Faculty/Staff
Carolyn Adams, Professor
Department of Geography and Urban Studies
Areas of Expertise: Urban public policy,
housing, economic development, infrastructure
planning, mapping indicators as part of Metropolitan
Philadelphia Indicators Project
A.S.M. Abdul Bari, GIS Coordinator
Department of Community and Regional Planning
Areas of Expertise: GIS, urban design, regional
analysis, environmental and transportation modeling
David Bartelt, Professor
Department of Geography and Urban Studies
Areas of Expertise: Housing policy, urban
social theory, urban schools, urban economic
development, housing market analysis, community
indicators, historical GIS - urban and regional
development
Rosangela Boyd, Associate Professor
Therapeutic Recreation Department
Areas of Expertise: Health disparities,
health services availability and utilization, aging,
accessibility issues for people with disabilities
Sanjoy
Chakravorty, Associate Professor
Department of Geography and Urban Studies
Areas of Expertise:
Social and spatial theory, economic development,
inequality and distribution, urban and regional
development, economic and urban geography, spatial
analysis, spatial statistics, spatial modelling
Matthew Davis, Adjunct Assistant
Professor
Department of Geography and Urban Studies
and IT and Society Research Group
Areas of Expertise: Community planning, urban
design, public participation GIS
Michael Dorn, Assistant Professor
Coordinator of Disability Studies, Institute on
Disabilities
Areas of Expertise: Demography, health
maintenance, epidemiology, medical geography
David Elesh, Professor
Department of Sociology, and Director, Social Science Data Library
Areas of Expertise: Urban sociology research
methods and economic sociology
Jeffrey Featherstone, Chair and Associate
Professor
Department of Community and Regional Planning
Areas of Expertise: Planning theory, planning
law and administration, environmental planning and
politics, water resources management and dispute
resolution, hydrology
David
Ford, Assistant Director
Social Science Data Library
Areas of Expertise: Public policy analysis,
online data systems
Melissa Gilbert, Associate Professor
Department of Geography and Urban Studies
Areas of Expertise:
Urban, economic, and feminist geography, feminist
and critical race theory, urban social theory, urban
poverty and labor markets, labor and community
organizing, information technologies and economic
empowerment, critical GIS, GIS and society
Michele
Masucci, Associate Professor
Department of Geography and Urban Studies
Areas of Expertise:
Water resources
management, GIS and society, appropriate use of GIS
and information technologies, planning theory,
community development
Mahbubur Meenar, Adjunct Faculty and GIS
Coordinator
Department of Community and Regional Planning
Areas of Expertise: GIS and urban and
regional planning
Gregory McKinney,
Librarian
Reference and Instructional Services,
Paley Library
Providing resources and expertise supporting GIS
research
Jeremy Mennis,
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and Urban Studies
Areas of Expertise:
Spatio-temporal
databases, spatial analysis, social and environmental applications of geographic
information systems (environmental justice, urban
ecology)
Vasileios Megalooikonomou, Assistant
Professor
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
Spatial databases,
spatial data mining, region data analysis,
epidemiological studies, medical image analysis
Nora Newcombe, Professor
Department of Psychology
Areas of Expertise: Human spatial cognition
and its development
Jonathan Nyquist,
Associate Professor
Department of Geology
Areas of Expertise: Environmental geology,
remote sensing, geophysics
Zoran
Obradovic, Professor and Director
Center for Information Science and Technology
Areas of Expertise:
Bioinformatics, geoinformation sciences,
computational finance
Robert Patterson, Professor
Department of Public Health
Areas of Expertise: Environmental and
occupational health, exposure assessment and
analysis, environmental modeling, health effects of
non-ionizing radiation
Anthony Ranere, Professor
Department of Anthropology
Areas of Expertise: Lithic
technology, paleoecology, spatial analysis and
evolutionary theory, and GIS applications in
analyzing archaeological data
Jerry Ratcliffe, Associate Professor
Department of Criminal Justice
Areas of Expertise: crime mapping, spatial
crime analysis, strategic criminal intelligence
George Rengert, Professor
Department of Criminal Justice
Areas of Expertise: Spatial and temporal
criminal behavior, crime research, crime mapping
Jerry Stahler, Professor and Chair
Department of Geography and Urban Studies
Areas of Expertise: Psychology (clinical),
program evaluation, urban social problems, drug
abuse, spatial analysis relating to substance abuse
Students
Stacy Antoniadis, Graduate Student
Department of Public Health
Kimberly Black, Graduate Student
Institute on Disabilities
Joshua Freely, Graduate Student and
Project Coordinator
Department of Sociology and Metropolitan
Philadelphia Indicators Project
Despina Kontos, Graduate Student
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Todd MacDonald, Graduate Student
Department of Geography and Urban Studies
Robin Witts, Graduate Student
School of Social Administration
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