TEACHING
Post-doctoral fellows
Nov 2022 – Jan 2024. Dr. Carmen Ponce, (SSHRC Partnership Grant)
August 2022 – Mar 2024. Dr. Nasya Razavi, (SSHRC Post-doc Grant)
Nov 2021 – Apr 2024 Dr. Araby Smyth (GenUrb, SSHRC Partnership Grant)
July 2019 – July 2021. Dr. Laurence Simard Gagnon (SSHRC Post-doc Grant)
May 2018 – July 2022 Dr. Nasya Razavi (GenUrb, SSHRC Partnership Grant)
April 2018 - July 2019 Dr. Penn Tsz Ting Ip (GenUrb, SSHRC Partnership Grant)
Oct 2017 – Dec 2020 Dr. Elsa Koleth (GenUrb, SSHRC Partnership Grant)
Jan 2004 - Sept 2004 Dr. Katherine McKittrick (Standard SSHRC)
GRADUATE SUPERVISION
Graduate programme in Geography
Ph.D.
Sept 2018 - 2024 Supervisor, Ph.D., Mantha Katsikana
Queer activism in Athens, Greece
Sept 2009 – May 2025 Committee Member, William Payne
Peace missions in Mexico and Columbia
Sept 2009 - Oct 2015 Committee Member, Hulya Arik
Secular Bodyscapes: security and secularism in the Turkish military
Sept 2014 - Dec 2014 Committee Member, Comps Committee, Reachel Baker
Sept 2009 - Oct 2014 Supervisor, Ph.D. Katie McDonald Rupununi imaginaries
Sept 2007 - April 2012 Supervisor, Ph.D. Robert Lidstone (withdrew, ill health)
Sept 2003 - July 2007 Supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis, Laura Shillington
Complex ecologies and city spaces of agriculture, Managua, Nicaragua
Sept 2003 - May 2004 Supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis, Kevin De Jesus
Refugees and gendered violence in Palestine (Supervisor withdrew)
Jan 2003 - May 2004 Committee Member, Ph.D. Comps. Committee, Keith Barney
Ethnic identities and rural development in Laos
July 1999 - July 2002 Supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis, Colette Murray
Afrocentric social movements in Central America (withdrew, motherhood)
Jan 1992 - Dec 1994 Supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis, Donna Maitland (withdrew, ill health)
July 1991 - July 1992 Joint Supervisor, (with Dr. D. Freeman) Ph.D. Thesis, Perez Nyamwange (withdrew, visa problems)
MA
Sept 2013 – Nov 2025 Supervisor, MA Thesis, Raushan Bhuiyan
The social networks of low-income racialized women in Toronto’s Lawrence Heights neighbourhood
Sept 2012 - April 2015 Supervisor, MA Thesis, Zakiya Price
The home of community tourism: authenticity and women’s everyday geographies in Jamaica
Sept 2010 - Dec 2011 Supervisor, MA Thesis, Nadia Hedar (withdrew, ill health)
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, ill health)
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, ill health)
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.
Sept 2019 – Nov 2025 Supervisor, Melody Mikhail
Capital and race in the age of urban financialization
Jan 2010 - Oct 2014 Supervisor, Grace Ogunyankin,
Women, class, and the postcolonial politics of neoliberal urbanism in Ibadan, Nigeria
July 2010 - Dec 2012 Joint Supervisor, Conely Deleon (with Dr. Phillip Kelly)
Filipino youth in Toronto (supervisor withdrew)
Sept 2007 – Aug 2013 Supervisor, Leeann Townsend
Transnationalism and sexuality in Guyana (withdrew, motherhood)
Sept 2007 - June 2010 Supervisor, Abhar Hussain
Remittances: Bangladeshi women’s labor migration to Malaysia (joint supervisor)
Sept 2007 - Dec 2008 Committee Member, Bhavani Ragharum
Sept 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 - Nov 2003 Supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis, Katherine McKittrick
Demonic grounds: Black women’s geographies
Jan 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 - Dec 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 2018 - March 2020 Supervisor, MA Major Research Paper, Dina Al Shawaa
A feminist critique of smart cities
Sept 2011 - Dec 2012
Committee member, MA Major Research Paper, Preity Kumar Unravelling Indo-Caribbean women’s sexualities in the Anglophone Caribbean
Sept 2011 - Aug 2012
Supervisor, MA Major Research Paper, Abena Offeh-Gyimah Anti-racist feminist analysis of disability in Africa
July 2001 - July 2002
Supervisor, MA Major Research Paper, Celine Cooper
A feminist geography analysis of female refugees
Sept 2000 - Mar 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, Charmaine Crawford
Women and domestic violence in Trinidad and Tobago
Graduate Programme in Development Studies
Sept 2014 - May 2017 Supervisor, MA thesis, Pere DeRoy
Human trafficking in Guyana
Sept 2012 - April 2014 Supervisor, MA thesis, Keresa Arnold
Women’s NGOs in Belize
Sept 2011 - Aug. 2013 Supervisor, MA thesis, Michelle Bobala
Women and the MDGs in Guyana
Sept 2008 - May 2010 Supervisor, MA Thesis, Shannon Gurevich
A critical analysis of the PRSP in Guyana
Sept 2007 - May 2009 Supervisor, MA Thesis, Kate Nowak
GST in Guyana and its impact on low-income women.
Graduate Programme in Sociology
Sept 2021 – Sept 2022 Committee member, Ph.D. Thesis, Gokboru Tanyildiz
Embodied social relations in contemporary marxist-feminism and social reproduction theory: a critique
Graduate Programme in Socio-Legal Studies
Sept 2011 - Aug 2012 Committee member, MA Thesis, Lisane Thirsk
Graduate Programme in Anthropology
July 1997 - Dec 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
2018 - 2019 Dina Al Shawaa
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, Dept. 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 (York University)
Sept 2022. Ph.D. Internal/ External Examiner for Gokboru Tanyildiz, Graduate Program in Sociology, LA&PS, York University
Embodied social relations in contemporary marxist-feminism
and social reproduction theory: A critique of embodied social relations in contemporary marxist-feminism
October 2019 Ph.D. Internal/ External Examiner for Darren Patrick, Graduate Program in Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
‘Bologna is a School of Activism’: Transfeministqueer autonomy and urban spatial praxis
August 2017 MRP Internal / External 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/ External 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/ External 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)
2023, 2019, 2021, 2022 GEOG 5370 Urban Geographies: Space, Power & the City
*GEOG5330 Feminist Geographies of Space and Place: Urbanization, Gender and the Global South (MA and PhD)
2013 GEOG5209 Critical Human Geography (MA and PhD)
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 Women’s Studies /Geog. 6901 3.0 * Feminist Geographies of Space and Place
1985 Urban and Regional Planning MA in Geog., UEA, UK
1983 - 1985
Regional Economics, Regional Economic Planning and
Regional Physical Planning
MA in Regional Spatial Analysis, Planning in Developing Countries, UEA, UK
Graduate Reading Courses (all at York University)
2023. Urbanization, Gender and the Global South
Tatiane Sant’Ana Coelho Reis Ph.D., Women’s Studies
2018 Feminist Urban Studies
Dina Al Shawwa MA, Women, Gender and Feminist Studies, Fall 2018
2012 Caribbean feminisms
Michelle Bobala MA, Development Studies, Winter 2012
2007 - 2008 Feminist Methodologies and Methods WMST
Abhar Hussain Ph.D., Women’s Studies, Fall 2007
Emmanual Moya MA, Geography Department, Winter 2008
Nicole Chenier MA, Geography Department, Winter 2008
2005 Trafficking in Women WMST
Leeann Townsend MA, Women’s Studies, Summer 2005
2000 Feminist Theories of Development in Latin America WMST
Colette Murray Ph.D., Geography Department
1990 - 2010 Feminist Geographies of Space and Place WMST 5020
Conely Deleon Ph.D., Women’s Studies, Winter 2010
Vanessa Lamb Ph.D., Geography, Fall 2009
Ei Phyu Han Ph.D., Geography, Fall 2009
Janine Rose Ph.D., Geography, Fall 2009
Marshia Akbar Ph.D., Geography, Fall 2009
Hulya Arik Ph.D., Geography, Summer 2009
Leeann Townsend Ph.D., Women’s Studies, Fall 2007
B. Ragthuram Ph.D., Women’s Studies, Fall 2007
Kathryn Travis MA, Women’s Studies, Fall 2007
Esther Rootham Ph.D., Geography, 2005-6
Celine Cooper MA, Women’s Studies, 2001-2
Janet Forbes MA, Geography, 1995-6
Sarah Payne Ph.D., Geography, 1994-5
Hongying Wang MA, Geography, 1991-2
Mary Drummond MA, Geography, 1991-2
Alison Grant Ph.D., Geography, McMaster Uni, 1990-1
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 Soc. Sci. 4000 level
Research Methods in the Social Sciences Soc. Sci. 3000 level
World Regional Geography Soc. Sci. 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 in Geography 3rd year course
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 of lectures) 1st year course
Reading University, England
1979 - 1983
Housing and Urban Residential Differentiation 3rd year course
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 (Summer course) (13-16-year olds)
1979 - 1980 English and Communication Skills (3 semesters) HND Class (16-17-year olds)
