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Geography
Programs
The Graduate School of Geography offers a major, minor and electives for undergraduates and a Ph.D. program. Qualified Clark undergraduates can take advantage of an accelerated fifth year program that leads to a B.A./M.A. in Geographic Information Science. An M.A. in Geographic Information Science for Development and Environment is available through a shared program with the Department of International Development, Community and Environment.

Careers of Recent Ph.D. Recipients

2008

 

Waquar Ahmed - Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Geology, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts

 

Susan Blickstein - Visiting Professor - Vassar College

 

Ipsita Chatterjee - Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University

 

Stentor Danielson - Visiting Professor, Pima Community College

 

Zhe Li - Post-Doctoral Researcher, Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence, South Dakota State University

Ximena Rueda - United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Bogota, Colombia

Jackie Vadjunec - Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University

2007

Jennifer Brewer - Assistant Professor, Institute for Interdisciplinary Coastal Science and Policy, East Carolina University

 

Carolyn Finney - Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley

 

Harvey Neo - Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore

 

Daniel Niles - Research Institute for Humanity and Nature - Kyoto, Japan

 

Mohan Seethram -  Visiting Fellow, Center for Conservation Governance and Policy Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) Hebbal Bangalore, India

 

Julie Urbanik - Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, University of Missouri - Kansas City

2006

Carolyn Finney - Assistant Professor, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California at Berkeley

 

Trina Hamilton - Assistant Professor, Department of Geography,  SUNY-Buffalo

 

Stuart Lorkin - Policy Team Leader, Economic & European Affairs (Government, United Kingdom)

 

Inbersagren Narsiah - Tenured lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal

 

Sonja Pieck - Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, Bates College

Thomas Ponniah - Lecturer, Social Studies, Department of International Development, Harvard University.

Jeremy Tasch - Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Towson State

2005

Danielson Kisanga - Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Miami University, Ohio

 

Mazen Labban - Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Miami

Menzie McEachern - Cumulative Effects Specialist, Alberta Environment

Sarah Niles - Senior Economic Development Consultant, EDAW

 

Pablo Pacheco - Center for International Forestry Research

 

Aaron Pollack - Professor International Cooperation for Development Area, Instituto Mora, Mexico City

 

Claudia Radel - Assistant Professor, Department of Environment and Society, College of Natural Resources, Utah State University

 

Arvind Susarla - Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas A&M

2004

Winifred Curran - Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, DePaul University

 

James "Scott" Jiusto - Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary and Global Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

 

Michal Kohout - Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, California State University San Bernadino

Robin Roth - Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, York University  

Laura Schneider - Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Rutgers University

2003 

C. Alex Brownlow - Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, DePaul University

Rinku Roy Chowdhury - Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Regional Studies, Indiana University

Alice Hovorka - Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Guelph

 

Paul Laris - Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, California State University, Long Beach

 

Abdelkrim Marzouk - Assistant Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Alakhawayn University, Morocco

 

Laila Smith - Director for Research and Evaluations, Contract Monitoring Unit, City of Johannesburg, SA

2002

Patricia Benjamin - Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Worcester State

 

Davison Gumbo - Senior Scientist, CIFOR

 

Nicholas Haan - Co-Founder/Director, T-Ana International, Nairobi, Kenya

 

Eric Keys - Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Florida

Steve Manson - Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota

William McConnell - Associate Director, Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability & Associate Professor, Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University

 

Phillip Mwanukuzi – Tutorial Assistant, University of Dar-es-Salaam

 

Susanne Steinmann - Visiting Assistant Professor, International Studies Program, Liberal Arts & Sciences, Portland State University

2001

Emma Archer - Lectureship (Assistant Professor), University of Witswaterand, Johannesburg

Michal Avram - Department of International Relations, Mt. Allison University

Megan Blake - Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Sheffield

 

George Clark - Environmental Resources Librarian, Harvard University

 

Stephanie Hulina - President and Senior Scientist, Geospatial Data Analysis

 

J. Robert Krueger - Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

William J. McConnell - CSIS Associate Director, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University

Rachel Slocum - Assistant Professor (tenure track), Department of Sociology and Anthropology, St. Cloud State University, Minnesota

 

Matilde Snell - Prospect Consulting and Services

2000

Deborah Che - Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Kansas State University

 

Curtis Holder - Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

 

Peter Klepeis - Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Colgate University

Delphis Levia - Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Center for Climatic Research, University of Delaware

Sharon Moran - Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse

 

Dimitry Varlyguin - Vice President and Chief Scientist, Geospatial Data Analysis

 

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