Faculty
Our faculty focus on exploring the complex relationships between society and nature, people and places, and the causes and impacts of environmental change through disciplinary and interdisciplinary research and community-engaged scholarship. They provide high-quality teaching and advising to prepare their students to be leaders and spatial thinkers in the diverse world in which we live. They are committed to serving our local, national, and global communities.
Regular Faculty
Adam Bledsoe
Specialties
Black geographies; African diaspora; Political geography
Bruce Braun
Specialties
Ecopolitics; Political ecology; Infrastructure studies; Philosophy & Geography; Green Urbanism; Anthropocene in social, political and ecological thought
Madelaine Cahuas
Specialties
Urban geography, cities and social justice; Women of color feminisms, intersectionality, race, gender, class; Race, settler colonialism, decolonial and anti-colonial theory; Citizenship, identity and belonging; Latinx geographies, Latinx Studies; Feminist methodologies, qualitative methods; Community-engaged research, scholar-activism, testimonio
Emily Fairfax
Specialties
Beavers; Ecohydrology; Remote Sensing; Wetlands; Riverscapes; Data Visualization; Science Communication
Vinay Gidwani
Specialties
Post-socialism and justice; Labor geographies; Marxism; Identity politics and subaltern social movements; Geographies of work; Agroecological transformations; Social theory; India
Daniel Griffin
Specialties
Tree-ring data & analysis; Paleoclimatology; Climate Change; Global Change Ecology
Kurt Kipfmueller
Specialties
Red Pine Ecology; Dendrochronology; Fire Ecology of the Great Lakes; Biogeography; Climatology; Paleo-environments; Landscape ecology and natural disturbances; Global change; Forest dynamics; Whitebark pine ecology; Forest ecology; Mountain pine beetles; Physical geography; Climate change
Katherine Klink
Specialties
Climate; Urban climatology; Wind power; Wind climatology; Climate variability; Environmental science
Steve Manson
Specialties
Biocomplexity; Environmental science; Geographic information science; Global change; Land use/cover change; Spatial analysis
Robert McMaster
Specialties
Geographic information science and spatial analysis; Geographic scale and cartographic generalization; Environmental risk assessment and environmental justice; Cartography, mapping, and geographic visualization
Bryan Runck
Specialties
spatial science; geographic information science; spatial analysis; agent-based modeling; agriculture
Arun Saldanha
Specialties
Music; Continental philosophy; Travel; Race; Feminist theory; Colonialism; Marxism
Abdi Ismail Samatar
Specialties
East and Southern Africa; Agrarian change; Botswana; Capitalist development; Development theory and the state; Environment and development; Ethiopia; Ethnic politics; Islamic world; political economy; Somalia; Third World
Eric Shook
Specialties
GIScience; Geospatial computing; GeoAI; Geospatial Data Science; Geospatial Education
Ying Song
Specialties
Geographic Information Science (GIS); Spatio-Temporal Modeling and Analysis; Transportation Geography; Time Geography
Di Zhu
Specialties
Geographic Information Science (GIScience); Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI); Spatial Data Science; Urban Social Sensing; Spatial Statistics; Spatial Networks; Human Mobility
Affiliate Faculty
Michael Goldman
Specialties
Transnational, Political Economic and Urban Sociology; Expert Networks of Finance, Development, Knowledge, and Power
Richa Nagar
Specialties
Blending/ interrupting genres and languages in antidisciplinary research; Politics of development; Intersectionality, translations, and people's theater; Feminisms, praxis, and people's movements
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 |
| 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 |