Geography and the Environment Department Faculty, Courtesy Appointments, and Affiliates

Geography and the Environment Department faculty have expertise in environmental, cultural, economic, historical, physical and urban geography, and in geospatial analysis.

Faculty research is enriched through interdisciplinary collaborations with faculty in the Maxwell School and from other schools, as well as through rigorous field-based study of geographical processes in a variety of regions, places and landscapes.

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Ethan Coffel

Assistant Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Research Affiliate, Center for Policy Research

Ph.D., Columbia University, 2018

Areas of Expertise

Climate science, climate impacts, extreme weather, agriculture, energy, infrastructure

Peng Gao

Professor and Chair, Geography and the Environment Department

Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 2003

Areas of Expertise

River environment and morphodynamics, Geospatial-based (GIS, remote sensing, and UAV) urban planning and reforming

Timur Hammond

Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Senior Research Associate, Middle Eastern Studies Program

Research Affiliate, South Asia Center

Research Affiliate, Center for European Studies

Ph.D., Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, 2016

Areas of Expertise

Cultural geography, urban geography, geographies of memory, Turkey, Middle East

Matthew T. Huber

Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Ph.D., Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, 2009

Areas of Expertise

Marxism, energy and capitalism, climate politics, resource geography

Meghan Kelly

Assistant Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Ph.D., Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2020

Areas of Expertise

Cartography, feminist mapping, critical GIS, community geography, digital storytelling, feminist digital geographies

Natalie Koch

Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Geography and the Environment Department

Director, Central Asia and the Caucasus Initiative

Senior Research Associate, Middle Eastern Studies Program

Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder, 2012

Areas of Expertise

political geography, nationalism, geopolitics, authoritarianism, sports geography, Gulf and Arabian Peninsula studies

Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern

Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Research Affiliate, Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2012

Areas of Expertise

Food systems, immigration and racial justice, agrarian political ecology, labor movements, environmental and agricultural policy

Anne E. Mosher

Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Ph.D., Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University, 1989

Areas of Expertise

Urban planning and geographies of infrastructure, crisis and disaster management, public scholarship and community engagement, digital humanities

Karl Offen

Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Senior Research Associate and Advisory Board Member, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Ph.D., Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin, 1999

Areas of Expertise

Historical geography, political ecology, Latin America and the Caribbean, Atlantic world, map studies

Arnisson Andre Ortega

Assistant Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Faculty Affiliate, Community Geography

Ph.D., University of Washington, 2012

Areas of Expertise

Community geography, urban geography, population geography, Global South cities, migration, transnationalism, suburbanization, population, socio-spatial theory, decolonization, quantitative methods, mixed-methods, critical demography, counter-mapping

Tom Perreault

Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

DellPlain Professor of Latin American Geography

Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence

Senior Research Associate, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder, 2000

Areas of Expertise

Political ecology, environmental justice, water governance, critical resource geography, mining and extractivism, rural livelihoods, agrarian political economy, indigeneity and indigenous politics, Latin America

Jane M. Read

Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Director, Integrated Learning Major, Environment, Sustainability and Policy

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Senior Research Associate, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1999

Areas of Expertise

Geographic information systems and remote sensing, human-environment interactions, geohumanities, indigenous livelihoods, Latin America

Jonnell A. Robinson

Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Co-Director, Community Geography

Senior Research Associate, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010

Areas of Expertise

Community geography, participatory geographic information systems (GIS)

Tod Rutherford

Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Advisory Board Member, Center for European Studies

Ph.D., Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Wales College of Cardiff, 1992

Areas of Expertise

Economic restructuring, labor and the automobile industry, labor market processes and policies, regional development

Chie Sakakibara

Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 2007

Areas of Expertise

Indigenous geographies, environmental humanities, humanistic geography, Arctic studies

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Naomi Shanguhyia

Associate Teaching Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Senior Research Associate, Maxwell African Scholars Union

Ph.D., West Virginia University, 2013

Farhana Sultana

Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Research Co-Director, Environmental Conflict and Collaboration

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2007

Areas of Expertise

Political ecology, international development, water governance, climate change, environmental justice, sustainability, citizenship, human rights, decolonizing, transnational feminisms, South Asia

Robert Wilson

Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 2003

Areas of Expertise

Environmental history, historical geography, environmental humanities, animals and society, climate change history, politics

Jamie Winders

Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, Syracuse University

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Senior Research Associate, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 2004

Areas of Expertise

Autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, international migration, race/ethnicity, gender, cultural and social geography, social theory, social reproduction, feminist geography, qualitative methods, digital geographies