Graduate Students
Donald Akanga
Ph.D.
Research interests: Remote sensing, Earth systems modeling, GIS, nature-society interactions.
Jiang Chang
Ph.D.
Urban Development and Redevelopment Processes, Gentrification, Social Justice and Equity
Michelle Church
M.S. in Geography
Cartography, Human-Environment relationships - Political Ecology, Tourism, History, Water resources
Ida Djenontin
Ph.D.
Human-Environmental interactions; Environmental Governance, Climate Change Adaptation, Sustainable Rural Livelihoods, Qualitative Research, Agent-Based Modeling, Biodiversity conservation, Sub-Saharan Africa.
Nafiseh Haghtalab
Ph.D.
Climate change and climate variability, extreme event analysis, teleconnections, Human-Environment Interactions, land use/land cover change, food-water-energy nexus, societal impacts of environmental changes, remote sensing, and coupled natural human systems modeling
Aaron Kamoske
Ph.D.
LiDAR and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing. Temperate Closed-Canopy Forests. Landscape Ecology. Ecological Modeling. Computer Programming. Field Sampling.
Herve Kashongwe
Ph.D.
Remote sensing, Tropical forest structure, and biomass, Programming (Python and R).
Amanda Kreuze
Ph.D.
Health and Medical Geography, with an emphasis on the nexus between human and environmental health and how it pertains to social justice. I am particularly interested in women, children, and infant health.
Cheyenne Lei
Ph.D.
Geographic Information Systems, Cartography and Environmental and Resource Analysis
Cordelia Martin-Ikpe
Ph.D.
Health Inequity and Disparities, Concentrated Poverty, Global Urban Health, Spatial Epidemiology, GIS Analysis.
Kevin McKeehan
Ph.D.
Physical geography, aeolian geomorphology, soil geomorphology, pedology, prairie/grassland ecosystems, sand dune activation/stabilization, coastal processes, loess, geographic information systems (GIS), geostatistics, and remote sensing of aeolian environments.
Judith Namanya
Ph.D.
Health/Medical geography, HIV/AIDS, water, gender issues, health disparities, human-environmental interactions, sub-Saharan Africa, qualitative research, poverty, food insecurity, sustainable development
Kyle Redican
Ph.D.
Urban Geography, Economic Geography, Urban Water Systems, Drinking Water Quality, Environmental Justice
Ana Rivera Rivera
Ph.D.
urban geography, urban climate, environmental design, urban heat islands, extreme heat weather events.
Gabriela Shirkey
Ph.D.
Ecosystem processes, human-nature interaction, remote sensing, historical land use change
Dan Wanyama
Ph.D.
Spatial analysis, Land use and land cover change, Climate change and agriculture in developing countries , Crop systems and agent-based modelling
Jonah White
Ph.D.
Urban Geography and Sustainability, Gentrification and Environmental Justice, Processes of Development and Social Justice
Kyeesha Wilcox
M.S. in Geography
Diabetes, Racial Disparities, Illness/Disorder Prevalence, Neighborhood Socioeconomic Effects and Census Tract-Level Analyses in Tennessee and U.S. Urban Cities
Qiong Zhang
Ph.D.
Medical and Health Geography, Maternal and Infant Health, Environmental Health, Urban Geography, Transportation Geography, GIS, Remote Sensing, Air Pollution, Haze, Temporal and Spatial Analysis, Political Science, Environmental Policy and Protection.
Rui Zhang
Ph.D.
Agent-based Modeling, Land Use/Land Cover Change, Coupled Human and Natural Systems, Telecoupling
