Alison Bain

Associate Professor

Urban social, urban cultural, and feminist geography; creative city theory and cultural planning; geographies of artistic labour, creative practice, and cultural production; redevelopment and social inclusion in neighbourhoods, cities, and suburbs; public space contestations and interventions; gender and sexual identity politics.

Ranu Basu

Associate Professor

Urban social and political geography/planning; theories of collective action and community organization; inequality and social justice; geographies of public education; geographic information systems (GIS) in the social sciences.

Ulrich Best

Assistant Professor

Critical geography; Critical geopolitics of energyThe geopolitics of Europe, border studiesUrban inclusion/exclusion; History and theory of geography

Richard Bello

Associate Professor

Chair and President of Northern Studies, Geography, York University

Climate of northern environments; response of the hydrological cycle and carbon budget to global warming.

Kean Birch

Assistant Professor

Qiuming Cheng

Professor

GIS system development; Spatial statistics and fractal modeling; Spatial decision support system; Non-linear image processing and pattern recognition; Mineral resources assessment; Water system modeling; Mathematical geology.

Raju Das

Associate Professor

Political economy of Third World development; state theory and state-society relations; social capital; social movements; agro-globalization; south Asia.

Taly Drezner

Associate Professor

Biogeography; arid lands; disturbance, invasion and dispersal.

Lisa Drummond

Associate Professor

Urban geography; gender; Southeast Asia; postcolonial cities; Asian popular culture; Vietnam.

Bryn Greer-Wootten

Professor, Emeritus

Ontological and epistemological bases of geographic research relationships between social research and public policy processes, especially resource management (energy, global climate change) phenomenology of environment, especially women's narratives

Laam Hae
Associate Professor
Urban Political Economy, Neoliberal Urbanism, Politics of Urban Subcultures, Legal Geographies, The Right to the City

Jennifer Hyndman

Professor

Geographies of forced migration/immigration; Humanitarian aid in response to conflict/asylum/disasters; Refugee (re)settlement

Critical and feminist geopolitics

 

Baoxin Hu
Associate Professor, Faculty of Science & Engineering

Remote sensing of vegetation; photogrammetry; canopy modeling.

William Jenkins

Associate Professor

Cultural and historical geography; comparative geographies of Irish diasporas; immigration and North American urban history; Canada and the British imperial world; Irish-Canadian studies.

 

Roger Keil

Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies

Urban politics and governance; urban political ecology; global cities and infectious disease.

Philip Kelly

Professor

Economic geography; labour; immigration and Canada-Asia transnationalism; Philippine and southeast asian development.

Stefan Kipfer
Associate Professor

Theories of society, politics and the city; Comparative urban-regional politics and planning; Urban social movements and restructuring; Colonization, racialization and urbanization; Suburbanization, territorial relations and regional planning; Public housing: gentrification, privatization and redevelopment

Lucia Lo

Professor

Consumer preferences and shopping behaviour; immigrant settlement and urban landscape change; ethnic entrepreneurship and ethnic economies; Chinese immigrants in Toronto; Geomatics and immigrant settlement services; spatial interaction modeling and transportation demand analysis.

Ute Lehrer

Associate P rofessor, Faculty of Environmental Studies

Cities and Globalization; Economic Restructuring and Urban Form; Political Economy of the Built Environment; Theory and History of Planning, Urban Design and Architecture; Built Environment, Ethnicity and Immigration to Urban Area.

Christopher Lortie

Associate Professor, Faculty of Science & Engineering

Community, biogeography, invasion biology, climate change, stress, interactions.

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Elizabeth Lunstrum

Assistant Professor

Environmental politics in conflict, post-conflict, and transnational spaces; violence and spatial relations; territory and state formation; gender relations; politics of human mobility; southern Africa.

Joseph Mensah

Professor

Critical development theory and Africa; gender and development; space, race, and employment; geography of Aboriginal land claims.

 

Lewis Molot

Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies

Limnology; biogeochemistry; organic carbon fluxes.

Glen Norcliffe

Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar

Industrial restructuring; modernity; global economy; cultural production.

Linda Peake

Professor

Feminist geography; gender, race and class relations in urban environments; urban-political geography; methodologies; Guyana.

Justin Podur

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies

Environmental modeling, forest fires, landscape fire modeling, climate change.

Valerie Preston

Professor

Gender and urban labour markets; immigration and Canadian cities; transnational migration and citizenshp; social geography.

Roberto Quinlan

Associate Professor, Faculty of Science & Engineering

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John Radford

Professor, Emeritus

Social geography of the nineteenth century city; internal structure of cities in the United States South; public policy and intellectual disability.

Tarmo Remmel

Associate Professor

Multi-dimensional measurement and comparison of spatial patterns, spatial accuracy assessment, forest land cover change, post-disturbance vegetation recovery, and open-source GIS/RS algorithm development.

André Robert

Associate Professor

Form and process in rivers; experimental fluvial studies.

 

Robin Roth

Associate Professor

Political Ecology; Environmental Conservation and Conflict; Livelihood transitions in Southeast Asia; Co-Management Institutions; Gender and Environment, and Forestry/Land Use.

Jamie Scott

Professor, Division of Humanities

Geography and religion; geography and literature; geography and postcolonialism.

Suzanne Tank

Assistant Professor

Arctic and boreal aquatic biogeochemistry, River-ocean linkages in the Arctic, Carbon cycling and metabolism in aquatic ecosystems, Aquatic ecosystem science

Steven Tufts

Associate Professor

Geographies of organized labour; labour union renewal; young workers and community economic development; workers in spaces of production/consumption.

Peter Vandergeest

Associate Professor

Environments and identities in Southeast Asia; agro food systems and industrial aquaculture; cultural politics of development.

Gerda Wekerle

Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies

Feminist geography; social movements; urban politics; social policy; growth management and environmental preservation; political ecology.

David Wood

Professor, Emeritus and Senior Scholar

Frontiers, Settlement, Landscape Transformation, Ontario, Conservation

Patricia Wood

Professor

Citizenship, diversity and politics of identity; urban geography; Native/non-Native relations; immigration and multiculturalism; Western Canada; feminist geography; historical geography; use of non-traditional sources.

Doug Young

Associate Professor

Politics of urban planning and development, Legacies of modern urbanism, Urban infrastructure.

Kathy Young

Professor

Arctic wetland hydrology; slope hydroclimatology; regional snowmelt modeling.

Anna Zalik

Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies

Global Humanitarian/Development Studies; International Aid Industry; Oil industry with a focus on the Americas and Sub-Saharan Africa; Political Economy, Comparative Historical Studies, Post-Coloniality.

Associated Faculty

These faculty members have appointments in other Faculties but have complementary academic interests with geography.

Jon Caulfield
Division of Social Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Downtown Toronto neighbourhoods; residential redevelopment of deindustrialized space in inner Toronto; old church buildings in inner Toronto; use of photographs in urban research.

Anders Sandberg
Faculty of Environmental Studies

Resource management, forest and environmental history.

Adjunct Faculty

Adjuncts are faculty members who are based outside York University but have skills and expertise that strengthen the programme academically.

Peter Dillon
Professor
Department of Environmental & Resource Studies, Trent University
Nutrient dynamics and modelling; acidification of lakes and streams and trace metal dynamics

Kaz Higuchi

Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies

Ajith Perera
Senior Research Scientist in Forest Landscape Ecology, Ontario Forest Research Institute

please note: not all faculty are available in a given year due to sabbaticals, research leaves, etc.