Yanan received her Ph.D. degree in Geospatial Information Sciences from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2024 and a M.A degree in Geography from Binghamton University in 2019. Her research focuses on how location influences events, demonstrating how surrounding geographical environments at locations contribute to human activities. She has conducted research analyzing the repetitive…

Working within labor geography, economic geography and development geography, Siobhan McGrath takes a political economy approach to labor. Her scholarship to date has focused on 1) ‘unregulated work’ including wage theft and other violations; 2) how to understand freedoms and unfreedoms within labor relations; 3) how labor unfreedoms are represented and acted upon through categories…

Hamed Alemohammad is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Geography and Director of the Center for Geospatial Analytics at Clark University. He is a technical leader and interdisciplinary scholar with extensive expertise and knowledge in remote sensing, earth science, and artificial intelligence (AI). His research interest lies at the intersection of geospatial analytics/AI…

I am a human-environment geographer and global political ecologist with a background in the liberal arts and political philosophy, and a PhD in geography from the University of California, Berkeley. My work is driven by a passionate commitment to socio-environmental justice, linking social equity issues experienced in daily life with geopolitical contestations over natural resources…

Dr. Abby Frazier is a climatologist who studies the spatiotemporal dynamics and impacts of climate change and climate variability. Her research uses geospatial analysis to integrate diverse datasets, including models and observations, to understand the multi-disciplinary impacts of climate on freshwater resources and ecosystems over regional and global scales, with a focus on Pacific Islands.…

Dr. Asha Best received her Ph.D. (2017) in American Studies from Rutgers University-Newark. She is an urbanist whose research and teaching is interdisciplinary. Her work links mobilities studies, post-colonial and black studies, critical race theory and studies of urban informality. She is particularly interested in popular, improvised and often unofficial urban practices deployed by black…

I am an environmental scientist who investigates the drivers and impacts of agricultural change, with a particular focus on Africa. I conduct my research using new Earth Observation technologies and a range of modeling techniques, and work within inter-disciplinary projects that involve economists, agronomists, human geographers, decision scientists, hydrologists, climatologists, and computer scientists. I hold…

Mark Davidson is an urban geographer with an international reputation for his research on gentrification, urban theory, municipal finance, and urban sustainability. He has published in high-impact social science journals and published edited collections with SUNY Press and Sage. He has received research funding from the National Science Foundation and the International Olympic Committee. Prior to joining Clark University,…

Dr. Williams is a professor of earth system science within Clark’s School of Geography and is director of the environmental sciences program at Clark.  His expertise is in terrestrial ecosystems, global environmental change, and climate change.   He and his team engage in foundational research science on the climate impacts of forests.  By combining state-of-the-art satellite…