Faculty
Full-time Faculty
Dr. Thomas Ballinger
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Geography, Kent State University, 2015
Office: ELA 366
Office Phone: 512-245-3202
Email: tballinger@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Arctic Change, Cryosphere-Climate Interactions, Synoptic Climatology
Dr. Sarah Blue
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, 2004
Office: ELA 332
Phone: 512.245.2536
Email: sb74@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Latin America, Population, Migration
Dr. David R. Butler
Texas State University System Regents' Professor and University Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., Geography, University of Kansas, 1982
Office: ELA 359
Phone: 512.245.7977
Email: db25@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Zoogeomorphology, Dendrogeomorphology, Mountain Geomorphology, Mountain Biogeography, Mountain Environments and Environmental Change, Geomorphology in the Anthropocene, History and Philosophy of Geography, Glacier National Park (Montana)
Dr. Edwin Chow
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Geography, University of South Carolina, 2005
Office: ELA 326
Phone: 512.245.3200
Email: chow@txstate.edu
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Personal Website
Research Interests: GIS, Environmental Modeling, Big Data Analytics, Population Estimation, Hazards
Dr. Nathan Currit
Associate Professor & Director, Texas Center for Geographic Information Science
Ph.D., Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, 2003
Office: ELA 331
Phone: 512.245.3198
Email: nc17@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Uncertainty and Change in Human-Environment Systems, Remote Sensing and Land-Cover Change
Dr. Rene DeHon
Senior Lecturer
Ph.D., Geology/Geochemistry, Texas Tech University, 1970
Office: ELA 371
Phone: 512.245.7461
Email: dehon@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Mineralogy, Petrology, Planetary Geology
Dr. Richard Dixon
Professor
Ph.D., Geography, Texas A&M University, 1996
Office: ELA 340
Phone: 512.245.7436
Email: rd11@txstate.edu
Photo courtesy of Jeff Huehn
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Research Interests: Climatology, Meteorology, Oceanography, Environmental Geography, Quantitative Methods, Hazards
Dr. Lawrence Estaville
Texas State University System Regents' Professor and Texas State University Distinguished Professor
Director, Texas Atlas Project
Ph.D., Geography, University of Oklahoma, 1984
Office: ELA 323
Phone: 512.245.7618
Email: le02@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Ethnic Geography, Health Geography, Geography Education
Dr. Ron Hagelman
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Environmental Geography, Texas State University, 2002
Office: ELA 335
Phone: 512.245.8847
Email: rh46@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Environmental Geography, Hazards and Disasters,
Historical Geography, Land Management and Conservation, Urban Environment / Agriculture
Dr. Suzon Jammes
Senior Lecturer
Ph.D., Université of Strasbourg, Geology/GeoPhysics,2009
Office: ELA 372
Phone: 512.245. 0377
Email: s_j143@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Tectonic, Rheology, deformation processes at lithospheric
scale in extension and contraction
Dr. Injeong Jo
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Geography, Texas A&M University, 2011
Office: ELA 341
Phone: 512-245-3206
Email: ijo@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Geography and Spatial Thinking Education, Geography and Social Studies Teacher Preparation, Geospatial Technologies for Education, Assessment in Geography
Thomas Barclay Larsen
M.A., Geography, Kansas State University, 2016
Lecturer, The Gilbert M. Grosvenor Center for Geographic Education
Office: ELA 145
Phone: 512.245.1653
Email: tblarsen@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Geography education, human-environment relationship, place, learning progressions
Dr. Timothy Loftus
Professor of Practice and Meadows Endowed Chair in Water Conservation
Ph.D., Geography, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2000
Office: ELA 342
Phone: 512.245.7456
Email: t_l126@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: water supply planning, watershed planning, water-use conservation and efficiency, drought preparedness, water policy, utility water loss
Dr. Robert Mace
Professor of Practice
Ph.D., Hydrogeology, University of Texas at Austin, 1998
Office: ELA 342/SLH 110
Phone: 512.245.6021
Email: rem142@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Water policy, policy and science, water resources, water planning, stakeholder processes, numerical groundwater flow modeling, water conservation, innovative water technologies
Dr. Osvaldo Muñiz-Solari
Professor
Ph.D., Geography, University of Tennessee, 1991
Office: ELA 338
Phone: 512.245.0375
Email: os14@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Population, Transportation, Economic Geography Flows, World Regional Networks, Geography Education
Dr. Andrew Sansom
Professor of Practice
Executive Director, The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment
Ph.D., Texas State University, Geographic Education, 2013
Professor of Practice
Office: Meadows Center
Phone: 512.245.9200
E-mail: as22@txstate.edu
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Dr. Alexander (Sasha) Savelyev
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, 2015
Office: ELA 360
Phone: 512.245.8491
Email: a_s899@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Geovisualization and Geovisual Analytics, Cartography, and Visual Cognition
Dr. John Tiefenbacher
Professor
Ph.D., Geography, Rutgers University, 1992
Office: ELA 361
Phone: 512.245.8327
Email: jt04@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Environmental Geography, Hazards & Disasters, Air Quality, Environmental Problems of the US-Mexico Borderlands, Human Dimensions of Wildlife, States of the Former Soviet Union, Geography of Viniculture, Historical Environmental Geography, Genealogy & GIS
Dr. Dolores van der Kolk
Lecturer
Ph.D., Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, 2016
Office: ELA 368
Phone: 512.245.7980
Email: dav57@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleoenvironment reconstructions, basin analysis, Arctic and petroleum geology
Dr. Yihong Yuan
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2013
Office: ELA 366
Phone: 512.245.3208
Email: y_y18@txstate.edu
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Personal Website: http://www.yuanyihong.com/
Research Interests: GIScience, Spatio-Temporal Data Mining, Human Mobility Modeling and Travel Behavior
Denise Blanchard
Professor
Ph.D., Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1992
Office: ELA 357
Phone: 512.245.3090
Email: rb06@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Natural and Environmental Hazards, Economic Geography, Environmental Studies, Research Methods, Historical Geography
Dr. Richard Boehm
Professor and Jesse H. Jones Distinguished Chair in Geographic Education
Ph.D., Geography, The University of Texas at Austin, 1975
Office: ELA 145a
Phone: 512.245.3615
Email: rb03@txstate
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Research Interests: Geographic Education, Economic Geography, Applied Geography
Mr. Mark Carter
Senior Lecturer & Internships Coordinator
MAG Geography, Texas State University, 1994
Office: ELA 126
Phone: 512.245.8587
Email: mc12@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Quantitative Methods, Spatial Statistics, Land Use Planning Management and Conservation
Dr. Brian Cooper
Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Coordinator
Ph.D., Geography, Texas State University, 2012
Office: ELA 329
Phone: 512.245.6750
Email: bc31@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: World Regional Geography, Sub-Saharan Africa
Dr. Rebecca Davio
Associate Professor of Practice
Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 2001
Office: Medina 108
Phone: 512.245.7366
Email: r_d178@txstate.edu
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Dr. Jennifer Devine
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2013
Office: ELA 364
Phone: 512.245.3937
Email: devine@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Human-environmental relations, Latin American - US politics, critical social theory
Dr. Richard Earl
Professor
Ph.D., Geography, Arizona State University, 1983
Office: ELA 365
Phone: 512.245.3204
Email: re02@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Physical Geography, Water Resources, Environmental Change and Management, Field Methods
Dr. Alberto Giordano
Professor
Ph.D., Geography, Syracuse University, 1999
Office: ELA 317
Phone: 512.245.6581
Email: ag22@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Historical GIS, Holocaust and Genocide Geography, Policy Applications of GIScience, Spatial Applications of Forensic Anthropology
Dr. Don Huebner
Senior Lecturer
Ph.D., Geography, University of Texas at Austin, 2002
Office: ELA 330
Phone: 512.245.0380
Email: dh48@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Environmental Geography, Coastal Hazards, Historical Ecology, Geomorphology, Texas and American Southwest, Human Perception of Risk
Dr. Jennifer Jensen
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Environmental Science, University of Idaho, 2009
Office: ELA 334
Phone: 512.245.1724
Email: jj41@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Lidar, Remote Sensing of Vegetation Structure, Multi-Sensor Data Synthesis, Land Use/Land Cover Change, Remote Sensing/GIS Integration
Dr. Jason Julian
Professor & Associate Chair
Ph.D., Geography, University of North Carolina, 2007
Office: ELA 322
Phone: 512.245.3201
Email: jason.julian@txstate.edu
Personal Website
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Research Interests: Water Resources, Land Use/Land Cover Change, River Ecosystems, Fluvial Geomorphology
Dr. Nancy Li
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Geography, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2015
Phone: 512.245.8663
Office: ELA 364
Email: y_l122@txstate.edu
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Personal Website: https://yananli.weebly.com/
Research Interests: physical, geomorphology, glaciers, paleoenvironment reconstructions (tree-ring and cosmogenic nuclide dating), climate change, remote sensing and GIS applied to physical geography
Dr. Yongmei Lu
Professor and Chair
Ph.D., Geography, SUNY Buffalo, 2001
Office: ELA 141
Phone: 512.245.1337
Email: yl10@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: GIScience, Urban and Regional Analysis, Health and Medical Geography, Crime Geography
Dr. Kimberly Meitzen
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Geography, University of South Carolina, 2011
Office: ELA 382
Phone: 512.245.1336
Email: kmm218@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Fluvial Processes and Geomorphology, River Basin Management, Biogeography
Dr. Colleen C. Myles
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Geography, University of California, Davis, 2012
Office: ELA 339
Phone: 512.245.1327
Email: cch64@txstate.edu
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Personal Website
Research Interests: Political ecology, Land and environmental management, The rural-urban interface (RUI), especially rural-urban linkages and metabolisms, Wine, beer, and cider geographies (aka “fermented landscapes”), Environmental politics and policy, Qualitative and participatory methods
Dr. Eric Sarmiento
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Geography, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 2015
Office: ELA 362
Phone: 512.245.3440
Email: ers89@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Urban development, cultural geography, political ecology, economic geography, social theory
Dr. Michael Solem
Research Professor & Director of Research, Grosvenor Center for Geographic Education
Co-Director, National Center for Research in Geography Education
Office: Grosvenor Center
Phone: 512.245.4770
Email: msolem@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Geography Education
Dr. Christi Townsend
Senior Lecturer
Ph.D., Environmental Geography, Texas State University, 2012
Office: ELA 351
Phone: 512-245-8302
E-mail: ct1086@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Environmental Geography, Geomorphology, Natural Hazards, The Geography of Agriculture and Viticulture, Research Methods
Dr. Russell Weaver
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Geography, The State University of New York at Buffalo, 2012
Office: ELA 336
Email: rcw64@txstate.edu
Phone: 512.245.3903
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Research Interests: Neighborhood change, land use policy, community geography, community economic development
Dr. F. Benjamin Zhan
Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator
Ph.D., Geography, SUNY Buffalo, 1994
Office: ELA 319
Phone: 512.245.8846
Email: zhan@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Health/Medical Geography; Geographic Information Science; Spatial Data Science; Earthquake Hazards Reduction; Transportation; China
Associated Faculty
Dr. Laura Cano Amaya
Assistant Professor of Practice, LBJ Institute for STEM Education and Research
Ph.D., Environmental Geography, Texas State University, 2014
Office: ELA 373
Phone: 512.245.7989
Email: lc16@txstate.edu
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Dr. Nathaniel Dede-Bamfo
Lecturer
Ph.D., Geographic Information Science, Texas State University, 2014
Office: ELA 374
Phone: 512.245.7809
Email: nd1115@txstate.edu
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Dr. Jo Beth Oestreich
Senior Lecturer, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Ph.D., C&I, The University of Texas at Austin, 2002
Office: ELA 355
Phone: 512.245.7976
Email: jo15@txstate.edu
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Dr. Benjamin Schwartz
Associate Professor, Biology
Ph.D., Virginia Tech University, Geosciences, 2007
Office: FAB
Phone: 512-245-7608
E-mail: bs37@txstate.edu
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Lyn Clancy
Lecturer
J.D., Univ. Texas-Austin 1996, M.S. Univ-Wisconsin 1993
Office: ELA 374
Phone: 512.636.4036
Email: l_c337@txstate.edu
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Research Interests: Water Policy, Water Law
Mr. Neil Kucera
Lecturer
MAG, Geography, Southwest Texas State University, 2001
Office: ELA 362
Phone: 512.245.3440
Email: kuceran@hotmail.com
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Shelley Plante
Lecturer
MAG, Geography, Texas State University, 2007
Office: ELA 362
Phone: 512.245.7976
Email: ss1331@txstate.edu
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Dr. Cathy Springer
Lecturer
Office: ELA 374
Phone: 512.2457809
Email: ca06@txstate.edu
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Retired Faculty
Dr. Byron "Doc" Augustin
Distinguished Professor and Regents' Professor Emeritus
D.A., Northern Colorado, 1975
Research Interests: Conservation, Latin America, geographic education, Middle East
Dr. Fred Day
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Geography, The Ohio State University, 1982
Research Interests: Population, Economic Development East and Southeast Asia
Dr. Jim Kimmel
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Geography, University of Texas at Austin, 1992
Research Interests: Interpretive Environmental Geography, Nature and Heritage Tourism, River Studies, Southwestern Geography
Dr. Susan Macey
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Geography, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1982
Research Interests: Geographic Information Systems, Environmental Hazards, Energy, Medical Geography, Behavioral Geography, Aging
Dr. Phil Suckling
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Geography, University of British Columbia, 1977
Research Interests: Climatology, natural hazards
Dr. Sent Visser
Professor
Ph.D., Geography, Ohio State University, 1979
Research Interests: Agricultural Geography, Economic Geography, Quantitative Methods
Dr. Brock Brown
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Geography, University of Oklahoma, 1992
Dr. Ron Eyton
Professor
Ph.D., Illinois, 1974
Research Interests: Remote Sensing, Computer Cartography, Quantitative Methods
Dr. Bob Larsen
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research Interests: Urban and Regional Planning, Solid Waste Management
Dr. James Petersen
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Geography, University of Utah, 1981
Research Interests: Geographic Education, Geomorphology, Applied Physical Geography
Dr. David Stea
Professor
Ph.D., Stanford, 1964
Research Interests: Spatial Cognition, Environmental Perception, Sustainable Development
