Casey D. Allen

A multiple award-winning teacher-scholar, Fulbright Scholar (Jordan), and advocate for fieldwork and experiential education, I’ve held faculty, staff, and administrative posts at several different institutions since beginning my journey into higher education over two decades ago. Broadly speaking, my academic research specialties include geomorphology (the “Science of Scenery”), stone/rock deterioration, and general landscape change – often at the urban-wildlands/human-environment interface. Expertise in humanistic geography, rock art, and biocrusts round out my topical background. I also maintain regional interests in arid lands (mostly NASWAsia & US Southwest), Latin America, the Lesser Antilles, and Japan. Though well-known in my research areas, teaching really feeds my soul, and I delight in helping people make spatial connections between science and their everyday life with/in the landscape. Whether that means dragging students around campus, fieldwork in National Parks or the Arabian Desert, exploring the world via travel study programs, or just looking out a window, my focus always centers on increasing appreciation for – and understanding networks between – people, places, environments, & landscapes.