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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

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)

Expertise:

  • Environmental Geography
Michael Dunbar
Instructor

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)

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
  • Ute Dymon
  • Frank Erickson
  • Dick Lewis