Faculty
| Name | Contact | Specialties |
|---|---|---|
| Adam Bledsoe Assistant Professor |
468 Social Science Building 612-625-2586 bleds008@umn.edu |
Black geographies, African diaspora, political geography, critical theory, political movements |
| Bruce P. Braun 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 |
| Vinay Gidwani Professor |
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 Associate Professor |
558 Social Sciences Building 612-625-4026 klgrace@umn.edu |
Spatial analysis and statistics, health, demography, food insecurity, population-environment interactions |
| Daniel Griffin Assistant Professor |
533 Social Sciences Building 612-625-2562 griffin9@umn.edu |
Dendrochronology, paleoclimatology, climate change, climate-modulated coupling of ecosystem processes |
| George Henderson Chair |
548 Social Sciences Building 612-625-4085 hende057@umn.edu |
Marxism, post-capitalist politics, value theory of labor, Marxist cultural critique |
|
Kurt Kipfmueller |
546 Social Sciences Building 612-625-9668 kurt@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 |
523 Social Sciences Building |
History of cities, urban planning, mobilities, transportation planning |
| 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 |
406 Social Sciences Building 612-624-5325 nara0030@umn.edu |
Wildland fire ecology, landscape ecology, animal behavior, public health, environmental GIS, environmental remote sensing and experiential education |
| 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 Assistant Professor |
427 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 |
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 |
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 |
| 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 |