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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Philip P. Arnold

Professor, Religion, College of Arts & Sciences

Ph.D., University of Chicago Divinity School, 1992

Areas of Expertise

Religion, indigenous groups

Anne Bellows

Professor, Food Studies, Falk College

Graduate Program Director, Food Studies, Falk College

Ph.D., Rutgers University

Tripti Bhattacharya

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

Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2016

Areas of Expertise

Paleoclimatology, paleoecology, tropical climate dynamics, hydroclimate, proxy reconstruction

Joshua Cousins

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

Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SUNY ESF

Ph.D., School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Michigan

Areas of Expertise

Urban political ecology; science and technology studies; critical infrastructure studies; water policy, planning and governance; energy; urban sustainability; political-industrial ecology; climate change adaptation planning

Douglas Frank

Professor, Biology, College of Arts & Sciences

Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1990

Areas of Expertise

Plant/ecosystem ecology, grazing mammals, grasslands, carbon storage, plant-herbivore interactions

Austin Kocher

Faculty Affiliate, Geography and the Environment Department

Areas of Expertise

Political and legal geographies of immigration enforcement, policing and the immigration court system.

India Luxton

Postdoctoral Fellow, Geography and the Environment Department

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Policy Research

Ph.D., Colorado State University, 2024

Areas of Expertise

Food systems, animal agriculture, environmental justice, environmental and applied sociology, green criminology, labor policy

Sharon D. Moran

Associate Professor, Environmental Studies, SUNY–ESF

Ph.D., Clark University, 2000

Areas of Expertise

Environmental policy, human dimensions of water, political ecology, qualitative research methods, gender and nature, Central/Eastern Europe

Sarah Pralle

Associate Professor, Political Science Department

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Senior Research Associate, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

Ph.D., University of Washington, 2001

Areas of Expertise

U.S. public policy, agenda setting and policy change, environmental politics and policy, climate change and energy, interest groups and social movements

Peter Saulson

Professor Emeritus, Physics, College of Arts & Sciences

Ph.D., Princeton University, 1981

Christopher Scholz

Faculty Affiliate, Environment, Sustainability and Policy

Senior Research Associate, Maxwell African Scholars Union

Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences

Ph.D., Duke University, 1989

Areas of Expertise

Professor of Earth Sciences: Africa, water, sedimentary lake basins, paleoclimatology, energy, sedimentary processes

Theresa Selfa

Associate Professor, Environmental Studies, SUNY-ESF

Ph.D., Cornell University, 2001

Areas of Expertise

Political sociology, environmental sociology, rural sociology, sociology of agriculture, sociology of development, qualitative methods, comparative-historical methods