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Geography Faculty & Staff

	Thelma Zulfawu Abu Assistant Professor Office: AUST 436 Phone: (860) 486-2420 thelma.abu@uconn.edu
	Carol Atkinson-Palombo Professor Office: AUST 424 Phone: (860) 486-3023 carol.atkinson-palombo@uconn.edu Research Website
	Katie Baldi Program Assistant Office: AUST 422 Phone: (860) 486-3656 katie.baldi@uconn.edu
	Christopher Burton Assistant Professor Office: AUST 430 Phone: (860) 486-1394 christopher.burton@uconn.edu
	Xiang (Peter) Chen Assistant Professor Office: AUST 431 Phone: (860) 486-3664 xiang.chen@uconn.edu Personal Website
	Kenneth Foote Professor & Director of Urban and Community Studies Office: AUST 428 Phone: (860) 486-2059 ken.foote@uconn.edu
	Debarchana Ghosh Associate Professor Office: AUST 438 Phone: (860) 486-4292 debarchana.ghosh@uconn.edu
	Andrew Jolly-Ballantine Professor-in-Residence & Undergraduate Program Coordinator Office: AUST 432 Phone: (860) 486-2579 john-andrew.ballantine@uconn.edu
	Richard Mrozinski GIS Instructor/Lab Manager & GIS Certificate Program Coordinator Office: AUST 429 Phone: (860) 486-3788 mrozinski@uconn.edu
	William Ouimet Associate Professor Office: Beach 242 Phone: (860) 486-3322 william.ouimet@uconn.edu
	Yoo Min Park Assistant Professor Office: AUST 437 Phone: (860) 486-1769 yoomin.park@uconn.edu Personal Website
	Anji Seth Professor & Department Head Office: AUST 427 Phone: (860) 486-3204 anji.seth@uconn.edu Research Website
	Nathaniel Trumbull Associate Professor & Graduate Program Coordinator Office: Avery Point campus Phone: (860) 405-9272 nathaniel.trumbull@uconn.edu
	Dan Wanyama Assistant Professor in Residence Office: AUST 426 Phone: (860) 486-2728 wanyama@uconn.edu
	Daniel Weiner Professor & Vice President of Global Affairs Office: John W Rowe Center dan.weiner@uconn.edu
	Chuanrong (Cindy) Zhang Professor Office: AUST 425 Phone: (860) 486-2196 cindy.zhang@uconn.edu Personal Website

Adjunct Faculty, Research Faculty, Visiting Faculty, & Affiliated Faculty
	Phil Birge-Liberman Associate Professor-in-Residence Urban and Community Studies phil.birge-liberman@uconn.edu
	Mary Donegan Assistant Professor-in-Residence Urban and Community Studies mary.donegan@uconn.edu
	Julie Fosdick Assistant Professor Department of Earth Sciences julie.fosdick@uconn.edu
	Weidong Li Research Professor weidong.li@uconn.edu
	Akihiko Michimi Adjunct Professor Office: AUST 423 akihiko.michimi@uconn.edu

Visiting Scholars
	Alex Diener UConn Humanities Institute Fellow Alexander Diener is a Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas. His interests include borders, urban landscape, place attachment, axial development, migration, and diaspora. He possesses area studies expertise in Central Eurasia and Northeast Asia, having worked extensively in Russian borderlands. diener@ku.edu
	Eylem Yalçın Visiting Research Scholar Eylem Yalçın is a faculty member at Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University in Turkey. She is in landscape architecture and focuses on park and campus design. eylemakgulyalcin@gmail.com
	Tang Yong Visiting Research Scholar Tang Yong is a professor of tourism geography in the College of Tourism and Urban-Rural Planning at Chengdu University of Technology, China. His research focuses on dark tourism involving seismic memorial sites, as well as landscape history and issues of public memory and commemoration. He is the author of Memorial Landscapes of Earthquakes: Landscape Perceptions and Sense of Place. His visit is sponsored by the China Scholarship Council.
	Barry Zellen Visiting Research Scholar barry.zellen@uconn.edu

Faculty Emeritus
	William Berentsen Professor Emeritus william.berentsen@uconn.edu
	Mark A. Boyer Distinguished Professor Emeritus Executive Director, International Studies Association (on-going through 2025) mark.boyer@uconn.edu
	Thomas Cooke Professor Emeritus thomas.cooke@uconn.edu
	Robert Cromley Professor Emeritus robert.cromley@uconn.edu
	Peter Halvorson Professor Emeritus peter.halvorson@uconn.edu
	Jeffrey Osleeb Professor Emeritus jeffrey.osleeb@uconn.edu