Photo: PhD Candidate Contact info Email: akanksha.sharma@uga.edu Research Interests: Environmental Justice Feminist, Anti-Caste, Liberatory Ecologies Freshwater Ecology and Land-Water Linkages Human Environmental Relationships Insect Ecology Integrative / Environmental Geography Landscape Ecology Multispecies Justice I am a graduate student with wide-ranging interests across disciplines and art-forms that engage with environmental studies and human-environmental relationships. As a student in the Integrative Conservation PhD program, and with the unique unexpected opportunity to experience my degree from two home departments (Geography and previously, Ecology), I luckily get to engage with these interests through blended projects which bring together moths and forests; people and technologies; land and water; and more. Presently (2024) I am gathering data for my PhD research, predominantly in and around West Singhbhum district, Jharkhand, India. Education Education: PhD, Integrative Conservation & Geography, (Feb 2023 - present)Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, GAPhD, Integrative Conservation & Ecology, (Aug 2018 - Feb 2023; transferred)Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GAMS, Natural Resources and Environment (2015 - 2018)+ Certificate, Geographic Information SystemsSchool of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZBTech, Information Technology Engineering, (2009 - 2013)National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India
