Laurence W. Carstensen Jr.
Department Head

Timothy D. Baird
Assistant Professor

Sustainability and Resilience, Conservation and Communities, Human/Environment Interactions, Complex Adaptive Systems, Livelihood Diversification, East Africa & Developing World Political Ecology, Mixed Methodologies, Inter-disciplinary Collaboration.

John Boyer
Senior Instructor

World regions, viticulture, geography of wine, agricultural geography, educational technology.

James B. Campbell
Professor

David Carroll
Instructor

Andrew W. Ellis
Associate Professor

Lisa M. Kennedy
Associate Professor

Biogeography, Paleoenvironments, Vegetation dynamics, Dendrochronology, Human-environment interaction, Caribbean, Neotropics, Southern Appalachians, southeastern U.S.

Korine N. Kolivras
Associate Professor

Robert Oliver
Assistant Professor

Geography of Sport, Public Spaces, Urban-Political Geography, Historical-Cultural Geography.

Lynn M. Resler
Associate Professor

Peter Sforza
Instructor and Research Associate in Virginia View

Yang Shao
Assistant Professor

Remote sensing, GIS, land use and land cover change, watershed assessment and modeling.

Stacy Boyer
Instructor

Infectious Diseases, Refugee/Immigrant Health, Global Health and Development, HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean, Gender and Poverty Issues.

Maria Elisa Christie
Program Director
Women in International Development at the Office of International Research, Education and Development (OIRED)

Gender, Agriculture, and Development, Feminist Political Ecology, Cultural Ecology, Geography of Food, Cuisine, and Kitchenspace.

Randel L. Dymond
Associate Professor
Environmental and Water Resources Engineering

Sustainable Land Development, Urban Stormwater Quality & Quantity, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Spatial Decision Support Systems, Watershed Management, Civil Infrastructure Systems, Land Use Change Impacts, and Visualization of Geospatial data.

Robin Reed
Instructor

Continuing education programs.

Charles M. Good
Emeritus Professor

Robert W. Morrill
Emeritus Professor

Geographic education, North America, political.

Bonham C. Richardson
Emeritus Professor

Historical, Caribbean, human ecology.

Joseph L. Scarpaci
Emeritus Professor

Karen Bland

kbland@vt.edu

Departmental and graduate student administrative assistant.

Katherine Pritchard

kpritcha@vt.edu

Technical Assistant.

Maureen Deisinger

mdeising@vt.edu

Undergraduate academic adviser.