Geography

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Derek Alderman, Head

Professors
Alderman, D.H., PhD - Georgia
Bhaduri, B. (Joint Faculty), PhD - Purdue
Foresta, R.A., PhD - Rutgers
Grissino-Mayer, H.D., PhD - Arizona
Harden, C.P., PhD - Colorado
Horn, S.P., PhD - California (Berkeley)
Ralston, B.A., PhD - Northwestern
Shaw, S.L., PhD - Ohio State

Associate Professors
Kalafsky, R.V., PhD - New York (Buffalo)
Tran, L.T., PhD - Hawaii

Assistant Professors
Inwood, J.F., PhD - Georgia
Kim, H., PhD - Ohio State
Li, Y., PhD - Beijing
Nagle, M.N., PhD - California (Santa Barbara)
Sharma, M., PhD - Ohio State
Stewart, R.N. (Joint Faculty), PhD - Tennessee
Van Riemsdijk, M., PhD - Colorado

Adjunct Faculty
Orvis, K.H., PhD - California (Berkeley)
Wang, D., PhD - Tennessee
Zanetta, M.C., PhD - Ohio State

The master’s degree emphasizes development of professional competence as a geographer and offers opportunities to gain substantial depth in a concentration or a major technique. An emphasis in geographic information science is available for students who have appropriate backgrounds in mathematics and computer science. The doctoral program is for those who have demonstrated proficiency in conducting independent research. The department is particularly well-qualified to direct graduate work in location analysis, transportation geography, urban and rural geography, cultural ecology, and the geography of the natural environment (especially biogeography and geomorphology). The faculty is qualified to direct students from a variety of approaches ranging from historical and humanistic to rigorously analytic and GIS-based.

Environmental Policy Minor

The department participates in a program designed to give graduate students an opportunity to develop an interdisciplinary specialization in environmental policy. See Department of Political Science  for program description.

Interdisciplinary Graduate Minor in Computational Science (IGMCS)

The Department of Geography participates in the interdisciplinary graduate minor in computational science (IGMCS) program. Any student pursuing a master’s or PhD with a major in geography can receive a minor in computational science by completing the appropriate IGMCS requirements. For additional information, see the description of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Minor in Computational Science  listed under Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science or visit the IGMCS website at http://igmcs.utk.edu/.

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