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
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
Judith T. Kenny, Associate Professor
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, 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
