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PhD Candidates on the Job Market

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Ian Baran

1. Dissertation Title: "Policing as Carceral Community Development: Los Angeles' investment in the carceral state and the ongoing community and labor challenges" 

2. Dissertation Committee: Virginia Parks (Chair), Hun Kim, Toussaint Losier, Walter Nicholls, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard

3. Research Interests: Carcerality, Community Development, Community Organizing, Labor Unions, Political Economy, Racial Capitalism, State Theory, Urban Social Movements

4. CV:  Here

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Aishwarya Borate

  • Dissertation Title: "Household Recovery Following Floods: How is it understood, measured, and what affects it? Case studies from India"
  • Dissertation Committee: Dr. Maura Allaire (Co-chair), Dr. David Feldman (Co-chair), Dr. Douglas Houston, and Dr. John Hipp
  • Research Interests: Environmental Planning and Policy; Environmental and Climate Justice; GIS and Remote Sensing; and Advanced Quantitative Methods
  • CV: here
  • Website: here

Amrita Jain

1. Dissertation Title: “Through Thick and Thin”: The Politics of Land Use Change in Minneapolis  

2. Dissertation Committee: Walter Nicholls (Chair), Nicholas Marantz, Martha Feldman, Seth Pipkin, Hun Kim

3. Research Interests: Land Use, Housing Policy, Community Development, Political Economy, Urban Social Movements

4. CV:  Here

5. Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amritavijayjain/

Claudia Valencia Uribe

Dissertation Title: “Understanding nonprofit engagement in water resource management during periods of drought” 

Dissertation Committee: Dr. Nicola Ulibarri (Chair), Dr. Michael Méndez, Dr. David Feldman, and Dr. Walter Nicholls 

Research Interests: Water resources management and policy, nonprofit management, stakeholder engagement, environmental justice, procedural justice, mixed methods 

CV: here

Website: www.linkedin.com/in/claudia-valencia-903140121