Geography
Master of Arts
Department of Geography
The Department of Geography at UBC is widely acknowledged as one of the leading departments in the world in terms of its research accomplishments. The scholarly interests of faculty members and graduate students encompass a wide range of subject areas, philosophical approaches, methods of analysis, and geographical locations.
Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Arefin, Mohammed | Human geography; History of sciences and technology (except medicine and health care); urban geography; discard studies; urban political ecology; Environmental justice; waste; sanitation; geographical political economy |
| Baada, Jemima | intersections of gender, climate change, migration, health and development equity |
| Bakker, Karen Jessica | Political economy, political ecology, environmental studies, development studies, and resource and environmental management |
| Barnes, Trevor | Vancouver |
| Bergmann, Luke | Social and economic geography; Geomatics; Globalization |
| Dempsey, Jessica | wrestle with the theoretical and historical-geographical complexities of environmental politics as it shapes and is shaped by the entanglement of state, economy, science, and culture |
| Donner, Simon | Atmospheric sciences; Oceanography; Other media and communication; Climate Changes and Impacts; Climate change science; Climate policy; Coastal Ecosystems; Marine Environment; Prediction and Climatic Modeling; Science communication; Net-zero emissions policy |
| Eaton, Brett | Rivers and climate change, fish habitat, disturbances |
| Evenden, Matthew | All other social sciences, n.e.c.; Historical studies; Environmental History; Historical geography; Rivers; Water; War and environment; Hydro-electricity |
| Fabris, Michael | Gender, Race, Class, Power, Colonialism, Justice, Indigenous jurisdiction within Canadian cities, Piikani Nation’s attempts to challenge the construction of the Oldman River Dam |
| Glassman, James Francis | Development Geography, Third World Urbanization, Economic Geography, Political Economy, Political Geography, Southeast Asia, Pacific Rim |
| Hassan, Marwan | Social and economic geography; Geological and Geomorphological Processes; Channel Stability; Fluvial geomorphology; Landscape evolution; Sediment transport; Surface hydrology |
| Hiebert, Daniel Joseph | Social and economic geography; immigration, diversity, national security; social policy; urban geography |
| Klein, Naomi | crisis and political transformation, large-scale shocks as catalysts and accelerators for broad-based social change |
| Klinkenberg, Brian | Geomatics; Biogeography; Bioinformatics; Environmental Health; Geographic Information Science; Environmental Remote Sensing; Spatial Analysis; Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and Citizen Science Initiatives |
| Knox, Sara | Atmospheric sciences; Social and economic geography; Atmosphere (Including Chemical Aspects); Biogeochemistry; climate change; Climate Changes and Impacts; Ecological and Ecophysiological Processes; Ecology; Ecosystem (Aquatic and Terrestrial); Hydrology; Micrometeorology |
| Koppes, Michele | climate change, glaciers, natural hazards, landscape change, polar regions, ice-ocean interactions |
| Kuus, Merje | transnational regulatory practices in contemporary Europe, but the empirical focus undergirds a broader interest in knowledge and power, structure and agency, in bureaucratic and policy-making settings; political identity, subject-formation, and center-periphery relations, especially in contemporary Europe |
| le Billon, Philippe | Geography, politics, africa, environmental, human geography, development, security |
| Lewis, Avi | Social and political change, Communication, Documentary filmmaking, Climate change |
| McKendry, Ian | Air pollution Climatology |
| Moore, Robert Daniel | Physical and catchment hydrology; Fresh Water; Ice and Snow; fish habitat; forest hydrology; glacier hydrology; hydroclimatology; Hydrology; snow hydrology; stream temperature |
| Narayan, Priti | Social and economic geography; urban development; South Asia; state-society relations |
| Peck, Jamie | Social and economic geography; Socio-Economic Conditions; Economic geography |
| Pratt, Geraldine | Feminist Geographies |
| Schwartz, Naomi Beth | Social and economic geography; community ecology; Ecosystem Services and Conservation Policy; Environmental Change; GIS; remote sensing; Tropical forest landscapes |
| Sundberg, Juanita | Militarization and Everyday Life in the US-Mexico Borderlands, environmental dimensions of US's border security policies in the Mexican border |
| Valadares, Desiree | Architecture; Social and economic geography; territoriality, occupation and empire in Canada and the non-contiguous US |
| Wang, Jessica | US history, 19th and 20th centuries, history of science and medicine, political and intellectual history, social and urban history, US international history |
| Williams, Jennifer | Population ecology; Evolutionary ecology; Ecological mathematical and statistical models; Population Ecology; Ecological and evolutionary processes |
| Wyly, Elvin | Social and economic geography; Urban Spaces and Urbanity; Specialized Services (Housing, Transportation); gentrification; housing; the politics of data and quantitative methods; U.S. politics |
