Francis Koti

Dr. Koti is Professor and former Chair of Geography in the Department of Global Studies and Human Geography at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). Prior to joining the faculty of MTSU, he served as Chair of the Department of Geography and Interim Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Alabama, Secretary of the Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers (SEDAAG), and guest editor of a special edition Africa Today journal. Dr. Koti is an urban geographer, and his research interests are participatory geographic information systems (GIS) frameworks with a regional focus on urbanization and peri-urban development in Africa. A native of Kenya, Dr. Koti is the Co-founder and former Executive Secretary of the Kenya Scholars and Studies Association (KESSA), Founder of the Diaspora Community of African Geospatial Scientists, and has led several education abroad excursions to Tanzania. In 2021, Dr. Koti gave the Keynote address at Harvard University’s Cities COVID Mitigation Mapping and Mapping Virtual Symposium.