Faculty

Name Contact Specialties
Adam Bledsoe    
Associate Professor    
 
468 Social Science Building    
612-625-2586    
bleds008@umn.edu
Black geographies, African diaspora, political geography, critical theory, political movements
Bruce P. Braun    
Professor    
Director of Undergraduate Studies    
 
452 Social Sciences Building    
612-625-6349    
braun038@umn.edu
Society-environmental relations, political ecology, social and cultural theory, settler colonialism, extractivism
Madelaine Cahuas    
Assistant Professor    
 
481 Social Sciences Building    
612-625-5578    
mcahuas@umn.edu
Latinx geographies, migrant identities, and citizenship, women of color feminisms, decolonial theory, urban politics, social movements
Kate Derickson    
Associate Professor    
 
435 Social Sciences Building    
612-301-6982    
kdericks@umn.edu
Urban political economy, race and racialization, feminist and critical epistemology, engaged scholarship, land use and environmental politics, social and political theory
Emily Fairfax    
Assistant Professor    
 
537 Social Science Building    
efairfax@umn.edu
beavers, ecohydrology, remote sensing, wildfire, drones, climate change, ecosystem engineers
Vinay Gidwani    
Professor    
Chair
515 Social Sciences Building    
612-625-1397    
gidwa002@umn.edu
Labor geographies, theories of agrarian and ecological change, spatiality of class and identity politics, subalternity, political economies of "development" and "globalization", Marxism and post-Marxism, social theory, India
Kathryn Grace    
Professor
558 Social Sciences Building    
612-625-4026    
klgrace@umn.edu
Spatial analysis and statistics, health, demography, food insecurity, population-environment interactions
Daniel Griffin    
Associate Professor
533 Social Sciences Building    
612-625-2562    
griffin9@umn.edu
Dendrochronology, paleoclimatology, climate change, climate-modulated coupling of ecosystem processes
Kurt Kipfmueller    
Professor    
Director of Graduate Studies
546 Social Sciences Building    
geog-dgs@umn.edu
Climate-tree growth relationships, forest fire-climate interactions, dendrochronology
Katherine Klink    
Associate Professor
573 Social Sciences Building    
612-625-3452    
klink@umn.edu
Climate and climate change, environmental science, urban climate, climatology of renewable energy
William Lindeke    
Lecturer
368 Social Sciences Building    
linde082@umn.edu
History of cities, urban planning, mobilities, transportation planning
Steven M. Manson    
Professor    
 
560 Social Sciences Building    
612-625-4577    
manson@umn.edu
Environmental research, social science, and geographic information science to understand complex human-environment systems
Robert B. McMaster    
Professor    
Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education
585 Social Sciences Building    
612-625-9883    
mcmaster@umn.edu
Geographic Information Systems, digital cartography, cartographic design, spatial analysis, environmental risk assessment
Ganapathy Narayanaraj    
Lecturer
523 Social Sciences Building    
nara0030@umn.edu
Wildland fire ecology, landscape ecology, animal behavior, public health, environmental GIS, environmental remote sensing and experiential education
Bryan Runck    
Associate Director of GeoCommons
427 Social Sciences Building    
runck014@umn.edu
Real-time GIS and IoT, geospatial simulation and modeling, spatial artificial intelligence and machine learning, GIScience applications to food, agriculture, and natural resource sciences
Arun Saldanha    
Professor
432 Social Sciences Building    
612-625-9660    
saldanha@umn.edu
Race, colonialism, tourism, ethnography, feminist theory, Marxism, continental philosophy
Abdi I. Samatar    
Professor    
 
374 Social Sciences Building    
612-626-1877    
samat001@umn.edu
Development geography, political economy and agrarian change, development theory and the State, Africa
Eric Shook    
Associate Professor
473 Social Sciences Building    
612-625-5970    
eshook@umn.edu
GIScience, geospatial computing, GeoAI, Geospatial Data Science, Geospatial Education
Ying Song    
Associate Professor
548 Social Sciences Building    
612-625-1112    
yingsong@umn.edu
GIScience, space-time modeling and simulation, sustainable transportation, accessibility, behavior analysis
Di Zhu    
Assistant Professor
478 Social Sciences Building    
612-625-2056    
dizhu@umn.edu
GeoAI, big geo-data social sensing, spatial prediction models, spatial networks, deep learning, complexity theory, urban applications of GIScience

Affiliate Faculty, Postdoctoral Associates, and Visiting Scholars

Name Contact Specialty
Peter Calow    
Professor    
Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Area
163 Humphrey School    
612-625-6644    
pcalow@umn.edu
Science in public policy, chemical risk in the environment
Susan L. Craddock    
Professor    
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
425 Ford Hall    
612-624-6006    
craddock@umn.edu
AIDS, disease, health, social justice
William Craig 330 Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs    
612-625-3321    
wcraig@umn.edu
GIS, land use, and population
Kirsten Delegard    
Fellow & Director Mapping Prejudice Project
368 Social Science Bldg.    
612-625-0229    
deleg008@umn.edu
Urban history; community-engaged scholarship; digital humanities and public history; race and racialization; and history of Minneapolis
Michael Goldman    
Associate Professor    
Sociology
1070 Social Science Bldg.    
612-625-0051    
mgoldman@umn.edu
Transnational, Political Economic, and Urban Sociology; Transnational Institutions of Finance, Development, and Expertise
Nick Jordan    
Professor    
CFANS Agronomy/Plant Genetics
411 Borlaug Hall    
612-625-3754    
jorda020@umn.edu
Agroecology; social and biophysical determinants of agricultural land-use; collaborative management of agricultural landscapes
Miranda Joseph    
Professor    
Gender, Woman and Sexuality Studies
419 Ford Hall    
612-625-5047    
josephm@umn.edu
feminist, Marxist, poststructuralist, and queer theory, cultural studies methods, and LGBT Studies
William G. Moseley    
Professor    
Department of Geography, Macalaster College

moseley@macalester.edu    
wgmosele@umn.edu

Macalester Profile

Political ecology, tropical agriculture, environment and development policy, and livelihood security
Richa Nagar    
Professor    
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
443 Ford Hall    
612-624-2192    
nagar@umn.edu
Collaborative praxis; politics of development; transnational feminisms
Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine    
Visiting Assistant Professor
Gullah/Geechee History and Linguistics, Human Rights Law, Black History, Computer Science, Mathematics, Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Land and Water Rights

Emeriti Faculty

Name Contact
John S. Adams    
Professor Emeritus
adams004@umn.edu
Philip J. Gersmehl    
Professor Emeritus
gersmehl@umn.edu
John Fraser Hart    
Professor Emeritus
frase002@umn.edu
George Henderson    
Professor Emeritus
hende057@umn.edu
Helga Leitner    
Professor Emerita
eqj6139@umn.edu
Mark B. Lindberg    
Professor Emeritus
mbl@umn.edu
Philip W. Porter    
Professor Emeritus
porter@umn.edu
Earl P. Scott    
Professor Emeritus
scott003@umn.edu
Eric Sheppard    
Professor Emeritus
shepp001@umn.edu
Richard H. Skaggs    
Professor Emeritus
skaggs@umn.edu
Roderick H. Squires    
Professor Emeritus
squires@umn.edu
Connie Weil    
Professor Emeritus
weil@umn.edu