Faculty
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Shorna Allred Susan R. Wolf Distinguished Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies Office: Carolina Hall 219 [email protected] Environmental justice, conservation social science, conservation and land-use decision-making, global sustainability, community resilience, Southeast Asia and U.S. South |
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Javier Arce-Nazario Associate Professor Office: Carolina Hall 326 (919) 445-4844 [email protected] Landscape history, GIS-remote sensing, translational geoscience, critical physical geography, water and sustainability. |
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Julia Cardwell Teaching Assistant Professor Office: Carolina Hall 309 [email protected] Spatial data science education, Open Science, transportation, network analysis, extreme weather |
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Paul L. Delamater Associate Professor Office: Carolina Hall 217 (919)962-3922 (phone) [email protected] Health and medical geography, access to health care, health care policy, spatial analysis, GIS. |
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Amanda Gay DelVecchia Assistant Professor, Voit Gilmore Fellow Office: Carolina Hall 225 [email protected] Freshwater ecology, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, physical geography |
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Anthony Dest Assistant Professor and Gussenhoven Fellow in Geography and Latin American Studies Office: TBD [email protected] Armed Conflict and Peace; Autonomous Struggles; Capitalism; Colonialism; Ethnography; Racism; Social Movement Theory; State Formation |
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Adrian Drummond-Cole Teaching Assistant Professor Office: Carolina Hall 224 [email protected] Critical geography, political economy, environmental justice, water, agriculture, environmental history, science and technology studies, American studies |
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Michael Emch W.R. Kenan Jr., Distinguished Professor Office: Carolina Hall 304 (919)843-1010 (phone) [email protected] Medical geography, spatial epidemiology, health & environment, GIS |
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Chris Fuhrmann Research Associate Professor and Deputy Director, SERCC Office: 202 Albert & Gladys Coates Building (919) 843-2704 (phone) [email protected] Applied climatology, synoptic climatology, service climatology, biometeorology, climate variability and change |
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Maliheh Ghajargar Assistant Professor Office: Carolina Hall 307 (919) 962-8901(phone) [email protected] Geographic AI, Design Geography, More-than-Human Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Human-environment Interaction |
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Clark Gray Professor Office: Carolina Hall 308 (919) 962-3876 (phone) [email protected] Population, environment and development; survey and statistical methods |
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Banu Gökarıksel Professor, Chair of the Curriculum in Global Studies Office: Carolina Hall 307 and 2003 Global Education Center (919) 843-5835 (phone) [email protected] Feminist, political, cultural geography; feminist geopolitics; embodied and intimate politics of difference; religion, piety, and gender; borders, refugees, and migration; Turkey, the Middle East, and Europe. |
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Elizabeth Havice Professor, Bowman & Gordon Gray Term Professor and Associate Chair Office: Carolina Hall 324 (919) 962-3414 (phone) [email protected] Political economy, political ecology, international development, commodity studies, agrarian studies, environmental politics, natural resources, property, corporate power, science studies |
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Scott Kirsch Professor Office: Carolina Hall 306 (919) 962-3874 (phone) [email protected] Historical, cultural, & political geography; history of science; social theory |
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Chip Konrad Professor and Director, SERCC Office: Carolina Hall 305 (919) 962-3873 (phone) [email protected] Climatology, climate change, meteorology |
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Christian Lentz Associate Professor Office: Carolina Hall 319A (919) 843-7359 (phone) [email protected] Development, state formation, nationalism, nature-society relations, agrarian studies, Southeast Asia |
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Jun Liang Teaching Associate Professor Office: Carolina Hall 218 (919) 962-3872 (phone) [email protected] GIS, Programming, Cartography, Urban Modeling, Remote Sensing |
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Nina Martin Associate Professor Office: Carolina Hall 224 (919) 962-3916 (phone) [email protected] Urban geography, global cities, civil society, migration, labor markets and economic development |
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Ruth Matamoros Mercado Assistant Professor Office: Carolina Hall 319B [email protected] Indigenous Geographies, land relations and Law, Indigenous research methodologies, and Central America |
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Aaron Moody Associate Professor Office: Carolina Hall 211 (919) 962-5303 (phone) [email protected] Conservation, Landscape Ecology, Biogeography, Remote Sensing, GIS |
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Elizabeth Ann Olson Professor Office: Carolina Hall 318 (919) 962-3921 (phone) [email protected] Youth and feminist geographies, critical health geography, moral geography and care ethics, participatory methodology. |
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David Parr Teaching Assistant Professor Office: Carolina Hall 310 [email protected] GIS and Geographic Education; Volunteered Geographic Information; and Space-Time Modeling |
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John Pickles Research Professor [email protected] Globalization, economic geography, regional development, post-socialism, social and cultural theory, counter-cartographies |
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Danielle Purifoy Assistant Professor Office: Carolina Hall 309 [email protected] Black geographies, Environmental Justice, Uneven Development, U.S. South |
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Diego Riveros-Iregui Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Professor, Director of Graduate Studies Office: Carolina Hall 327 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (919) 962-6814 (phone) [email protected] Ecohydrology, watershed hydrology, biogeochemistry, critical zone, land-atmosphere interactions, tropical hydrology, climate and land use/land cover change |
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Chérie Rivers Professor Office: Carolina Hall 319C [email protected] Black geographies; decolonial praxes; indigeneity and sustainable farming; Black Atlantic world. |
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Sara Smith Professor Office: Carolina Hall 222 (919) 962-3875 (phone) [email protected] Political, cultural, and feminist geography; intimacy, territory, and bodies; health politics; geopolitical subject formation; Ladakh; Jammu and Kashmir; South Asia |
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Conghe Song Professor and Chair Office: Carolina Hall 206 (919) 843-4764 (phone) [email protected] Remote sensing, ecological modeling, forestry, human-environment interaction, land-cover/land-use change and climate change impacts on ecosystem functions, and GIS |
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Paul J. Taillie Assistant Professor Office: Carolina Hall 223 [email protected] Wildlife conservation, vertebrate community ecology, global change, and remote sensing |
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Gabriela Valdivia Professor and the Class of 1989/William C. Friday Distinguished Professor Office: Carolina Hall 315 919-962-3871 (phone) [email protected] Latin America; environment, identity and governance; critical resource geography; political ecology |
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Research Professor |
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| Erika Wise Professor Office: Carolina Hall 325 (919) 843-4762 (phone) [email protected] Climatology, dendrochronology, water resources |
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| QI Zhang Research Assistant Professor Office: Carolina Hall 310 [email protected] Human-environment geography, land use change, labor migration, forest policy, rural livelihoods, agent-based modeling |































