Adjunct & Sessional Faculty

Zach Anderson

Research Interests

• Cultural Politics of Resource Governance and Conservation
• Political Ecology
• Political Economy
• Neoliberal Environmental Politics
• Resource Frontiers
• Critical Development Studies
• Actor Network Theory
• Critical Social Theory

Carlos Avendano

Research Interests

• Paleoecology
• Cultural History
• Maya Civilization
• Local Sovereignty
• Co-production of Knowledge
• Political Agroecology

Joe Berridge

Research Interests

• Large scale urban planning and regeneration projects
• Waterfront redevelopment

Philippa Campsie

Research Interests

• Effective communication techniques in planning
• Housing and homelessness
• Food and local agriculture
• Public consultation techniques

Jeffrey Cantos

Research Interests

• Urban planning
• Community development

Rob Dowler

Research Interests

• Governance & planning decision making boards
• Planning administration & implementation
• Housing policy
• Transit-supportive development
• Smart cities & smart regulation
• Project management & conflict resolution

Damian Dupuy

Research Interests

• Innovation systems
• Innovation policy
• Commercialization
• Knowledge transfer
• Urban and regional economic development

John Farrow

Research Interests

• How cities develop successful economies
• Financing urban infrastructure

Lia Frederiksen

Research Interests

• Urban Geography
• Feminist Geography and Political Economy
• Public Space, Political Geography, and the Production of Scale
• Labour, Social Reproduction, and Knowledge
• Public Libraries

Renee Gomes

Research Interests

• Urban planning
• real estate development
• transit-oriented development
• long-term growth management planning

Columba Gonzalez

Research Interests

• Multi-species ethnography
• Posthumanities
• Insect-human studies
• Conservation and environmental justice
• Migration studies
• Borderlands
• Neoliberalism in North America
• Cyber-politics
• Monarch Butterflies

Jennifer Keesmaat

Research Interests

• City building
• Designing safe, inclusive and vibrant public spaces
• Affordable housing
• transit planning
• heritage preservation
• strategy development
• sustainable economic development

Adrian Khan

Research Interests

Transnational educational and work-related experiences of Himalayan students within/outside Nepal

Kristian Larsen

Research Interests

• geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial analysis
• health geography
• environment and population health
• physical activity, diet and obesity
• environmental exposure and cancer risk
• access to health care facilities
• transportation geography

Elsie Lewison

Research Interests

critical development studies, feminist political economy, agrarian transitions, agricultural science and technology

Nick Lombardo

Research Interests

• Social geography of global cities

Julie Mah

Research Interests

• Gentrification and Displacement in U.S. Shrinking Cities: The Role of Planning Policy and Housing Subsidies in Detroit

Stanley Makuch

Research Interests

• Canadian Municipal and Planning law

James McLaughlin

Research Interests

• How human activities and natural disturbance affect soil nutrient and water cycles, water quality, and productivity
• Carbon cycling in Far North peatlands, and permafrost

Andrew Merrill

Research Interests

My current doctoral research examines “Start-Up War”, a term I coin to describe recent entanglements and collaborations between Silicon Valley/Tech/Start-Ups and the US national security apparatus, looking at both how the US military and security apparatus is reconfiguring itself in the conceptual rhetoric of Silicon Valley and how Silicon Valley/Tech/Start-Ups have begun to pursue defense contracting. I use a multi-method approach to examine the political economic, material culture, and spatial elements of this phenomenon.

Beyond this, I maintain research streams on technology, surveillance and urban space, the politics of sound in war & policing, and the mediation of landscape (particularly through photography and photography as a research creation practice).

Research Interests:

Science & Technology Studies (particularly: platforms, network technologies, cybernetics, military technologies, human-machine interaction), material culture, architectural theory, Critical Military Studies, Critical Geopolitics, decolonization/anti-imperialism, military urbanisms, the militarized production of space, the political economy of war and militaries, arms fairs, haunting/hauntology, the commodity fetish, Visual Culture Studies, Sound Studies, Surveillance Studies

Roger Phillips

Research Interests

• Geomorphology, Soil Science, and Hydrology

Tim Ross

Research Interests

• School travel experiences of families living with childhood disability

Megan Sheremata

Research Interests

• Inuit knowledge of environmental change
• marine and sea ice environments
• engagement with Inuit knowledge in research and decision-making
• nexus of ecology, food, and community well-being
• cross-cultural, collaborative research methods

Dylan Simone

Research Interests

• Political Economy of Housing and Mortgage Markets
• Geographies of Immigration, Migration, Refugees
• Finance, Financialization and Financial Crises
• ‘Big’ Data and the Politics of Inclusion
• Urban Inequality and Neighbourhood Change
• Urban/Economic/Social/Political/Critical Theory

Stephen Swales

Research Interests

• Urban-economic geography
• Environment
• GIS

Sujata Thapa-Bhattarai

Research Interests

• Gendered Mobilities: Experience of everyday mobility of women in Kathmandu Valley

Romila Verma

Research Interests

• Environmental sustainability
• Climate change impacts on freshwater
• Finding creative solutions to global environmental challenges

Adam Zendel

Research Interests

• Work and Identity
• Cultural Economy
• Geography of Music

Peter Zimmerman

Research Interests

• Real estate development