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Faculty

Stanley D. Brunn
Professor
Ph.D. Ohio State, 1966
Social and political geography, geographical futures, information and communication, electronic human geographies, humane geographies, world urbanization, and disciplinary history.
Major regions: North America, Europe, and Central Asia.
1467 Patterson Office Tower
Tel.: (859) 257-6947
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email:
brunn@uky.edu



Jeremy Crampton
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 1994
1667 Patterson Office Tower
Tel.: (859) 257-4377
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: jcrampton@uky.edu


Patricia Ehrkamp
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 2002
Urban, political, cultural geography. Migrant transnationalism; geographies of citizenship; identities and space; gender
1333 Patterson Office Tower
Tel. (859) 257-6952
Fax. (859) 323-1969
e-mail:
p.ehrkamp@uky.edu

P.P. Karan
Professor
Ph.D. Indiana, 1956
Development and environmental management, geography of multinational corporations, society-environment
relationships, Asia/Pacific, Japan, South Asia
.
1439 Patterson Office Tower
Tel.: (859) 257-6953
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: ppkaran@uky.edu

Daehyun Kim
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2009
Biogeography, Coastal/Forest ecology, Soil-landform modeling, Multivariate/Spatial statistics
1331 Patterson Office Tower
Tel.: (859) 257-6057
Fax: (859) 323-1969

email: biogeokim@uky.edu



Liang Liang
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2009
Bioclimatology, Landscape Phenology,
Remote Sensing, and Spatial Ecology

1451 Patterson Office Tower
Tel.: (859) 257-7058
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: liang.liang@uky.edu


Tad Mutersbaugh
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley, 1994
Political ecology, rural development in Mexico.
1471 Patterson Office Tower
Tel.: (859) 257-1316
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: mutersba@uky.edu

Jonathan Phillips
Professor
Ph.D. Rutgers, 1985
Geomorphology, pedology, earth surface systems.
1325 Patterson Office Tower
Tel. (859) 257-6950
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: jdp@uky.edu


Lynn Phillips
Lecturer
A.I.C.P., 2006
M.A. East Carolina University, 1985
Environmental planning, sustainable cities, land use.
1313 Patterson Office Tower
Tel. (859) 257-4140
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: lphil2@uky.edu


Karl Raitz
Professor
Ph.D. Minnesota, 1970
American landscapes, historical geography, U.S., Appalachia, photography and geography, visual methods.
1465 Patterson Office Tower
Tel.: (859) 257-6948
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: gegraitz@email.uky.edu

Susan Roberts
Professor and Chair
Ph.D. Syracuse, 1992
Global political economy, the geography of financial capital, development, social, feminist theories.
1455 Patterson Office Tower
Tel.: (859) 257-2399
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: sueroberts@uky.edu

Morgan Robertson
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004
Political ecology, commodification of nature, neoliberalism and the environment, wetland ecology and policy.
1329 Patterson Office Tower
Tel. (859) 257-0591
Fax. (859) 323-1969
email: mmrobertson@uky.edu

Michael Samers
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
D.Phil Oxford University (England) 1997
Economic and Urban Geography, immigration (especially political economy, labor markets, and Islamic/Muslim issues), European Union, France, US.
1467 Patterson Office Tower
Tel.: (859) 257-6966
Fax: (859) 323-1969

email: michael.samers@uky.edu



Richard Schein
Professor
Ph.D. Syracuse, 1989
Cultural landscape, urban geography, U.S. historical geography.
1441 Patterson Office Tower
Tel.: (859) 257-2119
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: schein@uky.edu

Anna J. Secor
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Colorado, 2000
1463 Patterson Office Tower
Tel.: (859) 257-1362
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: ajseco2@uky.edu

Gary Shannon
Professor
Ph.D. Michigan, 1970
Medical Geography: Disease Ecology and Health Services Delivery; Europe.
1449 Patterson Office Tower
Tel.: (859) 257-1112
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: gwshan00@uky.edu

Tony Stallins
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Georgia, 2000
Biogeomorphology, climatology, human-environment interactions, scale theory.
1669 Patterson Office Tower
Tel.: (859) 257- 2138
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: ja.stallins@uky.edu

Alice Turkington
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Queens University-Belfast, 1999
Geomorphology, weathering processes, urban environments, applied geomorphology.
1473 Patterson Office Tower
Tel.: (859) 257-9682
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: alicet@uky.edu

Matthew Wilson
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Washington, 2009
Critical and participatory GIS, urban geography,
science and technology studies.

1469 Patterson Office Tower
Tel.: (859) 257-8851
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: matthew.w.wilson@uky.edu

Andrew Wood
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Ohio State University, 1993
Economic, political, and urban geography.
1457 Patterson Office Tower
Tel.: (859) 257-1744
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: andrew.wood@uky.edu

Matthew A. Zook
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2001
Economic geography, internet commerce.
1475 Patterson Office Tower
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: zook@uky.edu



Sandra Zupan
Lecturer
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2010
urban geography, urban redevelopment, contestation strategies
131 Patterson Office Tower
Tel.: (859) 257-440
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: sandra.zupan@uky.edu


Gyula Pauer Center for Cartography & GIS

Richard A. Gilbreath
Manager & Adjunct Instructor
M.A. University of Kentucky, 1995
Center for Cartography and Geographic Information

Thematic production cartography, computer cartography
5 Miller Hall
Tel.: (859) 257-4745
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: geg182@uky.edu

Jeff Levy
GIS Laboratory Manager
Gyula Pauer Cartography and GIS Laboratory
B.A. University of Kentucky, 2000
Geographic Information System Analyst
4 Miller Hall
Tel.: (859) 323-0618
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: jelevy0@email.uky.edu

Joint Faculty

Jeff A. Jones
Assistant Professor, College of Public Health- Department of Health Behavior
Joint Appointment in Geography
Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 2001
Adolescent health, survey research, public health systems, GIS, sexually transmitted diseases (STIs), gay/lesbian communities
College of Public Health
121 Washington Ave, Suite 109
Tel: (859) 218-2087
Fax: (859) 323-2933
email: jeff.jones@uky.edu

Graham D. Rowles
Professor, Graduate Center for Gerontology
President-Elect, Association for Gerontology in
Higher Education
Joint Appointment in Geography
Ph.D. Clark University, 1976
Geography of aging and the elderly, social, rural, qualitative research methods.
303A Health Sciences Building
900 South Limestone
Tel: (859) 257-1450 x80145
Fax: 323-5747
e-mail:
growl2@uky.edu

John F. Watkins
Professor, Graduate Center for Gerontology
Joint Appointment in Geography
Ph.D. University of Colorado, 1986
Population, aging and the elderly, migration, place and the life course, and Appalachia.
306e Charles T. Wethington Building
Tel.: (859) 257-1450 x80240
Fax: (859) 323-5747
email: geg173@uky.edu

Adjunct Faculty

William Andrews
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Kentucky, 2004
Geomorphology, Quaternary mapping, physiography, fluvial erosion.
Kentucky Geological Survey

email: wandrews@uky.edu

Oliver Fröehling
Director, Centro Intercultural de Encuentro y Dialogo (CIED), Oaxaca, Mexico
M.A. Nebraska-Lincoln, 1993
Social theory, political ecology, development and indigenous people, GIS, Mexico, Latin America, North America.
Tel. (52) (951) 5-45-31
Fax. (52) (951) 6-54-17
email: oliverrf@prodigy.net.mx

Theodore H. Grossardt
Research Program Manager
Kentucky Transportation Center
176 Oliver Raymond Building (Ce/Kct) 0281
Tel.: (859) 257-4513 x236
Fax:(859) 323-1815
email: tgrossardt@uky.edu

Daniel Marion
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Iowa, 2001
Hydrology, stream channel morphology, forest ecosystems, and soils.
U.S. Forest Service
email: dmarion@fs.fed.us

Emeritus Faculty

Michael Kennedy
Associate Professor Emeritus
M.S. Louisville, 1978
Geographic information systems, computer cartography, computers for urban design, planning.
Bradley Hall
email: kennedy@uky.edu


In Memoriam

Thomas R. Leinbach
Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Former Editor: Growth and Change
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 1971
Economic geography, transport, development issues, Southeast Asia.



Richard Ulack
Professor Emeritus
Editor-in-Chief: Atlas of Kentucky
PhD Pennsylvania State University, 1972
Tourism development in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific