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Jennifer Baka Associate Professor jeb525@psu.edu Expertise: Energy geographies; Political-industrial ecology; Environmental governance |
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Ann Bartos Courtesy Scholar aeb6276@psu.edu Expertise: feminist political geography; care ethics; political ecology of food and agriculture; children's geographies |
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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 |
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Lorraine Dowler Associate Head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion lxd17@psu.edu Expertise: political geography; gender; qualitative methods; feminist geopolitics |
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Roger Downs Associate Head of Undergraduate Programs rd7@psu.edu Expertise: spatial cognition; cognitive development; geography education; behavioral geography |
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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 |
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Panagiotis Giannakis Assistant Teaching Professor pmg5371@psu.edu |
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Tatiana Gumucio Post-doctoral scholar tjg5820@psu.edu Expertise: climate variability and change; livelihoods; gender, ethnicity, and race; agriculture and food security |
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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 |
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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 |
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Brian King Head of Department king@psu.edu Expertise: development; conservation; Southern Africa; cultural and political ecology; health; livelihoods; justice |
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Bronwen Powell Associate 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 |
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Emily Rosenman Assistant Professor ekr5260@psu.edu Expertise: financialization; philanthropy; impoverishment; housing; urban and economic geography |
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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 |
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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 |