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Geography Faculty | Anthropology Faculty |
Faculty Emeriti | Associated/Adjunct Faculty | Staff
The LSU Department of Geography and Anthropology has consistently
been ranked as a top doctoral geography program in the country
and our faculty have made distinguished contributions at all
levels of academic life. Eleven faculty members have held
titled professorships including four Boyd Professors - LSU's
most prestigious designation - and two Alumni Professors.
Five distinguished professorships are currently occupied by
faculty members and several department faculty have served
in numerous positions of leadership within the disciplines
of geography and anthropology.
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Paul Farnsworth
G&A Faculty - Geography
John M. Anderson - historical maps, U.S.
Geological Survey, battlefields
Craig E. Colten - historical, environmental,
North America, Louisiana
Andrew Curtis - computer cartography, GIS,
spatial patterns in medical geography, locational analysis
Dydia DeLyser - cultural, historical, feminist, qualitative methods and methodologies
Patrick A. Hesp - coastal geomorphology, Aeolian geomorphology
and dune dynamics, coastal management
Barry D. Keim - Louisiana
Office of State Climatology, climatic change and variability,
synoptic climatology, probable maximum precipitation, extreme
climatic events, hydroclimatology, human dimensions of global
change
Richard H. Kesel - geomorphology,
soils, Quaternary
Michael Leitner - spatial analysis and GIS,
computer cartography, Europe
Anthony J. Lewis - remote sensing, physical
geography, geoscience applications of radar imagery
Kent Mathewson - cultural, historical,
Latin America, history of geography
Steven Namikas - coastal geomorphology,
hazards, physical geography
Kevin Robbins - agricultural climatology,
network-integrated data management and delivery systems,
Southern Regional Climate
Center
Robert V. Rohli - climatology, applied meteorology,
water resources
William Rowe-Economic Geography,Cultural/Political Ecology,Geography of Religion,Central Asia and Afghanistan,The Middle East,Agriculture
Andrew Sluyter - landscape transformations
associated with European colonization of the Americas; long-term
change in agricultural and pastoral landscapes; relationships
among science, native peoples, and development and conservation
policy; social/natural theory
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Faculty - Anthropology
Jill Brody - linguistics, sociocultural, Middle
America
Jay D. Edwards - sociocultural, vernacular
architecture, Caribbean
Paul Farnsworth - historical archaeology,
economic patterns, Caribbean
Joyce M. Jackson - ethnomusicology, folklore,
Afro-American music and culture
Mary Manhein - osteology, forensic anthropology,
Louisiana
Heather McKillop - Maya archaeology,
ancient trade/economics, sea-level rise and coastal adaptations
Helen A. Regis - cultural anthropology, medical,
Africa and African diaspora, performance in pop culture
Miles E. Richardson - relationship between
place and culture in context of Spanish America and the American
South, humanistic geography, geophagy, poetics of place
Robert Tague - anatomy, osteology and paleodemography,
reproductive biology
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G&A Faculty Emeriti
Robert A. Muller - climatology, hydrology,
synoptic meteorology, North America, and the Southern Regional Climate Center
H. Jesse Walker - alluvial and coastal morphology,
geomorphology, and the Arctic
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G&A
Associated & Adjunct Faculty
Mike
Blum - clastic sedimentology, earth
surface processes and quaternary geology, responses of fluvial
and coastal depositional systems to climate change, sea-level
change, and active tectonics
DeWitt Braud Jr. - spatial analysis and
GIS modeling, environmental remote sensing and image processing
Brooks Ellwood - geophysics, stratigraphy, geoarchaeology,
magnetic/geophysical/geoarchaeological studies in Europe,
Africa, Asia and North America
Kam-biu Liu - biogeography, palynology, Quaternary, North America, China, Ecuador
Nina S.-N. Lam - cartography, GIS, remote sensing, quantitative methods, medical geography, China
John Pine-Director, Disaster Science & Management,hazards, risks, vulnerability, environmental modeling, consequence assessment
Elijah Ramsey III - remote sensing and
GIS, water quality, coastal and hydrology
Rebecca Saunders - contact period studies,
southeastern United States prehistory, and pottery analysis
Rob Mann - historical archaeology, colonialism, political economy, ethnohistory, fur trade, Great Lakes and Lower Mississippi Valley.
Michael Steinberg - cultural and political ecology,
endangered species, biogeography and conservation, land cover
changes, Latin America, American South, West Africa, peace
studies in indigenous landscapes
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G&A Staff
Office
Staff
Dana Sanders
Linda Strain
Nedda Taylor
Vicki Terry
CADGIS Lab
Farrell W. Jones
Cartography Section
Clifford Duplechin Jr.
Mary Lee Eggart
FACES
Lab
N.
Eileen Barrow
H.
Beth Bassett
Ginesse
A. Listi
SRCC
John M. "Jay" Grymes III
Robert
Leche
Malcolm
Moreau
Luigi
Romolo
Elizabeth
Mons Sanders
David
Sathiaraj
Betty Wall
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