Professors
Paul C. Adams
Professor
paul.adams@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-1599 |
RLP 3.704
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: Place Images in the Media, Technologically-Mediated Gathering, Topologies of Communication, Geopolitical Discourses, Formation of Subjectivity
Timothy Beach
Professor - C. B. Smith, Sr., Centennial Chair
beacht@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-2064 |
RLP 3.306
Education: Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Interests: Geoarchaeology, Soils, Climate History, Geomorphology, and Paleoenvironments of the Maya World and Mediterranean
William E. Doolittle
Professor - Erich W. Zimmermann Regents Professor in Geography
dolitl@austin.utexas.edu |
RLP 3.718
Education: Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, Ph.D. H.C. Stockholms Universitet
Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach
Professor--Raymond Dickson Centennial Professor #1; Founding Director, Water Quality & Environ. Hydro. Lab; Past President, American Association of Geographers
slbeach@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-1583 |
RLP 3.702
Education: Ph.D., University of Minnesota-Minneapolis
Interests: Geoarchaeology; Hydrology and Water Quality; Geomorphology; Spatial Statistics; Gender, Science, and Human Rights; Mesoamerica; Mediterranean and Near East; Iceland.
Kenneth R. Young
Professor
kryoung@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-8311 |
RLP 3.706
Education: Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder
Interests: Biogeography; Landscape Ecology; Climate Change; Sustainability; Tropical Environments
Associate Professors
Eugenio Arima
Associate Professor
arima@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-0714 |
RLP 3.416
Education: Ph.D., Michigan State University
Interests: Human-environment interactions, land change science, GIS/Science, applied quantitative methods, Latin America.
Kelley A. Crews
Associate Professor & Graduate Advisor
kelley@utexas.edu |
RLP 3.708
Education: Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Interests: Muddy Boots Remote Sensing, Land Change Science, & Healthy Socio-ecological Systems in Developing States
Gregory W. Knapp
Associate Professor and Director, Sustainability Studies
gwk@utexas.edu |
512.232.1588 |
RLP 3.712
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison
Interests: Adaptive dynamics, cultural landscapes, archaeology, and sustainability of Andean agriculture; regional identities, ethnogeography, linguistic geography and ethnic territoriality; mapping; modernization as contextualized in historical cultural ecology and feminist political ecology; history of geographic thought; Latin America.
Jennifer A. Miller
Associate Professor, Honors Advisor
jennifer.miller@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-1587 (prefer contact through email) |
RLP 3.428
Education: Ph.D., San Diego State University/UC-Santa Barbara
Interests: GIScience, Movement pattern analysis, Spatial statistics, Biogeography
Carlos E. Ramos Scharrón
Associate Professor
cramos@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-2067 |
RLP 3.406
Education: Ph.D., Colorado State University
Interests: Hydro-geomorphology; terrestrial carbon and sediment budgets; watershed analyses; land use change
Rebecca M. Torres
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment
rebecca.torres@austin.utexas.edu |
RLP 3.426
Education: Ph.D., University of California at Davis
Interests: (Im)migration, Children/Youth Geographies, Gender, Feminist Geography, Activist/Engaged Scholarship, Mexico, Latin America
Assistant Professors
Caroline Faria
Assistant Professor
cvfaria@austin.utexas.edu |
RLP 3.414
Education: Ph.D., University of Washington, WA
Interests: Feminist political and economic geographies; feminist methodologies; Africa and the African diaspora
Thomas Garrison
Assistant Professor
thomas.garrison@austin.utexas.edu |
RLP 3.404
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Amy Thompson
(on leave)
Assistant Professor
amy.thompson@austin.utexas.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Interests: Human-environment interactions, social inequality, processes of low-density urban development, settlement patterns, household archaeology, community-based archaeology, GIS, lidar, remote sensing, Classic Maya, Mesoamerica
Senior Lecturers
Troy M. Kimmel Jr.
Senior Lecturer
tkimmel@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-1590 |
RLP 3.424
Education: B.S., Texas A&M University
Interests: Broadcast meteorology; Severe/inclement weather forecasting; Aviation meteorology
Thoralf Meyer
Senior Lecturer
meyer@austin.utexas.edu |
RLP 3.402, also SAC 4.160
Education: Ph.D., University of Virginia
Interests: ecology of arid and semi-arid ecosystems, remote sensing, ecosystem management
Lecturers
Zeenia R. Challa
Juris Doctorate (JD) and Masters in Public Administration (MPA)- Environmental Law
zeenia@utexas.edu |
RLP 3.412
Interests: Environmental Law, Natural Resource Law, Water Law, Energy Law, International Environmental Law, Policy, and Sustainability
Molly H. Polk
Associate Director of Sustainability Studies and Lecturer
mollypolk@utexas.edu |
512-232-6892 |
RLP 3.430
Education: Ph.D. in Geography, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Land Change Science, Sustainability, Mountain Geography, Landscape Ecology, Conservation
Muhammad T. Rahman
Lecturer
Education: Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
Interests: Natural Disasters; Human Environment Interactions; Middle East; GIS and Urban Remote Sensing; and Urban Sustainability
Jayme Walenta
Lecturer
jwalenta@utexas.edu |
RLP 3.422
Education: Ph.D., University of British Columbia
Interests: Economic Geography, Feminist Geography, Environment and Business Relations
Affiliated Faculty
Nazgol Bagheri
Associate Professor of Geography, University of Texas at San Antonio
Education: Ph.D., University of Missouri–Kansas City
Interests: Urban Geography, Feminist Geography, GIScience, Middle East
David Eaton
Bess Harris Jones Centennial Professor in Natural Resource Policy Studies, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
eaton@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.8972 |
SRH 3.204
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Anthony Grubesic
Professor and Associate Dean, School of Information
Education: PhD, Ohio State University
Steven D Hoelscher
Professor, Department of American Studies
hoelscher@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-2567 |
BUR 430
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Paul F. Hudson
Associate Professor of Physical Geography, University of Leiden, Netherlands
Education: Ph.D., Louisiana State University
Interests: Fluvial geomorphology,hydrology and water resources, environmental change, land degradation, coastal plain rivers
Donald J. Huebner
Faculty
djhuebner@mail.utexas.edu |
RLP 3.412
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: American Southwest, Desert and Mountain Environments, Coastal Environments, Surveying, GIS
Bella B. Jordan
Lecturer, Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
belka@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-9127 |
BUR 470
Education: Ph.D., UT Austin
Blanca León
Research Fellow
leon@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6159 |
Plant Resources Center, Main Building Rm 127, 110 Inner Campus Drive Stop F0404
Education: Ph.D., Aarhus University, Denmark
Interests: biogeography, plant conservation
Youjeong Oh
Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies
youjeong@utexas.edu |
WCH 5.114
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Media, Tourism and Place; Development and Social Movement; Urban Processes in Korea and East Asia
Megan Raby
Associate Professor, Department of History
meganraby@austin.utexas.edu |
512.475.7925 |
GAR 0.114
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: History of science; environmental history; US and Caribbean; 19th and 20th centuries
Bjorn Sletto
Associate Professor of Community and Regional Planning, School of Architecture
bjorn@utexas.edu |
512.471.5153 |
SUT 3.124B
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University
Interests: Geographic Information Systems, Latin American planning and development, participatory planning, environmental and social justice, social theory
Pavithra Vasudevan
Assistant Professor, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies
pavithra@austin.utexas.edu |
GWB 3.200
Education: Ph.D., 2018, Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Peter Ward
Professor and C.B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair # 1 in US-Mexico Relations, Department of Sociology
peter.ward@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471-6302 |
RLP 3.730, SRH 3.228
Education: Ph.D., University of Liverpool
Research Fellows
Kalli Doubleday
Research Fellow
Education: Ph.D., UT Austin
Interests: human geography, animal geographies, large carnivores, human-wildlife interactions/conflict, and park-people relationships
Charles D Frederick
Research Fellow
charlesthegeoarchaeologist@gmail.com
Education: PhD, University of Texas
Naya Jones
Critical Geographer & Healing Arts Practitioner
njones@mcw.edu |
Medical College of Wisconsin
Education: PhD, Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Critical health studies; critical food studies; black food geographies; black geographies; traditional healing; racial trauma; environmental knowledge; community-based scholarship; critical pedagogy; arts-based methods; Black, Xicana, and indigenous feminisms; Black Diaspora (North and Latin America)
Samantha Krause
Research Fellow
Education: Ph.D., UT Austin
Interests: Geoarchaeology, paleoclimatology, soil morphology of Central America and the southwestern US
Robert Lemon
Research Fellow/ Lecturer
Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Urban Life and Urban Form; Culinary Practices and the Food System; Latino Spaces and Places
Salma Sultana
Faculty
Education: Ph.D., Jadavpur University, India
Interests: Application of Remote Sensing & Geographical Information System, Environmental Issues in Geography and Sustainable Development, Interaction between People and Physical Environment, Impact of Land Use and Land Cover Change.
Sharon E. Wilcox
Faculty
Education: Ph.D. Geography, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Cultural Geography, Animal Geography, Human Dimensions, Wildlife Conservation, Predators, Animal Studies, Environmental History, Wild Cats, Bears, Raptors, U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Retirees
Robin Doughty
Professor Emeritus
rdoughty@austin.utexas.edu |
RLP 3.502
Education: Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Interests: Cultural Geography; Environmental Resource Management; Landscape Ecology and Biogeography
Francisco L. Pérez
Professor Emeritus, Soils Lab Director Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley
Interests: Mountain Geoecology, Geomorphology, Vegetation Ecology, Soils
Leo E. Zonn (Retired)
Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Interests: Representation and Media, Especially Cinema, Geographies of Popular Culture
