Geography Faculty
Anne Bonds, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Geography, University of Washington, 2008
Political economy; social theory; gender and race/ethnicity; and geographies of poverty and inequality
Woonsup Choi, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Geography, University of Illinois, Urbana, 2005
Hydroclimatology, Hydrological modeling
Michael Day, Professor
D. Phil., Geomorphology, Oxford University, 1978
Geomorphology, especially Karst Landscapes
Alison Donnelly, Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Botany, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 1998
Environmental indicators, climate change, plant and animal phenology, environmental assessment
Glen G. Fredlund, Associate Professor, Undergraduate Program Co-Chair, Petitions
Ph.D., Quaternary Studies, University of Kansas, 1992
Biogeography, Geomorphology, Soils Geography, Geoarchaeology
Rina Ghose, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1998
Politics of citizen participation in inner-city planning, Public Participation GIS, GIS and Society, Urban and Rural Gentrification
Ryan Holifield, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Geography, University of Minnesota, 2007
Environmental justice, urban environmental governance, science studies and geographic theory
Anna Mansson McGinty, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., European Ethnology, Lund University, 2002
Islam and Muslim women in the West, Gender, Identity Formation, Ethnographic Methods
Linda McCarthy, Associate Professor, Undergraduate Program Co-Chair, Declaration of Major
Ph.D., Geography, University of Minnesota, 1997
Comparative Urban and Regional Economic Development and Planning, Brownfield Redevelopment
Mark D. Schwartz, Distinguished Professor, Department Chair
Ph.D., Geography (Climatology), University of Kansas, 1985
Plant phenology-lower atmosphere interactions during the onset of spring and autumn, climate change, assessing vegetation condition with remote sensing imagery
Kristin Sziarto, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Geography, University of Minnesota, 2007
Social movements and spatiality, religion-labor alliances, immigration policies and immigrant politics, labor geographies
Changshan Wu, Associate Professor, Graduate Program Chair
Ph.D., Geography, The Ohio State University, 2003
Geographical Information Science, Remote Sensing, Spatial Analysis and Quantitative methods
Zengwang Xu, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Geography, Texas A&M University, 2007
Geographical Information Science, Spatial analysis and modeling, Complex networks/systems
Hyejin Yoon, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Geography, The Ohio State University, 2008
Economic geography, Urban geography, Entrepreneurship, Regional innovation systems, Urban planning, Urbanization
Adjunct Professors
Kirsten Beyer, Assistant Professor, Institute for Health and Society, Medical College of Wisconsin
Ph.D., Geography, University of Iowa, 2009
Health geography, socio-spatial epidemiology, community engaged research, disease mapping, health inequalities, women's health
Frederick Nelson, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Delaware
Ph.D., University of Michigan
e-mail: nelsonf@uwm.edu
Jonathan M. Hanes, Research Analyst, Office of Assessment and Institutional Research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Ph.D., Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2011
Bioclimatology, plant phenology, vegetation feedbacks to the lower atmosphere, fluxes of energy and mass in forest ecosystems, philosophy of science
email: jmhanes@uwm.edu
Faculty Emeriti
Barbara Borowiecki, Professor Emerita
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1962
Eolian and Pleistocene geomorphology, European regional geography
Donn K. Haglund, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1958
Economic geography, Arctic regions (particularly Greenland)
Ludwig (Lutz) E. Holzner, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Würzburg, 1964
Cultural and urban geographies, Western Europe, South Africa
Judith Kenny, Associate Professor Emerita
Ph.D., Geography, Syracuse University, 1990
Neighborhood Development, 'Race' ethnicity and gender in the context of urban development
Harold M. Rose, Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1960
Geographies of race, urban social geography
Norman R. Stewart, Associate Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles, 1961
History of geographic thought, pioneer settlements, geographies of Latin America
