Chancellor’s Professor and President, Faculty Senate

Specialties: Cultural and historical geography; geographies of memory, race, tourism; politics of place naming and critical cartography

GIS Outreach Coordinator and Director of GIST Program

Associate Professor

Specialties: Black Geographies; Feminist Geographies; American South; Critical Geographies; Black Feminism; Sexuality Studies; Qualitative Methods

Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for Climate and Community Resilience

Specialties: Climatology and meteorology.

Lecturer

Specialties: Meteorology and Climatology

Assistant Professor

Specialties: Hydroclimate variability and change, climate change impacts, tropics

Assistant Professor and Director of Sustainability

Specialties: Remote Sensing, Human-Environment Interactions, Conservation, Savanna Science, Africa, Land Change Science, Physical Geography

Professor

Specialties: Quaternary environments, biogeography, prehistoric impacts on the environment, fire history and ecology.

Professor and Department Head

Specialties: Economic and urban geography; international trade; manufacturing; economic development; and geography education

Lecturer

Specialties: Quaternary environments, prehistoric human-environment interactions, tree-ring science, isotope geochemistry, archaeological chemistry.

Professor and Associate Head

Specialties: Transportation, Telecommunications, GIS, Spatial Data Science, Spatial Optimization and Modeling

Assistant Professor

Specialties: Dendrochronology, paleoclimate, biogeography, forest ecology, fire-climate interactions.

Professor

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

Assistant Professor

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

Assistant Professor

Specialties: fluvial geomorphology, water resources, physical geography field methods

Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies

Specialties: Urban and Cultural Geography, Latin America, Feminist Geography, Housing & Home, Critical Race Theory, Immigration

Professor, Program Director of the NSF Human Networks and Data Science Program. On leave until August 2026

Specialties: Spatial statistics, spatial data science and demography.

Senior Lecturer

Specialties: Geopolitics, Historical, Political and Military Geography, Human Rights.

Lecturer

Specialties: Coastal Geomorphology, Coastal Management, Remote Sensing and GIS Applications of Coastal Environments

Assistant Professor

Specialties: Political ecology, economic geography, rural community development in the Appalachian region.

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

Professor

Specialties: Transportation, geographic information science, space-time analytics, human dynamics, spatial data science.

Lecturer

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

Assistant Professor

Specialties: Critical Cartography/GIS, Health Geography, Geographic Thought

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.

Lecturer

Specialties: Migration, conflict, geopolitics, East Asia, and the Middle East.

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Specialties: Geographic Information Science, Remote Sensing, LiDAR, Wetland Hydrology, Spatial Data Science, Cloud Computing

PostDoc Research Associate

Specialties: Applied Statistics; Area Estimation; Environmental Sampling; Uncertainty