Natasha Sekhon

Voss Postdoctoral Research Associate in Environment and Society

Natasha is a low-temperature geochemist and paleoclimatologist whose research combines concepts from karst and speleothem sciences to investigate the hydroclimate of terrestrial environments varying on seasonal to millennial time scales. She investigates the geochemical trends of stalagmites extracted from caves and actively monitors them to assess the sensitivity of climate variable on proxy systems. Her Ph.D. work explored the utility of stalagmites from near-entrance cave settings in New Mexico as potential recorders of recharge episodes. While at Brown, she will be working with Dr. Dan Ibarra studying the history of droughts and floods in the Philippines.  

Natasha earned her Bachelor’s (with Honors) degree in Earth System Sciences with a minor in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. She earned her M.Sc and PhD in Geological Sciences at University of Texas, Austin’s Jackson School of Geosciences. 

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Teo Wickland

Teo Wickland is a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown and holds a PhD in Urban Planning from UCLA. His boundary-spanning research focuses on modernity/coloniality and abundant futures. Dr. Wickland analyzes modernity/coloniality as a currently-hegemonic world system that continues to universalize supremacist hierarchies through everything from modern scientific epistemology and tropes of expertise, to global-standard transportation systems and extractivist economic models. Against modernity/coloniality, Dr. Wickland centers abundant futures as otherwise worlds marked by polyvalent cultural, ecological, and relational diversities, that create the conditions for the continued flourishing of more and more diverse life.