James H. Speer (born 1971) is a professor of geography and geology at Indiana State University.
He is a past president of the Tree-Ring Society and the Geography Educator's Network of Indiana.
He received the Henry Cowles award from the American Association of Geographers (with Thomas W. Swetnam) for their paper on Pandora moth outbreaks in 2002.
In 2008, he received the Richard L. Holmes Outstanding Service to Dendrochronology award from the Tree-Ring Society.
He received the Henry Cowles award from the American Association of Geographers a second time for his book Fundamentals of Tree-Ring Research published with the University of Arizona Press.