Faculty

Luke R. Bergmann
Ph.D., Minnesota,  2012, Assistant Professor
Nature-Society relations; political economy; globalization; complexity; critical geovisualization; China
website
lrb9 [at] uw [dot] edu

Michael P. Brown
Ph.D., British Columbia, 1994, Professor
North American Editor, Social & Cultural Geography
Political and health geography, sexuality & the body, political theory, Seattle
website
michaelb@u.washington.edu

Kam Wing Chan
Ph.D., Toronto, 1988, Professor
urban and economic development; migration; labor markets; China
website
kwchan@u.washington.edu

Mark Ellis
Ph.D., Indiana, 1988, Professor
immigration, internal migration,  race and ethnicity; labor markets
website
ellism@u.washington.edu

Sarah Elwood
Ph.D., Minnesota, 2000, Professor
critical and participatory GIS; urban and political geography; qualitative and participatory research
website
selwood@u.washington.edu

Kim England
Ph.D., Ohio State, 1988, Professor
urban, social, political and feminist  geographies; labor markets; social and feminist theories
website
england@u.washington.edu

James W. Harrington
Ph.D., Washington, 1983, Professor
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Science
Professor, Urban Studies, University of Washington
industries; industrial location; regional economic development; international trade
website
jwh@u.washington.edu

Steve Herbert
Ph.D., UCLA, 1995, Professor
Director,  Law, Societies & Justice
urban and political geography; geography and the law; social control in the city; geography, the law & the environment
website
skherb@u.washington.edu

Lucy A. Jarosz
Ph.D., UC-Berkeley, 1990, Professor
geography of food and agriculture; environmental and landscape change; development theory; Africa
website
jarosz@u.washington.edu

Victoria A. Lawson
Ph.D., Ohio State, 1986, Professor
development theory; migration; Latin America; social theory; economic and employment restructuring
website
lawson@u.washington.edu

Jonathan D. Mayer
Ph.D., Michigan, 1977
Professor Geography, Epidemiology and International Health
Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Dept. of Family Medicine, and Health Services
Clinical Faculty, Travel/Tropical Medicine, UW Medical Center
Co-Director, Undergraduate Program in Public Health
medical geography; infectious disease ecology and epidemiology; HIV in sub-Saharan Africa; HIV, poverty, and development
website
jmayer@u.washington.edu

Katharyne Mitchell
Ph.D., UC-Berkeley, 1993, Professor and Chair
migration; urbanization; social theory; philosophies of education; critical race theory
website
kmitch@u.washington.edu

Timothy L. Nyerges
Ph.D., Ohio State, 1980, Professor
Affiliate Faculty, UW Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Urban Design and Planning
Geographic Information Science and society, public participation GIS and decision support, land use, transportation and water resources
website
nyerges@uw.edu

Matthew Sparke
Ph.D., British Columbia, 1996, Professor
Adjunct Faculty, Jackson School of International Studies Professor, Department of Global Health
critical geopolitics; political and economic geography; social theory including post-colonial theory and feminist and anti-racist theory; U.S. and Canada
website
sparke@u.washington.edu

Suzanne Davies Withers
Ph.D., UCLA, 1992, Associate Professor
quantitative and longitudinal methods; poverty; urban housing; population; spatial demography
website
swithers@u.washington.edu

Craig ZumBrunnen
Ph.D., UC-Berkeley, 1973, Professor
Faculty Member, Russian, East European and Central Asia Studies Program and Middle East Studies Program, Jackson School of International Studies
Co-Director, Program on Environment
natural resource management and conservation; environmental quality problems; methods of resource analysis; physical geography; former Soviet Union; modeling of human impact in natural systems
website
craigzb@u.washington.edu

Resident Faculty Emereti

William B. Beyers
Ph.D., Washington, 1967, Professor
regional science; economic geography; geography of producer services; regional analysis; geography of the Pacific Northwest
website
beyers@u.washington.edu

Richard Morrill
Ph.D., Washington, 1959, Professor Emeritus
spatial organization; migration; diffusion and population; regional planning and development; inequality
website
morrill@u.washington.edu

Adjunct and Affiliate Faculty Emereti

Kathleen E. Braden
Ph.D., Washington, 1980, Affiliate Professor (also Department of Geography, Seattle Pacific University)
Russian studies; resources and technology
kbraden@spu.edu

Richard S. Conway
Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1976, Affiliate Professor
Regional economic modeling

Joe Hannah
Ph.D, University of Washington, 2007, Affiliate Lecturer
international development, civil society, GIS and critical cartography, Vietnam studies
website
jhannah@u.washington.edu

Yehuda Hayuth
Ph.D., Washington, 1978, Affiliate Professor
Transportation geography
website
hayuth@uvm.haifa.ac.il

Craig Jeffrey
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1999, Affiliate Associate Professor
Social geography of class; caste and gender in rural north India; social inequality; changing school regimes; the relationship between people and the state;  the political economy of development
website
craig.jeffrey@ouce.ox.ac.uk

Doug Mercer
PhD., University of Washington, 2000, Affiliate Assistant Professor
Nature-society relations; cultural landscape; environmental history; environmental perception; risk analysis; land use.

Lawrence M. Knopp, Jr.
Ph.D., Iowa, 1989, Adjunct Professor
Sexuality and space; feminisms; political and cultural geographies; urban and regional studies
website
knoppl@u.washington.edu

Stephen Young
BA Sociology, University of Leeds; MSc Sociology (by research), University of Edinburgh; Ph.D., University of Washington, 2008, Lecturer
global finance, microfinance, neoliberalism, critical geopolitics, governmentality, India.
sjy2@u.washington.edu