AAG

Elizabeth A. Oglesby, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2000,
Associate Professor and Chair of the Undergraduate Committee
— critical development, political economy, ethnography, human
rights and post-conflict issues, Latin America
Tracey Osborne, PhD., University of California, Berkeley, 2010,
Assistant Professor — social dimensions of climate change
mitigation, agrarian studies, political ecology, Mexico, Latin
America and the Caribbean.
Iris Patten, PhD., University of Florida, Gainesville, 2014, Professor
of Practice and Program Director, Online Masters of Science in
Geographic Information Systems
David A. Plane, Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1981, Professor — migration,
population, transportation, and regional science
Dereka Rushbrook, Ph.D., Arizona, 2005, Associate Professor and
Director of Undergraduate Studies — development, Latin
America, social theory/social justice
Christopher Scott, Ph.D., Cornell, 1998, Professor — water
management and policy, climate and water variability, urban
water demand, water reuse, energy-water nexus, groundwater;
Southwest U.S., Mexico, South Asia
Lynn A. Staeheli, PhD, University of Washington, 1989, Professor and
Director — Community and political activism;
citizenship; public space; memory and post-conflict societies;
gender, youth, religion and race; Lebanon; South Africa; US;
Europe
Daoqin Tong, Ph.D., Ohio State, 2007, Associate Professor —
location modeling, spatial optimization, GIS, transportation and
remote sensing
Willem van Leeuwen, Ph.D., Arizona, 1995, Associate Professor,
Geography and School of Natural Resources and Environment
— landscape ecology, dryland environments, biogeography,
remote sensing, field methods
Margaret O. Wilder, Ph.D., Arizona, 2002, Associate Professor,
Geography and Latin American Studies, and Environmental
Policy — political ecology of water and environment in Mexico,
climate-related vulnerability and adaptation in
U.S.-Mexico border, development and Latin America
Connie Woodhouse, Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1996, Professor —
paleoclimatology, dendrochronology, climate variability, water
resources, western U.S.
Stephen R. Yool, Ph.D., UC-Santa Barbara, 1985, Professor —
physical geography, remote sensing, computer cartography, GIS
EMERITI FACULTY:
D. Robert Altschul, Ph.D., Illinois
Wayne Robert Decker, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Lay James Gibson, Ph.D., UCLA
Janice J. Monk, Ph.D., Illinois
Gordon Mulligan, Ph.D., British Columbia
Leland R. Pederson, Ph.D., UC, Berkeley
Richard W. Reeves, Ph.D., UCLA
Thomas F. Saarinen, PhD., Chicago
Marvin Waterstone, Ph.D., Rutgers
AFFILIATED FACULTY:
Brown, Heidi, PhD., Yale University, 2007, Assistant Professor,
Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division — vector-borne disease,
spatial epidemiology and climate change and health
Bonnie G. Colby, Ph D Wisconsin, 1983, Professor, Agriculture and
Resource Economics — water, public lands, energy and
environmental economics
Benedict Colombi, PhD., Washington State University, 2007,
Professor — American Indian Studies
Crimmins, Michael, PhD., University of Arizona, 2004, Associate
Professor — Climate Science Extension Specialist, Soil, Water
and Environmental Science- climate science support, resource
management, drought monitoring and drought preparedness
Gregg Garfin, Ph.D., Arizona, 1998, Director of Science Translation
and Outreach, Institute of the Environment — climate change,
adaptation, climate impacts, drought, outreach, US-Mexico
Katherine K. Hirschboeck, Ph.D., Arizona, 1985, Associate Professor,
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research — hydroclimatology,
hydrology, synoptic climatology, climate variability,
dendroclimatology
Vance T. Holliday, Ph.D., Colorado, 1982, Professor of Anthropology
and Geosciences — geoarchaeology, Paleoindian archaeology,
soil-geomorphology, Quaternary landscape evolution, Great
Plains and the Southwest
Laura E. Huntoon, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1991, Associate
Professor, Planning Degree Program — urban and regional
planning
Charles F. Hutchinson, Ph.D., UC, Riverside, 1978, Professor, Arid
Lands Studies — remote sensing, physical, arid lands
Kathy Jacobs, PhD. University of California, Berkeley, 1981,
Professor and Director of Arizona Water Institute — climate
adaptation, water management issues, water sustainability, water
policy, connecting science and decision-making, stakeholder
engagement and drought planning
Miranda Joseph, Ph.D., Stanford, 1995, Professor and Director of
Graduate Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies — Marxist
theory, poststructuralist theory, queer theory, feminist theory,
cultural studies
Stuart E. Marsh, Ph.D., Stanford, 1979, Professor, Geography and
School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Chair Arid
Lands Resource Sciences Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program,
Director, Arizona Remote Sensing Center — environmental
remote sensing, land-use land cover change, computer
applications
Sharon B. Megdal, Ph.D. Princeton, 1981, Professor, Dept. of
Agriculture and Resource Economics and Department of Soil,
Water and Environmental Science — water policy and
management, public policy
Gary P. Nabhan, Ph.D., Arizona, 1983, Research Social Scientist,
Southwest Center and School of Geography and Development —
food geography, political ecology, sustainable agriculture and
fisheries, biodiversity conservation, ethno botany, conservation
sociology/reconciliation ecology, local food systems
Jon Pelletier, Ph.D., Cornell, 1997, Associate Professor, Geosciences
— landscape processes, fluvial and aeolian geomorphology
Linda Samuels, PhD., UCLA, 2012, Project Director, Sustainable City
Project — urban planning, infrastructure as public space,
architecture
Edella Schlager, Ph.D,, Indiana University, 1990, Professor and
Director of PhD Studies — comparative institutional analysis,
common pool resource theory, water law/policy/politics in the
western US
Paul R. Sheppard, Ph.D., Arizona, 1995, Associate Professor,
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research — dendrochemistry,
environmental monitoring with tree rings,
dendrogeomorphology, image analysis of tree rings
Thomas W. Swetnam, Ph.D., Arizona, 1987, Professor, School of
Renewable Natural Resources and Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology, Director of Laboratory of Tree Ring Research —
disturbance ecology, paleoclimatology, biogeography
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