current

  • Claudia Díaz-Combs, PhD program, 2018-present (dissertation topic: political ecology and environmental justice in El Salvador) 

  • Katie MacDonald, PhD program, 2018-present (dissertation topic: non-traditional crop substitution programs in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan). MA, Geography, Syracuse University, graduated with distinction, May 2018. (thesis title: “’When our crops burn, we burn”: Household cultivation, inattention and exclusion in Tajikistan’s water management reform”).

  • Akemi Inamoto, PhD program, 2017-present (dissertation topic: feminist political ecologies of agriculture in Colombia).

  • Ainhoa Mingolarra, PhD program, 2017-presesnt (dissertation topic: water governance in Latin America and the Caribbean).

  • Manuela Ruiz, PhD program in Geography (dissertation topic: perceptions of identity and social class among campesino youth in Colombia); MA in Geography, Syracuse University, 2015 (thesis title:  “In search of Ordenamiento Ambiental Territorial in the Peasant Reserve Zones of Colombia”).

  • Mirella Pretell, PhD program, 2019-present (dissertation topic: feminist political ecology of oil extraction and indigenous women in the Peruvian Amazon).

FORMER

  • Alejandro Camargo, PhD Geography, graduated with distinction, May 2016 (dissertation title: “Disastrous waters, renascent lands: Politics and agrarian transformations in post-disaster Colombia”). Dissertation research funded by a COLCIENCIAS Francisco José de Caldas research fellowship (Government of Colombia). Currently Assistant Professor, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia.

  • Emily Billo, PhD Geography, graduated December 2012 (dissertation title: “Competing sovereignties: Oil extraction, corporate social responsibility, and indigenous peoples in Ecuador”). Dissertation research funded by a National Science Foundation DDRI grant and an Inter-American Foundation fellowship.  Currently Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Goucher College.

  • Elvin Delgado, PhD, Geography, graduated May 2012 (dissertation title: “Spaces of socio-ecological distress: Fossil fuels, solar salt, and fishing communities in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela.”)  Dissertation research funded by Fulbright-IIE grant.  Now Associate Professor of Geography, Central Washington University.

  • Keith Lindner, PhD Geography, graduated with distinction, December 2012 (dissertation title: “Returning the Commons: Resource Access and Environmental Governance in San Luis, Colorado”). Dissertation funded by a UC Berkeley Community Forestry and Environmental Research Partnerships Dissertation Fellowship and a National Science Foundation DDRI grant ).  

  • Beatriz Bustos Gallardo, PhD Geography, graduated May 2010 (dissertation title: “Geographies of knowledge production in a neoliberal setting: The case of Los Lagos region, Chile”).  Now Associate Professor of Geography, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.  

  • Matthew Himley, PhD Geography, graduated with distinction, May 2010 (dissertation title: “Frontiers of Capital: Mining, Mobilization, and Resource Governance in Andean Peru.” Dissertation research funded by Fulbright-Hays grant); MA Geography, graduated with distinction, August, 2005 (MA thesis title: “The politics of land and forest: nature conservation in highland Ecuador”).  Now Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Geology, Illinois State University.

  • Miguel Conteras, PhD Geography, December 2019 (dissertation title: “Regionalist Social Movements in Contemporary Chile: Production of Space, Place, Territory, and Scale Through Collective Action”). Dissertation work funded by a Fulbright Fellowship and a Becas Chile fellowship (CONICYT). Now Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Universidad de Chile.

DOCTORAL

FORMER

  • Jamie Gagliano, MA program, Geography, graduated 2020 (thesis title: “Agroecology feminisms: Gender, Social Movements and alternatives to industrial agricutlure in Paraguay”)

  • Andrea Funaro, MA in Geography, April 2018 (thesis title: “A Political Ecology of Mining Extraction in Chile”)

  • Anna Van de Grift, MA in Geography, August 2017 (thesis title: “Participation or conformity: Peruvian water governance, law and the failed attempt to establish a water basin council”).

  • Andria Aguilar, MA program, graduated with distinction, May 2017 (thesis title:" Quinoa or quinua? Political ecologies of organic production in an international commodity chain").

  • Marian Turniawan, MA in Geography, May 2015 (thesis title: “Constructing a Counter-Discourse: The Politics of Knowledge Production at the Latin American School of Agroecology”).

  • Catherine Adams, MA Geography / MPA (Master of Public Administration), graduated May 2003 (thesis title: “Defending our place: protest on the Southside of Syracuse”).

  • Barbara Green, MA Geography, graduated December 2010 (thesis title: “Capitalism in a poncho: social movements, hydrocarbons development, and contested national identities in Bolivia).

  • Mike Kantor, MA program, graduated Geography 2012 (thesis title: “Banking on the impossible: The political life of wetlands in southern Louisana”).

  • Aman Luthra, MA Geography / MPA (Master of Public Administration), graduated December 2004 (thesis title: “Revisiting Shangri-la: landscape representation and the politics of development in Bhutan”).

  • Flavia Rey de Castro, MA program, Geography graduated 2013 (thesis title: "Water politics: Governance, conflict and vulnerability in Andean Peru").

  • Sandra Sánchez, MA Geography, graduated December 2007 (thesis title: “Community-based (eco) tourism: indigenous livelihood-development strategies in the Ecuadorian Amazon”).

  • Mauri Stott, MA Geography / MAPA (Master of Arts in Public Administration), graduated December 2003 (thesis title: “Hanging in the balance: sustainable development and politics of scale on the lower Chesapeake Bay, tidewater Virginia”).

MASTER’S

UNDERGRAD

FORMER

  • Deborah Orieta, BA, Geography and Food Studies, Renée Crown Honors Program, graduated May 2020 (thesis title: “Cultivando nación:Alternative Agri-culture in post-María Puerto Rico”).

  • Rachel Bass, BA, International Relations, graduated May 2016 with University Honors (Thesis title: “Postcolonial discourses of gender and development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region”).

  • Haley Kulikowsky, BA, International Relations, graduated May 2016 with University Honors. (Thesis title: “Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT program: a post neoliberal policy?”).

  • Emily Malina, BA International Relations and Public Relations, graduated May 2016 with University Honors. (Thesis title: “Reclaiming Identities: Inter-cultural Bilingual Education in Peru and Bolivia”).

  • Amory Hillengas, BA Geography, graduated May 2010 with University Honors and Departmental Distinction (thesis title:” Accessibility in the Syracuse Food Desert”).

  • Alexis Sheehan Kinney, BA Geography, graduated May 2010 with University Honors and Departmental Distinction (thesis title: “The Commodification of the Modern Black Man:  Examining the Effect of Drug Laws on the New York State Prison Industrial Complex”).           

  • Kristin Novak, BA Geography, graduated May 2008 with University Honors (thesis title: “Overfishing and Environmental Justice in Marine Fisheries,” Awarded Best Honors Thesis in the Social Sciences at Syracuse University, 2007-2008).

  • Dave Oster, BA Geography, graduated May 2014 with departmental distinction (Thesis title: “Addressing the environmental impact of agriculture: The farm bill and conservation in Central New York”).

  • Rose Tardiff, BA Geography, graduated May 2015 with University Honors (Thesis title: "Towards an expansion of the Salt City Harvest farm: Exploring a community farm's impact, challenges, and the agricultural ways and aspirations of its New American farmers." Awarded Best Honors Thesis in the Social Sciences at Syracuse University, 2014-15).

  • Syed Shehtaaz Zaman, BA Geography with Departmental Distinction, graduated May 2010 (thesis title: “The Bangladeshi Miracle: Post-Colonial Bangladesh and the Central Challenges Facing the Political Economy).

  • Javier Lugo, Ph.D.,  Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico (Fall, 2018)

  • Matías Calderón, Ph.D. student, Anthropology, Instituto de Arqueología y Antropología, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile (2016-17) 

  • Xochizeltzin Castañeda Camacho, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Universidad Autónoma de San Luís Potosí, Mexico (ongoing)

  • Diego Andreucci, Ph.D. student, Political Ecology, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain (visiting student, Spring, 2015)  

  • Dr. April Baptiste, Environmental Studies Program, Colgate University 

  • Dr. Laura Eichelberger, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, San Antonio 

  • Andrea Furnaro, MSc. student, Sociology, Universidad de Chile, Santiago (visiting student, Spring 2015).

  • Dr. Jaime Hoogesteger, Chair Group in Water Resources Management, Wageningen University (The Netherlands)  

  • Dr. Milagros Sosa Landeo, Chair Group in Water Resources Management, Wageningen University (The Netherlands) (visiting student, spring 2012).

OTHER MENTORING

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