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Department of Geography, Planning and Environment

Department of Geography, Planning and Environment

Faculty

Full-time faculty

  • Bengi Akbulut
    • Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Political Economy, Ecological Economics, Development Economics, Economic Alternatives Political Ecology, Feminist Economics, Social Movements
  • Pascale Biron
    • Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Hydro-geomorphology and river dynamics, River management in agricultural watersheds, Geographical Information Systems, Morphodynamic numerical modelling, Stream restoration for fish habitat.
  • Sébastien Caquard
    • Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Cartography, GIS, Mapping narratives, Geovisualization, Geoweb, Geomedia, Oral History
  • Martin Danyluk
    • Assistant Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Urbanization, political economy, infrastructure, housing, logistics, inequality, environmental justice
  • Silvano De la Llata
    • Associate Professor - Co-Director of Next Generation Cities Institute’s Cluster of Design, Art and Culture (On Sabbatical), Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: public space, urban design, social movements, collaborative community planning, open-source cities, planning theory, urban environmental psychology, subaltern urbanisms and insurgent planning/design.
  • Pierre Gauthier
    • Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Urban morphogenesis, History of development and planning practices in Quebec, Impact of normative planning theories on urban form, Transportation infrastructure and the quality of urban form.
  • Leila Ghaffari
    • Assistant Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Neighborhood transformation, Gentrification, Territorial inequalities, Housing policies, and Social aspects of urban spaces
  • Kevin A. Gould
    • Associate Professor , Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Political ecology, historical and economic geographies of the Americas and particularly Guatemala, social theory, entanglements of development and militarization, politics of expertise, post-disaster reconstruction
  • Jochen A. G. Jaeger
    • Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Landscape ecology, including road ecology, Quantification and assessment of landscape structure and landscape change, Urban sprawl, Ecological modelling, Impact assessment.
  • Angela Kross
    • Assistant Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Remote sensing; Geographic Information Systems; Ecosystem structure, function and services; vegetation dynamics; land use change and climate change; biodiversity,
  • Alexandra Lesnikowski
    • Assistant Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Climate change adaptation, vulnerability, adaptation policy and governance, knowledge synthesis, comparative methods
  • Damon Matthews
    • Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Climate change, global climate modelling, climate impacts, allowable emissions for climate mitigation targets, national contributions to climate change
  • Nalini Mohabir
    • Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Indentured Labour; Postcolonialism, Caribbean Studies, Decolonization; Diaspora, Migration, and Transnationalism; Protest and Resistance
  • Monica E. Mulrennan
    • Associate Vice-President, Research (Development and Impact), Office of the Vice-President, Research, Innovation & Impact and Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Indigenous stewardship; Traditional Ecological Knowledge; Indigenous conservation and protected areas; traditional fisheries; seaweed harvesting; ethno-geomorphology
  • Norma M. Rantisi
    • Professor , Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: political economy, labour market intermediaries, workforce development, artisanal cooperatives, social/solidarity economy, economic restructuring
  • Ted Rutland
    • Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Urban politics, urban planning, and urban security/policing in Canada.
  • Jeannine-Marie St-Jacques
    • Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: North American freshwater availability, decadal-to-centennial water variability, regional hydrology and climate, impacts of global warming, water management for sustained droughts and floods, paleoclimatology, tree-rings, pollen, instrumental data, climate models.
  • Craig Townsend
    • Associate Professor and Chair, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Transportation policy, projects and politics; built environment characteristics of Canada's metropolitan areas; urban sprawl and the effect of legally protecting non-urban land; urban planning in the developing world.
  • Sarah E. Turner
    • Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Primatology, Behavioural ecology, Japanese macaques and disability, Animal behaviour and behavioural plasticity, Human-animal interactions, Animal responses to human-induced environmental change, Conservation and biodiversity in northeastern Brazil

Emeritus

  • S. Robert Aiken
    • Emeritus Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Historical and cultural geography; climate, disease and medical thought; tropical hill stations; colonial South Carolina. Note: I'm retired and no longer supervising students.
  • Jacqueline M. Anderson
    • Emeritus Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Cartographic visualization and design, Map user abilities, Map skills education.
  • Leonard Sklar
    • Emeritus Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Earth surface processes and landscape evolution; Sediment production and transport; Water resources management; Interactions among ecological and geomorphic processes; Global change and sustainability science
  • Alan Nash
    • Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Cultural geography, Restaurants in Montreal, Gravestones in Iceland and the Caribbean.
  • Brian Slack
    • Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Transport geography with a focus on maritime transportation, Port planning and container shipping.
  • Patricia Thornton
    • Distinguished Emeritus Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Population geography, cultural ecology, mortality as an indicator of social and environmental justice.

Part-time

  • John Buskard
    • Lecturer, Geography, Planning and Environment
  • Erik Chevrier
    • Part-time Instructor, Sociology and Anthropology
    • Part-Time Instructor, Geography, Planning and Environment
  • Pierre Deslauriers
    • Part-time Faculty, Applied Human Sciences
    • Lecturer, Geography, Planning and Environment
  • Ricardo Duenez
    • Lecturer, Geography, Planning and Environment
  • James Freeman
    • Lecturer, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Urban social, cultural and economic geography, Public space and urban popular culture, Urban political economy and Latin America.
  • Emanuel Lowi
    • Part-Time Faculty, School of Community and Public Affairs
    • Part-Time Faculty, Geography, Planning and Environment
    • Part-Time Faculty, History
    • Part-Time Faculty, Sociology and Anthropology
    Research areas: Indigenous cultures and knowledges, issues in contemporary First Nations and Inuit life, contemporary Indigenous politics, Indigenous-Settler relations, Indigenous land rights and self-government, Indigenous resurgence and resistance, urban Indigenous lives, environmental activism, public affairs communication, journalistic media practices, investigative reporting, commentary and criticism, creati
  • Alex M Matveev
    • Lecturer, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Biogeochemistry, Arctic, Limnology and Oceanography, Climate
  • Alena Perout
    • Part-time Faculty, Geography, Planning and Environment
  • Julie A. Podmore
    • Affiliate Assistant Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Queering Suburbia, Queer Generationality and Urban Change, Queer Urbanisms and Gentrification, LGBTQ+ Activisms and Public Space, Queering Municipal Governance, Historical Geographies of Sexualities, Lesbian Studies.
  • Donny Seto
    • Lecturer, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Sustainable design, urban impact assessment, environmental impact assessment, GIS, cartography, climate change, urban mitigation and adaptations, data visualization and analysis
  • Rebecca Tittler
    • Part-time Faculty, Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability
    • Part-time Faculty, Geography, Planning and Environment
    • Academic Advisor and Research Administration Coordinator, Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability
    • Research Administration Coordinator, Loyola Sustainability Research Centre (LSRC)
    Research areas: Sustainability, ecology, forest management
  • Amy Twigge-Molecey
    • Lecturer, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Gentrification & displacement, neighborhood change, housing, land use planning, community development, community-university research alliances.

Cross-appointments

  • Govind Gopakumar
    • Associate Professor and Chair, Centre for Engineering in Society
    • Associate Professor (cross-appointed) , Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Technology and Society, Urban Infrastructure, Cities, Development Studies, Engineering Education, Global Engineering
  • Vijay Kolinjivadi
    • Assistant Professor, Sustainable and Equitable Economies, School of Community and Public Affairs
    Research areas: Political ecology of payments for ecosystem services (PES), biodiversity and carbon offsets; time, temporality and ecological crisis; social movements and ecological resistance
  • Katie Young
    • Assistant Professor, School of Irish Studies
  • Xianming Zhang
    • Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    • Cross-appointed faculty member, Geography, Planning and Environment
    • Co-director, Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling
    Status: positions available for graduate studies and undergraduate research
    Research areas: Organic Contaminants in the Environment; Analytical Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Modeling; Chemical Exposure and Risk Assessment; Chemical Management and Regulation

Affiliates

Dr. Micheline Ayoub

Executive Director, Sustainability in the Digital Age (SDA) & Director, Future Earth
Contact Dr. Ayoub

Jennifer Garard

Deputy Director, Sustainability in the Digital Age, Canada Hub and Future Earth 
Research areas: Sustainability, digital innovation
Contact Prof. Garard

Jennifer Gobby

Researcher, Research on the Front Lines
Research areas: Climate action and climate policy in Canada, environmental and social justice, Indigenous rights, social movements, transformation, participatory action research methods
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Amy Luers

Global Director, Sustainability Science, Microsoft
Research areas: Ecology, environment
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Elise Olmedo

Post-doctoral researcher, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
Research areas: Les pratiques théoriques et empiriques visant à développer le concept de cartographie sensible en tant qu'outil de recherche-création en sciences humaines et sociales
Contact Prof. Olmedo

Julie Podmore

Professor, Geosciences, John Abbott College
Research areas: Urban, social and cultural geography
Contact Prof. Podmore

 
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