The UMass geography faculty community consists of core geography faculty, visiting scholars, lecturers, continuing education instructors, UMass faculty affiliates, adjunct faculty and emeritus faculty.
Core Geography Faculty
Toby Applegate, Ph.D. Geography, Rutgers University, 2014, Lecturer. Human Geography, migrants & refugees, economic geography. Europe. Click here for Toby Applegate’s webpage.
Forrest J. Bowlick, Ph.D., Geography, Texas A&M University, 2016. Lecturer. GIS, Geographic Education. Click here for Forrest Bowlick’s Geosciences webpage and here for Forrest Bowlick’s Environmental Conservation webpage. Click here to read about Forrest’s exciting new project.
Britt Crow-Miller, Ph.D., Geography, University of California-Los Angelos, 2013. Senior Lecturer. Human geography, sustainability, sustainability education, environmental politics, political geography. Click here for Britt Crow-Miller’s Geosciences webpage and here for Britt Crow-Miller’s Environmental Conservation webpage.
Piper Gaubatz, Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1989, Professor; Geography Program Head; Undergraduate Advisor. Urban, environmental history, China, Japan, United States. Click here for Piper Gaubatz’ webpage.
Seda ?alap–Ayça, Ph.D., University of California-Santa Barbara and San Diego State University, 2018. Lecturer. GIST, spatially explicit uncertainty-sensitivity analysis methods for land-use models. Click here for Seda ?alap–Ayça’s webpage.
Eric Thomas, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2020, Lecturer. Environmental Anthropology, Political Ecology, Resource Frontiers, Aquaculture, Fisheries, Coastal Development. Click here for Eric Thomas’s Geoscience’s webpage and here for Eric Thomas’s Environmental Conservation webpage.
University Without Walls Geography Instructors:
Kinuyo Kanamaru, Ph.D Geosciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Ted White, PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2013.
Morgan Carney, MS Sustainability Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2019, MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh; MS Geography candidate University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Jacob Chamberlain, ABD Geography, Clark University.
Kavarra Corr, ABD Geosciences/Geography, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Leo Hwang, Assistant Academic Dean of the College of Natural Science University of Massachusetts Amherst, PhD, Geography/Geosciences, 2016.
UMass Geography Faculty Affiliates
Affiliate faculty from other UMass departments participate in the UMass Geography community, serve on student advising and examination committees, and facilitate Geography students’ enrollment in their courses when appropriate.
Michael Ash, Professor and Department Chair, Economics. Click here for Michael Ash’ webpage.
Paul Barten, Professor, Department of Environmental Conservation. Click here for Paul Barten’s webpage.
Bethany Bradley, Assistant Professor, Environmental Conservation. Click here for Bethany Bradley’s webpage.
Carey Clouse, Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. Click here for Carey Clouse’ webpage.
Emiliana Cruz, Assistant Professor, Anthropology.
David Glassberg, Professor, History Click here for David Glassberg’s webpage.
Elisabeth Hamin, Professor and Chair, Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning. Click here for Elisabeth Hamin’s webpage.
Mark Hamin, Senior Lecturer, Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning. Click here for Mark Hamin’s webpage.
Krista Harper, Associate Professor, Anthropology. Click here for Krista Harper’s webpage.
Carol Heim, Professor, Economics. Click here for Carol Heim’s webpage.
Anita Milman, Assistant Professor, Environmental Conservation. Click here for Anita Milman’s webpage.
Flavia Montenegro-Menezes, Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. Click here for Flavia Montenegro-Menezes’ webpage.
Max Page, Professor, Architecture + Design. Click here for Max Pages’ webpage.
Mi-hyun Park, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering. Click here for Mi-hyun Park’s webpage.
Darrel Ramsey-Musolf, Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. Click here for Darrel Ramsey-Musolf’s web page.
Robert Ryan, Professor, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. Click here for Robert Ryan’s webpage.
Charlie Schweik, Associate Professor, Environmental Conseration and Center for Public Policy and Administration. Click here for Charlie Schweik’s webpage.
Heidi Scott, Assistant Professor, History Click here for Heidi Scott’s webpage.
Alexander “Sasha” Stepanov, GIS Architect, Administration and Finance.