Meet the dedicated faculty that make up our department. Feel free to reach out to them individually to learn more about their research and the courses they teach.
Eric Boschmann
Associate Professor
PhD, Geography, Ohio State University, 2008
Office phone: 303-871-4387 ProfileEmailWebsite
J. Michael Daniels
Professor
PhD, Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002
Office Phone: 303-871-7531 ProfileEmailWebsite
Andrew Goetz
Professor
PhD, Geography, Ohio State University, 1987
Office Phone: 303-871-2674 ProfileEmailWebsite
Hillary Hamann
Teaching Professor
PhD, Geography, University of Colorado-Boulder, 2002
Office Phone: 303-871-3977 ProfileEmailWebsite
Helen Hazen
Teaching Professor
PhD, Geography, University of Minnesota, 2006
Office Phone: 303-871-2672 ProfileEmail
Steven Hick
Professor of the Practice
MA, Geography, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1983
Office Phone: 303-871-2535 ProfileEmailWebsite
Michael Keables
Associate Professor and Chair
PhD, Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986
Office Phone: 303-871-2653 ProfileEmailWebsite
Michael Kerwin
Associate Professor
PhD, Geological Sciences, University of Colorado-Boulder, 2000
Office Phone: 303-871-3998 ProfileEmailWebsite
Kristopher Kuzera
Teaching Associate Professor
PhD, Geography, San Diego State University, 2011
Office Phone: 303-871-3378 ProfileEmail
Jing Li
Associate Professor
PhD, Earth Science and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University, 2012
Office Phone: 303-871-4687 ProfileEmailWebsite
Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong
Assistant Professor
PhD, Geography, University of Western Ontario, 2014
Office Phone: 303-871-4175 ProfileEmail
Rebecca Powell
Associate Professor
PhD, Geography, University of California-Santa Barbara, 2006
Office Phone: 303-871-2667 ProfileEmail
Donald Sullivan
Associate Professor
PhD, Geography, University of California-Berkeley, 1988
Office Phone: 303-871-3043 ProfileEmail
Paul Sutton
Professor
PhD, Geography, University of California-Santa Barbara, 1999
Office Phone: 303-871-2399 ProfileEmailWebsite
Matthew Taylor
Professor
PhD, Geography, Arizona State University, 2003
Office Phone: 303-871-2656 ProfileEmailWebsite
Sean Tierney
Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Denver, 2009 Email
Research interests: urban geography, transportation geography, urban sustainability
Erika Trigoso Rubio
Teaching Associate Professor
D Phil, Geography, University of Oxford, 2010
Office Phone: 303-871-3936 ProfileEmail
Guiming Zhang
Assistant Professor
PhD, Geographic Information Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2018
Office Phone: 303-871-7908 ProfileEmailWebsite
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