I am a Professor of Geography and the Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I’m also Professor of Global Studies with a focus on methods and theory. I have held a multiple leadership positions at UNC-Chapel Hill – most recently as department Chairperson – and at my previous position in the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh. I’m co-founder and co-director of the Caregiving Youth Research Collaborative, a national consortium of researchers and scholars in the U.S., and currently serve as co-chair of the AAG Climate Action Task Force.

I research themes related to care, ethics, and young people, sometimes separately, sometimes in relation to each other. My scholarship is produced in collaboration and through transformative partnerships with practitioners, artists, and other scholars, often co-developing methodological innovations to engage diverse communities. I have been funded by the National Science Foundation, PCORI, ESRC-AHRC (UK), EU Horizons, and countless inspiring centers and grants, including the Institute for Arts and Humanities at UNC-CH. See my research page and CV for more details.

I accept graduate students who work on topics related to care and caregiving, especially non-normative care relationships and changing care economies; critical health geographies; studies in ableism, DisCrit, and other intersectional critical disability approaches; geographical approaches to normative ethics; childhood and youth geographies; and creative/mixed methodology.