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Alderman, Derek

Derek Alderman

Chancellor’s Professor and President, Faculty Senate

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

dalderma@utk.edu
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Camponovo, Michael

Michael Camponovo

GIS Outreach Coordinator and Director of GIST Program

mcampono@utk.edu
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Eaves, LaToya

LaToya Eaves

Associate Professor

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

leaves1@utk.edu
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Ellis, Kelsey

Kelsey Ellis

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

Specialties: Climatology and meteorology.

ellis@utk.edu
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Herrera, Dimitris

Dimitris Herrera

Assistant Professor

Specialties: Hydroclimate variability and extremes, land-atmosphere interactions, climate modeling

dherrer3@utk.edu
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Herrero, Hannah

Hannah Herrero

Assistant Professor and Director of Sustainability

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

hherrero@utk.edu
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Horn, Sally

Sally Horn

Professor

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

shorn@utk.edu
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Kalafsky, Ron

Ron Kalafsky

Professor and Department Head

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

kalafsky@utk.edu
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Kerr, Matthew

Matthew Kerr

Lecturer

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

mkerr6@utk.edu
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Kim, Hyun

Hyun Kim

Professor and Associate Head

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

hkim56@utk.edu
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King, Karen E.

Karen E. King

Assistant Professor

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

kking@utk.edu
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Li, Yingkui

Yingkui Li

Professor

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

yli32@utk.edu
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Luke, Nikki

Nikki Luke

Assistant Professor

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

knluke@utk.edu
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Marshall, Anna

Anna Marshall

Assistant Professor

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

amarshall@utk.edu
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Muñoz, Solange

Solange Muñoz

Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies

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

imunoz@utk.edu
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Nagle, Nicholas

Nicholas Nagle

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.

nnagle@utk.edu
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Norrell, Tracey

Tracey Norrell

Senior Lecturer

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

thayes7@vols.utk.edu
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Román-Rivera, Mayra

Mayra Román-Rivera

Lecturer

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

mromanri@utk.edu
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Schwartzman, Gabe

Gabe Schwartzman

Assistant Professor

Specialties: Political ecology, climate politics, community-engaged research, rural community development

gschwar3@utk.edu
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Sharma, Madhuri

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

msharma3@utk.edu
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Shaw, Shih-Lung

Shih-Lung Shaw

Professor

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

sshaw@utk.edu
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Sokol, Nicholas

Nicholas Sokol

Lecturer

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

nsokol@utk.edu
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Swab, Jack

Jack Swab

Assistant Professor

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

jswab@utk.edu
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Tran, Liem

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.

ltran1@utk.edu
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Watkins, Jacob

Jacob Watkins

Lecturer

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

jwatki22@vols.utk.edu
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Wu, Qiusheng

Qiusheng Wu

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

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

qwu18@utk.edu
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Dingfan Xing

Dingfan Xing

PostDoc Research Associate

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

dxing3@utk.edu
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