Faculty
| Name | Interests | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Bruce P. Braun Associate Professor |
Society-environment relations, political ecology, social and cultural theory, cultural studies of the environment, colonial and post-colonial geographies. | 612-625-6349 478 Social Sciences braun@geog.umn.edu |
| Robert Edsall Assistant Professor |
GIS, Cartography | 612-625-2562 |
| Philip J. Gershmel Professor; Adjunct Professor, American Studies |
Environmental, education, North America, multi-media cartography, geographic information systems. | 612-625-0805 537 Social Sciences gersmehl@umn.edu |
| Vinay Gidwani Associate Professor, Geography; Associate Professor, Institute for Global Studies |
Labor geographies; theories of agrarian and ecological change; spatiality of class and identity politics; subalternity; political economies of "development" & "globalization"; Marxism and post-Marxism; social theory; India | 612-625-1397 333 Social Sciences vgidwani@geog.umn.edu |
| John Fraser Hart Professor |
Rural, U.S. and Canada, geographic writing. | 612-625-4026 558 Social Sciences |
| Francis Harvey Associate Professor |
Geographic Information Systems, GIS Implementation in Local Government, Geographic Information Overlay. | 612-625-2586 468 Social Sciences fharvey@umn.edu |
| George Henderson Associate Professor, Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies |
Social and Cultural Geography, Political Economy of Nature, Culture, and Society, Geography and Ethics, US Geography. | 612-625-4085 481 Social Sciences georgeh@geog.umn.edu |
Brenda Kayzar |
Urban and Cultural Geography, North American cities, Downtown revitalization, Arts and culture, Urban/Environment relations, Landscape and lifestyle commodification, Housing provision |
612-625-0229 |
| Kurt Kipfmueller Assistant Professor |
Climate-tree growth relationships; forest fire-climate interactions; denrochronology. | 612-625-9668 414 Social Sciences kurt@umn.edu |
| Katherine Klink Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies |
Physical, climatology, climate-biosphere interactions, climate modeling, quantitative methods. | 612-625-3452 573 Social Sciences klink@umn.edu |
| Helga Leitner Professor; Faculty, Institute for Global Studies |
Urban, political, international migrations, social theory, GIS & society, Europe, European Union. | 612-625-9010 435 Social Sciences helga.leitner-1@umn.edu |
| Mark B. Lindberg Senior Cartographer, Adjunct Associate Professor, and Director, Cartography Laboratory |
Geographic Information Systems, digital cartographic production, map design, quantitative methods. | 612-625-0892 410 Blegen Hall mbl@umn.edu |
| Steven M. Manson Associate Professor |
ON SABBATICAL (2008/09) Environmental science, socio-theoretic frameworks, computational modeling, geographic information science. | 612-625-4577 473 Social Sciences manson@umn.edu |
| Judith Martin Professor; Director, Urban Studies Program; Adjunct Professor,Urban and Regional Planning, HHH; Co-Director, University Metropolitan Consortium |
Urban Studies,Metropolitan planning and governance, Urban Design | 612-626-1626 348 Social Sciences jmartin@umn.edu |
| Robert B. McMaster Professor |
Geographic information systems, digital cartography, cartographic design, spatial analysis, environmental risk assessment. | 612-625-9883 585 Social Sciences mcmaster@umn.edu |
| Roger P. Miller Associate Professor; Adjunct Associate Professor, Program in American Studies, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, and Program in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society |
Scandinavia, urban, historical, geographical methodology, social theory, planning history. | 612-625- 5899 427 Social Sciences rpmiller@umn.edu |
| Arun Saldanha Assistant Professor |
Cultural tourism; ethnography; postcolonialism; theorizing race and ethnicity; music, space, identity. | 612-625-9660 432 Social Sciences saldanha@umn.edu |
| Abdi I. Samatar Professor and Chair |
Development geography, political economy and agrarian change, development theory and the State, Africa. | 612-626-1877 368 Social Sciences samat001@umn.edu |
| Eric S. Sheppard Regents Professor |
Economic geography, GIS and society, environmental justice, the geography of development, urban systems change, telecommunications and geography. | 612-625-5840 515 Social Sciences shepp001@umn.edu |
| Roderick H. Squires Associate Professor |
Environmental quality, public land policy, real estate, evolution of landscapes, political ecology of Minnesota. | 612-625-0179 546 Social Sciences squires@umn.edu |
| Karen E. Till Associate Professor |
ON LEAVE (2008/09) Cultural and historical urban geography, feminist geography, social theory, qualitative methods; place, landscape, and social memory; Europe, North America. | 612-625-0079 533 Social Sciences ktill@umn.edu |
| Connie H. Weil Associate Professor |
Medical, Latin America. | 612-625-2056 452 Social Sciences weil@umn.edu |
| Susy S. Ziegler Assistant Professor |
Biogeography, forest dynamics, human impacts on vegetation, forest decline in Central Europe, environmental change, dendrochronology. | 612-625-9354 548 Social Sciences ziegler@geog.umn.edu |
| Adjunct Faculty | ||
| Kenny Blumenfeld Assistant Professor (Temporary) |
extreme and hazardous weather; climatology | 612-625-6080 406 Social Science blume013@umn.edu |
Valentine Cadieux |
Cultural geography of land use change and the politics of planning processes at the urban-rural interface; alternative agri-food movements; the concepts of place, landscape, and nature. |
612-625-8591 509 Social Sciences cadieux@umn.edu |
| Susan L Craddock Associate Professor |
AIDS, disease, health, social justice. | 612-624-6006 425 Ford Hall craddock@umn.edu |
| Jeff Crump Associate Professor |
Critical analysis of housing markets, subprime lending and foreclosure, housing and urban policy, public housing, GIS and analytical design, labor geographies of the Midwest | 612-624-2281 350 McNH jrcrump@umn.edu |
| Lawrence M. Knopp, Jr. Professor |
Sexuality, gender, class; feminist and queer theory; political geography. | 218-726-6246 Graduate School (Duluth Office) lknopp@d.umn.edu |
| Richa Nagar Professor |
Collaborative praxis;
politics of development; transnational feminisms. |
612-625-2028 443 Ford Hall nagar@umn.edu |
| Faculty Emeriti | ||
| John S. Adams, Professor Emeritus | ||
| Russel B. Adams, Associate Professor Emeritus | ||
| Dwight A. Brown, Professor Emeritus | ||
| Mei-Ling Hsu, Professor Emeritus; Adjunct Professor Emeritus, East Asian Studies Program | ||
| Fred E. Lukermann, Professor Emeritus. | ||
| Philip W. Porter, Professor Emeritus; Adjunct Professor Emeritus, Department of African American and African Studies. | ||
| Joseph E. Schwartzberg, Professor Emeritus; Adjunct Professor Emeritus, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. | ||
| Earl P. Scott, Professor Emeritus; Adjunct Professor Emeritus and Acting Chair 2005-06, Department of African American and African Studies. | ||
| Richard H. Skaggs, Professor Emeritus; Adjunct Professor Emeritus, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate. | ||