Garrett Smith, Ph.D.
  Department Chair
  Associate Professor of Geography
  Phone: (770) 499-3399
  E-Mail: gsmith@kennesaw.edu

 Dr. Garrett Smith - Ph.D. in Geography from University of California at Davis, 1995. Master of International Management from "Thunderbird", Arizona 1983. Research interests include economic geography, human-environmental interaction, forestry issues, and Subsaharan Africa. Former Peace Corps volunteer in Togo, West Africa. Faculty Advisor to Model Organization of African Unity (OAU).

  Susan Kirkpatrick Smith, Ph.D.
  Assistant Department Chair
  Assistant Professor of Anthropology
  Phone: (770) 423-6247
  E-Mail: ssmith1@kennesaw.edu

 Dr. Smith received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Indiana University. Her areas of research interest include skeletal analysis and the interaction between health and social status in ancient Greek populations. She has spent a year living in Athens, Greece researching skeletons from the Late Bronze Age cemetery at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens. Her teaching interests include forensic anthropology, human evolution, and human biological variation.

  Mario Giraldo, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor of Geography
  E-mail:mgirald2@kennesaw.edu

  Dr. Giraldo has conducted research in both Colombia and Georgia pertaining to biodiversity, sustainable management, and human environment relationships.

  Uli Ingram, M.S.
  Instructor of Geography
  E-mail:uingram@kennesaw.edu

 Uli ingram is a GIS and geography instructor at Kennesaw State University. She holds an undergraduate degree in international affairs from KSU, and a Master's degree in geography from Georgia State University. Uli has worked in the field of GIS, specifically utility mapping for more than six years. She is proficient in several GIS software applications, including ESRI's ArcGIS suite, Miner and Miner's ArcFM, and PDA's Origin extensions.

  Lynn M. Patterson, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor of Geography
  Phone: (770) 420-4735
  E-mail:lpatters@kennesaw.edu

 Dr. Lynn Patterson is a geographer and urban planner who researches sustainable local economic and sustainable community development. She has most recently conducted research on construction & demolition recycling as a tool for local economic development. Dr. Patterson earned her Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Masters degree and Bachelor's degree in Human Geography from the University of Arizona and the Johns Hopkins University, respectively. In a previous career, Dr. Patterson worked in the public and private development sectors. At Kennesaw, she teaches World Regional Geography, Social Issues from a Geographic Perspective, Cultural Geography, and Economic Geography.

  Mark Patterson, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor of Geography
  Phone: (770) 423-
  E-mail:mpatters@kennesaw.edu

 Dr. Patterson is the director of the geographic information systems (GIS) certificate program at KSU and the faculty advisor for the Student Society for GIS. His main research interests focus on resource geography, specifically forest resources and their management.

  Terry G. Powis, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor of Anthropology
  Phone: (678) 797-2174
  Email:tpowis@kennesaw.edu

 Dr. Powis joined the faculty at Kennesaw State University in August 2005. He received his master’s degree in anthropology at Trent University in Ontario, Canada, and his Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is an archaeologist who conducts research in the Maya Lowlands of Belize, Central America. He specializes in Maya pottery, diet and subsistence, and the evolution of complex societies. His recent research has focused on the origin of chocolate in the New World. He teaches Principles of Archaeology, Maya Archaeology, North American Archaeology, Indians of North America, and Social Issues: Perspectives in Anthropology.

  Nancy Hoalst Pullen, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor of Geography
  Phone: 678-797-2391
  Email:npullen@kennesaw.edu

 Nancy Hoalst Pullen has a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a M.A. in Geography from Indiana State University. Her research interests include physical geography, biogeography, hydrology and hydrological modeling, soil science, tropical forest science, and GIS. Current research, supported by NSF and the Smithsonian, measures and compares the the nature of soils and hydrology in long-term tropical forest plots of Ecuador, Panama, and Malaysia. Earlier research in Namibia and the US explored changes in forest dynamics with regard to exotic species encroachment and human impact.

  Vanessa Slinger, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor of Geography
  Office: LIB 312
  Phone 678-797-2068
  E-Mail: vslinger@kennesaw.edu

 Dr. Vanessa Slinger is an Assistant Professor of Geography at KSU. Originally, from Trinidad, Dr. Slinger obtained her M.A. in Latin American Studies and Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Florida. All of her work to date has been focused on natural resource management and ecotourism in developing countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. She completed a World Bank sponsored study in Mexico and El Salvador of Vetiver grass technology for soil erosion control. She analyzed the use of an agroforestry system for Amazonian urban resettlement in Acre, Brazil. Most recently, Dr. Slinger has researched the use of ecotourism on Dominica, W.I., for economic development and nature preservation.

  Harold Trendell, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor of Geography
  Phone: (770) 423-6240
  E-Mail: htrendel@kennesaw.edu
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 Dr. Trendell is a former Merchant Marine Officer with a wealth of worldwide travel in the past and presently as a KSU faculty member in Summer Study Abroad Programs. He is a geographer who "knows for a fact that the earth is round" having circumnavigated the world on a cargo ship. He holds one degree from the New York State Maritime College and three from Georgia State University. Professor Trendell enjoys "expanding the geographic horizons" of his students in both his introductory and upper division classes. Dr. Trendell’s regional specialization is the Geography of Europe and he also teaches classes in Urban, Political, Historical and Cultural Geography. His research focus is international migration and is currently conducting research on the growth of Latino business in Cobb County, Georgia.

  Wayne Van Horne, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor of Anthropology
  Phone: (770) 423-6635
  E-Mail: wvanhorn@kennesaw.edu

  James Beeks

  Paul Dillingham

  Leslie Edwards

  Mark Gilbeau

  George Gitahi

  Maidie Golan

  Barbara Grunenfelder

  Dan Page

  Sylvia Powell

  Robert Shelley

  Betty Smith

  Swiss Stockton

  Debbie Wallsmith

  Lyn White Miles