Alumni

Sherwood Gagliano (Ph.D. 1967)
Founder of Coastal Environments, Inc., Baton Rouge, La.

George Robertson (M.S. 1981)
Senior Project Manager, Cardno 

Chris Airriess (M.A. 1984)
Professor of Geography at Ball State University

Richard Campanella (M.S. 1993)
Tulane University, noted author and prominent voice in Post-Katrina New Orleans 

Darrell Kruger (Ph.D. 1994)
Dean of College of Education and Human Development at the University of New Orleans

Scott Hemmerling (Ph.D. 2007)
Associate director of human dimensions at The Water Institute

Ramin D. Zamanian (MA 2007)
Geography Professor at Houston Community College

Russell Fielding (PhD 2010)
Assistant Professor of Environment Studies in the Department of Earth & Science Systems at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee

Kara Miller (MA 2010)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology at California State University Long Beach

Andrew D. Augustine (Ph.D 2011)
Senior Technical Support Engineer, Altosoft Corporation, Media, PA

Amy E. Potter (PhD 2011)
Associate Professor of Geography at Georgia Southern University

Jinwoong Yoo (Ph.D 2011)
Post-doctoral researcher, Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Matthew Helmer (M.A. 2011)
Archaeologist for the Kisatchie National Forest

Henrike Brecht (Ph.D. 2012)
Disaster risk management specialist at the World Bank

Ryan Orgera (PhD 2012)
Chief Executive Officer of the Sanivel-Captiva Conservation Foundation in Florida

Anna M. Trevino (Ph.D 2012)
Atmospheric Scientist, AIR Worldwide, Inc., Boston, MA

James P. Chaney (PhD 2013)
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Studies and Human Geography at Middle Tennessee State University

Brandon Edwards (Ph.D. 2013)
Research associate in the Department of Renewable Natural Resources at LSU

T Andrew Joyner (Ph.D 2013)
Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences East Tennessee State University

Mark Robinson (PhD 2013)
Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom

Caitlyn McNabb (MA 2013)       
Implementation Manager for Sedaru

Eddie Modlin (PhD 2014)
Assistant Professor of Geography at Norfolk State University

Rebekah Jones (M.S. 2014)
Coastal Resource Scientist, Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority; Baton
Rouge, La.  

Bryant Garcin (B.S. 2014)

Steve Treloar (M.A. 2014)
Archaeologist at ERM

Katherine Renken (PhD 2015)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Baruch Institute of the University of South Carolina

Elizabeth Cory Sills (PhD 2015)
Assistant Professor of the University of Texas at Tyler      

Case Watkins (PhD 2015)
Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Justice Studies of the School of Public and International Affairs at James Madison University

Jamie Worms (PhD 2015)
Instructor of Geography in the Latin American Studies Program at Smith College

Jenna Hurtubise (MA 2015) 
PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama  

Ashley Whitten (MA 2015) 
PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky

Corey David Hotard (PhD 2015)
Geography and Anthropology instructor at South Louisiana Community College in Lafayette, LA

Peter Ngugi Kamau (PhD 2017)
Faculty member at Karatina University in his native Kenya

Maddisen Neuman (M.A. 2017)
Quality/Research Associate at Houston Forensic Science Center, Inc.

Kelsey Johnson (M.A. 2017)
Archaeologist at AECOM

Rivers Berryhill (M.A. 2017)
Environmental Scientist at Louisiana Housing Corporation

Emily Michon (M.A. 2017)
Forensic Anthropologist - Research Associate at FACES Laboratory (LSU)

Kimberly Munro (PhD 2018) 
Adjunct professor of anthropology at Trinidad State Junior College in Colorado

Andrea White (PhD 2018)
City Archaeologist St. Augustine, Florida

Samuel Ayers (M.A. 2018)
Archivist - Special Collections, State Library of Louisiana

Kelly Haggerty (M.S. 2019)
Site direct at Food Rescue US

Jessi Parfait (M.A. 2019)
Anthropologist at the Water Institute

Meredith Aulds (M.A. 2019)
PhD student at Purdue University

Antonio Otero (M.A. 2019)
PhD student at SUNY-Albany 

Ashlee Taylor (M.A. 2019)
Archaeological Lab Director at Gulf South Research Corporation

Le Tu (M.S. 2019)
GIS analyst at the University of Mississippi Medical Center

Kelsey Fox (M.A. 2020)
Lab technician at Abbott Lab

Kyle Bikowski (M.A. 2020)
PhD student at the University of Iowa

Ria Mukerji (M.S. 2020)
PhD student at the University of New Mexico

Alina Prigozhina (M.S. 2020)
GIS analyst at Florida Department of Health

Melinda Gonzalez (Ph.D. 2021)
Postdoctoral fellow at Rutgers University

Ashlee Autore (M.S. 2021)
AI/ML Intern at Science Systems and Applications, Inc (SSAI)