Professor
Graduate Program Director (Geography)
Credentials
PhD Geography, University of Cambridge
MA Geography, University of Toronto
BA (Honours) Geography, Queen's University
Research Keywords
Urban social geography; Arts-led urban development; Geographies of artistic labour & creative practice; Geographies of sexuality; Queer geographies; Feminist pedagogies.
Contact Information
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
416 736 2100
Research Interests
I am a feminist urban social geographer who studies contemporary urban and suburban culture. My research examines the complex relationships of cultural workers and LGBTQ2S populations to cities and suburbs in Canada and Germany with particular attention to questions of identity formation, place-making, spatial politics, and neighbourhood change. My writing focuses on the (sub)urban geographies of artistic labour and precarity, creative practice, and cultural production within differently sized cities and across city-regions. I am especially interested in the contested governance dynamics of (in)formal arts district and cultural quarter formation as well as municipal social inclusion practices within neighbourhoods and policy frameworks as triggered by both bottom-up and top-down arts-led urban redevelopment initiatives and queer place-making practices. I teach urban geography at the undergraduate and graduate level, and have developed courses on public space contestations, the cultures of cities, the spatial politics of urban place-making, and geographies of genders and sexualities.
Research Projects
Research Output
Recognition & Awards
- Joint sabbatical leave fellowship, YUFA, York University
- International travel conference fund award, Faculty of LA&PS, York University
- International travel conference fund award, Faculty of LA&PS, York University
Courses
Course Code | Title |
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GEOG 5314 3.0 | Cultures of cities: planning, policy, and practice |
GEOG 2220 6.0 | Urban geography |
GEOG 4900 3.0 | Public space |
GEOG 3400 3.0 | Geographies of genders and sexualities |