The arts, culture and the humanities offer creative ways to understand, question, and change, the relationship between human societies and the natural environment. EUC researchers are exploring how we think about the natural world through alternative, and especially Indigenous, forms of environmental knowledge; how scientific and cultural knowledge can work in unison; and how racialized, queer and gendered identities shape relationships to nature. Researchers are also using film, podcasting, visual art, creative writing and performance to challenge our understanding of the environment.
Representative faculty members: Colla, Fawcett, Ford-Smith, Gosine, McAllister, McGregor, Myers, Rotz, Sandilands, Stiegman, Timmerman
Researcher Spotlights
Andil Gosine
Professor Andil Gosine’s research, writing, and artistic practices explore imbrications of ecology, desire, and power.
L. Anders Sandberg
Professor L. Anders Sandberg’s research includes various histories of the university campus and other local and Indigenous landscapes in the Toronto region.
Peter Timmerman
Professor Timmerman’s research explores contemporary economistic world views as hybrids of romanticism and capitalism.
Joseph Palis
Professor Joseph Palis is a scholar-in-residence from the Department of Geography at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. Palis specializes in cultural geography, media geographies, island and archipelagic geographies as well as film and music geographies.
Sabrina Rose Capista
Sabrina Rose Capista is a Masters of Environmental Studies student focusing on mycology, spiritual ecology & community earth repair.
Lauren Castelino
Lauren Castelino is a Master’s of Environmental Studies candidate. Her research focuses on bridging the gap between racialized activists and environmental funders.
