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  New Faculty Hires

Ola Ahlqvist

Assistant Professor, Geo-visualization

Ph.D., Stockholm University 2001

oka1@psu.edu | website

 

Ola is currently a Post Doctoral researcher with the GeoVISTA center at the Department of Geography, Penn State University. His research interests include GIS, concept modelling, semantic uncertainty, visualization and how these apply to environmental management.

 

Mathew Coleman

Assistant Professor, Geopolitics/Human Geography

Ph.D., UCLA anticipated 2005

matcol@ucla.edu | website

  Mathew is graduating in June with a PhD from UCLA. His research is on the post-9/11 US-Mexico border and the geopolitics of immigration law. Other substantive research and teaching interests include critical geopolitics, geographies of money and finance, and contemporary imperialism.
 

Mary Thomas

Assistant Professor, Geography and Women's Studies with interdisciplinary interests spanning both departments

Ph.D., Minnesota 2002

mthomas@ssc.ucla.edu
| website

  Mary is currently an assistant professor of geography at University of California, Los Angeles. Her research to date examines racial, sexual, gender, and class identities of teenage girls in the US.

 

Joel Wainwright

Joining the department January 2006

Assistant Professor, People, Society, and Environment

Ph.D., Minnesota 2003
jdw@geog.ubc.ca | website

  Joel is currently a Killam Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. His research concerns development, environmental politics, and social change, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean.
 

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