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Professor Kessie Alexandre

Kessie Alexandre

Assistant Professor
kalexan@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
SMI 416C
Black Geographies, Climate and Society, Environment, Ethnography, Governance, Health, Race and Ethnicity, Social Movements, Sustainability, Water and Sanitation
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Mia Bennett

Mia Bennett

Assistant Professor
miabenn@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
303F
Arctic, Critical Theory, Development, Environment, Geographic Information Systems, Geovisualization, Global, Indigenous, infrastructure, Mapping, Politics, remote sensing, Research Methods, Science and Technology
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Michael Brown

Michael Brown

Professor and Interim Chair
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
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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
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Mark Ellis

Professor
ellism@uw.edu
Labor, Migration, Population, Segregation, Statistical Methods, Urban
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Sarah Elwood

Professor
selwood@uw.edu / (206) 616-5238
Office Hours: On research leave, July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024
SMI 412E
Geovisualization, Justice, Mapping, Poverty, Social Stratification/Inequality, Urban Studies
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Kim England

Professor and Harry Bridges Endowed Chair in Labor Studies
england@uw.edu / (206) 685-2509
Office Hours: See the syllabus or by appointment
Smith 406b
Cities, Critical Theory, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Immigration, Justice, Labor, Social Stratification/Inequality
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Erin McElroy

Assistant Professor
erinmcel@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Smith Hall, 426
American Studies, Critical Digital Studies, Feminist Technology Studies, Gentrification, Housing, Justice, Mapping, Postsocialist Studies, Public Scholarship, Race and Ethnicity, Racial Capitalism, Science and Technology, Social Movements, Transnational, Urban Studies
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Gunwha Oh

Assistant Teaching Professor
gunwhaoh@uw.edu
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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
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Gretchen Sneegas

Assistant Teaching Professor
gsneegas@uw.edu
Office Hours: Tu/Th 10 am-12 pm (Zoom)
SMI 424
Agriculture, Critical Human Geography, Education, Environment, Food, Q-methodology, Science and Technology, Sustainability
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Suzanne Withers

Suzanne Davies Withers

Associate Professor
swithers@uw.edu / 206-616-9064
Office Hours: By appointment
Smith 12
Population, Poverty, Research Methods, Urban Studies
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Megan Ybarra

Associate Professor
Office Hours: By appointment
Abolition, Activist scholarship, Environment, Environmental Justice, Immigration, Indigenous, Latinx geographies, Migration, Public Scholarship, Race and Ethnicity, Radical Pedagogy, Social Movements
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Bo Zhao

Bo Zhao

Associate Professor
zhaobo@uw.edu / 206-685-3846
Office Hours: By appt or request a zoom mtg via https://t.ly/7nWDj
SMI 412E
Big Data, Digital Geographies, Geographic Information Systems, Geospatial Data, Geovisualization, Mapping, misinformation, Politics, Post-Structuralism, Science and Technology, Urban Studies
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Lecturers

Name Title Email / Phone
Naslund, Skye Instructor snaslund@uw.edu

Emeritus Faculty

Name Title Email / Phone
Harrington, James Professor Emeritus (UW Tacoma) jwh@uw.edu
Jarosz, Lucy Professor Emeritus jarosz@uw.edu
Knopp, Jr., Lawrence M. Professor Emeritus (UW Tacoma) knoppl@uw.edu
Lawson, Victoria Professor Emeritus lawson@uw.edu
Mayer, Jonathan Professor Emeritus jmayer@uw.edu
Morrill, Richard Professor Emeritus morrill@uw.edu
Nyerges, Timothy Professor Emeritus nyerges@uw.edu
ZumBrunnen, Craig Professor Emeritus craigzb@uw.edu

Adjunct/Affiliate Faculty

Name Title Email / Phone
Adeyemi, Kemi Adjunct Professor kadeyemi@uw.edu
Aggarwal, Sunil Kumar Affiliate Professor sunila@uw.edu
Anderson, Christian Adjunct Professor cmander@uw.edu
Bergmann, Luke Affiliate Professor lrb9@uw.edu
Braden, Kathleen Affiliate Professor kbraden@spu.edu
Brown, Dan Adjunct Professor danbro@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
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 amer@uw.edu
Rodríguez-Silva, Ileana Adjunct Professor imrodrig@uw.edu
Romero, Adam Adjunct Professor adrom@uw.edu
Walter, Rebecca Adjunct Associate Professor rjwalter@uw.edu
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