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 J. Day, Professor
D. Phil., Geomorphology, Oxford University, 1978
Geomorphology, especially Karst Landscapes

Christopher A. De Sousa, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Geography, University of Toronto, 2000
Brownfield Redevelopment, Urban Environmental Management

Glen G. Fredlund, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Quaternary Studies, University of Kansas, 1992
Biogeography, Geomorphology, Soils Geography, Geoarchaeology

Rina Ghose, Associate Professor (on Sabbatical fall 2009)
Ph.D., Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1998
Geographic Information Science, GIS and Society, Public Participation GIS, Urban Geography

Ryan Holifield, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Geography, University of Minnesota, 2007
Hazardous Waste Site Risk Assessment and Remediation, Environmental Justice, Science Studies and Geographic Theory

Judith T. Kenny, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Chair
Ph.D., Geography, Syracuse University, 1990
Neighborhood Development, 'Race' ethnicity and gender in the context of Urban Development

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
Ph.D., Geography, University of Minnesota, 1997
Comparative Urban and Regional Economic Development and Planning, Brownfield Redevelopment

Mark D. Schwartz, Professor and Department Chair
Ph.D., Geography (Climatology), University of Kansas, 1985
Plant phenology-lower atmosphere interactions during the onset of spring, 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 and Graduate Program Chair (on Sabbatical spring 2010)
Ph.D., Geography, The Ohio State University, 2003
Geographical Information Science, Remote Sensing, Spatial Analysis and Quantitative methods