| Affiliate Department | Name | Specializations | Regions of Expertise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Global Food Systems Institute | Gerrit Hoogenboom (opens in new tab) | Crop modeling, decision support systems, food security, natural resource management, climate change and climate variability | US, Africa, Southeast Asia, China |
| Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Global Food Systems Institute | Nargiza Ludgate | Women’s empowerment, gender, intersectionality, household water/natural resources management | East and West Africa, Central Asia, Middle East, Southeast Asia |
| Agriculture Education and Communication, Center for Landscape Conservation and Ecology | Paul Monaghan (opens in new tab) | Natural resource protection and landscape management | Latin America, Haiti, United States |
| Laura Warner (opens in new tab) | Program evaluation, extension/professional development, social marketing, behavior change, and landscape/horticultural conservation practices | Extension, United States | |
| Agriculture Education and Communication | Sebastian Galindo (opens in new tab) | Collaborative project evaluation | Latin America, United States |
| Anthropology | Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo (opens in new tab) | Historical ecology, archaeology | Colombia, Peru, Brazil |
| John Richard Stepp (opens in new tab) | Environmental anthropology, ethnoecology, conservation, GIS, medical anthropology, research methods, visual anthropology | Mexico and Central America, China, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa | |
| Biology / School of Forest Resources and Conservation | Claudia Romero (opens in new tab) | Tropical forest policy and economics, conservation and development tradeoffs, impact evaluation, REDD+, PES | Central and South America, Southern Africa, Indonesia |
| Center for African Studies | Agnes Leslie (opens in new tab) | African politics focus on women and politics, social movements, human rights, policy and development, regional Integration in southern Africa, African Union, China and Africa relations | Zambia, Botswana, South Africa, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Rwanda |
| Center for African Studies Anthropology | Marit Østebø (opens in new tab) | Cultural anthropology, development studies, global health | Ethiopia |
| Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI), Director | Jamie Kraft (opens in new tab) | Entrepreneurship, experiential learning | United States |
| Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI) | Kristin E. Joys (opens in new tab) | Social entrepreneurship, sustainability, corporate social responsibility, impact investing, experiential learning, civic engagement, gender and entrepreneurship, youth development | United States |
| Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI) - Emeritus | Michael M. Morris | Entrepreneurship, economic development, small business consulting, marketing, emergence | South Africa |
| Center for Latin American Studies Anthropology | Catherine Tucker (opens in new tab) | Environmental governance, community-based resource management, conservation, sustainability, transdisciplinary research, value chains & markets, traditional and indigenous knowledge, belief systems, mountain social-ecological systems, commons | Latin America |
| Center for Latin American Studies Sociology, Criminology & Law | Rebecca Hanson (opens in new tab) | Crime and citizen security, political sociology, human rights, global studies, urban sociology, social movements and citizen participation, gender, Latin America, qualitative methods | Venezuela, Colombia |
| College of Liberal Arts & Sciences: Associate Dean Anthropology Bureau of Economic & Business Research: Director | Christopher McCarty (opens in new tab) | Social networks, personal networks, survey research, migration, disasters, substance abuse, health | Mexico, Ghana, Cameroon, Florida |
| Design, Construction and Planning; Department of Urban and Regional Planning | Christopher Silver (opens in new tab) | Urban development and planning in megacities, sustainable community development, urban water management | Indonesia |
| Design, Construction and Planning; Director, UF Green Building Learning Collaborative | Bahar Armaghani (opens in new tab) | Sustainability and the built environment, green building codes, LEED, project management | United States, Iraq, Jordan, Republic of Georgia |
| Economics | Hector Hugo Sandoval Gutierrez (opens in new tab) | Social interactions, applied microeconomics, education, poverty and development economics, and program evaluation | Mexico, Florida |
| Environmental Engineering Sciences, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment | Timothy Townsend (opens in new tab) | Solid waste management | Latin America, Caribbean, Asia |
| Family, Youth & Community Sciences | Muthusami Kumaran (opens in new tab) | Fundraising for nonprofit organizations, risk management in NPOs, Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs), community development, program planning and evaluation | India, South Korea, The Bahamas, US |
| David Diehl (opens in new tab) | Youth development and public policy, planning and evaluation | Extension, Southeast United States | |
| Mickie Swisher (opens in new tab) | Research design and methods, theory of community structure and development, sustainable and organic food systems, sustainable agriculture research and education | US, Central and East Africa, Central America, Haiti | |
| Randy Cantrell (opens in new tab) | Innovation, community development and leadership, housing and decision-making | US, West Africa | |
| Dale Pracht (opens in new tab) | 4-H, volunteer involvement, youth life skill development, community improvement | US, Europe, Cuba | |
| Food Science and Human Nutrition; Global Food Systems Institute | Juan E. Andrade Laborde (opens in new tab) | Food aid, food fortification, micronutrient deficiencies, sensors, international development, global nutrition | US, Africa, Latin America |
| Geography | Cynthia Simmons (opens in new tab) | Political ecology, indigenous resistance, agrarian reform, social movements, traditional & indigenous knowledge, infrastructure development & impacts, geographies of development, human-environment systems, environmental governance, community-based resource management, conservation, sustainability, transdisciplinary research, value chains & markets, household / community / key informant interview methodology, integrated qualitative & quantitative methodologies | Florida, Brazil, Panama, Mexico, Ecuador |
| Geography - Emeritus | Abraham Goldman (opens in new tab) | 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 |
| IFAS Global, Interim Director / Agronomy | Rosalie Koenig (opens in new tab) | Agriculture, farming and cropping systems | United States |
| Landscape Architecture, Chair | Maria C. "Tina" Gurucharri (opens in new tab) | Low impact development, nature and culture based tourism, urban design | Costa Rica, Honduras, Belize, Guatemala |
| Political Science Center for African Studies | Leonardo A. Villalón (opens in new tab) | African politics, Islam and politics, democratization | Senegal, Mali, Niger, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Chad |
| School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences; Amazon Conservation Leadership Initiative, Coordinator | Robert Buschbacher (opens in new tab) | Tropical forestry | Amazon-Andes region |
| School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences | Martha C. Monroe (opens in new tab) | Environmental education and extension | United States |
| Taylor Stein (opens in new tab) | Ecotourism | Costa Rica, Central America | |
| Kai Lorenzen (opens in new tab) | Integrative fisheries science, tropical fisheries and aquaculture, marine and freshwater conservation, human dimensions | United States, Asia, Latin America, Caribbean, Africa | |
| Sociology and Criminology & Law | Christine Overdevest (opens in new tab) | Environmental and natural resource, and economic sociology | Latin America, United States |
| Stephen Perz (opens in new tab) | Demography, environmental sociology, sociology of development | Brazil | |
| Soil, Water & Ecosystem Sciences | James Jawitz (opens in new tab) | Water resource sustainability | Florida, United States |
| Ann Wilkie (opens in new tab) | Bioenergy, bioremediation, sustainable technology | United States | |
| Masanori Fujimoto (opens in new tab) | Aquatic microbial ecology, water resource management, waste management, soil health, sustainable agriculture | Asia, East Africa | |
| Tropical Conservation and Development | Bette Loiselle (opens in new tab) | 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 |
| Wildlife Ecology & Conservation, Latin American Studies | Emilio Bruna (opens in new tab) | Habitat fragmentation, anthropogenic landscape alterations, science policy in Latin America | South America |
| Wildlife Ecology & Conservation | Vanessa Hull (opens in new tab) | Coupled human and natural systems, wildlife management, conservation policies, protected areas | Asia |