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Current Geography Students:
Hector Agredano (City College of New York)
Advisor: Jim Biles
hagredano@gc.cuny.edu
Research Interests: Transport, Revolution(s), Mexican History, Contemporary Mexico, Marxism, Infrastructure, Narcocultura.
Campus Affiliation(s): Instructor in International Studies at The City College of New York
Ekaterina Bezborodko (Graduate Center)
Research Interests: Education, Economic Geography
Matthew Bissen (Graduate Center)
mbissen@gc.cuny.edu
Research Interests: The production of nature in urban cultural development, situated knowledge, spatial representation and everyday life.
Advisor: Ken Gould
Stephen Boatright (Graduate Center)
sboatright@gc.cuny.edu
Research Interests: The Political and Affective Economies of Homeownership. Continental Philosophy.
Advisor: Cindi Katz
Campus Affiliation: Instructor at Hunter College
Morgan L.C. Buck (Graduate Center)
mbuck@gc.cuny.edu
Advisor: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Research Interests: Rural geography, economic geography, surplus populations, postcolonial Africa, Ghana, Social reproduction
Jennifer Cox (Hunter College)
Research Interests: Not Specified
GM Culp
gculp@gc.cuny.edu
Advisor: Juliana Maantay
Research Interests: cartographic design, relief cartography, color vision confusion, hazard vulnerability, geographic visualization
Adam Davidson (Graduate Center)
ADavidson@gc.cuny.edu
Advisor: Yehuda Klein
Research Interests: Sustainable transportation, urban planning, bicycle sharing, policy mechanisms that enable infrastructure funding, traveling beyond the commute to work, open-source solutions to accessing public information
Michael Dorsch (Graduate Center, Hunter College)
Advisor: Juliana Maantay
Research Interests: geovisualization and analytic cartography, environmental justice, energy, pollution and health inequities, hazard vulnerability, resource access and management
Rafael A. Mutis Garcia (Hostos Community College)
Advisor: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Research Interests: Ethnobotany, alternatives to capitalist development/globalization, production of nature, enmeshed racegendersexualityclass analysis, the Global South, the Black Radical Tradition, linguistics, Indigenous issues & cosmologies, feminism
Eric Glass (Graduate Center)
Research Interests: GIS, Urban Geography, Cartography, GIS librarianship, geoinformatics, geospatial metadata and ontologies
Rachel Goffe (Graduate Center)
rachelgoffe@gmail.com
Research Interests: Land; livelihood; class, race and gender; state formation and politics; peripheral economies; the caribbean; media for building movements
Advisor: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Kristen Grady (Graduate Center, Lehman College)
kgrady@gc.cuny.edu
Research Interests: Geovisualization, Spatial Analysis, GISc, Cartographic Design, Radical Cartography, Commercial Aviation
Advisor: Juliana Maantay
Campus Affiliation: Instructor in Geography and GIS at Lehman College (Dept. of Environmental, Geographic, and Geological Sciences)
Ellen Kracauer Hartig
ellenkhartig@hotmail.com
Research Interests: Salt marsh loss trends in coastal urban environments from sea level rise and multiple other stressors.
Advisor: Rebecca Boger
Olivia Ildefonso (Graduate Center)
Research Interests: institutional and structural racism, urban geography, housing policy
Hunter Jackson (Graduate Center)
rjackson@gc.cuny.edu
Research Interests: Borders, migration, race, the South, the state
Advisors: Rupal Oza and Monica Varsanyi
Kyeongsu Kim (Graduate Center)
ksukim@gmail.com
Research Interests: Urban and Economic Geographies, private-public partnerships (PPPs), sustainable urban transportation planning policy, environmental justice, built environment, economic development, travel behavior and accessibility
Advisor: Tom Angoti
Pyung Ho Kim (Hunter College)
phkim@hunter.cuny.edu
Research Interests: Transportation Planning, Space-time
Hildegaard Link (Graduate Center)
hildegaardl@earthlink.net
Advisor: Yehuda Klein
Research Interests: Rural/Urban Dynamics, Resource Management, Industrial Ecosystems, Bioregional Sustainability Modeling, Environmental Economics, traditional societies and sustainability
Caroline Loomis (Graduate Center)
Advisor: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Research Interests: Gentrification, schools, race and racism, resistance, cities, the state
Rakhee Kewada (Graduate Center)
Research Interests: Immigration detention
FTC Manning (Graduate Center)
fmanning@gc.cuny.edu
Research Interests: Capital, economic geography, land and housing speculation, land rent theory, value, Marx, Hegel, Lacan, reproduction, crisis, uneven geographic development, state-finance nexus, struggle, revolt, The Thermidor
Advisor: David Harvey
Campus Affiliation(s): Instructor at Hunter College
Amanda Matles (Graduate Center)
amatles@gc.cuny.edu
Research Interests: Politics of social reproduction, liberation education and participatory research, social movements, anti imperialism, feminism, critical cartography, visual research methods, film, video, and geography, subjectivity and urban space, historical materialism, green gentrification
Advisor: Cindi Katz
Campus Affiliation(s): Graduate Center Videography Fellow
Keith K. Miyake (Graduate Center)
kmiyake@gc.cuny.edu
Research Interests: Environmental justice, critical race and ethnicity, the environmental state, political economic geography
Advisor: Ruthie Gilmore
Campus Affiliation(s): Graduate Center
George J. Musa (Hunter College)
musag@childpsych.columbia.edu, gmusa@gc.cuny.edu
Research Interests: Medical Geography, Epidemiology, Mental Health, Risk Perception, GIS
Jack Norton (Graduate Center)
giache@gmail.com
Advisor: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Research Interests: prisons, geographies of race, economic restructuring, de-industrialization, infrastructure, development, labor, urban-rural relationships, social reproduction
Campus Affiliation(s): Research assistant at Hunter College
Maggie Ornstein (Graduate Center)
tayamo@gmail.com
Advisor: Ken Gould
Research Interests: Health geography, specifically, the interaction between family caregivers and formal service providers. The ethic of care and the production of needs as a neoliberal attempt to create market. Urban food systems and composting.
Kate Schlott (Graduate Center)
kschlott@hunter.cuny.edu
Research Interests: Population geography, political geography, development and modernization, critical race theory, indigenous space and migrations, Polynesian geographies and Postcolonialism
Advisor: Ines Miyares
Campus Affiliation: Hunter College
Deen Sharp (Graduate Center)
deensharp@gmail.com
Research Interests: Anthropology, architecture, Middle East
Advisor: Setha Low
Campus Affiliation(s): City College
Elizabeth A. Sibilia (Graduate Center)Research Interests: Shipbreaking, circulations and risk, maritime economics,
Annie Spencer (Graduate Center)
aspencer@gc.cuny.edu
Advisor: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Research Interests: Post-Green Revolution agrarian movements in Bangladesh and India; political ecology, uneven development and the production of nature; livelihood, reproduction and resistance under global economic restructuring
Atsushi Tomita (Hunter College)
a_tomi@hotmail.com
Research Interests: Human Geography, Remote Sensing, Urban Planning
Laurel Mei Turbin (Graduate Center)
laurelmei_at_gmail.com
Advisor: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Research Interests: Geographies of race, the nation-state, nationalism, the racial state, militarization, imperialism, colonialism, environmental justice, land, ethnic studies, Hawaiian studies, Indigenous studies
Stephanie Wakefield (Graduate Center)
stephanie.diane.wakefield@gmail.com
Research Interests: Philosophy, Technology, Urbanism
Campus Affiliation: Instructor at Queens College
Angie Winner (Lehman College)
Advisor: Julianna Maantay
Research Interests: Urban geography, public health, environmental justice
