Brenda
Boonabaana
I am an Assistant professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment. My research brings together analyses of sustainability, ecotourism, gender and crop-improvement. My work centers on Uganda, but via my USAID funded project I collaborate with scholars across the global south.
Laurel
Mei-Singh
Dr. Laurel Mei-Singh serves as an Assistant Professor of Geography and Asian American Studies at UT Austin. Dr. Mei-Singh’s research interests include environmental justice, militarization, the relationship of race and indigeneity to histories of war, fences and self-determination, abolition, racial capitalism and the Pacific. Her current project develops a genealogy of military fences and grassroots struggles for land and livelihood in Wai‘anae, a rural and heavily militarized region of the island of O’ahu in Hawai’i. She comes to UT Austin from the University of Hawai’i Mānoa.
Caroline
Faria
I am a feminist geographer and Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment. I draw on feminist, critical race, and postcolonial perspectives to interrogate contemporary workings of nationalism and cosmopolitanism. My research examines the political-economies of the beauty industry in the Gulf-East African region, luxury development in Kampala, Uganda, and the new poitical ecologies of oil extraction in the Albertine Graben.
Rebecca Torres
I am a full Professor in the Department of Geography & the Environment and Associate of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS). I research (im)migration, Children/Youth Geographies, Gender, Feminist Geography, and Activist/Engaged Scholarship. My main focus is with bi-national, trans-disciplinary team scholars on research focusing on the current situation of refugee/migrant children and youth from Mexico and Central America.
Pavithra Vasudevan
I am an Assistant Professor of African & African Diaspora Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies . My scholarship and teaching are concerned with how racialized peoples and ecologies are devalued in capitalism, and the abolitional possibilities of collective struggle. I incorporate performance, audiovisuals and other arts-based methods to conduct research in collaboration with affected communities. See my website (pavithravasudevan.com) for more information!