Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach
Professor — Ph.D., University of Minnesota-Minneapolis
Professor and Fellow of the C.B. Smith, Sr. Centennial Chair in United States - Mexico Relations #2; Founding Director of the Water Quality and Environmental Hydrology Lab; President, American Association of Geographers
Contact
- E-mail: slbeach@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-232-1583
- Office: CLA 3.702
- Office Hours: Spring 2019: Th 2:15-3:15 and by Appointment
- Campus Mail Code: A3100
Interests
Geoarchaeology; Hydrology and Water Quality; Geomorphology; Spatial Statistics; Gender, Science, and Human Rights; Mesoamerica; Mediterranean and Near East; Iceland.
Biography
Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach is Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the University of Texas-Austin, where she is Fellow of the C.B. Smith, Sr. Centennial Chair in U.S.-Mexico Relations. She recently completed her term as Department Chair (2014-2018), as the only woman to ever lead the Department. Dr. Luzzadder-Beach is also Associate Faculty of the Theresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Affiliated Faculty of the Center for European Studies and the Bernard and Audrey Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at UT. She was Professor of Geography and Associate Provost at George Mason University, where she was a faculty member for over 20 years prior to arriving at UT Austin. She is currently the President of the American Association of Geographers (2018-19). Dr. Luzzadder-Beach was awarded, along with Dr. Tim Beach, the 2010 AAG G.K. Gilbert Outstanding Research Award in Geomorphology, and in 2013 she was recognized with the GMU College of Science Outstanding Publication Award. In 2018 Drs. Luzzadder-Beach and Beach were both selected as CSU Chico's Distinguished Alumni for the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences. She specializes in physical geography, hydrology and geomorphology, water chemistry, geoarchaeology, geostatistics, and gender, science and human rights, with field research in Mesoamerica, California, the Mediterranean and Near East, and Iceland. Dr. Luzzadder-Beach’s research has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, among other sources, publishing more than 50 peer reviewed book chapters and articles. Dr. Luzzadder-Beach is the Founding Director of the Water Quality and Environmental Hydrology Lab in the Department of Geography and the Environment at UT Austin. She received both her M.A. and Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Minnesota- Minneapolis, and her Bachelor of Arts in Geography from California State University at Chico.
