Department Directory

	Daniela Aiello Assistant Professor of Geography - Begins July 2023 - Expertise: eviction and renter movements; feminism; urban; anti-racism; anti-colonialism
	Jennifer Baka Associate Professor of Geography 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
	Guido Cervone Professor of Geography and Meteorology & Atmospheric Science (MAS) cervone@psu.edu Expertise: environmental hazards; remote sensing; geoinformatics; social media
	Ida Djenontin Assistant Professor of Geography ind5050@psu.edu Expertise: environment-development governance; agro-forest systems; climate change adaptation and mitigation; sustainable livelihoods; equity; knowledge co-production; sub-Saharan Africa
	Lorraine Dowler Professor of Geography, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and International Affairs lxd17@psu.edu Expertise: political geography; gender; care ethics; qualitative methods; feminist geopolitics
	William Easterling Professor of Geography wee2@psu.edu Expertise: environmental change; agricultural systems; climate; renewable natural resources; land use
	Chris Fowler Associate Head of Undergraduate Programs csfowler@psu.edu Expertise: inequality; population; scale; economic; urban; race; segregation
	Larry Gorenflo Courtesy appointment in Geography ljg11@psu.edu Expertise: biodiversity conservation; cultural ecology; East Africa; Latin America; Southeast Asia
	Helen Greatrex Assistant Professor of Geography and Statistics 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 and Demography lmholmes@psu.edu Expertise: health disparities; substance use; socio-spatial determinants of health; urban health; environmental justice; migration; demographic and geospatial research methods
	Joshua Inwood Professor of Geography and African American Studies jfi6@psu.edu Expertise: memory studies; landscape; race and racism; truth commissions; cultural geography; urban geography
	Gregory Jenkins Courtesy appointments in Geography and African Studies gsj1@psu.edu Expertise: atmospheric/air chemistry; climate; tropical meteorology; Africa
	Brian King Head of Department king@psu.edu Expertise: development; conservation; Southern Africa; cultural and political ecology; health; livelihoods; justice
	Stephen Matthews Courtesy appointments in Geography and School of International Affairs sxm27@psu.edu Expertise: demography; health; mortality; inequality; spatial analysis
	Belen Norona Assistant Professor of Geography - Begins July 2023 mbnorona@psu.edu Expertise: Amazon Region; feminist political ecology; oil extraction; Indigenous people; non-representational cartography
	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 Associate Head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 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 of Geography ekr5260@psu.edu Expertise: urban and economic geography; financialization; philanthropy; housing; debt; public finance
	Erica Smithwick Distinguished Professor of Geography and Ecology smithwick@psu.edu Expertise: landscape ecology; ecosystem ecology; biogeochemistry; fire ecology
	Alan Taylor Professor of Geography and Ecology aht1@psu.edu Expertise: landscape ecology; fire ecology; disturbance and climate effects on vegetation; biogeography; biological conservation; environmental management; paleoecology
	Luke Trusel Assistant Professor of Geography 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: cryosphere; remote sensing; machine learning
	Melissa Wright Professor of Geography and Women's, Gender & 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 of Geography 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 of Geography, Ecology, and Rural Sociology 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