People

Current Graduate Students

Nancy Aguirre
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: cnaguirre@mail.utexas.edu
Research Interests: Land use dynamics, political ecology, resource access and management, gender, African Diaspora, Latin America

Kevin Anderson
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: kevin.anderson@ci.austin.utexas.edu
Research Interests: Interests: natural resource management, urban ecosystems, restoration ecology, riparian ecology, humanistic geography, philosophy, Central Europe (Hungary). Coordinator of the City of Austin Center for Environmental Research.

Katia Aviles-Vazquez
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: kr.avivaz@gmail.com
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Research Interests: Small-scale agriculture, island sustainable development, adaptation and survival strategies, formal and informal economies, livelihoods and biodiversity conservation, local resource management, ethnic identity.

Augustin Avwunudiogba
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: avwunu@mail.utexas.edu
Research Interests: fluvial geomorphology, GIS, Mexico.

Thomas Barnett
Degree Sought: MA
Email: tpbarnett@gmail.com
Research Interests: Agriculture, Environmental history, Folk culture preservation, the American South, Sub-Saharan Africa

Robert Brennan
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: rdbrennan@mail.utexas.edu

Mario Cardozo
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: mcardozo@mail.utexas.edu
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Research Interests: Rural land use in developing countries, Resource Management, Latin America.

Lindsey Carte
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: lindsey.carte@mail.utexas.edu

Carolina De_La_Rosa
Degree Sought: MA
Research Interests: Community-based Forest Management, Community-based Conservation, Environmental Governance, Local Governance, Forest-base Commons in the Amazon, Latin America, Amazonia.

Rob Fergus
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: fergus@mail.utexas.edu
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Research Interests: Birds, urban ecology, community-based conservation, actor networks, complexity theory. Senior Scientist, National Audubon Society.

Matthew Fry
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: mfry@mail.utexas.edu
Research Interests: cultural and political ecology, Latin America

Jessica Gordon
Degree Sought: MA
Email: jdgordon@mail.utexas.edu
Research Interests: biogeography, ecology and concervation, GIS, habitat connectivity, holistic resource management, land-use/land-cover change, and watershed systems.

Ingrid Haeckel
Degree Sought: MA
Email: ingrid.haeckel@gmail.com
Research Interests: ethnobotany, landscapes, local/indigenous environmental knowledge, plant ecology, Mexico

Frank Heitmuller
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: ftheitmu@usgs.gov
Research Interests: Fluvial geomorphology, Surface-water hydrology, Environmental GIS, Gulf of Mexico river systems.

Zachary Hurwitz
Degree Sought: MA
Email: zacharyh@mail.utexas.edu
Research Interests: Development, ecological conflict, borders, land use change, climate change, governance, urban metabolism, South America

Matt LaFevor
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: matt.lafevor@mail.utexas.edu
Research Interests: historical geography, agriculture, cultural/political ecology, landscapes, water, Mexico

Joomi Lee
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: joomilee@mail.utexas.edu
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Research Interests: Political economy of tourism development, Theories of space/place, Representation, Morocco, UT Pre-Emptive Fellowship.

Paul Lehman
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: phlehman@mail.utexas.edu
Research Interests: Geoarchaeology, Eurasia

Maraigh Leitch
Degree Sought: MA

Andrew McCown
Degree Sought: MA
Email: andrew.mccown@gmail.com
Research Interests: Bolivia, Paraguay, the Gran Chaco, agriculture, indigenous rights, natural resource management, and international development

Judith McGeary
Degree Sought: MA
Email: jmcgeary@att.net
Research Interests: restoration ecology, range management, and soil microbiology

Mason McWatters
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: masonmcwatters@mail.utexas.edu
Research Interests: Consumption-oriented migration, tourism, representations of place and landscape, local dynamics of conservation/development, imaginative and visual geographies, Central America.

Jennifer Miller
Email: jennifer.miller@mail.utexas.edu
Research Interests: international wildlife conservation, habitat management and protection, GIS, economic valuation of habitat, solutions for resource use in developing countries

Niti Mishra
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: nitibhushan.mishra@gmail.com
Research Interests: Environmental monitoring and modeling using RS/GIS, LULC dynamics and Agricultural monitoring; human interference and environmental sustainability, Tourism and policy issues in the Himalayas.

Mariana Montoya
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: mariana.montoya@mail.utexas.edu
Research Interests: Conservation and development, livelihoods, vulnerability of population-environmental interactions

Solange Munoz
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: solangemunoz@hotmail.com
Research Interests: urban geography, immigration studies, Latin America, race and ethnicity.

Alexandra Myers
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: amyers@mail.utexas.edu
Research Interests: Fluvial Geomorphology and Environmental Remediation

John Oswald
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: johnoswald@mail.utexas.edu

Manuel Peralvo
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: peralvomf@mail.utexas.edu
Research Interests: GIS/remote sensing, political ecology, biodiversity, conservation planning, socioeconomic development and land use dynamics in indigenous communities, Latin America.

Lars Pomara
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: larspomara@mail.utexas.edu
Research Interests: Biogeography, Landscape Ecology, Conservation Biology, Development Studies, Ornithology, Tropical Forests. Recipient: NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant, Wildlife Conservation Society Capacity-building Fellowship, UT Pre-emptive Fellowship, UT Continuing Fellowship.

Julio Postigo
Degree Sought: PhD

Andrew Riely
Degree Sought: MA
Research Interests: Alternative agriculture, rural geography, Texas

Leigh Schwartz
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: leighs@mail.utexas.edu
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Research Interests: Virtual environments, online communities, media geographies

John Taylor
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: john.taylor@mail.utexas.edu

Christopher Ulack
Degree Sought: PhD

Ophelia Wang
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: opheliawang@mail.utexas.edu
Research Interests: Tropical plant ecology: Dynamics and diversity of species; Conservation biology: Rarity of species, Application of Geographical Information System (GIS) and remote sensing on conservation; Landscape ecology: Heterogeneous mosaic of land use/land cover change.

Sharon Wilcox
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: SEWilcox@mail.utexas.edu
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Research Interests: Animals and Culture, Social Dimensions of Endangered Species Conservation, Large Carnivores, Representation, Media, U.S./Mexico Borderlands, Belize.

Katherine Williams
Degree Sought: PhD
Email: k.r.williams@mail.utexas.edu
Research Interests: Landscape and representation, social theory, philosophies of place, the historical geography of the HIV / AIDS pandemic, Key West.