- James DeFilippis
- (Ph.D., Rutgers)
- Phone: (848) 932-5475 x734
- Email: jdefilip@rci.rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: community development, housing policy, immigration, labor
- Graduate Faculty
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.
- Nate Gabriel
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- (Ph.D., Rutgers)
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall Room B-246
- Phone: 848-445-4362
- Email: nategab@geography.rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: political ecology, urban space, the public sphere, automation, diverse economies, sustainability, parks and green space
- Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty
- D. Asher Ghertner
- Associate Professor & Graduate Director
- (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley)
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall Room B-238
- Phone: (848) 445-4128
- Email: a.ghertner@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: urban geography, development and displacement, political ecology, aesthetic politics, ethnography, postcolonialism, India
- Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty
- Michael R. Greenberg
- (Ph.D., Columbia)
- Phone: (848) 932-0387
- Email: mrg@rci.rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: environmental health, mathematical models
- Graduate Faculty
- Wolfram Hoefer
- (Ph.D., Technical University of Munich Germany, 2000)
- Phone: (848) 932-9313
- Email: whoefer@sebs.rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: cultural interpretation of brownfields, the role of public spaces in social relations
- Graduate Faculty
- Melanie Hughes McDermott
- (Ph.D., UC Berkeley)
- Phone: (848) 932-9153
- Email: mmcdermott@aesop.rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: political ecology, community-based resource management, urban forestry, Southeast Asia, US
- Graduate Faculty
- David Hughes
- (Ph.D., UC Berkeley)
- Phone: (848) 932-9153 x361
- Email: dhughes@aesop.rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: political ecology, conservation, colonialism, climate justice, Southern Africa, Trinidad, race and nature
- Graduate Faculty
- Robert Lake
- (Ph.D., University of Chicago)
- Phone: (848) 932-3133 x521
- Email: rlake@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: community development, environmental politics, planning theory, locational conflict, urban and political geography
- Graduate Faculty
- Richard G. Lathrop Jr.
- (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Phone: (848) 932-1580
- Email: lathrop@crssa.rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: monitoring and modeling terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, landscape dynamics using remote sensing, geographic information systems
- Graduate Faculty
- Robin Leichenko
- Professor & Department Chair
- (Ph.D., Penn State)
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall Room B-265
- Phone: (848) 445-4056
- Email: robin.leichenko@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: economic geography, climate & society, urban & regional vulnerability and resilience, equity & environmental justice, globalization
- Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty
- Andrea Marston
- ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
- (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley)
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall, B-255
- Phone: (848) 445-2445
- Email: andrea.marston@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: environmental politics, postcolonial geographies, resource extraction, Science and Technology Studies, feminist geographies, Latin America
- Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty
- Pam McElwee
- (Ph.D., Yale University)
- Phone: (848) 932-9209
- Email: pamela.mcelwee@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: political ecology, climate vulnerability, conservation, forests, gender, environmental justice, environmental conflict & security, Asia, Vietnam
- Graduate Faculty
- Kathe Newman
- (Ph.D., Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York)
- Phone: (848) 932-3822 x556
- Email: knewman@rci.rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: urban politics, gentrification, affordable housing, predatory lending, power, race, class, and gender
- Graduate Faculty
- Paul O'Keefe
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- (Ph.D., West Virginia)
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall Room B-240
- Phone: (848) 445-4356
- Email: paul.okeefe@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: development geography, political ecology, human-environment relations, adaptation to climate change, vulnerability, livelihoods approaches, Tanzania
- Core Faculty
- Karen M. O'Neill
- (Ph.D., UCLA)
- Phone: (848) 932-9208
- Email: koneill@aesop.rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: governance, water and land resources, policy history, flood control, resilience planning and policy
- Graduate Faculty
- Will Payne
- (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley)
- Phone: (848) 932-2370
- Email: will.b.payne@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: urban geography, spatial data science, critical and feminist GIS food studies, gentrification studies
- Graduate Faculty
- Edward Ramsamy
- Phone: (848) 445-8072
- Email: ramsamy@rci.rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: development, social theory, race, culture and identity, Southern Africa
- Graduate Faculty
- Åsa Rennermalm
- Associate Professor & Undergraduate Program Director
- (Ph.D., Princeton)
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall, B214
- Phone: (848) 445-4731
- Email: asa.rennermalm@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: hydrology, climatology, Arctic region
- Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty
- Kevon Rhiney
- Assistant Professor
- (Ph.D., University of the West Indies)
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall, B-259
- Phone: (848) 445-4375
- Email: kevon.rhiney@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: global change, rural agrarian livelihoods, biopolitics, political ecology, environmental justice, postcolonial thought, Caribbean region
- Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty
- Trinidad Rico
- Ph.D. Anthropology Stanford University
- Phone: (848) 932-1301
- Email: Trinidad.rico@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: heritage preservation, ethnography, expertise, Arabian Peninsula, Southeast Asia.
- Graduate Faculty
- David Robinson
- Distinguished Professor
- NJ State Climatologist
- (Ph.D., Columbia)
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall Room B-230
- Phone: (848) 445-4741
- Email: 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.
- Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty
- Laura C. Schneider
- Associate Professor
- (Ph.D., Clark)
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall Room B-234
- Phone: (848) 445-0071
- Email: laura.schneider@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: land systems science, tropical ecosystems, remote sensing, Latin America
- Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty
- Ethan Schoolman
- (Ph.D., University of Michigan 2013)
- Phone: (848) 932-9203
- Email: ethan.schoolman@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: environmental and social dimensions of local, regional and alternative food systems
- Graduate Faculty
- Mi Shih
- (Ph.D., Rutgers)
- Phone: (848) 932-2755
- Email: mi.shih@ejb.rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: land development and property rights, displacement, urban geography, city redevelopment, social protests and citizenship in China
- Graduate Faculty
- Genese Sodikoff
- Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Michigan
- Phone: 973-353-5331
- Email: sodikoff@newark.rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: One Health; multispecies ethnography; extinction; political ecology; conservation and development; Madagascar; Africa
- Graduate Faculty
- Kevin St Martin
- Associate Professor
- (Ph.D., Clark)
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall Room B-232
- Phone: (848) 445-3634
- Email: kevin.st.martin@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: economic geography, diverse economies, political ecology, community and commons, critical cartographies, GIS
- Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty
- David Tulloch
- (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison)
- Phone: (848) 932-1581
- Email: dtulloch@ocean.rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: geo-spatial technologies, environmental and land use planning
- Graduate Faculty
- Willie J. Wright
- ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
- (Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Office: Lucy Stone Hall, B-236
- Phone: (848) 445-4376
- Email: wright.w@rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: Black Studies, Black Geographies, social movements, urban geography, place-making
- Core Faculty, Graduate Faculty
- Ming Xu
- (Ph.D., UC Berkeley)
- Phone: (848) 932-9211
- Email: mingxu@crssa.rutgers.edu
- Research Interests: climate and ecosystem interaction, climate change and ecosystem modeling
- Graduate Faculty
