Mike Ripmeester

Professor and Interim Department Chair (July 2022 – June 2023), Geography and Tourism Studies

Mike Ripmeester
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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: 

Field: Historical Geography/Cultural Geography

Research Interests

  • 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

Publications and collections

  • 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.