Graduate Students
A B C D – E F G H – I J K L M – N O P Q – R S T U – V W X Y Z
Atatimur, Neslihan- atatimur@wisc.edu
- Program: Ph.D
- Advisor: Kaiser
- Research Area: Political and feminist geography; political ecology; visual methodologies; social activism; Turkey and the Middle East
Atkinson, Emily- eeatkinson@wisc.edu
- Program: Ph.D
- Advisor: Marin-Spiotta
- Research Area: Land-use change, ecosystem ecology, ecosystem services, environmental policy
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Bennett, Sarah- scbennett@wisc.edu
- Program: Ph.D
- Advisor: Kaiser
- Research Area: Qualitative movement analysis, mapping, art-science collaboration, environmental art
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Boothby, Rachel- boothby@wisc.edu
- Program: M.S.
- Advisor: Cronon
- Research Area: Farm-to-table restaurant sourcing, local food movement, political ecology, environmental history
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
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Brottem, Leif- brottem@wisc.edu
- Program: Ph.D
- Advisor: Turner
- 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
- Website
Bruzzone, Mario- bruzzone@wisc.edu
- Program: Ph.D.
- Advisor: Woodward
- Research Area: Transnational migration; migrant politics; community activism and social movements; Mexico and Central America; international development and development studies; labor and embodiment; care; 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.
- Website
Chambers, David- dchambers2@wisc.edu
- Program: Ph.D
- Advisor: Baird
- Research Area: Human Geography, upland-lowland relations in Southeast Asia, spatiality, territoriality, ethnicity, social memory, political ecology, cultural ecology.
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
Davey, Andy- adavey@wisc.edu
- Program: Ph.D
- Advisor: Cronon (MS with Turner)
- Research Area: sustainable agriculture, political ecology, political theory, environmental history, and intellectual and cultural history
Davidson, Brian- bdavidson2@wisc.edu
- Program: M.S
- Advisor: Roth
- Research Area: Cartography
Day, Catherine- ctday@wisc.edu
- Program: Ph.D
- Advisor: Turner
- Research Area: Impacts of climate change on agriculture, agricultural insurance, arid/semi-arid agriculture, farm/rural livelihoods, political ecology, agricultural history
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
- Website
Eggen, Michael- meggen@wisc.edu
- Program: M.S.
- Advisor: Naughton/Turner
- Research Area: People-Environment
Elmer, Martin- meelmer@wisc.edu
- Program: M.S. Cart/GIS
- Advisor: Roth
- Research Area: Bivariate Mapping
Fleming, Jake- jefleming@wisc.edu
- Program: Ph.D
- Advisor: Turner
- Research Area: People-environment geography, post-Soviet Central Asia, political ecology, posthumanism, property
- Research Summary: Making Hybrid Property: People, Trees, and Grafting in the Walnut-Fruit Forests of 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: Error analysis, data-driven geospatial modeling, quantitative methods, GIS & RS applications
- Curriculum vitae
Gibbons, Kevin- kmgibbons@wisc.edu
- Program: Ph.D
- Advisor: Turner
- Research Area: People-environment, political ecology, fishing communities, participatory filmmaking, Uganda, Lake Victoria
- Website
Gillin, Kramer- kgillin@wisc.edu
- Program: M.S.
- Advisor: Turner
- Research Area: People-environment, nomadic pastoralists, resource conflicts, law and geography, land tenure, Afghanistan and Central Asia
Greene, Samantha (Sam)- greene1@wisc.edu
- Program: Ph.D
- Research Area: Water resources management, dams and dam removal, fluvial geomorphology, and riparian ecology
- Website: samanthagreene.wordpress.com
Gruley, Kristine E. (Kristy)- gruley@wisc.edu
- Program: Ph.D
- Advisor: Mason
- Research Area: Soils, geomorphology, Quaternary studies
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Hamilton, Erin- elhamilton@wisc.edu
- Program: M.S. Cart/GIS
- Advisor: Burt
- Research Area: Geovisualization, GIS application development, 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: Nature-society relations; agriculture and foodways; political ecology; place and space; Taiwan and China.
- Research Summary: Mountains of Green Gold: Tea Production, Land-Use Politics, and Ethnic Minorities on China's Southwest Frontier
- Website: Po-Yi Hung – On a Frontier Tea Road
Kennedy, Tim- ttkennedy@wisc.edu
- Program: Ph.D.
- Advisor:
- Research Area: Land-use change modeling, drivers and factors of rural land-use change
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
Knoppke-Wetzel, Vanessa - vknoppkewetz@wisc.edu
- Program: M.S. Cart/GIS
- Advisor: Roth
- Research Area: Cartography & GIS, geo-visualization, geography: people/env. interactions
Kontgis, Caitlin - kontgis@wisc.edu
- Program: Ph.D
- Advisor: Schneider
- Research Area: Remote sensing, land cover and climate change, rice agriculture systems
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, Chris- 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
L'Roe, Jess- jelong@wisc.edu
- Program: Ph.D
- Advisor: Naughton
- Research Area: People-Environment
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
Mead, Rashauna- rashauna.mead@gmail.com
- Program: M.S. Cart/GIS
- Advisor: Roth
- Research Area: Cartography
McGraw, Rachel - rmcgraw@wisc.edu
- Program: Ph.D
- Advisor: Olds
- Research Area: Cultural, economic and political geography, globalization and higher education
Mertes, Carly- cmertes@wisc.edu
- Program: M.S. Cart/GIS
- Advisor: Schneider
- Research Area: LU/LC change and urbanization, remote sensing and GIS, urban environmental sustainability
- Website
Muellerleile, Chris- cmuellerleil@wisc.edu
- Program: Ph.D
- Advisor: Olds
- Research Area: Urban, economic and financial geographies, financial derivative markets, and the political economy of Chicago
- Website: Christopher Muellerleile: Derivative Geographies
Munoz, Samuel- semunoz@wisc.edu
- Program: Ph.D
- Advisor: Williams
- Research Area: Late Quaternary paleoecology, North American prehistory, human-environment interaction
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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
Noterman, Elsa- noterman@wisc.edu
- Program: M.S
- Advisor: Woodward
- Research Area: Human Geography
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: Burnicki
- 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: hybridity, labor, and infrastructure; critical GIS; information theory and the body; feminism and feminist geography; science and technology studies; animals
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: Roth
- 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
Souther, John- souther@wisc.edu
- Program: M.S.
- Advisor: Marín-Spiotta
- Research Area: Physical Geography
Summer, Rebecca- rsummer@wisc.edu
- Program: M.S
- Advisor: Cronon
- Research Area: Environmental history, public parks and public lands, urban planning, connection to the outdoors
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
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
White, Jeremy- jjwhite4@wisc.edu
- Program: Ph.D
- Advisor: Burt
- Research Area: Interactive cartography, information visualization, techniques for spatio-temporal synthesis
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