Steven Rainey
Associate Professor of Geography, Dept. of Social Sciences
Department: Social Sciences | Office Location: Kaufman 107A | Email Address: srainey@mcneese.edu | Office Phone: 337-475-5359
Dr. Steven Rainey earned his undergraduate degree (B.S. Geology) and Master’s Degree (M.A. Geography) from The University of Texas at Austin and his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. He has been awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant and two Fulbright awards for dissertation research on farmer soil knowledge systems in the Guatemalan highlands, research on Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs), and dam impacts on the Madeira River tributary of the Amazon River in Brazil. Dr. Rainey’s research interests include cultural and political ecology, Latin American geography, environmental geography, ethnopedology and ethnoecology, geographic information systems in human-environment research, ecodevelopment, and sustainable development.
Courses Taught:
- Introduction to Geography
- Environmental Geography
- GIS I: Spatial Analysis
- GIS II: Principles and Methods
- Regional Geography of Latin America
- A Geography of Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals
- Geography of Louisiana
- World Regional Geography
- Cultural Geography
- Political Geography