Located in the Lincoln Park neighborhood on Chicago's north side, DePaul's Department of Geography & GIS was founded in 1948. Over the last seventy years, the Department has grown and developed to reflect changes in the geographic discipline, in technology, and the labor market. Today, the Department includes eight full-time faculty members and additional contingent faculty instructors, teaching a wide variety of courses within several sub-disciplinary and topical areas. The American Association of Geographers recognized the achievements of DePaul's Department of Geography & GIS with its 2016 Award for Bachelors Program Excellence.
As the largest geography department in the Chicago metropolitan region, we are positioned extremely well to be the major provider of undergraduate Geography degrees and professional certificates. With our commitment to critical human geography and to strong specializations in Urban Geography, Geotechnologies (Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing), Cultural, and Environmental Geography, we offer high quality programs that lead to careers in government, GIS, community and international development, urban planning, environmental management, and intelligence, to name a few.
At DePaul, Geography courses can be found in every Liberal Studies Program Learning Domain, making it an ideal program of study for students interested in double majoring, or adding a five-course minor. Many Department of Geography & GIS alumni continue their studies at the graduate level in geography, urban planning, and other natural and social sciences. Recent graduates have joined MA or PhD programs in geography, GIS, urban planning, landscape architecture, urban studies, and international relations at universities such as Harvard, Tufts University, Penn State, University of Michigan, Rutgers University, City University of New York (CUNY), University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana, University of Illinois at Chicago, UCLA, Florida State University, and University of Kentucky - among others.
Faculty
Alec Brownlow, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair
Clark University
Winifred Curran, PhD
Professor
Clark University
Julie Sungsoon Hwang, PhD
Professor
State University of New York at Buffalo
Euan Hague, PhD
Professor
Syracuse University
Patrick McHaffie, PhD
Professor Emeritus
University of Kentucky
Alex G. Papadopoulos, PhD
Professor
University of Chicago
Maureen Sioh, PhD
Associate Professor
University of British Columbia
Michelle Stuhlmacher
Assistant Professor
Arizona State University
Term Faculty
Connie L. Johnston, PhD
Clark University
Staff
Anish Adhikari, MS
University of Delaware
GIS Coordinator
Sheila Sullivan
Department Assistant
Affiliated Faculty
Kaveh Ehsani, PhD
Assistant Professor, International Studies
Leiden University
Sanjukta Mukherjee, PhD
Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies
Syracuse University
Heidi Nast, PhD
Professor, International Studies
McGill University
Howard Rosing, PhD
Executive Director, Steans Center for Community-based Service Learning
State University of New York-Binghamton
Carolina Sternberg, PhD
Assistant Professor, Latino and Latin American Studies
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Adjunct Faculty
Carolyn Breitbach, PhD
Syracuse University
John Goldman, MS
Penn State University
Nandhini Gulasingam, MS
DePaul University
Carmi Neiger, PhD
Northern Illinois University
Paul Sill, MS
Northern Illinois University
Heather L. Smith, MA
Columbia University
Nick Zettel, MA
University of Illinois - Chicago