Dena Aufseeser, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington, 2012
Critical poverty studies, urban geography, international development, children’s geographies and children’s rights
Matthew E. Baker, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2002
Professor & Associate Dean, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Watershed ecology, riparian ecosystems, ecosystem/landscape ecology, watershed hydrology and biogeochemistry
Dawn Biehler, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin – Madison, 2007
Associate Professor
Historical geography of public health in US cities, environmental justice, urban and feminist political ecology, housing, human-animal interactions
Suzanne Braunschweig, Associate Chairperson, PhD.,Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VATech) 1993
Senior Lecturer
Science education, plant physiological ecology, shale barren endemic plantspecies, long term forest community dynamics
Erle C. Ellis, Ph.D., Cornell University, 1990
Professor
Global ecology, landscape ecology, biogeochemistry, land-use change and sustainable land management
Matthew E. Fagan, Ph.D., Columbia University, 2014
Associate Professor
Causes and consequences of habitat fragmentation, landscape ecology, remote sensing and GIS, conservation biology, and sustainable land-use
Jeffrey B. Halverson, Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1995
Professor
Severe Storms, Meteorology & Climatology of the Mid-Atlantic Region
Margaret B Holland, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009
Associate Professor
Human dimensions of environmental change; land tenure, environmental conservation and resource management, land use dynamics, rural livelihood strategies
David Lansing, Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2009
Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director
rural livelihoods; political ecology; environmental governance; climate change policy
Dillon Mahmoudi, Ph.D., Portland State University, 2017
Assistant Professor
Economic geography, critical GIS and counter-mapping, urban studies, labor markets, digital geography, youth & carceral geographies
Andrew J. Miller, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1983
Professor
Hydrology, geomorphology, water resources, urban environment
Joseph School, M.A., Temple University, 1983
Director of Cartographic Services Laboratory
Production cartography
Colin Studds, Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 2009
Assistant Professor
Animal Migration, Biogeography, Population Ecology, Quantitative Ecology
Christopher Swan, Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 2003
Professor
Stream Ecology, Benthic Macroinvertebrates, Consumer-Resource Dynamics, Food Webs
Yolanda Valencia, Ph.D., University of Washington, 2019
Assistant Professor
Geographies of Latinx migration, Critical geographies of race, Latinx feminist methods and theory
Alan Yeakley, Chair, 211-A Sondheim Hall, 410-455-3955, yeakley@umbc.edu
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1993
Professor
Ecosystem Ecology, Watershed Hydrology, with emphases on Urban Ecology and Riparian Ecosystems
EMERITUS FACULTY
Sari J. Bennett, Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1977
Economic geography, geographic education
Roger Dubois, Ph.D., The University of Wisconsin
Geomorphology, coastal morphology, fluvial morphology
Robert Earickson, Ph.D., University of Washington
Urban geography, the geography of disease, health care
Keith Harries, Ph.D., UCLA
Geographical aspects of social issues, geography of crime
Sandy Parker, Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1982
Environmental Conservation, Public Lands, Amazonia
Thomas D. Rabenhorst, M.A., University of Maryland College Park
Cartography
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
Robin Schmidbauer Heckathorn
Office Supervisor III
Office: 211 Social Science Bldg.
Phone: 410-455-2002
Fax: 410-455-1056
schmidba@umbc.edu
Donna Dwayer
Administrative Assistant II
Office: 211 Sondheim Bldg.
410-455-2002
ddwayer@umbc.edu