LSU G&A Faculty/Staff

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.

CHAIR

Patrick A. Hesp

G&A Faculty - GEOGRAPHY

John M. Anderson - historical maps, U.S. Geological Survey, battlefields

David P. Brown -climate variability, global change, spatial analysis, North America

Craig E. Colten - historical, environmental, North America, Louisiana

Kristine L. DeLong – paleoclimate, climate variability, time series analysis, and tropics.

Rachel Dowty - organizations and cultures, wetland biology, human ecology, decision-making under stress

Dydia DeLyser - cultural, historical, feminist, qualitative methods and methodologies

Melanie Gall - geospatial technologies in emergeny management, hazard and vulnerability assessments, hazard mitigation, hazard epidemiology, environmental justice

Patrick A. Hesp - coastal and aeolian geomorphology, dune dynamics, coastal management

Barry D. Keim - Louisiana Office of State Climatology, climatic change & variability, synoptic climatology, extreme climatic events, human dimensions of global change

Richard H. Kesel - geomorphology, soils, Quaternary

Michael Leitner - spatial analysis and GIS, computer cartography, Europe

Kent Mathewson - cultural, historical, Latin America, history of geography

Steven Namikas - process geomorphology, sediment transport, environmental monitoring

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 - historical, cultural, and political ecology, social
theory, Latin America, Caribbean

Fahui Wang - urban, economic, transportation, applied (crime & medical) geography, GIS, quantitative methods, China, S.E. Asia, U.S.

Lei Wang - GIS, quantitative methods, terrain and hydrological analysis, remote sensing

G&A Faculty - ANTHROPOLOGY

Jill Brody - linguistics, sociocultural, Middle America

David Chicoine - Andean archaeology, Coastal Peru, early urbanism, material culture

Jay D. Edwards - sociocultural, vernacular architecture, Caribbean

Joyce M. Jackson - ethnomusicology, folklore, Africa & diaspora, ritual performance, Louisiana

Kathe Managan - linguistics, sociocultural, language and performance in the Circum-Caribbean, theories of creolization, voluntary organizations

Mary Manhein - osteology, forensic anthropology, Louisiana

Rob Mann - Regional Archaeologist for SE Louisiana, French colonial archaeology

Heather McKillop - Maya archaeology, ancient trade/economics, sea-level rise and coastal adaptations

Helen A. Regis - race, performance, public space, Africa & Diaspora, New Orleans

Rebecca Saunders - contact period studies, southeastern United States prehistory, pottery analysis, cultural complexity, coastal adaptations

Robert Tague - anatomy, osteology and paleodemography, reproductive biology

Visiting Scholars Fall 2009

Jing Luo, Professor of Economic Geography, Dean of College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China jingluo@lsu.edu

Jiaoe (Wanda) Wang, Assistant Professor of GIS, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China jiaoew@lsu.edu

G&A Faculty Emeriti

Anthony J. Lewis - remote sensing, physical geography, air photo interpretation

Robert A. Muller - climatology, hydrology, synoptic meteorology, North America, and the Southern Regional Climate Center

Miles E. Richardson - relationship between place and culture in context of Spanish America and the American South, humanistic geography, geophagy, poetics of place

H. Jesse Walker - alluvial and coastal morphology, geomorphology, and the Arctic

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

Nina S.-N. Lam - cartography, GIS, remote sensing, quantitative methods, medical geography, China

Kam-biu Liu - Thematic: paleotempestology, coastal paleoecology, ice-core paleoclimatology, global environmental change, palynology and lake-sediments
Regional: U.S. Gulf coast and Atlantic coast, Caribbean region and Central America, South America (Andes and Amazon Basin), Tibetan Plateau, Central Asia (Mongolia and Kazakhstan), China, Africa

Charles "Chip" McGimsey - Louisiana State Archaeologist (click HERE to view the Louisiana Division of Archaeology homepage)

Elijah Ramsey III - remote sensing and GIS, water quality, coastal and hydrology

Peter Sutherland - cultural anthropology, religion, neoliberalism, memory,
nationalisms, modernities, postcoloniality; South Asia, Black Atlantic

G&A Staff

Office Staff

CADGIS Lab

Cartographic Section