I have the pleasure and the privilege to work with smart, talented and energetic university students at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
Currently I am advising the following students.
McKaylee Duquain is a MS student working on a project to understand the influence of forests on wild rice. She works with our Kawe Gidaa-naanaagadawendaamin Manoomin [First we must consider Manoomin / Psiη (wild rice)] project.. McKaylee is a CFANS Graduate Fellow. I am co-advising McKaylee with Dan Larkin.
Jacey Lamar is a MS student working to understand changes in wild rice ecosystems and Indigenous peoples of the region through archival and historical research. Jacey works with our Kawe Gidaa-naanaagadawendaamin Manoomin [First we must consider Manoomin / Psiη (wild rice)] project.
Gabriela Menomin is a MS student working on incorporating tribal ecological knowledge into the restoration of lands in Wisconsin. I am co-advising Gabby with Rebecca Montgomery.
Florencia Pech Cardenas is a PhD student working in international development and indigenous natural resource management. Her research will focus on indigenous community forest management in Mexico. Florencia is a Fulbright Fellow. I am co-advising Florencia with Kristen Nelson.
I am also a mentor and committee member for the following students.
Zachary Erickson is a Graduate Student of Forestry in the Department of Forestry and Wildland Resources at Cal Poly Humboldt working on costal silviculture, forest restoration, and university/tribal forest management partnerships.
Roger Faust is a Conservation Sciences PhD student working on a MS and soon a PhD focused on wildlife ecology (wolf, moose, and deer) in the upper Great Lakes.
Ryan Hellenbrand is a MS student at the University of Wisconsin Madison working on a project that explores environmental history in Wisconsin with an emphasis on understating the American Indian and German influences in forestry.
Hannah Jo King is a Natural Resources Science and Management PhD student working on a dissertation focused on African American and Indigenous ecological knowledge. She is also working with our Kawe Gidaa-naanaagadawendaamin Manoomin [First we must consider Manoomin / Psiη (wild rice)] project.
Jessica Lackey is a Natural Resources Science and Management MS student working on a project that looks at partnership and joint management between American Indian tribes and the US government at the Medicine Wheel National Historic Landmark in Wyoming.
Madeline Nyblade is a PhD student in Earth Sciences working with our Kawe Gidaa-naanaagadawendaamin Manoomin [First we must consider Manoomin / Psiη (wild rice)] project.
Congratulations to the following students that have graduated!
Kate Flick received her PhD looking at the complex relationships between environmental and human community restoration. She works at the intersection of social and ecological dimensions of landscape restoration and health. I co-advised Kate with Rebecca Montgomery.
Thomas Kenote‘s MS thesis focused on ethical Indigenous research and Indigenous phenology. Rebecca Montgomery was his primary advisor.
Elizabeth Mejicano’s MS thesis focused on diversity within federal resource management agencies. I co-advised Elizabeth with Michael Kilgore.
Macey Flood received her PhD in the Program of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. Her dissertation is titled, “Simple Medicines: Land, Health, and Power in the 19th-century Ojibwe western Great Lakes.” I served on her committee and worked closely with her on environmental history.