Current students
Juan Carlos Jimenez
PhD Geography
Dissertation title: “The Slow Violence of Climate Crises: migration, adaptation, and rural livelihoods in El Salvador” (co-supervised with Ryan Isakson) (September 2019—to date)
SSHRC-Canada Graduate Scholarship, RBC Graduate Fellowship in Public and Economic Policy, Ranjit Kumar Graduate Fellowship, Arthur and Sonia Labatt Fellowship.
Stephen Abbott
MA Geography
Thesis topic: “Livelihoods and Extraction: Oil Production in The Peruvian Amazon”
(September 2024—to date)
SSHRC-Canada Graduate Scholarship, Conference of Latin American Geography Field Award, AAG-Latin America Specialty Group (LASG) Field Study Award.
Hannah Permaul Flores
MSc Geography
Thesis topic: “Water access and health in rural Amazonia”
(To start: September 2025)
Daphnée Venneman
BA Sociology & Environmental Studies
Project title: “Seed sharing networks in the Peruvian Amazon”
MA Geography
Thesis topic: “Socio-ecological resilience of home gardens and community seed banks in a floodplain community of the Peruvian Amazon”
(To start: September 2025)
Spencer Lambert
BA, International Relations & Environmental Studies
Project title: “Subjective well-being of forest peoples in the Peruvian Amazon”
Past students
Joycelin Van Caulart
MA Geography, 2025
Thesis title: “”We Have Faith to Endure It”: The Role of Rural Amazonian Christianity in Shaping Social Cohesion and Hazard Resilience in Ucayali, Peru”.
Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s (SSHRC), Conference of Latin American Geography Field Study Grant, Latin American Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Field Study Award.
Dannia Philipp
Master of Environment & Sustainability, 2024
Thesis title: “Sociodemographic Vulnerability and Governance Challenges to the Tren Maya in Ejidos of Quintana Roo, México“.
Lidiya Beida
MA Geography, 2023
Thesis title: “Women’s artisan livelihoods, network of care and multi-sitedness among the Shipibo-Konibo in the Peruvian Amazon“.
SSHRC-Canada Graduate Scholarship, Conference of Latin American Geography Field Award, Conference of Latin American Geography Travel Award, John Horner Graduate Scholarship in Geography, George Burwash Langford Award.
Thérèse Perucho
BA, Political Science and Human Geography
Project title: “Philippine Agrarian Reform”.
Iain Ross
Master of Theological Studies, 2022
Wycliffe College & University of Toronto
Thesis title: “Glimpses of a garden city: Returnees and rural communities in Peru in the COVID-19 pandemic” (co-supervised with Hilda Koster).
Leila Tjiang
BA, Environmental Studies & Human Biology, 2022
Project title: “Dissecting household food security in the Peruvian Amazon through measures of social access and environmental availability”.
Dena Coffman
MA Geography, 2021
Thesis title: “Livelihoods and flood vulnerability in a state-sponsored resettlement project in Iquitos, Peru”.
Conference of Latin American Geography Field Award.
Sabrina Musto
MScPl, 2020
Project title: “Ecotourism in Cuba: the importance of context”.
Wenxi Liao
BSc, Geography, 2019
Project title: “Community exposure to the 2011 flood in the Peruvian Amazon based on remote sensing and survey data”.
Jennifer Langill
MA Geography, 2018
Thesis title: “Differential experiences of climate change: local knowledge and perspectives of severe flooding in the Peruvian Amazon” (co-supervisor: Dr. Ryan Isakson, Department of Geography and Centre for Critical Development Studies).
SSHRC-Canada Graduate Scholarship, Conference of Latin Americanists Geographers Field Award, Conference of Latin Americanists Geographers Student Travel Grant and AAG-Hazards Specialty Group Gilbert White Thesis Award.
Kate Kirby
Postdoctoral Fellow
“Seed networks, markets and culture in Panama”, (co-supervisor: Dr. Marie-Josée Fortin, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology).
Tina Lee
BA, Environmental Studies &
Economics, 2018
Project title: “Long term impacts of the Masisea cutoff in the Peruvian Amazon”, work study student.
Laura Bryson
MSc, 2016
Thesis title: “Spatial patterns of natural resource depletion among rain forest communities in the Peruvian Amazon: the role of protected areas and Indigenous territories in the conservation of key species”.
Arthur and Sonia Labatt Fellow in Environment,
John D. Barnes Geodesic Sciences Fellow.
Alyssa Scott
MA Geography, 2016
Thesis title: “Participation of Aboriginal peoples in management of uranium mining in Northern Saskatchewan”.
SSHRC-Canada Graduate Scholarship.
Marie-Line Sarrazin
MA Geography, 2015
Thesis title: “ The political ecology of Indigenous territorial struggles in the Darién, Panama: land invasions, partial state recognition, and racialized discrimination in the Emberá-Wounaan collective land struggle“.
SSHRC-Canada Graduate Scholarship.
Janine McManus
MES, 2012
Thesis title: “Amazonian fisheries: ecology, management and the problem of by-catch”.
Laura Sanchez
BA, 2016
Environmental shock analysis
(May 2015-August 2016).
Jackie de Santis
BA Geography & International Development Studies, McGill, 2014
GIS, mapping and spatial analysis of rural social networks analysis. (July 2014-December 2015).
Dylan Shaul
BA Honours Anthropology, 2015
Social network analysis (September 2014-June 2015 & June-August 2017).
Girum Hagos
BA Geography, 2016
Project: Shock vulnerability mapping (May-August 2015).
Karl Tablante
BA Honours Environmental Studies, Environmental Ethics, and Human Geography, 2014
Christian Abizaid 