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I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography.  I arrived in Kent in the Fall of 2014 after I completed my B.A. in History at SUNY Geneseo to pursue my M.A. in Geography at Kent (2016).

I consider myself a broadly trained geographer with a wide-range of interests.  However, my current work lies primarily within urban geography, GIS, and community planning.  More specifically, my dissertation, loosely titled A 'Place' on Main Street: the Geography of Place Marketing, Branding, and Promotion in downtown, examines the geography of the National Main Street Program and how its local programs market and brand small-city downtowns.

Teaching includes: Geography of U.S. & Canada, Cities & Urbanization, World Geography, and Physical Geography Lab

Master's thesis: “It Takes a Village”: Urban Change in the Elmwood Neighborhood, 1990-2016