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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

Michael Crutcher
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Louisiana State University, 2001
Urban geography, Housing policy, Cultural landscapes, American South, Urban performance traditions, Southern Black identity, Popular cartography
1465 Patterson Office Tower
Tel.: (859) 257-8851
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: mcrut00@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
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
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1439 Patterson Office Tower
Tel.: (859) 257-6953
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: ppkaran@uky.edu

Michael Kennedy
Associate Professor
M.S. Louisville, 1978
Geographic information systems, computer cartography, computers for urban design, planning.
1451 Patterson Office Tower
Tel.: (859) 257-6494
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: kennedy@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

Tad Mutersbaugh
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley, 1994
Political ecology, rural development in Mexico.
1331 Patterson Office Tower
Tel.: (859) 257-1316
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: mutersba@uky.edu

Jonathan Phillips
Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D. Rutgers, 1985
Geomorphology, pedology, earth surface systems.
1453 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.
1457 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, the Caribbean.
1471 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.
1457 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.
Tel.: (859) 257-6966
Fax: (859) 323-1969

email: michael.samers@uky.edu



Richard Schein
Associate 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, Director of the Committee on Social Theory
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

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

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.
1307 Patterson Office Tower
Tel.: (859) 257-8334
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: zook@uky.edu

Gyula Pauer Center for Cartography & GIS

Richard A. Gilbreath
Manager & Adjunct Instructor
M.A. 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. 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., 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 and Director, Graduate Center for Gerontology
Joint Appointment in Geography
Ph.D. Clark, 1976
Geography of aging and the elderly, social, rural, qualitative research methods.
303B Health Sciences Building
Tel: (859) 257-1450 x80145
Fax: 323-5747
e-mail:
growl2@uky.edu

John F. Watkins
Associate Professor, Graduate Center for Gerontology
Joint Appointment in Geography
Ph.D. 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

Emeritus Faculty

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

Richard Ulack
Professor Emeritus
PhD Pennsylvania State University, 1972
Tourism development in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific
email: rulack@gmail.com

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 Fröhling
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
Engineer Assoc Program Manager I/Research
Kentucky Transportation Center
176 Oliver Raymond Building (Ce/Kct) 0281
Tel.: (859) 257-4513 x236
Fax:(859) 323-1815
email: thgros00@uky.edu

Patrick Lawless
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Kentucky, 2005
Biogeography and landscape ecology
Naprogenix, Inc.
email:
patrick.lawless@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

David Zurick
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Hawaii, 1986
Conservation, economic development, tourism, the Himalayan Kingdoms, and photography.
Eastern Kentucky University

email: david.zurick@eku.edu