Current Graduate Students
Covington, Ryan
Contact Info: covingt4@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: Ph.D./Holifield
Research Interests: Environmental justice; urban environmental governance; urban political economy/ecology; space, politics, and the political.
Culver, Gregg
Contact Info: gnculver@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: Ph.D./McCarthy
Research Interests: Automobility theory and (qualitative) transportation geography, urban geography, rustbelt cities, Germany (especially Berlin), and Europe.
Deng, Chengbin
Contact Info: cdeng@uwm.edu, website
Program/Advisor: Ph.D./Wu
Research Interests: GIS, RS, Geosimulation, Spatial Analysis and Modeling
Farmer, Patience
Contact Info: pfarmer@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: MA/Wu
Research Interests: GIS, public health
Fernandes, Alarico
Contact Info: amf@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: MA/Bonds
Research Interests: Development in East Africa (Tanzania), Political-Economy, Social Theory and Geographies of Globalization and Development.
Hashimoto, Yui
Contact Info: hashimo3@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: Ph.D./Bonds
Research Interests: Urban food security/food justice; geographies of gender, race/ethnicity, poverty/inequality; neoliberalism and welfare policy; participatory and qualitative research methods
Huang, Wei
Contact Info: weihuang@uwm.edu, website
Program/Advisor: Ph.D./Day
Research Interests: Karst Geomorphology in southwest China, Hydrology, GIS and Remote sensing
Jackson, Angela
Contact Info: jacks372@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: MS/Fredlund
Research Interests: GIS, Spatial Analysis and Environmental Modeling, Conservation
Kirkland, Katherine
Contact Info: kirklan5@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: MA/McCarthy
Research Interest: Globalization of Education, Study Abroad, and Tourism
Kult, Jonathan
Contact Info: jmkult@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: M.S./Choi
Research Interests: GIS; Spatial Analysis; Management of public lands, particularly in the American West and Southwest
Larsen, Joseph
Contact Info: larsen3@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: MS/Schwartz
Research Interests: Climate Change and Water, GIS, Remote Sensing, and Spatial Analysis, Environmental Change and Sustainability
Li, Wenliang
Contact Info: wenliang@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: Ph.D./Wu
Research Interests: GIS, land use land cover change (LUCC) modeling
Lin, I-Hui
Contact Info: ihuilin@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: Ph.D./Wu
Research Interests: Urban park, economic analysis, and location modeling
Nauth, Kathryn
Contact Info: kjnauth@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: MA/Holifield
Padilla, Nick
Contact Info: npadilla@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: Ph.D./Sziarto
Research Interests: Politics and spatialities of social movements, Latin America, indigenous peoples, development, and political ecology.
Park, Issac
Contact Info: iwpark@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: Ph.D./Schwartz
Research Interests: Phenology
Pettygrove, Margaret
Contact Info: pettygr2@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: Ph.D./Ghose
Research Interests: Urban political economy, geographies of poverty and inequality, citizenship practice, urban agriculture
Ranken, Rodney
Contact Info: reranken@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: MA/Kenny
Reuning, Claire
Contact Info: creuning@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: MA/Ghose
Research Interests: Cultural Landscapes in Milwaukee's Congolese Community
Schuelke, Nick
Contact Info: schuel27@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: MA/Holifield
Research Interests: Urban rivers, environmental remediation and restoration, human-environment connections and interactions
Song, Yang
Contact Info: Song6@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: Ph.D./Wu
Research Interests: remote sensing and GIS
Sorenson, Jeremy
Contact Info: sorens24@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: Ph.D./Bonds
Viel, Jana
Contact Info: jgedymin@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: MS/Fredlund
Research Interests: Biogeography, Conservation, and GIS
Vierk, Brendan
Contact Info: blvierk@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: Masters/Day and Wu
Willems, Bradley
Contact Info: bwillems@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: Non-Thesis MA Urban Geography
Research Interests: Sustainability, Urban Geography, Renewable Energy, and Climate Change
Williams, Kathleen
Contact Info: kcw2@uwm.edu, website
Program/Advisor: Ph.D./Holifield
Research Interests: Great Lakes Areas of Concern, environmental governance, borders, socio-ecological systems, sense-of-place
Xu, Wei
Contact Info: xuw@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: MS/Xu
Research Interests: Urban geography, population geography, Land use/ Land cover change, and GIS
Yu, Rong
Contact Info: rongyu@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: Ph.D./Schwartz
Research Interests: Phenology and climate change
Zhuo, Hong
Contact Info: hongzhuo@uwm.edu
Program/Advisor: Ph.D./Xu
Research Interests: GIS, Geographic transportation
