Graduate Students
Current Ph.D. Students
Chris Harker; Home in Israel/Palestine
Caleb Johnston; Forum theatre in Gujarat India
Liz Lee; On Becoming a Citizen-Soldier: Constructions of
Filipino Citizenship in the U.S. Military
Gina Wang; Unaccompanied children asylum seekers in Canada
Sarah Zell; Labor Agents and Temporary Foreign Worker Programs
Current MA Students
Michael Thomason
Caleb Johnston researching forum theatre in Gujarat, India
Completed Supervisions
Clark University
Ph.D.
1989 Bob Scarfo ‘Transforming the Meaning of Space: The Socialization of Professional Landscape Architects’
MA
1987 Stacy Warren ‘Housing and Ideology: The Menace of the Three-Decker’ Completed Ph.D. at UBC
University of British Columbia
Ph.D.
1993 Stacy Warren ‘The City as Theme Park’ Currently Professor, University of Western Washington
1994 Michael Brown ‘Locating Citizenship Across the City Politics of AIDS in Vancouver’ Professor, University of Washington
1995 Deborah Leslie ‘Advertising: Between Economy and Culture’ Canada Research Chair, Associate Professor, University of Toronto
1995 Robyn Dowling ‘Placing Identities’ Lecturer, Macquarie University
2000 Nadine Schuurman ‘Critical GIS’: Theorising an Emerging Science’ Canadian Institutes of Health New Investigator,
Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University
2005 Mary Subedar ‘When States Design: Making Space on Native Reserves’
2006 Cheryl Dunkley ‘Nature Discipline: The Practice of Wilderness Therapy at Camp E-Wen-Akee
2006 Eric Olund ‘White-watching’, Lecturer, University of Sheffield
2008 Jade Boyd ‘Dancing Out of Place: Geographies of Performance and Vancouver’s Independent Nightlife’
MA
1988 Cecile Badenhorst ‘Lacrosse: A cultural process’ Lecturer, Graduate School of Public and Development Management, University of Witswatersrand
1990 Michael Brown ‘Reconstructing the Theory of Local Autonomy’ Completed Ph.D. at UBC
1991 Robyn Dowling ‘Shopping and Femininity’ Completed Ph.D. at UBC
1992 Suzanne Reimer ‘Gender, Flexibility and the Public Sector’ Completed Ph.D. at Cambridge University
1995 Roneen Marcoux ‘Taking it to the Streets’
1997 Nicola Hicks ‘”Cinema for Where You Live”: Spectatorship, Subjectivity and Space’
1999 Trina Bester ‘Negotiating Parenthood and Places of Care in Vancouver, B.C.’
2000 Jamie Winders ‘Imperfectly Imperial: northern travel writers in a postbellum American south’. Published as: ‘White in all the wrong places: white rural poverty in the postbellum US South’ Cultural Geographies 10, 45-63 (2003); ‘Imperfectly Imperial: Northern Travel Writers in the Postbellum U.S. South,1865-1880’ Annals of the AAG, 95, 391- (2005). Completed Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky. Assistant Professor at Syracuse University
2000 Jennifer England ‘Representing the Production of Space: Aboriginal Women in Downtown Eastside, Vancouver’. Published as ‘Disciplining Subjectivity and Space: Representation, Film, and its Material Effects’ Antipode 36 295- (2004)
2004 Elia Kirby ‘Carneyland’
2004 Chris Harker ‘Witnessing Untitled’ Presently completing Ph.D. at UBC
2005 Johanna Long ‘(En)Planting Israel: Jewish National Fund Forestry and the Naturalisation of Zionism” Paper completed during MA coursework published as ‘Border Anxiety in Palestine-Israel’ Antipode 38 107- (2006), and received the Glenda Laws MA paper prize, 2005.
2006 Deborah Watt ‘An interrogation of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Gates, Central Park, New York, 1979-2005, or a spectral of socialist realism in the new economy’ Currently doing Interdisciplinary Ph.D. at UBC
2006 Caleb Johnston; ‘Theatre in Praxis: situating Boal, grassroots democracy and transnational connections’. Published as ‘Fieldnote: Gujarat, India’ Women’s Studies Quarterly 34 (2006), and as co-authored papers: G. Pratt and C.Johnston G. ‘Turning Theatre into Law, and Other Spaces of Politics’ Cultural Geographies, (2007; G. Pratt and C. Johnston “Putting Play to Work” in Politics and Practices in Economic Geography (eds. A. Tickell, E. Sheppard, J. Peck, and T. Barnes), Sage, London. Currently doing Ph.D. at UBC.
2008 Roza Tchoukaleyska; Organic Food Production in France. Currently doing PhD at Sheffield University.