Faculty
Affiliated
Elisabeth K. Butzer
(Geography and Latin American Studies)- Northern New Spain, land use, climatic extremes, epidemics
David J. Eaton
(Public Affairs, Middle Eastern Studies, and Geography and the Environment)--regional and international environmental resource management, quantitative methods
Charles Frederick
His research interests include prehistoric agriculture, human-environment interactions, landscape archaeology, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, and using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating to understand ancient landscapes and site formation processes. In particular he is interested in intensive agricultural strategies such as chinampa agriculture (in the Basin of Mexico) and terracing (with field studies in Greece and Mexico) and understanding the long-term implications of these strategies for settlement, landscape stability, and archaeological prospection.
Steven Hoelscher
North American urbanism; social constructions of space and place, landscape and region; ethnicity and race; cultural memory; the geography of tourism; and the history of photography.
Blanca Leon
plant geography, botany, conservation
Robert C. Mayfield
Rural development, urban geography, environmental resource management, South Asia, East Asia
Richard H. Richardson
Soil food web analysis, human impacts on rangelands, holistic resource management, Texas
Sahotra Sarkar
Conservation Biology, Mathematical Biology, Lanscape Ecology, and Mexico, Meosamerica, and the Eastern Himalayas.
Bjorn Sletto
Environmental justice, participatory planning, critical planning theory, and political ecology. He is currently researching the politics of resource management and indigenous territoriality in northern South America, and is also engaged with community-based planning in East Austin.
Peter M. Ward
Mexican politics and urban administration, housing and land development in Third World countries, local leadership
Robert H. Wilson
Cities, governance and decentralization, development, Brazil