Assistant Professor
Dr. Fry is a human-environment geographer with a focus on Latin America. His research examines rural-urban relationships, cultural and political ecology, livelihoods, human-modified landscapes, land-use change, and everyday geographies.
Ph.D. from:
University of Texas at Austin His work integrates human and physical geography, as well as geographic information systems. Topics he’s examined include Mexico’s concrete block landscape, aggregate mining, deagriculturalization, and industrial hog farming. Currently he is investigating gradients of human impacts in tropical alpine environments of the northern Peruvian Andes. Dr. Fry teaches courses on Mexico, Latin America, and Culture, Environment, and Society. Dr. Fry seeks students who are interested in discovering geography in the field (i.e., exploring, observing the world around them, and talking to people).