Core Faculty

Faculty are divided into two categories: Core and Graduate Faculty. Core faculty are central to the department. They teach and advise both undergraduate and graduate students. Graduate faculty may be based out of another department at Rutgers. They advise graduate students only. Graduate faculty includes the core faculty.

Core Faculty Graduate Faculty

Daniel Barone

Information: Associate Teaching Professor; Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty; Marine and Coastal Sciences Building; Research Interests: coastal zone management including coastal storm vulnerability assessments, floodplain studies, sediment transport studies, beneficial use of dredged material assessments, and shore protection evaluations

Nate Gabriel

Information: Assistant Teaching Professor; Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty, contact-undergraduate; Lucy Stone Hall, room B246 | 848-445-4362; Research Interests: political ecology, urban space, the public sphere, automation, diverse economies, sustainability, parks and green space

D. Asher Ghertner (on leave AY 24-25)

Information: PROFESSOR; Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty; Lucy Stone Hall Room B-238 | (848) 445 4129; Research Interests: Urban geography, development and displacement, political ecology, aesthetic politics, ethnography, postcolonialism, India

Robin Leichenko

Information: Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences & Distinguished Professor; Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty; Lucy Stone Hall, room B265 | (848) 445-4056; Research Interests: economic geography and human dimensions of global environmental change.

Andrea Marston

Information: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR; Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty; Lucy Stone Hall, B-255 | (848) 445-2445; Research Interests: environmental politics, postcolonial geographies, resource extraction, Science and Technology Studies, feminist geographies, Latin America

Paul O'Keefe

Information: Assistant Teaching Professor; Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty, contact-undergraduate; Lucy Stone Hall Room B-240 | (848) 445-4356; Research Interests: development geography, political ecology, human-environment relations, adaptation to climate change, vulnerability, livelihoods approaches, Tanzania

Priscilla Pinto Ferreira (on leave Fall 24)

Information: Assistant Professor; Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty; Lucy Stone Hall Room B-236 | (848) 445-4376; Research Interests: Afro-Latinx Geographies, Black solidarity economies, urban geography, Afro-Latina feminisms, and decolonial methodologies and pedagogical praxis.

Åsa Rennermalm

Information: Professor & Undergraduate Program Director; Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty, contact-undergraduate; Lucy Stone Hall, room B214 | (848) 445-4731; Research Interests: hydrology and glaciology of the Arctic region, and how contemporary climate change is transforming the Greenland ice sheet

Kevon Rhiney

Information: Associate Professor; Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty; Lucy Stone Hall, room B259 | (848) 445-4375; Research Interests: global change, rural agrarian livelihoods, biopolitics, political ecology, environmental justice, postcolonial thought, Caribbean region

J.T. Roane

Information: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR; Core Faculty; Research Interests: Black geographies, Black ecologies, Black Gender and Sexuality Studies, urban and rural geographies, African American and African Diaspora History, political ecology

David Robinson

Information: Distinguished Professor; NJ State Climatologist; Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty; Lucy Stone Hall, room B230 | (848) 445-4741; Research Interests: My research interests run the spatial gamut from global to local, with an underlying theme being the development of a better understanding of the climate system.

Jesse Rodenbiker

Information: Assistant Teaching Professor; Core Faculty, contact-undergraduate; Lucy Stone Hall Room B-244 | 848-445-4355; Research Interests: environmental governance, urban geography, inequality, displacement, political ecology, sustainability, biodiversity, oceanic and archipelagic geographies, China

Laura C. Schneider

Information: Professor & Graduate Program Director; Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty, contact-graduate; Lucy Stone Hall Room B-234 | (848) 445-0071; Research Interests: land systems science, tropical ecosystems, remote sensing, Latin America

Kevin St Martin

Information: Professor & Department Chair; Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty; Lucy Stone Hall Room B-232 | (848) 445-3634; Research Interests: economic geography, diverse economies, political ecology, community and commons, critical cartographies, GIS

Teona Williams (on leave AY 24-25)

Information: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR; Core Faculty; Lucy Stone Hall Room B-253 | (848) 445-4286; Research Interests: Black geographies, Black feminism, African American and environmental history, Black Ecologies, critical food studies, critical disaster studies, the Black South(s), and rural geographies

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