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Katrina Moser

Department Chair Associate Professor geoenv-chair@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 80115 Room 2407, SSC
Research Areas Paleolimnology, climate change, paleoecology, quaternary environments, water quantity and quality, limnology Teaching Paleolimnology and Global Environmental Change; Paleolimnology (Graduate)

Vanessa Ambtman Smith

Vanessa Ambtman-Smith

Assistant Professor
Cross Appointed with Indigenous Studies
vambtman@uwo.ca

519-661-2111, x. 89310
Room 3213, SSC

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

Teaching
TBD

Godwin Arku

Graduate Chair Professor Western Faculty Scholar garku@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 85343 Room 2427, SSC
Research Areas 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

Peter Ashmore
On sabbatical July 1 - Dec 31, 2023

Peter Ashmore

Professor pashmore@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 85026 Room 1405, SSC
Research Areas Fluvial geomorphology, sediment transport Teaching Physical Geography; Geomorphology & Hydrology; Geomorphology of River Channels

Jamie Baxter

Professor Associate Dean Graduate Affairs (Social Science) jamie.baxter@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 81241 Room 1407, SSC
Research Areas Social construction of risk, community responses to technological hazards, renewable energy policy, noxious facility siting, and methodology Teaching Environmental Hazards & Human Health; Qualitative Methods; Research Design, Environment, Economy and Society

Michele Buzzelli
On sabbatical July 1, 2023-June 30, 2024

Michael Buzzelli

Associate Professor Director, Western Centre for Urban Policy and Local Governance mbuzzel@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 85329 Room 2429, SSC
Research Areas 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

Jason Gilliland

Professor Director, Urban Development Program Cross Appointed with School of Health Studies, the Department of Paediatrics and the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics jgillila@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 81239 Room 2432, SSC
Research Areas 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

Assistant Professor cdakin2@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 81551 Room 2425, SSC
Research Areas Indigenous geographies, political ecology, and energy justice Teaching Climate Change and Collective Action

Jeff Hopkins

Associate Professor jhopkins@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 85027 Room 2423, SSC
Research Areas Cultural geography, gender, public places Teaching Social Geography; Urban Culture; Cultural Geography; Geography of Gender; Advanced Cultural Geography

Carol Hunsberger
On leave until July 1, 2024

Carol Hunsberger

Associate Professor chunsber@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 85020 Room 2409, SSC
Research Areas 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

Jin Lee

Assistant Professor jinhyung.lee@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 85025 Room 2422, SSC
Research Areas Transportation, time geography, accessibility, social equity, geographic data science Teaching GIScience, transport geography

Agnieszka Leszczynski

Undergraduate Chair Associate Professor aleszczy@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 80161 Room 1402, SSC
Research Areas Digital geographies, platforms and cities, digital location/geolocation, GIScience & Society Teaching Geographic Information Science; Digital Geographies

Jed Long
On sabbatical July 1, 2023-June 30, 2024

Jed Long

Associate Professor jlong83@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 87319 Room 2405, SSC
Research Areas GIS/GIScience, GPS tracking, movement, space-time models, spatial ecology, open source software Teaching GIS, quantitative geography, computational geography

Isaac Luginaah

Distinguished University Professor Professor iluginaa@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 86944 Room 1409, SSC
Research Areas 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

Assistant Professor nmacbean@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 85008 Room 2412, SSC
Research Areas 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

Geneviève Metson

Genevieve Metson

Associate Professor
gmetson@uwo.ca

519-661-2111, x. 85011
Room 2403, SSC

Research Areas
Urban sustainability, ecology, phosphorus, food waste

Teaching
Introduction to Statistics for Geographers, Research Design (Graduate)

Desmond Moser

Professor Joint Appointed with Earth Science desmond.moser@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 80115 Room 167, B&GS
Research Areas Tectonics, geochronology Teaching Geography & Geology of Southwestern Ontario, Isotopic Dating of Planetary and Resource Evolution

Chantelle Richmond

Associate Professor
Canada Research Chair, Indigenous Health and the Environment
Cross Appointed with Indigenous Studies
chantelle.richmond@uwo.ca

519-661-2111, x. 85324
Room 2433, SSC

Research Areas
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

Professor Assistant Dean to Faculty of Social Science dashrubs@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 83126 Room 9438, SSC
Research Areas Integrated resource management (water) Teaching Research Design and Presentation (Graduate)

Roza Tchoukaleyska

Assistant Professor rtchouka@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 85030 Room 2413, SSC
Research Areas Urban planning, Cultural geography, Public spaces Teaching Cultural geography, urban planning, experiential learning, community engaged teaching

James Voogt

Professor javoogt@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 85018 Room 2401, SSC
Research Areas Urban climatology Teaching Physical Geography; Weather and Climate; Micrometeorology

Jinfei Wang

Professor jfwang@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 85017 Room 2402, SSC
Research Areas Remote sensing and GIS 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

Professor aweis@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 87472 Room 1403, SSC
Research Areas 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
On sabbatical July 1, 2023-June 30, 2024

Tony Weis

Associate Professor
Cross Appointed with Indigenous Studies
Email: lewis.williams@uwo.ca

519-661-2111, x. 88570
Room 3210, SSC

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

Teaching
Indigenous Knowledge and Traditions; Indigenous Research Methodology

Full Time Faculty

Vanessa Ambtman Smith

Peter AshmoreOn sabbatical July 1 - Dec 31, 2023

Michele BuzzelliOn sabbatical July 1, 2023-June 30, 2024