Biography
I received my Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences with a specialization in Geography from the Graduate Center, City University of New York in September 2019. I am a human geographer whose research is located at the cusp of economic, political, social, and environmental geography. Broadly speaking my research focuses on understanding the environmental and social implications that emerge from ongoing transformations in the global maritime economy with an empirical focus on the shipping sector and the uneven ways in which it shapes people’s lives and the places they live.
My PhD research studies the history and development of shipbreaking in Bangladesh. Utilizing a multi-sited ethnographic approach the projects heavy reliance on empirical data grounded my analysis in economic and environmental geography. I have published work on the political economy of shipping and shipbreaking and I have used my visual documentation as a way to discuss global networks, scales of risk and crisis, and the historical development of maritime regulations and production of oceanic spaces in both public conversations and academic settings, and I have published in popular outlets on the tensions and contradictions produced from emerging forms of environmental governance. My research was supported by a Knickerbocker Award for Archival Research, Institute of Human Geography Grant Program, American Institute of Bangladesh Studies, and her writing was supported by a Graduate Center Dissertation Year Fellowship.
My PhD research studies the history and development of shipbreaking in Bangladesh. Utilizing a multi-sited ethnographic approach the projects heavy reliance on empirical data grounded my analysis in economic and environmental geography. I have published work on the political economy of shipping and shipbreaking and I have used my visual documentation as a way to discuss global networks, scales of risk and crisis, and the historical development of maritime regulations and production of oceanic spaces in both public conversations and academic settings, and I have published in popular outlets on the tensions and contradictions produced from emerging forms of environmental governance. My research was supported by a Knickerbocker Award for Archival Research, Institute of Human Geography Grant Program, American Institute of Bangladesh Studies, and her writing was supported by a Graduate Center Dissertation Year Fellowship.