Director

Stuart C. Aitken, Ph.D. , June Burnett Chair and Professor of Geography

Center Staff

Project Director: Thomas Herman, Ph.D., Research Fellow

Affiliated Researchers

Jasmine Arpagian, Ph.D.  (now at Sacramento State University)

Fernando Bosco, Ph.D., Professor and Department Chair of Geography

Giorgio Hadi Curti, Ph.D. , Research Fellow

Phevee Paderes, M.A. Student

Pascal Joassart-Marcelli, Ph.D., Professor of Geography

• Bruce Appleyard, Ph.D., School of Public Affairs, SDSU

• Sylvia Lopez-Estrada, Ph.D., Department of Population Studies, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico

• Norma Iglesias-Prieto, Ph.D., Department of Chicano/a Studies, SDSU

• Norma Ojeda, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, SDSU

• Ramona Perez, Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, SDSU

• Shulamit Ritblatt, Ph.D., Department of Child and Family Development, SDSU

YESS Fellows and Visiting Scholars

• Maria Lidia Bueno Fernandes, Ph.D., Faculty of Education, University of Brasilia, Brazil (2019-20)

• Luciana Bizzotto, Department of Applied Sciences in Education, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (2019-20)

• Gabriela Guarnieri de Campos Tebet, Ph.D., Faculty of Education, State University of Campinas, Brazil (2019-20)

• Melissa Derby, Department of Education, Health and Human Development, University of Canterbury, New Zealand (Spring 2019)

• Sergio Benicio de Mello, Ph.D., Department of Planning and Policy Making, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil University of Pernambuco, Brazil (2018)

• Tatek Abebe, Ph.D., Professor in Childhood Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology – NTNU (2018)

• Adriana Tenorio Cordeiro, Department of Planning and Policy Making, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil University of Pernambuco, Brazil (2018)

• Sylvia Meichsner, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico (2018)

• Fernanda Müller, Ph.D., Childhood Studies, University of Brasilia, Brazil (2016)

• Mette Kristine Tørslev, Danish Center for Migration, Ethnicity and Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Spring 2016)

• Caitlin Cahill, Ph.D., Environmental Psychology Graduate Program City University of NY (Fall 2015)

• Sirpa Tani, Ph.D., Department of Teacher Education, University of Helsinki, Finland (Fall 2015)

• Dena Aufseeser, Ph.D., Department of Geography, University of MD, Baltimore Cty. (Spring 2015)

• Irena Weber, Ph.D., Department of Cultural Tourism and Cultural Heritage University of Primorska, Slovenia (2014-2015)

• Ragnhild Lund, Ph.D., Professor Emerita of Geography, Norwegian University of Science and Technology – NTNU, Norway (Fall 2014)

• Denise Dixon Goerisch, Ph.D., Liberal Studies Department, Grand Valley State University (2013-2014)

• Samantha Punch, Ph.D., Department of Geography, Stirling University, Scotland (Spring 2013)

• Sigurd Solhaug Neilsen, Institute for Geography, Norwegian University of Science and Technology – NTNU, Norway (2012-2013)

• Sarah Andersson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences- SLU, Sweden (2012-2013)

• Vicky Plows, Ph.D., Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK (Fall 2010)