I was the founding director of the Mines Humanitarian Engineering and Science graduate program, and interested students should consult the program website. I am a frequent committee member for PhD candidates at Mines seeking a sociotechnical perspective on their research.
Graduate Students
Sigourney Burch MS 2024, Humanitarian Engineering and Science: Geophysics
Sigourney is studying the colonial inheritances of humanitarian archaeological geophysics, with a focus on burials.
Casey Gibson, MS 2022, Humanitarian Engineering and Science: Environmental Engineering
Casey studied sociohydrology as a way of better understanding the interface between agriculture and artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) in rural Colombia.
Nicolas Perticari Pesci, PhD, Environmental Engineering Science, graduate certificate in Humanitarian Engineering & Science
Nico is studying more just public participation surrounding carbon capture and storage.
Arielle Rainey, MS 2022, Humanitarian Engineering and Science: Environmental Engineering
Arielle studied belongingness and identity among first gen engineering students, with a focus on women and minoritized students.
Emily Cecchini MS 2025, Humanitarian Engineering and Science: Geophysics
Emily is studying risk communication in carbon capture and storage.
Cecilia Schroeder, MS 2022, Humanitarian Engineering and Science: Environmental Engineering
Hayley Glover, MS 2021, Humanitarian Engineering and Science: Environmental Engineering
Hayley practiced research translation to make the findings of the RMRC research project accessible to ASGM communities. She is working at Turner Construction and an architectural start-up.
Cecilia identified opportunities for citizen science projects to monitor environmental pollution from ASGM contaminants such as lead and arsenic that are often invisible in the existing research focus on mercury.
Larkin Martini, MS 2021, Humanitarian Engineering and Science: Geological Engineering
Raven Herrera-Williams, MS 2022, Humanitarian Engineering and Science: Environmental Engineering
Raven completed a practicum integrating HE precepts into an undergraduate service learning design course.
Breanna Moak, MS 2022, Humanitarian Engineering and Science: Environmental Engineering
Raven completed a practicum developing a framework for sustainable remediation from her job at an environmental consulting firm.
Larkin conducted engineering education research on strategies for integrating CSR into a variety of undergraduate programs at Mines and how students and faculty differently perceive student learning. She is pursuing a PhD in engineering education at Virginia Tech.
Francis Marlin-Tackie, MS 2019, Environmental Engineering
Frances studied public perception of the risks and benefits of unconventional oil and gas production in Colorado. She currently works for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
Skylar Zilliox, MS 2016, Environmental Engineering
Skylar studied MOUs as a participatory form of resource governance in Colorado. She currently works for an environmental consulting firm.
Undergraduate researchers
Angelina Rivera, BS 2022, Civil Engineering
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Courtney Stanton, BS 2021, Chemical Engineering
Cassidy Grady, BS 2020, Geological Engineering
Thomas Van Ierland, BS 2019, Petroleum Engineering
Shurraya Denning, BS 2018, Chemical Engineering
Austin Shaffer, BS 2016, Petroleum Engineering
Colleen Kavanaugh, BS 2016, Chemical Engineering (Manhattan College)