Faculty
The LSU Department of Geography and Anthropology has consistently been ranked as a top doctoral geography program in the country and our faculty have made distinguished contributions at all levels of academic life. Eleven faculty members have held titled professorships including four Boyd Professors – LSU’s most prestigious designation – and two Alumni Professors. Five distinguished professorships are currently occupied by faculty members and several department faculty have served in numerous positions of leadership within the disciplines of geography and anthropology.
Department Chair
Jill Trepanier
Chair & Professor
Extreme Weather Climatology,
Statistical Methods, Geographic
Information Science
jtrepa3@lsu.edu
Current Faculty
John M. Anderson
Associate Librarian
Historical Maps and
Aerial Photographs
janders@lsu.edu
Juliet K. Brophy
Associate Professor
Paleoanthropology, Zooarchaeology, Taphonomy, Morphometrics
jbrophy@lsu.edu
Vincent Brown
Assistant Professor - Research
vbrow31@lsu.edu
David Chicoine
W. G. Haag Professor
of Archaeology
Archaeology, Material Culture,
South America
dchico@lsu.edu
Kristine L. DeLong
Professor
Paleoclimate, Corals,
Coastal Climate Change
kdelong@lsu.edu
Helena Fietz
Assistant Professor
Medical Anthropology, Disability,
Latin America
helenafietz@lsu.edu
Sarah Franzen
Assistant Professor
sfranzen@lsu.edu
Huanping Huang
Assistant Professor (DSM Advisor)
Climatology, Weather Extremes,
Climate Modeling
hhuang@lsu.edu
Joyce Marie Jackson
James J. Parsons Endowed Professor
Cultural Ethnography
Ethnomusicology
African & Diasporic Rituals
jjackso@lsu.edu
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
River and Coastal Geomorphology, Hydrodynamics, Sediment Transport
kkonsoer@lsu.edu
Carl O. Sauer Professor
(Undergraduate Advisor - Geography)
Geographic Information Science, Geographies of Crime and Health, Geospatial Technology
mleitne@lsu.edu
Associate Research Professor
Director, FACES Lab
Forensic Anthropology, Paleopathology, and Biocultural Skeletal Analysis
glisti1@lsu.edu
Associate Professor
(GIS Advisor)
Remote Sensing, Drone
Studies, Plant Dynamics
smeng@lsu.edu
Assistant Professor
Environmental Justice, Political
Ecology, Agrarian Geographies
smoore2@lsu.edu
Andrew Sluyter
Doris Z. Stone Latin American Studies Distinguished Professor
(Undergraduate Advisor - Geography)
Place, Race, Environment
asluyter@lsu.edu
Earleene Nolan Sanders
Alumni Professor
(Undergraduate Advisor - Anthropology)
Anatomy, Osteology,
Reproductive Biology
rtague@lsu.edu
Jill Trepanier
Professor (DSM Advisor)
Extreme Weather Climatology,
Statistical Methods, Geographic
Information Science
jtrepa3@lsu.edu
Fahui Wang
Cyril & Tutta Vetter Alumni Professor
Spatially-integrated Social Science, Health GIS, Geospatial Analytics
fwang@lsu.edu
Lei Wang
Fred B. Kniffen Professor
(GIS Advisor)
leiwang@lsu.edu
Teresa V. Wilson
Assistant Professor - Research
Forensic Anthropology, Bioarchaeology,
Dental Anthropology
tvwilson@lsu.edu
Faculty Emeriti
Jay D. Edwards
Professor Emeritus
gaedwa@lsu.edu
Patrick Hesp
Professor Emeritus
Patrick.hesp@flinders.edu.au
Richard H. Kesel
Professor Emeritus
gakesel@lsu.edu
Anthony J. Lewis
Professor Emeritus
galewi@lsu.edu
Mary Jill Brody
Professor Emerita
Language, Mayan, Discourse
gajill@lsu.edu
Associated and Adjunct Faculty
DeWitt Braud Jr.
Director, Academic Area, Coastal Studies Institute
spatial analysis and GIS modeling, environmental remote sensing and image processing
Lynne M. Carter
Adjunct Professor
Kerry Chance
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Buren B. Defee II
Adjunct
Diana Greenlee
Adjunct Professor
Matthew Helmer
Adjunct Professor
Scott A. Hemmerling
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Joon Heo
Adjunct Professor
Charles R. "Chip" McGimsey
State Archaeologist Division of Archaeology
Adjunct
Micha Rahder
Adjunct Professor
Mark Rees
Adjunct Professor
E Barrett Ristroph
Adjunct Professor