Christina Frendo
PhD Candidate
She/Her
Global Development Studies
Queen's University
Research Interests
Christina researches the justice outcomes of climate finance in Colombia and Indonesia’s energy transitions. Christina uses a qualitative, multi-scalar comparative case study design, linking macro-level financial governance tools to their local impacts.
Biography
Christina is a doctoral candidate in Global Development Studies. She holds an MA in Geography from ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´ and a BSc in Environmental Science from Carleton University. She also has experience working in government and language teaching.
Teaching Experience
- DEVS 361: Policy Advocacy (winter 2025, winter 2026)
- DEVS 280: Global Engagement (fall 2024, fall 2025)
- DEVS 260: Globalization, Gender, and Development (summer 2025)
- BIOL 243: Introduction to Statistics (summer 2019, fall 2019 [online course development], winter 2020)
- GPHY 101: Introduction to Human Geography (fall 2018, winter 2019)
Awards
- Mitacs Globalink Research Internship (2026)
- Senator Frank Carrel Fellowship (2025-26)
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) (2024-25)
- SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s (CGS-M) (2019-20)
- David Edney Research Travel Award (2019)
- Queen's Graduate Award (2018-19)
Selected Publications
Frendo, C. (2025). Feeding the green gentrification machine: Urban Agriculture and the Barriers to a Just Ecological Transition in Montréal, Québec. Urban Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2025.2577144
Donald B., Frendo C. and Southey, B.P. (2020). Public geographies. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Second Edition. pp. 75-77. Elsevier, New York.
McCune, J., Frendo C., Ramadan M., and Baldwin, L. (2020). Comparing the effect of landscape context on vascular plant and bryophyte communities in a human-dominated landscape. Journal of Vegetation Science, 32(1), e12932. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12932
Little A.J., Sivarajah B., Frendo C., Sprague D.D., Smol J.P., and Vermaire J.C. (2019) The impacts of century-old, arsenic-rich mine tailings on multi-trophic level biological assemblages in lakes in Cobalt, ON. Science of the Total Environment, 709, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.136212