Research Faculty
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Yuko Aoyama
Professor, Geography
Professor Yuko Aoyama is an economic/industrial geographer with expertise in globalization, industrial organization, technological innovation, and cultural economy. Her research interest lies in developing geographic understandings of global capitalisms from institutional and comparative perspectives. Her work demonstrates how various industrial […]
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Dr. Dana Bauer is an interdisciplinary researcher with particular interests in conservation and sustainability. She applies economic and ecological theory towards the assessment of ecosystem services and the analysis of policies and programs that aim to protect them. Her current […]
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Asha Best
Assistant Professor, Geography
Dr. Asha Best received her Ph.D. (2017) in American Studies from Rutgers University-Newark. She is an urbanist whose research and teaching is interdisciplinary. Her work links mobilities studies, post-colonial and black studies, critical race theory and studies of urban informality. […]
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Halina Brown
Professor Emeritus, Sustainability and Social Justice
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Cynthia Caron
Associate Professor, Sustainability and Social Justice
As a development sociologist and practitioner in international development and humanitarian assistance, Cindy Caron's research focuses on gender relations in a variety of contexts: agricultural production, access to land and natural resources, land and natural resource governance, displacement, and reconstruction […]
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Mark Davidson
Professor, Geography
Mark Davidson is an urban geographer with an international reputation for his research on gentrification, urban theory, municipal finance, and urban sustainability. He has published in high-impact social science journals and published edited collections with SUNY Press and Sage. He has received research funding […]
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Timothy Downs
Professor, Sustainability and Social Justice
Tim Downs is a specialist in environmental science and engineering with over 30 years field experience designing and managing collaborative projects in the UK, the United States, Latin America and Africa. His research focus is on how humans change the […]
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J. Ronald Eastman
Professor Emeritus, Geography
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Lyndon Estes
Associate Professor, Geography
I am an environmental scientist who investigates the drivers and impacts of agricultural change, with a particular focus on Africa. I conduct my research using new Earth Observation technologies and a range of modeling techniques, and work within inter-disciplinary projects […]
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Anita Fabos
Professor, Sustainability and Social Justice
Anita H. Fábos is an anthropologist who studies how people who experience displacement and forced migration think about and organize their mobile lives. She has lived, worked, and conducted research together with diasporic Sudanese Muslims and other forced migrants in […]
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Ellen Foley
Professor, Sustainability and Social Justice
Ellen Foley is a medical anthropologist whose research addresses the social production of disease with a focus on how intertwined global, national, and local social forces shape vulnerability to disease, health status, and access to medical care, particularly in sub-Saharan […]
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Abby Frazier
Assistant Professor, Geography
Dr. Abby Frazier is a climatologist who studies the spatiotemporal dynamics and impacts of climate change and climate variability. Her research uses geospatial analysis to integrate diverse datasets, including models and observations, to understand the multi-disciplinary impacts of climate on […]
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Karen Frey
Professor, Geography
Dr. Karen Frey is a professor of earth system science in the Graduate School of Geography. Her research interests involve the combined use of field measurements, satellite remote sensing, and geospatial analytics to study large-scale linkages between land, atmosphere, ocean, […]
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Jacqueline Geoghegan
Professor, Economics
Dr. Geoghegan received a B.A. from Queens College, City University of New York in 1987, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989 and 1995, respectively. She has been at Clark since 1996. Geoghegan, currently […]
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Robert Goble
Part-time Instructor, Sustainability and Social Justice
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Denise Humphreys Bebbington
Research Associate Professor, Sustainability and Social Justice
Denise Humphreys Bebbington is Research Associate Professor in the Department of Sustainability and Social Justice (formerly IDCE) at Clark University in Massachusetts, USA. She is Co-director of the Center for the Study of Natural Resources Extraction and Society at Clark […]
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Dr. Johnston received a B.A. from Williams College in 1990 and a Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island in 1996. He has been at Clark since 2008. He is Director of the George Perkins Marsh Institute and Professor of […]
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Dominik Kulakowski
Professor, Geography
My research focuses on the effects of climate, disturbances, and land use on mountain forest ecosystems in the U.S. and in Europe. Important recent research themes include: 1) the causes and consequences of forest disturbances such as fires and insect […]
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Deborah Martin
Professor, Geography
I am an urban geographer with interests in the meanings and understandings of place, local politics, legal geography, qualitative methodologies, and social movements (particularly neighborhood activism). My research focuses on the United States, including past research in the Twin Cities […]
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James McCarthy
Professor, Geography
Professor James McCarthy earned a B.A. in English and Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining the Graduate School of Geography in 2011, he was an […]
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Jim Murphy’s research elucidates the structures, agencies, relationalities, and spatialities shaping contemporary economic geographies and examines the prospects for more just, sustainable, and resilient forms of development in the Global South (esp. Africa). This work draws on concepts, theories, and […]
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Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger
Professor, Sustainability and Social Justice
Professor Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger joined the faculty in 2006 after several years of teaching GIS and remote sensing at Mount Holyoke College and Tufts University. She received Ph.D. from Clark University, and B.A./M.A. degrees in Geography with distinction from Moscow State […]
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Gustavo Oliveira
Assistant Professor, Geography
I am a human-environment geographer and global political ecologist with a background in the liberal arts and political philosophy, and a PhD in geography from the University of California, Berkeley. My work is driven by a passionate commitment to socio-environmental […]
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Robert Pontius
Professor, Geography
Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr is a Professor in Clark University’s Graduate School of Geography. Dr. Pontius specializes in Geographic Information Science (GIS) with particular expertise in statistics, simulation modeling, and land change science. He derives quantitative methods that are in […]
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Margaret Post
Research Associate Professor, Sustainability and Social Justice
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Samuel Ratick
Professor Emeritus, Geography
Sam Ratick served as an environmental scientist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he worked on a forecasting system that assessed current and future effects of economic activity on the environment and the effects of proposed environmental policies on […]
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John Rogan
Professor, Geography
John Rogan joined the faculty as Assistant Professor in Fall 2003. Dr. Rogan received his Ph.D. (Geography) degree from the joint doctoral program at San Diego State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was funded by […]
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Laurie Ross
Professor, Sustainability and Social Justice
Director, Sustainability and Social Justice
Laurie Ross brings expertise in developing and supporting long-term community-university partnerships that address the social determinants of youth violence. The intractability of youth violence requires horizontal knowledge and strategy production (i.e. responses that are co-created by individuals and communities affected […]
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Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Professor, Geography
Rinku Roy Chowdhury completed her bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Environmental Science at Wellesley College, a master's degree in Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development at the University of Georgia, and a Ph.D. in Geography at Clark University. Before returning […]
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Morgan Ruelle
Associate Professor, Sustainability and Social Justice
Morgan Ruelle is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Science and Policy program in the Department of International Development, Community and Environment. He is interested in how biological and cultural diversity enable communities to anticipate and adapt to change. His […]
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Florencia Sangermano
Associate Professor, Geography
Florencia Sangermano is a geographer specialized in geographic information science (GIS), remote sensing, landscape ecology, and ecoacoustics applied to conservation. Her research focuses on climate and land cover change impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity through the lens of geospatial analysis, […]
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Christopher Williams
Professor, Geography
Dr. Williams is a professor of earth system science within Clark’s School of Geography and is director of the environmental sciences program at Clark. His expertise is in terrestrial ecosystems, global environmental change, and climate change. He and his team […]
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Jing Zhang
Professor, School of Business
Jing Zhang's Research Interests include: Information Systems and Sustainability,Smart Government and Smart City, Organizational impact of technology and innovation, and Interorganizational knowledge sharing and networking. […]
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Dr. Zhang received a B.A. from Renmin University of China, an M.A. from Clark University, and a Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University. He was a dissertation fellow at the Brookings Institution during 2000-2001, and he worked as a […]
Research Scientists
Jon Anderson
Stefanie Covino
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Nicholas Geron
Viola Haarmann
Natalia Hasler
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Tom Ndebele
Research Scientist
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Laura Sauls
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