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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Matthew T. Huber

Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Ph.D., Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, 2009

Areas of Expertise

Marxism, energy and capitalism, climate politics, resource geography

Natalie Koch

Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Geography and the Environment Department

Director, Central Asia and the Caucasus Initiative

Senior Research Associate, Middle Eastern Studies Program

Senior Research Associate, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry

Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder, 2012

Areas of Expertise

political geography, nationalism, geopolitics, authoritarianism, Gulf and Arabian Peninsula studies

Anne E. Mosher

Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Ph.D., Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University, 1989

Areas of Expertise

Urban planning and geographies of infrastructure, crisis and disaster management, public scholarship and community engagement, digital humanities

Tom Perreault

Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

DellPlain Professor of Latin American Geography

Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence

Senior Research Associate, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Ph.D., Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2000

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

Tod Rutherford

Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Advisory Board Member, Center for European Studies

Ph.D., Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Wales College of Cardiff, 1992

Areas of Expertise

Economic restructuring, labor and the automobile industry, labor market processes and policies, regional development

Farhana Sultana

Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Research Director, Environmental Conflict and Collaboration

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center

Ph.D., Geography, University of Minnesota, 2007

Areas of Expertise

Political ecology, international development, water governance, climate change, environmental justice, sustainability, citizenship, human rights, decolonizing, transnational feminisms, South Asia

John Western

Professor Emeritus, Geography and the Environment Department

Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence

Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence

Robert D. McClure Professor of Teaching Excellence

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1978

Areas of Expertise

Social, cultural, urban geography, Southern Africa, Europe

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

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 2004

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