Faculty
![Alderman, Derek](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Derek_Alderman.800x1200.webp)
Derek Alderman
Professor and President, Faculty Senate
Specialties: Cultural and historical geography, geographies of memory, race, tourism.
![Eaves, LaToya](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/LaToya_Eaves.800x1200.webp)
LaToya Eaves
Associate Professor
Specialties: Black Geographies; Feminist Geographies; American South; Critical Geographies; Black Feminism; Sexuality Studies; Qualitative Methods
![Ellis, Kelsey](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Kelsey_Ellis.800x1200.webp)
Kelsey Ellis
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Specialties: Climatology and meteorology.
![Herrera, Dimitris](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Dimitris_Herrera.800x1200.webp)
Dimitris Herrera
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Hydroclimate variability and change, climate change impacts, tropics
![Herrero, Hannah](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Hannah_Herrero.800x1200.webp)
Hannah Herrero
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Remote Sensing, Human-Environment Interactions, Conservation, Savanna Science, Africa, Land Change Science, Physical Geography
![Hinten, Melissa](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Melissa_Hinten.800x1200.webp)
Melissa Hinten
Senior Lecturer and Director of Sustainability Program
Specialties: Biogeography, land use and land cover change, GIS, geography education.
![Horn, Sally](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Sally_Horn.800x1200-1.webp)
Sally Horn
Professor
Specialties: Quaternary environments, biogeography, prehistoric impacts on the environment, fire history and ecology.
![Kalafsky, Ron](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Ron_Kalafsky.800x1200.webp)
Ron Kalafsky
Professor and Associate Head
Specialties: Economic and urban geography; international trade; manufacturing; economic development; and geography education
![Kelly, Devyn](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Devyn_Kelly.800x1200.webp)
Devyn Kelly
Lecturer
Specialties: Queer Geographies, GIS, Geographies of the American South.
![Kerr, Matthew](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Matthew_Kerr.800x1200-1.webp)
Matthew Kerr
Lecturer
Specialties: Quaternary environments, prehistoric human-environment interactions, tree-ring science, isotope geochemistry, archaeological chemistry.
![Kim, Hyun](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Hyun_Kim.800x1200.webp)
Hyun Kim
Professor
Specialties: Transportation, Telecommunications, GIS, Spatial Data Science, Spatial Optimization and Modeling
![King, Karen E.](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Karen_King.800x1200.webp)
Karen E. King
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Dendrochronology, paleoclimate, biogeography, forest ecology, fire-climate interactions.
![Li, Yingkui](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Yingkui_Li.800x1200.webp)
Yingkui Li
Professor
Specialties: Geomorphology and paleo-climate reconstruction, Cosmogenic nuclides, LiDAR, GIS/spatial analysis, Tibetan Plateau and Tian Shan
![Luke, Nikki](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Nikki_Luke.800x1200.webp)
Nikki Luke
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Urban political ecology, energy, labor, race, gender, social reproduction, environmental and energy justice, urbanization.
![Muñoz, Solange](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Solange_Munoz.800x1200.webp)
Solange Muñoz
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Specialties: Urban and Cultural Geography, Latin America, Feminist Geography, Housing & Home, Critical Race Theory, Immigration
![Nagle, Nicholas](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Nicholas_Nagle.800x1200.webp)
Nicholas Nagle
Professor and Department Head
Specialties: Spatial statistics, spatial data science and demography.
![Norrell, Tracey](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Tracey_Norrell.800x1200.webp)
Tracey Norrell
Senior Lecturer
Specialties: Geopolitics, Historical, Political and Military Geography, Human Rights.
![Román-Rivera, Mayra](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Mayra_Roman-Rivera.800x1200.webp)
Mayra Román-Rivera
Lecturer
Specialties: Coastal Geomorphology, Coastal Management, Remote Sensing and GIS Applications of Coastal Environments
![Samarin, Mikhail](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Mikhail_Samarin.800x1200.webp)
Mikhail Samarin
Lecturer
Specialties: Urban and economic geography, housing affordability, housing policy, city planning, real estate markets, neighborhood change.
![Schwartzman, Gabe](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Gabriel_Schwartzman.800x1200.webp)
Gabe Schwartzman
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Political ecology, economic geography, rural community development in the Appalachian region.
![Sharma, Madhuri](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Madhuri_Sharma-800x1200-1.webp)
Madhuri Sharma
Associate 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 of the underprivileged in developed and developing economies; Domestic and international migration in developed and developing society.
![Shaw, Shih-Lung](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Shih_Lung_Shaw.800x1200.webp)
Shih-Lung Shaw
Professor
Specialties: Transportation, geographic information science, space-time analytics, human dynamics, spatial data science.
![Sokol, Nicholas](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Nicholas_Sokol.800x1200.webp)
Nicholas Sokol
Lecturer
Specialties: Applied Climatology, Data Science, Environmental Modeling, Food, Energy, and Water (FEW)
![Tran, Liem](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Liem_Tran.800x1200.webp)
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.
![Watkins, Jacob](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Jacob_Watkins.800x1200.webp)
Jacob Watkins
Lecturer
Specialties: Migration, conflict, geopolitics, East Asia, and the Middle East.
![Westenhoff, Lindy](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Westenhoff_800_1200.webp)
Lindy Westenhoff
Lecturer
Specialties: New Media and Technologies, Augmented Reality as Landscape, Critical Pedagogy
![Wu, Qiusheng](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Qiusheng_Wu.webp)
Qiusheng Wu
Associate Professor
Specialties: Geographic Information Science, Remote Sensing, LiDAR, Wetland Hydrology, Spatial Data Science, Cloud Computing
![Dingfan Xing](https://geography.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Xing_800_1200.webp)
Dingfan Xing
PostDoc Research Associate
Specialties: Applied Statistics; Area Estimation; Environmental Sampling; Uncertainty