Jeffrey Banister

Director, Southwest Center

Associate Research Social Scientist

Research Professor

• Political geography
• Environmental history
• Geography of Mexico and Latin America

Carl Bauer

Director, School of Geography, Development and Environment

Professor

• Comparative & international water policy
• Water rights in Chile
• Hydropower & water/energy nexus in the Americas

Stefano Bloch

Associate Professor

Director of Graduate Studies, School of Geography, Development & Environment

Faculty, Graduate Program in Social, Cultural & Critical Theory

2021 Early Career Scholar / 2021 College Teaching Award

Trial Expert & Court Testimony: neighborhoods, gangs, graffiti, crime, identity

• Cultural geography
• Critical criminology
• Autoethnographic research and writing

Andrew Curley

Assistant Professor

• Indigenous/Decolonial Geographies
• Political ecologies of water and hydrosocial natures
• Critical development studies

Jason R. Jurjevich

Assistant Professor

• Population geography
• Migration and mobility
• Urban geography

Mark Kear

Assistant Professor

• Financial geography
• Urban geography
• Biopolitics

Chris Lukinbeal

Professor

Director of GIST Programs

• Cartographic Humanism and GeoHumanities

Orhon Myadar

Associate Professor

• Political geography
• Critical Border Studies
• Forced Displacement and Refugee Studies

Lise Nelson

Associate Professor

• Migration and citizenship
• Feminist geography
• Critical development studies

Elizabeth Oglesby

Associate Professor

• Globalization and labor issues
• Human rights
• Central America

Katherine Snyder

Professor

Director, Master's Program in Development Practice

• Political ecology
• Agrarian Studies
• Gender and Development

Beth Tellman

Assistant Professor

• Human-Environment interactions and global change
• land use and flood risks
• vulnerability

Margaret Wilder

Professor, School of Geography, Development & Environment (SGDE) and Center for Latin American Studies (LAS)

Affiliated Faculty, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy

Executive Committee, Arid Lands Resource Sciences (ALRS)

• Critical human-environment
• Political ecology
• Water governance