David Campbell, Ph.D.
Professor
Clark University

• 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.
Assistant Professor
University of Oregon

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

E-mail: ktevered@msu.edu

Robert K. Hitchcock, Ph.D.
Professor
University of New Mexico

• Ecological anthropology
• Human-environment interactions
• International human rights
• Social and environmental impacts of economic development
• Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East, and native North and South America

E-mail: hitchc16@msu.edu

Joe Messina, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of North Carolina

• 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

Cynthia Simmons, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Florida State University

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

E-mail: simmo108@msu.edu

Antoinette WinklerPrins, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison

• 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

Leo Zulu
Assistant Professor

• Political ecology
• Environment and development
• Community-based natural resources management in rural Africa
• Deforestation
• Food security
• Socio-spatial, temporal and biophysical processes of land use and land cover change in Africa and the techniques that permit their examination including Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
• Vulnerability and adaptation of rural communities in southern Africa to climate change

E-mail: zulu@msu.edu