Faculty

  • Mohamed Aly,  (PhD, Texas A&M U), InSAR, GPS, GIS, Crustal Deformation Modeling, Geohazard Assesment
  • Caree Ann Marie Banton,  (PhD, Vanderbilt U - Nashville), Chair History, Abolitionists, Caribbean Post-Emancipation, Colonization in the 19th Century, The African Diaspora The Atlantic World
  • Alex W. Barker,  (PhD, U Michigan), Director, Arkansas Archeological Survey, Museum Practices, Documentation of Cultural Heritage and Digitization of Extant Collections
  • Steven J. Beaupre,  (PhD, U Pennsylvannia), Animal Physiological Ecology, Terrestrial Vertebrate Ectotherms
  • Kevin Befus, (PhD, U of Texas - Austin), Hydrology
  • Burt Bluhm,  (PhD, Purdue U), Molecular Plant Pathology
  • Stephen K. Boss,  (PhD, U North Carolina), Geophysics, Marine Geology, Limnology, Earth Systems
  • J. Van Brahana,  (PhD, U Missouri), Emeritus, Physical Hydrogeology, Groundwater Flow, Karst Hydrogeology
  • Kristofer R. Brye, (PhD, U Wisconsin – Madison) Ground Water Contamination, Sustainable Agriculture, Ecosystem Evaluation and Characterization
  • Diana Chen, (PhD,  U of Arkansas - Fayetteville), Urban and Nutritional Ethnobiology
  • Linyin Cheng, (PhD,  U of California - Irvine), Climate Change, Dynamic Drivers of Weather and Climate Extreme Events
  • Vincent Chevrier (PhD, C.E.R.E.G.E in Aix-enProvence, France), Surface Processes on Mars and Ice Bodies
  • Lawson Connor,  (PhD, North Carolina State U - Raleigh), Farm Policy, Conservation and Sustainable Technology Adoption in Farming, Farm Financial and Production Resilience
  • Jack Cothren, (PhD, Ohio State U), Digital Photogrammetry, GPS Geodesy, Spatial Statistics
  • Matt Covington,  (PhD, U California - Santa Cruz), Hydrogeology, Geomorphology, Fluid Modeling
  • Fiona M. Davidson,  (PhD, U Nebraska), Cultural and Human Geography, European Politics, E.U.
  • Katia De Avila Fernandes,(PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology), Climate Variability and Change in the Tropics
  • Cadi Fung, (PhD, Michigan State University), Human-wildlife Conflict, Ecotourism, Protected Areas, Animal Geographies
  • Brett DeGregoio, (PhD, University of Illinois), Anthropogenic Impacts, Behavioral Ecology, Wetland Ecology,  Urban Ecology
  • Lucas Delezene, (PhD, Arizona State U), Evolution of Primate Dentition 
  • Greg Dumond,  (PhD, U Massachusetts - Amherst), General Geology, Structural Geology, Tectonics 
  • Julian Fairey, (PhD, U Texas - Austin), Surface and Colloid Chemistry, focusing on Contaminant Sediments and Drinking Water Treatment
  • Song Feng, (PhD, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Atmospheric Physics, Climate Modeling
  • Kevin M. Fitzpatrick,  (PhD, State University of New York at Albany), Community and Family Issues
  • Kristian Forbes, (PhD, U Jyväskylä, Finland), Infectious Disease Ecology
  • Sara Rollet Gosman,  (JD, Harvard), Environmental and Energy Law
  • Brian Haggard,  (PhD, Oklahoma State U), Water Quality, Stream Ecology, Nutrient Dynamics
  • Micah Hale, (PhD, U Oklahoma), High Performance Concrete, Self-Consolidating Concrete
  • Phillip D. Hays,  (PhD, Texas A &M), Emeritus, Isotope Geochemistry, Hydrology 
  • Christopher Garrett Henry (PhD, University of Nebraska - Lincoln ), Crop irrigation systems
  • Taylor Hermes (PhD, Kiel University ), Anthropology
  • Edward C. Holland  (PhD, U Colorado - Boulder), Political Geography, Cultural Geography, Russia and the former Soviet Union
  • Qiuqiong Huang,  (PhD, U California - Davis), Water Resource Management, Impacts of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills on Labor Market Outcomes
  • Neelendra Joshi (PhD, Penn State U ), Ecologically-based Pest Management, Pollinator Health, Insect Biodiversity, Agriculture and Food Security
  • Rupesh Kariyat (PhD, Penn State U ), Sustainable Agriculture, Crop Entomology and Chemical Ecology
  • John Kester III, (PhD, U Arkansas - Fayetteville), Sustainability, ESG
  • Sarah Lewis, (PhD, U Arkansas - Fayetteville), Sustainability, Leadership
  • W. Fred Limp,  (PhD, Indiana U), Emeritus, Geoinfomatics, GIS
  • Christopher Liner,  (PhD, Colorado School of Mines), Maurice Storm Endowed Chair, Geophysics
  • Jami J. Lockhart,  (PhD, U Arkansas), Information Technology and Services, Archaeological Geophysics 
  • Trey Malone,  (PhD, Oklahoma State U), Agricultural Economist, Agri-Entrepeneurship and Public Policy Impacts on Agri-Food Supply Chains 
  • Daniel D.  Magoulick,  (PhD, U Pittsburgh), Population and Community Dynamics of Freshwater Fish and Invertebrates
  • Marty D. Matlock, (PhD, Oklahoma State U), Ecological Risk Assessment, Ecological Engineering and Design
  • Kenneth McCown, (MS U Illinois - Urbana-Champaign) Landscape Architecture and Architecture, Sustainable Development
  • Tahar Messadi,  (PhD, U Michigan), Sustainability
  • David M. Miller, (PhD, U Georgia), Soil Chemistry, Adsorption of Clay Minerals
  • Jefferson Miller, (PhD,  OK State U), Agricultural Communications
  • Julie Morrow,  (PhD, Washington U), Paleoindian and Mississippian archaeology
  • Kusum Naithani, (PhD, U Wyoming), Landscape and Ecosystem Ecology, Ecohydrology, Plant Ecophysiology, Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Spatio-Temporal Modeling, Bayesian Statistics
  • Lawton Lanier Nalley,  (PhD, Kansas State U) Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness
  • Thomas R. Paradise,  (PhD, Arizona State U), Geomorphology, Rock Weathering in Arid Environments, Natural Hazards and Risk, Architectural Deterioration and Historic Preservation (CRM)
  • Joanna Beth Person Michener, (PhD, University of Arkansas - Fayetteville), Community Resiliency
  • Brad G. Peter, (PhD, Michigan State University), Remote Sensing of Agriculture, Environmental Sustainability, Digital Cartography
  • J. Michael Plavcan, (PhD, Duke University), Chair Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Research Methods, and Evolutionary Ecology
  • Jennie Popp,  (PhD, Colorado State U), Water Quality, Sustainable Resource Management
  • Michael P. Popp, (PhD, Colorado State U), Farm and Agribusiness Management, Alternative Production Practices
  • Adriana Potra,  (PhD, Florida International U),  Economic Ore Geology, Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry
  • Seth Price (PhD, University of Arkansas - Fayetteville), Sustainability, Conservation, GIS, Geophysics
  • Victor Roland (PhD, University of Arkansas - Fayetteville), Hydrology
  • Curt Rom,  (PhD, Ohio State U), Director AFLS Honors Program
  • Benjamin R. Runkle, (PhD, U Cal Berkeley), Biological and Agricultural Engineering
  • Mary C. Savin,  (PhD, U Rhode Island), Microbial Ecology
  • John Shaw,  (PhD, U Texas - Austin), Stratigraphy and Sedimentology
  • Aaron M. Shew (PhD , U Arkansas - Fayetteville), Agricultural Production, Agricultural Economics, Conservation Impact Assessment
  • Geoboo Song, (PhD, U OK), Public Policy, Political Science Sciences, Culture and Perceptions of Public Policy
  • Shannon L. Speir, (PhD, U  Notre Dame), Biochemistry of Streams and Rivers,  Impacts of Agriculture and Intermittency on Water Quality
  • David W. Stahle,  (PhD, Arizona State U), Dendrochronology, Paleoclimatology, Ancient Forests, Global Change
  • Wesley D. Stoner,  (PhD, U of Kentucky), Development of Human Societies, Mesoamerica
  • Celina A. Suarez,  (PhD, U Kansas), Paleontology, Stable Isotope geochemistry
  • Claire E. Terhune,  (PhD, Arizona State U ), Evolution and Function of Hominin Skull Shape, Hominin Migration Patterns during Early Pleistocene
  • Ryan Tian, (PhD, U Connecticut), Hierarchical and Ordered Nanostructures for Catalytic, Sensing , and Biomaterial Applications
  • John R. Tipton,  (PhD, Colorado State University ), Bayesian Statistics, Environment and  Climate Change Statistics, Spatio-Temporal Statistics
  • Mary Beth D. Trubitt,  (PhD, Northwestern U), Eastern Native American Societies Technologies
  • Jason A. Tullis,  (PhD, U South Carolina), Chair Geosciences, Remote Sensing, GIS, Decision Trees, Biogeography
  • Henry Turner, (PhD, U Arkansas), Geoodesy, Crustal Deformation
  • Peter S. Ungar,  (PhD, SUNY Stony Brook), Director ENDY Program, Biological Anthropology, Human Origins, Primate Evolution, Dental Anthropology, Computer Imaging, Anatomy
  • Amelia Villasenor, (PhD, George Washington U), Hominin in Turkana Basin, Kenya, Piestocene Megafauna Extinction in North America
  • Benjamin Vining, (PhD, Boston University), Environmental Archaeology, Anthropogentic Ecology Networks
  • Ranil Wickramasinghe (PhD, U Minnesota), Membrane Science and Technology
  • Jacquelyn Wiersma-Mosley (PhD, Texas Tech U - Lubbock), Violence against Women, Risk Factors for Victimization among Marginalized Populations, Cultural Competence
  • J.D. Willson,  (PhD,  U Georgia), Ecology,  Understanding Anthropomorphic Stresses on Reptile and Amphibian Populations and Communities
  • Wen Zhang,  (PhD, Purdue U), Environmental Engineering, Environmental Microbiology, Wastewater Treatment, Biofilm Physiology