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Mansoor Saleem

Mansoor Saleem is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at Clark University and a Fulbright Scholar, specializing in applied macroeconomics, policy analysis, and applied econometrics. With over a decade of professional experience at the State Bank of Pakistan, Mansoor contributed to the central bank’s research cluster by providing analytical inputs for monetary policy formulation and conducting…
Moshi Alam

Moshi Alam is a labor economist who examines the economics of discrimination and inequality, as well as policies that address these issues. His current research focuses on assessing equity based labor market policies, optimal redistribution of resources across different locations, and improving the design of school-choice mechanisms to enhance welfare. He earned his doctorate in…
Eman Lasheen

Eman Lasheen is an urban planning lecturer, researcher, and practitioner with more than 10 years of international experience spanning the U.S., Middle East, and Europe. Her research lies at the intersection of international development and climate change planning, with a special interest in urban resilience, food and water policies, sustainable development, and environmental justice. Lasheen…
Yanan Wu

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…
Kensuke Suzuki

Ken Suzuki studies international economics, spatial/regional economics, and labor economics with an emphasis on understanding how globalization affects workers and firms as well as shapes aggregate economic impacts at national and regional levels. His current research examined the implications of Japan’s immigration policy on local labor market outcomes and production. He is also interested in…
Siobhan McGrath

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

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…
Gustavo Oliveira

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…
Max Ritts

Max Ritts is an environmental geographer whose research explores intersections of social power, sensory practice, and ecological transformation – with a particular focus on Indigenous community contexts. His in-process book, A Resonant Ecology (under contract with Duke UP), examines the material, affective, and conceptual force of industrial development through situated enactments of sonic culture (encompassing…
Jon Denton-Schneider

Jon Denton-Schneider studies development economics and economic history with an emphasis on human capital — especially health — in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. His research focuses on the historical causes and economic consequences of poor health in these regions, as well as the policies that can remedy its negative impacts. Jon received his PhD…