Faculty

Christian Andresen

Office: 222 Science Hall

Phone: (608) 890-3792

Email: candresen@wisc.edu

Website: www.christiangandresen.com

Interests: Arctic Ecosystems, Remote Sensing, Surface Hydrology, Wetlands, Environmental Change, Carbon Cycling, Geospatial Analytics, LiDAR, Photogrammetry, Unmanned Aerial Systems (Drones).

Ian Baird

Office: 455 Science Hall

Phone: (608) 265-0012

Email: ibaird@wisc.edu

Interests: Political Ecology (predominantly rural); Development Studies; Identities; Indigeneity; Borders and Boundaries; Hydropower Development and Fisheries in the Mekong Basin; Large-scale Land Concessions / Acquisitions; Political and Military Resistance; Marginal Histories; Upland Peoples in Mainland Southeast Asia; Hmong, Lao, and Thai studies

William J. Cronon

Office: 443 Science Hall, 5103 Humanities

Phone: (608) 265-6023

Email: wcronon@wisc.edu

Website: http://www.williamcronon.net/

Interests: Environmental History, Environmental Studies, North America

Song Gao

Office: 548 Science Hall

Email: song.gao[at]wisc.edu

Interests: GIScience, GeoAI, Geospatial Data Science, Machine Learning, Social Sensing, Spatial Networks, Urban Informatics, Trajectory Data Mining.

Holly Gibbs

Office: 425 Science Hall

Phone: (513) 720-2784

Email: hkgibbs@wisc.edu

Website: www.gibbs-lab.com

Interests: Tropical Land-use Change and Globalization

Aslı Gӧҫmen

Office: 115G Science Hall & 202 Old Music Hall

Phone: (608) 265-0789

Email: gocmen@wisc.edu

Interests: Environmental Sustainability; Land Use; Environmental Planning and Policy; Urban Planning, Human Dimensions of Sustainability

Qunying Huang

Office: 355 Science Hall

Phone: (608) 890-4946

Email: qhuang46@wisc.edu

Website: https://scdm.geography.wisc.edu/

Interests: Spatial Data Mining, Spatial Computing, Social Media Analytics, Natural Hazards, Human Mobility, GIScience

Robert J. Kaiser

Office: 430 Science Hall

Email: rjkaise1@wisc.edu

Interests: Political events, identification and differentiation, performativity, borderlands, political and cultural geography, geopolitics

Ken Keefover-Ring

Office: 115C Science Hall

Email: ken.keefoverring@wisc.edu

Website: http://entomology.wisc.edu/~keefover/

Interests: Biogeography, chemical ecology, plant secondary chemical variation, plant-animal interactions, herbivory, pollination, volatile organic compounds, allelopathy, plant competition, analytical chemistry, terpenoids, phenylpropanoids.

Jenna M. Loyd

Office: 404 Science Hall

Email: jmloyd@wisc.edu

Website: www.jennamloyd.com

Interests: Violence and health; Feminist geography; Migration detention and deterrence; Carceral geographies; Militarization; Geopolitics of asylum and refugee resettlement; Racism and anti-racism

Erika Marin-Spiotta

Office: 223 Science Hall

Email: marinspiotta@wisc.edu

Website: www.marinspiotta.com

Interests: Biogeochemistry; Biogeography; Biodiversity; Land Use; Ecosystem function; Climate

Joe Mason

Office: M394 Science Hall

Phone: (608) 576-3657

Email: mason@geography.wisc.edu

Website: https://joseph-a-mason.github.io/

Interests: Soils, Geomorphology, Quaternary Paleoenvironments, Landscape Evolution

Almita A. Miranda

Office: 421 Science Hall

Email: aamiranda@wisc.edu

Interests: Political and cultural geography, race/ethnicity, gender, neoliberalism, (im)migration, citizenship, transnationalism, borders/boundaries, social movements; Latinx ethnography; U.S., Mexico

Sarah A. Moore

Office: 243 Science Hall

Phone: (608) 262-3213

Email: sarah.moore@wisc.edu

Interests: Waste +++Spatial and Social Theory+++Psychoanalytic and Emotional Geographies+++Urban Geography+++Postcolonial Development Studies+++Environmental Justice

Lisa Naughton

Office: 334 Science Hall

Phone: (608) 262-4846

Email: naughton@geography.wisc.edu

Website: https://naughton.geography.wisc.edu/

Interests: Biodiversity conservation in developing countries; Land tenure & property rights; Attitudes toward wildlife; Wildlife conservation in human-dominated landscapes

Morgan Robertson

Office: 208 Science Hall

Phone: (608) 890-3815

Email: mmrobertson@wisc.edu

Website: http://morgan-robertson.com/

Interests: Political Ecology, US Water Policy, Environmental Markets

Robert Roth

Office: 375 Science Hall

Email: reroth@wisc.edu

Website: http://www.geography.wisc.edu/faculty/roth/

Interests: Cartography, Geovisualization, and Geovisual Analytics

Jen Rose Smith

Email: jrsmith39@wisc.edu

Website: http://www.jen-rose-smith.com

Interests: Native American and Indigenous Studies; Race, Racialization, and Indigeneity; Alaska Native Studies; Critical Cultural and Human Geography; Critical Northern and Arctic Studies; Environmental Humanities; Science and Technology Studies; Native American Literature

Matt Turner

Office: 340 Science Hall

Email: mturner2@wisc.edu

Interests: Environmental governance, political ecology, savanna/steppe ecology, critical development studies, STS, Africa, remote sensing/GIS

Keith Woodward

Office: 343 Science Hall

Phone: (608) 262-0505

Email: kwoodward@wisc.edu

Interests: Social Theory :: Site Ontology and the Recent Scale Debates :: Radical, Critical, and Social Geography :: Social Movements and Social Change :: Geographies of Affect :: The History of Geographic Thought :: Art/Science Collaborations

Stephen Young

Office: Science Hall 234

Phone: (608) 890-3097

Email: sjyoung3@wisc.edu

Interests: Economic and Political Geography, Finance and International Development, Urban Governance, Youth Cultures, Race and Racism, Men and Masculinities.

A-Xing Zhu

Office: 255 Science Hall

Phone: (608) 262-0272

Email: azhu@wisc.edu

Website: http://solim.geography.wisc.edu/axing/

Interests: GIS, Remote Sensing, GIS Applications in Environmental Modeling and Resource Management

Lecturers

William (Bill) Gartner

Senior Lecturer

Office: 115D Science Hall

Phone: (608) 890-3816

Email: wgartner@wisc.edu

Affiliated Faculty

Samer Alatout

Assoc. Professor, Department of Community & Environmental Sociology

Website: http://bit.ly/12poQHp

Office: 336A Agriculture Hall

Phone: (608) 263-0970

Email: snalatout@wisc.edu

Interests: Social theories of power and government; Foucault; theories of border; biopolitics; environmental conflict (water resources and politics of identity); Palestine/Israel and the US/Mexico.

Anna Vemer Andrzejewski

Professor, Department of Art History

Website: https://arthistory.wisc.edu/anna-andrzejewski-biography.htm

Office: 210 Elvehjem Building

Phone: (608) 263-2340

Email: avandrzejews@wisc.edu

Interests: Cultural landscapes and vernacular architecture (U.S.), material culture, and postwar suburbanization

Eric Carson

Asst. Prof. of Environmental Science

Website: http://bit.ly/13x9b0b

Phone: (608) 890-1998

Email: eccarson@wisc.edu

Interests: Millennial-scale variations in streamflow and flooding due to changes in past climates to historic records of landscape change and sediment mobility related to human-driven changes in vegetation cover and land use.

Sam F. Dennis, Jr.

Assoc. Prof. of Landscape Architecture

Website: http://www.la.wisc.edu/ppm/

Office: 42A Ag. Hall, 4259 Helen C. White

Phone: (608) 263-7699

Email: sfdennisjr@wisc.edu

Interests: Social dimensions of environmental design at all scales, children, youth and families and the built environment, community design, planning and development

Greg Downey

Professor, School of Journalism & Mass Communication and School of Library & Information Studies

Website: http://gdowney.wordpress.com/

Office: 5016 Vilas, 4259 Helen C. White

Phone: (608) 225-3809

Email: gdowney@wisc.edu

Interests: History and Geography of Information/ Communication Technology and Labor.

Matthew Edney

Senior Scientist, College of Letters and Science

Email: edney@wisc.edu

Elizabeth Hennessy

Assistant Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

Phone: (608) 263-6697

Email: ehennessy2@wisc.edu

Mutlu Ozdogan

Asst. Professor of Forestry and Asst. Professor of Environmental Studies

Website: http://bit.ly/12WnWGF

Office: 285 Enzyme Institute

Phone: (608) 262-6302

Email: ozdogan@wisc.edu

Interests: Land-use/land-cover conversion, climate change

Volker Radeloff

Professor, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences & Forest and Wildlife Ecology

Phone: (608) 263-4349

Email: radeloff@wisc.edu

Paul Robbins

Professor & Director, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

Website: http://faculty.nelson.wisc.edu/robbins

Office: 122 Science Hall

Phone: (608) 265-5296

Email: director@nelson.wisc.edu

Interests: Biodiversity; conservation; political economy; anthropogenic environments; India