Faculty and Teaching Staff


Full-time faculty
Andrew Curtis Associate Professor ,
Kent Campus acurti13@kent.edu
Phone: 330-672-2045

Expertise:

  • Geographic Information Science
  • Hazards and Disasters
  • Mapping Epidemics
  • Public Health Mapping
  • Crime Mapping
David H. Kaplan Professor ,
Kent Campus dkaplan@kent.edu
Phone: 330-672-3221

Expertise:

  • Nationalism and Ethnicity
  • French and Italian Geography
  • Urban Planning
  • Transportation
  • Segregation
Jay Lee Professor ,
Kent Campus jlee@kent.edu
Phone: 330-672-3222

Expertise:

  • GIS
  • Geospatial Analysis
  • Urban Operations Research
  • Geography of China
  • Spatial and Temporal Simulation
Jennifer Mapes Assistant Professor ,
Kent Campus jmapes@kent.edu
Phone: 330-672-2045

Expertise:

  • Urban Geography
  • Community Planning
  • Small Towns in the U.S.
  • Sustainable Development
Jacqueline Mills Assistant Professor ,
Kent Campus jmills30@kent.edu

Expertise:

  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Geospatial Technologies
  • Natural Disasters
  • Built Environment
  • Maternal Child Health
Keith Muller Associate Professor ,
Kent State University at Trumbull kmuller@kent.edu
Phone: 330-675-8817
Mandy Munro-Stasiuk Professor and Chair ,
Kent Campus mmunrost@kent.edu
Phone: 330-672-2045

Expertise:

  • Glacial and karst Geomorphology
  • Remote Sensing
  • Geoarchaeology
Becky Parylak Assistant Professor ,
Kent Campus rbrown80@kent.edu
Phone: 330-672-2045

Expertise:

  • Physical Geography
  • Climatology
  • Precipitation Trends
Chris Post Assistant Professor ,
Kent State University at Stark cpost2@kent.edu
Phone: 330-244-3427

Expertise:

  • Cultural Landscape
  • Historical Geography
  • North America
  • Commemoration
  • Company Towns
Thomas Schmidlin Professor ,
Kent Campus tschmidl@kent.edu
Phone: 330-672-3227

Expertise:

  • weather and climate
  • natural hazards and disasters
  • severe weather
Scott Sheridan Professor ,
Kent Campus ssherid1@kent.edu
Phone: 330-672-3224

Expertise:

  • Climatology
  • Climate and health
  • Climate Change
Sarah L. Smiley Assistant Professor ,
Kent State University at Salem ssmiley8@kent.edu
Phone: 330-332-0361

Expertise:

  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Urban Geography
  • Cultural Geography
Emariana Taylor Assistant Professor ,
Kent Campus etaylo12@kent.edu
Phone: 330-672-3226

Expertise:

  • Biogeography
  • Urban Ecology
  • Environmental Geography
  • Computational Modeling
James Tyner Professor ,
Kent Campus jtyner@kent.edu
Phone: 330-672-7863

Expertise:

  • Political
  • Population
  • Gender & Race

Adjunct faculty
Amoaba Gooden Int Chairperson, Academic Dept agooden@kent.edu
Phone: 330-672-0142
Department of Pan-African Studies


Research Areas:

  • African Caribbean Transnational Communities
  • Gender, identity and the African Diaspora
  • African Diaspora Social networks as determinants of health

 

Part-time instructors
Tony Carlucci Instructor (Term) tcarlucc@kent.edu
Phone: 330-672-2045

Expertise:

  • Geography of Wine
Molly Delaney Instuctor (Term) mdelaney@kent.edu

Expertise:

  • Environmental Geography
Michael Dunbar Instructor mdunbar@kent.edu

Expertise:

  • Geography of Europe
  • World Regional Geography
  • Sense of Place
  • Natural Resources
  • Field Experiences
Dan Ross Instructor daross@kent.edu
Phone: 330-672-2045

Expertise:

  • Forestry
  • Urban Water Quality
  • Natural Resource Management
  • Soils
  • Golf Course Design & Historian
Jeanne Schmidlin Instructor (Term) jschmidl@kent.edu

Expertise:

  • Maps and Map Analysis
Joy Volpi Instructor (Term) jvolpi@kent.edu
Phone: 330-672-2045

 

Emeritus faculty
Surinder Bhardwaj

Expertise:

  • India
  • Geography of Pilgrimage
Milton Harvey and J. Randall Brown Professor Emeritus mharvey@kent.edu
  • Ute Dymon
  • Frank Erickson
  • Dick Lewis
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