THIS PROGRAM IS CURRENTLY CLOSED TO NEW STUDENTS

The Geography Graduate Group emphasizes spatial interactions between humans and the biophysical environment. Faculty interests include: landscape change and sustainable resource management; human and physical geography of diverse world environments; domestication and geographical dispersal of plants and animals; biogeography and climate change; acculturation of indigenous peoples and immigrants; indigenous agrosystems, especially in tropical regions; women in development; and medical-nutritional geography. During the past several years, group faculty and graduate students have conducted research in the Caribbean, Central and South America, Western and Eastern Europe, Africa, Mediterranean lands and the Middle East, the former Soviet Union, East, Central, South and Southeastern Asia, and the American West and Southwest, especially California. Master's students develop professional competence in a topical and a regional specialization and in Geographical Information System skills. Ph.D. students develop refined skills in the acquisition, analysis and synthesis of information. They specialize in one major region and one topical subfield.

This program is an interdisciplinary Graduate Group.

For more information, visit the Geography Web site.

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