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Derik Andreoli	BA Geography, Washington MA Geography, Washington, 2004 Economic geography, regional science, GIS, Labor market determinants of regional growth and development Website
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
Mike Babb	BA Geography, Washington 2005 GIS, cartography, demography, urbanization, urban growth and development, economic geography, transportation
Ann Bartos	BA Geography, Colorado MA Geography, Washington, 2005 Youth geographies, feminist political geography, political ecology, social aspects of climate change, New Zealand
Elise Bowditch	BS, SUNY Empire State MA Geography, Washington, 2005 Demography, ecology, social geography Website
William Buckingham	BA International Studies, American University, 1998 MA China Studies, Washington, 2005 China, migration and urbanization
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
Jean Carmalt	BA Geography, Vassar JD, Cornell Human rights law and geography
Hong Chen	BS Sun Yat-sen University MA University of Hong Kong MA Miami University, Ohio Urban development, urban planning and land use in Chinese cities
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
Srinivas Chokkakula	B.Tech. Civil Engineering, Kakatiya University M.Tech. Environmental Planning, School of Planning, Ahmedabad MA Geography, University of Miami Research interests: Development studies, transboundary resource conflicts, natural resource management, postcolonial state, disaster management, local planning and governance in India. Website
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
Dominic Corva	BS Economics, Houston, 1995 BA Creative Writing, Arizona, 1999 MA Geography, Washington, 2004 Critical development, geography and law, political geography, law, societies and justice
Brandon Derman	BA Contexts of Urban Design, University of Michigan MA Geography, Hunter College CUNY Nature/society, environmental governance, technologies of participation, geographic information science
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
Rowan Ellis	BA Urban Studies, University of Washington, Tacoma MA Geography, Washington South Asian studies, governmentality, reservation policy in India, youth politics, post-colonial theory, genealogy as method
Caroline Faria	BA Hons. Geography, Leeds, UK MA Geography, Washington Gender/power and inequality, ghana, AIDS/HIV, health geography, gendered violence, refugee communities Website
(Charles) Todd Faubion	BA Geography, Washington, 2005 HIV/AIDS, critical development studies, Sub-Saharan Africa, medical geography, globalization
Juan Galvis	BA Economics, University of the Andes, Colombia, South America Urban Geography, Development Studies, Latin America Website
Steven Garrett	BS Nutrition, Central Washington University, 1985 MS Nutrition, Washington, 1989 MA Geography, Washington, 2004 Food security, sustainable agriculture, poverty, localization of food
Kathryn Gillespie	BA Creative Writing/Political Science, Sarah Lawrence College 2006 Politics of food and agriculture, urban agriculture, sustainable food systems, issues of poverty, hunger and health, community education and activism
Tiffany Grobelski	BA, Environmental Sciences, Northwestern University, 2006 Nature-society, environmental governance, environmental decision-making, Poland
Cindy Gorn	BA, Sarah Lawrence College, 2007 (Psychological and mental) dis/ability, cities, control, critical GIS, geographies of social welfare programs, disarmament
Maureen Hickey	BA International Studies, Washington MA Geography, Washington critical development studies, migration, globalization, feminist theory, cultural geography, SE Asia
Stephen Hyde	BA Geography, Washington, 2002 MA Geography, Washington, 2004 Theoretical Geography, Social Justice and Political Economy, GIS Analysis, Cartography and Audio-Visual Communication Website
Jaime Kelly	BA Political Science and Anthropology, McGill University, 2000 MPA Nonprofit Management, Syracuse University, 2005 MA International Studies, Syracuse University, 2005 China, feminist geography, migration
Agnieszka Leszczynski	BA Geography, Simon Fraser University, 2005 MA Geography, Simon Fraser University, 2008 Neogeography, digital economy, political geography, subjectivity, science and technology studies, philosophy of science, GIS and society, GIScience
Angela Leung	BA Geography, Washington, 1997 Interdisciplinary graduate certificate in Global Trade, Transportation and Logistics (GTTL), Washington, 2001 MA Geography, 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 Website
Patricia Lopez	BA Comparative History of Ideas, Washington children and war; health care in war; refugee health; trafficking; medical geography; GIS Website
Eugene Martin	BS Forestry, Vermont GIS; knowledge construction; inter-organizational aspects of knowledge communities
Jeffrey Masse	BA Asian Studies, University of Puget Sound Nepal, Southeast Asia, South Asia, environmental history, commodity chain analysis, bottled water
Kacy McKinney	BA Portuguese and Latin American Studies, Texas MA Latin American Studies, Geography, Texas political/cultural ecology, biotechnology, development, agrarian change, Brazil, India
David Moore	MA Geography, Washington, 2005 democracy; equity; intrinsic vs. instrumental judgments; homeowners associations Website
L�onie Newhouse	BS Environmental Economics and Policy, UC Berkeley MSc Forced Migration, Oxford University Asylum seekers, migration and the EU, liberalism and exclusion, nationalism and conflict, refugee return migration, affect, emotion and memory experience.
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 Website
Sarah Paige	BS Biology, Guilford College MPH International Health, Johns Hopkins University medical geography
Amber Pearson	BA Geography, North Texas State University, 1999 MS Geography, Western Washington University, 2001 global health, infectious diseases, land use change, environmental change and interventions in developing countries Website
Amy Piedalue	BA Women Studies & International Studies: Asia, Washington, 2004 critical development studies, gendered violence, feminist methodologies, identity and subjectivity, cultural and political geographies, South Asia
Margaret M. Ram�rez	BA Interdisciplinary Studies, UC Berkeley, 2006 Food & environmental justice; sustainable agriculture; social movements; Mexican immigration; consumerism as social control; race & identity; the Americas
Kevin Ramsey	BS Radio/Television/Film, minor in Computer Science, Northwestern University, 1997 MA Geography, Washington, 2004 urban political geography; critical and participatiory GIS; nature/society; democracy theory and practice Website
Lydia Ruddy	JD, Georgetown University MS Urban Planning, Washington how development affects criminalization rates; property rights and poverty
Tricia Ruiz	BS Geography and International Studies, California State University-Hayward race, inequality and education; spatial demography, historical and political geography Website
Gary Simonson	BA Geography, Arizona GIS, human geography
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.
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
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".
Guilan Weng	BS Geography, East China Normal University, 2001 MS Human Geography, Peking University, 2004 urban social geography, housing, and transitional China
Stephen Young	BA Sociology, University of Leeds MSc Sociology (by research), University of Edinburgh global finance, microfinance, neoliberalism, critical geopolitics, governmentality, India.