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Jennifer Baka Associate Professor of Geography jeb525@psu.edu Expertise: energy geographies, political-industrial ecology, environmental governance |
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Trevor Birkenholtz Professor of Geography tlb5964@psu.edu Expertise: political ecology, development, social theory, nature-society relations, gender-dynamics, South Asia, water resources |
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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 |
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Lorraine Dowler Professor of Geography and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies lxd17@psu.edu Expertise: political geography, gender, qualitative methods, feminist geopolitics |
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Chris Fowler Associate Professor of Geography and Demography; Associate Faculty, Population Research Institute (PRI); Courtesy appointment in Demography csfowler@psu.edu Expertise: inequality, population, scale, economic, urban, race, segregation |
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Panagiotis Giannakis Assistant Teaching Professor pmg5371@psu.edu Expertise: economic geography, strategic management, social networks |
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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 |
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Joshua Inwood Professor of Geography jfi6@psu.edu Expertise: memory studies, landscape, race and racism, truth commissions, cultural geography, urban geography |
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Halie Kampman Postdoctoral Scholar hxk5547@psu.edu Expertise: health geographies, political ecology of health, science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, food studies |
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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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Stephen Matthews Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, Geography & Demography sxm27@psu.edu Expertise: demography, health, mortality, inequality, spatial analysis |
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Belen Norona Assistant Professor of Geography mbnorona@psu.edu Expertise: Amazon Region, feminist political ecology, oil extraction, Indigenous people, non-representational cartography |
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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 of Geography ekr5260@psu.edu Expertise: urban and economic geography, financialization, philanthropy, housing, debt, public finance |
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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 |
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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 |