People

Manvi Bhalla, Ph.D. Student, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia

– epistemic diversity, environmental justice, health policy, decision-making, intersectionality

Ana Elia Ramon Hidalgo, Ph.D. Student, Forestry, The University of British Columbia
– social capital, gender and empowerment, Volta Region of Ghana, community-based ecotourism

Cate May Burton, B.Ed. Student; Ph.D. Student, Social Justice Institute, The University of British Columbia
– critical theory, decolonial and critical race theory, Indigenous-settler relations

Claudia Paez Varas,, MSc candidate, Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems, The University of British Columbia
– food security, women within indigenous communities, Peru

Corin de Freitas, Ph.D. Student, Department of Geography, The University of British Columbia
– water governance and politics, political ecology, Brazil

Dana James, Ph.D. Student, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability and Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at the UBC Farm, The University of British Columbia
– agroecology, food sovereignty, climate justice

Denise Ferreira da Silva, Director, Professor, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, The University of British Columbia
– critical racial and ethnic studies, moral philosophy, postcolonial studies, Latin American & Caribbean studies

Emily Huddart Kennedy, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, The University of British Columbia
– civil engagement in environmentalism, human-environment relationships

Hannah Wittman, Professor, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, The Institute of Resources, Environment and Sustainability, The University of British Columbia
– food sovereignty, ecological citizenship

Janette Bulkan, Assistant Professor, Forestry, The University of British Columbia
– social forestry, participatory resource management, monitoring and evaluation, cultural diversity awareness and protection

Juanita Sundberg, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, The University of British Columbia.
– feminist political ecology, nature conservation, border security, and militarization

Karen Bakker, Professor of Geography, Canada Research Chair in Political Ecology, and Co-Director of the Program on Water Governance, The University of British Columbia
– Water governance privatization, Latin America, political ecology

Leila Harris, Professor, IRES Institute for Resources Environment and Sustainability, Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, Faculty Associate UBC Department of Geography and Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, Co-Director, Program on Water Governance, The University of British Columbia
– Water politics, water security, justice, and governance; Turkey; Ghana; South Africa; gender and social difference; political ecology

Leslie Robertson, Assistant Professor, Anthropology; Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, The University of British Columbia
– colonial relationships in settler nations, urban marginalization, First Nations in Western Canada

Maggie LowPh.D. student, Resource Management and Environmental Studies, The University of British Columbia
– relationship between land and resource management and First Nations in Western Canada, governance, environmentalism

Mark Harris, Associate Professor, Social Justice Institute, The University of British Columbia
– environmental justice, Indigenous rights, extractive industries

Michelle Lobo, Lecturer in Geography, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, Council Member, Institute of Australian Geographers
– race, migration, encounter, co-belonging and ecological justice in the Anthropocene

Mollie Holmberg, Ph.D. Student, Department of Geography, The University of British Columbia
– health equity, conservation science studies, captive care, feminism

Natasha Fox, Post Graduate Research Scholar, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Lecturer, Department of Geography, The University of British Columbia – LGBT intersections with geographies of disaster, natural hazards, Japan and Canada

Paige Raibmon,   Professor, History Department, The University of British Columbia
– Indigenous peoples, colonialism, Northwest Coast, environmental justice, health, risk, epistemologies

Renisa Mawani, Professor of Sociology, The University of British Columbia
-indigeneity, Asian migration. settler colonialism, colonial legal histories of race, nature, and geography

Sara Shneiderman, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and School of Public Policy & Global Affairs/Institute of Asian Research, The University of British Columbia
– citizenship and belonging, territory and land use, development discourses and practices, disaster aftermath and preparedness, South Asia

Shaylih Muehlmann,  Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Canada Research Chair in Language, Culture and the Environment, The University of British Columbia.
– environmental conflict, language and identity; construction on inequality, Colorado River, Northern Mexico

Terre Satterfield, Professor and Director, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, The University of British Columbia
– environmental values, risk perception, risk and culture, and/or justice, biodiversity and environmental management.

Tina Loo, Professor, Department of History, The University of British Columbia
– dynamics of state power, colonial rule in British Columbia, wilderness

Vin Nardizzi, Associate Professor, Department of English, The University of British Columbia.
– Renaissance literature, ecotheory, and queer and disability studies.

 

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