Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Physical Geography
Our ideal candidate will be engaged in environmental change and/or coupled human-environment systems research. This hire is specific to applicants who are Black or a Person of Colour.…
Our ideal candidate will be engaged in environmental change and/or coupled human-environment systems research. This hire is specific to applicants who are Black or a Person of Colour.…
The German governing coalition explicitly considers refugee integration to be a humanitarian project based on an obligation to care for others because of their shared humanity. Notably, however,…
Since 2021, along with the British and Australian governments, the Canadian government has relaxed immigration policy for Hong Kong immigrants. This policy offers an unconventional path with lowered…
Foreign policy played a minor role in the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in September. The vice presidential exchange between J.D. Vance and Tim Walz…
MAKE AMERICA THINK AGAIN. That’s the bumper sticker on my friend’s pickup and that’s what I hope for. I like evidence and data, and I detest TV talking…
It was certainly unexpected, when a student assistant, screening Prof. Dr. Erwin Stresemann’s personal estate in our university archive, foun…
The call for looking at taxonomies of difference in global humanitarianism is a powerful reminder to consider how differences—as well as, we argue, affinities—shape humanitarian practices. Prompted by…
Humanitarian action is marked by a striking disjunction between the universalising humanist vocabulary that undergirds its ethical commitments, and the taxonomies of racialised difference that govern …
Intending to be in good relations is great, but it isn’t enough. This post outlines some key infrastructure that directly deal with the uneven power relations and legacies…
Intending to be in good relations is great, but it isn’t enough. This post outlines some key infrastructure that directly deal with the uneven power relations and legacies…
From Andheri to Goregaon—it’s five kilometers. Half an hour by Ambassador in the north Mumbai traffic. Windows down—through them, the usual fumes: chai, wood smoke, diesel exhaust. Plus,…
At the heart of Buenos Aires lies the lovely Calle Florida. The experience of walking through this street that is exclusively dedicated to pedestrians was anything but lovely…
Watch the recently released trailer for WOVEN. The short film is coming out soon.
I was a guest on The Sausage of Science podcast with Dr. Chris Lynn, discussing my research. Listen below.
Mitchell Ma, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto and Susannah Clinker, PhD Student, University of Toronto The Schreiber Wood Project (SWP) field school, led by Professor Michael Brand with…
This international workshop explored Indigenous economies in their disctinction from and connection to wider political-economic forces and developments.
The Nain community freezer and local hunters and fishers provide nearly all samples for monitoring plastic ingestion by animals, which creates a sampling design that prioritizes and accurately…
The Nain community freezer and local hunters and fishers provide nearly all samples for monitoring plastic ingestion by animals, which creates a sampling design that prioritizes and accurately…
The Manumea is an endemic bird of Sāmoa, currently on the brink of extinction. How can museums help to protect it?
A couple of weeks ago, a coyote climbed the fence into my mother’s backyard and attacked one of her dogs, Cujo. The coyote only stopped its assault when…
El futurismo indígena es un movimiento cultural a través del cual los actores indígenas cuestionan las formas hegemónica…
El futurismo indígena es un movimiento cultural a través del cual los actores indígenas cuestionan las formas hegemónica…
In any kind of research, there is more than one way to interpret what we are observing. The Positivist intent though, would be to find the “correct” interpretation…
Author: Dr. Holly Walters, a cultural anthropologist at Wellesley College, United States. Her ethnographic work focuses on religion, pilgrimage, and politics in the Nepal Himalayas. Her research also…