Kimberley Thomas, Gr’15, an A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Humanities & Humanistic Social Sciences at Penn, won the American Association of Geographers’ 2016 J. Warren Nystrom award for best dissertation for her paper, Bordering non-water flows: Explaining upstream-downstream power asymmetries in the Ganges Basin.

Dr. Thomas is affiliated with the department of South Asia studies and teaches in the Master of Environmental Studies program. She researches international water politics and human vulnerability to environmental change.