Graduate Students

AY 2025-26

Javier Aju-Torres

PhD Program

Advisor: Matthew Taylor

Research Interests: Climate justice, biogeography and Indigenous studies

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Kristen Burgess

MSGIS Program

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Sarah Caldwell

PhD Program

Advisor: Eric Boschmann

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Christa Curtiss

MA Program

Advisor: Andrew Goetz

Research interests: Transit oriented development, gentrification, and displacement: An investigation of light-rail transit and neighborhood change in Denver, Colorado

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Julia Entwistle

PhD Program

Advisor: Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong

Research interests: understanding large-scale plantation agriculture and dietary diversity

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Maura Forde

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Unisha Ghimire

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Michael Daniels

Research interests: GIS, water resources, water-induced hazards

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Brant Giovannetti

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research Interests: geographic information science

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Gina Girgente

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Jing Li

Research interests: GIS, physical geography, climatology, machine learning

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Aaron Giron

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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David Goddard

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

Landen Kaya Hashimura

PhD Program

Advisor: Andrew Goetz

Research interests: high-speed rail, transportation, economic geography, political geography, political economy, spatial econometrics

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Matthew Haugh

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Jessica Howard Karr

MSGIS

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Armand Hull

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Jeffrey Keefe

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Janessa Knotts

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Kat Lane

MA Program

Advisor: Matthew Taylor

Research interests: Human-environment geography, food systems, tourism and development, Latin America, experiential/international education

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Natalie Lewis

MSGIS Program

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Research interests: geographic information science

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Lin Ma

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Lauren McClung

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Bijoy Mitra

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Guiming Zhang

Research interests: Geo AI, machine learning, GIS, climate science

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Myawna Moore

MA Program

Advisor: Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong

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Laynie Moreau

PhD Program

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Carson Nicola

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Andrew Goetz

Research interests: urban geography

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Elizabeth Nielsen

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Andrews Ofosu

PhD Program

Advisor: Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong

Research interests: exploring climate change maladaptation

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Queen Olafadehan

MA Program

Advisor: Paul Sutton

Research interests: Impacts of ecotourism on deforestation and revenue distribution

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Kehinde Olagundoye

PhD Program

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Cheryl Orr

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Atif Aninda Rahman

MA Program

Advisor: Eric Boschmann

Research interests: GIS, urban mobility, transportation planning, geospatial data science

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Leslie Ralston

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Kyle Robrock

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Carrie Silverstein

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Todd Stephenson

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Brittney Szabo

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Jesse Tenenbaum

PhD Program

Advisor: Matthew Taylor

Research interests: political ecology of Latin America

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Daniel Ulicny

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Jing Li

Research interests: GIS, physical geography, and urban planning

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Jin Xu

PhD Program

Advisor: Guiming Zhang

Research interests: Effects of public health crisis on VGI contributor behavior:Case studies of COVID-19

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Stephanie Yamoah

PhD Program

Advisor: Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong

Research interests: Efficacy and community engagement of agroforestry-based climate solutions in Ghana

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Xuefei Zhang

PhD Program

Advisor: Guiming Zhang

Research interests: geographic information science

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