Our faculty members are trained in a wide array of fields (including Agriculture, Anthropology, Art History, Biology, Economics, Education, Environmental Studies, Forestry, Geography, Health, History, Law, Planning, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology). Together we form a community of urban, environmental and geographical researchers addressing some of the planet’s most pressing problems and challenges.
Our Full-time Faculty
Associate Professor; Urban Studies Program Coordinator (Department of Social Science, LA&PS) (On sabbatical)
Urban care, Smart cities, Digital futures, Urban and Regional governance and planning, Policy mobilities.
Visiting Professor
Market system analyses; consumer preference research; socioeconomic analyses of natural resources management; poverty assessment and outreach; economics of green circular economy and climate change.
Assistant Professor
Black Studies; Diaspora & Transnational Migration Studies
Professor; Graduate Program Director (Geography)
Urban Social Geography; Queer Geographies
Professor
Urban, Social and Political Geography; Critical Education, Forced Migration
Professor (On sabbatical)
Ecosystem Approaches; Watershed Management; Complex Systems
Professor (b.1982 – d.2025)
Pollinator Conservation; Endangered Species; Bumblebees
Assistant Professor; Business and Environment Diploma Coordinator
Ecological Economics; Degrowth; Energy Poverty; Wellbeing; Demand and Consumption; Participation and Democracy; EROI (Energy Return on energy Invested).
Professor; York Research Chair
Adolescent Sexual Health; Community-Based Research
Associate Professor (On sabbatical)
Urban Environmental Justice; Political Ecology
Professor; Undergraduate Program Director
Waterbird Ecology; Wildlife Management; Oil & Gas
Assistant Professor
Smart mobility and equity; travel behavior; disability; older adults; accessible urban and digital spaces; human-computer interaction (HCI).
Professor; Graduate Program Director (Environmental Studies)
Cities; Migrations; Social & Environmental Justice
Associate Professor
Queer Theory; British Cultural Studies; Transnational Gender and Sexuality Studies; Critical Race, Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Sessional Assistant Professor
Labour markets; Crossborder migration; Occupational communities; Technology work; Regional development; Bourdieusian analysis
Professor; Dean
Animal Geographies; Gender & Environment; Southern Africa
Professor; FRSC
Critical Development Studies; Postcolonialism; Psychoanalysis
Professor (On sabbatical)
Economic and Labour Geography; Migration; Southeast Asia
Professor; Cities, Regions, Planning Program Coordinator
Urban Politics & Planning; Social & Political Theory
Professor; Planning Program Coordinator
Global Suburbanism; Planning, Urban Design & Architecture
Associate Professor; Associate Dean (Research, Graduate & Global Affair)
Political Ecology, Religion, Revolution, Latin America, Ethnography, Rivers
Professor; Canada Research Chair (On Leave)
Indigenous Environmental Justice and Governance
Professor; Global Geography Program Coordinator
Migration; Ethno-Racial Identities; African Development
Professor; Chair Neotropical Conservation; Director Las Nubes Project
Peasant Livelihoods; Biocultural Diversity
Associate Professor; Environmental Arts & Justice Program Coordinator, York Research Chair
Visual Art; Indigenous Art; Curatorial Practice
Assistant Professor
Fluvial Geomorphology, Tropical Rivers, Extreme Events, River Sensing, Machine Learning
Professor
Climate Justice; Commons Governance; Ecological Economics
Professor; Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning)
Geopolitics; Quantitative Methods; GIS
Professor
Spatial pattern; Boreal Forest Disturbance; Geomatics; Remote sensing; Uncertainty
Professor (On sabbatical)
Climate/Environmental Justice; Forestry & Conservation History
Professor; Environmental Studies PhD Coordinator
Environmental Humanities; Queer, Multispecies & Feminist Ecologies
Professor; Director of the Environmental Justice and Sustainability Clinic, York Research Chair (Tier 2) in Environmental Law & Justice (2018-2023)
Environmental Justice; Gender & Environmental Health
Associate Professor; Director of City Institute
Urban Planning; Housing; Urban Policy & Governance
Associate Professor
Indigenous / settler treaty relations, Indigenous knowledge, rights & food sovereignty, Food justice movements
Associate Professor; Sustainable Environmental Management Program Coordinator
Arctic Ecosystems; Wildlife Conservation; Animal Physiology
Assistant Professor; Environmental Science Program Coordinator
Permafrost Thaw; Aquatic Ecosystems; Arctic Coasts
Associate Professor; Environmental Education Diploma Coordinator
Environmental Ethics and Conflict; Coastal City Management
Professor; MES Coordinator & MES/JD Coordinator
Sustainable Energy Transitions; Climate Change Policy; Environmental Policy and Governance
