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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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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

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

Wendy W. Patzewitsch - Environmental Historical Geography, Water Resources, Texas and the United States

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

Fahui Wang - urban, economic, and transportation geography, public policy GIS, quantitative methods, China, S.E. Asia, U.S.

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

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G&A Faculty - ANTHROPOLOGY

Jill Brody - linguistics, sociocultural, Middle America

Jay D. Edwards - sociocultural, vernacular architecture, 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

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

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

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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.

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G&A Staff

Office Staff

Dana Sanders

Linda Strain

Nedda Taylor

Vicki Terry

CADGIS Lab

Farrell W. Jones

Cartographic Section

Clifford Duplechin Jr.

Mary Lee Eggart

FACES Lab

Maria Allaire

N. Eileen Barrow

Helen V. Bouzon

Nichole Harris

Ginesse A. Listi

Helen Matthews

SRCC

John M. "Jay" Grymes III

Michael Kemp

Malcolm Moreau

Luigi Romolo

David Sathiaraj

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