Faculty

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Luke R. Bergmann Ph.D., Minnesota,  2012, Assistant Professor

Nature-Society relations; political economy; globalization; complexity; critical geovisualization; China

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lrb9@uw.edu

Michael P. Brown Ph.D., British Columbia, 1994, Professor

Political and health geography, sexuality & the body, political theory, Seattle; North American Editor, Social & Cultural Geography

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michaelb@u.washington.edu

Kam Wing Chan Ph.D., Toronto, 1988, Professor

Urban and economic development; migration; China

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kwchan@u.washington.edu

Mark Ellis Ph.D., Indiana, 1988, Professor

Immigration; race and ethnicity; labor markets

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ellism@u.washington.edu

Sarah Elwood Ph.D., Minnesota, 2000, Associate Professor

Critical and participatory GIS; urban and political geography; qualitative and participatory research

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selwood@u.washington.edu

Kim England Ph.D., Ohio State, 1988, Professor

Urban social geographies; feminist geographies; labor markets

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england@u.washington.edu

James W. Harrington Ph.D., Washington, 1983, Professor.

Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Science, and Professor, Urban Studies, University of Washington, Tacoma

Service industries; industrial location; regional economic development; international trade

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jwh@u.washington.edu

Steve Herbert Ph.D., UCLA, 1995, Professor, also, Director,  Law, Societies & Justice

urban and political geography; geography and the law; social control in the city; geography, the law & the environment

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skherb@u.washington.edu

Lucy A. Jarosz Ph.D., UC-Berkeley, 1990, Associate Professor

geography of food and agriculture; environmental and landscape change; development theory; Africa

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jarosz@u.washington.edu

Victoria A. Lawson Ph.D., Ohio State, 1986, Professor

development theory; migration; Latin America; social theory; economic and employment restructuring

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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


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jmayer@u.washington.edu

Katharyne Mitchell Ph.D., UC-Berkeley, 1993, Professor and Chair

migration; urbanization; social theory; philosophies of education; critical race theory


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kmitch@u.washington.edu

Timothy L. Nyerges Ph.D., Ohio State, 1980, Professor
Affiliate Faculty, UW Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Urban Design and Planning

GIScience and society, public participation GIS and decision support, land use, transportation and water resources
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

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sparke@u.washington.edu

Suzanne Davies Withers Ph.D., UCLA, 1992, Associate Professor

quantitative and longitudinal methods; poverty; urban housing; population; spatial demography

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swithers@u.washington.edu

Craig ZumBrunnen Ph.D., UC-Berkeley, 1973, ProfessorFaculty 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

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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

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beyers@u.washington.edu

Richard Morrill Ph.D., Washington, 1959, Professor Emeritus

spatial organization; migration; diffusion and population;
regional planning and development; inequality

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morrill@u.washington.edu

Kim England

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 ProfessorRegional economic modeling
Joe Hannah Ph.D, University of Washington, 2007, Affiliate Lecturer
international development, civil society, GIS and critical
cartography, Vietnam studieswebsite
jhannah@u.washington.edu
Yehuda Hayuth Ph.D., Washington, 1978, Affiliate Professor

Transportation geography

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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 developmentwebsite
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

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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