Supervisor

• 2024, Hanna Hartman, Geography, Becoming Burlington: An analysis of citizen engagement in waterfront revitalization
• 2024, Clara Feldman, Global Studies, Gemeinsam mit den bürger*innen
• 2023, Nicole Paolo, Biology, The investigation of acute respiratory infections, cooking fuel sources and climate change in Cox’s Bazar Refugee Camps from 2018-2020.
• 2023, Evie Wolfe, Global Studies, Gardening as ritual in New American communities: foodways and placemaking amongst Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees
• 2022, Anitra Conover, Global Studies, Rethinking Burlington Area Food Programming For New Americans
• 2022, Keegan Vaughn, Political Science, Examining the Global Development of Basketball: The Political and Economic Implications of the Sport’s International Growth
• 2022, Charlotte Laseter, Geography, Ultimate Frisbee and Racial Inequality
• 2022, Tulley Hescock, Geography, Funded – A look into Vermont’s public education funding system
• 2021, Valentina Czochanski, Global Studies, Confinement during COVID-19: A case study of Vermont Prisons
• 2021, Sophia Knappertz, Global Studies, Comparative case studies of European crises: an analysis of the European project
• 2021, Sorrel Galantowicz, Global Studies, Social media and K-Pop as a means of radical social change among US youth
• 2021, Darcy Eliot, Global Studies, The vulnerability of international students: from visa policy to the COVID-19 Pandemic
• 2021, Alexandra Crosby, Global Studies, France’s Asylum Seeker and Refugee Populations in Age of the COVID-19 Global Pandemic
• 2020, Zach Johns, Political Science, Diagnosing and Addressing Suicide Risk Among Vermont Refugees: A Study of Mental Health Screening and Community Resources in Burlington, VT
• 2019, Kate Fain, Global Studies, Photographing the Other
• 2019, Kim Furtado, Geography, Spatial Patterns and Personal Perceptions of Gentrification in Burlington, VT
• 2019, Gillian Tiley, Geography, Re-imagining Providence: The ‘Creative Capital’ Campaign and the Gentrification of Downcity
• 2019, Emily Klofft, Political Science, Non-Profits as Creators of Public Policy in Public-Private Partnerships
• 2019, Haley Barriere, Global Studies, The Misconceptions and Realities of the Criminalization of Immigration in Vermont
• 2019, Emma Gianoplus, Global Studies, U.S. Refugee Resettlement: An Analysis of the Relationship between Available Community Assets in Chittenden County, Vermont and the Self-Sufficiency of Resettled Refugees
• 2019, Annie Ryan, Global Studies, ‘Willkommenskultur’ in East and West Germany: How and why levels of xenophobia and acceptance of refugees/migrants vary between the former GDR and FRG
• 2019, Jen Mitchell, Geography, Defining rural education: exploring the relationship between place and public education outcomes in New Hampshire
• 2018, Tilden Remerleitch, Geography, Finding Home – Personal Stories of Refugee Resettlement in the U.S. with a Case Study in Chittenden County, VT
• 2018, Sarah Barrett, Global Studies, Contemporary border crossings: seeking asylum across the US-Canada Border
• 2017, Erica Gilgore, Interstices of power: considerations of women’s health and agency through creative non-fiction
• 2017, Katie Hickey, Global Studies, The Burkini Buzz: Exploring French National Identity Discourse Through Social Media
• 2016, Sammie Ibrahim, Geography, The spatial politics of refugee resettlement in Burlington, Vermont
• 2016, Alexander Rosenberg, Geography, Can a T-Shirt create long-term change? Cause-related marketing in pre-emptive disaster response and mitigation efforts
• 2015, Meraz Mostafa, Geography, Imaginative geographies of the Old North End
• 2014, Erin Kerr, Geography, More than the Marshall Plan: Analyzing Official Development Assistance to Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 2013, Mia Payraudeau, Geography, Greenmageddon: Salvation through consumption
• 2013, Holidae Filkins, Geography, The role of farmers’ markets in the Burlington community
• 2013, Oakley Clark, Geography, The geopolitics of forced migration and humanitarianism: A critical geopolitics perspective
• 2013, Julia Panopoulos, Geography, New Farms for New Americans: Incubator Farm Programs, Economic Self-Sufficiency and Grant Dependency
• 2012, Tyler Wilkinson-Ray, Global Studies, Growing food justice: Two case studies in Burlington, Vermont
• 2012, Anya Gedrath-Smith, Environmental Studies, Time for tea: The sustainable development of tea tourism in Nepal
• 2012, Maria White, Global Studies, Burlington, Vermont, the FairTrade Towns Campaign, and the Fair Trade Movement
• 2011, Kathryn Grenoble, Political Science, An exploration of governance and health care in the face of the HIV and AIDS Crisis in Botswana:  A luminary of success in sub-Saharan Africa or a failure of state responsibility?

Committee Member or Chair

• 2024, Owen Palcsik, Geography, The role of place in the function, meaning and future of electric vehicles in Vermont
• 2024, Cameron Provorny, Geography, Student perspectives of safety at the University of Vermont: an analysis of fear in Burlington, VT
• 2023, Fosca Bechtold, Geography, Geographies of mobility: exploring the place-based connections of Northern Italians
• 2023, Jake Pehle, Geography, Making race, making place: racialization of space and people in San Francisco’s Chinatown, 1860-1906
• 2023, Molly Myers, Geography, Social Relations, Second Homes and the Space Between “Insider” and “Outsider” in a Rural, Amenity Rich Community
• 2022, Mia Dillon, Political Science, Forcing families to choose between basic rights: an assessment of Vermont’s nutritional programs and their barriers to immigrants
• 2021, William Omohundro, Political Science, The case for black reparations.
• 2020, Marisa Loury, Anthropology, The cows don’t milk themselves: using worker-driven social responsibility to fight labor and housing injustice on Vermont’s dairy farms
• 2018, Sonia Vaccheo, Anthropology, Food security and the Burlington immigrant community
• 2018, Meghan Conway, Environmental Studies, Success of Food Assistance Programs: Metrics to Evaluate Provision of Healthy Food Products Across Burlington, Vermont
• 2018, Sonia Vaccheo, Anthropology, Food security and the Burlington immigrant community
• 2017,Olivia Langley, English, Fictions of belonging: ‘New arrival literature’ and contemporary discourse on US immigration.
• 2016, Erika Shepherd, Geography, The Emerging ‘Immigrant-Friendly’ City: How and why cities frame themselves as welcoming places to immigrants
• 2016, Kelly Molloy, Sociology, Smoke and mirrors: A study of deviance creation
• 2016, Taylor Brough, Independently Designed Major, Fleshiness as a grammar for sociality: theorizing inclusion and (mis)recognition in the academy
• 2016, Jordan Weith, Psychology, Post-migration stressors and infant development
• 2015, Jessica Solodkin, History, The Partitions of British India and the Palestinian Mandate, 1937-1948
• 2015, Hunter Cropsey, Anthropology, Food and faith: theology and Burlington’s local foods movement
• 2015, Samantha Sawyer, Anthropology, Service providers’ perceptions of refugees’ needs, services and service delivery barriers in Burlington, Vermont
• 2015, Alana Robinson, Community Development and Applied Economics, It’s beautiful [but] it’s not affordable for us”: Negotiating neighborhood change and displacement in Vine City, Atlanta
• 2015, Marshall Distell, Geography, Connectivity, sprawl and the cul-de-sac: An analysis of cul-de-sacs and dead-end streets in Burlington and the surrounding suburbs
• 2014, Sydney Healey, Global Studies, Co-Created (and Imperfect) Meaning: A Case Study Analysis of Indigenous Discourse In Tres Pozos and Pozo Colorado
• 2014, Rachel Aronson, Anthropology, Eating in crisis: culturally appropriate food and the local food movement in the lives of domestic violence survivors
• 2013, Samantha Arcata, Environmental Studies, Examining cultivation of the mustard seed in Rajasthan, India from 1960 – 2010
• 2012, Megan Kelly, Political Science, The movement against mountaintop removal coal mining in central Appalachia
• 2012, Andrew Fallion, History, Pa’lante: The Direct Action Campaigns of the Young Lords Party
• 2012, Katie Hartin, Environmental Studies, Eyo Matamaney Alakuwa: the social implications of conservation-induced displacement for the Masaii residents of Engare Sero, Northern Tanzania
• 2012, Katherine Baldwin, Global Studies, The Effects of Tourism in Mombasa on the Maasai Culture
• 2012, Abby Zuckerman, Environmental Studies, Awareness and advocacy towards instituting bias-free policing in Vermont: A cross-county comparison of Addison and Franklin counties
• 2012, Emma Petersen, Environmental Studies, Fables and reflections: understanding the implications of the Maori Party formation in communicating alternative motivations for environmental change
• 2012, Erica Goldberg, Environmental Studies, From Ghana to the Dominican Republic: can ceramic water filtration improve rural Ghanian women’s access to clean water?
• 2012, Karuna Jobanputra, Environmental Studies, Dowry proliferation and inflation in Southern India
• 2011, Andrea Hagan, Environmental Studies, Socially responsible investment of the University of Vermont’s endowment
• 2011, Hanna Zeman, Global and Regional Studies, Measuring the success of microfinance institutions
• 2011, Tom Benoit, Political Science, Re-envisioning the Second World: Russian national identity in the post-Soviet era
• 2011, Rachel Fabian, English/Film and Television Studies, Unseen and unheard: feminist politics and the Iranian mother in the films of Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Abbas Kiorostami
• 2010, Sam Werbel, Anthropology, Participant-observers or participant-soldiers: The role of anthropologists in the military
• 2010, Lindsey Gillies, Environmental Studies, Beyond fair trade: an exploration of alternatives in the cacao trade
• 2010, Elizabeth White, Geography, Community gardens as transnational space
• 2009, Anna Royar, Geography, Urban life, later life: The creation of an elder-friendly city in Burlington, Vermont
• 2009, Andrew Turgeon, Geography, Youth and their rural place: An examination of teenagers’ geographies in Bennington County, Vermont
• 2009, Marsh Gooding, Geography, Balancing the scales: Implementing urban sustainability in Burlington, VT
• 2009, Kerry Canton, Environmental Studies, Those who have no name: a case study of small island state climate change refugees
• 2008, Sarah Chace, Environmental Studies, How NGOs Work Influence Equity in Tank Irrigation, Tamil Nadu, India