Faculty & Staff

Faculty

• Alderman, Derek, Professor. Specialties: cultural and historical geography, geographies of memory, race, tourism
• Eaves, LaToya, Assistant Professor. Specialties: black geographies, feminist geographies, American south, critical geographies, black feminism
• Ellis, Kelsey, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies. Specialties: climatology and meteorology
• Festus, Olusola, Lecturer. Specialties: GIS & remote sensing, urban terrestrial wetland landscape, geodatabase management & public health
• Herrero, Hannah V., Assistant Professor and Director of GIST Program. Specialties: remote sensing, human-environment interactions, conservation, savanna science, Africa
• Hinten, Melissa, Senior Lecturer and Director of Sustainability Program. Specialties: biogeography, land use change, GIS, geography education
• Horn, Sally P., Professor. Specialties: Quaternary environments, biogeography, prehistoric impacts on the environment, fire history and ecology
• Kalafsky, Ronald, Professor and Associate Vice Provost & Director of Honors & Scholars. Specialties: economic and urban geography, international trade
• Kerr, Matthew, Lecturer. Specialties: Quaternary environments, prehistoric human-environment interactions, stable isotope geochemistry
• Kim, Hyun, Associate Professor. Specialties: transportation, gis, spatial data science, spatial optimization and modeling
• Li, Yingkui, Professor. Specialties: geomorphology and paleo-climate reconstruction, cosmogenic nuclides, LiDAR, GIS/spatial analysis
• Luke, Nikki, Assistant Professor. Specialties: urban political ecology, energy, labor, race, gender, social reproduction, environmental and energy justice
• Muñoz, Isabel Solange, Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies. Specialties: urban and cultural geography, Latin America
• Nagle, Nicholas, Professor and Department Head. Specialties: spatial statistics, spatial data science and demography
• Norrell, Tracey, Lecturer. Specialties: geopolitics, historical, political and military geography, human rights
• Roman-Rivera, Mayra, Lecturer. Specialties: coastal geomorphology, coastal management, remote sensing and GIS applications of coastal environments
• Sharma, Madhuri, Associate Professor. Specialties: race/ethnicity, housing market, income inequality, gender disparity, economy
• Shaw, Shih-Lung, Professor. Specialties: transportation, geographic information science, space-time analytics, human dynamics, spatial data science
• Tran, Liem, Professor and Associate Department Head. Specialties: physical and environmental geography, spatial data science, GIS/geospatial analysis 
• Watkins, Jacob, Lecturer
• Wu, Qiusheng, 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
  • Caffrey, Maria,  – University of Colorado, Geological Sciences.
  • Harbor, Jon, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.
  • Hargrove Jr., William W., USDA Forest Service
  • Heric, Matthew, President and CEO – IAVO.
  • Lane, Chad, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Professor of Geography.
  • Maxwell, R. Stockton – Radford University, Geospatial Sciences, Associate Professor.
  • Pavlowsky, Robert, Missouri State University
  • van Riemsdijk, Francois Micheline, Uppsala University, Associate 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)
  • Wang, Dali , Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Washington-Allen, Robert, University of Nevada – Reno

  Emeritus Faculty

  • Aiken, Charles S., Ph.D. – University of Georgia
  • 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, M.S. University of New Mexico
  • Molly Green, Administrative Specialist II, B.A. – University of Tennessee
  • Nathan McKinney, GIS Labs Manager, M.S. – University of West Florida
  • Connie Mroz, Accounting Specialist II, B.A. – University of Tennessee
  • Pamela Hope Sharpe, Business Manager, B.S. – University of Tennessee