Brad Rundquist ’95, ’00, Grand Forks, North Dakota, has served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Dakota since 2019. With 18 academic departments and eight interdisciplinary programs, Arts and Sciences is the largest and most diverse college at UND.

Rundquist arrived at UND in 2000 as an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and was promoted to professor in 2011. He served as chair of geography from 2008 to 2014, associate dean for research from 2015 to 2018, and interim dean 2018 to 2019.

Rundquist previously worked as an associate scientist for Lockheed Martin Engineering & Sciences Company in support of NASA Johnson Space Center’s Earth Observations (astronaut-directed photography of Earth) program. Rundquist holds a bachelor’s of Journalism from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Rundquist has authored or co-authored nearly 40 peer-reviewed publications focused on ecological applications of remote sensing and GIS. Additionally, he is the managing editor of the Taylor & Francis journal, Geocarto International. 

Rundquist was elected to the governing board of the American Association of Geographers, serving from 2011-2014. 

He and his wife, Kristen ’00, have four children: Kendall, Riley, Ella and Autumn.

Rundquist graduated from K-State with two degrees in geography, a master’s degree in 1995 and Ph.D. in 2000.