Faculty and Academic Staff
The Department of Geography and Urban Planning has eight faculty members and three staff members to give students a variety of topics and emphasis to study within their major. Below are a list of faculty and staff members with their areas of interest, as well as the best way to contact them.
Geography Faculty
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| Colin Long Department Chair Associate Professor Biogeography, Paleoecology, Disturbance Regimes in Forested Environments Ph.D., University of Oregon, 2003 Office: Sage 4457 Phone: (920) 424-2182 Email: longco@uwosh.edu Website: http://www.uwosh.edu/facstaff/longco |
Heike C. Alberts
Associate Professor Population, Migration, Urban, Latin America, Europe. Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2003 Office: Sage 4471 Phone: (920) 424-7109 Email: alberts@uwosh.edu Website: www.uwosh.edu/facstaff/alberts |
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| Elizabeth Barron Assistant Professor Nature-Society Geography, Environmental Governance and Knowledge, Science and Technology Studies, Biogeography, North American Resource Management Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2010 Office: Sage 4451 Phone: (920) 424-7115 Email: barrone@uwosh.edu |
Mark W. Bowen Assistant Professor Physical Geography, Geomorphology, Soils, Human-Environment Interaction, Wetland Ecology, Climate and Paleoenvironmental Change Ph.D., University of Kansas, 2011 Office: Sage 4455 Phone: (920) 424-7114 E-mail: bowenm@uwosh.edu Website: http://www.uwosh.edu/facstaff/bowenm |
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| Mamadou Coulibaly Associate Professor Geographic Information Systems, Water Resources. Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, 2004 Office: Sage 4473 Phone: (920) 424-3123 Email: coulibal@uwosh.edu Website: www.uwosh.edu/facstaff/coulibal |
John A. Cross Professor Natural Hazards, Agriculture, United States and Canada. Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1979 Office: Sage 4467 Phone: (920) 424-1018 Email: cross@uwosh.edu |
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| Angela Gray Subulwa Assistant Professor Africa, Forced Displacement, Development, Political Geography Ph.D., University of Kansas, 2009 Office: Sage 4459 Phone: (920) 424-7110 Email: subulwaa@uwosh.edu Website: www.uwosh.edu/facstaff/subulwaa |
Kazimierz J. Zaniewski Professor Europe, Population, Ethnicity Ph.D., UW-Milwaukee, 1987 Office: Sage 4465 Phone: (920) 424-7112 Email: zaniewsk@uwosh.edu Website: www.uwosh.edu/facstaff/zaniewsk |
Urban Planning Faculty
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| Edward V. Miller Assistant Professor Housing, Community Economic Development, Suburban Gentrification, GIS, Economic Geography Ph.D. University of Illinois at Chicago, 2011 Office: Sage 4449 Phone: (920) 424-0784 Email: millered@uwosh.edu |
Geography Staff
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| Kristy Burg University Services Associate 2 Office: Sage 4461 Phone: (920) 424-4105 Email: burgk@uwosh.edu |
Laura Carnahan Lecturer Atmospheric Science, Air Pollution M.S., UW-Milwaukee, 2009 Office: Sage 4453 Phone: (920) 424-4103 Email: carnahal@uwosh.edu |
| Mary Jo Pankratz Lecturer Physical Geography/Geology M.S., Washington State University, 1980 Office: Sage 4451 Phone: (920) 424-7115 Email: pankratz@uwosh.edu |









