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CURRENT STUDENTS

Naomi Adiv
Naomi Adiv (Graduate Center)
nadiv@nullgc.cuny.edu
Research Interests: Urbanism, Public Space, Infrastructure, 'the Community' scale, Pedagogy
Advisor: Setha Low
Campus Affiliation(s): Instructor in Urban Studies at Hunter College
Hector Agredano
Hector Agredano (Graduate Center)
hagredano@nullgc.cuny.edu
Research Interests:
Transportation Geography, Revolution(s), Mexico, Marxism, Physical Infrastructures (fixed capital), Logistics, Banlieues, Uneven Development, Capitalism, Social Movements, Modernism, Architecture etc.

Philippe Amstislavski
amstislavski@nullgmail.com, philippe.amstislavski@nulldownstate.edu
Advisor:
Juliana Maantay
Research Interests: Environmental Epidemiology, Food Environments, Physical activity and Metabolism, Exposures Modeling, Urban Health, GIS
Christian Anderson
Christian Anderson (Graduate Center)
canderson@nullgc.cuny.edu
Research Interests:
Everyday life; Spatial-temporal aspects of social production and reproduction; Uneven development and global social process; Inequality and social justice; Urbanization and city life; Ethnography and qualitative research
Advisor: Cindi Katz
Babette Audant
Babette Audant (Graduate Center)
b.audant@nullyahoo.com
Research Interests:
Municipal food policy, public markets, food systems, urban development, social theory, urban land use
Advisor: Setha Low
Campus Affiliation: Instructor at Kingsborough Community College
Matthew Bissen
Matthew Bissen (Graduate Center)
mbissen@nullgc.cuny.edu
Research Interests: The production of nature in urban cultural development, situated knowledge, spatial representation and everyday life.
Stephen Boatright
Stephen Boatright (Graduate Center)
sboatright@nullgc.cuny.edu
Research Interests:
The Political and Affective Economies of Homeownership. Continental Philosophy.
Advisor: Cindi Katz
Campus Affiliation: Instructor at Hunter College
Jennifer Brisbane (Graduate Center)
jbrisbane@nullgc.cuny.edu
Advisor: Juliana Maantay
Research Interests: historical GIS, environmental justice, urban residential segregation, spatial analysis
Moira Conway
Moira A Conway (Graduate Center)
mconway@nullgc.cuny.edu
Research Interests:
Urban geography, economic development, cultural geography, GIS
Jennifer Cox (Hunter College)
Research Interests: Not Specified
GM Culp
GM Culp
gculp@nullgc.cuny.edu
Advisor:
Juliana Maantay
Research Interests: cartographic design, relief cartography, color vision confusion, hazard vulnerability, geographic visualization

Adam Davidson
Adam Davidson (Graduate Center)
ADavidson@nullgc.cuny.edu
Advisor:
Yehuda Klein
Research Interests: Sustainable transportation, urban planning, bicycle sharing, policy mechanisms that enable infrastructure funding, traveling beyond the commute to work, open-source solutions to accessing public information
Ryan Ehrhart
Ryan Ehrhart (Graduate Center)
REhrhart@nullgc.cuny.edu
Advisor:
Cindi Katz
Research Interests: Food sovereignty and food security, agricultural policies and rural development, political ecology, scale, the Philippines
Samuel Frank
Samuel T. Frank (Graduate Center)
sfrank@nullgc.cuny.edu
Advisor:
Yehuda Klein
Campus Affiliations: Graduate Center, Hunter College, Queens College
Research Interests:
Human & Urban Geography, International Security, Migration/Immigration, Food Systems, Climate Change
Bradley Gardener (Graduate Center)
gardene097@nullaol.com
Research Interests:
Urban Studies, Social Theory, Race & Culture
Debjani Ghatak (Hunter College)
babuni79@nullhotmail.com
Research Interests:
Cryosphere, Climate, GIS
Katie Gill
Kathleen "Katie" Gill (Graduate Center)
kgill@nullgc.cuny.edu
Research Interests:
children's geographies, mobility and transportation, gender and feminist theory, class, every-day life, France
Advisor: Cindi Katz
Rachel Goffe (Graduate Center)
rachelgoffe@nullgmail.com
Research Interests: Land; livelihood; class, race and gender; state formation and politics; peripheral economies; the caribbean; media for building movements
Cindy Gorn
Cindy Gorn (Graduate Center)
cgorn@nullgc.cuny.edu
Research Interests:
mental health, race, resistance; marxism, dialectics
Kristen Grady
Kristen Grady (Graduate Center, Lehman College)
kgrady@nullgc.cuny.edu
Research Interests: Geovisualization, Spatial Analysis, GISc, Cartographic Design, Radical Cartography, Commercial Aviation
Advisor: Juliana Maantay
Campus Affiliation: Instructor in Geography and GIS at Lehman College (Dept. of Environmental, Geographic, and Geological Sciences)
Gordon Green (Hunter College)
gordongreen@nullearthlink.net
Research Interests:
Remote sensing, GIS, spatial software development, lidar applications, vegetation and energy mapping.
Advisor: Sean Ahearn
Lee Hachadoorian (Hunter College)
leehach@nullgeo.hunter.cuny.edu
Research Interests:
Urban economic geography, residential location, urban land value modelling, local public finance, city-suburb relations
Amanda Huron

Amanda Huron (Graduate Center, Hunter College)
ahuron@nullgc.cuny.edu
Research Interests:
Urban geography; urban planning; geographies of housing; gentrification; cooperative and shared-equity homeownership; GIS; community mapping.
Advisor: Mariana Pavlovskaya

Hunter Jackson (Graduate Center)
rjackson@nullgc.cuny.edu
Research Interests:
no borders/freedom of movement, migration, anarchist and autonomist theory
Ylli Kellici (Hunter College)
yllike@nullgmail.com
Research Interests:
Spatial Analysis, GIS
Pyung Ho Kim (Hunter College)
phkim@nullhunter.cuny.edu
Research Interests:
Transportation Planning, Space-time
Kevin Koy (Hunter College)
kkoy@nullgc.cuny.edu
Research Interests:
Remote Sensing, GIS, Land Cover Change, Biodiversity Conservation
Shihyan Lee (Hunter College)
shihyanlee@nullyahoo.com
Research Interests:
Remote Sensing/GIS
John Leonard (Graduate Center)
johnleonard1@nullgmail.com
Research Interests:
Cities and Climate Change, Housing Policy, GIS, Urban Sustainability
Hildegaard Link
Hildegaard Link (Graduate Center)
hildegaardl@nullearthlink.net
Advisor: Yehuda Klein
Research Interests: Rural/Urban Dynamics, Resource Management, Industrial Ecosystems, Bioregional Sustainability Modeling, Environmental Economics, traditional societies and sustainability
Francesca Manning
FTC Manning (Graduate Center)
fmanning@nullgc.cuny.edu
Research Interests:
Capital, economic geography, land and housing speculation, land rent theory, value, Marx, Hegel, Lacan, reproduction, crisis, uneven geographic development, state-finance nexus, struggle, revolt, The Thermidor.
Advisor: David Harvey
Campus Affiliation(s): Instructor at Hunter College
Jessica T Miller
Jessica T Miller (Graduate Center)
jmiller1@nullgc.cuny.edu
Research Interests:
Waterfront redevelopment, gentrification, political ecology, brownfields
Advisor: Neil Smith
Campus Affiliation(s): Instructor at Hunter College
Keith Miyake
Keith K. Miyake (Graduate Center)
kmiyake@nullgc.cuny.edu
Research Interests:
Urban political ecology, environmental justice, environmental governance, and neoliberal productions of nature; productions of race; radical/queer cartography; radical pedagogy and militant research.
Advisor: Ruthie Gilmore
Campus Affiliation(s): Instructor at Herbert H. Lehman College, Department of Environmental, Geographic, and Geologic Sciences
Katera Moore (Graduate Center)
Kmoore@nullgc.cuny.edu
Research Interests:
Cities, Public Space, Water
George J. Musa (Hunter College)
musag@nullchildpsych.columbia.edu, gmusa@nullgc.cuny.edu
Research Interests:
Medical Geography, Epidemiology, Mental Health, Risk Perception, GIS
Enrique Lanz Oca (Hunter College)
ELanz_Oca@nullgc.cuny.edu
Research Interests:
Social Theory, Production of Space, Hydro-conflict
Maggie Ornstein (Graduate Center)
tayamo@nullgmail.com
Advisor:
Ken Gould
Research Interests: Health geography, specifically, the interaction between family caregivers and formal service providers. The ethic of care and the production of needs as a neoliberal attempt to create market. Urban food systems and composting.
Michael Porter
Michael Porter (Hunter College)
mporter@nullgc.cuny.edu
Advisor:
Bill Solecki
Research Interests:Urban Environmental Policy, Environmental Justice, Brownfields, Geographic Information Science, Urban Geography, Instructional Technology
Jennifer Ridgley (Visiting Scholar; Graduate Center)
jennifer.ridgley@nullutoronto.ca
Research Interests:
Center for Place, Culture, and Politics
Paramita Sen (Graduate Center & Hunter College)
paramita7_5@nullhotmail.com
Research Interests:
Geography, Globalization and Its effect on the daily life of the common people
David Spataro
David Spataro (Graduate Center)
dspataro@nullgc.cuny.edu
Advisor:
Cindi Katz
Research Interests: Social Reproduction & Social Movements; Commodification/De-Commodification; US Community Control and Back to the Land Movements; Anarchism and Anti-authoritarian organizing
Annie Spencer
Annie Spencer (Graduate Center)
aspencer@nullgc.cuny.edu
Advisor:
Ruthie Gilmore
Research Interests: Post-Green Revolution agrarian movements in Bangladesh and India; political ecology, uneven development and the production of nature; livelihood, reproduction and resistance under global economic restructuring
Robert Stewart (Graduate Center)
stewart.robert@nulldol.gov
Research Interests:
Demographics and Migration Patterns of Fatalities Investigated by OSHA
David Stolarz (Graduate Center)
dstolarz@nullgc.cuny.edu
Advisor:
John Seley
Research Interests: GIS, RS, SLR, Policy
Owen Toews
Owen Toews (Graduate Center)
otoews@nullgmail.com
Research Interests:
Settler-colonialism, neoliberal urbanism, violence, community-based organizations, urban land
Campus Affiliation(s): Instructor at Hunter College, Department of Urban Affairs and Planning
Atsushi Tomita (Hunter College)
a_tomi@nullhotmail.com
Research Interests:
Human Geography, Remote Sensing, Urban Planning
Jun Tu (Herbert H. Lehman College)
juntu2002@nullhotmail.com
Research Interests:
Integration of GIS, Spatial analysis, and modeling with environmental studies; Application of GIS and spatial statistics in water resources and environmental health, Impacts of land use change on natural environment; Urbanization
Laurel Mei Turbin (Graduate Center)
laurelmei@nullgmail.com
Research Interests:
Militarization of the Pacific and Asia, imperialism, popular education and social movements, postcolonial theory, critical geographies of race and gender, anarchist and autonomous theory
Stephanie Wakefield
Stephanie Wakefield (Graduate Center)
stephanie.diane.wakefield@nullgmail.com
Research Interests:
Philosophy, Technology, Urbanism
Campus Affiliation: Instructor at Queens College