The Geography Department faculty, emeriti, instructors, and graduate committee have diverse interests and areas of specialization which span the spectrum of academic research in geography.

Faculty

Douglas M. Amedeo, Ph.D., Iowa, 1967, Professor.
Spatial analysis, person-environment-behavior relationships, research methodology.

J. Clark Archer, Ph.D., Iowa, 1974, Professor.
Political, economic, computer cartography, GIS.

Stephen J. Lavin, Ph.D., Kansas, 1979, Professor, Graduate Committee Chair.
Map design, symbolization, computer cartography, GIS.

Jay T. Johnson, Ph.D., Hawai'i, 2003, Assistant Professor.
Resource management, indigenous studies, cultural geography, cartography.

David J. Wishart, Ph.D., Nebraska, 1971, Professor, Department Chair, Chief undergraduate advisor.
Historical, Native American, Great Plains, Geographical and Historical Epistemology.

James W. Merchant, Ph.D., Kansas, 1984, Professor, Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies (CALMIT).
Remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), environmental studies.

Sunil Narumalani, Ph.D., South Carolina, 1993, Professor, School of Natural Resources.
Geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, environmental studies.

Donald C. Rundquist, Ph.D., Nebraska, 1977, Professor, Director of Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies (CALMIT).
Remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS).

Patricia Draper, Ph.D., Harvard, 1972, Professor, Anthropology. Sociocultural Anthropology.

Peter Bleed, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1973, Professor, Anthropology.
Archeology.

Ray Hames, Ph.D., California-Santa Barbara, 1978, Professor, Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.

Luann Wandsnider, Ph.D., New Mexico, 1989, Professor, Anthropology.
Archeology.

Gordon Scholz, Professor.
Architecture and Community and Regional Planning.

Rodrigo Cantarero, Ph.D., Southern California, 1988, Associate Professor.
Architecture and Community and Regional Planning.

N. Brito Mutunayagam, D.E.D.P., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1981, Professor of Community and Regional Planning and Extension Specialist.

Mark R. Anderson, Ph.D., Colorado, 1985, Associate Professor Geosciences.
Satellite meteorology/climatology, synoptic meteorology, polar and arctic studies.

Kenneth F. Dewey, Ph.D., Toronto, 1973, Professor Geosciences.
Applied climatology, meteorology, snow and ice studies, severe storms.

Clinton M. Rowe, Ph.D., Delaware, 1988, Associate Professor Geosciences.
Physical meteorology/climatology, atmosphere/biosphere interactions, climate modeling.

Merlin P. Lawson, Ph.D., Clark, 1973, Professor Geosciences.
Pleistocene and historical environments, climate change, dendroclimatology.

Emeriti

Richard E. Lonsdale, Ph.D., Syracuse, 1960, Professor Emeritus.
Marginal lands, regional development.

C. Barron McIntosh, Ph.D., Nebraska, 1955, Professor Emeritus.
Great Plains settlement. Deceased.

Robert H. Stoddard, Ph.D., Iowa, 1966, Professor.
Human, social, field techniques, South Asia, geographic education.

Leslie Hewes, Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1940, Professor Emeritus.
Historical and cultural geography, Great Plains. Deceased.

Dean S. Rugg, Ph.D., Maryland, 1962, Professor Emeritus.
Urban, history and philosophy of geography, Eastern and Western Europe. Deceased.

Geography Instructors

Matt Engel, A.B.D., University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2002.
Human Geography, Economic Geography, Geography of Latin America.

Melvin Johnson, A.B.D., University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2004.
Human Geography, Economic Geography, Physical Geography.

Bruce Kopplin.
Physical Geography, Quality of the Environment, Geography of Nebraska.

Katherine Nashleanas, Ph.D., University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2005.
Human Geography.