Stay up-to-date with the successes of our current and former students:
Maria Belén Noraña, a former Mellon Postdoctoral Scholar, has gone on to become a Postdoctoral Fellow at Penn State University.
M Jackson, formerly a Mellon Postdoctoral Scholar, is now the author of award-winning science books The Secret Lives of Glaciers (2019) and While Glaciers Slept: Being Human in a Time of Climate Change (2015). Jackson’s debut novel, The Ice Sings Back, is due to be released in 2023.
Hayley Brazier, a past research assistant and Mellon Dissertation Fellow, went on to become the Donald M. Kerr Curator of Natural History at the High Desert Museum, Bend, Oregon.
Tiana Bruno, a Mellon Dissertation Fellow, then went on to be the Provost’s Early Career Postdoctoral Fellow in Geography at the University of Texas, Austin.
Allison Ford, another Mellon Dissertation Fellow, went on to take up the position of Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University.
Holly Moulton, Mellon Dissertation Fellow, has now taken a job at West Virginia University as Assistant Professor of Geology and Geography.
Rebekah Sinclair, Mellon Dissertation Fellow, has gone on to become Instructor of Philosophy at Oregon State University.
Nate Otjen, research assistant, was subsequently awarded the roles of Postdoctoral Research Associate and Environmental Teaching Fellow at the High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University.
Our Graduate Student Associates have gone on to take up the following positions:
Paul Guernsey – Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Montana
Shane Hall – Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Salisbury University, Maryland
Kyle Keeler – Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania
Katrina Maggiulli – Assistant Teaching Professor in Comparative Cultural Studies, Northern Arizona University
Jesse Noone – Municipal and Regional Planner, Northeastern Vermont Development Associates
Aimée Okotie-Oyekan – Environmental and climate justice organizing with the NAACP; Land Use and Transportation Planner for the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development; and artist working between mediums of poetry, music, film, and photography.
Dan Shtob – Assistant Professor of Sociology and Urban Sustainability, Brooklyn College
Sasha White – Postdoctoral Fellow, Confluence Lab, University of Idaho