Faculty

Assistant Professor | Queen's National Scholar

Research Areas: Black Geographies; Political Ecology; Geographies of Waste; Global Environmental Politics; Development Impact of Industrial Extraction; Informal Economies and Labour Markets in the Global South

Professor Emerita

godlewsk@queensu.ca

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D329

Research Areas: Indigenous geographies, Education and citizenship, Geography and imperialism, and History of geography and cartography.

Research Areas: Suburbs in Canada, Australia and USA; planning histories, especially Canada and Ottawa; capital cities; urban redevelopment, especially waterfronts; community design.

Research Areas: Planning for demographic and economic change; shrinking cities; economic decline; age-friendly communities; integrating play and fun into the urban landscape.

Professor Emeritus

holmesj@queensu.ca

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D312

Research Areas: Labour market regulation, industrial relations and innovation in the Canadian automotive industry; The impact of climate change on work and employment in Canada; The integration and restructuring of the North American (Canada/US/Mexico) automobile industry; Workplace governance in cross-border regions.

Distinguished University Professor Emerita

kobayasi@queensu.ca

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room E311

Research Areas: Citizenship and human rights, Employment equity, Disability policy and citizenship in Canada, Historical geographies of racialization, Community development among Japanese Canadians, and Housing, activism, and the right to the city.

Professor | Department Head (on leave)

Research Areas: Biogeochemistry of cold environments, Carbon and nutrient cycling in permafrost and alpine catchments, and Climate change and disturbance impacts on hydrology and water quality in permafrost watersheds.

Research Areas: Impact of permafrost changes on hydrology and landscape stability, Landscape controls over permafrost-related hazards, Sediment erosion and deposition processes in cold environments, Hydrological and sediment transport modelling, and Paleoenvironmental and paleohydrological change in the arctic and boreal environments.

Cross-Appointed | Professor

Research Areas: Public services, urbanization, water, energy, health, political theory, finance

Cross-Appointed | Professor & Canada Research Chair in Black Studies

Research Areas: Black Studies, Cultural Geographies, The Arts (music, fiction, poetry, visual art), Theories of Race, Interdisciplinarity

Associate Professor | Director (Acting), SURP

Research Areas: Local government reform, regional governance, urban-rural fringe, environmental planning and management. 

Research Areas: Biogeochemical cycling in natural systems, especially the role of microorganisms in waters, soils, and sediments. Due to observed and predicted increases in temperatures and hydrologic activity in the Arctic, this work helps us to understand how climate change will impact the terrestrial landscape of high latitude environments.