Faculty

John A. Agnew (Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1976) is a Professor with research interests in Political Geography, International Political Economy, European Urbanization, and Italy. Professor Agnew teaches courses in Political and European Geography.

Stephen A. Bell (Ph.D., Toronto, 1991) is an Associate Professor with research interests in historical and cultural geography, Latin America, and the history of geographic thought. Professor Bell teaches courses on Latin America and various branches of historical geography.

Judith A. Carney (Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1986) is a Professor with research interests in Africa, cultural/political ecology, African diaspora, and development studies. Professor Carney teaches courses on African ecology and development, gender and rural development, and environment and food systems.

William A. V. Clark (Ph.D., Illinois, 1964) is a Professor with research interests in urban geography, spatial demography, and statistics. Professor Clark teaches courses in ethnicity, populations, and California.

Michael R. Curry (Ph.D., Minnesota, 1984) is a Professor with research interests in cultural geography, the history of geographic thought, and the philosophy of geography. Dr. Curry teaches courses in geographic thought and in technology and society.

Lisa Kim Davis (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 2005) is an Assistant Professor with research interests in human geography, urbanism, housing, feminist thought, and public health. Dr. Davis teaches classes on urban geography, Koreanology, qualitative methods, and gender and space.

Jared Diamond (Ph.D., Cambridge University, England) is a Professor with research interests in Biogeography, Geography and Human Society. He teaches classes in world regions and past societies.

J. Nicholas Entrikin (Ph.D. Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1975) is a Professor with research interests in the relations of human communities to the natural environment. His emphasis is on the cultural and political significance of place and landscape in a globalizing world.

Lieba Faier (Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz, 2003) is an Assistant Professor with research interests in cultural and spatial theory, feminist thought, ethnography, political economy, weather and natural resources, and relations among Japan, Southeast Asia, and the United States. She teaches classes on culture and place, gender and sexuality, global interconnection, human rights, and Japan.

C. Cindy Fan (Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1989) is a Professor with research interests in population, migration, regional development, gender, ethnicity, and China. She is also Professor and Past Chair of the Department of Asian American Studies.

Thomas W. Gillespie (Ph.D., UC Los Angeles, 1998) is an Associate Professor with research interests in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing, and Biogeography. Professor Gillespie leads the EOS seminars and teaches classes in remote sensing and the geography of tropics.

Glen Macdonald (Ph.D., Toronto, 1984) Professor with research interests in Biogeography, paleoecology, paleoclimatology, fossil pollen and tree ring analysis. Professor MacDonald teaches classes in ecology, biogeography, and environmentalism.

Gregory S. Okin (Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 2001) is an Associate Professor with research interests in geomorphology, plant-soil interactions, arid environments, nutrient cycling, spatial modeling, and remote sensing. Professor Okin teaches courses in Physical Geography and Soils.

Antony R. Orme (Ph.D., Birmingham, UK, 1961) is a Professor with research and teaching interests in geomorphology, coastal sciences, paleoclimatology, Quaternary studies, coastal and watershed management, and the physical basis of geography.

Marilyn N. Raphael (Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1990) is a Professor with research interests in Physical geography, climatology, global climate change, and quantitative methods. She teaches classes in climatology and environmental impact analysis and environmental problems.

David L. Rigby (Ph.D., McMaster, 1988) (Chair) is a Professor with research interests in economic geography, quantitative methods, and regional development. Dr. Rigby teaches classes in economic geography and globalization.

Allen J Scott (Ph.D., Northwestern, 1965) is a Professor with research interests in economics, industrial location, social theory, and urban geography. Professor Scott teaches classes in economic geography and regional development.

Yongwei Sheng (Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2000) is an Associate Professor with research interests in GIS, Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry, Environmental Studies, Forestry, Lake dynamics, and Global Change. Professor Sheng teaches courses in GIS and Remote Sensing.

Michael E. Shin (Ph.D., Colorado, 1998) is an Associate Professor with research interests in geographic information systems (GIS), political geography, globalization and Italy. Professor Shin teaches courses in GIS, cartography and geographic data visualization, and is Director of the UCLA Certificate in Geospatial Information Systems & Technology.

Laurence C. Smith (Ph.D., Cornell, 1996) is a Professor with research interests in Arctic climate change, Hydrology and Remote Sensing. Professor Smith teaches courses in environmental science, satellite imaging, and physical geography.

Stanley W. Trimble (Ph.D., Georgia, 1973) is a Professor with research interests conservation, hydrology, fluvial geomorphology, research techniques, and environmental history. He teaches classes in hydrology and the environment.

Hartmut S. Walter (Ph.D., Bonn, 1967) is a Professor with research interests in biogeography, globalization impacts on nature, animal ecology, and extinction geography. He teaches courses in biogeography, conservation theory and practice, and field analysis.

Yongkang Xue (Ph.D., Utah, 1987) is a Professor with research interests in climatology, atmosphere-land surface dynamics, remote sensing, and meteorological prediction.