Students

 Ph.D. Candidate

Rye is a Kanien'kehá:ka human and historical geographer examining Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe economic traditionalism and resurgence frameworks designed for the future planning of Indigenous contemporary trade and commerce systems in Canadian urban centres situated on traditional Indigenous lands.

Ph.D. Candidate

Lying at the intersection of animal, historical, and urban geographies Claudia is interested in how cows came to be absent from cities in which they were once distinct members. This is part of a broader, longer-term project of understanding ‘cow geographies’ by unpacking how different cows come to be in different places at different times and exploring what the implications of that are.

Ph.D. Candidate

Hannah is a critical, creative geographer interested in human-animal relationships, bird sounds, and the history of science. Her doctoral research explores the more-than-human histories of bird sound recording and asks how these recordings can be re-imagined and re-purposed towards abundant multispecies futures. In particular, this work follows the sounds of Ivory-Billed Woodpeckers, Atlantic Puffins, and Barred Owls.

Ph.D. Candidate

Elizabeth’s research interests focus on national identity, multiculturalism, settler-ignorance, and invisibilities in the context of municipal heritage practice and public memory. She is currently exploring walking methodologies as they relate to understanding exclusion in urban heritage landscapes.

Ph.D. Candidate

Sophie is a visual artist, writer and curator working in northeastern Ontario. Her research explores the the travel writing and visual works of Anna Brownell Jameson, author of Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1839). In particular she is interested in the relations between representation and place-making, and the visual/textual legacy of these creative practices.