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 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Bruce Gervais, Ph.D.
Professor
- Location: Sequoia Hall 308
- Phone: (916) 278-4207
- bgervais@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Tue/Wed/Thur 1:30 p.m. - 2:45 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: Mondays 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. or by Appointment
- Specialty & Interests: Labor, Political Ecology, Race and Migration, Engaged Research, Feminist Qualitative Methods
Anna Klimaszewski-Patterson, Ph.D.
Professor & Geospatial Centroid Director
- Location: Sequoia Hall 330
- Phone: (916) 278-4272
- anna.kp@csus.edu
- Website
- Office Hours: Mon/Wed 11:05 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. , or 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/TUE/THU 10:30am - 11:45am//WED 12:00-1:00pm
- 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 3:00 p.m. -5:00 p.m., or by Appointment
- Specialty & Interests: Cultural geography; Geography of the Middle East; Feminist Geography; Urban Geography; Qualitative Methods
Patrick Oberle, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
- Location: Sequoia Hall 310
- Phone: (916) 278-3881
- patrick.oberle@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Tues 1:00pm - 3:00pm, or by Appt.
- 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: Wed/Thur 9:30am - 11:00am
- Specialty & Interests: Specialty & Interests: Biogeography; Remote Sensing; Natural Resources; Climate; GIScience; Vegetation Dynamics
Mathew Schmidtlein, Ph.D.
Department Chair & Professor
- Location: Sequoia Hall 334
- Phone: (916) 278-7581
- schmidmc@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Mon/Thur 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
- 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 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m., Wed 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m., or By Appointment
- Specialty & Interests: Quaternary Studies; Climate; Geomorphology; Field Methods; California
Part-time Instructors
Sandra Garren, Ph.D
Lecturer
- Location: Sequoia Hall 332
- Phone: (916) 278-6410
- sandra.garren@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Wed 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
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 7:45 a.m. - 8:40 a.m. , 10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
João Santos Ph.D.
- Phone: (916) 278-6410
- joao.santos@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Online Daily By Appointment
Jane Slavensky
- Location: Sequoia Hall 332
- Phone: (916) 278-6410
- jane.slavensky@csus.edu
- Office Hours: THU 11:30am - 12:30pm, or by appt.
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
Miles Roberts, Ph.D.
Professor
- Location: Sequoia 302
- Phone: (916) 278-6102
- roberts@csus.edu
- Office Hours: By Appointment
- Specialty & Interests: Remote Sensing; GIS; Ecology; Spatial Statistics
Michael Schmandt Ph.D.
Professor
- Specialty & Interests: Urban Planning; Geographic Techniques; Food; Applied Geography; Transportation Patterns; California Central Valley; Field Geography