Research Bio

Tianna Bruno is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography.  Her research focuses the intersection of Environmental justice, Black environmental geographies, critical physical geography, political ecology, Black spatial and ecological relationships, dendrochronology, and environmental records.

Through her work, she aims to foreground Black life, sense of place, and relationships to the environment within spaces of environmental and climate injustice. Her research also highlights the mutual experiences of degradation and survival between communities and their surrounding ecologies through the integration of Black geographies and critical physical geography, specifically analyzing trees. Tianna’s previous work has been published in Progress in Environmental Geography, Professional Geographer, and the Annals of the American Association of Geography, among others journals, and a book project currently underway.

Research Expertise and Interest

racial geographies, environmental justice, earth system science