Department: Geography
Fields: Politics and Policy; Social Sciences; Sustainability and Environment
Areas of expertise:
- Political ecology
- Electoral politics
- Electoral districts/redistricting
- Environmental justice
- Industry & labor
Dohrenwend teaches a variety of courses at JMU, including physical geography; human geography; population geography; environment, nature and society; geography of Latin America; geography of poverty; and geography of Appalachia.
His research topics include industry, electoral politics, environment, labor in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, electoral geographies across the United States, deindustrialized and/or rural landscapes and Latin American agriculture.
Dohrenwend earned a bachelor's degree in geography at the State University of New York-Geneseo, a master's degree in geography at the University of Kansas, and a doctorate in geography at Louisiana State University.
Media contact: Eric Gorton, gortonej@jmu.edu.
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