St George Undergraduate Faculty
 | Christian Abizaid,Associate Professor | Research Interests:
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Complete Profile:Including degrees, research interests, publications and more. Contact InformationJoint Appointment with School of the Environment Home Campus:U of T St. George Call for StudentsI am looking for students interested in joining my research program on rural livelihoods, poverty and environment in the Peruvian Amazon. This program seeks to understand how rural peoples make a living within the context of environmental and socioeconomic change, and to explain the spatial and social distribution of poverty. Possible themes include: river dynamics and livelihoods; greater access to affordable motors and cell phones and their implications for labor, marketing and finance; covid-19; social networks (e.g., religion, sports, kinship), livelihoods and resilience; small Amazonian towns and their role in the regional economy; floodplain agriculture and/or fisheries. Inquiries from motivated students with a suitable academic background, an interest in field-based work, Spanish proficiency and prior research/travel experience in Latin America are strongly encouraged, as are students with experience with field experiments or social networks. Students will be expected to seek additional external funding opportunities. Individuals with a broader interest on cultural/political ecology, rural livelihoods in Latin America should also feel free to contact me. Please include a brief research statement, cv, and transcripts. For more details see the Peruvian Amazon Rural Livelihoods (PARLAP) site at: https://parlap.geog.mcgill.ca/ | |||
 | Harald Bathelt,Professor | Research Interests:
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Complete Profile:Including degrees, research interests, publications and more. Contact InformationDepartment of Political Science Home Campus:U of T St. George Call for StudentsI welcome students that are interested to work in areas related to economic geography, such as the following: I. Interregional Inequality and Regional Development: Quickly increasing inequality causes concern and drives populism. This research hypothesizes that regional development depends on the ability to mobilize resources and networks across different spatial scales. II. Knowledge Generation over Distance: This research is based on the assumption that the competitiveness of firms depends on their ability to engage in creating and circulating knowledge both within and beyond their regional environment. III. Cluster Evolution and Institutional Change: This research is interested in (i) processes of how clusters emerge, (ii) the consequences of institutional change for cluster dynamics, (iii) the impact of cross-cluster networks. | |||
Alana Boland,Associate Professor | Research Interests:
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 | Don Boyes,Professor, Teaching Stream | Research Interests:
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 | Jing Chen,Professor | Research Interests:
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Complete Profile:Including degrees, research interests, publications and more. Contact InformationPhone: (416) 978-7085 Home Campus:U of T St. George Call for StudentsI am looking for graduate students (MSc and PhD) to participate in projects: “Remote Sensing of Vegetation Photosynthetic Capacity and Its Application to Global Carbon and Water Cycle Estimation” funded by NSERC and “Global water futures: solution to water threats in an era of global change” funded by Canadian First Research Excellence Fund. Students will have opportunities to conduct field measurements at tower flux sites near Borden and Turkey Lake, to further develop remote sensing algorithms for leaf traits retrieval at regional and global scales, and to carry out carbon and water cycle modeling using remote sensing inputs. | |||
 | Deborah Cowen,Professor | Research Interests:
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 | Michelle Daigle,Assistant Professor | Research Interests:
I am Mushkegowuk (Cree), a member of Constance Lake First Nation in Treaty 9, and of French ancestry. Broadly, my research examines colonial capitalist dispossession and violence on Indigenous lands and bodies, as well as Indigenous practices of resurgence and freedom. My current research project is on environmental (in)justice in Mushkegowuk territory. Over the past several years, I have also collaborated with Dr. Magie Ramirez, in an effort to build grounded theorizations of decolonial geographies. | View Complete Profile:Including degrees, research interests, publications and more. |
Complete Profile:Including degrees, research interests, publications and more. Contact InformationPhone: 416-946-7260 Home Campus:U of T St. George Call for StudentsI am currently accepting students who work on various topics related to Indigenous and anti-colonial geographies. Please contact me directly if you would like to discuss the possibility of working with me. | |||
 | Joseph Desloges,Professor | Research Interests:
The influence of rivers, glaciers and humans on landform development in the northern hemisphere, mainly in the mountain areas of Canada, Greenland and Iceland with emphasis on B.C., the southern Yukon and southern Ontario. My special interests are the influence of climate change and human disturbance on geomorphic processes and landform change with an emphasis on river floodplains and sediment yield in glacierized landscapes. Contemporary and Holocene glacier fluctuations have been reconstructed using terrestrial and high-resolution glaciolacustrine and glaciomarine sedimentary archives. I have conducted research mainly in large glacier-fed lakes of the western Canadian Cordillera and, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Copenhagen, deep fiords of western Greenland. More recent work has focussed on late Quaternary and Holocene fluvial environments of southern Ontario with particular emphasis on decoupling the influence of humans disturbance on erosion from that associated with climate-induced changes. Geophysical, geochronology and geoarchaeology methods have been used extensively to develop and interpret the sedimentary record. | View Complete Profile:Including degrees, research interests, publications and more. |
Complete Profile:Including degrees, research interests, publications and more. Contact InformationLocation: Department of Earth Sciences: Earth Sciences Centre Home Campus:U of T St. George Call for StudentsStudent interested research on fluvial landforms and processes in an urbanizing environment | |||
 | Richard DiFrancesco,Associate Professor Chair St. George | Research Interests:
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Complete Profile:Including degrees, research interests, publications and more. Contact InformationPhone: (416) 978-4977 Home Campus:U of T St. George Call for StudentsI am interested in recruiting MA students with expertise/proficiency with GIS and who may be interested in working in the area of Global Production Networks as they relate to changing regional economic structure and outcomes in North America, China or Europe. Students also interested in working with World Input-Output Data and Models would be particularly welcome. | |||
 | Heather Dorries,Assistant Professor | Research Interests:
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Complete Profile:Including degrees, research interests, publications and more. Contact InformationPhone: 416-946-8260 Home Campus:U of T St. George Call for StudentsI am interested in working with students who have interests related to: Indigenous worldviews and environments with a focus on North America; settler colonialism and planning; urban floodwater infrastructure. | |||
 | Matthew Farish,Associate Professor | Research Interests:
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Complete Profile:Including degrees, research interests, publications and more. Contact InformationPhone: (416) 978-6671 Twitter: @mattfarish Home Campus:U of T St. George Call for StudentsI am keen to work with an MA student pursuing an archive- or library-based historical project around one or more of the following subjects: critical military geographies; the US Cold War; and urban cultural geographies. My own research is North America-focused, but this is not a requirement. | |||
 | Meric Gertler,Professor | Research Interests:
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 | Emily Gilbert,Professor | Research Interests:
My current research revolves around issues related to citizenship, borders, security, economy, nation-states and globalization. I am particularly interested in the ways that North American geopolitical relations are being reshaped, and how the idea of risk—both economic and social—has been used to discipline behaviour and promote new forms of citizenship. This work also considers the securitization of the region, with a focus on changing border practices and policies. Another aspect of my research addresses the social, cultural and political dimensions of money, from the cultural values inscribed on national currencies, to the proposals for a North American Monetary Union, to general theories of money and exchange. While much of the above work interrogates the concept of the nation-state, I also continue to be fascinated by visual and literary representations, and have examined urban and wilderness narratives with a special emphasis on Canadian national identity and belonging. | View Complete Profile:Including degrees, research interests, publications and more. |
Complete Profile:Including degrees, research interests, publications and more. Contact InformationPhone: (416) 978-0751 Home Campus:U of T St. George | |||
 | Kanishka Goonewardena,Associate Professor | Research Interests:
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Complete Profile:Including degrees, research interests, publications and more. Contact InformationPhone: (416) 978-2974 Location: Room 5062, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Home Campus:U of T St. George | |||
 | Jason Hackworth,Professor | Research Interests:
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Complete Profile:Including degrees, research interests, publications and more. Contact InformationPhone: (416) 946-8764 Location: Room 5010, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Home Campus:U of T St. George | |||
 | Danny Harvey,Professor | Research Interests:
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Complete Profile:Including degrees, research interests, publications and more. Contact InformationPhone: (416) 978-1588 Home Campus:U of T St. George Call for StudentsStudents with a quantitative and science background with an interest in the integration of spatially distributed wind and solar energy resources with energy storage and energy demand management, or in the quantitative analysis of energy efficiency measures in specific end use sectors, or in the balance of energy supply and demand in specific regions under scenarios of stringent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, are sought. | |||
 | Paul Hess,Associate Professor | Research Interests:
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 | Deborah Leslie,Professor | Research Interests:
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 | Robert Lewis,Professor | Research Interests:
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 | Jane Liu,Associate Professor | Research Interests:
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Complete Profile:Including degrees, research interests, publications and more. Contact InformationOffice address: Room 6028, Sidney Smith Building, 100 St. George Street Mailing address: 100 St. George Street, Room 6028, Department of Geography and Program in Planning, University of Toronto, Toronto Ontario, Canada M5S 3G3 Home Campus:U of T St. George Call for StudentsI welcome graduate students interested in studying environmental issues related to our atmosphere, biosphere, and/or interactions between them with advanced methods in remote sensing, model simulations, field experiments, and data analysis. I welcome highly self-motivated students with one or more backgrounds in geography, atmospheric science, environmental science, engineering, physics, mathematics, and other related disciplines. Please see my research interests on my website. | |||
 | Virginia Maclaren,Associate Professor | Research Interests:
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Complete Profile:Including degrees, research interests, publications and more. Contact InformationPhone: (416) 978-3378 Home Campus:U of T St. George Call for StudentsI look forward to working with master’s students who have interests in waste studies or discard studies. The research can focus on any type of waste (e.g. household waste, food waste, e-waste, textile waste, plastic waste). | |||
 | Sarah Peirce,Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream | Research Interests:
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 | Scott Prudham,Professor | Research Interests:
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Complete Profile:Including degrees, research interests, publications and more. Contact InformationJoint appointment with School for the Environment Home Campus:U of T St. George | |||
 | Katharine Rankin,Professor | Research Interests:
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 | Sue Ruddick,Professor | Research Interests:
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 | Matti Siemiatycki,Professor | Research Interests:
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 | Rachel Silvey,Professor | Research Interests:
Expertise is in the gender dimensions of migration and economic change in Indonesia. Recent research focuses on the ways in which gender politics of migration are inflected by religion.
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Complete Profile:Including degrees, research interests, publications and more. Contact InformationRichard Charles Lee Director, Asian Institute Phone: Home Campus:U of T St. George | |||
 | Neera Singh,Associate Professor | Research Interests:
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Complete Profile:Including degrees, research interests, publications and more. Contact InformationPhone: (416) 971-2658 Home Campus:U of T St. George Call for StudentsI am recruiting MA and PhD students for a new research project on alternative approaches to ecological restoration. The project entitled, “Ecologies of Care: Forest Landscape Restoration in India” examines social and ecological outcomes of state-led afforestation programs in India and ongoing community-based and citizen-led approaches to ecological nurturance. While, my ideal student would be someone who is already embedded in activist-academic networks on Indigenous rights and environmental justice in India, I am equally enthusiastic about working with students who wish to explore decolonization of nature-people relations, alternatives to neoliberal conservation, revival of the commons, ecological care and affective ecologies in other parts of the world. | |||
 | Jason Spicer,Assistant Professor | Research Interests:
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Complete Profile:Including degrees, research interests, publications and more. Contact InformationEmail: jason.spicer@utoronto.ca Home Campus:U of T St. George Call for StudentsI welcome PhD in Planning applicants interested in three broad areas: (i) The role that politics, planning and policy play in conditioning the viability of alternative economic forms at multiple spatial scales, from the city-region to the transnational, across the Global North. These community-oriented, social and solidarity economy alternatives may include enterprise models such as cooperatives, industrial foundations, special purpose trusts (e.g. data trusts, land trusts) and innovative non-hierarchical or non-profit networked forms in the high-tech sector. (ii) Political implications of rising inter-urban/regional economic inequality, polarization, and populism in rich democracies. (iii) Links between community development, economic development, and sexual and gender diversity. | |||
 | Sarah Wakefield,Professor | Research Interests:
Current Research Projects Unsettling perspectives and contested spaces: Understanding inclusion and (in)justice in Canadian food activism – the Food, Environment, and Activism Study Team (FEAST – http://feast-uoft.org/) Responding to “Code Red” with “Neighbourhood Action”: Evaluating Hamilton’s Approach to Reducing Neighbourhood-level Health Inequalities – with Jim Dunn (McMaster University)
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 | Michael Widener,Assistant Professor | Research Interests:
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Complete Profile:Including degrees, research interests, publications and more. Contact InformationEmail: michael.widener@utoronto.ca Home Campus:U of T St. George Call for StudentsI am currently recruiting students interested in researching the links between the built environment and health, using quantitative or mixed methods. Preference is given to those working on food environments, time use, mental health, or older adults. | |||
 | Jun Zhang,Associate Professor | Research Interests:
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Complete Profile:Including degrees, research interests, publications and more. Contact InformationPhone: +1 (416) 978-2958 Email: zhang@geog.utoronto.ca Location: Room 5025B, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Home Campus:U of T St. George Call for StudentsI’m looking for graduate students with a serious intellectual interest, specifically in economic geography, geographic political economy, and/or China. | |||