Full Time Faculty

Katrina Eyvindson

Katrina Eyvindson

Department Chair, Associate Professor

Telephone: 519-661-2111, x. 80115

Email: geoenv-chair@uwo.ca

Office: Room 2407, SSC

Research Interest/Specialization

Paleolimnology, climate change, paleoecology, quaternary environments, water quantity and quality, limnology

Teaching

Paleolimnology and Global Environmental Change; Paleolimnology (Graduate)

Godwin Arku

Godwin Arku

Graduate Chair, Professor

Telephone: 519-661-2111, x. 85343

Email: garku@uwo.ca

Office: Room 2427, SSC

Research Interest/Specialization

Housing and economic development; Urban development and policy analysis; Regional and local economic development policy and planning; Third World development issues (esp. Africa)

Teaching

People, Places and Landscapes; Urban Development; Urban Economic Development; Urban Geography of the Developing World

Agnieszka Leszczynski

Agnieszka Leszczynski

Undergraduate Chair, Associate Professor

Telephone: 519-661-2111, x. 80161

Email: aleszczy@uwo.ca

Office: Room 1402, SSC

Research Interest/Specialization

Digital geographies, platforms and cities, digital location/geolocation, GIScience & Society

Teaching

Geographic Information Science; Digital Geographies

Vanessa Ambtman Smith

Vanessa Ambtman Smith

Assistant Professor, Joint Appointed with Indigenous Studies

Telephone: 519-661-2111, x. 89310

Email: vambtman@uwo.ca

Office: Room 3213, SSC

Research Interest/Specialization

Indigenous traditional healing spaces within hospital contexts: Examining relationships to health, healing and reconciliation

Jamie Baxter

Jamie Baxter

Professor, SGPS Associate Vice-Provost

Telephone: 519-661-2111, x. 81241

Email: jamie.baxter@uwo.ca

Office: Room 1407, SSC

Research Interest/Specialization

Social construction of risk, community responses to technological hazards, renewable energy policy, noxious facility siting, and methodology

Evan Bowness

Evan Bowness

Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Equity

Telephone: 519-661-2111, x. 82817

Email: ebowness@uwo.ca

Office: Room 1411, SSC

Research Interest/Specialization

Land-based "Community-Directed Adaptation Research" (C-DAR), Traditional food systems, Visual research methods

Teaching

Climate Emergency, Conservation and Development

Michele Buzzelli

Michele Buzzelli

Associate Professor, Director - Western Centre for Urban Policy and Local Governance

Telephone: 519-661-2111, x. 85329

Email: mbuzzel@uwo.ca

Office: Room 2429, SSC

Research Interest/Specialization

Higher education policy, research on teaching and learning, society-space relationships with a focus on housing, health and GIS

Teaching

Housing, The Geoweb & Geomedia, Research Design and Methodology

Laura Chasmer

Laura Chasmer

Associate Professor

Telephone: 519-661-2111, x. 88824

Email: lchasmer@uwo.ca

Office: Room 1401, SSC

Research Interest/Specialization

Geospatial, hydro-meteorological and field data to better understand Boreal wetland, forest and discontinuous permafrost changes within natural and disturbed environments

Jason Gilliland

Jason Gilliland

Professor, Director - Urban Development Program

Telephone: 519-661-2111, x. 81239

Email: jgillila@uwo.ca

Office: Room 2432, SSC

Research Interest/Specialization

Healthy Communities, Active Transportation, Children's Geographies, Food Environments, Health Geography and GIS

Teaching

Healthy Cities; Land Use and Development Issues; Graduate Seminar in Urban Studies; Advanced Urban Social Geography; Systematic Reviews for Environment, Development and Health

Cortney Golkar-Dakin / Sâkihitowin Awâsis

Cortney Golkar-Dakin / Sâkihitowin Awâsis

Assistant Professor, Joint Appointed with Indigenous Studies

Telephone: 519-661-2111, x. 81551

Email: cdakin2@uwo.ca

Office: Room 2425, SSC

Research Interest/Specialization

Indigenous geographies, political ecology, and energy justice

Teaching

Climate Change and Collective Action

Chris Hopkinson

Chris Hopkinson

Professor - Western Research Chair

Telephone: 519-661-2111, x. 85026

Email: chris.hopkinson@uwo.ca

Office: Room 1405, SSC

Research Interest/Specialization

Integration of in situ, high-resolution remote sensing, spatial and temporal data sources to better understand such processes as glacial and periglacial dynamics in alpine environments to novel carbon balance assessment routines in forest environments

Carol Hunsberger

Carol Hunsberger

Associate Professor

Telephone: 519-661-2111, x. 85020

Email: chunsber@uwo.ca

Office: Room 2409, SSC

Research Interest/Specialization

Political ecology, energy justice, biofuels, pipeline politics, environmental governance

Teaching

Environment and Development Challenges; Energy and Power; Climate Change and Collective Action; Environmental Justice

Jinhyung Lee

Jinhyung Lee

Assistant Professor

Telephone: 519-661-2111, x. 85025

Email: jinhyung.lee@uwo.ca

Office: Room 2422, SSC

Research Interest/Specialization

Transport geography, spatial accessibility, inequalities, urban resilience, GIScience

Teaching

GIScience, transport geography

Jed Long

Jed Long

Associate Professor

Telephone: 519-661-2111, x. 87319

Email: jlong83@uwo.ca

Office: Room 2405, SSC

Research Interest/Specialization

GIS/GIScience, GPS tracking, movement, space-time models, spatial ecology, open source software

Teaching

GIS, quantitative geography, computational geography

Isaac Luginaah

Isaac Luginaah

Professor

Telephone: Telephone: 519-661-2111, x. 86944

Email: iluginaa@uwo.ca

Office: Room 1409, SSC

Research Interest/Specialization

Environment and health, air pollution, GIS and health, HIV/AIDS

Teaching

Geography of Health and Health Care; Environment and Health; Advanced Studies in Environment, Development & Health

Natasha MacBean

Natasha MacBean

Assistant Professor

Telephone: Telephone: 519-661-2111, x. 85008

Email: nmacbean@uwo.ca

Office: Room 2412, SSC

Research Interest/Specialization

Global environmental and climate change, carbon and biogeochemical cycles, vegetation dynamics, Terrestrial Biosphere/Land Surface Modeling, environmental remote sensing, model-data fusion/data assimilation

Teaching

Environmental modelling, Global Change Biology

Geneviève Metson

Geneviève Metson

Associate Professor

Telephone: 519-661-2111, x. 85011

Email: gmetson@uwo.ca

Office: Room 2403, SSC

Research Interest/Specialization

Urban ecology, sustainability, biogeochemistry (phosphorus and nitrogen), organic waste management, food systems

Teaching

Introduction to Statistics for Geographers, Water and Cities, Research Design & Presentation (Graduate)

Chantelle Richmond

Chantelle Richmond

Professor, Canada Research Chair - Indigenous Health and the Environment

Telephone: 519-661-2111, x. 85324

Email: chantelle.richmond@uwo.ca

Office: Room 2433, SSC

Research Interest/Specialization

Indigenous health, environmental change, Indigenous knowledge, environmental repossession, relational accountability, decolonization, structural determinants of health, community-based research, Indigenous methodologies, health training environments

Teaching

Indigenous Environments; Geography 4900-4901 (Undergraduate Thesis); Indigenous Health (Graduate); Qualitative Methods (Graduate)

Dan Shrubsole

Dan Shrubsole

Professor

Telephone: 519-661-2111, x. 83126

Email: dashrubs@uwo.ca

Office: Room 1416, SSC

On administrative leave until June 2026

Research Interest/Specialization

Integrated resource management (water)

On administrative leave until June 2026

Roza Tchoukaleyska

Roza Tchoukaleyska

Assistant Professor

Telephone: 519-661-2111, x. 85030

Email: rtchouka@uwo.ca

Office: Room 2413, SSC

Research Interest/Specialization

Urban planning, cultural geographies, public space, food cultures, community-engaged research

Teaching

Economic geography, qualitative methods, sustainable urban planning

James Voogt

James Voogt

Professor

Telephone: 519-661-2111, x. 85018

Email: javoogt@uwo.ca

Office: Room 2401, SSC

Research Interest/Specialization

Urban climatology

Teaching

Physical Geography; Weather and Climate; Micrometeorology

Jinfei Wang

Jinfei Wang

Professor

Telephone: 519-661-2111, x. 85017

Email: jfwang@uwo.ca

Office: Room 2402, SSC

Research Interest/Specialization

Research Interest/Specialization

Teaching

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Remote Sensing; Advanced Topics in Remote Sensing; Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (Graduate); Remote Sensing Digital Image Analysis (Graduate)

Tony Weis

Tony Weis

Professor

Telephone: 519-661-2111, x. 87472

Email: aweis@uwo.ca

Office: Room 1403, SSC

Research Interest/Specialization

Global agro-food systems, industrial agriculture (especially livestock production), political ecology

Teaching

Climate Change; Animal Geographies; Globalization and Uneven Development; Biodiversity Conservation; Agriculture and Food

Lewis Williams

Lewis Williams

Associate Professor, Joint Appointed with Indigenous Studies

Telephone: 519-661-2111, x. 88570

Email: lewis.williams@uwo.ca

Office: Room 3210, SSC

Research Interest/Specialization

Indigenous and cultural studies; cultural-ecology and globalization; socio-ecological resilience; and social innovation

Teaching

Indigenous Knowledge and Traditions; Indigenous Research Methodology