Desiree Loggins

PhD Program

Research Areas:

Feminist geography, political ecology, hydrosocial cycle, historical geography

Key Word Interests:

place-based community relationships to freshwater systems, land management, and big and small infrastructure

Biography:

Desiree is a second year Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at UNM. Her research centers place-based communities and their relationships to land, water, and modern environmental management in New Mexico. Her dissertation will focus on the political ecology of gender and technology in acequia governance and acequia lifeways. Prior to academia, Desiree worked at the National Audubon Society as a facilitator, organizer, and advocate for flowing rivers, working lands, and resilient communities in the arid West. She has an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies from University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Masters of Science in Geography and Environmental Studies. Read her latest essay on the afterlife of colonial water infrastructure in the anthology, Water Bodies: Love Letters to the Most Abundant Substance on Earth.

Education:

University of California, Santa Cruz B.A. Environmental Studies, University of New Mexico, M.S. Geography and Environmental Studies