Geography Graduate Group Faculty

The Geography Graduate Group is composed of a diverse faculty from many departments on campus.

Fullname	Summary Academic Interest	Area of Emphasis	Concentration	Department
Chris C. Benner	Urban and economic geography. Social implications of information technology, labor markets and restructuring of work, social movements and innovative labor/community organizing, regional development and social equity.	People, Place, and Region	Regional and Community Development	Human & Community Development
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder	Anthropology; Behavioral Ecology; Conservation and Development	Nature and Society People, Place, and Region	Regional and Community Development	Anthropology
Stephen Boucher	Rural development, Migration, Risk and insurance, Micro-finance, Latin America.	People, Place, and Region		Agricultural and Resource Economics
Cynthia Brantley	African social history; Gender in Africa; history of African nutrition: East Africa	People, Place, and Region		History
Stephen Brush	Cultural-ecology; eastern Mediterranean, North-Central-South America	People, Place, and Region	Regional and Community Development	Human & Community Development
Mary Cadenasso	Urban ecosystem ecology.	Nature and Society Environmental Sciences Methods, Models, and GIS Science	Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design	Plant Sciences
Timothy Caro	I am interested in how different forms of legal protection affects biodiversity at a landscape scale in tropical countries and in indicator, umbrella, keystone and flagship species.	Environmental Sciences	Global Environmental Change	Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology
Adela de la Torre	HIV Prevention in high risk groups in Mexico and Nigeria , Binational/Border Health, Immigration Policy in the US and Latin America, Health, Education and Income Disparities in the US; gender, health and geography	Nature and Society People, Place, and Region	Regional and Community Development	Chicana/o Studies
Deborah L. Elliott-Fisk	Biogeography; ecosystem analysis & management; soils and geomorphology; viticultural geography; mountain & coastal systems; Environmental and Natural Resources	Nature and Society Environmental Sciences	Global Environmental Change Regional and Community Development	Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology
Joan Florsheim	Geomorphology, Climate Change, Anthropogenic Disturbances, and Restoration	Environmental Sciences	Global Environmental Change	Geology
Mark Francis	Urban and community design; North America, Europe	Nature and Society People, Place, and Region	Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design Regional and Community Development	Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design
Ryan E. Galt	Cultural and political ecology, agricultural and environmental governance, political economy of sustainable agriculture, cartographic design, the Americas	Nature and Society	Regional and Community Development	Human & Community Development
Charles Goldman	Limnology: North America, Russia	Environmental Sciences	Global Environmental Change	Environmental Science and Policy
Steven Greco	Ecosystems and Landscape Ecology	Environmental Sciences Methods, Models, and GIS Science	Global Environmental Change Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design	Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design
Luis Guarnizo	Economic Sociology, transnational migration, immigrant entrepreneurs, comparative international development, citizenship	People, Place, and Region	Regional and Community Development	Human & Community Development
Joyce Gutstein	Environmental geography, biodiversity, education	Environmental Sciences People, Place, and Region	Regional and Community Development	Public Service Research Program (PSRP)
Susan Handy	Relationships between transportation and land use, including the impact of land use on travel behavior and the impact of transportation investments on land development patterns	Nature and Society People, Place, and Region	Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design Regional and Community Development	Environmental Science and Policy
Lynette Hart	Animal Behaviors, Sociology (Companion Animal, Laboratory Animal, Elephants, Antelopes) Environmental and Natural Resource Geography	Environmental Sciences		Population Health & Reproduction
Robert Hijmans	Ecological modeling, geo-informatics, agricultural geography, biodiversity conservation, climate change	Environmental Sciences	Global Environmental Change	Environmental Science and Policy
James E. Hill		Environmental Sciences		Plant Sciences
Frank Hirtz	Law & Development, Development Planning, Social Policy & Welfare: Southern Africa, Southeast Asia	People, Place, and Region	Regional and Community Development	Human & Community Development
Lovell (Tu) Jarvis	Food and economic systems; South America	People, Place, and Region		Agricultural and Resource Economics
Suad Joseph	Women in development; Middle East	People, Place, and Region		Anthropology
Carl Keen	Teratology and birth defects; North America, southeast Asia	Nature and Society Environmental Sciences		Nutrition
Martin Kenney	Silicon Valley & regional development; Japanese & Korean overseas investments; Electronics industry; Biotechnology	People, Place, and Region	Regional and Community Development	Human & Community Development
Nguyen Kien	Geographical medicine, Cultural aspects of health care; southeast Asia	Nature and Society People, Place, and Region		Anesthesiology
Pete Klimley	"Movements of fishes, sharks, and marine mammals relative to their social and physical environments; ultrasonic, radio, and satellite telemetry; mechanisms of orientation and migration"	Environmental Sciences		Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology
David Kyle	International migration, development and globalization	People, Place, and Region	Regional and Community Development	Sociology
Eric Larsen	Fluvial geomorphology, hydrology, watersheds, North America	Environmental Sciences	Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design	Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design
Jonathan London		People, Place, and Region	Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design
Jeff Loux	Environmental policy, community planning, land use planning, North America	Nature and Society People, Place, and Region	Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design Regional and Community Development	Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design
Mark Lubell	Environmental policy; community-based management; social networks, human cooperation; quantitative analysis	Nature and Society People, Place, and Region Methods, Models, and GIS Science		Environmental Science and Policy
Jay R. Lund	Resource management and planning, water resources, urban geography	Nature and Society Environmental Sciences People, Place, and Region Methods, Models, and GIS Science		Civil and Environmental Engineering
E. Steve McNiel		Environmental Sciences Methods, Models, and GIS Science	Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design	Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design
E. Greg McPherson	Urban forestry	Environmental Sciences	Global Environmental Change	Center for Urban Forest Research
Jay Mechling	American Studies (tourism in Florida and in the Pacific States, the new regional studies, folklore and folklife in relation to region, tourism, and the meanings of place)	Nature and Society		American Studies
Luz Mena	Latin America, Gender, Music	Nature and Society People, Place, and Region		Women and Gender Studies
Patricia Mokhtarian	Travel behavior and attitudes: particularly the impacts of information & communications technology on travel behavior; residential location and travel behavior; and attitudes toward travel itself.	Nature and Society People, Place, and Region		Civil and Environmental Engineering
Catherine J. Morrison Paul	Microeconomic Theory, Applied Microeconomics	People, Place, and Region		Agricultural and Resource Economics
Jeffrey Mount	Fluvial geomorphology, sedimentology, stratigraphy and basin analysis; CENTER FOR WATERSHED SCIENCES	Nature and Society Environmental Sciences	Global Environmental Change	Geology
Peter B. Moyle	The ecology and conservation of freshwater and estuarine fishes in California	Environmental Sciences	Global Environmental Change	Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology
Kimberly Nettles	Feminist methodology and epistemology, particularly ethnography, reflexive ethnography, and auto-ethnography; Black women identity; African Diaspora; food politics; race, gender and food cultures	Nature and Society		Women and Gender Studies
Debbie Niemeier	Transportation Planning; civil infrastructure and implications for LDC's	Environmental Sciences		Civil and Environmental Engineering
Lorence R. Oki	Environmental horticulture and water quality	Environmental Sciences	Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design	Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design
Ben Orlove	Cultural ecology; South America	Nature and Society	Global Environmental Change Regional and Community Development	Environmental Science and Policy
Patsy Eubanks Owens	Environments of children and adolescents, community participation	Nature and Society People, Place, and Region	Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design Regional and Community Development	Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design
Richard Plant	Geographic information systems (GIS); China, Europe, North America	Methods, Models, and GIS Science		Plant Sciences
Jim Quinn	Information Center for the Environment: Environmental informatics applied to conservation policy, biodiversity, land use, and water quality	Environmental Sciences Methods, Models, and GIS Science	Global Environmental Change	Environmental Science and Policy
Michael Rios	Political geography, urban design, community development	Nature and Society People, Place, and Region	Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design Regional and Community Development	Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design
Lynn Roller	Classical landscapes and the biophysical environment; eastern Mediterranean	People, Place, and Region		Classics
Scott Rozelle	Agricultural Development, Transitional Economics, China	People, Place, and Region		Agricultural and Resource Economics
Margaret Rucker	Clothing and environmental hazards; North America, China	Nature and Society		Textiles and Clothing
Heath Schenker	Landscape history: Europe and North America	Nature and Society People, Place, and Region	Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design	Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design
Arthur Shapiro	Evolution, population dynamics; North-South America	Nature and Society Environmental Sciences	Global Environmental Change	Evolution and Ecology
Janet Shibamoto Smith	Language and gender, linguistic ideology and speaking practice, particularly as they relate to emotional expressivity and narratives of self, and Japanese writing practices	Nature and Society People, Place, and Region		Anthropology
Aaron Smith		People, Place, and Region Methods, Models, and GIS Science		Agricultural and Resource Economics
Michael Peter Smith	Transnationalism; international migration; urban political economy and society; racial and ethnic formation	People, Place, and Region	Regional and Community Development	Human & Community Development
Daniel Sumner	National and International agricultural policy	Nature and Society Environmental Sciences People, Place, and Region Methods, Models, and GIS Science		Agricultural and Resource Economics
Margaret Swain	Gender and Global Issues, feminist theory, tourism, China	Nature and Society		Women and Gender Studies
Julie Sze	Environmental Studies (environmental justice, urban environments, environmental activism, gender and the environment, garbage, transportation and energy); urban planning.	Nature and Society	Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design Regional and Community Development	American Studies
Kenneth W. Tate	Rangeland Watershed Specialist	Environmental Sciences		Plant Sciences
James Thorne	Biogeography, conservation biology, and ecology. Regions of experience include California & the US West, British Columbia, Alaska, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina	Environmental Sciences Methods, Models, and GIS Science	Global Environmental Change	Environmental Science and Policy
Thomas P. Tomich	Agricultural sustainability, sustainable food systems, sustainability metrics and indicators, sustainability science; Geography emphasis includes land use and land cover change	People, Place, and Region	Regional and Community Development	Human & Community Development
Susan Ustin	Geographic information systems (GIS); North America	Environmental Sciences Methods, Models, and GIS Science	Global Environmental Change	Land Air and Water Resources
Stefano Varese	Indigenous people of Central and Southern America (including Mexico and Indian Migrants to the US): environmental struggles, territorial and resources defense, indigenous knowledge, autonomous development	Nature and Society People, Place, and Region		Native American Studies
Joshua Viers	GIS, Remote Sensing, Watersheds, Riverscapes, Working Landscapes, Viticulture	Environmental Sciences Methods, Models, and GIS Science	Global Environmental Change	Environmental Science and Policy
Charles Walker	Human Geography, natural disasters (earthquakes)	People, Place, and Region		History
Wesley Wallender	Hydrological Science and Modeling (GIS)	Environmental Sciences Methods, Models, and GIS Science		Land Air and Water Resources
Stephen M. Wheeler	Sustainable development; urban design; city and regional planning; land use; climate change	Nature and Society People, Place, and Region	Global Environmental Change Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design Regional and Community Development	Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design
Diane Wolf	Women in development; Southeast Asia	Nature and Society	Regional and Community Development	Sociology
Truman Young	Environmental horticulture	Environmental Sciences		Plant Sciences
Minghua Zhang	Environmental modeling, GIS, risk analysis, agriculture, North America	Environmental Sciences	Global Environmental Change	Land Air and Water Resources

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