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
Ian Manners
Ian's research and teaching interests include conservation and resource management, urban cultural geography, and historical cartography. His most recent research explores the cartographic representation of the Middle East and the Mediterranean worlds from the Renaissance to modern times, and the ways in which maps have shaped both our geographical knowledge of the region and its particular spatial and political history. He is currently the curator for an exhibit on European Cartography and the Ottoman World for The Oriental Institute, The University of Chicago, which will open in the fall of 2007.
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.
Mark Simmons
Landscape ecology, fire ecology, field techniques.
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