Faculty

Derek Alderman
Chancellor's Professor and former President, AAG
Specialties: Cultural and historical geography; geographies of memory, race, tourism; politics of place naming and critical cartography

Vincent Brown
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Climatology, Precipitation, Climate Variability/Extremes, and Severe Weather

LaToya Eaves
Associate Professor
Specialties: Black Geographies; Feminist Geographies; American South; Critical Geographies; Black Feminism; Sexuality Studies; Qualitative Methods

Kelsey Ellis
Professor and Director of the Institute for Climate and Community Resilience
Specialties: Climatology and meteorology.

Dimitris Herrera
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Hydroclimate variability and extremes, land-atmosphere interactions, climate modeling

Hannah Herrero
Associate Professor and Director of Sustainability
Specialties: Remote Sensing, Human-Environment Interactions, Conservation, Savanna Science, Africa, Land Change Science, Physical Geography

Sally Horn
Chancellor’s Professor
Specialties: Quaternary environments, biogeography, prehistoric impacts on the environment, fire history and ecology.

Ron Kalafsky
Professor and Department Head
Specialties: Economic and urban geography; international trade; manufacturing; economic development; and geography education

Matthew Kerr
Teaching Associate Professor
Specialties: Quaternary environments, prehistoric human-environment interactions, tree-ring science, isotope geochemistry, archaeological chemistry.

Hyun Kim
Professor and Associate Head
Specialties: Transportation, Telecommunications, GIS, Spatial Data Science, Spatial Optimization and Modeling

Kyusik Kim
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Geographic Information Science, Spatial Data Science, Spatial Accessibility, Transportation, Health

Yingkui Li
Professor
Specialties: Geomorphology and paleo-climate reconstruction, Cosmogenic nuclides, LiDAR, GIS/spatial analysis, Tibetan Plateau and Tian Shan

Nikki Luke
Associate Professor
Specialties: Urban political ecology, energy, labor, race, gender, social reproduction, environmental and energy justice, urbanization.

Anna Marshall
Assistant Professor
Specialties: fluvial geomorphology, water resources, river restoration, natural hazards, field methods

Solange Muñoz
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Specialties: Urban and Cultural Geography, Latin America, Feminist Geography, Housing & Home, Critical Race Theory, Immigration

Nicholas Nagle
Professor
Specialties: Spatial statistics, spatial data science and demography.

Tracey Norrell
Teaching Full Professor
Specialties: Geopolitics, Historical, Political and Military Geography, Human Rights.

Mayra Román-Rivera
Teaching Assistant Professor
Specialties: Coastal Geomorphology, Coastal Management, Remote Sensing and GIS Applications of Coastal Environments

Gabe Schwartzman
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Climate politics, energy geographies, development studies, critical agrarian studies, political ecology, conjunctural analysis, environmental justice

Madhuri Sharma
Professor
Specialties: Racial/ethnic diversity, segregation, and contemporary housing market; Gender and Racial/ethnic economy and disparity; Gentrification, new urbanism and placemaking; Income divide, poverty, and geography of development; Informal economy and the geographies

Shih-Lung Shaw
Chancellor’s Professor
Specialties: Transportation, geographic information science, space-time analytics, human dynamics, spatial data science.

Nicholas Sokol
Lecturer
Specialties: Applied Climatology, Data Science, Environmental Modeling, Food, Energy, and Water (FEW)

Jack Swab
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Critical Cartography/GIS, Health Geography, Geographic Thought

Liem Tran
Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Programs
Specialties: Physical and environmental geography; spatial data science; GIS/geospatial analysis; decision-making science (focus on human-environment interactions); artificial intelligence techniques.

Jacob Watkins
Senior Lecturer
Specialties: Migration, conflict, geopolitics, East Asia, and the Middle East.

Qiusheng Wu
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Specialties: GeoAI, Open Source, Geospatial Data Science, Cloud Computing, Wetland Hydrology

Bing Zhou
Assistant Professor
Specialties: GIScience, GeoAI, Climate Resilience
