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Faculty

We welcome any faculty, within and beyond the department of geography, who are integrating feminist and wider critical geographic approaches into their research. Please contact us below if you're interested in participating!

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Brenda Boonabaana

(she/her)

I am a feminist political ecologist. My research brings together analyses of sustainability, ecotourism, gender and crop-improvement, and uneven development.  My work centers on Uganda, but via my USAID funded project I collaborate with scholars across the global south.

UT Homepage & CV

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Caroline Faria

(she/her)

I am a feminist geographer. I draw on feminist, critical race, and postcolonial perspectives to examine development politics. My current research examines luxury development in Kampala, Uganda, and the new political ecologies of oil extraction in the Albertine Graben. 

UT Homepage, personal website, CV

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Laurel Mei-Singh

(she/her)

My work connects Geography and Asian-American studies. My 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. My 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. 

UT Homepage.

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Rebecca Torres

(she/her)

I am faculty in Geography and 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 of scholars and activists examining the current situation of refugee/migrant children and youth from Mexico and Central America. 

UT Homepage & CV

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Pavithra Vasudevan

(she/they)

I am based in 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.

UT Homepage w CV & Personal website).

Student Fellows

Our graduate and undergraduate fellows run our lab each semester. They coordinate events, help manage student research, take the lead on publications and presentations, and generally keep the collective moving!  

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Laura Botero

(she/her)

Graduate Fellow

Feminist political ecology, Indigenous women's organizing, Amazon regions of Colombia

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Dalia Vasquez

(she/her)

Graduate fellow

Feminist political ecology, Water, Community-based organizing, Mexico

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Ibrahim Bahati

(He/him)

Graduate fellow

Feminist political ecology, Food Security, Youth Resilience, Uganda

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Katya

Undergraduate fellow - Environmental Justice Collective

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Katie

Undergraduate fellow - Environmental Justice Collective

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Current Members

Students and postgrads usually join the Collective for at least two semesters, and many stay for several years. They regularly attending meetings (about 4 per semester) and go to our organized talks. And these students conduct research with faculty and student peers, and engage in their own independent feminist geographic research (eg for an undergraduate or MA thesis or doctoral dissertation). Sometimes this involves international or US-based qualitative fieldwork. As part of the collective they share drafts of their work, and we mentor them to get support to attend national and international conferences to  present their work. We usually ask that students who want to engage in this way have taken a class or two with one of our faculty members, and are interested in joining a specific research project (or have a related one of their own they would like to pursue). Contact us below if you are interested in learning more!

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Geography, PhD

Decolonial & Indigenous Geographies, La Mixteca

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Geography, PhD

Feminist GIS, Maternal Mortality, Texas

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Geography PhD

Black Geographies, Kinship, 

Black Ecologies, Haiti & the DR, Archival & Literary Analysis

Interested in joining the FemGeog Collective?
Take a class with one of our faculty members then...

reach out to us at:​

spatialjustice.lab@gmail.com

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