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Current students
Current students
I am fortunate to work with a wonderful group of graduate students. If you are interested in joining my lab group as a Portland State graduate student, please contact me.
Note: I do not currently have funding to support a new student in the coming academic year.
Bethani Turley, PhD candidate
Bethani is a PhD student in geography interested in extractive industries, energy transitions, and rural geographies. Her research has focused on the critical geographies of unconventional and renewable energy transitions in Appalachia and the Western US. Prior to PSU, Bethani has also worked in urban farming, and folklore and traditional arts.
Thien-Kim Bui, PhD candidate
Thien-Kim is interested in legal geographies of water resource management, and how resource management intersects with settler colonialism and racial capitalism.
Carlyse Cheshier, PhD candidate
Carlyse is interested in urban political ecology and urban environmental governance in the Pacific Northwest.
Lillian Weaver, PhD student
Lillian is interested in sustainability studies, agri-food systems, and community resilience.
Hailey Maria Salazar, PhD student
Hailey Maria Salazar (Yoeme) is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Indigenous Nations Studies department at Portland State University as well as a PhD student. Her areas of interest include Indigenous Traditional Ecological and Cultural Knowledge (ITECK), ethnobotany, ethnomusicology, archives, liberative praxis, and data sovereignty.
Bryce Sprauer, Masters student
Stephanie Dyer, Masters student
Alumni
Alumni
Elizabeth Bartholomew, Geography MS degree, 2024
Liz is interested in critical physical geography and combining spatial analysis with qualitative methods to understand new landscapes of lithium mining in Oregon.
Jillian Farley, Geography MS degree, 2023
Jill is interested in water management, environmental justice, and environmental economics. She wants to investigate creative solutions for equitable access to natural resources. She is also interested in researching how to value and protect those resources beyond their benefit to humans.
Jillian Malone, Geography MS degree, 2023
Jillian is interested in geography education, sustainability, and transformative educational practices. She used an emotional geography lens to study sustainability education.
Heather Day Melgar, Geography MS degree, 2023
Heather is interested in nature-based climate solutions for urban heat mitigation. She used qualitative research methods to study the use of nature-based climate solutions in Portland.
Becky Anderson, Geography MS degree, 2022
Becky is interested in water resource management, including groundwater. She is studying relationships between irrigation efficiency, groundwater, and water manager perceptions of these issues from a critical physical geography perspective. Becky is currently a researcher with the Pacific Institute.
Krista Harrington, Geography MS degree, 2022
Krista is interested in political ecology, water governance, and climate resilience. Specifically, her research focuses on dam removal perspectives surrounding fisheries management and tribal food sovereignty. As a geographer in the West, she has an affinity to lotic water systems and is dedicated to an equitable and collaborative management future on their behalf. Krista is currently pursuing a PhD at Oregon State University.
Noel Vineyard, Geography MS degree, 2021
Noel's research interests lie in the fields of political ecology, legal geography and the management of water and other natural resources. His most recent research project explored the relationships between collaborative natural resource governance and stakeholder formation in Central Oregon's Deschutes Basin. In his future work he is interested in the relationships between water systems and the mining industry in the state of Nevada. Noel is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Nevada, Reno.
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