David Campbell: Ph.D. Clark University
Professor

• People-environment interaction-relationship between land use, environment and socio-economic systems in rural areas
• Food security in rural Africa
• Social and economic aspects of drought and desertification.

E-mail: djc@msu.edu

Kyle Evered, Ph.D. University of Oregon
Assistant Professor

• Political, historical and cultural geography, political ecology
• Nationalism
• Ethnicity
• Turkey; Middle East

E-mail: ktevered@msu.edu

Joe Messina: Ph.D. University of North Carolina
Assistant Professor

• Land Use and Land Cover Change (LULCC)
• Techniques and theoretical methods that explore the spatio-temporal dynamics of change, including, Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing, Complexity Theory, and Dynamic Spatial Simulation Models
• Current projects in Ecuador, Thailand, China, and Kenya

E-mail: jpm@msu.edu

Jennifer Olson: Ph.D. Michigan State University
Visiting Assistant Professor

E-mail: olsonjj@msu.edu

Cynthia Simmons: Ph.D. Florida State University
Assistant Professor

• Land Conflict and Agrarian Reform
• Political Economy of Development and Environment
• Indigenous Agriculture
• Politics of Scale
• Geographies of Resistance

E-mail: simmo108@msu.edu

Robert Walker, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Professor

• Land Cover and Land Use Change
• Spatial modeling
• Tropical deforestation
• Land reform and environmental justice
• Exploration and remote places

E-mail: rwalker@msu.edu

Antoinette WinklerPrins: Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Assistant Professor

• Political and historical ecology
• Brazilian Amazon, especially the Amazon River floodplain
• Urban agriculture and homegardens
• Smallholder livelihoods
• Ethnopedology, including Amazon Dark Earth formation

E-mail: antoinet@msu.edu