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 biocrusts, rock art, and humanistic geography 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 feeds my soul, and I delight in helping people make spatial connections in their everyday lives. Whether I get to drag students around campus, conduct fieldwork in National Parks or the Arabian Desert, explore the world via travel study programs, give a presentation on recent findings, or just look out a window, my focus always centers on increasing appreciation for – and understanding networks between – people, places, and landscapes.