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. 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