Our People

Nickling, William

University Professor Emeritus

Nost, Eric

Associate Professor
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Phone: 
519 824-4120 ext. 53279
Specialization: 

Political ecology; digital governance; environmental planning, markets, and justice; webmapping.

Parizeau, Kate

Professor
PhD, University of Toronto, 2011
Pronouns: 
She/her
Phone: 
519 824-4120 ext. 52174
Specialization: 

Waste (informal recycling, food waste, and waste management policy); Urban inequality (poverty, urban governance, environmental justice, urban political ecology, activism); Feminist geographies (gender, dimensions of social difference, ethical scholarship).

Pearce, Tristan

Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Guelph
Phone: 
+61 7 5456 5812
Office: 
Sustainability Research Centre/Faculty of Arts and Business University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
Specialization: 

Human dimensions of global environmental change, climate change adaptation, Arctic, traditional knowledge.

Reitmeier, Veronica

Grant and Trust Professional
Specialization: 

IdigenERA Lab [Working with Dr. Diana Lewis]

Roth, Robin

Professor and Chair
Ph.D. Clark University, USA, 2004
Phone: 
519-824-4120 ext. 53525
Specialization: 

Political Ecology; Indigenous-led Conservation; Forest Governance; Decolonial theory; Southeast Asia and North America.

Shivji, Iman

Graduate Program Assistant
Phone: 
519 824-4120
Office: 
MINS 115B
Specialization: 

Support to the GEG graduate program is provided by the shared team of Graduate Program Assistants located in the CSAHS Dean's Office.

Silver, Jennifer

Professor, Associate Chair and Undergraduate Program Coordinator
PhD, Simon Fraser University, 2010
Pronouns: 
She/her/hers
Phone: 
519 824-4120 ext. 52176
Specialization: 

Ocean governance; Fisheries management, coastal communities and settler colonialism; Digital technology and environmental change; Political ecology.

Smit, Barry

University Professor Emeritus