Meet Us
Staff
Full-time Instructors
Jasmine Arpagian, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
- Location: Sequoia Hall 314
- Phone: (916) 278-4564
- arpagian@csus.edu
- Office Hours: TUE/THUR 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Bruce Gervais, Ph.D.
Professor
- Location: Sequoia Hall 308
- Phone: (916) 278-4207
- bgervais@csus.edu
- Office Hours: MON/THUR 11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
- Specialty & Interests: Biogeography; Climatology; Paleocology; Sustainability
Caroline Keegan, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
- Location: Sequoia Hall 302
- c.keegan@csus.edu
- Pronouns: she/her/hers
- Office Hours: Mon 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM, or by Apt.
- Specialty & Interests: Labor, Political Ecology, Race and Migration, Engaged Research, Feminist Qualitative Methods
Anna Klimaszewski-Patterson, Ph.D.
Assoc Prof & Geospatial Centroid Director
- Location: Sequoia Hall 330
- Phone: (916) 278-4272
- anna.kp@csus.edu
- Website
- Office Hours: MON/WED 8:00 am - 9:00 am & by Appointment
- Specialty & Interests: Paleoecology; Paleolandscape Modeling; Geovisualization; Augmented/Virtual Reality and Internet of Things (IoT); GIScience; Applied Geography
Tom Krabacher, Ph.D.
Professor
- Location: Sequoia Hall 334
- Phone: (916) 278-6338
- krabacherts@csus.edu
- Office Hours: MON & WED 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM; THUR 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM or by appt
- Specialty & Interests: Cultural Ecology; Economic Development; Climate; Environmental History
Hanieh Molana, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
- Location: Sequoia Hall 306
- Phone: (916) 278-4576
- hajimolana@csus.edu
- Office Hours: WED 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM, or by Appointment.
- Specialty & Interests: Cultural geography; Geography of the Middle East; Feminist Geography; Urban Geography; Qualitative Methods
Patrick Oberle, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
- Location: Sequoia Hall 310
- Phone: (916) 278-3881
- patrick.oberle@csus.edu
- Office Hours: TUE/THU 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM; or by Appointment
- Specialty & Interests: Urban Geography; GIScience; Participatory GIS; Historical Geography; Post-industrial Cities; North America
Erica Orcutt, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Location: Sequoia Hall 312
- Phone: (916) 278-6987
- erica.orcutt@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Tue/Thur 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm; by Apt.
- Specialty & Interests: Specialty & Interests: Biogeography; Remote Sensing; Natural Resources; Climate; GIScience; Vegetation Dynamics
Miles Roberts, Ph.D.
Professor
- Location: Sequoia 302
- Phone: (916) 278-6102
- roberts@csus.edu
- Office Hours: TUE 2:10 pm - 2:25 pm; or by Apt.
- Specialty & Interests: Remote Sensing; GIS; Ecology; Spatial Statistics
Mathew Schmidtlein, Ph.D.
Department Chair & Professor
- Location: Sequoia Hall 334
- Phone: (916) 278-7581
- schmidmc@csus.edu
- Office Hours: MON/WED 10:30 am - 12:00 pm.
- Specialty & Interests: Environmental Hazards and Vulnerability; GIScience; Human Geography; Public Health
James Wanket, Ph.D.
Professor
- Location: Sequoia Hall 304
- Phone: (916) 278-7580
- jwanket@csus.edu
- CV / Bio
- Office Hours: TUE/WED 10:30 pm - 12:00 pm, or by arrangement
- Specialty & Interests: Quaternary Studies; Climate; Geomorphology; Field Methods; California
Part-time Instructors
Laura McGowan Ph.D.
- Phone: (916) 278-6410
- mcgowan@csus.edu
- Office Hours: MON/WED 6:45 pm - 7:45 pm; by Appointment (Must Email in Advance for Meeting Room)
Marius Petraru Ph.D.
- Location: SQU 332
- Phone: (916) 278-6410
- mpetraru@csus.edu
- Office Hours: MON/WED/FRI 11:00 am - 11:50 am/ Zoom / Meet Me
Matt Rosenberg
- Location: Zoom
- Phone: (916) 278-6410
- rosenberg@csus.edu
- Office Hours: WED 2:00 - 3:00, Via Zoom
João Santos Ph.D.
- Location: SQU 332
- Phone: (916) 278-6410
- joao.santos@csus.edu
- Office Hours: THUR 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Jane Slavensky
- Location: Sequoia Hall 332
- Phone: (916) 278-6410
- jane.slavensky@csus.edu
- Office Hours: FRI 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Kimberly Walton
- Location: SQU 332
- Phone: (916) 278-6410
- geoprofessor@aol.com
- Office Hours: MON 8:00 am - 8:45 am, by Appointment.
Emeritus Faculty
Robin Datel Ph.D.
Professor
- Specialty & Interests: Geography of the Sacramento Region; Historic Preservation; Urban Historical Geography; Europe
Marsha Dillon Ph.D.
Professor
- Location: Amador 552D
- Specialty & Interests: Natural Resources; Population Change; United States & Canada; California
Robert Richardson Ph.D.
Professor
- Specialty & Interests: Digital cartography, climate change, off-grid solar power, biofuels
Michael Schmandt Ph.D.
Professor
- Specialty & Interests: Urban Planning; Geographic Techniques; Food; Applied Geography; Transportation Patterns; California Central Valley; Field Geography