Graduate Students
Donald Akanga
Ph.D.
Research interests: Remote sensing, Earth systems modeling, GIS, nature-society interactions.
Thomas Bilintoh
M.S. in Geography
Spatial Data Analysis, Error propagation in geospatial data, and . Modelling the spatial distribution of crop pest through remotely sensed data and GIS
Victoria Breeze
Ph.D.
Land Use/Land Cover, Environmental Telecouplings, China-Africa, Agent-based modeling
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.
Yi (Angela) Fan
M.S. in Geography
Life cycle assessment of solar energy, Geostatistics, eco-economic modeling
Albert Fulton
Ph.D.
Pollen analysis / Quaternary vegetation change /Quaternary climate change/ Biogeography
Nafiseh Haghtalab
Ph.D.
Land use/land cover change, Remote Sensing, Climate Change, Crop modeling, Quantitative modeling
Dee Jordan
Ph.D.
Spatial Epidemiology, Health/Medical Geography, Environmental Cancer Risk, Cancer Health Disparities, Social and Environmental Justice and Residential Segregation
Ameen Kadhim
Ph.D.
Measuring and monitoring Sea level Rise and land cover change processes, remote sensing, spatial analysis, Global Change Ecology
Aaron Kamoske
Ph.D.
LiDAR and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing. Temperate Closed-Canopy Forests. Landscape Ecology. Ecological Modeling. Computer Programming. Field Sampling.
Matlhogonolo (Mattie) Kelepile
Ph.D.
Health/ Medical Geography, HIV/AIDS, ARV and PMTCT treatments, maternal health, Botswana, Sub Saharan Africa, Spatial and Statistical methods
Kara Komoto
M.S. in Geography
Climatology, Crop Disease, Environmental Hazards, Environmental Justice, Political Ecology
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 and Medical Geography, GIS, Global Maternal Health, Maternal Health Disparities Among Black Women in America, Neighborhood Racial Segregation as it Relates to Adverse Health Outcomes and Disparities, Population-Based Spatial Analysis, Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR), Epidemiological Research Methods.
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.
Leah Mungai
Ph.D.
Sustainable agriculture using Perennial Grains crop systems, land use, human livlihood, Africa.
Judith Namanya
Ph.D.
Health/Medical geography, Water, Gender, Health disparities, Human-Environmental interactions, Sub-Saharan Africa, Qualitative research, Sustainable development
Lisa-Marie Pierre
Ph.D.
Entrepreneurship, Urban-Economic Geography, Technology & Innovation, Diversity, Qualitative Methods, Digital Humanities
Kyle Redican
Ph.D.
Urban Geography, Economic Geography, Urban Water Systems, Drinking Water Quality, Environmental Justice
Ana Rivera
Ph.D.
urban geography, urban climate, environmental design, urban heat islands, extreme heat weather events.
Amanda Rzotkiewicz
M.S. in Geography
Health Geography, Neighborhood Conditions, Environmental Justice, Postmortem Data
Gabriela Shirkey
M.S. in Geography
Ecosystem processes, human-nature interaction, remote sensing, historical land use change
Sara Torres
M.S. in Geography
Human environment relations and the effects of scale perception in behavior.
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
