Faculty
Assistant Professor | Queen's National Scholar
Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D301
Research Areas: Black Geographies; Political Ecology; Geographies of Waste; Global Environmental Politics; Development Impact of Industrial Extraction; Informal Economies and Labour Markets in the Global South
Research Areas: Indigenous geographies; Education and citizenship; Geography and imperialism; History of geography and cartography
Research Areas: Suburbs in Canada, Australia and USA; Planning histories, especially Canada and Ottawa; Capital cities; Urban redevelopment, especially waterfronts; Community design.
Research Areas: Planning for demographic and economic change; shrinking cities; economic decline; age-friendly communities; integrating play and fun into the urban landscape.
Research Areas: Labour market regulation, industrial relations and innovation in the Canadian automotive industry; The impact of climate change on work and employment in Canada; The integration and restructuring of the North American (Canada/US/Mexico) automobile industry; Workplace governance in cross-border regions.
Distinguished University Professor Emerita
Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room E311
Research Areas: Citizenship and human rights; Employment equity; Disability policy and citizenship in Canada; Historical geographies of racialization; Community development among Japanese Canadians; Housing, activism, and the right to the city
Research Areas: Impact of permafrost changes on hydrology and landscape stability; Landscape controls over permafrost-related hazards; Sediment erosion and deposition processes in cold environments; Hydrological and sediment transport modelling; Paleoenvironmental and paleohydrological change in the arctic and boreal environments
Research Areas: Renewable Energy Development and Implementation; Agricultural and forest bioenergy; Environmental and energy policy; Renewable energy mapping.
Research Areas: Public Services; Urbanization; Water; Energy; Health; Political Theory; Finance
Cross-Appointed | Professor & Canada Research Chair in Black Studies
Robert Sutherland Hall 434
Research Areas: Black Studies; Cultural Geographies; The Arts (music, fiction, poetry, visual art); Theories of Race; Interdisciplinarity
Associate Professor | Director (Acting), SURP
Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D321
Research Areas: Local Government Reform; Regional Governance; Urban-Rural Fringe; Environmental Planning and Management.
Research Areas: Biogeochemical cycling in natural systems, especially the role of microorganisms in waters, soils, and sediments