Derek Gregory Receives Honorary Fellowship
Professor Derek Gregory received an Honorary Fellowship from King’s College London on 20 July at the Barbican. The Honorary Fellowship “recognises the exceptional distinction achieved on the part of the holder through their public and professional life”.”
Derek Gregory to give Tanner Lecture at Cambridge
Professor Derek Gregory has been invited to give the Tanner Lectures at Cambridge on 13-14 January 2016. The title of his lecture is “Reach from the sky: aerial violence and the everywhere war”. The Lectures are given in parallel at nine universities in the UK and the USA: Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, Berkeley, […]
Elvin Wyly Promoted to Professor
Congratulations Elvin Wyly who has been promoted to full Professor, effective July 1, 2015! Professor Wyly’s research focuses on the relations between market processes and state policy in producing and reinforcing urban social inequalities. His recent and ongoing projects focus on class, racial, and gender discrimination in mortgage lending and foreclosures in the U.S. urban system; housing […]
Matthew Evenden Promoted to Professor
Congratulations Matthew Evenden who has been promoted to full Professor, effective July 1, 2015! Professor Evenden’s research focuses on environmental history and water history, particularily on the history and politics of large rivers, particularly in Canada. His latest book, Allied Powers: Mobilizing Hydro-Electricity during Canada’s Second World War, was published earlier this year. He is […]
Water Bush Camp with Professor Karen Bakker
Northern Canada has the third largest oil and gas reserves in the world. As resource exploitation has intensified in this region over the past decade, sustainable water governance has become a highly critical and contentious issue, particularly for Indigenous communities grappling with access to safe drinking water, environmental water quality, and related livelihood and health […]
Professor Emeritus Mike Church Elected AGU Fellow
Congratulations to Mike Church who has been elected as a Fellow Member of the American Geophysical Union for his exceptional contributions to Earth sciences! This honor is bestowed on only 0.1% of the AGU membership in any given year.
New Postdoctoral and Teaching and Learning Fellows
This summer, we welcome one postdoctoral and two teaching and learning fellows to our Geography community! Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Jennifer Bagelman Open University, 2012, PhD University of Victoria, MA, First Class Honours University of Victoria, BA, First Class Honours I joined UBC in January 2015 as a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow. Previously, I was a Lecturer in […]
Matt Dyce wins the CAG Starkey-Robinson Award
Congratulations recent PhD (2014) graduate Matt Dyce for winning the Canadian Association of Geographers Starkey-Robinson Award for his dissertation, A Spatial History of Canada: Archives, Knowledge, and Geography. Matt Dyce is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Winnipeg. Photo by M. Benedictson, University of Winnipeg
Matthew Evenden Appointed to Associate Dean
Congratulations to Associate Professor Matthew Evenden who has been appointed as Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies for a three year term starting July 2015.
Sustainability Learning Pathway Comes to Geography
Geography announces its Sustainability Learning Pathway for all BA and BSc degrees offered by the department. With funding from a University Sustainability Initiative Pathway Seed Grant, Dr. Brett Eaton led a project to develop specific, sustainability learning outcomes relevant to our specializations, and to map all existing courses in Geography onto these learning outcomes. Following […]