Political Ecology Lab

Tamar Law

Tamar is a local Ithacan and a PhD student in Development Studies in the Department of Global Development at Cornell. She is interested in soils, capitalist natures, the role of technoscience in climate management, and critical development studies.

Tim Ravis

Tim is a geographer, urban planner, occasional data scientist, and PhD candidate in Development Studies in the Department of Global Development at Cornell. His current research concerns energy transitions in Indonesia, examining how the state, science, finance, activists, and local residents come together to struggle over and construct new energy landscapes.

Kendra Kintzi

Kendra Kintzi is an Atkinson Center for Sustainability postdoctoral associate in the Department of Global Development at Cornell. She received her PhD in Development Studies at Cornell in 2023. Her work advances scholarship in three key areas: the politics of decarbonization; political ecologies of digital infrastructure; and mobilizations for environmental justice in the (post)colonial world.

Camillo Stubenberg

Camillo is a PhD candidate in Development Studies in the Department of Global Development at Cornell. He is curious about the role of energy-infrastructures co-producing society and environment. For his dissertation research Camillo is conducting ethnographic research about the rushed adoption of solar energy in Lebanon.

Michael Cary

Michael is a Ph.D. Candidate in Development Studies in Cornell’s Department of Global Development. He is also pursuing a minor in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. He is broadly interested in political ecology, critical agrarian studies, and state formation with a regional focus on South America.

Anjana Ramkumar

Anjana Ramkumar is a PhD candidate in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University. She is a nature-society scholar broadly interested in the intersection between agroecology, development, and rural worlds. Her work draws on and contributes to the study of political ecology, agrarian studies and contemporary South Asia.

Emily Baker

Emily is a PhD candidate in Development Studies in the Department of Global Development at Cornell. She has been conducting research in East Africa since 2014. Emily is interested in participatory approaches that center local knowledge and priorities to inform policy and community decision-making for biodiversity conservation, food security, and adaptation strategies.

Lara Roeven

Lara Roeven is a Ph.D. student in Development Studies at Cornell University. She works at the intersection of critical agrarian studies, political ecology, and Science and Technology Studies.

Jen Liu

Jen is a PhD candidate in Information Science at Cornell University. Her work investigates the ecological, social, and political implications of computing technologies and infrastructures. She uses ethnographic and design methods to understand these challenges and build alternatives for livable and equitable futures.

Whitman Barrett

Whitman is a PhD student in the field of Soil and Crop Sciences in the School of Integrative Plant Sciences at Cornell. He is interested in the ways in which social, political, and economic factors shape agricultural practices, and especially soil conservation practices.

Nicole Venker

Nicole is a PhD student in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at Cornell. Her dissertation research engages critical geography methodologies to study the politics of access to land, “wilderness,” and wild food in North America.

Donny Persaud

Donny is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell. He is interested in how internet infrastructures construct and reshape understandings of place, nature, and the environment.