Faculty & Staff
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
(804) 289-8661
Associate Professor of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability, Geography Advisor
Global Studies Concentration Advisor, Development and Change, Politics and Governance
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
(804) 287-6307
Associate Director of Sustainability and Environmental Justice
Adjunct Lecturer of Geography, Sustainability, and the Environment
Contact: (804) 662-3016
Professor of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, Environmental Studies Program
Professor of Biology
Specialties:
- Battlefield Ecology
- Landscape Fragmentation and Connectivity
- Park Management
- Conservation
- Forest Community Ecology
(804) 289-8265
Ms. Nancy Propst, CAP, PACE
She/Her
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
(804) 484-1518
Dr. Stephanie Spera
She/Her
Assistant 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
Spatial Analysis Lab GIS Operations Manager
Specialties:
- GIS
- Geovisualization
- Earth Science
- Environmental Science
- Field Methods
(804) 484-1545