Graduate 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

Daniel Barone

Information: Associate Research Professor; Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty; Marine and Coastal Sciences Building; daniel.barone@rutgers.edu; 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

James DeFilippis

James DeFilippis

Information: Graduate Faculty; | (848) 932-5475 x734; jdefilip@rci.rutgers.edu; Research Interests: community development, housing policy, immigration, labor

Priscilla Ferreira

Priscilla Ferreira

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

Nate Gabriel

Nate Gabriel

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

D. Asher Ghertner

D. Asher Ghertner

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

Ubydul Haque

Ubydul Haque

Information: Assistant Professor; Graduate Faculty; uhaque@globalhealth.rutgers.edu; Research Interests: geospatial epidemiology, global health, infectious diseases, health effects of war, conflict, and climate change

Wolfram Hoefer

Wolfram Hoefer

Information: Graduate Faculty; | (848) 932-9313; whoefer@sebs.rutgers.edu; Research Interests: cultural interpretation of brownfields, the role of public spaces in social relations

Melanie Hughes McDermott

Melanie Hughes McDermott

Information: Graduate Faculty; | 609-771-2836; mcdermom@tcnj.edu; Research Interests: political ecology, community-based resource management,
urban forestry, Southeast Asia, US

David Hughes

David Hughes

Information: Graduate Faculty; | 848-932-9299; dahughes@rutgers.edu; Research Interests: political ecology, conservation, colonialism, climate justice,
Southern Africa, Trinidad, race and nature

Richard G. Lathrop Jr.

Richard G. Lathrop Jr.

Information: Graduate Faculty; | (848) 932-1580; lathrop@crssa.rutgers.edu; Research Interests: monitoring and modeling terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, landscape dynamics using remote sensing, geographic information systems

Robin Leichenko

Robin Leichenko

Information: PROFESSOR; Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty; Lucy Stone Hall, room B265 | (848) 445-4056; rleichen@geography.rutgers.edu; Research Interests: economic geography and human dimensions of global environmental change.

Andrea Marston (on leave AY2023)

Andrea Marston (on leave AY2023)

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

Pam McElwee

Pam McElwee

Information: Graduate Faculty; | (848) 932-9209; pamela.mcelwee@rutgers.edu; Research Interests: political ecology, climate vulnerability, conservation, forests, gender, environmental justice, environmental conflict & security, Asia, Vietnam

Kathe Newman

Kathe Newman

Information: Graduate Faculty; | (848) 932-3822 x556; knewman@rci.rutgers.edu; Research Interests: urban politics, gentrification, affordable housing, predatory lending, power, race, class, and gender

Karen M. O'Neill

Karen M. O'Neill

Information: Graduate Faculty; | (848) 932-9208; koneill@aesop.rutgers.edu; Research Interests: governance, water and land resources, policy history, flood control, resilience planning and policy

Will Payne

Will Payne

Information: Graduate Faculty; | (848) 932-2370; will.b.payne@rutgers.edu; Research Interests: urban geography, spatial data science, critical and feminist GIS
food studies, gentrification studies

Edward Ramsamy

Edward Ramsamy

Information: Graduate Faculty; | (848) 445-8072; ramsamy@rci.rutgers.edu; Research Interests: development, social theory, race, culture and identity, Southern Africa

Åsa Rennermalm

Åsa Rennermalm

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

Kevon Rhiney

Kevon Rhiney

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

David Robinson

David Robinson

Information: Distinguished Professor; NJ State Climatologist; Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty; Lucy Stone Hall, room B230 | (848) 445-4741; david.robinson@rutgers.edu; 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.

Laura C. Schneider (on leave Spring 2023)

Laura C. Schneider (on leave Spring 2023)

Information: Professor; Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty; Lucy Stone Hall Room B-234 | (848) 445-0071; laura.schneider@rutgers.edu; Research Interests: land systems science, tropical ecosystems, remote sensing, Latin America

Ethan Schoolman

Ethan Schoolman

Information: Graduate Faculty; | (848) 932-9203; ethan.schoolman@rutgers.edu; Research Interests: environmental and social dimensions of local, regional and alternative food systems

Mi Shih

Mi Shih

Information: Graduate Faculty; | (848) 932-2755; mi.shih@ejb.rutgers.edu; Research Interests: land development and property rights, displacement, urban geography, city redevelopment, social protests and citizenship in China

Genese Sodikoff

Genese Sodikoff

Information: Graduate Faculty; | 973-353-5331; sodikoff@newark.rutgers.edu; Research Interests: One Health; multispecies ethnography; extinction; political ecology; conservation and development; Madagascar; Africa

Kevin St Martin

Kevin St Martin

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

David Tulloch

David Tulloch

Information: Graduate Faculty; | (848) 932-1581; tulloch@crssa.rutgers.edu; Research Interests: geo-spatial technologies, environmental and land use planning

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