Jose Javier Lopez
Geography Department
Minnesota State University USA

Jose Javier Lopez, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Geography at Minnesota State (MSU), active mainly as a quantitative geographer and spatial analyst. He was recipient of MSU College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Distinguished Professor Award and MSU Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award.
Since becoming a faculty member of Minnesota State’s College of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the late 1990s, Dr. Lopez has researched issues pertinent to the human geography of the United States and Latin America. He has taught many systematic courses, including Spatial Statistics, Spatial Analysis, Geographic Information Science for Crime Analysis, Cultural Geography, Economic Geography, Social Geography, and Rural Development.