Faculty Affiliates

Ryan D. Enos specializes in American Politics, Political Psychology, and Race and Ethnic Politics. He studies political behavior and intergroup attitudes through laboratory and field experiments and spatial analysis. He directs the Working Group in...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder.  Professor Gates is a founder of the AfricaMap and WorldMap map platforms which support a range of map-based collaborations...

Andy Gordon directs the extensive Japan Disasters Archive and JapanMap, which preserve both real-time information related to the Sendai earthquake and tsunami of March 2011, as well as accounts of the aftermath.  As an historian of Modern Japan, Gordon is...

Professor Geoffrey Jones researches the evolution and impact of global business. He has written on the history of green entrepreneurship and the deep responsibility of business for society and the environment. He leads the Business History Initiative, co...

Jerold S. Kayden’s scholarship focuses on land use law and environmental law, public-private real estate development, public space in cities, and urban disaster resilience. His numerous books include Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City...

Gary King is a leader in the development and application of empirical methods in many areas of social science research, with a focus on innovations which span the range from statistical theory to practical application. He is the founder of Dataverse, a...

Professor McCormick leads the international effort to create a Digital Atlas of Medieval and Roman Civilization (DARMC), that builds on his extensive interdisciplinary approach to historical studies. McCormick's investigations include such wide ranging...

Professor Moorcroft specializes in terrestrial ecosystem dynamics. He uses passive and active remote sensing techniques to improve the predictive ability of terrestrial biosphere models, to understand how vegetation structure influences biogeochemical...

As the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor at Harvard University, Robert Sampson is a leading sociologist whose research and teaching cover a variety of areas including crime, disorder, the life course, neighborhood effects, civic...

Dr. O’Neill's research and teaching interests focus on the evolution of the Russian tsarist empire, particularly on the social, cultural, and spatial implications of imperial rule.  O’Neill promotes the study of Russia's spatial history in the classroom...