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Department of Geography
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Faculty
| Name | Interests | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Bruce P. Braun Professor |
Society-environment relations, political ecology, social and cultural theory, cultural studies of the environment, colonial and post-colonial geographies. | 612-625-6349 452 Social Sciences braun038@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 gidwa002@umn.edu |
| John Fraser Hart Professor |
Rural, U.S. and Canada, geographic writing. | 612-625-4026 558 Social Sciences frase002@umn.edu |
| 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 Director of Undergraduate Studies |
Social and Cultural Geography, Political Economy of Nature, Culture, and Society, Geography and Ethics, US Geography. | 612-625-4085 548 Social Sciences hende057@umn.edu |
| Brenda Kayzar Assistant Professor |
Urban and Cultural Geography, North American cities, Downtown revitalization, Arts and culture, Urban/Environment relations, Landscape and lifestyle commodification, Housing provision | 612-625-0229 368 Social Science kayzar@umn.edu |
| 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 and Chair; Faculty, Institute for Global Studies |
Urban, political, international migrations, social theory, GIS & society, Europe, European Union. | 612-625-9010 435 Social Sciences eqj6139@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 |
Environmental science, socio-theoretic frameworks, computational modeling, geographic information science. | 612-625-4577 473 Social Sciences manson@umn.edu |
| Robert B. McMaster Professor; Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education |
Geographic information systems, digital cartography, cartographic design, spatial analysis, environmental risk assessment. | 612-625-9883 585 Social Sciences mcmaster@umn.edu |
| Lorena Munoz Assistant Professor |
Urban/cultural geography; research focuses on the intersections of place, space, gender, sexuality and race. | 612-625-1112 427 Social Science lmunoz@umn.edu |
| Abigail Neely Assistant Professor |
Health Geography and Political-Ecology | 612-625-2562 533 Social Science ahneely@umn.edu |
| Arun Saldanha Associate 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 |
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 |
| Martin Swobodzinski Visiting Assistant Professor |
GIS; information and decision-support technology; disability geographies and spatial cognition | 478 Social Sciences mswobodz@umn.edu |
| Scott St. George Assistant Professor |
Paleoclimatology, climate dynamics, natural hazards, and climate impacts on renewable energy. | 612-625-0805 537 Social Sciences stgeorge@umn.edu |
| Adjunct Faculty / Visitors | ||
| Valentine Cadieux Postdoctoral Fellow |
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 514 Social Sciences cadieux@umn.edu |
| Susan L Craddock Associate Professor |
AIDS, disease, health, social justice. | 612-624-6006 425 Ford Hall craddock@umn.edu |
| William Craig | GIS; Land Use and Population. Program Director, Community Assistantship Program (CAP), and Associate Director, CURA | 612-625-3321 330 HHH Center wcraig@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 |
| Jonathan A. Foley Director |
Institute of the Environment Interactions between humans and global environment systems; land use and agricultural practices and their effects on ecosystems; interactions among climate, ecosystems and freshwater systems; applications of modeling and remote sensing techniques to global sustainability issues | 612-626-9553 325 LES jfoley@umn.edu |
| David Hugill Visiting Scholar |
481 Social Science hugil003@umn.edu |
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| Paul Jackson Visiting Scholar |
urban political ecology; urban geography; critical health geography; science, technology and society; cholera; the politics of crisis. | 481 Social Science jack0771@umn.edu |
| Lawrence M. Knopp, Jr. Director, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences |
Sexuality, gender, class; feminist and queer theory; political geography. | 253-692-4455 U of Washington-Tacoma knoppl@u.washington.edu |
| William G. Moseley Professor |
Political ecology, tropical agriculture, food security, environment and development, West and Southern Africa | 651-696-6126 Macalester College moseley@macalester.edu |
| Richa Nagar Professor |
Collaborative praxis; politics of development; transnational feminisms. | 612-625-2028 443 Ford Hall nagar@umn.edu |
| Hari Osofsky Associate Professor and 2011 Lampert Fesler Research Fellow, University of Minnesota Law School |
Climate change, clean energy, environmental justice, law and geography | 612-625-2038 338 Mondale Hall (Law School) hosofsky@umn.edu |
| Faculty Emeriti | ||
| John S. Adams, Professor Emeritus | ||
| Russel B. Adams, Associate Professor Emeritus | ||
| Dwight A. Brown, Professor Emeritus | ||
| Philip J. Gershmel, 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. | ||
| Connie Weil, Associate Professor Emeritus | ||
