Graduate Students
Graduate students in the Geography Department come here from states throughout the United States and from many other nations. They bring strong records from their prior studies in geography and other disciplines.
Most of our MA graduates continue on into the PhD program, and most of our PhD graduates pursue careers in the academy. In addition, some of our graduates apply their training and talents in the private or public sectors.
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| Al-Arfaj, Amna | University of Vermont, B.A. Geography and Women and Gender Studies Interests: The Middle East, women/feminism, global inequalities, transnational/hybrid identities, sustainable development |
| Ananthanarayanan, Sriram | Bangalore University, BE, Engineering; Johns Hopkins University, M.S. Human Geography and Public Health Interests: Political econonmy of occupation/conflict, labor, gender, social disenfranchisement, South Asia (Northeast India and Kashmir), Palestine |
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| Baker, Ruth E | Macalester College, B.A. Anthropology; Yale University, MEM Environmental Law & Policy |
| Jacob Barney | University of Chicago. B.A. Geographical Studies. Interests: Urban and cultural geography, North American cities, urban morphology, architecture, and critical social theory |
| Bergmann, Luke R | Duke University, B.S. Physics |
| Berland, Adam M | Univ. of St. Thomas, B.A. Geography and Environmental Studies; Univ. of Minnesota, M.A. Geography Interests: Spatial analysis and modeling, biogeography, landscape ecology |
| Bernini-Galup, Brook | Univ of New Hampshire, B.A. Biology |
| Bialostosky, Ivan Julius | The Pennsylvania State University, B.A. Geography; University of Minnesota, M.A. Geography. Interests: Nature/Society, Development, Water Resources, South Asia, Critical Theory |
| Bloch, Stefano | University of California, Santa Cruz, B.A. Literature; UCLA, M.A. Urban Planning Interests: Graffiti and urban aesthetics, Hollywood film industry (set dressing), cultural and spatial theory, neighborhood restructuring (Los Angeles), ethnographic research methods, teaching |
| Blumberg, Renata | Columbia University, B.A. Anthropology; Univ of Calif-Davis, M.A. International Agricultural Development |
| Bonsal, Dudley | Tufts University, B.A. English; Ohio State Univ, M.A. Geography |
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| Chang, Catherine | National Kaohsiung Normal University, BA, Geography; National Taiwan University, MS, Geography. Interests: comparative political economy of development, urban politics and policy, East Asia |
| Clough, Nathan Lee | University of Vermont, B.A. Anthropology/Philosophy, M.A. Geography |
| Crawford, Christopher | University of Tennessee, B.A. Forestry; Virginia Tech, M.A. Geography |
| Currie, Timothy | Clark University, B.A. Geography/International Development andSocial Change Interests: Sematic Conceptions of Time, Temporality, and History; Postcolonial and Critical Development Theory; Geographic Thought; Peru and the Pacific Northwest of the USA |
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| Downey, Victoria | University of Kansas, B.A., M.A. Geography Interests: Cultural construction, representation, tourism |
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| Ebner, Noah | University of California -- Los Angeles, B.A. Geography and Urban and Regional Planning (Honors) Interests: Political Economy of Urbanization; Marxism; The University |
| Elliott, Grant P | Univ of Missouri-Columbia, B.A. Geography; University of Wyoming, M.A. Geography |
| Eria, Sami | Makerere University, B.S. Land Surveying; Univ of Nottingham, M.A. Environmental Mgmt; Stuttgart University of Applied Science, M.A. GIS & Photogrammetry |
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| Fairley, Elizabeth C | Oberlin College, B.A. Sociology and Anthropology, University of Minnesota, M.A. Geography/MGIS Interests: Participatory GIS, organizational capacity in the global south, sub-Saharan Africa, land administration |
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| Ganley, Sarah | Macalester College, B.A. Geography/Studio Arts |
| Ghosh, Debarchana (Debs) | Presidency College, Calcutta University, B. Sc Geography; Jawaharlal Nehru University, M.A Geography/M. Phil Population Studies Interests: Geographic Information Science, Spatial Analysis, Medical/Health geography, Environment |
| Gotter, Brian Gene | University of Oklahoma, B.S. Geography |
| Green, Kyle | State University of New York at Geneseo, B.A. Geography and Philosophy Interests: Masculinity, Race, Violence, Sport, Spaces of Escape, Sites of Excess |
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| Hall, Katharine | Wesleyan University, B.A. Government and Mathematics Interests: technology, war on terror, knowledge production |
| Handler, (Nicholas) Max | Pomona College, B.A. Spanish |
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| Jacobson, Justin Price | University of Oregon, B.A. Political Science |
| Jindrich, Jason Bryan | University of Missouri-Columbia, B.A. History, M.A. Geography |
| Johnson, Elizabeth Randolph | Clark University, BA. Geography. Interests: Human & nonhuman relationships; Science and technology studies;Geo/Biopolitics; Time, temporality, and the making of political futures;Critical social theory. |
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| Karaman, Ozan | Middle East Technical University, Turkey, B.Arch., M.Arch. Architecture Interests: entrepreneurial urbanism, urban renewal, urban informality, critical social theory |
| Kotting, Jennifer | Univ of Maryland, B.A. Anthropology/English Literature; Cornell University, MLA Landscape Architecture |
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| Lang, Ursula | Swarthmore College, B.A. Biology and Sociology/Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, MArch Interests: Humans and nonhumans, the everyday, front and back yards, architecture, cities and sustainability |
| Larson, Evan R | Willamette University, B.A. Environmental Sciences; The University of Tennessee-Knoxville, M.S. Geography Interests: Biogeography, dendroecology, forest ecosystem dynamics, whitebark pine ecosystems |
| Lazzarini, Alicia | University of Washington, B.A. English and Women's Studies Interests: gender and feminist theory, globalization, international development, export-oriented production, trade |
| Lindeke, William | Williams College, B.A. English & Philosophy |
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| Mahayni, Basil | Iowa State University, B.A./M.A. Political Science; Graduate Certificate in GIS Interests: development studies and politics, sustainability, and livelihood; water scarcity and security; Critical Theory; Middle East |
| Margoles, Daniel | University of Minnesota, B.A. Geography/Anthropology |
| Matejskova, Tatiana | Comenius University (Slovakia) Mag/MA Political Science; University of Minnesota, M.A. Geography Interests: cultural politics of immigration and citizenship, urban geographies of immigrant incorporation, biopolitics, gender, migration and care-work, sexuality and space, Germany/Europe |
| McDonald, Moira T | Brown University, B.A. Environmental Studies; Russian Studies; Univ of MN, M.A. Geography |
| Mckay, (David) Tyler | University of MN, B.A. Geography; UM-Humphrey Inst, MURP Planning |
| Menyah, David | University of Ghana, B.A. Geography; York University, M.A. Geography |
| Moore, Ilona Claire Tamminen | Univ of Minnesota-Morris, B.A. Political Science, Univ of Minnesota-TC, M.A. Geography Interests: postcolonialism and imperialism, development, geopolitics of food and hunger, international agricultural regimes |
| Morehouse, Harlan | Bennington College, B.A. Social Science/Literature; Central European University, M.A. Sociology/Anthropology |
| Muehlenhaus, Ian Alexander | Univ of Minnesota-Duluth, B.A. Geography/International Studies; Pennsylvania State Univ, M.Sc. Geography |
| Murai, Emily H | Univ of California-Santa Cruz, B.A. Psychology/American Studies; New School of Social Research |
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| Narayanareddy, Rajyashree (Raj) | Bangalore University, B.A. History/Economics/Pol Sci; University of Hyderabad, M.A. Economics; Yale University, M.Esc. Social Ecology |
| Nikoi, Ebenezer Goodman Ashie | Univ of Ghana, B.A. Geography; University of Vermont, M.A. Geography |
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| Paudel, Dinesh | Tribhuvan University (Nepal), B.Sc./I.Sc. Forestry; Cambridge University, M.Phil Environment and Development |
| Pavlovic, Zoran (Zok) | South Dakota State University, B.A., M.A. Geography |
| Pierce, Roxann F | University of Texas-Austin, B.F.A. Art; Univ of MN, M.A. Geography |
| Pratt, Kathryn (Katie) | Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, B.S. Zoology; Univ of MN, M.A. Geography |
| Putnam, Daniel B | Univ of California-Santa Cruz, B.A. Environmental Studies/Psychology; Clark University, M.A. International Development & Social Change |
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| Ramirez-Roche, Jose | Universidad Nacional de Colombia, B.A. Economics; Univ of MN, M.A. Applied Economics |
| University of Applied Sciences, Dresden, Germany, B.A. Cartography; Indiana State Univ, M.A. Geography Interests: Biogeography and Dendrochronology |
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| Schueth, Samuel J | University of Colorado, Boulder, B.A. International Affairs/M.A. Geography Interests: Economic geography and state formation, international development and postsocialist transition, social theory |
| Shannon, Gerald | University of Iowa, B.A. English; University of Iowa, MAT English Education Interests: Alternative food systems, urban studies, political economy/ecology, cultural geography |
| Simms, Nicole Colleen | University of Toronto, B.A. Geography/Political Science, M.A. Geography/Environmental Studies |
| Snow, Meagan | University of Washington, B.A. Geography research interests: political geography, militarism, critical GIS |
| Strunk, Christopher | Wesleyan University, B.A. Government and Latin American Studies; University of Minnesota, M.A. Geography Interests: Political geography, social movements, development, migration, Latin America |
| Sun, Shipeng | Peking University, B.S Geology, M.S. Spatial Info Syst/Geology Interests: network analysis, agent-based modeling, intra-urban migration, and land use change |
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| Taylor, Marvin | Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, B.A. Communication Arts; Univ of MN, M.A. Rhetoric |
| Tesdell, Omar | Iowa State University, B.A. Journalism Interests: environmental studies, agroecology and food systems, political ecology, postcolonial and critical development theory, Middle East |
| Traub-Werner, Marion Ruth | University of North Carolina, B.A. Latin American Studies; University of Bristol, M.Sc. Geography Interests: Trade and labour, global production, feminist geography, postcolonial and critical development theory, circum-Caribbean |
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| Walker, Kyle E | University of Oregon, BA Geography/French; University of Minnesota, MA Geography Interests: population geography, urban and suburban studies, migration and immigration policy, spatial analysis |
| Walling, Dayne Allen | James Madison Univ, B.A. Social Relations/Modern History; Univ of London, M.A. Urban Affairs |
| Walsh, Erin | University of Wisconsin, Madison, B.A. Sociology/Environmental Studies certificate Interests: Ecological citizenship, democratic politics, water justice |
| Whittlesey, Elicia | Pomona College, B.A. Environmental Analysis |
| William, Christopher | Univ of Dar Es Salaam, B.A. Land Use Planning, M.A. Geography & Environment |
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| Young, Nancy Rovik | University of Minnesota, B.S. Mechanical Engineering, M.A. Geography |