Advising: I advise students whose research focuses on political ecology in Sub-Saharan Africa and North America. I am particularly interested in working with students whose research examines the political ecology of international borders and borderlands, people-park relations, conservation and securitization/militarization, or wildlife crime. Interested students should send a brief description of their research interests and relevant background experiences, unofficial transcripts, and current CV.

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My Students: Please take a look at the exciting research conducted by my very talented students.

Dacia Douhaibi Ph.D.   Land grabs, forced displacement, territorialization, biopolitics, South Sudan Devin Holterman Ph.D.   Extraction, conservation, political ecology, Tanzania, mining, northern Canada Carley MacKay Ph.D.   Animal geography, biopolitics, spaces of power, factory farms, "humane meat", human-animal relations Francis Masse Ph.D.   Political ecologies of wildlife crime & international borders, conservation security, Mozambique & South Africa Colin O'Neil M.A.   Wilderness, nature, conservation, First Nations Nicia Giva Postdoc   Governance of protected areas, environmental conflicts, parks-people interaction, human-wildlife conflict, action Research, adaptive co-management James Stinson Postdoc   Environmental governance, neoliberal nature, biopolitics, nature 2.0 Sara Jackson Ph.D. Alumni 2015 Extractive economies, nationalism, political and cultural geography, creative methods, Mongolia Adrienne Johnson M.A. Alumni 2010 Becoming A Boundary Organization: Sawit Watch and the Governance of Smallholder Producers Yasmine Mohamed M.A. Alumni 2012 Making The Links Between Environmental Justice and Immigration: Intersections Between Housing, Health and Neoliberalism In Toronto’s South Riverdale