Department Directory

	Jennifer Baka Assistant Professor jeb525@psu.edu Expertise: Energy geographies; Political-industrial ecology; Environmental governance
	Trevor Birkenholtz Associate Head of Resident Graduate Programs tlb5964@psu.edu Expertise: political ecology; development; social theory; nature-society relations; gender-dynamics; South Asia; water resources
	Cynthia Brewer Professor of Geography cab38@psu.edu Expertise: cartographic communication and visualization; map design; color theory; multi-scale mapping; atlas production; topographic maps; cartography
	Andrew Carleton Professor amc7@psu.edu Expertise: climatology; synoptic climatology; climate dynamics; climate impacts of aviation contrails; human impacts on climate; climate variability and change; land surface-climate interactions; polar climatology; polar lows; Southern Ocean; Antarctica
	Guido Cervone Associate Director, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences cervone@psu.edu Expertise: environmental hazards; remote sensing; geoinformatics; social media
	Lorraine Dowler Associate Head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion lxd17@psu.edu Expertise: political geography; gender; qualitative methods; feminist geopolitics
	Roger Downs Associate Head of Undergraduate Programs rd7@psu.edu Expertise: spatial cognition; cognitive development; geography education; behavioral geography
	William Easterling Professor wee2@psu.edu Expertise: environmental change; agricultural systems; climate; renewable natural resources; land use
	Chris Fowler Director of The Peter R. Gould Center for Geography Education and Outreach csfowler@psu.edu Expertise: inequality; population; scale; economic; urban; race; segregation
	Helen Greatrex Assistant Professor of Geography hlg5155@psu.edu Expertise: weather risk management; geostatistics; uncertainty estimation; historical weather analysis; satellite rainfall estimation; index insurance; agricultural modeling; social equity
	Louisa Holmes Assistant Professor of Geography lmholmes@psu.edu Expertise: health disparities; socio-spatial determinants of health; tobacco control; substance use; quantitative and geospatial research methods; survey research; area-level observational studies
	Joshua Inwood Director of Penn State Lab for Analysis of Culture and Environment (PLACE) jfi6@psu.edu Expertise: critical race theory; peace geographies; social movements; political economy; urban geography; social justice; cultural geography
	Brian King Head of Department king@psu.edu Expertise: development; conservation; Southern Africa; cultural and political ecology; health; livelihoods; justice
	Stephen Matthews Liberal Arts Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, Demography, and Geography sxm27@psu.edu Expertise: geographic information systems; demography; health and well-being; multi-method research
	Nathan Piekielek Geospatial Librarian and Associate Professor of Geography nbp104@psu.edu Expertise: geographic information science; remote sensing and spatial analysis geospatial research support ; landscape ecology and conservation ; interdisciplinary social and natural science research
	Bronwen Powell Assistant Professor of Geography, African Studies, and Anthropology bxp15@psu.edu Expertise: Biodiversity and Nutrition; Wild and forest foods; Dietary patterns and dietary diversity; Traditional food systems; Applied Research for improved policy and practice
	Anthony Robinson Director of Online Geospatial Education acr181@psu.edu Expertise: geovisual analytics; cartography; user-centered design; geovisualization; information visualization
	Emily Rosenman Assistant Professor ekr5260@psu.edu Expertise: financialization; philanthropy; impoverishment; housing; urban and economic geography
	Erica Smithwick Director of the Center for Landscape Dynamics smithwick@psu.edu Expertise: landscape ecology; ecosystem ecology; biogeochemistry; fire ecology
	Alan Taylor Professor aht1@psu.edu Expertise: landscape ecology; fire ecology; disturbance and climate effects on vegetation; biogeography; biological conservation; environmental management; paleoecology
	Luke Trusel Assistant Professor trusel@psu.edu Expertise: climate variability and change; ice sheet surface mass balance; ice core paleoclimatology; remote sensing
	Kimberly Van Meter Assistant Professor of Geography vanmeterkvm@psu.edu Expertise: Water Quality; Wetlands; Biogeochemistry; Environmental Modeling; Remote Sensing; Human-Environment Interactions
	Shujie Wang Assistant Professor of Geography skw5660@psu.edu Expertise: remote sensing; machine learning; numerical modeling; ice flow dynamics; snow/ice albedo; glacier algae
	Melissa Wright Professor of Geography and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies mww11@psu.edu Expertise: Critical geography; Urban landscapes; Mexico-US borderlands; Latin America; Intersectional feminist and critical race studies; Social Movements; Post-colonial and decolonial studies
	Manzhu Yu Assistant Professor mqy5198@psu.edu Expertise: geographic information science; spatiotemporal theories and applications; big data and cloud computing; natural hazards and extreme weather; environmental informatics; spatial data science and deep learning
	Karl Zimmerer Professor ksz2@psu.edu Expertise: land use and agricultural change/global change; economic development/globalization/neoliberalism; nature-society and human-environment theory environmental impacts (biodiversity/soils/water/conservation); food/producer-consumer networks/sustainability

Department of Geography

Department Directory