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Graduate Catalog 2014-2015 
    
Graduate Catalog 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Geography Faculty


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Sean Ahearn, Professor and Director, Center for Advanced Research of Spatial Information (CARSI); PhD, Wisconsin (Madison); Agent-based models, space-time analysis, digital image analysis, ecological modeling, emergency response, urban geographic systems

Jochen Albrecht, Associate Professor; PhD, Vechta (Germany); Dynamic or process GIS, spatio-temporal analysis, landscape ecology, crime and health applications

Frank Buonaiuto, Assistant Professor; PhD, SUNY (Stony Brook); Oceanography, coastal processes, numerical modeling of waves, tides and sediment transport

Carson Farmer, Assistant Professor; PhD, National University of Ireland, Maynooth; GIScience, commuting, urban environments, spatial analysis, statistics

Allan Frei, Associate Professor; PhD, Rutgers; Climate change, snow and water resources, modeling

Hongmian Gong, Associate Professor; PhD, Georgia; Urban geography, GIS, transportation, China

Charles A. Heatwole, Professor; PhD, Michigan State; Cultural, recreation, religion, geographic education

Carsten Kessler, Assistant Professor and Associate Director, Center for Advanced Research of Spatial Information (CARSI); PhD, Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster (Germany); Information integration, linked data and semantic web technology, geospatial semantics,volunteered geographic information, emergency management, context modeling, collaborative and participatory GIS

Mohamed Ibrahim, Assistant Professor; PhD, Alberta; Environmental studies, resource management, sustainable development, Africa, rural water supply and sanitation

Teodosia Manecan, Lecturer; PhD, Bucharest; Igneous and metamorphic petrology, geology of NYC

Peter Marcotullio, Associate Professor; PhD, Columbia; Global Cities, Urban environmental transitions, globalization and urban development, ecosystem approaches to urban and regional environmental planning and management and impacts of urbanization on the environment

Ines Miyares, Professor and Chair; PhD, Arizona State; Geographies of immigration and ethnicity, spacial impacts of immigration and refugee law, Latin America - Andean Peru

Wenge Ni-Meister, Associate Professor; PhD, Boston; Remote sensing, land-atmosphere interaction, meteorology,climatology, biogeography

Rupal Oza, Associate Professor; PhD, Rutgers; Race, gender, postcolonial theory, feminist theory, cultural studies, social theory, globalization

Marianna Pavlovskaya, Associate Professor; PhD, Clark; Urban geography, post-socialist Russia, gender and class, feminist geography, geographic information science (GIS), social implications of GIS

Randye Rutberg, Assistant Professor; PhD, Columbia; paleoclimatology, oceanography, geochemistry, environmental science, environmental public policy

Haydee Salmun, Associate Professor; PhD, Johns Hopkins; Oceanography, global climate, environmental fluid dynamics, land surface-atmosphere-ocean interface

William Solecki, Professor; PhD, Rutgers; Urban environmental change and management, land Use/land cover studies, GIS Applications

Karl Szekielda, Research Associate Professor; PhD, Marseille; Remote sensing, oceanography, harmful algae blooms

Traci Warkentin, Assistant Professor; PhD, York; Environmental and geographic education, environmental ethics, animal studies, environmental feminism, environment and culture, phenomenological biology

Affiliated Faculty

Saul B. Cohen, University Professor Emeritus and Regent of the State of New York; PhD, Harvard; Political Geography, Middle East, Geography and Psychology, International Development, Geographic Education

Vinay Gidwani, Professor of Geography; PhD, Berkeley; Post-Socialism and Justice, Labor Geographies, Marxism, Identity Politics and Subaltern Social Movements, Geographies of Work, Agroecological Transformations, Social Theory, India

Roger A. Hart, Professor of Environmental Psychology, Developmental Psychology and Geography; PhD, Clark; Children’ s Geographies and the Geography of Children, Participatory Community Development, The Political Participation of Children and Youth

David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; PhD Cambridge, UK; Geography and Social Theory, Urban Political Economy, Uneven Geographical Development

Cindi Katz, Professor of Geography; PhD, Clark; Cultural Geography, Social Reproduction and Everyday Life, Children’s Geographies, Urban Geography, Gender and the Environment, Nature and Society

John E. Seley, Professor of Environmental Psychology and Earth and Environmental Sciences; PhD, Pennsylvania; Urban Geography; GIS for Policy, the Nonprofit Sector

Neil Smith, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography; Ph.D, Johns Hopkins; Political Economy, Urban Geography, History of Geography, Global Restructuring

 

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