Estudiantes actuales
Juan Carlos Jimenez
PhD Geography
Título de la disertación: “The Slow Violence of Climate Crises: migration, adaptation, and rural livelihoods in El Salvador” (co-supervised with Ryan Isakson) (septiembre 2019—presente)
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
Título del tesis: “Livelihoods and Extraction: Oil Production in The Peruvian Amazon”
(septiembre 2024—presente)
Hannah Permaul Flores
MSc Geography
Título del tesis: “Water access and health in rural Amazonia”
(Empieza: septiembre 2025)
Daphnée Venneman
BA Sociology & Environmental Studies
Título del proyecto: “Seed sharing networks in the Peruvian Amazon”
MA Geography
Título del tesis: “Socio-ecological resilience of home gardens and community seed banks in a floodplain community of the Peruvian Amazon”
(Empieza: septiembre 2025)
Spencer Lambert
BA, International Relations & Environmental Studies
Título del proyecto: “Subjective well-being of forest peoples in the Peruvian Amazon”
Ex alumnxs
Joycelin Van Caulart
MA Geography, 2025
Título del tesis: “”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
Título del tesis: “Sociodemographic Vulnerability and Governance Challenges to the Tren Maya in Ejidos of Quintana Roo, México“.
Lidiya Beida
MA Geography, 2023
Título del tesis: “Women’s artisan livelihoods, network of care and multi-sitedness among the Shipibo-Konibo in the Peruvian Amazon” (resumen disponible en español).
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, 2023
Título del proyecto: “Philippine Agrarian Reform”.
Iain Ross
Master of Theological Studies, 2022
Wycliffe College & University of Toronto
Título del tesis: “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
Título del proyecto: “Dissecting household food security in the Peruvian Amazon through measures of social access and environmental availability”.
Dena Coffman
MA Geography, 2021
Título del tesis: “Livelihoods and flood vulnerability in a state-sponsored resettlement project in Iquitos, Peru”.
Conference of Latin American Geography Field Award.
Sabrina Musto
MScPl, 2020
Título del proyecto: “Ecotourism in Cuba: the importance of context”.
Wenxi Liao
BSc, Geography, 2019
Título del proyecto: “Community exposure to the 2011 flood in the Peruvian Amazon based on remote sensing and survey data”.
Jennifer Langill
MA Geography, 2018
Título del tesis: “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
Título del proyecto: “Long term impacts of the Masisea cutoff in the Peruvian Amazon”, work study student.
Laura Bryson
MSc, 2016
Título del tesis: “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
Título del tesis: “Participation of Aboriginal peoples in management of uranium mining in Northern Saskatchewan”.
SSHRC-Canada Graduate Scholarship.
Marie-Line Sarrazin
MA Geography, 2015
Título del tesis: “ 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
Título del tesis: “Amazonian fisheries: ecology, management and the problem of by-catch”.
Laura Sanchez
BA, 2016
Environmental shock analysis
(mayo 2015-agosto 2016).
Jackie de Santis
BA Geography & International Development Studies, McGill, 2014
GIS, mapping and spatial analysis of rural social networks analysis. (julio 2014-diciembre 2015).
Dylan Shaul
BA Honours Anthropology, 2015
Social network analysis (septiembre 2014-junio 2015 & junio-agosto 2017).
Girum Hagos
BA Geography, 2016
Shock vulnerability mapping (mayo-agosto 2015).
Karl Tablante
BA Honours Environmental Studies, Environmental Ethics, and Human Geography, 2014
Christian Abizaid 