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

Braun

Bruce Braun

he/him
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Specialties

Ecopolitics; Political ecology; Infrastructure studies; Philosophy & Geography; Green Urbanism; Anthropocene in social, political and ecological thought

Cahuas

Madelaine Cahuas

she/her
Assistant Professor

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

Gidwani

Vinay Gidwani

he/him
Department Chair

Specialties

Post-socialism and justice; Labor geographies; Marxism; Identity politics and subaltern social movements; Geographies of work; Agroecological transformations; Social theory; India

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Kurt Kipfmueller

he/him
Full Professor

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

Steven Manson

Steve Manson

he/him
Director of Graduate Studies

Specialties

Biocomplexity; Environmental science; Geographic information science; Global change; Land use/cover change; Spatial analysis

McMaster

Robert McMaster

he/him
Full Professor

Specialties

Geographic information science and spatial analysis; Geographic scale and cartographic generalization; Environmental risk assessment and environmental justice; Cartography, mapping, and geographic visualization

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Abdi Ismail Samatar

Abdi
Full Professor

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

Professional Women

Ying Song

she/her
Associate Professor

Specialties

Geographic Information Science (GIS); Spatio-Temporal Modeling and Analysis; Transportation Geography; Time Geography

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Di Zhu

he/him
Assistant Professor

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

Michael Goldman

he/him
Affiliate Faculty

Specialties

Transnational, Political Economic and Urban Sociology; Expert Networks of Finance, Development, Knowledge, and Power

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Richa Nagar

she/they
Affiliate Faculty

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

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John S. Adams    
Professor Emeritus
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Philip J. Gersmehl    
Professor Emeritus
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John Fraser Hart    
Professor Emeritus
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George Henderson    
Professor Emeritus
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Helga Leitner    
Professor Emerita
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Mark B. Lindberg    
Professor Emeritus
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Earl P. Scott    
Professor Emeritus
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Eric Sheppard    
Professor Emeritus
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Richard H. Skaggs    
Professor Emeritus
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Roderick H. Squires    
Professor Emeritus
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Connie Weil    
Professor Emeritus
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