GRADUATE STUDENTS
Faisal Bin Islam (he/him)
PhD Student, Geography and Spatial Sciences
Research Interest: Political Ecology, Decolonization, Climate Change Adaptation
“As a human geographer, I understand the world as it is constantly co-created by different levels of human-environment interactions. These interactions take place in many social, political, cultural, and spatial contexts. I think of embodiment as the process where our embodied relations with different spaces and times make meaningful changes to society and the environment.”
Nari Kim (she/her)
PhD Candidate, Geography and Spatial Sciences
Research Interests: Aging, Parkinson’s Disease, Care workers, Isolation, and Dignity
“Exploring how human beings’ emotions are socially embedded and localized in their bodies reveals hidden structural powers and unequal social spaces.”
Nusrat Tabassum Mohana (she/her)
PhD Student, Geography and Spatial Sciences
Research Interests: Human Environmental interactions, Land use Land Cover change, refugees and forced migration, displacement, policy planning, Human rights.
“Embodiment means different things to me depending on what aspect is being discussed. What strikes me about embodiment is breaking the structured hierarchy and stigmas, especially against women in social, environmental, economic, and political phenomena worldwide. “
Nathan Thayer (he/him)
PhD Candidate, Geography and Spatial Sciences
Research Interests: Care, Race, Racism, DEI, Diverse Economies, Political Ecology.
” To me, embodiment means many things. It is the way that we come to know, and be in, the world around us through sensory experiences, place-based emotional geographies, and interaction with social, ecological, and personal relations. More than that, embodiment is the process through which the social, political, economic, and ecological phenomena are written onto our flesh and bone, and how we as individuals reproduce and challenge those very phenomena. “
Past Members
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Hanan Abou Ali, PhD student, Geography and Spatial Science, University of Delaware
Nicholas Butler, MS, Geography and Spatial Science, University of Delaware
Kopo Omormeng, PhD Candidate, Geography and Spatial Science, University of Delaware
Luisa Turbino Torres, PhD, Political Science, University of Delaware
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Richard Norman Bickley, Undergraduate Research Scholar, Sociology Cornell
Katya Raskin, Research Assistant, Environmental Studies and Public Policy, University of Delaware
