Learn more about our Tenure-line faculty by browsing the alphabetical listing below. Please browse the directory below or search for faculty by name.
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Daniela Aiello Assistant Professor of Geography dpa5460@psu.edu Expertise: Urban political economy, Housing inequality, community-based research, tenant organizing, anti-racism , anti-colonialism |
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Jennifer Baka Associate Professor of Geography jeb525@psu.edu Expertise: energy geographies, political-industrial ecology, environmental governance |
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Trevor Birkenholtz Professor of Geography tlb5964@psu.edu Expertise: political ecology, development, social theory, nature-society relations, gender-dynamics, South Asia, water resources |
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Cynthia Brewer Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, College of Information Sciences and Technology cab38@psu.edu Expertise: cartographic communication and visualization, map design, color theory, multi-scale mapping, atlas production, topographic maps, cartography |
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Guido Cervone Professor of Geography and Meteorology & Atmospheric Science (MAS) cervone@psu.edu Expertise: environmental hazards, remote sensing, geoinformatics, social media |
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Ida Djenontin Assistant Professor of Geography ind5050@psu.edu Expertise: environment-development governance, agro-forest systems, climate change adaptation and mitigation, sustainable livelihoods, equity, knowledge co-production, sub-Saharan Africa |
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Lorraine Dowler Professor of Geography and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies lxd17@psu.edu Expertise: political geography, gender, qualitative methods, feminist geopolitics |
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Chris Fowler Associate Professor of Geography and Demography; Associate Faculty, Population Research Institute (PRI); Courtesy appointment in Demography csfowler@psu.edu Expertise: inequality, population, scale, economic, urban, race, segregation |
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Larry Gorenflo Professor of Landscape Architecture, Geography, African Studies, and Anthropology ljg11@psu.edu Expertise: GIS science, biodiversity conservation, human ecology |
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Helen Greatrex Assistant Professor of Geography and Statistics hlg5155@psu.edu Expertise: weather risk management, geostatistics, uncertainty estimation, historical weather analysis, satellite rainfall estimation, index insurance, agricultural modeling, social equity |
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Louisa Holmes Associate Professor of Geography and Demography lmholmes@psu.edu Expertise: health disparities, substance use, socio-spatial determinants of health, urban health, environmental justice, migration, demographic and geospatial research methods |
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Joshua Inwood Professor of Geography jfi6@psu.edu Expertise: memory studies, landscape, race and racism, truth commissions, cultural geography, urban geography |
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Gregory Jenkins Professor of Meteorology & Atmospheric Science and Geography gsj1@psu.edu Expertise: atmospheric/air chemistry, climate, tropical meteorology, Africa |
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Brian King Head of Department king@psu.edu Expertise: development, conservation, Southern Africa, cultural and political ecology, health, livelihoods, justice |
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Zhenlong Li Associate Professor of Geography zhenlong@psu.edu Expertise: GIScience, Geospatial Big Data, Spatial Computing, GeoAI, Human Mobility, Social Media Analytics |
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Belen Norona Assistant Professor of Geography mbnorona@psu.edu Expertise: Amazon Region, feminist political ecology, oil extraction, Indigenous people, non-representational cartography |
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Mark Ortiz Assistant Professor of Geography mark.ortiz@psu.edu Expertise: climate justice, youth, social movements |
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Nathan Piekielek Geospatial Librarian and Associate Professor of Geography nbp104@psu.edu Expertise: geographic information science, remote sensing and spatial analysis geospatial research support , landscape ecology and conservation , interdisciplinary social and natural science research |
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Bronwen Powell Associate Professor of Geography, African Studies, and Anthropology bxp15@psu.edu Expertise: biodiversity and nutrition, wild and forest foods, dietary patterns and dietary diversity, traditional food systems, applied research for improved policy and practice |
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Anthony Robinson Professor of Geography acr181@psu.edu Expertise: geovisual analytics, cartography, user-centered design, geovisualization, information visualization |
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Emily Rosenman Assistant Professor of Geography ekr5260@psu.edu Expertise: urban and economic geography, financialization, philanthropy, housing, debt, public finance |
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Erica Smithwick Distinguished Professor of Geography and Ecology smithwick@psu.edu Expertise: landscape ecology, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, fire ecology |
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Luke Trusel Assistant Professor of Geography trusel@psu.edu Expertise: climate variability and change, ice sheet surface mass balance, ice core paleoclimatology, remote sensing |
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Kimberly Van Meter Assistant Professor of Geography vanmeterkvm@psu.edu Expertise: water quality, wetlands, biogeochemistry, environmental modeling, remote sensing, human-environment interactions |
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Shujie Wang Assistant Professor of Geography skw5660@psu.edu Expertise: cryosphere, remote sensing, machine learning |
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Melissa W. Wright Professor of Geography and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies mww11@psu.edu Expertise: critical geography, urban landscapes, Mexico-US borderlands, Latin America, intersectional feminist and critical race studies, social Movements, post-colonial and decolonial studies |
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Manzhu Yu Assistant Professor of Geography mqy5198@psu.edu Expertise: geographic information science, spatiotemporal theories and applications, big data and cloud computing, natural hazards and extreme weather, environmental informatics, spatial data science and deep learning |
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Karl Zimmerer Professor of Geography, Ecology, and Rural Sociology ksz2@psu.edu Expertise: land use and agricultural change/global change, economic development/globalization/neoliberalism, nature-society and human-environment theory environmental impacts (biodiversity/soils/water/conservation), food/producer-consumer networks/sustainability |