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Faculty of Arts and Science

Department of Geography, Planning and Environment

Faculty

Full-time faculty

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    Ali Nazemi
    • Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Hydrology, water security and climate change, coupled human-water systems, mathematical modeling and algorithm development

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.
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    Jacqueline M. Anderson
    • Emeritus Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Cartographic visualization and design, Map user abilities, Map skills education.
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    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
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    Alan Nash
    • Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Cultural geography, Restaurants in Montreal, Gravestones in Iceland and the Caribbean.
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    Brian Slack
    • Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Transport geography with a focus on maritime transportation, Port planning and container shipping.
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    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
  • Melody Lynch
    • Part-time teaching, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Interdisciplinarity; Mixed Methods; Environmental Contaminants; Intersectionality; Marine Conservation; Indigenous Health; Urban Agriculture; Southeast Asia; Canadian Arctic
  • 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: queer urbanism/suburbanism, neighbourhood formation, gentrification and neighbourhood change, municipal policy diffusion, urban place-making,
  • Donny Seto
    • Limited Time Appointment, 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
    • Professor (cross-appointed) , Geography, Planning and Environment
    • Professor and Chair, Centre for Engineering in Society
    • Co-director, Mobilities Hub, Next-Generation Cities Institute
    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

Jennifer Garard

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

Amy Luers

Global Director, Sustainability Science, Microsoft
Research areas: Ecology, environment
Contact Prof. Luers

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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