{"id":39,"date":"2015-01-16T10:49:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T15:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography-dev\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2026-02-09T21:09:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:09:40","slug":"faculty-staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/faculty-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty &amp; Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\">\n\t\n<div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-6\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<p><strong>Full-time Faculty and Staff<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/faculty-staff\/aaron-adams\/\">Aaron Adams, Ph.D.<\/a> (2024-present)<br \/>\nAssistant Professor<br \/>\nGIS and Remote Sensing, Python<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/faculty-staff\/cordoba\/\">Hilton C\u00f3rdoba, Ph. D.<\/a> (2017-present)<br \/>\nAssociate Professor<br \/>\nUrban Geography<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/faculty-staff\/crystal-kendrick\/\">Crystal Kendrick<\/a> (2021-present)<br \/>\nAdministrative Secretary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/kozar\/\">Jonathan Kozar, Ph.D.<\/a> (2017-present)<br \/>\nAssociate Professor<br \/>\nEconomic Geography<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Kevin Law, Ph.D.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/faculty-staff\/law\/\">Kevin Law, Ph. D.<\/a> (2006-present)<br \/>\nProfessor<br \/>\nMeteorology, Hurricanes, Physical Geography<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"James M. Leonard, Ph.D.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/faculty-staff\/leonard\/\">James Leonard, Ph. D.<\/a> (2001-present)<br \/>\nProfessor and Chairman<br \/>\nGIS, North America<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Anita Walz, Ph.D.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/faculty-staff\/walz\/\">Anita Walz, Ph.D.<\/a> (2003-present)<br \/>\nAssociate Professor<br \/>\nGIS\/RS, Physical\/Environmental Geography<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Former Faculty serving at least 10 years, listed chronologically:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Francis Burgess (1904-1942), MA, Columbia U., first department head (1911-1942)<\/li>\n<li>Earl Brown (1927-1938), MS, U. Chicago <\/li>\n<li>Robert Britton (1930-1972), MS, U. Chicago <\/li>\n<li>Leslie Davis (1938-1966), Ph.D., U. Chicago, department head (1942-1961)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Sam E. Clagg, Ed.D.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/faculty-staff\/clagg\/\">Sam E. Clagg<\/a> (1948-1986), Ed.D. U. Kentucky, department head (1961-1986)<\/li>\n<li>Charles Stephen (1966-1968, 1972-1989), Ph.D., Ohio State U.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/drinko\/scholarship-and-creative-production\/dr-mack-gillenwater-1995-1997\/\">Mack Gillenwater<\/a>  (1968-2004), Ph.D., U. Tennessee, interim department head (1983-1984, 1992)<\/li>\n<li>Howard Adkins (1970-1998), Ph.D., U. Tennessee, department head (1986-1994)\n<ul>\n<li>unpublished Geography Department History document <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/files\/Adkins.1997.GeographyatMarshallUniversity1837.1997.pdf\">Adkins.1998.GeographyatMarshallUniversity1837.1997<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li>\n<li>Jimmy Rogers (1972-1999), MS, Marshall U.<\/li>\n<li>Allen Arbogast (1986-2004), Ph.D., U. Tennessee, department head (1995-2000)<\/li>\n<li>Margaret Gripshover (1988-2001), Ph.D., U. Tennessee<\/li>\n<li>Larry Jarrett (1994-2010), MA, Marshall U., department head (2000-2010)<\/li>\n<li>Joshua Hagen (2003-2016), Ph.D., U. Wisconsin &#8211; Madison, department head (2010-2016)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-6\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/files\/DSC01329-Enhanced-NR-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2101 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/files\/DSC01329-Enhanced-NR-1024x670.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/files\/DSC01329-Enhanced-NR-1024x670.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/files\/DSC01329-Enhanced-NR-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clockwise from upper left:\u00a0 Dr. Law, Dr. Leonard, Dr. Cordoba, Crystal Kendrick, Dr. Walz, \u00a0Dr. Kozar, Dr. Adams.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":376,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-39","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions\/2201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}