Faculty

Courtesy Faculty

The Environmental Studies Program invites faculty from across campus to offer courses related to each of the under-graduate degrees offered. Many of these faculty also advise environmental studies majors, and volunteer their time on various committees and projects of the Program. Their research is environmentally-oriented within their individual disciplines.

So-Min Cheong

• Ph.D., Washington (2001)
• Assistant Professor of Geography
• Research Interests: Environment, Marine Policy, Economic Geography, Tourism, East Asia
• Curriculum Vitae
• Email: somin@ku.edu
• Office: 221 Lindley
• Phone: (785) 864-1836

Greg Cushman

• Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin (2003)
• Professor of History
• Research Interests: Environmental history (esp. climate, disasters, oceans); Latin America since 1750 (esp. Andes and Cuba); history of science and technology (esp. meteorology, oceanography, ecology, transportation, agriculture), global history.
• Curriculum Vitae
• Email: gcushman@ku.edu
• Office: ...
• Phone: ...

Jerry deNoyelles

• Ph.D., Cornell University, (1971)
• Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
• Associate Director, Kansas Biological Survey
• Interim Chair, Environmental Studies Advisory Committee
• Aquatic ecologist with specialty on effects of pesticides on phytoplankton communities
• Email: jdenoy@ku.edu
• Office: Kansas Biological Survey
• Phone: (785) 864-7690

Dietrich H. Earnhart

• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, (1995)
• Economist with a field of specialty in environmental economics, law and economics, and comparative economics.
• Email: earnhart@ku.edu
• Office: 226K Summerfield
• Phone: (785) 864-2866

Johannes Feddema

• Ph.D., Delaware (1990)
• Geographer with interests in Global climatology, air pollution & materials damage, hydro-climatology, and spacial statistics
• Email: feddema@ku.edu
• Office: 204 Lindley
• Phone: (785) 864-5534

Don Haider-Markel

• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee (1997)
• Assistant Professor, Government
• Interests: Public policy, political institutions, public opinion.
• Email: prex@ku.edu
• Office: 405 Blake Hall
• Phone: (785) 864-9034

Jie Han

• Ph.D., - Georgia Tech, (1997)
• Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering
• Geotechnical engineer with focus on geosynthetics, earth-retaining structures, ground improvement, pile foundations, pavement design
• Email: jiehan@ku.edu
• Office: 2143 Learned Hall
• Phone: (785) 864-3714

Peter H. Herlihy

• Ph.D., - Louisiana State University, (1986)
• Associate Professor, Geography
• Cultural Geographer with a specialty in biogeographic anthropology.
• Email: herlihy@ku.edu
• Office: 202 Lindley
• Phone: (785) 864-4292

Mark Jakubauskas

• Ph.D., - University of Kansas, (1994)
• Associate Research Professor, Kansas Biological Survey
• Courtesy Associate Professor, Geography
• Geographer with interests in remote sensing, vegetation dynamics, landscape ecology.
• Email: mjakub@ku.edu
• Office: 138 Nichols Hall
• Phone: (785) 864-1508

Dennis Lane

• Ph.D., University of Illinois-Urbana, Civil Engineering, (1976)
• N.T. Veatch Distinguished Professor, Environmental Engineering
• Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Interests in Air pollution, Aerosol science, Acid rain, Pesticide runoff from agricultural lands, Characteristics and Environmental impacts of atmospheric deposition
• Email: lane@ukans.edu
• Office: 4007 Learned Hall
• Phone: (785) 864-3731

Garth Myers

• Ph.D., UCLA, (1993)
• Associate Professor, Geography
• Chair of the Cultural Geography Specialty Group of the AAG.
• Interests in Sub-Saharan Africa, Development, Cultural and Political Geography
• Email: gmyers@ku.edu
• Office: 201 Lindley
• Phone: (785) 864-4291

Kevin Price

• Ph.D., - University of Utah, Salt Lake City (1987)
• Professor, Geography
• Geographer with interests in biogeography, landscape ecology, remote sensing, geographic information systems, resource management
• Email: price@ku.edu
• Office: 230 Lindley Hall
• Phone: (785) 864-5542/1507

Valery Terwilliger

• Ph.D., UCLA (1988)
• Associate Professor, Geography
• Courtesy Associate Professor, Div. Of Biological Sciences
• Interests in Biogeography, stable isotopes biogeochemistry.
• Email: terwilli@ku.edu
• Office: 402 Lindley
• Phone: (785) 864-5547

Stacey Swearingen White

• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, (1998)
• Assistant Professor, Urban Planning
• Urban Planner with specialty in environmental applications
• Email: slsweari@ku.edu
• Office: 317C Marvin Hall
• Phone: (785) 864-3530

Donald Worster

• Ph.D., - Yale University, (1971)
• Professor, History
• University of Kansas Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Distinguished Professor of U.S. History.
• Environmental historian with a specialty in U.S. cultural and social history.
• Email: dworster@ku.edu
• Office: 2017 Wescoe Hall
• Phone: (785) 864-9474