul Lehman |
| Program | Doctoral |
| phlehman@mail.utexas.edu |
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| Name | Maraigh Leitch |
| Program | Master's |
| maraigh@mail.utexas.edu | |
| Site |
maraigh-adventuresinscience.blogspot.com |
| Research Interests | Fluvial Geomorphology, Geoarchaeology, Religions, and Human-Environment Interaction and Teaching |
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| Name | Robert Lemon |
| Program | Doctoral |
| rdlemon@gmail.com |
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| Research Interests | Contemporary human geography in urban environments. Cultural landscapes; urban life and urban form; urban metamorphosis; urban inequality; food, culture and place in society; landscape representation; spatial cognition; geo-visualization; GISciences; |
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| Name | Andrew McCown |
| Program | Master's |
| andrew.mccown@gmail.com |
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| Research Interests | Fish Farming, Rural Development, Rural-Urban Migration, Capitalization of Agriculture and Agricultural Intensification, Food Production and Agricultural Outsourcing, Rural Exploitation and Extractive Industries, the Gran Chaco, Bolivia, Paraguay |
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| Name | Judith McGeary |
| Program | Master's |
| jmcgeary@att.net |
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| Name | Mason McWatters |
| Program | Doctoral |
| masonmcwatters@mail.utexas.edu |
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| Name | Nitibhushan Mishra |
| Program | Doctoral |
| niti@mail.utexas.edu | |
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| Research Interests | Bio-Physical Remote Sensing, Landscape Ecology, Geostatistics |
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| Name | Mariana Montoya |
| Program | Doctoral |
| mariana.montoya@mail.utexas.edu |
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| Research Interests | Natural Resource Management, Conservation, Indigenous people, Sustainability. |
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| Name | Solange Munoz |
| Program | Doctoral |
| solangemunoz@hotmail.com |
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| Research Interests | Cities, Migration, Political Ecology, Justice, Identity, Power |
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| Name | John Oswald |
| Program | Doctoral |
| johnoswald@mail.utexas.edu |
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| Name | Manuel Peralvo |
| Program | Doctoral |
| peralvomf@mail.utexas.edu |
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| Name | Lars Pomara |
| Program | Doctoral |
| larspomara@mail.utexas.edu | |
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| Research Interests | Biogeography, Ecology, Conservation, Ornithology |
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| Name | Renata Ponte |
| Program | Master's |
| picstorenata@hotmail.com |
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| Name | Julio Postigo |
| Program | Doctoral |
| jpostigo@mail.utexas.edu | |
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| Name | Josh Rudow |
| Program | Master's |
| jorudow@gmail.com |
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| Research Interests | Human-Environment Interations, Cultural/Politial Ecology, Agriculture, Latin America, GIS |
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| Name | Leigh Schwartz |
| Program | Doctoral |
| leighs@mail.utexas.edu | |
| Site |
http://www.videogamespaces.com/ |
| Research Interests | Imagination, Representation, Interactive Media, Virtual |
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| Name | Steven Shannon |
| Program | Master's |
| sjshannon2002@yahoo.com |
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| Name | M. Anwar Sounny-Slitine |
| Program | Master's |
| sounny@austin.utexas.edu |
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| Research Interests | Morocco, GIScience, Water Resources Management, GIS integration into Sustainable Development, BioFuels, Technology and Society, Climate Change |
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| Name | John Taylor |
| Program | Doctoral |
| john.taylor@mail.utexas.edu |
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| Name | Christopher Ulack |
| Program | Doctoral |
| culack@mail.utexas.edu | |
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| Name | Othoniel Vázquez Domínguez |
| Program | Master's |
| othovazquez@gmail.com | |
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| Research Interests | Forestry , sustainable development, biogeography, gis, conservation, ecology, human-environment interactions, resource management, ethnobotany. |
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| Name | Ophelia Wang |
| Program | Doctoral |
| opheliawang@mail.utexas.edu | |
| Site | www.couchsurfing.org/people/liverworts/ |
| Research Interests | Biogeography, Conservation Biology, GIS, Remote Sensing for Vegetation Studies, Climate Change |




































