Administration & Faculty
Faculty
Assistant Professor Meera Karunananthan
- Feminist geography; water justice and hydro-social conflicts in the global South; racial capitalism and decolonial theory; political ecology; community-engaged and movement drive research
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- 613-520-2600 ext 2567
Associate Professor Emilie Cameron
- Geographies of mining and impact assessment, imperialism and colonialism; political economic theories and approaches, Canadian North
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- ext 6291
Associate Professor David Hugill
- Urban geography and North American cities; Imperial and colonial urbanisms; Urban political economy and the “Sharing Economy”
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Associate Professor Derek A. Smith
- Cultural landscapes, forest use and conservation, human-wildlife relationships, local environmental knowledge, participatory mapping, critical cartography
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Associate Professor Dipto Sarkar
- GIScience, Social Network Analysis, OpenStreetMap, and Biodiversity Conservation
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Associate Professor Jennifer Ridgley
- Cities: Critical labour, political, and legal geographies; Citizenship, border security, immigration, migration; Urban policing and law enforcement
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Associate Professor Jesse Vermaire
- Human impacts on lake and river ecosystems; Long-term ecological change; Ecosystem resilience and tipping points
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- ext 3898
Associate Professor Jill Wigle
- Geographies of housing, informality, social infrastructure, and care; the right to the city; affordable housing and community land trusts; Ottawa & Mexico City
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Associate Professor John Milton
- Grassroots innovation; Technology, society and the environment; Innovation studies
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Associate Professor Karen Hébert
- Environmental politics in the subarctic North; Resource industries and commercial fisheries; Struggles over sustainability
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Associate Professor Kevin Hamdan
- Physical geography/soil science; Biogeography; Climate Change
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- ext 2570
Associate Professor Koreen Millard
- Multi-sensor data fusion for improved understanding of hydrology/vegetation change and interactions; Modelling spatial and temporal biophysical variables with time-series remote sensing and field-measurements; Machine learning image classification for mapping environmental change
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Associate Professor Pablo Mendez
- Housing affordability and sustainable transportation; Low-carbon transitions and urban design
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Associate Professor Paul Williams
- Cultural/historical geography; Post-industrial landscapes
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- ext 6290
Associate Professor Peter Pulsifer
- Geospatial data interoperability; Participatory Mapping; GIS, Remote Sensing, Cartography and Visualization; Community-driven Geomatics; Building Communities of Practice
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Associate Professor Scott Mitchell
- Spatial pattern & environmental processes; Global change impacts on agriculture; Biodiversity and ecosystem services
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- ext 2695
Associate Professor Sheryl-Ann Simpson
- Migration, place and citizenship; Environmental justice, health and well-being; Spatial analysis (participatory, quantitative, qualitative, interpretive)
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- 613-520-2600 ext 8741
Associate Professor Sophie Tamas
- Emotional, feminist, psychoanalytic and non-representational geographies; qualitative, arts-based, autoethnographic, and Indigenous research methods; disability, trauma, and the (mis)uses of personal narrative
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- 613-520-2600 ext 3578
Professor Derek Mueller
- Arctic science; Climate change; Cryospheric change
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- ext 1984
Professor Elyn Humphreys
- Soil-plant-atmosphere interactions in tundra and peatlands; Carbon cycling; Energy budgets
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Professor Murray Richardson
- Watershed ecosystems; Ecosystems sensitivity to atmospheric mercury pollution; Environmental geocomputation: GIS, remote sensing and statistical modelling
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- 613-520-2561 ext 2574
| Cross Appointed to Geography and Environmental Studies |
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| Peter Andrée (Political Science) Steven Cooke (Environmental Science and Department of Biology) Amrita Hari (Women’s and Gender Studies) Shawn Kenny (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Paul Mkandaŵire (Interdisciplinary Studies) Vivian Nguyen (Interdisciplinary Science and Practice) Paul Peters (Health Science) Blair Rutherford (African Studies; Sociology and Anthropology) Marylynn Steckley (Global and International Studies) Julie Tomiak (Indigenous and Canadian Studies) |
| Contract Instructors | |
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| Fall Term 2026 | Winter Term 2027 |
| Professors Emeritus |
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| Michael Brklacich Chris Burn John Clarke Peter Johnson Fran Klodawsky Fiona Mackenzie Michael Ray Peter Ricketts Iain Wallace |
| Friends of the Department – Departed Faculty and Staff |
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| David Bennett Elsie Clement Judy Donaldson Christine Earl Natalia Fierro Marquez Mike Fox Kathryn Lindsay Joyce Lundberg Dan Patterson Michael Pisaric Steve Prashker Peter Williams |