Meet Our Dedicated Faculty & Staff Members

Listed below are the current faculty and staff for the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Kennesaw State University.

Administration

Name
Position
  • Brandon Lundy, professor at KSU

    Chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology and Professor of Anthropology

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2893
    SO 4050

    Brandon Lundy CV

    Brandon D. Lundy is chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology and professor of anthropology. Dr. Lundy's scholarship focuses on climate change, sustainable livelihoods, ethnoeconomics, transnational labor migration, indigenous conflict management, and entrepreneurship. He is the editor or co-editor of five books and has published in many journals including Economic Anthropology, Cross-Cultural Research, Human Organization, and African Arts. Dr. Lundy has served as a country specialist (Guinea-Bissau) for Fulbright and the State Department and regularly presents nationally and internationally. His current NSF-funded research explores the valuation of artisanal alcohol in Cabo Verde, West Africa.

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  • Alice Gooding, Associate Professor at KSU

    Associate Chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology and Associate Professor of Anthropology

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2503
    SO 4046

    Alice F. Gooding is the Associate Chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology and Associate Professor of Anthropologyand an associate professor of anthropology. Dr. Gooding is a board-certified forensic anthropologist and serves the state of Georgia at-large. She manages the KSU Forensic Anthropology Field Lab and the KSU Biological Anthropology Lab. She teaches classes in osteology, biological anthropology methods, forensic medicine, and field recovery. Dr. Gooding provides professional training in the excavation of clandestine graves. Her current area of research explores interdisciplinary approaches to grave detection technologies. She regularly presents her work at national scientific and technical conferences. 

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  • Montgomery

    Office Manager

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    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4043

  • Yasmin Howell

    Academic Program Support Specialist

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4042

Full-Time Anthropology Faculty

Name
Position
  • Matthew Davis, lecturer at KSU

    Lecturer of Anthropology

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 3016

    Matthew M. Davis is a Lecturer of Anthropology and a certified Ethnographer. He is a cultural anthropologist with a certification in ethnographic research methods. His research interests have focused on Black Americans in a post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans as well as those in the Katrina diaspora. Additionally, his research focuses on pedagogies of anthropological praxis within and beyond the classroom, and the decolonization of higher education. Mr. Davis obtained his MA in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnography Certification from Georgia State University, and BA in Art History from Oglethorpe University. 

  • Nicholas Ellwanger, lecturer at KSU

    Capstone Coordinator in the Honors College and Senior Lecturer of Anthropology

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-3541
    ALC 5525

    Nicholas Ellwanger is a biological anthropologist that studies primate behavioral ecology and human evolution. He obtained his BS in Neuroscience (Emory University), MA in Anthropology (University of Victoria, Canada), and Ph.D. in Anthropology (University of Texas at San Antonio). He has conducted field studies on chacma baboons in South Africa and ring-tailed lemurs in Madagascar, focusing primarily on the impact of ecological seasonality and human-induced habitat change on dietary and social strategies of female primates. At Kennesaw State University, Dr. Ellwanger teaches Introduction to Biological Anthropology (ANTH 1105), Introduction to Anthropology (ANTH 1102), Paleoanthropology (ANTH 4440), and Special Topics: Primate Behavioral Ecology (ANTH 4490). Dr. Ellwanger also serves as a faculty member in the KSU Journey Honors College, where he serves as Director of the Presidentâ s Emerging Global Scholars cohort. 

  • Assistant Professor of Anthropology

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4078

    Macario Garcia is a socio-cultural anthropologist who focuses on legal systems, incarceration, settler violence, and abolition as transformative justice in the contemporary United States. Their ongoing research projects investigate human-making practices in American prisons, poverty and inequality in rural and urban landscapes, and carceral migration in the American Southwest. Some of their published works can be found in Anthropology and Humanism, Critique of Anthropology, and Human Organization. In the classroom, they specialize in liberative education models, applied research, qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and collaborative data analyses. Their courses include Anthropology of Gender, Colonialism and Incarceration, and Anthropology and Science Fiction. 

  • Shimelis Gebru, lecturer at KSU

    Lecturer of Anthropology

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 3016

    Shim Gebru earned a Ph.D. degree in Biological Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis, MO. His research focuses on both humans and nonhuman primates. He studied baboon behavioral ecology in Ethiopia. More recently, he has been involved in multidisciplinary food security research projects, focusing on nutrition and natural resource management, in two drought prone areas in Ethiopia. Dr. Gebru joined Kennesaw State University in fall of 2024 as a Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Anthropology. He teaches ANTH 1102, Introduction to Anthropology, and ANTH 1105, Introduction to Biological Anthropology. 

  • Alice Gooding, Assistant Chair and Associate Professor of Anthropology; Faculty Advisor for Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honor Society at KSU

    Associate Chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology and Associate Professor of Anthropology

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2503
    SO 4046

    Alice F. Gooding is the assistant chair of the department of Geography and Anthropology and an associate professor of anthropology. Dr. Gooding is a board-certified forensic anthropologist and serves the state of Georgia at-large. She manages the KSU Forensic Anthropology Field Lab and the KSU Biological Anthropology Lab. She teaches classes in osteology, biological anthropology methods, forensic medicine, and field recovery. Dr. Gooding provides professional training in the excavation of clandestine graves. Her current area of research explores interdisciplinary approaches to grave detection technologies. She regularly presents her work at national scientific and technical conferences. 

    Faculty Website
  • Brandon Lundy, Chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology and Professor of Anthropology at KSU

    Chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology and Professor of Anthropology

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2893
    SO 4050

    Brandon D. Lundy is chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology and professor of anthropology. Dr. Lundy's scholarship focuses on climate change, sustainable livelihoods, ethnoeconomics, transnational labor migration, indigenous conflict management, and entrepreneurship. He is the editor or co-editor of five books and has published in many journals including Economic Anthropology, Cross-Cultural Research, Human Organization, and African Arts. Dr. Lundy has served as a country specialist (Guinea-Bissau) for Fulbright and the State Department and regularly presents nationally and internationally. His current NSF-funded research explores the valuation of artisanal alcohol in Cabo Verde, West Africa.

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  • Associate Professor of Anthropology

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4048

    Terry Powis is a New World archaeologist in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia. He joined the faculty at Kennesaw State University in August 2005 and is currently an Associate Professor of anthropology. He received his master's degree in anthropology from Trent University (Ontario, Canada) and his PhD in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. He is an archaeologist who conducts research both in the Maya Lowlands of Belize, Central America, and the Southeastern United States. Dr. Powis specializes in pottery, diet and subsistence, architecture, and the evolution of complex societies. His recent research has focused on the origin of chocolate, vanilla, chili peppers, and Datura in the New World. 

  • Teresa Raczek, Professor at KSU

    Professor of Anthropology

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4077

    Teresa P. Raczek studies heritage and archaeology in India, focusing on the development of communities in the third millennium BCE and the role that archaeology plays in our contemporary lives. She has worked collaboratively with Indian and American colleagues to undertake multiple field projects and train KSU students in Rajasthan, India. This research has been supported by the William J. Fulbright Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Geographic Society. Dr. Raczek formerly served as Associate Dean of RCHSS and Chair of Geography and Anthropology. She obtained her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania, MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and BA in History from Barnard College. 

    Areas of expertise: Archaeology of India, Archaeology of South Asia, Heritage, Early Complex Societies 

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  • Susan Kirkpatrick Smith, Associate Professor at KSU

    Associate Professor of Anthropology

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4044

    Susan Kirkpatrick Smith is an associate professor of anthropology with a specialization in bioarchaeology. Her research is focused on understanding the lived experiences of people from ancient Greece based on the stories told in their skeletal remains. Dr. Smith regularly offers her Greek Osteology Field School for undergraduate students at the Institute for Aegean Prehistory Study Center for East Crete. She is a member of the managing committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Dr. Smith has participated on study abroad programs to Italy, France, and Ireland. 

  • Ken Williamson

    Professor of Anthropology

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4095

    Kenneth Williamson is an Associate Professor of Anthropology jointly appointed in the Departments of Interdisciplinary Studies and Geography and Anthropology and is a Black Studies program faculty member. He earned his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a Black Feminist scholar, Dr. Williamson teaches courses that intersect Black Studies, Anthropology, and Gender Studies such as Black Masculinities, Cultural Diversity in the U.S., Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics, Cultural Anthropology, Research Methods, and Issues in Black Studies. Dr. Williamsonâ s scholarship focuses on Black Social Movements, Black Womenâ s Activism in Brazil, Community-Based Research and Participatory Action Research to create social change, Anti-Black Racism, and Social Justice. He has written extensively on how the intersections of race, gender and class impact Black people and people of color in Brazil and the United States. 

Full-Time Geography and GSS Faculty

Name
Position
  • Mostafa Arastounia, assistant professor of Geospatial Sciences at KSU

    Assistant Professor of Geospatial Sciences

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    R2 111

    Mostafa Arastounia is an assistant professor of Geospatial Sciences at Kennesaw State University. He teaches land surveying courses, and his research is focused on automated processing of data obtained by terrestrial laser scanners and unmanned aircraft including both aerial photos and LiDAR data. These geospatial data are used for automated mapping and monitoring of civil infrastructure elements and the results can be employed for automatic maintenance and resilience monitoring of such infrastructure. He has several publications in ISI journals including ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and he is also a guest editor, board member, topic editor, and reviewer of seven ISI journals. Dr. Arastounia is a licensed Professional Geomatics Engineer in the Province of British Columbia (Canada) and holds the Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate from Project Management Institute. He has years of industry experience as a geomatics project manager, survey manager, and team lead on many different projects. 

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  • David Doran, lecturer at KSU

    Lecturer of Geography

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 3002

    Dave Doran identifies as a historical geographer and an environmental historian. He is a new lecturer of geography at KSU, obtaining his Ph.D. in history and MA in geography from Georgia State University (GSU) in Atlanta. Dr. Doran teaches Human Geography, World Regional Geography, Historical Geography, Cultural Geography, Geography of Europe, Landforms, and Resources, Society and Environment. His spatial and temporal research analysis includes the role of commodities, cross-cultural encounters, and port complexes in world maritime trade. Dr. Doran has taught at KSU since 2010 as both an adjunct professor and visiting instructor. 

  • Shannon Hall, lecturer at KSU

    Geography Coordinator and Lecturer of Geography

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 3002

    Shannon Hall is our Geography Program Coordinator and a Lecturer of Geography. She joined our department in 2021, and has a background in physical geography, environmental conservation, and sustainability. Dr. Hall teaches a variety of courses including The Digital Earth; Weather and Climate; Introduction to Landforms; Resources, Society, and the Environment; Research Methods; Cultural Geography; and Introduction to Environmental Studies. Dr. Hall has also completed research projects in the North Georgia mountains, and the southern plains in Oklahoma. Her research interests include vegetation dynamics, tree response to climate change, and biogeomorphology. Dr. Hall has a B.S. in Geography from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, an M.S. in Geography from the University of Georgia, and a Ph.D. in Geography and Environmental Sustainability from the University of Oklahoma. In her free time, Dr. Hall enjoys reading, being outside, and spending time with her dogs. 

  • Uli Ingram, lecturer at KSU

    Geospatial Sciences Lab Manager and Principal Lecturer of Geospatial Sciences

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    PS 112

    Uli Ingram is a GIS and geography instructor at Kennesaw State University. She has an undergraduate degree in international affairs from Kennesaw State University, and a master's degree in geography from Georgia State University. Uli's master's thesis examines the appeal of mega-churches in metro Atlanta and includes a spatial analysis of the distance mega-church attendees are willing to drive to their church. Uli has worked in GIS, specifically utility mapping, for over six years. She is proficient in several GIS software applications, including the ESRI ArcGIS suite, Miner and Miner's ArcFM, and PDA's Origin extensions. 

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  • Assistant Professor of Geography and Geospatial Sciences

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4051B

    Ranbir Kang is an Assistant Professor of Geography and Geospatial Sciences. As a geographer, his work focuses on interdisciplinary aspects of river and freshwater resources. It includes multiple spatial scales and interdisciplinary geo-spatial modeling along with field based experimental research. He has worked at universities in both urban and rural settings and believe in long term academic relations across disciplinary and institutional boundaries. His collaborators and students come from different academic backgrounds. Currently, he is developing new research projects around the Atlanta metropolitan area.

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  • Kim

    Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Science

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    PS 233

    Kyusik Kim is an Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Science (GIS) and GIScientist with expertise in transport and health geography, particularly in areas such as spatial access to healthcare, human mobility and natural disasters, as well as spatial data analysis across various topics around human geography. Leveraging GIS methods, tools, and theories, Dr. Kim aims to deepen our understanding of geographic phenomena and provide insights with meaningful policy implications. His research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals in the field, including the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Geographical Analysis, Journal of Transport Geography, and Transactions in GIS. 

  • Paul McDaniel, Associate Professor at KSU

    Professor of Geography

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    LB 4217

    Dr. Paul N. McDaniel is an associate professor of geography whose research explores immigration to urban regions, welcoming cities, and inclusive place-branding, with emphasis on the southeastern United States, and scholarship of teaching and learning in geography education. He is the editor of Integration and Receptivity in Immigrant Gateway Metro Regions in the United States and has published in many journals, including Professional Geographer, Journal of Geography, Geographical Review, Southeastern Geographer, and Journal of Urban Affairs. As a broadly trained geographer, he enjoys teaching many regional and human geography courses, informed by his extensive travels, in diverse formats, including face-to-face courses, fully online, and in study abroad programs, such as in France, Italy, and Spain. He is the recipient of the 2024 RCHSS Outstanding Online Teaching Award and the 2020 Early Career Award for Scholarship, Teaching, and Service from the Ethnic Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. 

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  • Matthew Mitchelson, Associate Professor at KSU

    Associate Professor of Geography

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4042

    Matt Mitchelson is an Associate Professor of Geography who joined the KSU faculty in 2011.  He enjoys engaging with students in an Introduction to Human Geography (Geog 1101), and upper-division courses such as Urban, Historical, Political, and Economic Geography (Geog 3300, 3310, 3320, and 3330).  His research and scholarship interests have focused primarily on incarceration in the United States and the policing and punishment of international human migration.  Representative publications include Beyond Walls and Cages (UGA Press 2012) and The Production of Bedspace: Prison Privatization and Abstract Space (Geographaphica Helvetica, 2014).  He served as a visiting professor at Dartmouth College and is a proud alumnus of the University of Kentucky, East Carolina University, and the University of Georgia. 

  • Mark W. Patterson, professor at KSU

    Professor of Geography and Geospatial Sciences

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4042

    Mark Patterson, Author, Editor, Educator, Homebrewer. As an academic geographer and a National Geographic Explorer, Mark instills a sense of wanderlust in his students through stories of his travels. A six-week backpacking trip through China in the late 1980s has inspired many trips with colleagues and students. Mark is able to combine his love of travel and beer, with his scholarly activities. What started out as a personal quest to sample local beers where and when he traveled (70+ countries) and lived (US, Canada, Indonesia and Italy), has turned into several publications, The Geography of Beer: Regions, Environment, and Societies (2014), Atlas of Beer (2017), The Geography of Beer: Culture and Economics (2020), and The Geography of Beer: Policies, Perceptions, and Place (2023). When Mark is not overseas, he is typically at a pub planning his next trip or working with students in the field. With Dr. Hoalst-Pullen, Mark is one half of the dynamic duo known as The Beer Doctors. 

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  • Nancy Pullen, professor at KSU

    Professor of Geography and Geospatial Sciences

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4052

    Nancy Hoalst-Pullen ("Dr. NHP") is a Professor of Geography and Geospatial Sciences at Kennesaw State University. She teaches weather and climate, professionalism and ethics, biogeography, and cartography.  She regularly works with graduate and undergraduate students on various research and editorial projects. Her current research looks at valorization of grogue in Cabo Verde, the geographies of beer and beer culture, and urban forest dynamics of eastern deciduous forests. Dr. Hoalst-Pullen has published six books, 10 book chapters, and dozens of articles, and has received (as PI or co-PI) nearly a half million dollars (USD) in grants and awards. Nancy is currently the co-Editor-in-Chief of The Geographical Bulletin, the GSS Internship/GIS Practicum Coordinator, and the founder and coordinator of the BIRDS Initiative, which includes the KSU Field Station Workshop, the Forest Inventory and Research Plots (FIRPs), and the Tree Ring Lab. Nancy has a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Colorado at Boulder (2008), an MA in Geography (2002) from Indiana State University, and BS in Biology (1999) and a BA in Geography (1999) from Valparaiso University. 

  • Jason Rhodes, Senior Lecturer of Geography andFaculty Advisor for the Geography Student Club at KSU

    Senior Lecturer of Geography

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    WH 128A

    Dr. Jason Rhodes is a Senior Lecturer of Human Geography.  His research interests include exploring the roots of redlining in early 20th century Atlanta, and the geographies of privilege and exclusion resulting from the pursuit of residential property values.  Dr. Rhodes teaches Geographies of Regenerative Agriculture (GEOG 4490), which explores the human and environmental impact of industrial agriculture, along with the potential of regenerative alternatives to address the urgent issues of climate, water and food security.  Each spring, this class designs and plants a new section of the KSU Food Forest, of which Dr. Rhodes is a co-founder.  Dr. Rhodes also teaches Geography of Clothing (GEOG 3395), which explores issues of human rights and environmental sustainability through the lens of the global fashion commodity chain.  This class partners with a professor and students from Brac University in Dhaka, Bangladesh on an interview project in which we interview garment workers and industry experts about the topics we're exploring in class. He is the faculty adviser to the student environmental organization EcoOwls, as well as the Geography Club. Students interested in getting involved with campus-based projects related to sustainability and human rights should get in touch with him.

  • Allen Roberts, Professor at KSU

    Geospatial Sciences Program Director and Professor of Geography and Geospatial Sciences

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-7375
    L 153

    Allen D. Roberts is a Professor of Geospatial Sciences and Geography within the Department of Geography and Anthropology. He has over 25 years of research and applied experience within the: climatological; environmental; engineering; geospatial; hydrological; landscape pattern analysis; and meteorological fields that span the academic, non-profit, federal government, and private sectors. His research is currently centered on the utilization of citizen (crowdsourced) science-based geospatial data to evaluate how potential spatial and temporal gaps in climatic information may impact the City of Atlanta and surrounding areas, especially as it pertains to neighborhoods of underrepresented and lower socioeconomic populations. Since September 2021, he has been on the leadership team for the Greater Atlanta Community Science Collaboratory (GA-CSC). The GA-CSC is a consortium of community-based organizations (CBOs) and Atlanta area higher education institutions (HEIs) that form a partnership to address local-to-global issues through knowledge-sharing, problem identification, scientific collaboration, and public engagement. 

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  • Vanessa Slinger-Friedman, professor at KSU

    Owl Swap Coordinator and Professor of Geography

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2068
    WH 128A

    Vanessa Slinger-Friedman is a Professor of Geography at Kennesaw State University. Her work focuses on sustainable, regenerative, and circular systems related to resource use. Current and past research includes the study of Vetiver grass technology for soil erosion control in the Caribbean; sustainability in textiles and apparels; the use of food forests as a model of sustainable agriculture; the impacts of agroforestry for Amazonian urban resettlement in Acre, Brazil; and ecotourism on Dominica, W.I., for economic development and nature preservation. She is a co-founder of the KSU Food Forest, an initiative that models and helps build sustainable agriculture systems that attempt to address social inequities and related health issues in low-income communities in Atlanta, while at the same time mitigating climate change. Vanessa's regional specialty is Latin America and the Caribbean. Her other research interests include innovative pedagogy to teach about sustainability and geography. 

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  • Bradley Suther, associate professor at KSU

    Associate Professor of Geography

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-4735
    SO 4073

    Bradley E. Suther is an Associate Professor of Geography and geomorphologist with research interests in stream and river systems, soils, and paleoenvironments of the southeastern US.  His current research centers around: 1) investigating river response to environmental change, including climatic change, and 2) evaluating timeframes and pathways of soil development to better understand the formation of soils and their use in geomorphic mapping and dating.  He has published articles on these topics in the journals Palaeo3, Geomorphology, Soil Systems, and Southeastern Geology and recently helped to design an updated facility for the Department of Geography and Anthropology's Geomorphology Laboratory in support of this research.  Dr. Suther teaches Introduction to Landforms, Geomorphology, and Climatology, and he regularly supervises undergraduate directed applied research courses related to his scholarship.  Prior to entering academia, Suther worked as an environmental consultant in North Carolina, where he is a Licensed Soil Scientist. 

  • Jun Tu, professor at KSU

    Professor of Geography and Geospatial Sciences

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4075

    Jun Tu is a Professor of Geography and Geospatial Sciences. Dr. Tu's areas of expertise are environmental geography and health geography. His research interests include the integration of GIS, spatial statistics, and modeling with environmental and health studies, and the impact of urbanization and climate change on the natural environment and public health. Dr. Tu has published over 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals on various environmental and health issues in China, Massachusetts, New York City, and Georgia. He has served as a peer reviewer for over 65 international journals. Dr. Tu is currently working on projects that study the impacts of urbanization and climate change on water resources in northern Georgia and explore the spatiotemporal associations between environmental and socioeconomic factors and health issues, such as birth defects and COVID-19, in Georgia. Dr. Tu's teaching interests include physical geography, environmental studies, and GIS applications.  

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  • Matt Waller, lecturer at KSU

    Senior Lecturer of Geography

    [email protected]
    (470) 531-2087
    SO 2042

    Matt Waller has been teaching geography with Kennesaw State University for 16 years and has been advising students in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences for 12 years. His areas of interest include regional studies, geographic education, and helping students see their world differently. Matt earned his MSEd in Social Science Education from the University of Georgia in 1997 and his MA in Geography from Georgia State University in 2010. Prior to KSU, he worked in student financial aid, taught middle school gifted, and taught geography and English in East Africa. He is a life-long learner who loves video games, reading, and travel. 

Part-Time and Limited-Term Anthropology Faculty

Name
Position

  • Part-Time Instructor of Anthropology

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4042

    I’m a veteran and a decorated Airman (USAF). After my four-year stint in the Air Force, I decided to become a docent in Egypt. It was there that I got the itch for archaeology. Due to some extraneous circumstance, I returned to the US and pursued my studies at UC Berkeley: Egyptian archaeology and art history. My desire to continue graduate studies in this discipline fell short and I was forced to alter my studies to archaeology. In the States this would be a subfield of anthropology. However, my graduate research was primarily in the geography department; as it was associated with Geographic Information System (GIS). During my academic tenure, I worked with several archaeological firms as an excavator (dig bum). Moreover, I participated in a dozen field schools at different capacities. Upon completion of my grad work, I owned and operated a very small CRM firm (cultural Resource Management / professional archaeological). Furthermore, I participated in archaeological expeditions at varying capacities: Belize (Maya), Sudan (Meroe), Ethiopia (pre historic and Axumite). My college teaching escapade started in 2002; I’ve since taught over 100 sections in 14 different areas of anthropology. In addition, I’ve spent 34 months of my life traveling in 28 countries (living in five of them two years or more): circa one month in each or more, visiting archaeological sites and experiencing Third World cultures - even living within them. My son was born amongst the rural Europ tribe of Eritrea / Ethiopia.

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Anthropology

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4042

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Anthropology

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4042

  • Part-Time Instructor of Anthropology

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4042

  • Part-Time Instructor of Anthropology

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4042

Part-Time and Limited-Term Geography and GSS Faculty

Name
Position

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Geography

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4042

  • Part-Time Instructor of Land Surveying

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4042

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  • Part-Time Instructor of Geography

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4042

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Geography

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4042

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Geography

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4042

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Geospatial Sciences

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4042

  • Qihang Qiu, assistant professor at KSU

    Limited Term Assistant Professor of Geography

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 2041

  • Raj Sigdel

    Limited Term Assistant Professor of Geography

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 2041

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Geography

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4042

  • Part-Time Instructor of Geography

    [email protected]
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4042