Geography and the Environment Department Faculty, Courtesy Appointments, and Affiliates

Geography and the Environment Department faculty have expertise in environmental, cultural, economic, historical, physical and urban geography, and in geospatial analysis.

Faculty research is enriched through interdisciplinary collaborations with faculty in the Maxwell School and from other schools, as well as through rigorous field-based study of geographical processes in a variety of regions, places and landscapes.

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Ethan Coffel

Assistant Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Research Affiliate, Center for Policy Research

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

Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 2003

Areas of Expertise

River environment and morphodynamics, Geospatial-based (GIS, remote sensing, and UAV) urban planning and reforming

Meghan Kelly

Assistant Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Ph.D., Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2020

Areas of Expertise

Cartography, feminist mapping, critical GIS, community geography, digital storytelling, feminist digital geographies

Arnisson Andre Ortega

Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Faculty Affiliate, Community Geography

Ph.D., University of Washington, 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