Graduate Student List
Sharon W. Adams
Doctoral Candidate, Assistant Instructor
Education
ABD, The University of Texas- Austin
Interests
Cultural Geography, Animal Geographies, Large Carnivores (Felids), American Southwest, Borderlands (U.S./Mexico), BelizeJennifer Alexander
Master's Student, Teaching Assistant
jalexander@austin.utexas.edu | GRG 416
Education
MA, University of Sussex
Interests
Health and Medical Geography, Global Warming, Tropical Diseases, Food and Water Security, Gender, Refugees and MigrationChristine Bonthius
Graduate student
Education
B.A. Geography; B.A. Spanish & Portuguese, University of California, Los Angeles
Interests
Fluvial geomorphology; channel morphodynamics; effects of impoundment of fluvial systems; flooding; Amazon BasinMario Cardozo
Doctoral Candidate
mcardozo@utexas.edu | 512-203-6629 | GRG 230 (DLL)
Education
MSc, The University of Memphis
Interests
Resource management, human dimensions of conservation, environmental remote sensing, Latin AmericaLindsey Carte
Doctoral
Interests
Migration, Feminist Geography, Political Geography, Mexico and Central AmericaBisola Falola
Graduate student
Interests
urban/political geography, urban governance, spatial justice, inequality, community building social movementsJon Gehrig
Graduate student
jgehrig@utexas.edu | GRG 416
Education
BA-Political Science, University of Oregon
Interests
The impacts of primary product export on rural wellbeings and livelihoodsIngrid Haeckel
Graduate student
Interests
Biogeography, Ecological Dynamics, Resource Management, Ethnobotany, Latin AmericaPaul Holloway
Graduate student
paul_holloway@utexas.edu | SAC 4.106
Education
MSc in GIS, University of Nottingham
Interests
Biogeography; Biodiversity; GIS; Remote Sensing; Species Distribution; Spatial Autocorrelation; Fire Ecology; MigrationMarina Islas
Graduate student
marina.islas@utexas.edu | GRG 208
Education
Masters of Arts, Ohio University
Interests
Transnational Migration, Identities, Masculinities, Feminist Geopolitics, US & MexicoNaya Jones
Doctoral Student / Teaching Assistant
geonaya@gmail.com | GRG 416
Education
MA Latin American Studies; PhD Geography and the Environment (in progress), University of Texas at Austin
Interests
Urban agriculture, local food systems, critical food studies, children/youth geographies, participatory methods and GIS, Black Diaspora (United States and Mexico)Richard Knox
Graduate student
Interests
fluvial geomorphology, human-environment interaction, Mississippi River, sediment transport modelingMatthew C. LaFevor
Doctoral Candidate, Assistant Instructor
Education
BA, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN; MA, Universidad de las Américas - Puebla, México; PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
Interests
human-environment geography, conservation, agriculture, water, environmental history, historical geography of resource management, GIS, Mexico, Latin AmericaJoomi Lee
Doctoral Candidate
Education
MSc, University of Oxford
Interests
Neoliberal globalization and Arab urban renewal, Arab authoritarianism, muslim (médina) communities and Islamic urbanism, French colonial urbanism in North Africa, and emerging civil society in the process of Arab democratization, Rabat-Salé of Morocco, MaghrebRobert Lemon
Doctoral
rdlemon@gmail.com | GRG 414
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; GISciencesKatherine Lininger
Graduate student
Education
B.A. in Geography and Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests
Fluvial Geomorphology, Human-Environment interactions, Global Environmental ChangeJonathan Lowell
Graduate student
jonathan.t.lowell@utexas.edu | GRG 416
Interests
Cultural Geography; Community, Religion, Tourism, South America, Counterculture, Pilgrimage, Human-Environment InteractionDylan Malcomb
Graduate student
dwmalcomb@gmail.com | GRG 416 (TA Lounge)
Interests
adaptation in Africa, development, aid flows and effectiveness, environmental security, GIScienceMason McWatters
Doctoral Candidate and Assistant Instructor
Education
M.A. Latin American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests
Notions of worlding and unworlding, phenomenology, non-representational theory, spatial relations, ontologies of co-existence, social and environmental ethics.Brian Mills
Master's
Interests
Cinematic geographies, representations of place and culture in film, Latin America, global citiesNiti Bhushan Mishra
Doctoral Candidate
nitibhushan.mishra@gmail.com | 512-232-1597 | GRG 230
Education
MS, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Interests
Bio-Physical Remote Sensing, Landscape Ecology, GeostatisticsSolange Munoz
Assistant Instructor
solangem@mail.utexas.edu | 232-1586 | GRG 202
Education
MA Latin American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests
Urban geography, migration, spatial justice and the right to the city, social movementsEdward Park
Graduate Teaching Assistant
geo.edpark@utexas.edu | 512.230.4603 | SAC 4.178, GRG 416
Education
BS in Geography (Summa Cum Laude), The Ohio State University
Interests
Environmental GIScience/Remote Sensing, Landscape Change/Ecology, Fluvial GeomorphologyMolly Polk
Doctoral Student and Graduate Research Assistant
mollypolk@utexas.edu | SAC 4.160
Education
M.A. Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Interests
Biogeography, biodiversity conservation, landscape ecology, palaeogeography, global environmental change, mountainsRenata Ponte
Renata Cidrao Ponte
renatacponte@gmail.com | GRG 416
Education
Masters of Arts, University of Texas at Austin
Interests
Health, HIV/ AIDS, Brazil, Migration, Gender, Fortaleza, Latin America, GIS for Health ApplicationsJulio Postigo
Ph.D. Candidate
jpostigo@utexas.edu | GRG 230
Education
M.A., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests
Human Dimensions of Global Change, Social-Ecological Mountain Systems, Pastoralist Societies, and Cultural/Political Ecology.Joshua Rudow
Doctoral Student
jorudow@gmail.com | (919)-360-1056 | GRG 416
Education
M.A., Geography, University of Texas at Austin
Interests
Human-Environment Interactions,Cultural/Political Ecology, Agriculture, Latin AmericaLeigh Schwartz
Assistant Instructor
leigh.schwartz@utexas.edu | (512) 471 5359 | GRG 202
Education
MA, San Diego State University
Interests
Imagination, Representation, Interactive Media, Virtual GeographyPamela Sertzen
Master's Candidate
sertzen@utexas.edu | GRG 416
Education
BA Sociology, BA Hispanic Studies, College of William & Mary
Interests
Urban geography, Children/Youth, Identity, Brazilian favelas, MigrationKathleen Shafer
Doctoral Student
kathleen.shafer@yahoo.com | GRG 416
Interests
Geography of Airfields, Aviation History, Military Aviation, Aerial Geography, Land and Environmental Art, Urban PlanningMoulay Anwar Sounny-Slitine
Master's Student
Education
BA in Geography, BS in Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests
GIScience, Neogeography, Geomorphometry, LiDAR, Ecological Modeling, Hydrology, Water Resources, Sustainability Science, Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Sustainable DevelopmentJohn Taylor
Graduate student
john.taylor@mail.utexas.edu | GRG 416
Interests
Innovations and diffusions of food production; geoarchaeology, soils, and the biogeography of agrosystems; identity and authority in constructed landscapesXuebin Yang
Graduate student
yxbfuture@utexas.edu | 512-983-7686 | GRG 230
