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Atatimur, Neslihan
atatimur@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Kaiser
Research Area: Human Geography

Atkinson, Emily
eeatkinson@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Marin-Spiotta
Research Area: Land-use change, ecosystem ecology, ecosystem services, environmental policy
Website

Bennett, Sarah
scbennett@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Kaiser
Research Area: Human Geography, Visual Culture, Russia, Animation, Symbolic Communication

Boothby, Rachel
boothby@wisc.edu
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Cronon
Research Area: People-Environment

Brakken, Marc
mbrakken@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Kaiser
Research Area: human geography, complexity theory, post-structuralism, theoretical ecology, complementary economics, community development, topologies
Website

Brottem, Leif
brottem@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Research Area: Natural resource use and conservation in sub-Saharan Africa; Land use/cover change (LUCC) and globalization, Political ecology, Landscape ecology
Research Summary: Farmer-herder conflict, environmental change, and institutional response in Mali

Bruzzone, Mario
bruzzone@wisc.edu
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Woodward
Research Area: international development and development studies; community and social activism; social theory; science and technology studies; materiality; affect and embodiment; feminist geography

Cantey, Chris
ccantey@wisc.edu
Program: M.S. Cart/GIS
Advisor: Zhu
Research Area: GIScience, data-mining social media to map geographic events.

Cooper, Mark
markcooper@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Turner, Peck
Research Area: Environmental governance, economic geography and natural resources, science studies
Research Summary: Making Markets for Environmental Governance: Climate Policy in New Zealand

Courtenay, Todd
wtcourtenay@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Ostergren, Kaiser
Research Area: Cultural Geography, Historical Geography, Tourism, Landscape, Rome

Davey, Andy
adavey@wisc.edu
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Turner
Research Area: sustainable agriculture, sustainable development, local food initiatives, Midwest farmer's markets, political ecology, democracy/political theory

Day, Catherine
ctday@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Turner
Research Area: People-Environment

Donohue, Richard
rgdonohue@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Kaiser
Research Area: Geography & STS; Political Landscapes of Wind Power
Website: Richard Donohue: Geography and Science and Technology Studies

Du, Fei
fdu@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Zhu
Research Area: Cartography/GIS

Eggen, Michael
meggen@wisc.edu
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Naughton/Turner
Research Area: People-Environment

Eggleston, Emily
eeggleston@wisc.edu
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Marin-Spiotta
Research Area: Physical Geography

Elmer, Martin
meelmer@wisc.edu
Program: M.S.Cart/GIS
Advisor: Burt/Zhu
Research Area: Cartography/GIS

Fleming, Jake
jake.fleming@gmail.com
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Turner
Research Area: Post-Soviet Central Asia, pastoralism, political ecology, land tenure, Asia
Research Summary: Herders and Reformers: Post-Soviet Institutional Change in Pastoral Kyrgyzstan

Foster, James (Jamie)
jpfoster@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Olds
Research Area: economic geography, market construction, Andes

Gao, Jing
jgao3@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Burt
Research Interests: Digital terrain analysis, spatial analysis, web mapping, GIS & RS applications
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Gavin, Christopher
cgavin2@wisc.edu
Program: M.S. Cart/GIS
Advisor: Burnicki
Research Area: Cartography/GIS

Gibbons, Kevin
kmgibbons@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Turner
Research Area: People-environment, political ecology, fishing communities, participatory filmmaking, Uganda, Lake Victoria
Website

Gill, Jacquelyn
jlgill@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Williams
Research Interests: Quaternary paleoecology, paleoclimatology, long-term vegetation dynamics, glacial geomorphology, North American megafauna extinctions
Website

Gillin, Kramer
kgillin@wisc.edu
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Turner
Research Area: Political ecology, nomadic pastoralists, resource conflicts, land tenure, Afghanistan and Central Asia

Greene, Samantha (Sam)
greene1@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Research Area: geomorphic influences on riparian tree diversity

Hamilton, Erin
elhamilton@wisc.edu
Program: M.S. Cart/GIS
Advisor: Burnicki
Research Area: Geovisualization, environmental modeling with GIS, open source GIS applications.

Hayes, Laura
ljhayes@wisc.edu
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Mason
Research Area: glacial geology, soils, geomorphology, OSL dating

Ho, Chung-Hsin
ho22@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Olds
Research Area: Human Geography

Hung, Po-Yi
hung2@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Olds
Research Area: Political ecology; Place, power, and culture; Urban-rural relations
Research Summary: Constructing Landscape for Post-Socialist Development: Transnational Tea Trade, State Governance, and EthnicMinorities in Southwest China
Website: Po-Yi Hung – On a Frontier Tea Road

Kitchell, Erin
ekitchell@wisc.edu
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Turner
Research Area: land tenure, land use and management in drylands, Sahelian agropastoral systems, urbanization in Africa, political ecology

Kontgis, Caitlin
kontgis@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Schneider
Research Area:

Lee, Jae-Youl
lee14@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Olds
Research Area: Economic and Urban geography: Networks, Global trade, Restructuring, and regional re-development

Limburg, Christopher
cjlimburg@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Cronon, Turner
Research Area: Nature/Culture, Place, Space, Buddhism, Himalaya, Water, Nagas, Other visions of landscape
Upwords Blog
Website

Liu, Jian
jianliu@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Zhu
Research Area: Environmental modeling with GIS applications

Liu, Jing
jliu93@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Zhu
Research Area: GIS

Loope, Henry
loope@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Mason
Research Area: Quaternary geology and geomorphology
Research Summary: Upper Mississippi River middle-late Wisconsin terrace chronology
Website

Ma, Fei
fma4@wisc.edu
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Mason
Research Area: Physical Geography

Mandelman, Adam
mandelman@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Cronon
Research Area: roads and trails, history and memory, cultural geography, environmental history, tourism
Research Summary: Hawai'i's Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail

McGraw, Rachel
rmcgraw@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Olds
Research Area: Cultural, economic and political geography, globalization and higher education

Muellerleile, Chris
cmuellerleil@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Olds
Research Area: economic and financial geographies, financial derivative innovation, and the political economy of Chicago
Website: Christopher Muellerleile: Derivative Geographies

Munoz, Samuel
semunoz@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Williams
Research Area: Physical Geography

Munetz, Jonathan
munetz@wisc.edu
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Ostergren
Research Area: People-Environment

Nelson, Garrett
ggnelson@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Cronon
Research Area: Landscape and ideology, parkland and gardens, futurism and utopias, theory, historical-cultural geography, rural studies, North America, socialist Europe, Modernism
Website

Nu, Jason
nu@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Olds/Kaiser
Research Area: Urban geography; the global city; the sustainable city; the production, politics, meanings and representations of the urban built environment; mega-events, mega-projects; Brazil; Scandinavia

Peterson, Sigrid
sigrid.peterson@gmail.com
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Olds, Kaiser
Research Area: Human Geography

Pichler, Marie
mpichler@wisc.edu
Program: M.S.-Cart/GIS
Advisor: Zhu
Research Area: Land-use change, environmental modeling, spatial analysis

Reyerson, Paul Eric
reyerson@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Mason
Research Area: Silica biogeochemical cycles, phytolith analysis, Quaternary paleoenvironments and vegetation dynamics of temperate grasslands, soils/paleosols, phytogeography.
Research Summary: The utilization of phytolith analysis to document late Quaternary to Holocene vegetation dynamics in grasslands
Website

Rosenfeld, Heather
hrosenfeld@wisc.edu
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Woodward
Research Area: human geography, feminism and feminist geography, sts, technology and the body, energy/electricity, the dérive, critical physical geography

Russ, Karen
kruss@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Mason
Research Area: Climate change, paleoclimate, the response of the hydrological cycle to global warming

Sack, Carl
northlandiguana@gmail.com
Program: M.S. Cart/GIS
Advisor: Burt
Research Area: Cartography/GIS Lake Superior mining impacts

Schuck, Aaron
aarondschuck@gmail.com
Program: M.S. Cart/GIS
Advisor: Zhu
Research Area: Cartography/GIS/Remote Sensing

Shattuck, William
wshattuck@wisc.edu
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Baird
Research Area: People-Environment, Smallholder agriculture in Southeast Asia

Sinak, Leslie
sinak@wisc.edu
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Knox
Research Area: Physical Geography

Stanley, Kristine (Kristy)
kestanley@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Mason
Research Area: Soils, geomorphology, Quaternary studies

Swift, Peter
pswift@wisc.edu
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Baird
Research Area: People-Environment

Tatum, Jason
jtatum@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Kaiser
Research interests: international migration, historical geography, the Middle East

Tennessen, Travis
tptennessen@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Cronon
Research Area: Environmental history, Great Plains

Theo, Lisa
theolj@uwec.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Ostergren
Research Area: Race, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality issues and urban/rural conflicts

Van Den Hoek, Jamon
jlvandenhoek@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Zhu
Research Summary: Influence of Livelihood Variability on Spatial Heterogeneity of Forest Cover Change in Northwest Yunnan Province, China
Website

Vue, Pao
pdvue@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Baird
Research Area: People-Environment Relationship, Wildlife Conservation, Sustainabilty and Forest Restoration in Southeast Asia

Wallace, Tim
twallace2@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Burt
Research Area: Cartography, Design, History of Cartography
Blog

Wang, Ping
pwang26@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Zhu
Research Area: Soil erosion modeling; Environmental modeling with GIS

Wang, Yue
ywang327@wisc.edu
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Williams
Research Area: Paleoecology, Climate Change

Weng, Yen-Chu
yenchuweng@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Turner
Research Area: Restoration ecology, Urban political ecology, Public participation in environmental management
Research Summary: Crossing the Expert-Lay Divide: Nature, Science, and Ecological Restoration
Website

White, Jeremy
jjwhite4@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Burt
Research Area: Interactive cartography, information visualization, techniques for spatio-temporal synthesis

Wirka, Katie
wirka@wisc.edu
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Kaiser, Ostergren
Research Area: Human Geography

Wisniewska, Magdalena
wisniewska@wisc.edu
Program: M.S. Cart/GIS
Advisor: Burnicki
Research Area: Cartography/GIS

Yu, Yong
yongyu@wisc.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Ostergren