Ishan Ashutosh

Associate Professor, Geography

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Core Faculty Member, Dhar India Studies; Affiliate Faculty, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society, Cultural Studies, Asian American Studies, Critical Race and Postcolonial Studies, Islamic Studies; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology

• iashutos@iu.edu
• (812) 856-2834
• Student Building 310

Research Interests
urban geography; political geography; cultural geography; migration/diaspora; postcolonial studies

Patricia Basile

Assistant Professor

• pdetoled@iu.edu
• (812) 855-1949
• SB 204

Research Interests
Urban geography; political geography; critical development studies; land and housing; Latin America

Nubia Beray

Assistant Professor

• nuberay@iu.edu
• (812) 855-5628
• SB 012

Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

Associate Dean for Graduate Education

Professor, Geography

• elcdunn@iu.edu
• (812) 855-5594
• Student Building 112

Research Interests
cities; development and justice; food; agriculture

Michael B. Dwyer

Associate Professor, Geography

Director of Graduate Studies

• mbdwyer@iu.edu
• (812) 855-6325
• Student Building 301

Research Interests
political ecology; development studies; land and forest governance; energy systems and society; Southeast Asia

Darren L. Ficklin

Professor, Geography

• dficklin@iu.edu
• (812) 856-5047
• Student Building 101

Research Interests
watershed hydrology; surface water, groundwater, and water quality modeling; examining the effects of climate change on the hydrologic cycle; examining the effects of climate change on aquatic species ecosystems; drought modeling and assessment

Taehee Hwang

Associate Professor, Geography

• taehee@iu.edu
• (812) 856-2846
• Student Building 102

Research Interests
ecohydrology; remote sensing; landscape ecology

Olga Kalentzidou

Senior Lecturer, Geography

• okalentz@iu.edu
• (812) 856-1030
• Student Building 105

Research Interests
Food Memory, Cooking/Cookbooks, Migration/Identity, Experiential Learning/Community Engagement, Teaching Pedagogy/Food Pedagogy

Yuri Kim

Lecturer, Geography

• yurikim@iu.edu
• (812) 855-6477
• Student Building 203

Research Interests
watershed hydrology; hydrologic modeling; water resources backcast and forecast under the climate change and Landuse/Landcover changes; geographic information systems and remote sensing

Rebecca Lave

Associate Dean for Social and Historical Sciences

Professor, Geography

• rlave@iu.edu
• (812) 855-0940
• Student Building 312

Research Interests
critical physical geography; historical landscape and hydroscape change; stream restoration; political economy; political ecology; science and technology studies (STS)

Sally Letsinger

Senior Research Scientist, Geography

• sletsing@iu.edu
• (812) 855-1356
• Student Building 308

Research Interests
watershed hydrology, especially in areas of complex terrain; 3-D groundwater modeling; GIS and remote sensing as tools for spatial data analysis; numerical methods to solve geologic and hydrogeologic problems; land-surface energy balance modeling; hydrologic implications of a changing climate; water infrastructure; water sustainability; soil moisture, vapor-intrusion studies

Justin Maxwell

Professor, Geography

Chair of Geography

• maxweljt@iu.edu
• (812) 855-5557
• Multidisciplinary Science Building II 310

Research Interests
climatology; biogeography; dendrochronology; forest disturbances

Diana Ojeda

Professor, Geography

Professor, International Studies

Director, Commons Program, Ostrom Workshop

• diojeda@iu.edu
• (812) 855-3986
• Student Building 104

Research Interests
Feminist political ecology, critical agrarian studies, gender and sexuality, violence, security, studies of science and technology, tourism.

Julio Postigo

Assistant Professor, Geography

• jpostigo@iu.edu
• (812) 855-8379
• Student Building 216

Research Interests
multi-level responses to climate change; generation of local knowledge; rural institutions in post-conflict development; socio-environmental transformation of pastoralism

Scott Robeson

Professor, Geography

• srobeson@iu.edu
• (812) 855-7722
• Student Building 202

Dr. Robeson is not currently recruiting new graduate students to supervise, but actively serves as a committee member and collaborator on a wide range of graduate student research projects. 

Research Interests
climate change detection and impacts; statistical analysis of environmental change; spatial statistics and time-series analysis

Annie Shattuck

Assistant Professor, Geography

• shattuck@iu.edu
• (812) 855-9552
• Student Building 212

Research Interests
political ecology; agrarian studies; health geographies; food sovereignty; food security; agroecology; social movements; food policy

Kurt Waldman

Assistant Professor, Geography

• kbwaldma@iu.edu
• (812) 855-3986
• Student Building 104

Research Interests
Agricultural and environmental decision making; behavioral science and food security; consumer preference and food policy; food system sustainability