Faculty
The UMass geography faculty consists of core geography faculty, visiting scholars, lecturers, continuing education instructors, UMass faculty affiliates, adjunct faculty and emeritus faculty. (In photo: one geosciences faculty and three geography faculty, all department colleagues, enjoying graduation)
Core Geography Faculty
Toby Applegate, Senior Lecturer & Chief Undergraduate Advisor.
Ph.D., Geography, Rutgers University, 2014.
Human Geography, Migrants and Refugees, Economic Geography, Europe.
Click here for Toby Applegate’s webpage.
Forrest J. Bowlick, Senior Lecturer & Graduate Program Director, GIST
Ph.D., Geography, Texas A&M University, 2016.
GIS, Geographic Education.
Click here for Forrest Bowlick’s Geosciences webpage and here for Forrest Bowlick’s Environmental Conservation webpage. Click here to read about Forrest’s exciting new project.
Britt Crow-Miller, Senior Lecturer; Director, MS in Sustainability Science
Ph.D., Geography, University of California Los Angeles, 2013.
Human geography, sustainability, sustainability education, political ecology, environmental politics, political geography.
Click here for Britt Crow-Miller’s Geosciences webpage and here for Britt Crow-Miller’s Environmental Conservation webpage.
Piper Gaubatz, Professor & Head, Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences
Ph.D., Geography, University of California-Berkeley, 1989.
Urban Geography, environmental history, China, Japan, United States.
Click here for Piper Gaubatz’s webpage.
Eric Thomas, Lecturer; Associate Director, MS in Sustainability Science.
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2020.
Environmental Anthropology, Political Ecology, Resource Frontiers, Aquaculture, Fisheries, Coastal Development.
Click here for Eric Thomas’s Geoscience’s webpage and here for Eric Thomas’s Environmental Conservation webpage.
Qian Yu, Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director.
Ph.D., Environmental Science, University of California-Berkeley, 2005.
GIScience, remote sensing, spatial modeling, biogeography.
Click here for Qian Yu’s webpage.
University Without Walls (UWW)
Geography Instructors
Kinuyo Kanamaru, Ph.D., Geosciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Ted White, Ph.D., Geography, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Morgan Carney, M.S., Sustainability Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst; MSc, Creative Writing, University of Edinburgh; M.S., Geography, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Jacob Chamberlain, Ph.D. Candidate, Geography, Clark University.
UMass Geography Faculty Affiliates
Affiliate faculty from other UMass departments participate in the UMass Geography community, serve on student advising and examination committees, and facilitate Geography students’ enrollment in their courses when appropriate.
Michael Ash, Professor and Department Chair, Economics.
Paul Barten, Professor, Department of Environmental Conservation. .
Bethany Bradley, Assistant Professor, Environmental Conservation.
Carey Clouse, Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning.
Emiliana Cruz, Assistant Professor, Anthropology.
David Glassberg, Professor, History.
Mark Hamin, Senior Lecturer, Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning.
Krista Harper, Professor, Anthropology.
Carol Heim, Professor Emerita, Economics.
Elisabeth Infield, Professor, Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning.
Anita Milman, Associate Professor, Environmental Conservation.
Max Page, Professor, Architecture + Design.
Darrel Ramsey-Musolf, Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. Click here for Darrel Ramsey-Musolf’s web page.
Robert Ryan, Professor and Department Head, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. Click here for Robert Ryan’s webpage.
Charlie Schweik, Associate Professor, Environmental Conseration and Center for Public Policy and Administration. Click here for Charlie Schweik’s webpage.
Heidi Scott, Assistant Professor, History Click here for Heidi Scott’s webpage.
Alexander “Sasha” Stepanov, GIS Architect, Administration and Finance.