Faculty
Full-time faculty
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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 and Concordia Research Chair in Climate Science and Sustainability, 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
- Professor and Associate Vice-President, Research (Development and Outreach), Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Indigenous stewardship; Traditional Ecological Knowledge; Indigenous conservation and protected areas; traditional fisheries; seaweed harvesting; ethno-geomorphology -
Judith Patterson
- Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Geology of modern environments, impact of fossil fuel combustion on the atmosphere, environmental impact assessment in the transportation sector. -
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
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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
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Erik Chevrier
- Part-time Instructor, Sociology and Anthropology
- Part-Time Instructor, Geography, Planning and Environment
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Pierre Deslauriers
- Part-time Faculty, Applied Human Sciences
- Lecturer, Geography, Planning and Environment
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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. -
Alex M Matveev
- Lecturer, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Biogeochemistry, Arctic, Limnology and Oceanography, Climate -
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
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Govind Gopakumar
- Associate Professor and Chair, Centre for Engineering in Society
- Affiliate Associate Professor , Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Technology and Society, Urban Infrastructure, Cities, Development Studies, Engineering Education, Global Engineering -
Xianming Zhang
- Co-director, Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling
- Cross-appointed faculty member, Geography, Planning and Environment
- Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Status: positions available for graduate studies and undergraduate researchResearch 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
Jennifer Garard
Deputy Director, Sustainability in the Digital Age, Canada Hub and Future Earth
Sustainability, digital innovation
Jennifer Gobby
Researcher, Research on the Front Lines
Climate action and climate policy in Canada, environmental and social justice, Indigenous rights, social movements, transformation, participatory action research methods
Amy Luers
Global Director, Sustainability Science, Microsoft
Ecology, environment
Elise Olmedo
Post-doctoral researcher, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
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
Julie Podmore
Professor, Geosciences, John Abbott College
Urban, social and cultural geography