PhD
2023 (committee member) Phyu Pannu Khin, Trauma and resilience mechanisms during political violence, Clinical Psychology, University of Vermont
2023 (chair) Justine Dee, Survivors of torture, trauma, and chronic low back pain: analyses of physical therapy interventions and utilization, Clinical and Translational Sciences, University of Vermont
2023 (committee member) Gabriel McCann, Promoting family professional partnerships among refugee families through community-based participatory action research, Education, University of Vermont
2023 (committee member) Josiah Taylor, Evaluating multiple domains of economic and quality of life impacts of immigrant-focused community farm programs, Food Systems, University of Vermont
2021 (chair) Holly Weldon, Interparental conflict as a predictor of psychological adjustment in refugee children, Psychological Sciences, University of Vermont
2019 (chair) Ritwika Biswas, Reclaiming the urban: an intersectional analysis of women’s and men’s experiences of public space in Kolkata, India. Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University.
2019 (chair) Joseph Ament, A counter-counter revolution in monetary theory, Ecological Economics, University of Vermont
2018 (chair) Jonah Meyerhoff, Risk factors for suicide amongst Bhutanese refugees Psychological Sciences, University of Vermont
2017 (chair) Anne Alyse Brassell, War in the Nursery: The Impact of Transgenerational Trauma on Refugee Infant Development, Psychological Sciences, University of Vermont
2017 (chair) Victoria Baptiste, The Impact of Stigma on the Mental Health of Resettled African and Asian Refugees, Psychological Sciences, University of Vermont
2017 (chair) Phoebe Spencer, Shaping Policy in the Anthropocene: Gender Justice as a Social, Economic and Ecological Challenge, Ecological Economics, University of Vermont
2015 (chair) David Sussman, Mobilizing in Response to Mining: Analyzing the Cases of Tia Maria and Quellaveco in Southern Peru, Political Science, Tufts University
2014 (chair) Prem Timsina, Effectiveness of Teacher Preparation Program in Addressing Educational Achievement Gap in Secondary Schools in Vermont, Education, University of Vermont
2014 (chair) Vincent Mugisha, Engaged African refugee youth negotiating schooling in the United States of America: an inquiry into the influence of culture and social structure, Education, University of Vermont
2010 (External Examiner) Divya Anand, Re-imagining nations and rethinking nature: contemporary eco-political controversies in India and Australia, English and Sociology, La Trobe University, Australia.
MA/MS
2023 (guest critic/external advisor) Grace Barrett, Design, Rhode Island School of Art and Design
2023 (committee member) Parisa Suchdev, Analyzing the impact of cultural factors on happiness levels in Arabic language tweets, Complex Systems and Data Science, University of Vermont
2022 (supervisor) Caroline Gilman, MS Candidate, Access to culturally appropriate food in Chittenden County: a program evaluation of the Vermont Foodbank’s Fresh Food Distribution, Food Systems, University of Vermont
2022 (committee member) Ali Boochever, MS Candidate, A Pilot Farm Training Program in Conjunction with Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility (CRCF) to Support Women’s Reentry to the Workforce and Provide Valuable Skills for Vermont’s Small Farm Ecosystem, Food Systems, University of Vermont
2021 (committee member) Mariah Besplug, Building refuge: narratives from the private sponsorship of refugees program in the Lethbridge, Alberta area, Geography, University of Lethbridge
2021 (committee member) Elizabeth Lohre, Developing an Adaptive Resource Management Framework for Sustainable Cashmere Production in Mongolia, Natural Resources, University of Vermont
2021 (chair) Kelly Gothard, Incel narratives: deciphering the involuntarily celibate lexicon, Complex Systems and Data Science, University of Vermont
2020 (chair) Phyu Pannu Khin, Testing resilience as a moderator of the torture-mental health relationship in refugee survivors of torture, Clinical Psychology, University of Vermont
2018 (committee member) Xavier Brown, A Soilful Journey, Leadership for Sustainability, University of Vermont
2017 (committee member) Hannah Ullmann, Imagining disparities in long distance travel access, Natural Resources, University of Vermont
2017 (committee member) Hannah Stokes, Measuring food insecurity amongst refugees settled in Vermont, Food Systems, University of Vermont
2017 (committee member) Margaret Mckendry and Meghan Morris, Understanding food insecurity among Iraqi resettled refugees in Northern Vermont, Dietetics, University of Vermont
2017 (supervisor) Elissa Johnson, Don’t tell them I eat weeds a study of gatherers of wild edibles in Vermont through intersectional identities, Food Systems, University of Vermont
2017 (committee member) Anna Dirkse, A case study of the ‘Benet Land Problem’ in Eastern Uganda, Natural Resources, University of Vermont
2016 (committee member) Jesse Mazar, Resistance and resilience: Latinx migrant farmworkers in the northern borderlands, Food Systems, University of Vermont
2016 (committee member) Robin Fitch-McCulloch, Imperial influence on the postcolonial Indian Army 1945-1973, History, University of Vermont
2012 (committee member) Monika Derrien, Experiences and visions of Vermont landscapes: a case study of Bosnian immigrants in Chittenden County, Vermont, Natural Resources, University of Vermont
2010 (committee member) Stephen Lemcke, Leave lesser men to their golf clubs then…the golf boom, 1880-1900, and the challenges to British imperial masculinities, History, University of Vermont
2010 (committee member) Shauna Henley, Rural Vermont: the food environment and cooking practices as an implication for health, Food and Nutrition Studies, University of Vermont
2009 (committee member) Alana Shaw, Ecotourism in the Carib territory of Dominica: Power, indigeneity and the development process, Natural Resources, University of Vermont