Faculty & Staff

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Dr. David S. Salisbury
He/Him
Associate Professor of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability, Geography Advisor
Chair, Department of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability
Environmental Studies Advisor
Global Studies Concentration Advisor, Development and Change
Specialties:
  • Human environment interface
  • Amazonia
  • Political ecology
  • Cartography
  • Conservation and development
Contact:
(804) 289-8661
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Dr. Mary Finley-Brook
Professor of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability, Geography Advisor
Global Studies Concentration Advisor, Development and Change, Politics and Governance
Adjunct Assistant Professor, SPCS, Liberal Arts
Specialties:
  • Climate justice
  • Just energy transition
  • Political geography
  • Economic geography
  • Human rights
  • Community-based participatory action research
  • Virginia’s Piedmont and Tidewater
  • Central America, South America and the Caribbean
Contact:
(804) 287-6307
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Daniel Hart
Associate Director of Sustainability and Environmental Justice
Adjunct Lecturer of Geography, Sustainability, and the Environment
Adjunct Instructor, SPCS, Nonprofit Studies
Contact:
(804) 662-3016
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Dr. Todd Lookingbill
Professor of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, Environmental Studies Program
Professor of Biology
Faculty Director of the Richmond Scholars Program
Specialties:
  • Battlefield Ecology
  • Landscape Fragmentation and Connectivity
  • Park Management
  • Conservation
  • Forest Community Ecology
Contact:
(804) 289-8265
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Ms. Nancy Propst, CAP, PACE
She/Her
Academic Administrative Specialist
Contact:
(804) 287-6693
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Dr. Kyle Redican
Teaching Faculty of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability
Director of the Spatial Analysis Lab
Specialties:
  • Geographic Information Systems / Science
  • Spatial Data Science
  • Economic Geography
  • AI in Education
Contact:
(804) 484-1518
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Dr. Stephanie Spera
Associate Professor of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability
Data Science Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
  • Coupled Natural-Human Environment Systems
  • Terrestrial Remote Sensing
  • Land-Change Science
  • Regional Climate Change Modelling
  • GIS
  • Spatial Statistics
Contact:
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Beth Zizzamia
Spatial Analysis Lab GIS Operations Manager
Specialties:
  • GIS
  • Geovisualization
  • Earth Science
  • Environmental Science
  • Field Methods
Contact:
(804) 484-1545