Faculty

Below is a directory of current faculty in the Geography Department. Click on a faculty member’s name to visit his or her personal website. Also here is photo taken from the recent faculty retreat (Oct 23, 2015).

Faculty	Contact
	Javier Arce-Nazario Associate Professor Office: Carolina Hall 326 (919) 445-4844 jarce@email.unc.edu Landscape history, GIS-remote sensing, translational geoscience, critical physical geography, water and sustainability.
	Paul L. Delamater Associate Professor Office: Carolina Hall 217 (919)962-3922 (phone) pld@email.unc.edu Health and medical geography, access to health care, health care policy, spatial analysis, GIS.
	Amanda Gay DelVecchia Assistant Professor Office: Carolina Hall 225 adelvecc@ad.unc.edu Freshwater ecology, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, physical geography
	Michael Emch W.R. Kenan Jr., Distinguished Professor Office: Carolina Hall 304 (919)843-1010 (phone) emch@email.unc.edu Medical geography, spatial epidemiology, health & environment, GIS
	Clark Gray Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Office: Carolina Hall 308 (919) 962-3876 (phone) cgray@email.unc.edu Population, environment and development; survey and statistical methods
	Banu Gökarıksel Professor, Chair of the Curriculum in Global Studies Office: Carolina Hall 307 and 2003 Global Education Center (919) 843-5835 (phone) banug@email.unc.edu Feminist, political, cultural geography; feminist geopolitics; embodied and intimate politics of difference; religion, piety, and gender; borders, refugees, and migration; Turkey, the Middle East, and Europe.
	Elizabeth Havice Professor, Bowman & Gordon Gray Term Professor and Associate Chair Office: Carolina Hall 324 (919) 962-3414 (phone) havice@email.unc.edu Political economy, political ecology, international development, commodity studies, agrarian studies, environmental politics, natural resources, property, corporate power, science studies
	Scott Kirsch Professor Office: Carolina Hall 306 (919) 962-3874 (phone) kirsch@email.unc.edu Historical, cultural, & political geography; history of science; social theory
	Chip Konrad Professor and Director, SERCC Office: Carolina Hall 305 (919) 962-3873 (phone) cek@email.unc.edu Climatology, climate change, meteorology
	Christian Lentz Associate Professor Office: Carolina Hall 319A (919) 843-7359 (phone) cclentz@email.unc.edu Development, state formation, nationalism, nature-society relations, agrarian studies, Southeast Asia
	Jun Liang Teaching Associate Professor Office: Carolina Hall 218 (919) 962-3872 (phone) liangj@email.unc.edu GIS, Programming, Cartography, Urban Modeling, Remote Sensing
	Nina Martin Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies Office: Carolina Hall 224 (919) 962-3916 (phone) ninam@email.unc.edu Urban geography, global cities, civil society, migration, labor markets and economic development
	Aaron Moody Associate Professor Office: Carolina Hall 211 (919) 962-5303 (phone) aaronm@email.unc.edu Conservation, Landscape Ecology, Biogeography, Remote Sensing, GIS
	Chérie Rivers Ndaliko Associate Professor Office: Carolina Hall 319C ndaliko@unc.edu Black geographies; decolonial praxes; indigeneity and sustainable farming; Black Atlantic world.
	Elizabeth Ann Olson  Professor and Chair Office: Carolina Hall 225 (919) 962-3921 (phone) eaolson@email.unc.edu Youth and feminist geographies, critical health geography, moral geography and care ethics, participatory methodology.
	Danielle Purifoy Assistant Professor Office: Carolina Hall 309 danielle.purifoy@unc.edu Black geographies, Environmental Justice, Uneven Development, U.S. South
	John Pickles Daniel W Patterson Distinguished Professor of International Studies and Geography Office: Carolina Hall 219 (919) 962-3919 (phone) jpickles@unc.edu Globalization, economic geography, regional development, post-socialism, social and cultural theory, counter-cartographies
	Diego Riveros-Iregui Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Professor Office: Carolina Hall 327 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (919) 962-6814 (phone) diegori@unc.edu Ecohydrology, watershed hydrology, biogeochemistry, critical zone, land-atmosphere interactions, tropical hydrology, climate and land use/land cover change
	Sara Smith Professor Office: Carolina Hall 222 (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 Professor Office: Carolina Hall 310 (919) 843-4764 (phone) csong@email.unc.edu Remote sensing, ecological modeling, forest ecosystems, land-cover/land-use change and climate change impacts on ecosystem functions, and GIS
	Paul J. Taillie Assistant Professor Office: Carolina Hall 223 ptaillie@unc.edu Wildlife conservation, vertebrate community ecology, global change, and remote sensing
	Gabriela Valdivia Professor and the Class of 1989/William C. Friday Distinguished Professor Office: Carolina Hall 315 919-962-3871 (phone) valdivia@email.unc.edu Latin America; environment, identity and governance; critical resource geography; political ecology
	Erika Wise Professor Office: Carolina Hall 325 (919) 843-4762 (phone) ekwise@email.unc.edu Climatology, dendrochronology, water resources