Geography and Sustainability

https://geography.utk.edu/

Nicholas Nagle, Head
​Ron Kalafsky, Associate Head

Professors
Alderman, D.H., PhD – Georgia
Horn, S.P., PhD – California (Berkeley)
Kalafsky, R., PhD – New York (Buffalo)
Kim, H., PhD - Ohio State
Li, Y., PhD – Beijing
Nagle, N.N., PhD – California (Santa Barbara)
Shaw, S.L., PhD – Ohio State
Tran, L.T., PhD – Hawaii

Associate Professors
Eaves, L., PhD - Florida International
Ellis, K.N., PhD – Florida State
Muñoz, I.S., PhD - Texas (Austin)
Sharma, M., PhD – Ohio State
Wu, Q., PhD - Cincinnati

Assistant Professors
Herrera, D.A., PhD - Cornell
Herrero, H., PhD – Florida
King, K., PhD - Idaho
Luke, K., PhD – Georgia
Schwartzman, G., PhD - Minnesota

Adjunct Faculty
Bishop, B.W., PhD – Florida State
Bekker, M.F., PhD – Iowa
Benjamin, S.K., PhD – South Carolina
Kar, B., PhD – South Carolina (Columbia)
Kerr, J., PhD – Tennessee
Lane, C., PhD – Tennessee
Maxwell, R. S., PhD – West Virginia
Moulton, A., PhD – Clark
Schroeder, T., PhD – Oregon State
Stewart, R.N., PhD – Tennessee
Washington-Allen, R., PhD – Utah State

Senior Lecturer
Hinten, M., PhD – Oklahoma
Norrell, T., PhD - Tennessee

Lecturers
Kerr, M., PhD – Tennessee
Román-Rivera, M. PhD – University of South Carolina
Watkins, J., MS – Western Michigan

The Department of Geography and Sustainability provides a comprehensive program that reflects the discipline’s three main areas – human geography, physical geography, and geospatial analysis. The department’s courses allow students to explore the linkages between human activities and natural systems. Students taking geography courses should develop factual knowledge, critical thinking, and analytic skills. Training in geography allows students to know where things are located, why they are located where they are, how and why places differ, how human activity shapes and is shaped by the natural environment, and how to analyze human-environment interactions.