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Faculty

Name

Areas of Expertise

Contact

Carolyn Adams

Professor

 

Urban public policy, housing, economic development, infrastructure planning. Study Leave
carolyn.adams@temple.edu

Sanjoy Chakravorty
Professor

Distribution, Development, Globalization, Cities, Regions, India 325 Gladfelter Hall
215 204 1434
sanjoy@temple.edu

Roman Cybriwsky
Professor

 

Urban-social geography, world cities, neighborhood change and development, cultural geography, Pacific Asia. 335 Gladfelter Hall
215 204 1374
romancyb@temple.edu

Bradley Gardener

Visiting Assistant Professor

Critical Race Theory, Identity Studies, Migration Studies, Geography of New York, Jewish Diaspora, Whiteness Studies, Marxist Political Economy, Critical GIS, Urban Geography

333 Gladfelter Hall

215 204 5482

bradley.gardener@temple.edu

Melissa Gilbert
Professor

Interim Department Chair

 

 

Urban, economic, and feminist geography, feminist and critical race theory, urban social theory, urban poverty and labor markets, labor and community organizing, information technologies and economic empowerment, qualitative methods. 309 Gladfelter Hall
215 204 7692
mgilbert@temple.edu

Allison Hayes-Conroy

Visiting Assistant Professor

Food systems; sustainable nature-society relations (political ecology, environmental and food justice, ANT); social movements; globalization; urban/rural studies and land use policy; feminist geography and politics of the body; politics of affect, feelings and emotion; community development; spiritual ecology.

329 Gladfelter Hall

215 204 2961

anhc@temple.edu

Charles Kaylor Visiting Assistant Professor

GIS, information technology, e-government, the digital divide, community planning

313B Gladfelter Hall

charles.kaylor@temple.edu

Benjamin Kohl
Associate Professor

Interim Graduate Chair

 

International development and economic policy, international urban studies, political economy of development and planning, urban planning, Latin America, Andean Region, Bolivia ...

339 Gladfelter Hall

215 204 6261

bkohl@temple.edu

Susan Lucas
Visiting Assistant Professor; Internship Coordinator

 

 

Gentrification, waterfront redevelopment, use of public space by the homeless and the privatization of public space, and retirement communities.

340 Gladfelter Hall

215-204-8396
susan.lucas@temple.edu

Robert Mason
Professor

Environmental policy, land-use planning and growth management, parks and protected areas, Japan. 316 Gladfelter Hall
215 204 4483
rmason@temple.edu

Michele Masucci
Professor

Interim Vice Provost for Research

 

Water resources management, GIS and society, appropriate use of GIS and information technologies, planning theory, community development. 313 Gladfelter Hall
215 204 4429
masucci@temple.edu

Richard Mbatu

Visiting Assistant Professor

Research focus is in two interconnected areas: 1) forest resource management and policy aspects of sustainable development and climate change, and 2) the structure and function of plans, programs, bilateral and multilateral agreements and conventions dealing with forest resource management, agriculture, land use planning, and climate change.

325B Gladfelter Hall

215 204 2961

rmbatu@temple.edu

Jeremy Mennis
Associate Professor,

Undergraduate Chair

 

 

Geographic information science and systems: spatio-temporal databases, spatial analysis, geographic data mining, social and environmental applications of geographic information systems (environmental justice, urban ecology). 328 Gladfelter Hall
215 204 4748
jmennis@temple.edu

David Organ

Visiting Assistant Professor

 

Historical geography, urban geography and African American Studies

323 Gladfelter Hall

djorgan@temple.edu

Hamil Pearsall Assistant Professor

Urban sustainability; environmental justice and health; GIS; human dimensions of global environmental change; risk, hazards and vulnerability; brownfield redevelopment; urban greening

313A Gladfelter Hall

hamil.pearsall@temple.edu

Christina Rosan Assistant Professor, Director of Environmental Studies

Metropolitan planning and governance in the U.S. and Latin America, environmental planning, land use  and growth management, urban politics, management of mega-cities

320 Gladfelter Hall

215-204-9327

cdrosan@temple.edu

Rickie Sanders
Professor


Urban social geography, geographic education/ under represented groups, environment and development. 317 Gladfelter Hall
215 204 5650
rsanders@temple.edu

Jacob Shell

Assistant Professor

Urban transportation and infrastructure;  transport animals;  cartography and geovisualization;  mapping of texts and literature;  geography of social movements and rebellions;  geographic dimensions of political economy

319 Gladfelter Hall

215 204 1374

jacob.shell@temple.edu

Jerry Stahler
Professor

Psychology (clinical), program evaluation, urban social problems, drug abuse. 337 Gladfelter Hall
215 204 6939 jstahler@temple.edu

Elizabeth L. Sweet
Visiting Assistant Professor

Immigration, Economic Development, Gender Violence and Diversity Issues in Community Development 325A Gladfelter Hall
215 204 2960
bsweet@temple.edu

 

Emeritus Faculty

 

Name

Areas of Expertise

Contact

David Bartelt
Emeritus Professor

 

Housing policy, urban social theory, urban schools, urban economic development. 318 Gladfelter Hall
215 204 1233
dbartelt@temple.edu

Marilyn Silberfein
Emeritus Professor

 

Urban and rural development, third world economic geography, migration, political geography, tourism, world affairs. 334 Gladfelter Hall
215 204 7625
pawling@temple.edu
     

Adjunct Faculty in GUS

Max Andrucki
Beau Bradley
beaubradley@gmail.com
Andrew Buss

                                 abuss@temple.edu

Michael Coard
      coard@temple.edu
Walter Gholson

     walter.gholson@temple.edu

Charles Johnson

                                charlesj@temple.edu

Chris Mizes
Chris Mizes <tuc71194@temple.edu>
Renee Tapp

  catherine.renee.tapp@temple.edu

   
 

 

 

 


Staff

Name

Contact

Belinda Wilson
Administrator
215 204 0472
bwilson@temple.edu

Tycina Cousin

Coordinator

215 204 7692

tcousin@temple.edu

 

 

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