University of Toronto
(WILLIAM) SCOTT PRUDHAM CURRICULUM VITAE
Date of Revision: 4 May 2011
A. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
1. PERSONAL
William Scott Prudham
Office:
Department of Geography Programme in Planning and the Centre for Environment University of Toronto St. George Campus #5007, Sidney Smith Hall 100 St. George Street Toronto, ON. M5S 3G3
Phone: 416.978.4975 Fax: 416.946.3886 email: [email protected]
2. DEGREES
Ph.D. 1999 Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley “Knock on Wood: Nature and the Fictitious Commodity in Oregon‟s Douglas-fir Industry” Thesis Supervisors: Dr. Rachel Schurman, Dr. Richard Walker
M.A. 1992 Department of Geography, University of Victoria “Toward a Regional Natural Resource Accounting Framework” Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Lonergan
3. EMPLOYMENT
Current:
Associate Professor Department of Geography, Programme in Planning, and Centre for Environment University of Toronto
Past: James Martin Visiting Fellow Environmental Change Institute Oxford University Centre for the Environment October-December 2006
Assistant Professor Department of Geography, Programme in Planning, and the Institute for Environmental Studies University of Toronto July 2000-June 2005
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, September 1999-July 2000
4. HONOURS
Recipient, 2010 Ashby Prize awarded to the most innovative papers published in Environment and Planning A during the previous year for “Pimping climate: a critique of Richard Branson‟s entrepreneurial activism”, Environment and Planning A 41: 1594-1613.
Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto and School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, Award of Excellence and Recognition, 2008
Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto and School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, Award of Excellence and Recognition, 2006
Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto and School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, Award of Excellence and Recognition, 2005
Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto and School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, Award of Excellence and Recognition, 2004
2 Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto and School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, Award of Excellence and Recognition, 2002.
5. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
Editor, Geoforum, 2007-present
Vice- President, Chief Negotiator, University of Toronto Faculty Association, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011.
Vice- President, University of Toronto Faculty Association, University and External Affairs, 2007-2008.
Fellow, James Martin 21st Century School, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, 2006-2007
Member of the Editorial Educational Review Committee, the Walrus Magazine (as of January, 2006)
Research Director, University of Toronto Centre for the Environment, 2005- 2006
Member of the Association of American Geographers, the Canadian Association of Geographers, and the Youbou TimberLess Society.
Guest editor (with James McCarthy) for a special issue of Geoforum (v.35, no.3) on neoliberalism and environmental governance reform, published in June, 2004.
Peer Reviews
Article peer reviews completed for Environment and Planning A (August 2010), BC Studies (September 2009), Antipode (July 2007), Antipode (June 2007), Geoforum (May 2007), Urban Geography (May 2007), ACME (February 2007), Environment and Planning A (January 2007), Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (November 2006), the Canadian Geographer (October 2006), Environment and Planning A (September 2006), Antipode (September 2006), the Annals of the Association of American Geographers (August 2006), Journal of Historical Geography (July 2006), Local Environment (February 2006), Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (February 2006), Geoforum (December 2005), The Annals of the Association of American Geographers (October 2005), Antipode (September 2005), the Canadian Geographer (September 2005), Environment and Planning A (July 2005), the Canadian Geographer (June 2005), ACME (June 2005), the Journal of Rural Studies (June 2005), the Journal of Canadian Studies (May 2005) Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (March 2005), Antipode (January 2005),
3 Geoforum (November 2004); Antipode (August, 2004); the Journal of Canadian Studies (July, 2004); Environment and Planning A (January, 2004); Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (October, 2003); the Annals of the Association of American Geographers (April, 2003); Ethnography (April 2003); the Canadian Geographer (December, 2002); the Journal of Rural Studies (April, 2002); and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (September 2000). Peer review for National Science Foundation application for funding, September 2009. Peer review of research grant applications completed for Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs-Guelph University, March 2007. Peer review of research grant application completed for Sustainable Forest Management Network, March 2007. Peer review completed for a book proposal submitted to Cornell University Press, March 2007. Peer review completed for a book proposal submitted to Routledge Press, UK, October 2006. Peer review completed for a book proposal submitted to the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geography Book Series (published by Blackwell), September 2006. Peer review for the Law Commission of Canada for the report “Governing Beyond Borders: Law for Canadians in an Era of Globalization” authored by Stephen Clarkson and Stepan Wood. Review presented as part of a panel at the annual meetings of the Canadian Political Science Association, London ON., June 4th, 2005. Peer review of an application for funding to the National Science Foundation completed April 2005. Peer review of an application for a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada standard research grant, completed in February of 2003. Peer review of a funding application submitted to the Economic and Social Research Council of the United Kingdom, completed in June 2002.
B. ACADEMIC HISTORY
6. A. RESEARCH ENDEAVOURS
My research concerns the commodification of nature, the political economy of natural resource use and regulation, and the relationship between industrial capitalism and environmental change more generally. My three main current research focii are: (i) the contemporary and historical politics of forest governance in British Columbia; (ii) the political economy of biotechnology in Canada; and (iii) the development of neoliberal prescriptions (market-like mechanisms, privatization and commercialization schemes, etc) in environmental policy regimes.
B. RESEARCH AWARDS
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“Double movements: a political ecology of land, labour and livelihoods in British Columbia”, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant, April 1 2008 to March 31st, 2012, $123,500.00.
“Work in a Warming World”, Community University Research Award, $1 million, 2009-2014. Carla Lipsig-Mummé, York University, Principal Investigator. I am a collaborator on the project.
“Changing Urban Waterfronts” funded project beginning April 2005 and ending in 2008, total project budget $165,000, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Principal Investigator Gene Desfor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. I was a co-applicant along with Tenley Conway of the Department of Geography, University of Toronto at Mississauga.
“Industrial Unionism and the Politics of Forest Policy in British Columbia”, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Individual Research Grant, awarded in 2002 for three years, $71,000. I was the project Principal Investigator.
“Perspectives on the making and re-making of Toronto‟s waterfront”, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada UTEA grant, summer 2006, $5600, awarded for supervision of Monika Nyquist. Principal Investigator.
“An Evaluation of Community Forestry in BC”, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada UTEA grant, summer 2005, $5600, awarded for supervision of Rachel Van Sligtenhorst. Principal Investigator.
“The Political Economy of Old-Growth”, University of Toronto Connaught New Staff Matching Research Grant, awarded in 2002 for 1 year, $24,000.
“Globalization and the Human Condition”, SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative awarded December 2001 for five years under Principal Investigator William Coleman, McMaster University. I was a project Co-Investigator, with a personal budget of approximately $110,000 out of a total of $3.5 million.
Department of Geography, SSHRC Institutional Grant, 2000-01 and 2001-02.
University of Toronto Connaught New Staff Start-up Grant, 2000-2002, $10,000
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1999, two years, $55,000.
University of California-Berkeley Chancellor's Dissertation Writing Fellowship, 1997, one year, $22,000.
"Contextualizing Markets", MacArthur Foundation Grant, with Principal Investigator Richard Norgaard, 1994, three years, $300,000.
5 C. SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL WORK
7. Refereed Publications
A. Articles
Prudham, S. and N. Heynen (2011) Introduction: Uneven Development 25 Years On: Space, Nature and the Geographies of Capitalism, New Political Economy, 16: 2, 223-232
Prudham, S (2009). Pimping climate: a critique of Richard Branson‟s entrepreneurial activism. Environment and Planning A 41: 1594- 1613.
Prudham, S (2008). Tall among the trees: Organizing against globalist forestry in rural British Columbia”. Journal of Rural Studies 24(2): 182-196
Prudham, S. (2007). The Fictions of autonomous invention: Accumulation by dispossession, commodification, and life patents in Canada. Antipode 39(3): 406-429.
Prudham, S. (2007). Sustaining sustained yield: class, politics and post-War forest regulation in British Columbia. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 27(2): 258-83.
Prudham, S. and A. Morris (2006) “Making the Market „Safe‟ for GM Foods: The Case of the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee”. Studies in Political Economy. 78(Autumn): 145-175.
McCarthy, J. and S. Prudham 2004. Neoliberal nature and the nature of neoliberalism. Geoforum 35(3): 275-283
Prudham, S. 2004. Poisoning the well: neo-liberalism and the contamination of municipal water in Walkerton, Ontario. Geoforum 35(3): 343- 359.
Prudham, W.S. 2003. Taming trees: capital, science, and nature in Pacific Slope tree improvement. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 93(3): 636-656.
Prudham, W.S. 2003. Regional science, political economy, and the environment. Canadian Journal of Regional Science 25(2): 171-206.
Prudham, W.S. 2002. Downsizing nature: managing risk and knowledge economies through production subcontracting in the Oregon logging sector. Environment and Planning A 34: 145-66.
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Boyd, W., W.S. Prudham, and R. Schurman 2001. Industrial dynamics and the problem of nature. Society and Natural Resources 14(7): 555- 570.
Prudham, W.S. and M. G. Reed 2001. Looking to Oregon: comparative challenges to forest policy reform and sustainability in BC and the US Pacific Northwest. BC Studies 130(Summer): 5-40.
Prudham, W.S. 1998. Timber and town: Post-War federal forest policy, industrial organization, and rural change in Oregon's Illinois Valley. Antipode 30(2): 177-96.
Prudham, W.S. and S.C. Lonergan 1993. Natural resource accounting (I): A review of existing frameworks. Canadian Journal of Regional Science 16(3): 363-386.
Prudham, W.S. and S.C. Lonergan 1993. Natural resource accounting (II): Towards the development of a regional model. Canadian Journal of Regional Science 16(3): 387-412.
B. Books and Chapters
Prudham, Scott (2011). Making forests “normal”: Sustained yield, improvement, and the establishment of globalist forestry in British Columbia. In: William Coleman (Ed) Property, Territory, Globalization: Struggles Over Autonomy Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, pp. 80-100.
Prudham, Scott and William Coleman (2011). Introduction: Property, autonomy, territory, and globalization. In: William Coleman (Ed). Property, Territory, Globalization: Struggles Over Autonomy Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, pp. 1-28
Prudham, Scott, Gunter Gad and Richard Anderson (in press). Networks of power: Toronto‟s waterfront energy systems from 1840 to 1970. In: Laidley, Jennefer and Gene Desfor (Eds) Reshaping Toronto's Waterfront. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Prudham, S. (2009) “Commodification”. In Noel Castree, David Demeritt, Diana Liverman, and Bruce Rhoads (Eds) Companion to Environmental Geography. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, pp. 123-142.
Prudham, Scott (2009). Entries for the Dictionary of Human Geography, 5th Edition, edited by Derek Gregory, Geraldine Pratt, Michael Watts, and Sarah Whatmore and to be published by Basil Blackwell. Invited entries for “Forestry”, “Ecology”, “State of Nature”, “Sustainability”,
7 “The Production of Nature”, “Human Ecology”, and “Cultural Ecology”.
Prudham, S. (2008). The Fictions of autonomous invention: Accumulation by dispossession, commodification, and life patents in Canada. Chapter in Privatization: Property and the Remaking of Nature-Society Relations, Edited by Becky Mansfield. Antipode Book Series, Blackwell Publishers.
Prudham, Scott (2008). The Moral economy of global forestry in rural British Columbia. In: Renegotiating Community: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Contexts, Diana Brydon and William Coleman (Eds), Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, pp. 83-102.
Heynen, Nikolas, James McCarthy, Scott Prudham, and Paul Robbins (Eds) (2007). Neoliberal environments: false promises and unnatural consequences. Abingdon, UK: Routledge Press.
Heynen, Nikolas, James McCarthy, Scott Prudham, and Paul Robbins (2007). “Introduction: false promises”. In Heynen et al., Neoliberal environments … Abingdon, UK: Routledge Press, pp. 1-21
Heynen, Nikolas, James McCarthy, Scott Prudham, and Paul Robbins (2007). “Conclusion: unnatural consequences”. In Heynen et al., Neoliberal environments … Abingdon, UK: Routledge Press, pp. 287-291.
Prudham, S. (2007). Poisoning the well: neo-liberalism and the contamination of municipal water in Walkerton, Ontario. Chapter 13, In Heynen et al., Neoliberal environments… Abingdon, UK: Routledge Press, pp. 163-176.
Prudham, Scott (2007). Entries for the Encyclopaedia of Environment and Society, edited by Paul Robbins. Thousand Oaks, CA.: Sage Publications. Entries for “Commodification”, “Forests”, “Maximum Sustained Yield”, “Moral Economy”, and the “Northern Spotted Owl”.
Prudham, W. Scott 2005. Knock on wood: nature as commodity in Douglas-Fir country. New York: Routledge Press USA. 260 pp.
Boyd, W. and W.S. Prudham 2003. Manufacturing green gold: industrial tree improvement and the power of heredity in the post-War United States. In: Industrializing organisms: introducing evolutionary history, Susan Shrepfer and Philip Scranton (Eds), New York: Routledge Press, USA. pp. 107-42
Prudham, W.S 2003. Building a better tree: genetic engineering and fiber farming in Oregon and Washington. In: Engineering trouble:
8 biotechnology and its discontents, Rachel Schurman and Dennis Takahashi (Eds). Berkeley, CA.: University of California Press. pp. 63-83
Lonergan, S.C. and W.S. Prudham 1994. Modeling global change in an integrated framework: A view from the social sciences. In: Changes in Land Use and Land Cover: A Global Perspective, B.L. Turner and W. Meyer (Eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp 411-35.
8. Non-Refereed Publications
A. Guest Editorials
Wainwright, Joel, Scott Prudham, and Jim Glassman 2000. The battles in Seattle: microgeographies of resistance and the challenge of building alternative futures. Guest Editorial, Society and Space, 18(1): 5-13.
C. Book Reviews
Silent spill: the organization of an industrial crisis, by T.D. Beamish; MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. 2002, 220 pages. Reviewed for Environment and Planning A 35: pp. 569-570.
Dam it all! White gold: hydroelectric power in Canada by Karl Froschauer, Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 1999. Reviewed for the Canadian Geograper 44(4): 431-432.
On seeing the forest and the trees. Clearcutting the Pacific rain forest: production, science, and regulation, by Richard A. Rajala, Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 1999, and The Northeast‟s changing forest, by Lloyd C. Irland, Petersham MA.: Harvard University Press, 1999. Reviewed for Enterprise and society, 2(1): 184-187. A. Reports
Prudham, S. and R. Penfold (2005). “Fractured lives: Results of the 2003 survey of Youbou sawmill workers”. Report produced by the Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group and the Youbou TimberLess Society.
9. Manuscripts/publications, etc. in preparation and submitted to publishers but not yet accepted in final form.
10. Papers Presented at Meetings and Symposia
Boyd, W. and W.S. Prudham. Manufacturing green gold: a history of tree improvement in the United States. Refereed abstract accepted by and presented to the conference “Industrializing Organisms”, Rutgers University, April 4-6, 2002.
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Desfor, G. and S. Prudham. “Industrializing nature, naturalizing the urban: Socio-natural transformations of Toronto‟s industrial waterfront”, paper presented at the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL. USA, March 2006.
Prudham, S. (2010). “An Environmental and Political Genealogy of Neoliberalism”. Plenary address to the conference “A Brief Environmental History of Neoliberalism”, University of Lund, Sweden, May 6-8, 2010.
Prudham, S. “Double movements: Industrial and alternative forestry in British Columbia, Canada. Paper presented at the conference “Regional Environmental Governance (REGov): Interdisciplinary Approaches, Theoretical Issues, Comparative Designs”, University of Geneva, Switzerland, June 16-18, 2010.
Prudham, S. and R. Sligtenhorst. Hybrid neoliberalism or small scale socialism: what is community forestry in BC anyway? Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers, April 17-21, 2007, San Francisco, CA.
Prudham, S. Comments on “Governing Beyond Borders: Law for Canadians in an Era of Globalization” authored by Stephen Clarkson and Stepan Wood for the Law Commission of Canada. Review presented as part of a panel discussion at the annual meetings of the Canadian Political Science Association, London ON., June 4th, 2005.
Prudham, S. “The Recent Misadventures of Life as Commodity in Canada”, abstract submitted and accepted, paper presented to the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers, London, England, August 31st-September 2nd, 2005.
Prudham, S. “Forests of Discord: Displaced Timber Workers as a New Social Movement”, abstract submitted and accepted, paper presented to the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers, London, England, August 31st-September 2nd, 2005.
Prudham, S.. “Sustained Yield and the Cold War: Exploring Connections between the Politics of Early Fordist Compromise and Forest Regulation in British Columbia”, paper presented to AAG 2005 pre- conference BFP workshop on political ecology, held in Estes Park, CO., April 2005.
Prudham, S. Commodifying life in Canada: Some recent (mis)adventures. Invited paper for session “Privatization: Property, Nature, and Subjectivities II” annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO. USA, April 2005.
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Prudham, S. and A. Morris. Regulating the public to make the market “safe” for GM foods: the case of the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee. Paper presented at the International Geographical Union meetings joint with the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers, held August 15th-20th, Glasgow, Scotland.
Prudham, W.S. Social forestry then and now: reflections on the historical Politics of scale in British Columbia forest governance. Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers annual meeting, March 14th-19th, 2004, Philadelphia, PA.
Prudham, W.S. The environment of neo-liberalism in Ontario. Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers annual meeting, March 2002, Los Angeles.
Prudham, W.S. Don't drink the water: the social production of environmental risk in Walkerton, Ontario. Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers annual meeting, March, 2001, New York.
Prudham, W.S., Regional science, political economy, and the environment. Paper presented at the Canadian Regional Science Association annual meeting, Toronto, ON. June 2000.
Prudham, W.S. 1998. Green side up: the political economy of reforestation in Oregon. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, March, 1998, Boston, Mass.
Prudham, W.S. and R. Schurman. Natural resources and territorial production complexes: Oregon‟s forest products industry, restructuring, and rural upheaval. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 1996, Charlotte, N.C.
Prudham, W.S. and R. Schurman. Restructuring in Oregon‟s forest products sector. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Regional Science Association, May 1996, St. Catherines, ON.
Prudham, W.S. Two economies: economic implications of climate change in Canada's Northwest Territories. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, March 1994, San Francisco, CA.
Prudham, W.S.. Recreational resources and resource accounting: a case study of the Somass River watershed, BC. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Canadian Association of Geographers, May, 1993, Ottawa, ON.
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Prudham, W.S.. Resource accounting and geography. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers in May 1992, Vancouver, BC.
Prudham, W.S. and S.C. Lonergan. Potential impacts of a carbon tax on the manufacturing sector of BC. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers, March 1991, Banff, AB.
11. Invited Lectures
“Pimping climate change: Richard Branson, global warming, and the performance of green capitalism.” Invited presentation, University of Toronto, Centre for Environment Research Day, April 20, 2011
“Men and things: Objectification, Polanyi‟s double movement, and speculations on a green political economy”. Invited Lecture, Trent University, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, March 23, 2011.
“Genetically modified organisms and their discontents: The Frankenstein problem.” Invited presentation, University of Toronto Spring Reunion, May 29 2010.
“Men and things: Objectification, Polanyi‟s double movement, and speculations on a green political economy”. Invited Lecture, University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Environmental Studies, March 8, 2010.
“Men and things: Objectification, Polanyi‟s double movement, and speculations on a green political economy”. Invited Lecture, University of Washington, Department of Geography, March 10, 2010.
“Richard Branson, the entrepreneurial capitalist subject, and notes on performing green capitalism”, paper presented to the Department of Geography, Ohio State University, February 7th, 2008.
“Making forests „normal‟: Geographies of exchange and improvement in British Columbia”, paper presented to the Department of Geography, York University, January 22nd, 2008.
“The Science of exchange: Reflections and dilemmas concerning the commodification of nature”, paper presented to the Department of Geography, University of Guelph, February 2nd 2007.
12 “Sustaining sustained yield: Class, politics and post-War forest regulation in British Columbia”, paper presented to the Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, November 17th, 2006.
“Making forests „normal‟: Sustained yield, improvement, and the establishment of globalist forestry in British Columbia [Canada]”, paper presented to political ecology seminar group, Department of Geography, Cambridge University, October 30th, 2006.
“Sustaining sustained yield: Class, politics and post-War forest regulation in British Columbia”, paper presented to the Department of Geography, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Syracuse New York, September 15th, 2006.
Invited Participant, “Sustainable Forestry in the North American West: Past, Present, and Future”, held at Stanford University, February 2-3, 2006.
“Forests of discord: Autonomy, community, and the moral economy of global forestry in British Columbia, Canada”. Paper presented to the Department of Geography and the Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota, October 7th, 2005.
“Regulating GM foods in Canada (or not)”. Invited lecture, Toronto Undergraduate Students Society (TUGS), University of Toronto, March 17th, 2005.
“Neoliberalism of nature and the nature of neoliberalism”, Rural Livelihoods and Biological Resources Workshop, Cornell University (joint with James McCarthy of Penn State University), December 1, 2003.
“Social forestry then and now”, Institute for Environmental Studies Colloquium, University of Toronto, November 19th, 2003.
“Three years on: preliminary reflections on intellectual labour and geography”, Plenary Address, Canadian Association of Geographers Ontario Division Annual Meeting, Queens University, October 25th, 2003.
“Forestry‟s third way: the new forestry and re-regulation of the Pacific Northwest Forest industry”. Invited Lecture, Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, December 6th, 2002.
“Forestry‟s third way: the new forestry and re-regulation of the Pacific Northwest Forest industry”. Invited Lecture, Department of Geography, Miami University of Ohio, February 15th, 2002.
13 “Forestry‟s third way: the politics of old-growth and the new forestry in the Douglas-fir region”. Invited lecture, Department of Geography, York University, November 13th, 2002.
“What does interdisciplinarity mean and why is it important? Confessions of a mad (confused?) scientist”, invited lecture, University of British Columbia, Sustainable Development Research Institute, November 20th, 2001.
“Don‟t drink the water: political ecology and environmental risks in Walkerton, Ontario”, invited lecture, University of British Columbia, Sustainable Development Research Institute, November 19th, 2001.
“Social and environmental change in Douglas-fir tree improvement”, invited lecture, Queen‟s University, Department of Geography, November 9th, 2001.
“Nature‟s limits: eco-regulation and tree improvement in the Douglas-fir region”, invited lecture, University of Oklahoma, Department of Geography, October 26th, 2001.
“Canadian energy futures”. Invited lecture to the University of Toronto Senior Alumni Association, University of Toronto, April 9th, 2001.
"Nature‟s limits: some empirical observations on eco-regulation and the dialectics of social and environmental change in tree improvement." Invited lecture, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, March 13th, 2001.
"Production subcontracting in Oregon‟s logging sector." University of British Columbia, Department of Geography Colloquium, November 10th, 1999.
"Logging and the use of production subcontracts in Oregon." Invited lecture, Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University, February 18th, 2000.
D. LIST OF COURSES
A. Undergraduate Courses Taught
“Resource and Environmental Theory”, JGE 331, Department of Geography and Centre for Environment, Faculty of Arts and Science, Fall semester 2010.
“Environmental Change: Producing New Natures”, INX 199H1F, Faculty of Arts and Science, Fall 2008, Fall 2009.
14 “Resource and Environmental Theory”, GGR 331/JGE 331 Department of Geography/Centre for Environment, University of Toronto, Fall semester 2002, Winter semester 2005, Winter semester 2006, Fall semester 2007, Fall semester 2010
“Contemporary Problems in Natural Resource Industries and the Environment”, GGR 418H, Department of Geography, Fall 2001, Winter 2003.
"Environmental Impact Assessment", GGR 393H, Department of Geography, Winter 2001 and 2002.
"Environmental Management for Sustainable Development", GGR 233Y, Department of Geography, 2000-2005. Co-taught with Miriam Diamond.
“The Hydrocarbon Society: Fossil Fuel Energy Systems and Global Change”. Energy and Resources Group, University of California at Berkeley, summer session 1998. Co-taught with William Boyd.
B. Graduate Courses Taught
“Capitalist Nature”, ENV 1444, Centre for Environment, Winter 2006, Winter 2008, Winter 2009, Winter 2010, Winter 2011.
“Issues of Geographical Thought and Practice”, GGR1110, Department of Geography Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2007. Co-taught with Robert Lewis on the first two occasions and with Deborah Leslie in 2007.
"The Political Economy of Forest Conservation: Biotechnology in Industrial Cultivation Systems", JGE 1430H, Department of Geography, and the Institute for Environmental Studies, Spring 2001.
“Case Studies in Environmental Policy”, IES 1002, Institute for Environmental Studfies, co-taught with Peter Timmerman in the Winter term of 2002 and 2003, and with Mark Winfield in Winter 2005.
“Special Topics in Geography” (environmental politics). Fall semesters of 2002, and 2003.
C. Theses supervised.
Masters Students:
Frank Donelly, environmental justice in New Jersey, February 2001-October 2001, primary research co-supervisor.
Angela Morris, NGOs and regulating biotech foods in Canada, March 2001-January 2002, primary supervisor.
15 Kathryn Palmer, environmental groups in Toronto, August 2001- September 2003, primary research supervisor.
Nicole Simms, women‟s indigenous knowledge and community forest management in British Columbia (case study with the Huu-ay-aht First Nation), August 2002- September 2004, primary supervisor.
Devyani Srinivasan, political ecology of protected areas in India, September 2005-July 2007, primary co-supervisor (Planning).
Mark Kear, economic transition and urban socio-natural restructuring in Southeast False Creek, Vancouver, September 2004-December 2007, primary supervisor.
Kim Beazley, political ecology and protected areas in India, September 2003-February 2005, primary supervisor.
Kathleen Romatowski, alternative food networks and rural land conservation in Niagara Region, September 2007-December 2009, primary supervisor
Ilaria Giglioli, political ecology of water in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, September 2008-January 2010, primary supervisor.
Emma Hemmingsen, peak oil and the Alberta oil-sands, September 2007-February 2010, primary supervisor.
Max Ritts, ecological restoration in the Alberta oil sands region, September 2008- January 2010, primary co-supervisor.
Zev Moses, post-Dayton Accords urban redevelopment in Sarajevo, September 2010 – present, primary co-supervisor
Daniel Suarez, payments for ecosystem services and carbon offsets in British Columbia, September 2009-present, primary supervisor.
Doctoral Students:
Sharlene Mollett, race and the politics of land use in the Honduran Moskitia, September 2001-August 2005, primary co-supervisor
Emily Eaton, politics of genetically modified foods in western Canada, September 2004-September 2009, primary supervisor.
Paul Jackson, historical urban political ecology of disease in Toronto, September 2005- January 2011, primary supervisor.
Jason Cooke, historical industrial geography and political ecology of oil in southern California, September 2008-present, primary co-supervisor.
16 Victor Lorentz, political ecology of boreal forestry and conservation, September 2009- present, primary supervisor.
James Nugent, alliance forming among labour and environmental groups on climate policy, September 2009-present, primary supervisor.
Shiri Pasternak, property rights and land claims struggles among the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, Septmber 2007-present, primary co-supervisor.
Tom Young, politics of rural land use conflict and conservation in Vermont, September 2005-present, primary supervisor.
E. ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
A. University of Toronto Faculty Association, VP Salary Benefits and Pensions, 2008- 09, 2009-10, 2010-2011. University of Toronto Faculty Association, VP University and External Affairs, 2007-2008 University of Toronto, Department of Geography and Centre for Environment, search committee “environmental geographer”, 2008-09. University of Toronto, Faculty of Forestry, search committee “political ecologist”, 2008-09 University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts and Science, School of Graduate Studies, Search Committee for Director of the Centre for the Environment, June 2005. U of T, Department of Geography, Governance Committee, 2004-2005 U of T, Department of Geography, Graduate Admissions Committee, 2002, 2003, 2005. U of T, Department of Geography, Graduate Committee, 2000-01, 2001-2002, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2007-2008 U of T, Department of Geography, Teaching Committee, 2007-2008. U of T, Department of Geography, Academic Planning Committee, 2003-2004 U of T, Department of Geography, Chair Search Committee, 2003 U of T, Department of Geography, Undergraduate Committee, 2000-01, 2001- 2002 U of T, Programme in Planning, Diversity Committee, 2001-2002 U of T, Department of Geography Search Committee for Environmental Geographer position, Winter 2002.
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