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William B. Beyers Ph.D., Washington, 1967, Professor and Chair
regional science; economic geography; geography of producer services;
regional analysis; geography of the Pacific Northwest
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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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Kam Wing Chan Ph.D., Toronto, 1988, Professor
urban and economic developent; migration; China
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Mark Ellis Ph.D., Indiana, 1988, Professor
immigration; race and ethnicity; labor markets
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Sarah Elwood Ph.D., Minnesota, 2000, Associate Professor
critical and participatory GIS; urban and political geography;
qualitative and participatory research
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Kim England Ph.D., Ohio State, 1988, Professor
urban social geographies; feminist geographies; labor markets
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James W. Harrington Ph.D., Washington, 1983, Professor
service industries; industrial location; regional economic development;
international trade
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Steve Herbert Ph.D., UCLA, 1995, Professor
urban and political geography; geography and the law;
social control in the city
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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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Craig Jeffrey Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1999, 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
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Victoria A. Lawson Ph.D., Ohio State, 1986, Professor
development theory; migration; Latin America; social theory;
economic and employment restructuring
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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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Katharyne Mitchell Ph.D., UC-Berkeley, 1993, Professor
cultural and economic geography; the urban environment;
migration and capital flows between the Pacific Rim and
the Pacific Northwest; social theory; philosophies of education
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Timothy L. Nyerges Ph.D., Ohio State, 1980, Professor
GIScience and society, public participation GIS and decision support, land use, transportation and water resources
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nyerges (at) u.washington.edu
Matthew Sparke Ph.D., British Columbia, 1996, Professor
Faculty Member, Jackson School of International Studies
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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Suzanne Davies Withers Ph.D., UCLA, 1992, Associate Professor
quantitative and longitudinal methods; poverty; urban housing; population;
spatial demography
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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
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Faculty Emeriti



Kuei-sheng Chang Ph.D., Michigan, 1955, Associate Professor
economic geography of China; geographical exploration; Third World development
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Douglas K. Fleming Ph.D., Washington, 1965, Professor
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W.A. Jackson Ph.D., Maryland, 1953, Professor Emeritus
School of International Studies
political systems; nature and culture; Canada; Russia
George Kakiuchi Ph.D., Michigan, 1957, Associate Professor Emeritus
School of International Studies
Japan; agriculture; internal migration; regional geography
Richard Morrill Ph.D., Washington, 1959, Professor Emeritus
spatial organization; migration; diffusion and population;
regional planning and development; inequality
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Günter Krumme Ph.D., Washington, 1966, Professor
economic geography; information economy; regional economics; location theory; organization and decision theory; Central European regional development policies
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Joseph Velikonja Ph.D., Rome (Italy), 1948, Professor
social and political geography; history of geography; immigrant in America; Eastern Europe
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Adjunct and Affiliate Faculty



Kathleen E. Braden Ph.D., Washington, 1980, Affiliate Professor
(also Department of Geography, Seattle Pacific University
Russian studies; resources and technology
Richard S. Conway Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1976, Affiliate Associate Professor
regional economic modeling
Yehuda Hayuth Ph.D., Washington, 1978, Affiliate Professor
transportation geography
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Lawrence M. Knopp, Jr. Ph.D., Iowa, 1989, Affiliate Professor
sexuality and space; feminisms; political and cultural geographies; urban and regional studies
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Andrew Light Ph.D., UC-Riverside, 1996, Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy and Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington
environmental ethics and policy; philosophy of technology; moral and political philosophy; aesthetics
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Doug Mercer

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