Professor of Geography in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Founding Director of the UTEP Socio-Environmental and Geospatial Analysis Lab.

• Ph D in Geography, The University of Iowa (1999)

• Disability and Subsidized Housing Residency: The Adverse Impacts of Winter Storm Uri in Metropolitan Texas Disability and Health Journal 101403 (2022), Jayajit Chakraborty, T. W. Collins, S. E. Grineski.
• Cascading Disasters and Mental Health Inequities: Winter Storm Uri, COVID-19 and Post-Traumatic Stress in Texas Social Science & Medicine 315 (2022), S. E. Grineski, T. W. Collins, Jayajit Chakraborty.
• Disparities in Exposure to Fine Particulate Air Pollution for People with Disabilities in the US Science of the Total Environment 842 (2022), Jayajit Chakraborty.
• Social Disparities in Power and Piped Water Outages among Metropolitan Texans after Winter Storm Uri American Journal of Public Health (2022), S. E. Grineski, T. W. Collins, Jayajit Chakraborty, E. Goodwin, J. A. Aun, K. Ramos.
• Assessing the Relationship between Emergency Food Assistance and Social Vulnerability During the COVID-19 Pandemic Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy (2022), Jayajit Chakraborty, Jacob J. Aun, Gregory S. Schober.
• Air Pollution Exposure Disparities in US Public Housing Developments Nature-Scientific Reports 12 (2022), Jayajit Chakraborty, Timothy Collins, Sara Grineski, Jaco J. Aun.
• Children’s Exposure to Vehicular Pollution: Environmental Injustice in Texas, USA Environmental Research 204 (2022), Jayajit Chakraborty.
• Vulnerability to the COVID-19 Pandemic for People with Disabilities in the US Disabilities 1 3 (2021), Jayajit Chakraborty.
• Developing a Disability Vulnerability Dashboard CyberGISX: Featured Blog Posts (2021), Jayajit Chakraborty, Katalina Salas.
• Disability Vulnerability Dashboard UTEP Socio-Environmental and Geospatial Analysis (SEGA) Lab (2021), Jayajit Chakraborty, Katalina Salas.
• Exposure to Hurricane Harvey Flooding for Subsidized Housing Residents in Harris County Natural Hazards 106 3 (2021), Jayajit Chakraborty, Ashley A. McAfee, Timothy W. Collins, Sara E. Grineski.
• Convergence of COVID-19 and Chronic Air Pollution Risks: Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Inequities in the US Environmental Research 193 (2021), Jayajit Chakraborty.
• Air Quality and Environmental Injustice in India: Connecting Particulate Pollution to Social Disadvantages International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18 1 (2021), Jayajit Chakraborty, Pratyusha Basu.
• COVID-19 and People with Disabilities CyberGISX: Featured Blog Posts (2021), Jayajit Chakraborty.
• Social Inequities in the Distribution of COVID-19: An Intra-Categorical Analysis of People with Disabilities in the US Disability and Health Journal 14 1 (2021), Jayajit Chakraborty.
• Disparities in Health Effects and Access to Health Care Among Houston Area Residents After Hurricane Harvey Public Health Reports 135 4 (2020), Aaron B. Flores, Timothy Collins, Sara Grineski, Jayajit Chakraborty.
• Geographies of Behavioral Health, Crime, and Disorder: The Intersection of Social Problems and Place Springer Nature (2020), Jayajit Chakraborty, Kim M. Lersch.
• Hurricane Harvey and Greater Houston households: comparing pre-event preparedness with post-event health effects, event exposures, and recovery Disasters 44 2 (2020), Sara Grineski, Aaron B. Flores, Timothy W. Collins, Jayajit Chakraborty.
• Introduction: Connecting Behavioral Health, Crime, and Neighborhood Disorder Springer Nature (2020), Kim M. Lersch, Jayajit Chakraborty.
• Social vulnerability to Hurricane Harvey: Unmet needs and adverse event experiences in Greater Houston, Texas International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 46 (2020), Aaron B. Flores, Timothy Collins, Sara Grineski, Jayajit Chakraborty.
• Unequal Proximity to Environmental Pollution: An Intersectional Analysis of People with Disabilities in Harris County, Texas The Professional Geographer 72 4 (2020), Jayajit Chakraborty.
• Environmental injustice and Hurricane Harvey: A household-level study of socially disparate flood exposures in Greater Houston, Texas, USA Environmental Research 179 (2019), Timothy Collins, Sara Grineski, Jayajit Chakraborty, Aaron B. Flores.
• Exploring the Environmental Justice Implications of Hurricane Harvey Flooding in Greater Houston, Texas American Journal of Public Health 109 2 (2019), Jayajit Chakraborty, Timothy Collins, Sara Grineski.
• Hurricane Harvey and people with disabilities: Disproportionate exposure to flooding in Houston, Texas Social Science & Medicine 226 (2019), Jayajit Chakraborty, Sara Grineski, Timothy Collins.
• Linking Industrial Hazards and Social Inequalities: Environmental Injustice in Gujarat, India International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16 1 (2019), Jayajit Chakraborty, Pratyusha Basu.
• Proximity to extremely hazardous substances for people with disabilities: A case study in Houston, Texas Disability and Health Journal 12 1 (2019), Jayajit Chakraborty.
• Thermal Inequity: The Relationship between Urban Structure and Social Disparities in an Era of Climate Change Routledge (2019), Bruce C. Mitchell, Jayajit Chakraborty.
• Vehicular Air Pollution in Houston, Texas: An Intra-Categorical Analysis of Environmental Injustice International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16 16 (2019), Michel G. Loustaunau, Jayajit Chakraborty.
• Environmental Injustice and Flood Risk: A Conceptual Model and Case Comparison of Metropolitan Miami and Houston, USA Regional Environmental Change 18 2 (2018), Timothy Collins, Sara Grineski, Jayajit Chakraborty.
• Exploring the relationship between residential segregation and thermal inequity in 20 U.S. cities Local Environment 23 8 (2018), Bruce C. Mitchell, Jayajit Chakraborty.
• Introduction: The Worlds of Environmental Justice (2018), Ryan Holifield, Jayajit Chakraborty, Gordon Walker.
• Spatial Representation and Estimation of Environmental Risk: A Review of Analytic Approache (2018), Jayajit Chakraborty.
• The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice Routledge (2018), Ryan Holifield, Jayajit Chakraborty, Gordon Walker.

• Vulnerability to COVID-19 for People with Disabilities: Spatial and Social Inequalities in the US (2021), Jayajit Chakraborty.

• Interdisciplinary Research on Emergency Food Assistance in El Paso County