Affiliate Faculty
Affiliate Department | Name | Specialization(s) | Geographic Expertise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical Conservation and Development, Director | Bette Loiselle | Tropical ecology and conservation, seed dispersal mutualisms, ecological niche modeling and applications of Geographic Information Systems technology for biodiversity research and conservation | Ecuador, Costa Rica, Brazil |
| Center for African Studies, Director Geography | Abraham Goldman | Food and agriculture in Africa, resources and conservation, geography of world agriculture, human geography, environmental impact of pesticides, and foreign policy issues linking developed and developing countries | Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania & Uganda |
| Sociology | Christine Overdevest | Environmental and natural resource, and economic sociology | Latin America, US |
| Stephen Perz | Demography, Environmental Sociology, Sociology of development | Brazil | |
| Anthropology | Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo | Historical ecology, Archaeology | Colombia, Peru and Brazil |
| Alyson Young | Cultural/Medical Anthropology | Tanzania, Kenya | |
| Sharon Abramowitz | Humanitarian Assistance, Medical Anthropology, Health, Violence and Conflict, Gender-based violence | Guinea, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone | |
| Geography | Eric Keys | Ecology, cultural and political | Mexico, Central America, Southern Africa-Botswana, Namibia |
| Political Science | Katrina Schwartz | Environmental Politics | Latvia, US |
| Political Science UF International Center, Dean | Leonardo A. Villalón | African politics, Islam and politics, democratization | Senegal, Mali, Niger, Mauritania, Burkina Faso & Chad |
| UF/IFAS International Programs, Director | Walter Bowen | Soil science | Brazil, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Vietnam |
| Agronomy | Rosalie Koenig | Agriculture, Farming and cropping system | US |
| Food and Resource Economics | Pilar Useche | Development Economics; Innovation & Technology Adoption | Colombia, Central America |
| Agriculture Education and Communication | Marta Hartmann | Director, Gender, Environment, Agriculture and Participation (GEAP) | Latin America |
| Sebastian Galindo | Collaborative project evaluation | Latin America, US | |
| Paul Monaghan | Center for Landscape Conservation and Ecology, Natural resource protection and landscape management | Latin America, Haiti, US | |
| Family, Youth & Community Sciences | Muthusami Kumaran | Fundraising for Nonprofit Organizations, Risk Management in NPOs, Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Community Development and Program Planning and Evaluation | India, South Korea & The Bahamas, US |
| David Diehl | Youth Development and Public Policy, Planning and Evaluation | Extension, Southeast U.S. | |
| School of Forest Resources and Conservation | Robert Buschbacher | Tropical Forestry; Amazon Conservation Leadership Initiative, Coordinator | Amazon-Andes region |
| Martha C. Monroe | Environmental Education and Extension | US | |
| Taylor Stein | Ecotourism | Costa Rica, Central America | |
| Tourism, Recreation & Sport Management | Brijesh Thapa | Director, Friedheim Tourism Institute, park management, heritage tourism, ecotourism | Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa |
| Design, Construction and Planning | Christopher Silver | Dean; International Planning | Indonesia |
| William Tilson | Assistant Dean for International Studies & Service Learning | Latin America, US | |
| Urban and Regional Planning | Joseli Macedo | Director, Center for International Design & Planning | Brazil |
| Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI), Director | Jamie Kraft | Entrepreneurship, experiential learning | US |
| CEI/Sociology | Kristin E. Joos | Social Entrepreneurship, Youth leadership | US |
| Former University of Florida International Center (UFIC), Dean, Retired | David Sammons | Agronomy, small grain breeding | Egypt, Kenya, Sudan, Tunisia |
| Director of Program Development, UFIC | Sandra Russo | Animal science, agronomy, development, gender, environment, tropical research, small ruminants, women’s studies, ecofeminism, agroforestry | MENA regions, and multiple other regions of Africa |
| Levin School of Law | Thomas T. Ankerson | Director, Conservation Clinic, Center for Governmental Responsibility | Costa Rica, Central America |
| Environmental and Global Health UF International Center, Climate Change, Agriculture & Food Security | Sarah McKune | Pastoralism, Livelihoods, Human and environmental interactions, socla and ecological resilience, vulnerability/resilience, climate change, health outcomes associated with climate change, maternal and child health, food security, health in the African Sahel, HIV/AIDS | Sahel Region, Niger, Sudan, Guinea Bissau, Cote D'Ivoire |
| Landscape Architecture, Chair & Associate Professor | Maria C. "Tina" Gurucharri | Low impact development, nature and culture based tourism, urban design | Costa Rica, Honduras, Belize, Guatemala |
| Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF Water Institute, Assistant Professor | Jeffrey Ulman | Water resource management, treatment, sustainability, data analysis/modeling, ecology, education and communication | North Africa, Middle East: Tunisia, Afghanistan |