Liana Katz

Liana is a PhD candidate in the Geography Department where she conducts ethnographic research on New Jersey's logistics boom. Drawing on theories of racial capitalism and critical science and technology studies, she engages with warehouse workers and communities located near warehouses to understand how logistics development is impacting land use and labor around the state. Liana also has a master's degree in urban planning from UCLA. She is a former Douglass College mentor and labor organizer with the Rutgers grad student and faculty union. She would be happy to talk to students about professional versus doctoral degrees in the social sciences, pursuing activism within the university, and making a "career change" in grad school.