Meet Us
Staff
Full-time Instructors
Jasmine Arpagian, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
- Phone: (916) 278-4564
- arpagian@csus.edu
- Office Hours: On Leave F26
Bruce Gervais, Ph.D.
Professor
- Location: Sequoia Hall 308
- Phone: (916) 278-4207
- bgervais@csus.edu
- Office Hours: T/TH 10:30-11:45, W 11:00-12:00
- 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: Tuesday/Thursday 2:45-3:45, Wednesday 12:30-1:30 and 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: Mondays 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. & aapt
- 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: TWTH 12:00-1:30 PM, by appt.
- Specialty & Interests: Cultural Ecology; Economic Development; Climate; Environmental History
Hanieh Molana, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
- Location: Sequoia Hall 306
- Phone: (916) 278-4576
- hajimolana@csus.edu
- Office Hours: On Leave F26
- Specialty & Interests: Cultural geography; Geography of the Middle East; Feminist Geography; Urban Geography; Qualitative Methods
Patrick Oberle, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - Department Chair
- 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: Wednesdays 9:30am - 11:00am and Thursdays 1:00pm - 2:30pm
- Specialty & Interests: Specialty & Interests: Biogeography; Remote Sensing; Natural Resources; Climate; GIScience; Vegetation Dynamics
James Wanket, Ph.D.
Professor
- Location: Sequoia Hall 304
- Phone: (916) 278-7580
- jwanket@csus.edu
- Office Hours: On Sabbatical
- Specialty & Interests: Quaternary Studies; Climate; Geomorphology; Field Methods; California
Part-time Instructors
Theo Dingemans
- Location: Sequoia Hall 332
- Phone: (916) 278-6410
- t.dingemans@csus.edu
- Office Hours: T-Th 12:00-1:15 and We 12:00-2:45.
Sandra Garren, Ph.D
- Location: Sequoia Hall 332
- Phone: (916) 278-6410
- sandra.garren@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Mondays: 2:15 to 3:45 pm, Thursdays: 10:15 to 11:45 am
Laura McGowan Ph.D.
- Phone: (916) 278-6410
- mcgowan@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday, 4:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m., and 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: MWF: 7:45-8:45 am; 11:00-11:45 am
João Santos Ph.D.
- Phone: (916) 278-6410
- joao.santos@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays 4:20pm – 5:20pm.
Jane Slavensky
- Location: Sequoia Hall 332
- Phone: (916) 278-6410
- jane.slavensky@csus.edu
- Office Hours: MON 2:30pm – 3:30pm, WED 2:30 – 3:30pm, THUR 2:30-3:00pm
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