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The Department has an active and vibrant program in human geography that involves many faculty members and students. Faculty members engaged in human geographical research specialize in the following sub-fields: cultural landscapes, cultural/political ecology, economic, hazards, health, identities and space, migration, political-economy, political/geopolitics, population, transformation and development urban, and vulnerability. Their research interests focus on three main areas:
- Societal change, sustainability, and human security;
- Culture, place, and power;
- Environmental transformations.
These interests are also reflected in course offerings at the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Human Geography Faculty (regional interests noted)
Edward R. Carr
Development theory and practice; food and livelihood security; migration; human dimensions of global change; ethnographic and archaeological methodologies (Sub-Saharan Africa, Spain)
Susan L. Cutter
Hazards and risk; vulnerability science; environmental policy, management, and justice; human dimensions of global environmental change
Kirstin Dow
Environmental change; hazards and vulnerability; environmental justice; urban ecosystems
Amy Mills
Cultural landscapes and historical memory; discourses of nationalism, modernity, and gender in space; place and identity (Middle East)
Caroline Nagel
Migration, transnationalism, identity, citizenship, Arab immigrants
Related Faculty
Many other members of the department's faculty have research interests related to human geography. The department also shares collegial relations with allied fields and faculty members across campus.
Recent Graduate Courses & Seminars (not all are regularly offered)
GEOG 511 - Planning and Locational Analysis
GEOG 512 - Migration and Globalization
GEOG 515 - Political Geography
GEOG 525 - Geographical Analysis of Transportation
GEOG 530 - Environmental Hazards
GEOG 544 - Geography of the City
GEOG 566 - Social Aspects of Environmental Planning and Management
GEOG 568 - Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
GEOG 569 - Environment and Development
GEOG 581 - Globalization and Cultural Questions
GEOG 711 - Seminar in Regional Geography
GEOG 712 - Urban Geography
GEOG 713 - Advanced Economic Geography
GEOG 721 - Seminar in Systematic Geography
- Environmental Security
- Nature, Development, and Globalization
- Cultural Landscapes
- Gender in Geography
- Space, Place, and the Spatial Turn in Social Science
GEOG 726 - Seminar in Geography of the Middle East and Africa
GEOG 730 - Seminar in Environmental Geography
GEOG 735 - Seminar in Political Geography
GEOG 801 - Contemporary Approaches to Geography
GEOG 810 - Advanced Seminar in Human Geography
GEOG 811 - Advanced Seminar in Regional Geography
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