People - All

Sai Ahmed

Graduate Student

Environment, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Food, Food Sovereignty, Indigenous, Justice, Labor, Social Movements, Social Stratification/Inequality, Transnational

Jose Alavez

Assistant Professor

jalavez@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

Community, Counter-Mapping, Creative Geographies, Culture, Decolonial Digital Geographies, Geographies of Death, Geovisualization, Health, Latinx geographies, Mapping, Migration, Race and Ethnicity, Transnational

Caitlin Alcorn

Ph.D. Alum

Class, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Labor, Race and Ethnicity, Social Stratification/Inequality, Urban Studies

Rob Anderson

Ph.D. Alum

Critical Human Geography, ecological restoration, Environment, Geographic Information Systems, Mapping, Nature-society relations, Political Ecology, Politics, Public Scholarship, Science and Technology, Sustainability, the politics of the environment, wildlife and biodiversity conservation

Kidan Araya

Graduate Student

arayak@uw.edu

Mike Babb

Ph.D. Alum

Steven Bao

Graduate Student

bxq98@uw.edu

Big Data, Geographic Information Systems, Geovisualization

Mia Bennett

Associate Professor

miabenn@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

303D

Arctic, Critical Theory, Development, Environment, Geographic Information Systems, Geovisualization, Global, Indigenous, infrastructure, Mapping, Politics, remote sensing, Research Methods, Science and Technology

Isaiah Berg

BA, Geography, Class of 2013

Danielle Brown

Graduate Student

Megan Brown

Graduate Student

meb5@uw.edu

Michael Brown

Professor

michaelb@uw.edu

Office Hours: by appointment

303e Smith Hall

Cities, Critical Theory, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Health, History, Political Geography, Queer Studies, Research Methods, Urban Politics, Urban Studies

Estelle Broyer

Graduate Student

ebroyer@uw.edu

Cities, Class, Critical Theory, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Global, Poverty, Race and Ethnicity, Research Methods, Social Stratification/Inequality, Urban Studies

Wesley Carrasco

Graduate Student

Kam Wing Chan

Professor

kwchan@uw.edu / (206) 543-6994

Office Hours: by appointment

Smith 416 D

children, China, Cities, Citizenship, Economics, Education, Labor, Migration, Population, Poverty, Public Scholarship, the hukou system, Urban Studies

Andrew Childs

Graduate Student

agc4@uw.edu

Ellie Cleasby

Graduate Student

Commodity Chains, Consumption, Craft, Creative Geographies, Environment, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Public Scholarship, Science and Technology, Sustainability, Urban Studies

Christopher R. Cox

Ph.D. Alum

Class, critical extinction studies, Critical Theory, Environment, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Global, History, Indigenous, Science and Technology, Social Movements, social movements., Social Stratification/Inequality, society-forest relations, world-ecology

Austin Crane

Ph.D. Alum

Borders, Citizenship, European Union and Ukraine, Feminist Geopolitics, Humanitarianism, Law, Migration, Political Geography, Poverty

Zachary Cudney

Graduate Student

zcudney@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

SMI 430

Arctic Studies, Critical Human Geography, Critical Theory, Cultural Geography, Geohumanities, Mapping, Memory and Archives, Representations, Science and Technology

Theodore Davenport

Ph.D. Alum

Disability Studies, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Geographic Information Systems, History, Law, Queer Studies, Science and Technology, Transgender Studies

Jie Deng

Graduate Student

jiedeng@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

Smith 430

Area Studies, Cities, Citizenship, History, Ideology, Justice, Migration, Poverty, Urban Studies

Maro Denton

Graduate Student

maro@uw.edu

Office Hours: https://calendly.com/maro-uw/15min

SMI 428

Gregory DeVerna

Graduate Student

Ross Doll

Graduate Student

rossdoll@uw.edu

Josef Eckert

Graduate Student

jeckert1@uw.edu

Mark Ellis

Professor

ellism@uw.edu

Labor, Migration, Population, Segregation, Statistical Methods, Urban

Sarah Elwood

Professor and Chair

selwood@uw.edu / (206) 616-5238

Office Hours: By appointment

SMI 412E

Geovisualization, Justice, Mapping, Poverty, Social Stratification/Inequality, Urban Studies

Kim England

Professor and Harry Bridges Endowed Chair in Labor Studies Emerita

england@uw.edu

Office Hours: See the syllabus or by appointment

Smith 406b

Cities, Critical Theory, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Immigration, Justice, Labor, Social Stratification/Inequality

Emre Erol

Graduate Student

emreerol@uw.edu

Area Studies, China Studies, Critical Human Geography, Gentrification, History, Housing, Hukou, Ideology, Migration, Politics, Tiao-Kuai, Transnational, Urban Studies

Mateo Espinosa

Ph.D. Alum

Agriculture, Critical Theory, Disease, Environment, Food, Health, Indigenous, Medicine, Research Methods, Science and Technology

Luis Esquivel

BA, Geography, Class of 2016

Mónica Farías

Instructor

fariasm@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

Smith Hall 303A

Citizenship, Critical Theory, Decoloniality, Latin America, Politics, Poverty, Race and Ethnicity, Social Movements, Social Stratification/Inequality, Urban Studies

Jiaxin Feng

Ph.D. Alum

Cognitive neuroscience, Crime, Emotion, Environmental psychology, Geographic Information Systems, Health, Migration, Poverty, Science and Technology, Social Stratification/Inequality, Urban Studies

Anna Fernandez

Graduate Student

af65@uw.edu

Lee Fiorio

Graduate Student

fiorio@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tuesdays 2-3 PM, or by appointment

Smith 417

Kian Flynn

Geography Librarian

flynnk7@uw.edu

Emma Gause

Graduate Student

egause@uw.edu

Disease, Geographic Information Systems, Health, Mapping, Medicine, resilience, Vulnerability

Erin Gengo

BA, Geography, Class of 2009

Joseph Getzoff

Lecturer

jgetzoff@uw.edu

Office Hours: T/Th 1:00-2:00 PM

Smith Hall 303A

Arid Zones, Critical Human Geography, Development Studies, Nature-Environment Geographies, Postcolonial Theory, Research Methods, Settler Colonialism

Elyse Gordon

Graduate Student

egordon4@uw.edu

SMITH 430

Civic Engagement, Community, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Nonprofits and Philanthropy, Poverty, Public Scholarship, Social Stratification/Inequality, Urban Studies

Gina Gould

Academic Counselor

geogadv@uw.edu

Marjorie Gray

Program Assistant

marjgray@uw.edu / 206.221.4824

SMI 408

Tiffany Grobelski

Graduate Student

tlg6@uw.edu

Nell Gross

Director of Academic Services

ngross@uw.edu / (206) 543-3246

SMI 415B

Daniel Viet Ha

M.A. Alum

virtuox0@uw.edu

Olivia Hollenhorst

Graduate Student

ohollen@uw.edu

SMI 417

Disease, Geographic Information Systems, Geovisualization, Global, Health, Mapping, Medicine, Migration, Population, Science and Technology

Olivia Horwedel

Graduate Student

horwedo@uw.edu

Soohyung Hur

Graduate Student

Office Hours: By appointment

Ömer Kazancı

Graduate Student

okazanci@uw.edu

Cities, Citizenship, Critical Theory, Environment, Law, Urban Studies

Sechang Kim

Graduate Student

Alexander Kirchmeier

Graduate Student

alexak24@uw.edu

Critical Human Geography, Critical Theory, Geographic Information Systems, Geovisualization, Justice, Mapping, Research Methods, Urban Studies

Adam Kowalski

Graduate Student

akowalsk@uw.edu

Meredith Krueger

Graduate Student

mkrueger@uw.edu

Clara Lemme Ribeiro

Graduate Student

cribeiro@uw.edu

Chris Lizotte

Graduate Student

clizotte@uw.edu

Office Hours: Monday 1 - 2:30 PM, Friday 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM, or by appointment

SMI 415

Citizenship, Education, Geopolitics, Migration, Nationalism, Politics

Patricia Lopez

Assistant Professor

maoquai@uw.edu

Office Hours: by appointment

SMI 416C

affect, American Studies, Care ethics, care labor, Critical Human Geography, Critical Theory, Disease, Geopolitics, Health, History, posthumanism, Poverty, Race and Ethnicity

Alyson Mabie

Graduate Student

amabie@uw.edu

Feminism and Feminist Theory, Poverty, Public Scholarship, Science and Technology, Social Stratification/Inequality

Diego Martinez-Lugo

Graduate Student

diegoml@uw.edu

Ayanda Masilela

Ph.D. Alum

Census, Culture, Geographic Information Systems, Health, Mapping, Martial Arts, Medicine, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Research Methods

Jesse McClelland

Ph.D., Geography, Class of 2018

jmcclell@uw.edu

Tyler McCrea

M.A. Alum

Critical Data Studies, Data Ecologies, Geovisualization, Mapping, Political Economy, Science and Technology

Erin McElroy

Associate Professor

erinmcel@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

Smith Hall, 426

American Studies, Critical Theory, Empire, Housing, Justice, Mapping, Race and Ethnicity, Racial Capitalism, Science and Technology, Social Movements, Technocapitalism, Technofascism, Transnational, Urban Studies

Madalena Monnier-Reyna

Graduate Student

mmonnier@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

Smith 430

Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Politics, Research Methods, Social Movements

Arianna Muirow

Graduate Student

annathom@uw.edu

Phillip Neel

Ph.D. Alum

pneel@uw.edu

Gunwha Oh

Assistant Teaching Professor

gunwhaoh@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

SMI 416B

Big Data, Education, Geographic Information Systems, Geovisualization, Mapping, Science and Technology, Urban Studies

Chrystel Oloukoï

Assistant Professor

coloukoi@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

SMH, 303

Black Geographies, Black Studies, Carceral and Abolition Geographies, Cities, Colonialism, Critical Theory, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Racial Capitalism, Radical Pedagogy, Research Methods, Urban Studies

Olivia Orosco

Graduate Student

Rod Palmquist

Graduate Student

wroderic@uw.edu

Liz Peng

Graduate Student

lp36@uw.edu

Office Hours: Wednesdays 2-3 PM, Fridays 12-1 PM

Smith 430

Critical Theory, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Geographic Information Systems, Geovisualization, Migration, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Social Stratification/Inequality

Chase Puentes

Graduate Student

cpuentes@uw.edu

Alexander Ramiller

Graduate Student

aramille@uw.edu

Smith 417

Cities, Housing, Neoliberalism, Poverty, Social Stratification/Inequality, Sustainability, Urban Studies

Margaret (Magie) Ramírez

Graduate Student

mmrez@uw.edu

Office Hours: Based in Oakland, CA

Art-Activism, Cities, Critical Geographies of Race, Culture, Decolonial Geographies, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Food, Migration, Race and Ethnicity, Social Movements, Social Stratification/Inequality, Transnational, Urban Studies, Women of Color Feminism

Isaac Rivera

Ph.D. Alum

Counter-Mapping, Decolonial Digital Geographies, Environmental Justice, Feminist Political Geography, Indigenous Studies, Law, Public Scholarship, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Social Movements

Leigh Ruben

Administrator

Isabel Sanchez-Foster

Graduate Student

izzysf@uw.edu

430

Edgar Sandoval

Ph.D. Alum

Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Immigration, Politics, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Transnational, Urban Studies

Mike Schechter

BA, Geography, Class of 2000

Amelia Schwartz

Graduate Student

aschwa@uw.edu

Environment, Geographic Information Systems, Indigenous, Mapping, Politics, Poverty, Science and Technology, Sustainability, Water and Sanitation

Elizabeth Shoffner

Graduate Student

esho@uw.edu

Office Hours: Fridays 10:30am-12:30pm, Smith 422;

Smith 430

Agriculture, Community, Critical Theory, Decoloniality, Environment, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Latin America, Poverty, Race and Ethnicity, Research Methods, Social Movements, Social Stratification/Inequality, Subjectivity

Winter Smiley

Graduate Student

Jen Rose Smith

Assistant Professor

jenroses@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

PDL C-514

Alaska Native Studies, American Studies, Arctic Studies, Critical Human Geography, Environmental Humanities, Indigenous Geographies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology

Gretchen Sneegas

Assistant Teaching Professor

gsneegas@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

SMI 424

Agriculture, Critical Human Geography, Education, Environment, Food, Q-methodology, Science and Technology, Sustainability

Amanda Snellinger

Instructor

ats35@uw.edu

Smith Hall 303 A

Yifan Sun

Graduate Student

sunyifan@uw.edu / (206) 973-9148

Office Hours: By appointment

SMI 430

Geo-bias, GeoAI, Geographic Fauxinfo (Post-truth Geography), Humanistic GIS, misinformation

Aja Sutton

Ph.D. Alum

amsutton@uw.edu

Big Data, Disease, Environment, Health, Health policy, Medicine, Migration, Politics, Population, quantitative social science, Research Methods, Social Ecology, Social Stratification/Inequality, spatial statistics

Sabrina Tatta

Academic Counselor

geogadv@uw.edu

Samantha Thompson

Ph.D. Alum

Care Work, Cities, Critical Human Geography, Critical Theory, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Housing, Politics, Public Scholarship, Race and Ethnicity, Research Methods, Social Inequalities, Tenants' Experiences of Housing, Urban Studies

Benjamin Trumble

Graduate Student

trumbleb@uw.edu

Culture, Economics, Education, History, Ideology, Immigration, Labor, Nationalism, Neoliberalism, Politics

Han Vale

Graduate Student

Natalie Vaughan-Wynn

Graduate Student

Jess Wallach

BA, Geography, Class of 2013

Yanning Wei

Graduate Student

ywei25@uw.edu

Area Studies, Cities, Geographic Information Systems, Global, Migration, Neoliberalism, Poverty, Science and Technology, Sustainability, Urban Studies

Margaret Wilson

Graduate Student

mmw36@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

Smith 428

Culture, Development, Global, Health, History, Medicine, Mental Health, Migration, Politics, Science and Technology, Security

Suzanne Davies Withers

Associate Professor

swithers@uw.edu / 206-616-9064

Office Hours: By appointment

Smith 12

Population, Poverty, Research Methods, Urban Studies

Kenneth Wolkin

Graduate Student

kwolkin@uw.edu

Office Hours: M & W, 11:30-12:30 || By appointment

Smith 430

Immigration, Indigenous Studies, Justice, Law, Territory & Territoriality

Yuying Xie

Graduate Student

yxie993@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

Smith 417

China, Critical Theory, Economics, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Labor, Migration, Neoliberalism, Race and Ethnicity, Social Movements

Tongwei Xu

Graduate Student

tongwei@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

SMI 428

Critical Human Geography, Digital Geographies, Geographic Information Systems, Music Geography, Platform Studies, Spatial Politics

Xiaxia Yang

Ph.D. Alum

Alexandra Yanson

Graduate Student

ayanson@uw.edu / 239-450-0016

Office Hours: By appointment

Smith 430

Jason C. Young

Graduate Student

youngjc2@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

BLD 089C

Area Studies, Big Data, Critical Theory, Culture, Environment, Geographic Information Systems, Indigenous, Research Methods, Science and Technology

Bo Zhao

Professor

zhaobo@uw.edu / (206) 543-5843

Office Hours: By appt or request a zoom mtg via t.ly/BZjTq

SMI 412E

AI, Big Data, Digital Geographies, Geographic Information Systems, Mapping, misinformation, Politics, Post-Structuralism, Science and Technology, Urban Studies

Emeriti Faculty

James Harrington

Professor Emeritus (UW Tacoma)

jwh@uw.edu

Economics, Global

Lucy Jarosz

Professor Emeritus

jarosz@uw.edu

Agriculture, Economics, Environment, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Food, Poverty, Research Methods

Lawrence M. Knopp, Jr.

Professor Emeritus (UW Tacoma)

knoppl@uw.edu

Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Urban Studies

Victoria Lawson

Professor Emeritus

lawson@uw.edu

Class, Critical Theory, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Global, Migration, Poverty, Social Movements

Jonathan Mayer

Professor Emeritus

jmayer@uw.edu

Disease, Environment, Epidemiology (infectious disease/spatial/clinical/neuroepidemiology) public health, Global, Health, Medicine, Poverty, Urban Studies

Timothy Nyerges

Professor Emeritus

nyerges@uw.edu

coastal GIS, Environment, Geographic Information Systems, participtory GIS for decision support, Research Methods, resilience, Sustainability, sustainability information science, watersheds

Craig ZumBrunnen

Professor Emeritus

craigzb@uw.edu

Environment, Global

Adjunct/Affiliate Faculty

People - Adjuncts & Affiliates
Name	Title	Email/Phone
Adeyemi, Kemi	Adjunct Professor	kadeyemi@uw.edu
Aggarwal, Sunil Kumar	Affiliate Professor	sunila@uw.edu
Al-Saleh, Danya	Adjunct Assistant Professor	dalsaleh@uw.edu
Anderson, Christian	Adjunct Professor	cmander@uw.edu
Braden, Kathleen	Affiliate Professor	kbraden@spu.edu
Brown, Dan	Adjunct Professor	danbro@uw.edu
Cai, Siyu	Affiliate Assistant Professor	cais2@uw.edu
Cohen, Spencer	Affiliate Assistant Professor	scohenke@uw.edu
Conway, Richard	Affiliate Professor	dickconway@cs.edu
Cram, Shannon	Adjunct Professor	scram@uw.edu
Dunbar, Matthew	Affiliate Professor	mddunbar@uw.edu
Freshour, Carrie	Affiliate Professor	cfresh@uw.edu
García, María Elena	Adjunct Professor	meg71@uw.edu
Gardner, Benjamin	Adjunct Professor	gardnerb@uw.edu
Goodchild, Michael	Affiliate Professor	good@geog.ucsb.edu
Hashimoto, Yui	Affiliate Assistant Professor	yhashimo@uw.edu
Jung, Jin-Kyu	Adjunct Professor	jkjung5@uw.edu
Lafferty, Janna	Affiliate Assistant Professor
Lopez, Santiago	Adjunct Professor	cslopez@uw.edu
Lucero, Jose Antonio	Adjunct Professor	jal26@uw.edu
Malone, Melanie	Adjunct Assistant Professor	drmalone@uw.edu
Moskal, L. Monika	Adjunct Professor	lmmoskal@uw.edu
Piedalue, Amy	Affiliate Professor	amypied@gmail.com
Rodríguez-Silva, Ileana	Adjunct Professor	imrodrig@uw.edu
Romero, Adam	Adjunct Professor	adrom@uw.edu
Thatcher, James	Affiliate Assistant Professor	thatchja@oregonstate.edu
Vickers, Morgan	Adjunct Assistant Professor	mvickers@uw.edu
Ybarra, Megan	Affiliate Associate Professor	mybarra@uw.edu