Graduate Students

Marshall Agnew	BA Computer Science, Brown University BA Architectural Studies, Brown University Urban and economic geography, regional economics and development, GIS, the Balkans, the Middle East mcagnew@u.washington.edu
Dena Aufseeser	BA, International Relations; History; Brown University, 2003 MSc, Urbanisation and Development; London School of Economics, 2007 Children’s and Youth’s Geographies, Globalization, Migration, Development, Urban Space, Poverty, Latin America denaa@u.washington.edu
Mike Babb	BA Geography, Washington 2005 GIS, cartography, demography, urbanization, urban growth and development, economic geography, transportation babbm@u.washington.edu
Stefano Bettani	BA Human Science of Environment, University of Milan 2007 BA Human Geography, Queen Mary University of London 2010 Geography of Sexuality, Politics of Identity, Queer Studies bettas@u.washington.edu
Elise Bowditch	BS, SUNY Empire State MA Geography, Washington, 2005 Demography, ecology, social geography Website bowdie@u.washington.edu
William Buckingham	BA International Studies, American University, 1998 MA China Studies, Washington, 2005 China, migration and urbanization wsb2@u.washington.edu
Rebecca Burnett	BA Women’s Studies, Beloit College 2004 MA Geography, Washington Feminist economic geographies, poverty, class struggles, race, social welfare programs, activism, queer theory Website rburnett@u.washington.edu
Ryan Burns	BA Geography, Eastern Kentucky University, 2006 MS Geography (GIScience), San Diego State University, 2009 Critical GIScience, Urban Geographies, geovisualization/information vis., critical social theory, science studies, public policy, and not getting into an ‘infinite loop’ dissertation. website: http://students.washington.edu/rlburns/ burnsr77@gmail.com; rlburns@uw.edu
Hong Chen	BS Sun Yat-sen University MA University of Hong Kong MA Miami University, Ohio Institutions, property rights, urbanization, dual land system and chengzhongcun in China hongchen@u.washington.edu
Andrew Childs	BA English, Florida State University 2000 MA American and Florida Studies, Florida State University 2008 Economic Geography, Labor and Labor Unions, Urbanization and Development, Sustainability, Globalization and Trade, Southeastern United States agc4@u.washington.edu
Srinivas Chokkakula	B.Tech. Civil Engineering, Kakatiya University M.Tech. Environmental Planning, School of Planning, Ahmedabad MA Geography, University of Miami Development studies, transboundary resource conflicts, natural resource management, postcolonial state, disaster management, local planning and governance in India. Website svas@u.washington.edu
Katherine Cofell	B.A., Geography, International Studies, and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oregon feminist geographies, environmental politics, seed saving/seed banking, social movements kcofell@uw.edu
Spencer Cohen	BA Math and History, Connecticut MA China Studies, Washington political and economic geography, innovation systems in developing economies, local government and institutions in China Website zhuge99@u.washington.edu
Kristy Copeland	B.A., Sociology and Public Policy, UCLA; Masters, Urban Spatial Analytics, University of Pennsylvania urban population; immigration;segregation; political inequalities kcopelan@uw.edu
Michelle Daigle	BA Sociology, Queens University MA Indigenous Governance, University of Victoria Indigenous governance and self-determination, cultural regeneration, traditional food systems, postcolonial theory michee82@u.washington.edu
Brandon Derman	BA Contexts of Urban Design, French, University of Michigan MA Geography, Hunter College CUNY Climate change, governance, environmental politics, geographic information systems and science bderman@uw.edu
Sherie Dodson	B.A. Psychology, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) Food, Agriculture, Women, Poverty, Human Rights and Development sldodson@uw.edu
Ian Duncan	BA Russian Language and Literature, Geography, Macalester College, 1999 MA Geography, Washington, 2004 Urban Russian in transition, modernist landscapes, Mikhail Bakhtin, the subway rid@u.washington.edu
Josef Eckert	BA Sociology, Humboldt State University, 2008 MA Geography, Washington, 2010 GIS and society, technology and society, the geoweb, volunteered geographic information, legal geographies, population geographies, eating hot dogs jeckert1@u.washington.edu
Mónica Farías	BA, Geography, University of Buenos Aires, 2008 MA, Geography, University of Washington, 2011 Class formation, urban inequalities, and everyday cultural practice, Argentina. fariasm@uw.edu
Jessica Garcia	BA, Geography, University of Texas, Austin, 2007 fair trade, alternative consumption, hegemony, “caring”
Sara Gilbert	BA, Geography, Dartmouth College, 2007 Feminist geographies, geopolitics, discourses of terrorism, visual culture saragilb@uw.edu
Kathryn Gillespie	BA, Creative Writing/Political Science, Sarah Lawrence College, 2006 MA, Geography, University of Washington, 2010 animal geographies, politics/ethics of food and agriculture, nature/society, political geography katieag@u.washington.edu
Elyse Gordon	BA, Geography, Macalester College, 2008 Urban inequalities, youth geographies, urban social geography, neoliberalization, public scholarship, qualitative methods, participatory research website egordon4@u.washington.edu
Tiffany Grobelski	BA, Environmental Sciences, Northwestern University, 2006 MA, Geography, University of Washington, 2010 environmental politics and governance, First World political ecology, transnational environmental activism, the European Union, Poland tlg6@u.washington.edu
Agnieszka Leszczynski	BA Geography, Simon Fraser University, 2005 MA Geography, Simon Fraser University, 2008 the geoweb, digital media, technology and society, political economy, philosophy of science, GIS and society, geographic thought Website agal@u.washington.edu
Angela Leung	BA Geography, University of Washington, 1997 Interdisciplinary graduate certificate in Global Trade, Transportation and Logistics (GTTL), University of Washington, 2001 MA Geography, University of Washington, 2002 economic development and endogenous growth; global production network and transnational corporations, industrialization and urbanization in Asian cities, international trade and foreign direct investment, information-intensive sectors/firms, spatial characteristics and impacts of technology transfer and knowledge spillover, education and occupational training of labor force angela2u@u.washington.edu
Chris Lizotte	BA Geography and Architectural Studies, Middlebury College, 2007 Geographies of education; geographic education; geographies of the public and private spheres, globalization and neoliberalism, political identity formation, language and nationalism, political geography clizotte@uw.edu
Nicholas Lott-Havey	BA Geography, University of Minnesota 2008 GIS and sustainable resource management in developing economies haveyn@uw.edu
Patricia (Tish) Lopez	BA Comparative History of Ideas, University of Washington, 2007 MA, Geography, University of Washington, 2009 health enclaves, health citizenship, Haiti, post-disaster rebuilding, IDPs, geopolitical processes of aid and development Website maoquai@uw.edu
Jeffrey Masse	BA Asian Studies, University of Puget Sound Nepal, Southeast Asia, South Asia, environmental history, commodity chain analysis, bottled waterjmasse@u.washington.edu
Jesse McClelland	MA, International Human Rights Law American University in Cairo, 2008 BA, Philosophy Grinnell College, 2001 Property regimes, urban governance, politics of rights and development, social and economic class, Ethiopia jmcclell@u.washington.edu
Kacy McKinney	BA Portuguese and Latin American Studies, Texas MA Latin American Studies, Geography, Texas critical development studies, food systems, waste, disasters, political ecology, biotechnology, agrarian change, Brazil, India Website kacy@u.washington.edu
Skye Naslund	BA Geography and International Relations, SUNY Geneseo geography of health and disease, infectious disease ecology, geography of sub-Saharan Africa snaslund@u.washington.edu
Léonie Newhouse	BS Environmental Economics and Policy, UC Berkeley MSc Forced Migration, Oxford University Cultural and political geography, critical development and humanitarian studies, refugee return migration, Southern Sudan, East Africa and the Horn. leonien@u.washington.edu
Arnisson Andre C. Ortega	BS Geography; University of the Philippines 2001 M.A. Demography; University of the Philippines 2004 migration, third world development, urbanization, residential mobility, Philippines aaortega@u.washington.edu
Amy Piedalue	BA Women Studies & International Studies: Asia, Washington, 2004 MA Geography, Washington, 2010 critical development studies, feminist geographies, intersectionality, gender violence, feminist methodologies and praxis, cultural and political geographies, South Asia amer@u.washington.edu
Muthatha Ramanathan	BSc Geography, Presidency College, Madras, 1995 MS Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998 science and technology studies, development studies, technology/knowledge production/planning in rural development, South Asia muthatha@u.washington.edu
Margaret M. Ramírez	BA Interdisciplinary Studies, UC Berkeley, 2006 MA Geography, Washington, 2011 food justice; critical geographies of race; food geographies; transnational social movements; action-orientated research; the Americas mmrez@uw.edu
Lydia Ruddy	JD, Georgetown University MS Urban Planning, Washington how development affects criminalization rates; property rights and poverty lruddy@u.washington.edu
Tricia Ruiz	BS Geography and International Studies, California State University-Hayward race, inequality and education; spatial demography, historical and political geography Website truiz@u.washington.edu
Allison Schultz	BA Geography and Political Science, George Washington University Food and agricultural policy, health, nutrition, poverty, Native Americans schultzm@u.washington.edu
Ron J. Smith	BA Liberal Arts, Political Economy and Media, The Evergreen State College MA International Studies, University of Oregon Political Geography, Subaltern Geopolitics, Middle East, Latin America, Popular Organizations, Critical Development, Critical Race Theory, Indigenous Peoples, Media Geography smithrj@uw.edu
Theron Stevenson	BA Comparative History of Ideas, University of Washington BA Interdisciplinary Visual Art, University of Washington Divided and post-conflict societies, legitimate violence, US international education. theron@u.washington.edu
Matthew Townley	BS Computer Information Systems, Park University 1999 MS Geography, Texas State 2008 Demography, quantitative methods, mobility, behavior, rural geography, spatiality of social practice Website townleym@u.washington.edu
Lynda Turet	BA American Studies, Tufts University, 2005 BA Peace and Justice Studies, Tufts University, 2005 Racial segregation, critical development studies, urban planning, design, participatory planning, inequality, urban social geography, migration, political economy, globalization, emerging technologies ljturet@u.washington.edu
Man Wang	BA Foreign Language and Literature MA International Studies, East Carolina University MA Geography, SUNY, Albany population and urban geography in China and the U.S., GIS, quantitative methods mwang87@u.washington.edu
Yanning Wei	BS, Economics, Northwest University (China) MA, Urban Planning, University of Louisville Urban theories; poverty in China; GIS ywei25@uw.edu
Guilan Weng	BS Geography, East China Normal University, 2001 MS Human Geography, Peking University, 2004 urban social geography, housing, and transitional China glweng@u.washington.edu
Natalie White	BA International Studies, Willamette University migration studies, development studies, Latin America njwhite2@uw.edu
Jason Young	BA Geography, Miami University (Ohio), 2009 critical gis, critical social theory, participatory research, community and identity politics, dissent, affective/emotional geographies youngjc2@uw.edu

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