Geography Faculty Research Areas

Timothy G. Anderson

Cultural
Historical
World systems
Ethnicity

Geoffrey L. Buckley

Environmental justice
Historical geography
Public lands
Urban environments

James M. Dyer

Biogeography
Landscape ecology
Forest dynamics

Ryan Fogt

Polar meteorology and climatology
Climate variability and change
Stratosphere - troposphere interactions

Brad D. Jokisch

Cultural/political ecology agriculture
Population
Migration
Latin America

Yeong-Hyun Kim

Globalization
Economic geography
Urban geography
Asia

Harold Perkins

Political ecology and economy of environments, including topics of neoliberalization, the state, governance, environmental justice, and the agency of nonhuman organisms

Dorothy Sack

Physical geography
Geomorphology
Quaternary studies
Paleolakes
Arid lands
History of geomorphology

Gaurav Sinha

Geospatial ontology
Environmental data modeling
Landscape analysis
PPGIS

Thomas Smucker

Environment and development
Rural livelihood systems
Food systems and food security
Adaptation to climate change
Environmental governance
African drylands

E. Edna Wangui

Gender
Rural livelihoods and landscape change in East Africa

Risa Whitson

Gender and development
Social geographies
Informal sector
Argentina