Faculty and Staff

Tenured and Tenure Track Faculty

	Dr. Hyowon Ban *Professor* Cartography, geovisualization, GIS, uncertainty, exurbanization, dance, music Dr. Ban’s website

	Dr. Lily House-Peters *Associate Professor* Water security, climate change, political ecology, sustainability and environmental justice, biodiversity conservation, Latin America, transdisciplinary science, automation/robotics, extraction & mining Dr. House-Peters’ website
	Dr. Gary Hytrek *Professor* Globalization, restructuring, and community development, globalization and democracy; social geography, urban policy, Latin America
	Dr. Christine L. Jocoy *Professor* Urban geography, land use planning, city politics, urban environmental sustainability, housing and homelessness, Long Beach history Dr. Jocoy’s website
	Dr. Paul Laris *Professor* Cultural and political ecology, remote sensing, global environmental change, landscape ecology, Africa Dr. Laris’ website
	Dr. Linna Li *Professor* GIScience, urban GIS, spatial analysis, geographic data quality
	Dr. Mystyn Mills *Assistant Professor* Research interests
	Dr. Christine M. Rodrigue *Professor* Biogeography, ecology, and environmental change, hazards, sustainability, and resilience, quantitative analysis, Martian geomorphology Dr. Rodrigue’s website
	Dr. Dmitrii Sidorov *Associate Professor* Urban geography, cultural geography, political geography, historical geography, the geography of religion, and Russia and the former USSR Dr. Sidorov’s website
	Dr. Suzanne Perlitsh (Wechsler) *Professor, Department Chair* Geographic Information Science (GISci), spatial analysis, terrain analysis, watershed hydrology Dr. Wechsler’s website

Lecturer Faculty

	Eddie Bairam *Lecturer* Human, cultural, political, and historical geography, sports geographies, Europe, Middle East

	Spencer Langdon *Lecturer* Breeding success in threatened bird species, biogeography, geography of climate change, paleoecology, urban Gardening
	Dr. Unna Lassiter *Lecturer* Political geography, the Intelligence Community, sacred places, migration and privileged expatriation, nature-society relations, human security, Iran, Sri Lanka
	Dr. Sara O’Connor *Lecturer* Civic engagement, human geography, urban development, community-engaged research, disaster response, Central Asia
	Dr. David A. Pepper *Lecturer* Physical geography, coastal geomorphology, climatology, climate change
	Scott Winslow *Lecturer and GIS Lab Manager* GIS applications in the natural sciences, low-altitude remote sensing, digital image processing, meteorology and climatology, physical geography
	Dr. Angela Wranic Lecturer Geographic education, online education, physical geography, environmental science, world regional geography, US & Canada Dr. Wranic’s website

STAFF

Leanne Johnson

Administrative Assistant

Leanne.Johnson@csulb.edu