Education
- BS, Chemistry, 1963, U. of N. Alabama
- MA (1970), PhD (1973), Population and Settlement Geography, U. of Georgia
Research Interests
Fluvial Geomorphology, Biogeomorphology, Hydrology, Soil and Water Conservation, Historical Geography.
Sedonna Goeman-Shulsky
Sedonna Goeman-Shulsky is a Ph.D. Candidate at UCLA’s IoES, conducting research in Western New York regarding fishing culture and access amongst Settler and Haudenosaunee communities. She utilizes archival research, ethnographic interviews, and oral histories to understand people’s historically embedded relationships with key fish that live in the waters in and between the Great Lakes Erie and Ontario, in traditional Seneca territory. Her research will expand theorizations of relationality and access to water in Environmental Anthropology and Indigenous studies, and contribute to strategies for community engagement amongst environmental management agencies and organizations.
In addition to her scholarship, she regularly participates in community-engaged research projects, including Carrying Our Ancestors Home, Centering Tribal Stories (project manager), and formerly the Haudenosaunee Archive Resource and Knowledge Portal (project manager). She has also worked for the Native American Land Conservancy as a Tribal Outreach Specialist and Cogstone as an archaeological monitor. Goeman-Shulsky is a Eugene V. Cota Robles fellow, has received the Barbara Y. Maida Award, the Graduate Research Mentorship fellowship, the Graduate Deans Scholars award, and the NSF Scholarship for Archaeological Training for Native Americans and Native Hawaiians in 2021 from the Society for American Archaeologists.
Chedeya Brown
Chedeya Brown is a first year PhD student. She received her B.A. from UCLA in American Literature & Culture and Spanish. She most recently worked at Cypress Creek, a utility-scale solar energy firm as an Environmental, Social, and Governance Associate. Previously, she has conducted research on Green Gentrification in Barcelona during her time at UCLA. Her research interests lie in the intersection of narrative and energy – ‘petroculture”. In her free time, she enjoys running, looking after her dog, Zuko, and maintaining her houseplants.
Ruhena Randhawa
Eric Ha
Phoebe Chiu
Maddie Wilson
Madeline Adamo
Clara Wilch
Clara Wilch researches cultural negotiations of climate change. Her dissertation focuses on co-performances between humans and ice (“icescapes”) set in the American Arctic and Subarctic with attention to racial capitalism and gender. Before pursuing her doctorate in performance studies, her professional experiences included biological research and NYC theater-making; through her scholarship and involvement in projects like LENS, she strives to weave together creative, critical methods from art, humanities, and science disciplines to help re-conceive and address vital concerns of environmental and multi-species justice. Her writing has appeared in Performance Research, Theatre Survey, and JADT, and she acted as an assistant editor for Theatre Journal.
Saagar Patel
Saagar is a doctoral student in the Environmental Science and Engineering program at the Institute of the Environment & Sustainability. He received his M.S. in Chemistry, B.S. in Chemistry, & B.A. in Psychology at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. After completing his studies, he moved to California to begin working at South Coast AQMD as an Air Quality Chemist. He is tasked with the analysis of volatile organic compounds and toxic metals in ambient air samples in the South Coast Basin.
His professional and academic interests include researching the relationships between climate change, air quality, and public health. When he’s not in the lab or in class, he enjoys exploring his new home state.