Adjunct, Sessional, and Status Only Faculty

Zach Anderson

Research Interests

• Political Ecology
• Cultural Politics of Resource Extraction and Development
• Neoliberalism and Market-based Conservation
• The “Green Economy”
• Indonesia (East Kalimantan)

My research investigates the rollout of ‘green economy’ projects in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Specifically, I examine the spread of carbon forestry projects and discourse in the district of Berau, against a backdrop of oil palm plantation expansion. I draw on critical political economy and political ecology to examine the role that institutions of global environmental governance, corporations, and state and civil society institutions play in the creation of new ‘green’ commodities for global consumption. I am also interested in how this process underwrites the emergence and modification of local environmental subjectivities and leads to a novel reimagining of an Indonesian forest landscape as a frontier for green investment.

Michelle Berquist

Research Interests

• Planning practice
• Project Management
• Systems and infrastructure
• Civic engagement, community, decision-making methods

Joe Berridge

Research Interests

• Large scale urban planning and regeneration projects
• Waterfront redevelopment

Benjamin Patrick Butler

Research Interests

• Emergency management & urban resilience
• Political geography
• Critical disability studies
• Critical security studies
• Canadian Political Geography
• Embodiment & Feminist theory

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

Zahra Ebrahim

Research Interests

• Equity-centred design
• Participatory design
• Participatory policy and planning
• Intersectional city-building
• Institutional reform
• Human-centred design

John Farrow

Research Interests

• How cities develop successful economies
• Financing urban infrastructure

Renee Gomes

Research Interests

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

Kofi Hope

Research Interests

• Just Cities
• Social Movements
• Social Exclusion and Urban Segregation
• Racial Equity
• Municipal Politics and Policy

Lauren Jewett

Research Interests

• health geography
• health services research
• spatial statistics
• multilevel modeling
• Geography/stats education and training methods

Catherine L. Jimenea

Research Interests

• Smart cities: definition, frameworks, projects
• Low-energy buildings
• Whole building energy modelling
• Building energy use
• Energy efficiency
• GCC countries

Jennifer Keesmaat

Research Interests

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

Yasmin Ali Khan

Research Interests

• Rohingya Protracted Refugee Situation
• Geographies of Forced Migration
• Critical Humanitarian Aid Studies
• Gender and Forced Migration
• Environmental Impacts of PRS
• South Asia and Latin America

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

Nick Lombardo

Research Interests

• Urban infrastructure
• Urban social history and development
• Planning and regional governance
• Property, law, and urban planning

Diala Lteif

Research Interests

• Displacement and forced migration
• Conflict and post-war cities
• Urban struggle and the production of space
• Everyday life of refuge
• Urban history

Julie Mah

Research Interests

• Housing policy and affordable housing issues
• Social housing development
• Gentrification and displacement
• Evictions
• Planning for spatial justice and equitable development approaches

In general, my research looks at how income inequality manifests itself spatially through unequal housing patterns. I examine issues of housing affordability, evictions, gentrification and displacement, and the planning mechanisms that can be employed to address spatialized inequities, such as the use of value capture tools (e.g. inclusionary zoning).

Stanley Makuch

Research Interests

• Canadian Municipal and Planning law

Killian McCormack

Research Interests

• Militarism and geopolitics
• Critical security studies
• Globalization and postcolonialism

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

Leah Montange

Research Interests

• migration
• detention centers
• political economy
• citizenship and non-citizenship
• urban politics of detention

Roger Phillips

Research Interests

• Geomorphology, Soil Science, and Hydrology

Léa Ravensbergen

Research Interests

• Cycling
• Critical mobilities
• Feminist urban geography
• Embodiment
• Health inequalities
• Migration
• GIS

Tim Ross

Research Interests

• Planning/design for inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility
• Disability studies
• Inclusive play
• Education access
• Institutional ableism
• Transport and land use planning
• Qualitative methods

Joshua Steckley

Research Interests

• Political Ecology
• Commodification of Nature
• Earthworms
• Critical Development Studies

Stephen Swales

Research Interests

• Urban-economic geography
• Environment
• GIS

Romila Verma

Research Interests

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

Adam Zendel

Research Interests

• Cultural Economy
• Live Music Industry
• Touring Music Industry
• Urban Economic Geography
• Cultural Industries
• Precarious Labour

Broadly, I am interested in the livelihoods, identities and working conditions of cultural workers. My doctoral research explores the everyday life of touring musicians. I am particularly interested in how touring musicians and crew take care of themselves on the road, how they maintain relationships back home, and they come to understand themselves as workers.

Peter Zimmerman

Research Interests

• Real estate development
• Housing Policy
• Affordable Housing