The Department of Geographical Sciences has an extensive history of graduating some of the top Ph.D. alumni in the field. Our faculty and staff are very proud to have supported over 150 Ph.D. students dating back to 1970, and counting! Browse our impressive list of graduates below.* For more information regarding the Ph.D. program, visit our Prospective Ph.D. Students page.
| Krinsley | Daniel | PhD | 1970 |
| Lloyd | Donald | PhD | 1971 |
| Hershfield | David | PhD | 1972 |
| Kesel | Richard | PhD | 1972 |
| Ward | James | PhD | 1973 |
| Nicholas | Francis | PhD | 1974 |
| Ratzlaff | John | PhD | 1974 |
| Roswell, Jr. | Charles | PhD | 1974 |
| Beirne | D. Randall | PhD | 1976 |
| Desai | Anjana | PhD | 1976 |
| Vill | Martha | PhD | 1976 |
| Goldenberg | David | PhD | 1977 |
| Grim | Ronald | PhD | 1977 |
| Porter, III | Frank | PhD | 1978 |
| Allman | John | PhD | 1979 |
| Burcham | Lee | PhD | 1979 |
| Christy | Michael | PhD | 1980 |
| Rumney | Thomas | PhD | 1980 |
| Keyes | Dale | PhD | 1981 |
| Krakover | Shaul | PhD | 1981 |
| Wu | Ming-Shyong | PhD | 1981 |
| Clegg | Robert | PhD | 1982 |
| Torrieri | Nancy | PhD | 1982 |
| Farmer | Charles | PhD | 1984 |
| Ernst | John | PhD | 1987 |
| Mastran | Shelley | PhD | 1988 |
| Williams | Darrel | PhD | 1989 |
| Lutz | Robert | PhD | 1990 |
| Stone | Gregory | Phd | 1991 |
| Dye | Dennis | PhD | 1992 |
| Brown | Dennis | PhD | 1994 |
| Fuller | Douglas | PhD | 1994 |
| Hardin | David | PhD | 1994 |
| Kalluri | Satyanarayana | PhD | 1994 |
| Thomas, Jr. | Joseph | PhD | 1994 |
| Yang | Jingli | PhD | 1994 |
| Huemmrich | Karl | PhD | 1995 |
| Mulhern | Theresa | PhD | 1995 |
| Goetz | Scott | PhD | 1996 |
| Buckley | Geoffrey | PhD | 1997 |
| Galgano | Francis | PhD | 1998 |
| Metzel | Deborah | PhD | 1998 |
| Reardon | Douglas | PhD | 1998 |
| Steininger | Marc | PhD | 1998 |
| Zhang | Keqi | PhD | 1998 |
| Byrand | Karl | PhD | 1999 |
| Huang | Chengquan | PhD | 1999 |
| Littlefield | Keith | PhD | 1999 |
| Maher | John | PhD | 1999 |
| May | Patrick | PhD | 1999 |
| Thompson | Dianne | PhD | 1999 |
| Beller-Sims | Nancy | PhD | 2001 |
| Brown de Colstoun | Eric | PhD | 2001 |
| Drake | Jason | PhD | 2001 |
| Frank | Jeffrey | PhD | 2001 |
| Harmon | James | PhD | 2001 |
| Brown | Molly | PhD | 2002 |
| Hansen | Matthew | PhD | 2002 |
| Jones | John | PhD | 2002 |
| Fang | Hongliang | PhD | 2003 |
| Rubin | Matthew | PhD | 2003 |
| Korontzi | Stefania | PhD | 2004 |
| Carter | Catherine | PhD | 2005 |
| Hyde | Peter | PhD | 2005 |
| Hyer | Edward | PhD | 2005 |
| Jantz | Claire | PhD | 2005 |
| Lindsay | Francis | PhD | 2005 |
| Peterson | Birgit | PhD | 2005 |
| Reitsma | Femke | PhD | 2005 |
| Weiner | Megan | PhD | 2005 |
| Wessels | Konrad | PhD | 2005 |
| Wilson | James | PhD | 2005 |
| Fleming | David | PhD | 2006 |
| Giglio | Louis | PhD | 2006 |
| Groff | Elizabeth | PhD | 2006 |
| Kearney | Barbara | PhD | 2006 |
| Read | Chung Hye | PhD | 2006 |
| Robin | Jessica | PhD | 2006 |
| Slayback | Daniel | PhD | 2006 |
| Songer | Melissa | PhD | 2006 |
| Anderson | Lovette | PhD | 2007 |
| Cooper | Evelyn | PhD | 2007 |
| Dempewolf | Jan | PhD | 2007 |
| Roa | Jose | PhD | 2007 |
| Steele | Christopher | PhD | 2007 |
| Zheng | Tao | PhD | 2007 |
| Kim | Hye | PhD | 2008 |
| Loboda | Tatiana | PhD | 2008 |
| Luna | Ronald | PhD | 2008 |
| Morton | Douglas | PhD | 2008 |
| Neigh | Christopher | PhD | 2008 |
| Schroeder | Wilfrid | PhD | 2008 |
| Wang | Wenhui | PhD | 2008 |
| Ellicott | Evan | PhD | 2009 |
| Gregg | Jay | PhD | 2009 |
| Heleniak | Timothy | PhD | 2009 |
| McCarty | Jessica | PhD | 2009 |
| Pugh | Lashale | PhD | 2009 |
| Russo | Richard | PhD | 2009 |
| Wang | Dongdong | PhD | 2009 |
| Roberts | Allen | PhD | 2010 |
| Song | Kuan | PhD | 2010 |
| Wurster | Karl | PhD | 2010 |
| Joseph | Alicia | PhD | 2011 |
| Nagol | Jyoteshwar | PhD | 2011 |
| Swatantran | Anuradha | PhD | 2011 |
| Waite | Jacqueline | PhD | 2011 |
| Wei | Hua | PhD | 2011 |
| Zeigler | Sara | PhD | 2011 |
| Barauh | Angira | PhD | 2012 |
| Becker-Reshef | Inbal | PhD | 2012 |
| Gorsevski | Virginia | PhD | 2012 |
| He | Tao | PhD | 2012 |
| Kewer | Patricia | PhD | 2012 |
| Nackoney | Janet | PhD | 2012 |
| Pomeroy | Jennifer | PhD | 2012 |
| Schleeweis | Karen | PhD | 2012 |
| Turpie | Kevin | PhD | 2012 |
| Zhu | Xiufang | PhD | 2012 |
| Johnston | Andrew | PhD | 2013 |
| Scott | Derrick | PhD | 2013 |
| Marx | Andrew | PhD | 2013 |
| Rishmawi | Khaldoun | PhD | 2013 |
| Berndtson | Rachel | PhD | 2014 |
| Hoy | Elizabeth | PhD | 2014 |
| Margono | Belinda | PhD | 2014 |
| Whitcraft | Alyssa | PhD | 2014 |
| Whitehurst | Amanda | PhD | 2014 |
| O'Neal | Kelley | PhD | 2014 |
| Sahajpal | Ritvik | PhD | 2014 |
| Dodson | Zan | PhD | 2015 |
| Duncanson | Laura | PhD | 2015 |
| Shi | Qinqing | PhD | 2015 |
| Tang | Hao | PhD | 2015 |
| Tao | Xin | PhD | 2015 |
| Tyukavina | Alexandra | PhD | 2015 |
| Huang | Wenli | PhD | 2015 |
| Montano | Enrique | PhD | 2015 |
| Montesano | Paul | PhD | 2015 |
| Song | Xiaopeng | PhD | 2015 |
| Dolan | Katelyn | PhD | 2015 |
| Kim | Dohyung | PhD | 2015 |
| Zhao | Feng | PhD | 2015 |
| Huang | Qiongyu | PhD | 2016 |
| Flanagan | Steven | PhD | 2016 |
| Strong | Michael | PhD | 2016 |
| Biswas | Sumalika | PhD | 2016 |
| Enrici | Ashley | PhD | 2016 |
| Ling | Pui-Yu | PhD | 2016 |
| Prabhakara | Kusuma | PhD | 2016 |
| Anand | Anupam | PhD | 2017 |
| Chen | Dong | PhD | 2017 |
| Hall | Joanne | PhD | 2017 |
| Lee | Sangchul | PhD | 2017 |
| Motzer | Nicole | PhD | 2017 |
| Noojipady | Praveen | PhD | 2017 |
| Song | Danxia | PhD | 2017 |
| Stubbs | Quentin | PhD | 2017 |
| Burtch | Nathan | PhD | 2017 |
| Castano Sanchez | Jose | PhD | 2017 |
| Jackson | Hasan | PhD | 2017 |
| Nakalembe | Catherine | PhD | 2017 |
| Wang | Panshi | PhD | 2017 |
| Zhang | Jie | PhD | 2017 |
| Carroll | Mark | PhD | 2018 |
| Fu | Cheng | PhD | 2018 |
| He | Pan | PhD | 2018 |
| Jo | Nayoung | PhD | 2018 |
| Lasko | Kristofer | PhD | 2018 |
| Zhong | Honglin | PhD | 2018 |
