Faculty and Staff
Faculty
Derek Alderman
Professor
Specialties: cultural and historical geography, geographies of memory, race, tourism
LaToya Eaves
Assistant Professor
Specialties: black geographies, feminist geographies, American south, critical geographies, black feminism
Kelsey Ellis
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Specialties: climatology and meteorology
Olusola Festus
Lecturer
Specialties: GIS & remote sensing, urban terrestrial wetland landscape, geodatabase management & public health
Karen Heeter
Assistant Professor (starting Fall 2023)
Specialties: dendrochronology
Dimitris Herrera
Assistant Professor
Specialties: hydroclimate variability and change, climate change impacts, tropics
Hannah Herrero
Assistant Professor
Specialties: remote sensing, human-environment interactions, conservation, savanna science, Africa
Melissa Hinten
Senior Lecturer and Director of Sustainability Program
Specialties: biogeography, land use change, GIS, geography education
Sally Horn
Professor
Specialties: Quaternary environments, biogeography, prehistoric impacts on the environment, fire history and ecology
Ron Kalafsky
Professor
Specialties: economic and urban geography, international trade
Matthew Kerr
Lecturer
Specialties: Quaternary environments, prehistoric human-environment interactions, tree-ring science, geochemistry
Hyun Kim
Associate Professor
Specialties: transportation, gis, spatial data science, spatial optimization and modeling
Yingkui Li
Professor
Specialties: geomorphology and paleo-climate
Nikki Luke
Assistant Professor
Specialties: urban political ecology, energy, labor, race, gender, social reproduction, environmental and energy justice
Solange Muñoz
Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Specialties: urban and cultural geography, Latin America
Nicholas Nagle
Professor and Department Head
Specialties: spatial statistics, spatial data science and demography
Tracey Norrell
Senior Lecturer
Specialties: geopolitics, historical, political and military geography, human rights
Mayra Román-Rivera
Lecturer
Specialties: coastal geomorphology, coastal management, remote sensing and GIS applications of coastal environments
Gabe Schwartzman
Assistant Professor (starting Fall 2023)
Specialties: political ecology, economic geography, rural community development in the Appalachian region
Madhuri Sharma
Associate Professor
Specialties: race/ethnicity, housing market, income inequality, gender disparity, economy
Shih-Lung Shaw
Professor
Specialties: transportation, geographic information science, space-time analytics, human dynamics, spatial data science
Liem Tran
Professor and Associate Department Head
Specialties: physical and environmental geography, spatial data science, GIS/geospatial analysis
Jacob Watkins
Lecturer
Specialties: migration, conflict, geopolitics, East Asia, and the Middle East
Qiusheng Wu
Assistant Professor
Specialties: GIS, remote sensing, LiDAR, wetland hydrology, geospatial data science, Google Earth Engine
Adjunct & Affiliated Faculty
- Bishop, Wade, University of Tennessee, School of Information Sciences. Associate Professor
- Bekker, Matthew F. – Brigham Young University, Geography. Associate Professor
- Benjamin, Stefanie K. – University of Tennessee, Retail, Hospitality & Tourism Management. Assistant Professor
- Kar, Bandana – Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Adjunct Associate Professor
- Kerr, Jacqueline – University of Tennessee, Department of Geography & Sustainability, Adjunct Assistant Professor
- Lane, Chad – University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Professor of Geography.
- Maxwell, R. Stockton – Radford University, Geospatial Sciences, Associate Professor.
- Moulton, Alex – University of Tennessee, Department of Sociology, Assistant Professor
- Schroeder, Todd, US Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Knoxville TN, Adjunct Associate Professor
- Stewart, Robert – Adjunct Associate Professor and Research Scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
- Washington-Allen, Robert, University of Nevada – Reno
Emeritus Faculty
- Bell, Thomas L., Ph.D – University of Iowa
- Brinkman, Leonard W.,Jr., Ph.D.- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Foresta, Ronald, Ph.D. – Rutgers University, Professor
- Harden, Carol P., Ph.D. – University of Colorado
- Pulsipher, Lydia, Ph.D. – Southern Illinois University
- Ralston, Bruce, Ph.D. – Northwestern University
Staff
Michael Camponovo
GIS Outreach Coordinator and Director of GIST Program
Nathan McKinney
GIS Labs Manager
Pamela Sharpe
Business Manager
Claire Jones
Accounting Specialist
Alexis Logan
Administrative Assistant