Faculty Members
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Lynn Staeheli SGD Director Email: lstaeheli@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-7062 Office: ENR2 S437 My research is broadly located within the fields of urban, political and feminist geographies. Substantively, my research explores big, contentious topics such as 'democracy', 'citizenship' and 'politics.' More concretely, I have explored topics related to publicly accessible space, protest and... [more information] |
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Kevin Anchukaitis Associate Professor Email: kanchukaitis@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-8054 Office: ENR2 S514 I am a paleoclimatologist, dendrochronologist, and earth systems geographer specializing in the reconstruction and analysis of climate variability and change over the Common Era and the interaction between past climate and human society. My research uses an array of techniques to develop and... [more information] |
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Keiron Bailey Associate Professor Email: kbailey@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-4096 FAX: 520-621-2889 Office: ENR2 S522 Normative rhetorics of inclusion, participation, collaboration and transparency permeate institutional discourses but metrics and hard data on large-scale process performance are elusive. My research focuses on high performance participatory systems and the potential contribution of collaborative... [more information] |
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Jeffrey Banister Associate Research Social Scientist, Editor, and Research Professor Email: banister@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-1031 FAX: 520-621-2889 Office: ENR2 S425 Associate Research Social Scientist; Associate Editor; Associate Research Professor--Southwest Center, Journal of the Southwest, and the School of Geography and Development. [more information] |
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Greg Barron-Gafford Associate Professor & Associate Director Email: gregbg@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-548-0388 Office: ENR2 S439 Associate Professor; Biogeography and Ecosystem Science School of Geography and Development and with Biosphere 2, The University of Arizona [more information] |
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Carl Bauer Professor Email: cjbauer@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-1917 FAX: 520-621-2889 Office: ENR2 S525 Professor, School of Geography & Development Faculty Associate, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy. Affiliated Faculty, Arid Lands Resource Sciences; Center for Latin American Studies; College of Law; Global Change; Institute of the Environment; School of Government & Public... [more information] |
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Stefano Bloch Assistant Professor - School of Geography + Development and Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Email: s.bloch@arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-3311 Office: ENR2 S-521 I am a cultural and urban geographer who conducts research on transgressive subcultures, criminality, policing, neighborhood change and race, with expertise in the history and theorization of graffiti as a socio-spatial practice and the use of ethnographic and autoethnographic research methods. I... [more information] |
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Stephanie Buechler Assistant Research Professor Email: buechler@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-5314 FAX: 520-621-2889 Office: ENR2 S451 My research focuses on natural resource use under changing environmental conditions in rural, peri-urban and urban settings. I have examined climate change adaptation and how this is linked with water and agriculture. I have also been conducting research on food deserts and the role of community... [more information] |
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Ben Champion Assistant Professor of Practice Email: bchampion@email.arizona.edu Office: ENR2 S534 [more information] |
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Gary Christopherson Associate Professor of Practice, School of Geography and Development Director, Center for Applied Spatial Analysis Email: garych@casa.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-6267 FAX: 520-621-2889 Office: ENR2 S530 [more information] |
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Andrew Comrie Professor Email: comrie@arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-4403 FAX: 520-621-2889 Office: ENR2 S531 Professor, School of Geography & Development - interdisciplinary climate scientist and geographer Joint Appointments: Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences, Public Health Graduate Interdisciplinary Program membership: Arid Lands Resource Sciences, Entomology & Insect Science, Global Change,... [more information] |
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Vincent J. Del Casino, Jr. Professor Email: vdelcasino@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-6688 Office: Administration 401 Professor of Geography and Development; Interim Senior Vice Provost and Vice President for Academic Initiatives and Student Success. He is part of the Dialogues in Human Geography and Social and Cultural Geography editorial boards and recently co-edited A Companion to Social Geography (Wiley-... [more information] |
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Sapana Doshi Associate Professor Email: sdoshi@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-8107 Office: ENR2 S422 I am an Associate Professor at the School of Geography and Development and a Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies. My work on urban social movements explores the nexus of cultural politics and political economy in cities of the Global South and traverses the fields of... [more information] |
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Audra El Vilaly Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Master's in Development Practice Program Email: audra@email.arizona.edu My research interests include: Political ecology Political geography and state theory Climate and environmental change Critical development studies Emotional and affective geographies Theories of memory, modernity and post-colonialism Feminist geopolitics Sub-Saharan Africa Middle East and North... [more information] |
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Tom Evans Professor Email: tomevans@arizona.edu Tom Evans is a new faculty member at SGD (January 2018). My current work focuses primarily on agricultural decision-making, food security and environmental governance but have had past projects related to deforestation/reforestation, urban ecosystems, community resilience. My work generally... [more information] |
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Andrea K. Gerlak Associate Professor Email: agerlak@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-1842 FAX: 520-621-2889 Office: ENR2 S518 My research agenda examines the causes of—and innovative solutions to—some of our world’s most pressing environmental challenges. Broadly speaking, I am interested in how we can better design institutions to promote adaptive, flexible policies to improve human and ecosystem well-being and produce... [more information] |
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John Paul Jones III Professor and Dean Email: jpjones@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-1112 Professor of Geography and Don Bennett Moon Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences; Affiliated appointments: Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and Department of Gender and Women's Studies; Director: Arizona in Oaxaca Study Abroad Program. Editor,... [more information] |
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Mark Kear Assistant Professor Email: mkear@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-1021 Office: ENR2 S515 My work explores the variegated landscape of post-credit-crunch experimentation in non-prime financial institutional development and subject formation through financial education and coaching. I use a variety of methods in my research including participant observation, and other qualitative... [more information] |
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Diana Liverman Regents' Professor Email: liverman@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-1652 Office: ENR2 S517 For more and updated information please see my webpage http://liverman.faculty.arizona.edu/ Diana's research has focused on the human dimensions of global environmental change and her main research interests include climate impacts, vulnerability... [more information] |
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Chris Lukinbeal Associate Professor, Director of GIST Programs Email: chris.lukinbeal@arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-6181 FAX: 520-621-2889 Office: ENR2 S507 My research investigates the intersection of cultural geography with cartography, landscape, media, and visual culture. I am a founding editor for the book series Media Geography at Mainz and an Associate Editor for the journal... [more information] |
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Sallie Marston Professor and Director, UA Community and School Garden Program Email: marston@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-3903 FAX: 520-621-3903 Office: ENR2 S431 My work is located at the intersection of socio-spatial theory and politics. I am particularly interested in how space, or sites, are bound up in and shape the production of subjectivities, bodies, practices and discourses. At the empirical level I focus on everyday life and the seemingly mundane... [more information] |
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Orhon Myadar Assistant Professor Email: orhon@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-0221 Office: ENR2 S519 As a political geographer, I study geographical implications of politics at various scales. I am especially interested in questions of power, ideology, mobility and identity within the context of shifting political landscapes. I study how borders of belonging or exclusion shift as political regimes... [more information] |
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Elizabeth Oglesby Associate Professor Email: eoglesby@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-5799 FAX: 520-621-5799 Office: ENR2 S539 [more information] |
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Tracey Osborne Associate Professor Email: tosborne@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-5798 FAX: 520-621-2889 Office: ENR2 S527 My research is broadly concerned with the commodification of nature through environmental markets. More specifically, I draw on political ecology, agrarian studies and critical development to investigate the ways in which carbon markets and payments for environmental services intersect with... [more information] |
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David Plane Professor Email: plane@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-1738 FAX: (520) 621-2889 Office: ENR2 S429 My research focuses on population geography and regional science, U.S. migration and settlement patterns, the role of the life course in affecting mobility, and methods for modeling activity patterns and temporal change in spatial interaction systems. I have served as President and Chair of the... [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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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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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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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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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] |
