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* Geography of globalization, community development, geography of social movements, spatial justice, 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* Biogeography, landscape behavioral ecology, wildlife monitoring, Re-Wilding. Dr. Mill’s Website
	Dr. Jonathan Pando Ocón Applications of geospatial science, specifically remote sensing, to issues involving human-environment dynamics, traditional ecological knowledge, and urban ecosystems *Assistant Professor*
	Dr. Christine M. Rodrigue *Emeritus 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 *Full Time 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 *Full Time Lecturer* Political geography, the Intelligence Community, sacred places, migration and privileged expatriation, nature-society relations, human security, Iran, Sri Lanka
	Dr. Sara O’Connor *Full Time Lecturer* Civic engagement, human geography, urban development, community-engaged research, disaster response, Central Asia
	Dr. David A. Pepper *Full Time Lecturer* Physical geography, coastal geomorphology, climatology, climate change
	Daniel Richards *Lecturer* GIS Programming, Geo-spatial Enterprise Database, Python, HTML & Javascript.
	Dr. Steven Steinberg *Adjunct Faculty, Lecturer* Geographic Information Science (GISci), spatial analysis, remote sensing, spatial modeling. Dr. Steinberg’s Webpage
	Scott Winslow *Full Time 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 Full Time Lecturer Geographic education, online education, physical geography, environmental science, world regional geography, US & Canada Dr. Wranic’s website

STAFF

Leanne Johnson

Department Coordinator

Leanne.Johnson@csulb.edu

James Leassear

Department Assistant

James.Leassear@csulb.edu