I am interested in recruiting graduate students working broadly in feminist political geography. My current and former graduate students are listed below.
Current Graduate Students
Carlos Serrano, MA/PhD 2017- (MA complete, PhD in progress) MA 2020, “White futurity, Black enclosures: The politics of schooling in the Chapel Hill Carrboro Public Schools.”
Adrienne Hall, PhD 2019-
Tara di Cassio, PhD 2022-
Victoria Ting, Ma 2022-
Completed PhD Students
Pallavi Gupta, Starting August 2023 as Lecturer at the Department of Geography, University of Hawaii-Manoa
PhD 2023, “Visible Cleanliness/Invisible Cleaners: Examining Gender, Caste, Waste, and Space in Railway Stations and Urban Public Infrastructure in India”
Lara Lookabaugh, Currently a fellow in the Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Program, Vanderbilt University
PhD 2023, “Curating the Past, Weaving the Future: Decolonial Feminist Politics of Time and Memory
Chris Neubert, Currently Policy Advisor on Agriculture and Environment to the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.
PhD 2022, “Queering Modern Agriculture: Enduring Crises and Optimistic Futures in Rural America”
MA 2017, “Manure Politics: Making Space for Modern Agriculture in the Landscapes of Everyday Life”
Pavithra Vasudevan, Currently Assistant Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies and African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin
PhD 2017, “Searching in Aluminum’s Shadows: Black Geographies and Industrial Toxicity.” Assistant professor in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department at University of Texas-Austin.
MA 2013, “Memory and the re-invention of place: The legacies of environmental justice in Warren County, North Carolina”
Mabel Gergan, Currently Assistant Professor of Asian Studies, Vanderbilt University
PhD 2016, “Precarity and possibility at the Margins: Hazards, Infrastructure, and indigenous politics in Sikkim, India.” Assistant professor of Geography at Florida State University.
Mike Dimpfl, Currently Thompson Writing Fellow, Duke University
PhD, 2016, “Clean U: Cleanliness, Social Difference and the Dirty Work of Everyday Hygiene” Co-advisor with Banu Gökariksel. Currently a postdoctoral fellow at Duke.