Faculty
Faculty Areas of Specialization
Tenure and Tenure-Track Faculty
Dr. Hyowon Ban
Office Location: LA1-134
Email: Hyowon.Ban@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-7808
Dr. Ban’s website
Cartography, geovisualization, GIS, uncertainty, exurbanization, dance, music
Dr. Lily House-Peters
Office Location: LA1-137
Email: Lily.HousePeters@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-1889
Dr. House-Peters’ website
Water security, climate change, political ecology, sustainability and environmental justice, biodiversity conservation, Latin America, transdisciplinary science, automation/robotics, extraction & mining
Dr. Gary Hytrek
Office Location: LA1-127A
Email: Gary.Hytrek@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-2091
Geography of globalization, community development, geography of social movements, spatial justice, social geography, urban policy, Latin America
Dr. Christine L. Jocoy
Office Location: LA1-
Email: Christine.Jocoy@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-1383
Urban geography, land use planning, city politics, urban environmental sustainability, housing and homelessness, Long Beach history
Dr. Paul Laris
Office Location: LA1-132
Email: Paul.Laris@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-2357
Dr. Laris’ website
Cultural and political ecology, remote sensing, global environmental change, landscape ecology, Africa
Dr. Linna Li
Office Location: LA1-127B
Email: Linna.Li@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-4454
GIScience, urban GIS, spatial analysis, geographic data quality
Dr. Mystyn Mills
Office Location: LA1-138
Email: Mystyn.Mills@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-7529
Biogeography, landscape behavioral ecology, wildlife monitoring, Re-Wilding
Dr. Jonathan Pando Ocón
Office Location: LA1-135
Email: Jonathan.Ocon@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-4728
Applications of geospatial science, specifically remote sensing, to issues involving human-environment dynamics, traditional ecological knowledge, and urban ecosystems
Dr. Suzanne Perlitsh (Wechsler)
Office Location: LA1-125A
Email: Suzanne.Wechsler@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-2356
Dr. Wechsler’s website
Geographic Information Science (GISci), spatial analysis, terrain analysis, watershed hydrology
Dr. Dmitrii Sidorov
Office Location: LA1-146
Email: Dmitrii.Sidorov@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-1988
Urban geography, cultural geography, political geography, historical geography, the geography of religion, and Russia and the former USSR
Full-Time Lecturer Faculty
Monica Argandona
Office Location: LA1-127C
Email: Monica.Argandona@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-7681
Office Location: LA1-141
Email: Eddie.Bairam@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-8097
Human, cultural, political, and historical geography, sports geographies, Europe, Middle East
Spencer Langdon
Office Location: LA1-143
Email: Spencer.Langdon@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-8097
Breeding success in threatened bird species, biogeography, geography of climate change, paleoecology, urban Gardening
Dr. Unna Lassiter
Office Location: LA1-142
Email: Unna.Lassiter@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-1944
Political geography, the Intelligence Community, sacred places, migration and privileged expatriation, nature-society relations, human security, Iran, Sri Lanka
Dr. Sara O’Connor
Office Location: LA1-139
Email: Sara.OConnor@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-4790
Civic engagement, human geography, urban development, community-engaged research, disaster response, Central Asia
Dr. David A. Pepper
Office Location: LA1-144
Email: David.Pepper@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-4977 (via Dept. Office)
Physical geography, coastal geomorphology, climatology, climate change
Scott Winslow
Office Location: LA1-130
Email: Scott.Winslow@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-2358
GIS applications in the natural sciences, low-altitude remote sensing, digital image processing, meteorology and climatology, physical geography
Dr. Angela Wranic
Office Location: LA1-140
Email: Angela.Wranic@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-1862
Dr. Wranic’s website
Geographic education, online education, physical geography, environmental science, world regional geography, US & Canada
Part-Time Lecturer Faculty
Austin Beahm
Office Location: ONLINE
Email: Austin.Beahm@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-4977 (via Dept. Office)
Chris Carter
Office Location: ONLINE
Email: Chris.Carter@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-4977 (via Dept. Office)
Kane Diaz
Office Location: ONLINE
Email: Kane.Diaz@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-4977 (via Dept. Office)
Joseph Diminutto
Office Location: LA1-145
Email: Joseph.Diminutto@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-8097
Spencer Langdon
Office Location: ONLINE
Email: Spencer.Langdon@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-4977 (via Dept. Office)
Geographic Information Science (GISci), spatial analysis, remote sensing, spatial modeling
Brian McCabe
Office Location: ONLINE
Email: Brian.McCabe@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-4977 (via Dept. Office)
Martin McCarthy
Office Location: LA1-145
Email: Martin.McCarthy@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-4977 (via Dept. Office)
Pesses Mike
Office Location: ONLINE
Email: Mike.Pesses@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-4977 (via Dept. Office)
Taylor Parker
Office Location: LA1-145
Email: Taylor.Parker@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-4977 (via Dept. Office)
Daniel Richards
Office Location: ONLINE
Email: Daniel.Richards@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-4977 (via Dept. Office)
GIS Programming, Geo-spatial Enterprise Database, Python, HTML & Javascript
Matthew Schneider
Office Location: LA1-145
Email: Matthew.Schneider@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-4977 (via Dept. Office)
Steve Steinberg
Office Location: ONLINE
Email: Steve.Steinberg@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-4977 (via Dept. Office)
Emeriti
Full Time Lecturer, Emeritus
Cultural and urban geography, Latin America, US-Mexican borderlands, ethnic diversity in the US
Professor Emeritus
Cultural and urban geography, Latin America, US-Mexican borderlands, ethnic diversity in the US
Professor Emerita
Watersheds, hydrology, physical geography, environmental geography, water resource policy, sustainability
Professor Emerita
Cultural geography, political geography, international development, South and Southeast Asia, Latin America
Professor Emeritus
GIS, computer cartography, geographic analysis, urban-economic geography, Europe, and East Asia
Professor Emeritus
Urban Geography, North Africa, Middle East, Europe
Professor Emeritus
Climatology and meteorology, East Asia
Professor Emeritus
Remote sensing physical geography, application of geospatial techniques to emergency management and national intelligence operations, geospatial workforce development, landscape and terrain analysis
Professor Emeritus
Urban geography, Southern California, urban studies
Professor Emerita
Biogeography, ecology, and environmental change, hazards, sustainability, and resilience, quantitative analysis, Martian geomorphology
Professor Emeritus
Cultural, environmental management, travel and tourism, Sub-Saharan, Africa, California, methods of landscape analysis
Professor Emerita
Cartography, historical cartography, cartographic design, map and air photo interpretation
Associate Proffesor Emerita
Pacific Ocean area, biogeography, U.S. and Canada, teaching methods, and organizing bicyle tours
Retired FT Lecturer
Cartography, geographic information systems
