Who's in the Lab
Lab Director
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Jerry Shannon
Dr. Shannon studies food access and food security, with a specific focus on urban and urbanizing communities in the United States. Using both spatial analysis and qualitative methods, his research asks how food provisioning practices are influenced by food environments and by the larger economic and social landscape of urban neighborhoods. He has a specific interest in community engaged research that works with members of impacted communities to develop more sustainable and equitable food systems and neighborhoods. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and he has publications in journals including Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Health Affairs, andSocial Science and Medicine. |
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Undergraduate research assistants
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Graduate students
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Xuan Zhang
Ph.D. Student in Geography Xuan studies GIScience (Geographic Information Science) applications in health, with a current focus on walking environment evaluation and improvement. Her research desires to consider people's preferences in walkability measurement and find how the walking environment can promote walking activities. Her current research is funded by the Office of Sustainability at the University of Georgia. She is from Wuhan, China, and she received her B.S. in GIS from Wuhan University and Master's in Geography from the University of Georgia. David M. Hecht
Ph.D. Student in the Integrative Conservation (ICON) program In my research, I draw on the anthropology of place and landscape to explore the spatial dimensions of community-based crane and heron conservation in Bhutan. I focus on the entanglements between lived religion, place-based local deities, revered species, important bird areas (IBAs), and adaptive beliefs/traditions embedded in landscapes in the context of NGO conservation practice and protected area management. My current research uses collaborative/participatory mapping methodologies to better understand the complexities of conservation spatiality in the context of rural communities, and explores the dynamic possibilities of conservation social science applications of GIS and creative story mapping Jon Hallemeier Ph.D. student in Anthropology My research centers on collaborative environmental governance, which embraces diverse voices, perspectives, and forms of knowledge in decision making. I investigate landscape narratives and social networks to better understand the politics of collaboration and how collaboration can contribute to new assumptions for management. In my dissertation work, I engaged in collaborative mapping as a tool to facilitate conversations across different narratives of national forest landscapes in the southern Appalachians. |
Estefania Palacios
Ph.D. student in Geography I am interested in doing community maps projects with local indigenous people of south part of Ecuador. My research topic is about the changes in the Biocultural landscape in El Collay Commonwealth- Ecuador. I would like to create maps through the cosmological and cultural identity of Ecuadorian indigenous and local communities leaders. In addition, I hope use Community Mapping to find ways to resolve territorial bounding issues, especially with the indigenous territories. Michelle Evans
Ph.D. Student in the Integrative Conservation (ICON) program My research focuses on urbanization and disease inequalities, particularly mosquito-borne and other infectious diseases. I use an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on perspectives and methods from ecology, critical geography, and epidemiology to explore spatial patterns in power, knowledge, and disease. I am especially interested in using community and participatory mapping techniques in conjunction with open source software to work with communities to map their experiences with neglected tropical diseases, and better inform public health interventions. Website: https://mvevans89.github.io/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mv_evans Taylor Hafley
Ph.D. Student in Geography I am an urban geographer. I study housing, sub\urbanization, race, and suburbs. I use statistics, spatial statistics, GIS (R, Q, Arc, ArcPy). I am interested in segregation, demographics, inequality, housing policy, and social justice. My dissertation topic is a spatial assessment of the nationwide decline in homeownership. Broadly, my project considers housing tenure changes as they relate to housing finance policy, foreclosures, racial formation, the state, urbanization, and the suburbs in metropolitan America. |
Lab alumni
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Dr. Dorris Scott
I am interested in GIS applications to public health, particularly on veterans' access to health. I also focus on community engagement in creating healthy and sustainable communities. Jennifer Gallucci
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Dr. Mariana Alfonso
Adjunct Professor for the department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture at the University of Connecticut. Teddy Davenport Theodore (Teddy) Davenport (he/him or they/them) is a Master’s student in Geography at the University of Washington. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Geography at the University of Georgia, where he worked as an assistant for the Community Mapping Lab. Teddy's research interests include trans geographies, geographies of care, digital scholarship, and critical GIS. Their thesis project draws from oral histories to explore the political possibilities of care within trans communities. |