Staff
Department Chair
Michael Pisaric, Professor
Office: MC C321
905-688-5550 x6152
GEOG_TOUR_Chair@brocku.ca
Graduate Program Director
Atsuko Hashimoto, Professor
Office: MC C422
905-688-5550 x4367
MAGeography@brocku.ca
Administrative Coordinator & Academic Advisor, Graduate and Undergraduate Programs
Teresa Shanley
Office: MC C322
905-688-5550 x3484
tshanley@brocku.ca
Academic Advisor & Communications Coordinator
Pam Isaak
Office: MC C324
geogtour@brocku.ca
Microcomputer Support Analyst/Technician
Dimitre Iankoulov
Office: MC C312
905-688-5550 x3485
djankoul@brocku.ca
Faculty
Julia Baird
Associate Professor
Office: SH 300
905-688-5550 x5426
jbaird@brocku.ca
- Water management
- Water governance
- Social-ecological resilience
- Sustainability science
- Agriculture management
- Social network analysis
Jeff Boggs
Associate Professor
Office: MC C328
905-688-5550 x4975
jeff.boggs@brocku.ca
- Applied quantitative research, especially using georeferenced Statistics Canada data
- Economic development in second-tier cities and deindustrialized regions
- Niagara’s changing economy
- Economic geography
- Locational dynamics of media and other cultural industries
- Regional political economy
David T. Brown
Associate Professor
Office: MC C425
905-688-5550 x3293
dbrown@brocku.ca
- Digital tourism and interpretation
- Municipal cultural mapping
- Niagara Greenbelt Gateway Project
- Land management plans for the Niagara Parks Commission
- Trail and greenway management
- Sustainable integrated waste management theory and practice
David Butz
Professor
Office: MC C315
905-688-5550 x3205
dbutz@brocku.ca
- Social and cultural geography
- Qualitative research design
- Community level social organisation in northern Pakistan
- Mobility justice
- Mobilities, road construction and social change in the global south
- Transport labour in the Karakoram/Hindu-Kush/Himalaya
- Reggae music and spatiality
Danuta de Grosbois
Associate Professor
Office: MC C421
905-688-5550 x5676
ddegrosbois@brocku.ca
- Sustainable tourism management
- Tourism certification
- Measurement of CSR performance
- CSR reporting in tourism industry
David Fennell
Professor
Office: MC C420
905-688-5550 x4663
dfennell@brocku.ca
- Ecotourism
- Nature-based tourism
- Tourism ethics
- Ecotourism policy and planning
Christopher Fullerton
Professor
Office: MC C417
905-688-5550 x3487
chris.fullerton@brocku.ca
- Rural planning and development
- Rural tourism
- Ottawa’s urban and regional planning history
- Public transit planning and policy
- U-Pass programs at post-secondary institutions
David Goldblum
Associate Professor
Office: MC C318
dgoldblum@brocku.ca
- Biogeography
- Tree rings (dendrochronology & dendroclimatology)
- Forest Ecology
Atsuko Hashimoto
Professor and Graduate Program Director
Office: MC C422
905-688-5550 x4367
ahashimoto@brocku.ca
- Socio-cultural and human aspects of tourism development (especially women and children)
- Dark tourism
- Green tourism in rural Japan
Phillip Gordon Mackintosh
Professor
Office: MC C319
905-688-5550 x 5221
pmackintosh@brocku.ca
- The urban historical geography of the modern city
- Historical mobilities, including bicycling
- Public space and bourgeois culture
- Urban reform and city planning
- Victorian gender relations and fraternalism
- Historical newspapers
- Liberalism
- Victorian “race” science, and creationism
John Menzies
Professor, Earth Sciences
Office: MC D421
905-688-5550 x3865
jmenzies@brocku.ca
- Glacial sedimentology at Lichtenegg, Baden-Wurttemburg
- Micromorphology of Antarctic marine diamictons
- Structural geology of tills
- The science of geomaterials
Michael Pisaric
Professor and Chair
Office: MC C321
905-688-5550 x6152
mpisaric@brocku.ca
- Climate change
- Dendrochronology
- Paleolimnology
- Arctic ecosystems
- Landscape evolution
Mike Ripmeester
Professor
Office: MC C331
905-688-5550 x 4416
michael.ripmeester@brocku.ca
- Geographies of popular memory
- Geography and ethnohistory
- Historical and cultural geography
- Historical geographies of First Nations in Ontario
- Historical Geographies of Native – Euro – Canadian relationships in 19th century Canada
- Landscape and identity
- Geographies of private green space
- Mnemonic landscapes
- Wine and identity
- Culture and economy
Dragos Simandan
Professor
Office: MC C327
905-688-5550 x5010
simandan@brocku.ca
- Economic Geography
- Critical Human Geographies and Critical Urban Theory
- Health, Well-being, and the Politics of Biomedical Research
- Social Theory and Philosophy of the Social Sciences
- The Interface between Geography and the Cognitive Sciences
David J. Telfer
Professor
Office: MC C415
905-688-5550 x4100
dtelfer@brocku.ca
- Linkages between tourism and development theory
- Tourism planning and development
- Rural tourism development
Kevin Turner
Associate Professor
Office: MC C330
905-688-5550 x5399
kturner2@brocku.ca
- Response of northern lake-rich landscapes to climate change
- Hydrology
- GIS, spatial analysis, and remote sensing
- Water isotope tracer techniques
- Paleolimnological reconstruction of past lake conditions
Ebru Ustundag
Associate Professor
Office: MC C314
905-688-5550 x4417
eustundag@brocku.ca
- Urban Geography
- Citizenship Studies
- Emotional/Affective Geographies
- Feminist Geographies
- Geographies of Health and Addiction
- Geographies of Sex-Work
- Graphic Medicine
Professors Emeriti
Hugh Gayler
Professor Emeritus
hjgayler@brocku.ca
Catherine Jean Nash
Professor Emerita
cnash@brocku.ca
- Social and cultural geographies
- Urban planning and development
- Digital cities, cyberspace, and mobilities
Anthony Shaw
Professor Emeritus
tshaw@brocku.ca
- Detection and prediction of road surface icing conditions
- Microclimate analysis for specialty crops
- Thermal and moisture behaviour of stud wall vs structural insulated panel
- Wind machine for freeze protection
- Wind resource assessment for wind power
- Wine terroir and sub-appellations
- Applied climatology and meteorology
- Viticulture, vineyard site selection and freeze protection methods for specialty crops
- Climate change and building climatology
Adjunct faculty
Jayson Childs
Adjunct Professor
Office: MC C329
905-688-5550 x5891
jchilds@brocku.ca
- Aeolian geomorphology of the Great Lakes
- Coastal conservation and management
- Coastal geomorphology of the Great Lakes
- Education
- Polar geography
- Water resources geography
David Grimes
Adjunct Professor
David Morimoto
Adjunct Professor
Office: MC C418
dmorimoto@brocku.ca
- Dendrochronology
- Paleoecology
- Climate Change
Librarians
Denise Smith
Head, Research Lifecycle (including the Maps, Data and GIS Library)
dsmith@brocku.ca
Retired Faculty and Staff
- Daryl Dagesse
- Loris Gasparotto, Cartographer
- Hugh Gayler
- Alun Hughes
- John Jackson
- John McNeil
- Josephine Meeker
- John Middleton
- Catherine Nash
- Anthony Shaw
- Clarke Thomson
- B.W. Thompson
- Virginia Wagg
