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

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