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 |
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. |
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 |
Regional and Community Development | Chicana/o Studies | |
| Deborah L. Elliott-Fisk |
Biogeography; ecosystem analysis & management; soils and geomorphology; viticultural geography; mountain & coastal systems; |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Environmental Science and Policy | ||
| Lynette Hart |
Animal Behaviors, Sociology |
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 |
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 |
Anesthesiology | ||
| Pete Klimley |
"Movements of fishes, sharks, and |
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 |
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design | ||
| Mark Lubell |
Environmental policy; community-based management; social networks, human cooperation; quantitative analysis |
Environmental Science and Policy | ||
| Jay R. Lund |
Resource management and planning, water resources, urban geography |
Civil and Environmental Engineering | ||
| E. Steve McNiel | 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 |
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. |
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; |
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 | Environmental Science and Policy | |
| Patsy Eubanks Owens |
Environments of children and adolescents, community participation |
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 |
Global Environmental Change | Environmental Science and Policy | |
| Michael Rios |
Political geography, urban design, 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 |
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design | Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design | |
| Arthur Shapiro |
Evolution, population dynamics; North-South America |
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 |
Anthropology | ||
| Aaron Smith | 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 |
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 | 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 |
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 |
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 |
Native American Studies | ||
| Joshua Viers |
GIS, Remote Sensing, Watersheds, Riverscapes, Working Landscapes, Viticulture |
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) |
Land Air and Water Resources | ||
| Stephen M. Wheeler |
Sustainable development; urban design; city and regional planning; land use; climate change |
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 |

