Graduate Supervision
Post-doctoral students
| October 2017- present | Dr. Elsa Koleth |
| January 2004 – Sept 2004 | Dr. Katherine McKittrick |
Graduate Programme in Geography
Ph.D.
| Sept. 2014 – Dec. 2014 | Committee Member, Comprehensives Committee, Reachel Baker |
| Sept. 2009 – Present | Committee Member, William Payne |
| Sept. 2009 – October 2015 | Committee Member, Hulya Arik Secular Bodyscapes: Corporeal and Emotional Intersections of Security and Secularism in the Turkish Military |
| Sept. 2009 – October 2014 | Supervisor, Ph.D Katie McDonald Rupununi Imaginaries |
| Sept. 2007 – April 2012 | Supervisor, Ph.D. Robert Lidstone (withdrew) |
| Sept. 2003 – July 2007 | Supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis, Laura Shillington Complex Ecologies and Cityspaces: Social-ecological Networks in Urban Agriculture, Managua, Nicaragua |
| Sept. 2003 – May 2004 | Supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis, Kevin De Jesus Refugees and gendered violence in Palestine (Supervisor withdrew) |
| January 2003 – May 2004 | Committee Member, Ph.D. Comprehensives Committee, Keith Barney Ethnic identities and rural development in Laos |
| July 1999 – July 2001 | Supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis, Colette Murray Afrocentric social movements in Central America (withdrew) |
| Jan. 1992 – Dec. 1994 | Supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis, Donna Maitland (withdrew) |
| July 1991 – July 1992 | Joint Supervisor, (with Dr. D. Freeman) Ph.D. Thesis, Perez Nyamwange (withdrew) |
MA
| Sept. 2013 – Present | Supervisor, MA Thesis, Raushan Bhuiyan |
| Sept. 2012 – April 2015 | Supervisor, MA Thesis, Zakiya Price |
| Sept. 2010 – Dec. 2011 | Supervisor, MA Thesis, Nadia Hedar (withdrew) |
| Sept. 2009 – May 2011 | Supervisor, MA Thesis, Jessi Francis Aboriginal tourism in the southern interior of British Columbia: Identities, representations, and expectations |
| Sept. 2007 – July 2010 | Supervisor, MA Thesis, Nicole Chenier (withdrew) |
| Sept. 2006 – July 2008 | Joint Supervisor, MA Thesis, Meghan Rees (with Dr. Alison Bain) Identity for sale: A Case Study of Gap Inc. |
| Sept. 2005 – May 2007 | Committee member, MA Thesis, Esther Rootham Racialised Youth, Identity and the labour Market: The Vietnamese Second Generation |
| Sept. 2005 – Sept. 2006 | Supervisor, MA Thesis, Jennifer Domise Jamaican Women Agricultural Workers in Ontario |
| Sept. 2000 – Sept. 2006 | Supervisor, MA Thesis, Roxanne Richardson Amerindian women and development issues in the Guyanese interior (withdrew) |
| Jan. 1997 – Dec. 1997 | Committee Member, MA Thesis, Katherine Morihovitis Economics and Women's Work in the Greater Toronto Area: A Case Study of Cashiers |
| Sept. 1996 – Dec. 1998 | Supervisor, MA Thesis, Katherine Topelko Guyanese Women Speak About Their Reproductive Health Experiences |
| Sept. 1993 – May 1995 | Joint Supervisor, MA Thesis, Catherine Lyon (with Dr. V. Preston) Exploring Desired Spaces: A Study of Feminist Activism and Spatial Organization |
| Sept. 1991 – Sept. 1993 | Supervisor, MA Thesis, Deborah Hierlihy From Collective Space to Community Service: A Study of Amsterdam's Women's Centres |
| July 1990 – June 1992 | Supervisor, MA Thesis, Rohini Wilkie The Androcentric Corral: Feminism, "New" Ethnography and Cultural Geography |
Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies
Ph.D.
| July 2010 – December 2012 | Joint Supervisor, Conely Deleon (with Dr. Phillip Kelly) Philipino Youth in Toronto |
| January 2010 –October 2014 | Supervisor, Grace Ogunyankin, It’s My Right to Fix the City: Women, Class, and the Postcolonial Politics of Neoliberal Urbanism in Ibadan, Nigeria |
| September 2007 - present | Supervisor, Leeann Townsend Transnationalism and Sexuality in Guyana |
| September 2007 – June 2010 | Supervisor, Abhar Hussain The Social Dynamics of Remittances: Bangladeshi women’s labor migration to Malaysia (joint supervisor) |
| September 2007 – Dec. 2008 | Committee Member, Bhavani Ragharum |
| September 2004 – Dec. 2009 | Committee Member, Ph.D. Thesis, Deborah McPhail Globalisation and women’s health |
| July 2001 – Nov. 2009 | Supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis, Jennifer Johnson Spaces of Corporate Capital: Gendering Negotiations at the Free Trade Areas of the Americas |
| July 1999 – November 2003 | Supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis, Katherine McKittrick Demonic Grounds: Black Women’s Geographies |
| January 1999 – July 2003 | Committee Member, Ph.D. Thesis, Elizabeth Millward Scaling airspace: aviatrixes in Britain and New Zealand in the inter war period |
| July 1998 – December 2006 | Supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis, Allyson Mitchell Reclaiming space for fat women in the city; a fat activist approach |
| July 1997 – Nov. 2008 | Joint Supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis, Mary Ebos (with Dr. Brenda Longfellow) The Ceylonese photographs of Margaret Julia Cameron |
MA
| Sept. 2011 –December 2012 | Committee member, MA Major Research Paper, Preity Kumar Unravelling Indo-Caribbean women’s sexualities in the Anglophone Caribbean |
| Sept. 2011 – August 2012 | Supervisor, MA Major Research Paper, Abena Offeh-Gyimah Anti-racist feminist anlaysis of disability in Africa |
| July 2001 – July 2002 | Supervisor, MA Major Research Paper, Celine Cooper A feminist geography analysis of female refugees |
| Sept. 2000 – March 2002 | Supervisor, MA Major Research Paper, Jennifer Woodill Lesbian spaces of resistance: tai kwando |
| Sept. 2000 – June 2002 | Supervisor, MA Major Research Paper, Shana Calixte Gender and transnationalism; meanings of home for St. Lucian expatriates |
| Jan. 2000 – June 2004 | Supervisor, MA Major Research Paper, Amrita Persaud Domestic violence among Indo-Guyanese women in Toronto |
| July 1997 – Sept. 1998 | Supervisor, MA Major Research Paper, Allyson Mitchell Lesbian graffiti in downtown Toronto |
| Sept. 1994 – May 1996 | Supervisor, MA Major Research Paper, Charmai Crawford Women and domestic violence in Trinidad and Tobago |
Graduate Programme in Development Studies
| September 2014 – May 2017 | Supervisor, MA thesis, Pere DeRoy Human Trafficking in Guyana |
| September 2012 – April 2014 | Supervisor, MA thesis, Keresa Arnold Women’s NGOs in Belize |
| September 2011 – August 2013 | Supervisor, MA thesis, Michelle Bobala Women and the MDGs in Guyana |
| September 2008 – May 2010 | Supervisor, MA Thesis, Shannon Gurevich A critical analysis of the PRSP in Guyana |
| September 2007 – May 2009 | Supervisor, MA Thesis, Kate Nowak GST in Guyana and its impact on low-income women. |
Graduate Programme in Socio-Legal Studies
| September 2011 – August 2012 | Committee member, MA Thesis, Lisane Thirsk |
Graduate Programme in Anthropology
| July 1997 – December 2001 | Committee Member, Ph.D. Thesis, Susan Frohlick Transnational topographies; scaling Mount Everest |
Graduate Programme in Faculty of Environmental Studies
| Sept. 1993 – May 1995 | Joint Supervisor, MES Thesis, Charulata Prasada (with Dr. B. Kettel) The work of Red Thread women’s NGO in Guyana |
Graduate Supervision of students in other universities
| Sept 2014 – Dec. 2014 | International advisor, Ph.D. Thesis, Susan Holland-Muter, Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town |
| Sept. 2011 – March 2013 | International advisor, M.Phil, Nikoli Attai, Women’s Studies, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago |
| Sept. 1998 – Jan. 1999 | Comprehensives Committee member, Ph.D. Thesis, Sharron Fitzgerald, Geography Department, Wilfred Laurier University |
| Sept. 1990 – Jan. 1997 | Supervisory Board member, Ph.D. Thesis, Alison Grant, Geography Department, McMaster University Domestic violence and the state in Ontario |
Graduate Advisor, Cerlac Diploma (Centre for Research in Latin America and the Caribbean), York Univ.
| 2010 – 2014 | Katie MacDonald |
| 1997 – 1998 | Kirsten Iler |
| 1992 – 1993 | Rohini Wilkie, Jeremy Tucker |
Graduate Advisor, Graduate Programme in Women’s Studies, York University
| 2011 – 2012 | Rajanie Kumar |
| 2009 – 2010 | Angela Deveau |
| 2006 – 2007 | Kathryn Travis |
| 2004 – 2005 | Leeann Townsend |
| 2003 - 2004 | Alyson Hoy |
| 2000 - 2001 | Jennifer Johnson |
| 1998 – 1999 | Allyson Mitchell |
| 1996 – 1997 | Kirsten Iler |
| 1995 – 1996 | Karen Flynn |
| 1994 – 1995 | Charmaine Crawford |
External Examiner
| Dec. 2017 | MA External Examiner for Andrew McCartan, Department of Geography, Brock University. Glasgow’s Queer Battleground |
| Sept. 2003 | Ph.D. External Examiner for Catherine Jean Nash, Department of Geography, Queen’s University. Toronto’s Gay Ghetto: Politics and the disciplining of identity and space (1969-1982) |
| April 2002 | MA External Examiner for Amanda Bullen, Department of Geography, McMaster University. Housing policy in the Caribbean in the inter war period |
| Sept. 2001 | Ph.D. External Examiner for Zoe Newman, Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, Toronto, Ontario. Whitening the Inner City. The Containment of Toronto's Degenerate Spaces and the Production of Respectable Citizens |
Internal Examiner / Dean’s Representative
| August 2017 | MRP Internal Examiner for Lee Waddington, Department of Geography, York University Is Coal Still Our Life? Working-Class Men, Masculinities, and Memories of Deindustrialization in a South Yorkshire Coal Mining Borough, 1984-1994. |
| June 2013 | MA Internal Examiner for Colleen Mitchell, Department of Geography, York University Working within Toronto’s private houses: women in waged domestic labour, 1880s to 1920s |
| October 2012 | Ph.D. Dean’s Representative for Melanie Sampson, Department of Political Science, York University Wasting Value and Valuing Waste: Insights into the Global Crisis and the Production of Value Reclaimed from a Soweto Garbage Dump |
| June 2008 | Ph.D. Internal Examiner for Leslie Kern, Graduate Programme in Women’s Studies, York University. Gendering Urban Revitalization: Women, Condominium Development and the Neoliberalization of Urban Citizenship |
| May 2004 | Ph.D. Dean’s Representative for Adriana Premat, Department of Anthropology, York University Cuban counterpoint of the public and private: reflections on the making of urban agriculture sites in Havana, Cuba |
| Feb. 2003 | Ph.D. Dean’s Representative, Karen Flynn, Graduate Programme in Women’s Studies, York University Race, Class, and Gender: Black Nurses in Ontario, 1950-1980. |
| Sept.1998 | Examining Committee Member, MA Thesis, Geography Department, York University, Colleen Crummey A Geography of Grafitti: A Semiotic Analysis of Belfast's Murals |
| Sept. 1995 | Dean’s Representative, MES Oral Exam, FES, York University, Stefan Kipfer |
Courses Taught
Graduate Courses (*New Courses Developed)
| 2013 | GEOG5209 Critical Human Geography (Core course to first year MA students) |
| 2011 – 2012 | Women’s Studies 6007 3.0 Feminist Research Colloquium (Core course to first year MA students) |
| 2006 -2010 | Women’s Studies 6008 3.0 *Feminist Methodologies and Research Methods (Core course to first year Ph.D. students) |
| 1997 – 2006 | W. Studies /Geog. 6901 3.0 * Feminist Geographies of Space and Place |
| 1985 | Urban and Regional Planning MA in Geog., UEA, UK |
| 1983 – 1985 | MA in Regional Spatial Analysis, Planning in Developing Countries, UEA, UK Regional Economics Regional Economic Planning Regional Physical Planning |
Graduate Reading Courses
| 2012 | Caribbean feminisms, Michelle Bobala MA, Development Studies, York University, Winter 2012 |
| 2007 - 2008 | Feminist Methodologies and Methods WMST Abhar Hussain Ph.D, Women’s Studies, York University, Fall 2007 |
| Emmanual Moya MA, Geography Department, York University, Winter 2008 Nicole Chenier MA, Geography Department, York University, Winter 2008 |
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| 2005 | Trafficking in Women WMST Leeann Townsend MA, Women’s Studies, York University, Summer 2005 |
| 2000 | Feminist Theories of Development in Latin America WMST Colette Murray Ph.D., Geography Department, York University |
| 1990 – 2010 | Feminist Geographies of Space and Place WMST 5020
Conely Deleon PhD, Women’s Studies, York Uni., W 2010 |
Undergraduate Courses (*New Courses Developed)
York University, Toronto
| 2018 | The Urban Professional | SOSC 3715 3.0 |
| 2009 – 2015 | Urban Analysis | SOSC 3700 6.0 |
| 1992 - 2008 | Urban Studies Field Experience | SOSC 4710 6.0 |
| 1995 - 2000 | *City Lives and City Forms | SOSC 2710 9.0 |
| * Urban Research Methods | SOSC 3700 6.0 | |
| 1992 - 1993 | *Gender and the City | SOSC 3910 3.0 |
| The City as a Social Process | SOSC 2720 6.0 | |
| 1990 – 1991 | The City as a Social Process | SOSC 2720 6.0 |
| *Gender and the City | SOSC 4910 3.0 | |
| 1989 - 1990 | Political Geography | GEOG 3050 6.0 |
| Urban Social Policy | GEOG 4380 6.0 | |
| Urban Analysis | SOSC 3700 6.0 |
University of Guyana
| 1993 | Research Methods in the Social Sciences | 3rd year course |
| 1985 | Regional Planning | 3rd year course |
| Urban Planning | 3rd year course |
Grand Valley State University, Michigan
| 1988 - 1989 | *Women and Environments | Social Science 4000 level |
| Research Methods in the Social Sciences | Social Science 3000 level | |
| World Regional Geography | Social Science 1000 level |
Kingston University, England
| 1985 - 1988 | Human Geography | 1st year course |
| Statistics for Geographers | 1st year course | |
| Social Geography | 2nd year course | |
| *Political Geography | 2nd year course | |
| *Advanced Social Geography | 3rd year course | |
| *Advanced Political Geography | 3rd year course | |
| * Philosophies and Methodologies | 3rd year course in Geography | |
| Undergraduate Field Courses: | Devon, South Wales and Tunisia |
University of East Anglia, England
| 1983 - 1985 | * Analysis and Techniques | 1st year course |
| Principles of Development Studies (1/3 lectures) | 1st year course |
Reading University, England
| 1982 | Housing and Urban Residential Differentiation | 3rd year course |
| 1979 - 1983 | Human Geography Tutorials Demonstrator (assistant) for courses on: Statistics, Location Theory and Computing (SPSSX) | 1st, 2nd and 3rd year courses |
Other Teaching
| 1979 - 1980 | Teaching English to Overseas Students | (13-16 year olds) |
| 1979 - 1980 | English and Communication Skills | HND Class (16-17 year olds) |
Students employed on SSHRC Partnership Grant
| 2017 – 2018 | Post-doctoral Visitor: Dr. Elsa Koleth |
| Masters student: Esteban Sabbatasso | |
| RAY Undergraduate student: Jamilla Mohamud |
