Department Directory
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Richard Reeves Professor Emeritus Email: reeves@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-1652 [more information] |
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Bokjin Roh PhD Student Email: bjroh@email.arizona.edu Office: ENR2 S595-EE [more information] |
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Dereka Rushbrook Email: dereka@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-9820 FAX: 520-621-2889 Office: ENR2 S426 Associate Professor. Undergraduate Advising. Internship Coordinator for SGD. Director, Contemporary Cuba: Collective Visions (Summer Study Abroad). Teaching: Population Geography, Geography and Social and Environmental Justice, Geographies of Beer, Sports Geographies, Sustainable Development,... [more information] |
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Thomas Saarinen Professor Emeritus Email: saarinen@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Katherine G. Sammler Assistant Professor Email: ksammler@gmail.com Assistant professor in the department of Global Studies & Maritime Affairs, California State University Maritime in Vallejo, CA. [more information] |
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Fernando Sanchez Assistant Professor of Practice, MS-GIST Online Coordinator Email: fernandosanchez@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-7004 FAX: 520-621-2889 Office: ENR2 S533 I am a quantitative researcher and educator with research experience in both STEM and the social sciences. My professional career centers around data analytics and has evolved in the context of three major fields: palaeoecology, anthropology, and environmental management, with technical expertise... [more information] |
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Edella Schlager Professor, School of Government and Public Policy Email: schlager@email.arizona.edu Office: Social Science 339 My research focuses on comparative institutional analyses of water laws, policies, property rights, and compacts in the western US. I am particularly interested in the design and performance of polycentric systems of water governance and how well such systems of water governance adapt to changing... [more information] |
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Emilie Schur M.A. Student/ Graduate Research Assistant Email: schur@email.arizona.edu Office: ENR2 N527 I am a second year human-environment geographer interested in groundwater governance, political ecology, and Latin America. This summer I conducted my thesis research on the US-Mexico border. I assessed water security in two, rural communities who are mutually dependent on a transboundary aquifer... [more information] |
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Christopher Scott Professor, Geography & Development; Director and Research Professor, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy; University Distinguished Scholar Email: cascott@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-8473 Office: ENR2 S421 Themes: resilience, adaptation, water-energy-food security nexus, governance, rivers, irrigation, groundwater, reuse, hydropower. Focus: India, Nepal, Mex., Latin Am., Ariz.; multi-lingual. $:... [more information] |
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Laura Sharp Ph.D. Candidate, Teaching Associate Email: laurasharp@email.arizona.edu Office: ENR2 S570-BB [more information] |
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Ian Shaw Postdoctoral Research Associate-University of Glasgow Email: Ian.Shaw.2@glasgow.ac.uk My research interests span three main areas: (1) ontology and politics – especially as read through the philosophy of Alain Badiou and Graham Harman; (2) the intersections between politics and popular culture, notably in video games; (3) the spatialities and politics of U.S.-led drone warfare... [more information] |
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Paul Sheppard Associate Professor- UA Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research Email: sheppard@ltrr.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-6474 Office: West Stadium 105c1 [more information] |
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Noah Silber-Coats Email: nsilbercoats@email.arizona.edu Office: ENR2 S595-CC [more information] |
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Nik Smilovsky MS-GIST Adjunct Instructor Email: nsmilovsky@email.arizona.edu Nik is both a graduate of and an instructor in the MAS-GIS program at ASU. He is currently a PhD student at Grand Canyon University pursuing studies in Psychology with the integration of technology & cognition. He is also employed as the Mapping Division Supervisor at RDO Integrated Controls... [more information] |
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Shelby Smith PhD Candidate Email: shelbys@email.arizona.edu Office: ENR2 S570-BB social, political, feminist and urban geography, socio-spatial theory, critical race theory, immigrant communities, the politics of belonging [more information] |
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Raymond Smith Interim Assistant Director, Master's in Development Practice Email: raymondsmith@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-1030 Office: ENR2 S452 Raymond Smith, Ph.D., LL.M., joined the Master's of Development Practice Program (MDP) as its Assistant Director after spending more than 20 years in New York City, where he was on the adjunct political science faculties at Columbia and NYU. He continues to be an adjunct associate professor with... [more information] |
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Katherine Snyder Director, Master's Program in Development Practice and Associate Professor Email: katherineasnyder@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-1585 FAX: 520-621-2889 Office: ENR2 S423 I began my career focusing on how ideas about development shape everyday life in rural Tanzania. As Tanzania underwent the transformation from a one-party state to a multi-party democracy, I looked at how these political shifts affected social change in rural communities and in national narratives... [more information] |
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Valente Soto PhD Candidate Email: valente@email.arizona.edu Office: ENR2 S595-DD I am interested in state theory, emotional geographies, violence and trauma. More specifically, my work examines what are the effects and means by which professionals—psychologists, social workers, and journalists—who witness or indirectly experience the outcomes of drug-related violence perceive... [more information] |
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Tom Stieve Email: tomthirteen@email.arizona.edu Office: ENR2 S570-CC I am majoring in Critical Human Geography and Technology & Methodology. I am interested in sense of place, landscape interpretation, media geography, GIS and all forms of methodology (quantitative and qualitative). My area of research is Europe. I also enjoy foreign langauges. For my... [more information] |
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Matthew Stuart Email: mes23@email.arizona.edu Office: ENR2 S554 [more information] |
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Zachary Sugg Email: zsugg@email.arizona.edu I am a water resource geographer interested generally in groundwater governance, especially in the western U.S. [more information] |
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Thomas Sullivan PhD. Student; Senior Coordinator - Student Programs, The Honors College Email: tmsulliv@email.arizona.edu Office: Slonaker House 107 [more information] |
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Leland Sutter PhD Geography Student Email: lelandsutter@email.arizona.edu Office: BSW 133 My research lies at the nexus of soil and plant relationships, starting at the organismal scale, then applying those relationships to large landscapes. More specifically, I am interested in semi-arid and arid lands, with a focus on soil-plant water and carbon movement. Interdisciplinary questions... [more information] |
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Tom Swetnam Regents' Professor- UA laboratory of Tree-Ring Research Email: tswetnam@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-2112 [more information] |
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Will Tintor PhD Student, Graduate Research Assistant at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research Email: wtintor@email.arizona.edu Will Tintor is a Ph.D student in the School of Geography and Development and the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research. His research focuses on the reconstruction of past hydrologic systems using tree-ring records and the application of this paleoclimate knowledge to better inform our modern water... [more information] |
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Nathan Treacy [more information] |
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Willem van Leeuwen Professor SGD and SNRE; Director Arizona Remote Sensing Center; Chair Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis GIDP Email: leeuw@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520 626 0058 FAX: 520-621-3816 Office: ENR2 N410 Director Arizona Remote Sensing Center Professor School of Natural Resources and the Environment School of Geography and Development Chair Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis Graduate Interdisciplinary Program ENR2 N410 The University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721... [more information] |
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Nicolena (Niki) vonHedemann Ph.D. Candidate Email: nvonhedemann@email.arizona.edu Office: ENR2 S570-CC My research interests lie at the cross section of ecology and human geography, particularly the complex social, political, and economic factors that play into landscape conservation and the impact of environmental protection on human societies. My dissertation research explores the social and... [more information] |
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Marv Waterstone Professor Emeritus Email: marvinw@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-1478 FAX: 520-621-2889 Office: ENR2 S551 I have appointments both in the School of Geography and the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources. [more information] |
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Margaret Wilder Associate Professor Email: mwilder@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-7231 Office: ENR2 S419 I am a human-environment geographer and political ecologist jointly-appointed in the School of Geography and Development and the Center for Latin American Studies. My main research interests are in critical water governance, transboundary climate vulnerabiity and adaptation, water equity and... [more information] |
