Areas of Expertise
Biogeography, pyrogeography, geomorphology, human impacts on environmental systems, media coverage of the environment
Ethan Coffel
Assistant Professor, Geography and the Environment Department
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2018
Areas of Expertise
Climate science, climate impacts, extreme weather, agriculture, energy, infrastructure
Peng Gao
Professor and Chair, Geography and the Environment Department
Areas of Expertise
River environment and morphodynamics, Geospatial-based (GIS, remote sensing, and UAV) urban planning and reforming
Timur Hammond
Assistant Professor, Geography and the Environment Department
Senior Research Associate, Middle Eastern Studies Program
Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center
Areas of Expertise
Middle East, Turkey, cultural geography, urban geography, religion, identity
Areas of Expertise
Marxism, energy and capitalism, climate politics, resource geography
Natalie Koch
Professor, Geography and the Environment Department
Director, Central Asia and the Caucasus Research Group
Senior Research Associate, Middle Eastern Studies Program
Senior Research Associate, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry
Areas of Expertise
Political geography, nationalism, energy and the environment, sport, Gulf and Arabian Peninsula studies
Anne E. Mosher
Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment Department
Areas of Expertise
Urban planning and geographies of infrastructure, crisis and disaster management, public scholarship and community engagement, digital humanities
Karl Offen
Professor, Geography and the Environment Department
Areas of Expertise
Historical geography, political ecology, Latin America and the Caribbean, Atlantic world, map studies
Arnisson Andre Ortega
Assistant Professor, Geography and the Environment Department
Faculty Affiliate, Community Geography
Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, 2012
Areas of Expertise
Community geography, urban geography, population geography, Global South cities, migration, transnationalism, suburbanization, population, socio-spatial theory, decolonization, quantitative methods, mixed-methods, critical demography, counter-mapping
Tom Perreault
Professor, Geography and the Environment Department
DellPlain Professor of Latin American Geography
Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence
Advisory Board Member, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean
Areas of Expertise
Political ecology, environmental justice, water governance, critical resource geography, mining and extractivism, rural livelihoods, agrarian political economy, indigeneity and indigenous politics, Latin America
Jane M. Read
Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment Department
Director, Integrated Learning Major, Environment, Sustainability and Policy
Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute
Areas of Expertise
Geographic information systems and remote sensing, human-environment interactions, geohumanities, indigenous livelihoods, Latin America
Jonnell A. Robinson
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Geography and the Environment Department
Co-Director, Community Geography
Senior Research Associate, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry
Areas of Expertise
Community geography, participatory geographic information systems (GIS)
Tod Rutherford
Professor, Geography and the Environment Department
Areas of Expertise
Economic restructuring, labor and the automobile industry, labor market processes and policies, regional development
Chie Sakakibara
Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment Department
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 2007
Areas of Expertise
Indigenous geographies, environmental humanities, humanistic geography, Arctic studies
Farhana Sultana
Professor, Geography and the Environment Department
Research Director, Environmental Conflict and Collaboration
Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center
Areas of Expertise
Political ecology, international development, water governance, climate change, environmental justice, sustainability, citizenship, human rights, decolonizing, transnational feminisms, South Asia
Robert Wilson
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Geography and the Environment Department
Areas of Expertise
Environmental history, historical geography, environmental humanities, animals and society, climate change history, politics
Jamie Winders
Professor, Geography and the Environment Department
Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, Syracuse University
Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute
Senior Research Associate, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry
Areas of Expertise
Autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, international migration, race/ethnicity, gender, cultural and social geography, social theory, social reproduction, feminist geography, qualitative methods, digital geographies