Faculty
Below is a directory of current faculty in the Geography Department. Click on the name or photo of the faculty member for more information about that individual.
Lawrence Band
Voit Gilmore Distinguished Professor
Office: Saunders 307
work(919) 962-3921 (phone)
lband@email.unc.edu
Watershed hydrology, ecology & geomorphology, GIS, remote sensing
Social, landscapes & values, North America
Xiaodong Chen
Assistant Professor
Office: Saunders 319-C
work(919) 843-6326 (phone)
chenxd@email.unc.edu
Human-environment interactions, systems modeling and simulation, conservation ecology, environmental policy, GIS, China
Latin America, social theory, third world development
Medical geography, spatial epidemiology, health & environment, GIS
John Florin
Associate Professor Emeritus
Office: Saunders 225
work(919) 962-3879 (phone)
jflorin@email.unc.edu
Population, historical anglo-America, medical
Population, environment and development; survey and statistical methods
Banu Gökarıksel
Associate Professor
Office: Saunders 307
work(919) 843-5835 (phone)
banug@email.unc.edu
Cultural and feminist geography; globalization; commodities and objects; identity and subject formation; bodies and embodiment; religion, secularism; Turkey, the Middle East
Elizabeth Havice
Assistant Professor
Office: Saunders 324
work(919) 962-3414 (phone)
havice@email.unc.edu
Political economy and ecology, international development, commodity studies, agrarian studies, environmental politics, natural resources
Scott Kirsch
Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies
Office: Saunders 306
work(919) 962-3874 (phone)
kirsch@email.unc.edu
Historical, cultural, & political geography; history of science; social theory
Climatology, climate change, meteorology
Christian Lentz
Assistant Professor
Office: Saunders 319B
work(919) 843-7359 (phone)
cclentz@email.unc.edu
Development, state formation, nationalism,
nature-society relations, agrarian studies, Southeast Asia.
Jun Liang
Lecturer and GIS Technician
Office: Saunders 218
work(919) 962-3872 (phone)
liangj@email.unc.edu
GIS, Programming, Cartography, Urban Modeling, Remote Sensing
Urban geography, global cities, civil society, migration, labor markets and economic development
Medical, Population, Southeast Asia, and Developing World issues.
Aaron Moody
Associate Professor
Office: Saunders 211
work(919) 962-5303 (phone)
aaronm@email.unc.edu
Conservation, Landscape Ecology, Biogeography, Remote Sensing, GIS
Elizabeth Ann Olson
Associate Professor
Office: Saunders 225
work(919) 962-6816 (phone)
eaolson@email.unc.edu
Development practices; normativity and moral geographies; participatory methodologies; religion and secularization; youth, class and precarity.
Lauren Persha
Assistant Professor
Office: Saunders 319-A
work(919) 843-4497 (phone)
lpersha@email.unc.edu
Conservation and development, social-ecological systems, institutional analysis, environmental governance, forest ecology, political ecology, East Africa
John Pickles
Earl N. Phillips Distinguished Professor of International Studies, Chair of Geography
Office: Saunders 206
work(919) 962-3919 (phone)
jpickles@unc.edu
Globalization, economic geography, regional development, post-socialism, social and cultural theory, counter-cartographies.
Alvaro Reyes
Assistant Professor
Office: Saunders 217
work(919) 962--3922 (phone)
alvaroar@email.unc.edu
Political Geography, Black Geographies, Racialization and Socio-Territorial Movements in the Americas, Decolonization, and Critical Theory.
Meteorology, Climatology
Sara Smith
Assistant Professor
Office: Saunders 222
work(919) 962-3875 (phone)
shsmith1@email.unc.edu
Political, cultural, and feminist geography; intimacy, territory, and bodies; health politics; geopolitical subject formation; Ladakh; Jammu and Kashmir; South Asia
Conghe Song
Associate Professor
Office: Saunders 310
work(919) 843-4764 (phone)
csong at email dot unc dot edu
Remote sensing, ecological modeling, forest ecosystems, land-cover/land-use change and climate change impacts on ecosystem functions, and GIS
Gabriela Valdivia
Assistant Professor
Office: Saunders 315
work919-962-3871 (phone)
valdivia@email.unc.edu
Latin America; environment, identity and governance; critical resource geography; political ecology
Stephen Walsh
Lyle V. Jones Distinguished Professor
Office: Saunders 318
work(919) 962-3867 (phone)
swalsh@email.unc.edu
Remote sensing, GIS, physical geography, population & environmental interactions, agent based models & spatial analysis
Cultural ecology, Latin America, population
Climatology, dendrochronology, water resources
