Mike Ripmeester, Professor

Office: MC C324
Extension: 4416; email: mripmeester@brocku.ca

Education:
B.A. University of British Columbia, 1988
M.A. University of British Columbia, 1990
Ph.D. Queen’s University, 1995

Research Interests:
Geographies of popular memory
Geography and ethnohistory
Historical and cultural geography
Historical geographies of First Nations in Ontario

Teaching Areas:
Historical Geography
Cultural Geography
Qualitative Methodology

Selected Publications:
Ripmeester, M. (accepted). Defining the native problem: Colonial discourse and the evolution of the reserve ideal in Upper Canada, 1825-1840. Canadian Historical Review.

Johnston, R. & Ripmeester, M. (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.

Osborne, B., M. Huitema, & Ripmeester, M. (2004). Shared places, shifting spaces: The First Nations of the Thousand Islands. In The Thousand Islands (pp. 13-26). Canadian Thousand Islands Heritage Conservancy: Mallorytown.

Ripmeester, M. (2003). Power, resistance and place making. In Peters, E. (Guest Ed.) Focus: Making native space: A review symposium. The Canadian Geographer 47(1), 76-77.

Ripmeester, M. (2002). The development of a British landscape at Niagara, 1759-1765. In N. Pollock-Ellwand (Ed.), Historic Landscape Preservation. University of Waterloo Heritage Resources Centre.

Ripmeester, M. (2002). Intentional resistance or just ‘bad behaviour’: Reading for everyday resistance at the Alderville First Nation, 1837-1876. In B. Hodgins, U. Lischke, & D. McNab (Eds.), Blockades and Resistance: Studies in Ethnohistory (pp. 105-126). Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Press.

Huitema, M., Osborne, B., & Ripmeester, M. (2002). Imagined spaces, constructed boundaries, conflicting claims: A legacy of post-colonial conflict in Eastern Ontario. International Journal of Canadian Studies 25, 89-112.

Feagan, R. & Ripmeester, M. (2001). Reading private green space: Competing geographic identities at the level of the lawn. Philosophy and Geography 4(1), 79-95.