Professor and Interim Department Chair (July 2022 – June 2023), Geography and Tourism Studies
PhD (Queen’s University)
MA (University of British Columbia)
BA (University of British Columbia)
Office: MC C331
Phone: 905-688-5550 x 4416
Email: michael.ripmeester@brocku.ca
Affiliations:
- Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute (CCOVI)
- Niagara Community Observatory
- MA in Popular Culture
Field: Historical Geography/Cultural Geography
- 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
- M. Ripmeester, P. Mackintosh, and C. Fullerton (eds.) (2013) The World of Niagara Wines (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press).
- M. Ripmeester, P. Mackintosh, and C. Fullerton (2013) Introduction in M. Ripmeester, P. Mackintosh, and C. Fullerton (eds.) The World of Niagara Wines(Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press).
- Ripmeester, M and R. Johnson (2013) New wine in old wineskins: marketing wine as agricultural heritage in M. Ripmeester, P. Mackintosh, and C. Fullerton (eds.) The World of Niagara Wines (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press).
- Ripmeester, M. (2013) Eroded by policy: the demise of manufacturing, the rise of creativity, and the intangible culture of working people in St. Catharines, ON. Sharing Cultures – Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intangible Heritage, Sérgio Lira, Rogério Amoêda, Cristina Pinheiro (eds.) (Greenlines Institute: Barcelos, Portugal).
- Ripmeester, M. (2011) Obliterating intangibles: deindustrialization, the creative economy and the erasure of blue collar identity in St. Catharines, ON.Sharing Cultures 2011, S. S. Lira, R. Amoeda, C. Pinheiro (eds.) (Greenlines Institute, Barcelos: Portugal) 541-551.
- Ripmeester, M. (2010) Missing memories, missing spaces: the Missing Plaques Project and Toronto’s public past, City, Culture and Society 1(4) 185-191.
- Johnston, R. and M. Ripmeester (2010) “That big statue of whoever: memory, landscape, and identity in the Niagara region. Placing Memory / Remembering Place, J. Opp and J. Walsh (eds.) (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press).
- Johnston, R, and M. Ripmeester (2010) A Promise Set in Stone: St. Catharines honours a Common Soldier in Niagara in Pieces, Barry Grant and Joan Nicks (eds.) (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Press) 25-43.
- Ripmeester, M and Russell Johnston (2010) New wine into old narratives: constructing wine as intangible heritage in the Niagara Region, Canada,Constructing Intangible Heritage . S. Lira, R. Amoeda, C. Pinheiro, and F. Olivera (Greenlines Institute: Barcelos, Portugal).
- Ripmeester, M. and R. Johnston (2010) Sustaining Identity: Heritage Development and Identity Construction in the Niagara Region, Canada.”HERITAGE 2010. S. Lira, R. Amoeda, C. Pinheiro, and F. Olivera. (Greenlines Institute, Barcelos, Portugal).
- Johnston, R. and M. Ripmeester (2009) Awake anon the tales of valour: The career of an urban war memorial. The Canadian Geographer 53(4) 404-426.
- Ripmeester, M. (2009) The Lawn. Encyclopedia of Urban Studies. R. Hutchinson and M. Crang (eds.) Sage Publications.
- Ripmeester, M. and R. Johnston (2009) Wine as intangible heritage: preliminary thoughts on meaning and landscape in the Niagara Region, Canada. Sharing Cultures 2009, S. Lira, R. Amoeda, C. Pinheiro, and F. Olivera (Greenlines Institute, Barcelos, Portugal) 585-593.
- Johnston, R and M. Ripmeester. (2007) A monument’s work is never done: the Watson monument, memory, and forgetting in a small Canadian city.International Journal of Heritage Studies. 13(2) 117-135.
- Off the Rack: Ideas, July 8, The Toronto Star
- Decaying Statue Stirs Debate, The St. Catharine Standard
- Authors chronicle Niagara’s wine industry, The St. Catharines Standard
- CCOVI lecture examines Niagara attitudes about wine, The Brock News
- Research Q & A: Heritage, identity and the Niagara Grape and Wine Industry, CCOVI News
- CCOVI Lecture Series: Memory in a Bottle: Heritage, Identity and Wine in Niagara