Faculty and Staff in Geography

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Faculty and their Current Research Interests

Jeff Boggs
Associate Professor
Room: C-328, Extension: 4975
E-mail:  Jeff.Boggs@brocku.ca

- Economic geography and heterodox political economy
- Locational dynamics of media and other cultural industries
- Regional political economy
- Economic development in second-tier cities and deindustrialized regions
- Niagara's changing economy
- Regional foci: North America, European Union (especially Germany and Mitteleuropa)

David Butz
Professor
Room: C-315, Extension: 3205
E-mail: dbutz@brocku.ca

- Social and cultural geography
- Qualitative research design
- Community level social organisation in northern Pakistan
- Road construction and social change in the global south
- Transport labour in the Karakoram/Hindu-Kush/Himalaya
- Reggae music and spatiality

Daryl Dagesse
Associate Professor
Room: C-320, Extension: 4071
E-mail: ddagesse@brocku.ca

- Soil aggregate stability under freezing conditions
- Thermodynamics of freezing
- Freeze/Thaw weathering of rock
- Glacial landforms of the Peterborough area

Christopher Fullerton
Associate Professor
Room: C-319, Extension: 3487
E-mail: Chris.Fullerton@brocku.ca

- Planning history of Ottawa
- Public transit planning and policy
- Rural community development
- Universal transit pass programs at post-secondary institutions

Hugh Gayler
Professor Emeritus
Room: C-312A, Extension: 3488
E-mail: hjgayler@brocku.ca

- Planning issues on the rural-urban fringe
- Smart growth
- Urbanisation and agricultural land preservation

Alun Hughes (Retired June 30, 2012)
Associate Professor
Room: C-312A, Extension: 3489
E-mail: ahughes@brocku.ca

- Early surveys and settlement of the Niagara Peninsula
- Historical geography of Thorold and neighbouring townships
- History of Brock University campus

Marilyne Jollineau
Associate Professor
Room: C-325, Extension: 4556
E-mail: mjollineau@brocku.ca

- Remote sensing of wetland ecosystems
- Water resources management
- Geomatics approaches to vineyard management
- Hyperspectral image-analysis techniques
- Land-use/land-cover mapping and monitoring

Phillip Gordon Mackintosh
Associate Professor and Chair
Room: C-321, Extension: 5221
E-mail: pmackintosh@brocku.ca 

- Urban historical geography
- Victorian, Edwardian, and Interwar urban reform, city and park planning history
- Cultural geography, cultural history, and public space (including bicycling)
- Political economy and urban geography

John Menzies
Professor
Room: D-421, Extension: 3865
E-mail: jmenzies@brocku.ca 

- Drumlins and associated bedforms
- Glacial micromorphology
- Subglacial sediments

Catherine Jean Nash
Associate Professor
Room: C-317, Extension: 3238
E-mail:  Catherine.Nash@brocku.ca

- Social and cultural geographies
- Urban planning and development
- Digitial cities, cyberspace and mobilities

Michael Pisaric
Assistant Professor
Room: C-318, Extension: 6152
E-mail: mpisaric@brocku.ca

- Climate change
- Dendrochronology
- Paleolimnology
- Arctic ecosystems
- Landscape evolution

Mike Ripmeester
Professor
Room: C-331, Extension: 4416
E-mail: Michael.Ripmeester@brocku.ca

- Geographies of popular memory
- Geography and ethnohistory
- Historical and cultural geography
- Historical geographies of First Nations in Ontario

Anthony Shaw
Professor
Room: C-326, Extension: 3866
E-mail: 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

Dragos Simandan
Professor and Graduate Program Director
Room: C-327, Extension: 5010
E-mail:  simandan@brocku.ca

- Intelligence in Human Affairs
- Social Theory & Philosophy of the Social Sciences
- Geographical Reasoning
- Economic, Resource, and Environmental Geographies
- The Interface between Geography and Psychology

Ebru Ustundag
Associate Professor
Room: C-314, Extension: 4417
E-mail:  eustundag@brocku.ca

- Urban Geography
- Citizenship Studies
- Feminist Geographies
- Geographies of Sex-Work
- Emotional/Affective Geographies
- Geographies of Health and Addiction

Contract Faculty

Jayson Childs
Assistant Professor
Room C-329, Extension: 5891
E-mail: jchilds@brocku.ca

Alireza Ghaffari
Assistant Professor
Room C-330, Extension: 5399
E-mail:  aghaffari@brocku.ca

Staff

Virginia Wagg - Administrative Coordinator and Academic Advisor - Graduate and Undergraduate Program
Room: C-322, Extension: 3484
E-mail: vwagg@brocku.ca

Stella Han - Undergraduate Academic Advisor
Room: C-324, Extension: 3514
E-mail: whan@brocku.ca

Loris Gasparotto - Cartographer
Room: C-313, Extension: 3491
E-mail: lgasparotto@brocku.ca

Dimitre Iankoulov - Microcomputer Support Analyst  /Technician
Room: C-312, Extension: 3485
E-mail: djankoul@brocku.ca

Colleen Beard - Map and Geography Librarian
Phone: 905-688-5550, Extension 3468
E-mail: cbeard@brocku.ca
Location: Map Library, Mackenzie Chown, C-Block, Room 306

Sharon Janzen - Map Library Assistant/GIS Specialist (On Leave)
Phone: 905-688-5550, Extension 3468
E-mail: sjanzen@brocku.ca
Location: Map Library, Mackenzie Chown, C-Block, Room 306