Department of Geography and Environment Faculty

Our faculty offers world-class geographic knowledge and expertise at local, national, and international scales, focusing on Asia and the Pacific.

David Beilman

Professor
Office: Saunders 439
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-7311
Email: beilman@hawaii.edu
Biogeography, Climate Change, Ecosystems

Professor
Office: Saunders 435
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-3524
Email: qichen@hawaii.edu
Remote Sensing, GIS, Environmental Science

Instructor
Office: Saunders 414
Email: pallavi@hawaii.edu
Feminist Geography, Racial Capitalism, Labor

Associate Professor
Office: Saunders 437
Email: hjiang@hawaii.edu
Culture, Perception of Nature, China

Assistant Professor
Office: Saunders 419
Email: yuqinj@hawaii.edu
GIS, Spatial Data, Mobility, Smart City

Professor, Department Chair
Office: Saunders 417
Email: reecej@hawaii.edu
Political Geography, Geopolitics, Borders

Assistant Professor
Office: Saunders 415
Email: kagawa@hawaii.edu
Ecohydrology, Restoration, Water Resources

Professor, Undergraduate Chair
Office: Saunders 416
Email: mkarides@hawaii.edu
Island Studies, Feminisms, Political Economy

Professor, Graduate Chair
Office: Saunders 413
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-7093
Email: cmora@hawaii.edu
Biodiversity Threats and Conservation

Professor
Office: Saunders 440
Email: mostafan@hawaii.edu
Human-Envr. Relations, Tourism, Development

Associate Professor
Office: Saunders 420
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-8465
Email: orhon@hawaii.edu
Forced Mobility, Displacement, Nomadism

Professor
Office: Saunders 438
Email: krisnawa@hawaii.edu
Pol. Ecology, Ag & Food, Comm-based Mgmt.

Professor
Office: Saunders 436
Email: szuster@hawaii.edu
Aquaculture, Seafood, Coastal Tourism, EIA

Leah Bremer (lbremer@hawaii.edu) - Ecosystem Services, Social-ecological Systems, Watershed Management and Conservation, Land-use Change, Water Resources
Micah R. Fisher (fisherm@eastwestcenter.org) - Political ecology, conservation, social forestry, agrarian change, disaster management, participatory methodologies, Indonesia/Southeast Asia
Erik Franklin (erik.franklin@hawaii.edu) - Marine Ecology, Coral Reefs, Fish and Fisheries, Computational and Quantitative Methods, Geospatial Modeling, Invasive Species, Restoration Ecology
Kyle Kajihiro (kkajihir@hawaii.edu) - political geography, political ecology, critical ethnic studies, Indigenous politics, militarization, Hawaiʻi, Oceania, Asian America
Mark Merlin (merlin@hawaii.edu) - Biogeography, Ethnobotany, Natural History of the Pacific
Daniel Spencer (spencer8@hawaii.edu) - Tourism Policy, Planning, and Management

Henry Diaz (hfdiaz@hawaii.edu) - Climatology, Climate Variability
Abby Frazier (abbyf@hawaii.edu) - Climatology, Ecology, Geospatial Analysis
Sandeep Kandikuppa (kandikus@eastwestcenter.org) - Rural livelihoods, common pool resources, financial well being and inclusion, collective action and institutions
Ming Li Yong (yongm@eastwestcenter.org) - Water Governance, Political Ecology, Nature-Society, Environmental Justice, Mekong Region/Southeast Asia

Douglas Eisinger (eisinger@hawaii.edu) - Climate, Air Quality, Policy
Basil Gomez (basilg@hawaii.edu) - Fluvial Geomorphology
Kevin Woods (woods34@hawaii.edu) - Politics of Land Use Change, Mainland Southeast Asia

Roland Fuchs (fuchsr@eastwestcenter.org) - Climate Change and Adaptation, Asian Cities
Gary Fuller (gfuller@hawaii.edu) - Population, Geography of Prophylaxis, Population and Political Instability
Nancy Davis Lewis (LewisN@eastwestcenter.org) - Geography of Health and Disease, Human Dimensions of Global Change
Brian J. Murton (bmurton@hawaii.edu) - Colonialism, Historical Geography, Cultural Landscape, India, New Zealand
Mark Ridgley (mark@markridgley.com) - Urban Environmental Services, Coastal & Marine Resource Management
Alison Rieser (rieser@hawaii.edu) - Ocean Geopolitics, Marine Environmental Law
Lyndon Wester (wester@hawaii.edu) - Plant Geography, Alien Plant Invasions, Ecosystem Degradation and Restoration

Lubura, Borjana (borjana@hawaii.edu) - Political Geography, Migration. Courses taught: GEO 101, 151, 335, 436