UW Department of Geography Faculty
1927-2001

Based on: Joseph Velikonja, "Geography at the University of Washington," Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 56(1994) (Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, Oregon). The Web version is posted with the permission of the author, editor and publisher.

Name * * Education * * Appointment

George T. Renner, Jr. Columbia, Ph.D., 1927 [1927-1933]
Albert L Seeman, Washington, Ph.D., 1930 [1928-1942]
Howard H. Martin, George Washington, Ph.D., 1929 [1930-1962]
Frances M. Earle, George Washington, Ph.D., 1929 [1932-1967]
Philip E. Church, Clark, Ph.D., 1937 [1935-1947]

William E. Pierson, Washington, M.S., 1934 [1937-1946]
John C. Sherman, Washington, Ph.D., 1947 [1942-1986] [Obituary (by J.Velikonja)]
Mary Jo Read, Wisconsin, Ph.D., 1942 [1943-1945]
Harold E. Tennant, Washington, Ph.D., 1937 [1944-1951]
Dan Stanislawski, California, Ph. D., 1943 [1945-1947]

Joseph E. Williams, Vienna, Ph.D., 1932 [1946-1950]
Estelle A. Rankin, Columbia, M.A., 1935 [1946-1952]
Marion E. Marts, Northwestern, Ph.D., 1949 [1946-1948; 1950-1986]
Graham H. Lawton, Oxford (U.K.), M.A., 1944 [1947-1951]
William L. Garrison, Northwestern, Ph.D., 1950 [1950-1960]

G. Donald Hudson, Chicago, Ph.D., 1934 [1950-1967]
Henry M. Leppard, Chicago, Ph.D.. 1928 [1951-1954]
John D. Eyre, Michigan, Ph.D., 1951 [1951-1957]
Edward L. Ullman, Chicago, Ph.D., 1942 [1951-1976] [Web Page]
Rhoads Murphey, Harvard, Ph.D., 1950 [1952-1964]

W.A. Douglas Jackson, Maryland, Ph.D., 1953 [1955-1994] - [ Web Site]
Willis R. Heath, Washington, Ph.D.. 1958 [1957-1972]
George H. Kakiuchi, Michigan, Ph.D., 1957 [1957-1990] - [Web Site]
Morgan D. Thomas, Queen's (Belfast), Ph.D., 1951 [1959-1996] - [ Web Site]
Richard L. Morrill, Washington, Ph.D., 1959 [1960-1997] - [Morrill's VIP Site]

Joseph Velikonja, Rome, Ph.D., 1948 [1964-1993]
Richard A. Cooley, Michigan, Ph.D., 1962 [1965-1969]
Ronald R. Boyce, Washington, Ph.D., 1961 [1965-1976]
Douglas K. Fleming, Washington, Ph.D., 1965 [1965-1992] - [ Web Site]
Phillip Bacon, Peabody, Ed.D., 1955 [1966-1971]

Kuei-sheng Chang, Michigan, Ph.D., 1955 [1966-1987] - [Web Site (Photo)
Jacek I. Romanowski, Washington, Ph.D., 1970 [1967-1977]
William B. Beyers, Washington, Ph.D., 1967 [1967- ]
Phillip C. Muehrcke, Michigan, Ph.D., 1969 [1969-1973]
Günter Krumme, Washington, Ph.D., 1966 [1970- ] - [Web Site]

Jacob J. Eichenbaum, Michigan, Ph.D., 1972 [1971-1975]
Carl E. Youngmann, Kansas, Ph.D., 1971 [1973-1983]
Virginia Sharp, Penn State, M.A., 1970 [1974-1979]
David C. Hodge, Penn State, Ph.D., 1975 [1975- ] - [Web Site]
Craig Zumbrunnen, California (Berkeley), Ph.D., 1973, [1977- ]

Jonathan D. Mayer, Michigan, Ph.D., 1977, [1977- ] [Web Site]
Jaime C. Kooser, California (Berkeley), Ph.D., 1981 [1980-1985]
Timothy L. Nyerges, Ohio State, Ph.D., 1980 [1985- ] - [Web Site]
Victoria A. Lawson, Ohio State, Ph.D., 1986 [1986- ] [Web Site]
Nicholas R. Chrisman, Bristol (U.K.), Ph.D., 1982 [1987- ] - [Web Site]

Lucy Jarosz, California (Berkeley), Ph.D., 1990 [1990- ] [Web Site]
Kam Wing Chan, Toronto, Ph.D., 1988 [1991- ]
Katharyne Mitchell, California (Berkeley), Ph.D., 1993 [1993- ]
Matthew Sparke, University of British Columbia, Ph.D., 1996 [1995- ]
J.W. Harrington, Washington, Ph.D., 1983 [1997- ]

Nayna Jhaveri, Clark University, ABD, 1996 [1997- ]
Suzanne Davies Withers, UCLA, Ph.D., 1992 [1997- ]
Michael Brown, UBC, Ph.D., 1994 [1998- ]
Mark Ellis, Indiana, Ph.D., 1988 [1999- ]
Kim England, Ohio State, Ph.D., 1988 [1999- ]

Mark Purcell, UCLA, Ph.D., 1995 [2000- ]
Steven K. Herbert, UCLA, Ph.D., 1995 [2000- ]


Faculty Issues

Return to Departmental History || Present Faculty || Geography Department
2001 [krumme@u.washington.edu]