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Geography and Anthropolgy 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

Kevin Robbins

G&A Faculty

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

Jill Brody - linguistics, sociocultural, Middle America

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

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

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

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

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

Jay D. Edwards - sociocultural, vernacular architecture, Caribbean

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

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

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

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

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

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

Xuelian Meng - Land-cover/land-use dynamics, urban remote sensing, GIS, feature extration and 3D visualization, LiDAR for urban and forest applications

Steven Namikas - process geomorphology, sediment transport, environmental monitoring

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

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

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

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

Robert Tague - anatomy, osteology and paleodemography, reproductive biology

Jill C. Trepanier - statistical climatology, tropical cyclones, extreme climate events, societal risk

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

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

David P. Brown - Ph.D., Arizona, 2004, Regional Director, NOAA -- Climate variability, global change, spatial analysis ; North America

Brooks Ellwood - Ph.D., Rhode Island, 1977, Adjunct and Professor of Geology & Geophysics – 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

Charles "Chip" McGimsey - Ph.D., S Illinois U Carbondale, 1995, Adjunct Professor and State Archaeologist--Southeastern archaeology

Karen McKee - Ph.D., LSU, 1993, USGS National Wetlands Research Center, Mangrove ecology

Elijah W. Ramsey III - Ph.D., South Carolina, 1988, Adjunct and Team Leader USGS National Wetlands Research Center – remote sensing/GIS, water quality, Coastal, Hydrology

Charles Wayne Smith - Ph.D., Texas A&M, 1995, Associate Professor, Texas A&M – historical archaeology, artifact conservation, visual anthropology, digital imaging

Peter Sutherland - Ph.D., Oxford, 1999, Instructor, Department of Religious Studies -- Cultural anthropology, religion, nationalism, postcoloniality, S. Asia, Black Atlantic

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