Pablo Bose
PhD, York University 2006
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
My
ongoing interest is in interdisciplinary teaching and research on issues
of culture, space and power. In particular, my work is focused on the
study of diasporas and transnational relationships, especially as these
pertain to urban and peri-urban regions. I also have a longstanding
interest in issues of social and ecological justice and in the efforts
by popular struggles and grassroots movements to mobilize against
oppression.
At
present, I am involved in several research initiatives, including the
Ethics of Development-Induced Displacement Project, a multi-site,
multi-year study of economic (as well as other forms of) development and
population displacement. I am also currently undertaking a study
entitled “Mapping Difference: The Bengali Diaspora in North America”
that compares the ways in which the Bengali diasporas in Canada and the
United States constitute their identities in relation to each other as
well as to a putative homeland. As well, I am about to undertake a
project entitled “Transportation, Equity and Communities at Risk:
Refugee Populations and Transportation Accessibility in Vermont” which
will look at refugees in Vermont and transportation issues in
conjunction with the University Transportation Center here at UVM.
Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux
PhD, McGill University, 1996
Associate Professor, Department of Geography
An applied climatologist by training, Professor Dupigny-Giroux's research
interests span the two interdisciplinary fields of hydroclimatic natural hazards as well as the use of remote sensing and GIS (Geographic
Information Systems) in the fields of spatial climate and land-surface processes. Recently published articles in the Journal of the American
Water Resources Association outline the climatic underpinnings of drought in Vermont and offer the framework around which to build a drought
mitigation plan for the state.
Prof. Dupigny-Giroux is also the State Climatologist for Vermont, a role which has allowed her to facilitate dialogue among meteorology,
climatology, emergency management, agriculture, forestry and GIS users across the state. She continues to work closely with colleagues at these
and other state agencies to better quantify the causal dynamic and impacts of floods, droughts and severe weather on Vermont's physical
landscape.
Adrian Ivakhiv
PhD, York University
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
Adrian joined the University of Vermont in the fall of
2003, having previously taught at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
(44.1 N. latitude) and at York University in Toronto (43.4 N.). Having
grown up along the balmy Canadian shores of Lake Ontario, he has moved
steadily northward... into the United States, first to central Wisconsin
and now settling on the western shore of Lake Champlain (44.5 N) in
Vermont, land of artisanal cheeses, hillbilly hippies, jam bands, and
righteously (and sensibly) raging socialists. His research on culture
and environment has taken him to Kyiv (a.k.a. Kiev), Ukraine, and the
Carpathian mountains of east central Europe, Cape Breton Island and
Haida Gwaii (the Queen Charlotte Islands) off either coast of Canada,
southwest England and the U.S. southwest.
Paul W. Martin
PhD, University of Alberta, 2002
Assistant Professor, Department of English
Director, Canadian Studies Program
I teach courses in postcolonial literatures and literary theory, with a strong emphasis on the literatures of Canada. My current research uses the theories of Pierre Bourdieu among others to explore the history of the teaching of the literatures of Canada as an illustration of how knowledge production works to reproduce cultural and institutional practices. As of July 1, 2006, I am also Director of the University of Vermont's Canadian Studies Program.
In my "spare time" I help to run Northwest Passages, a Canadian literature online bookstore and information resource I co-founded in 1996. I'm also the Director of Marketing and Content Development for Spotted Cow Press.
David Massell
PhD, Duke University 1997
Associate Professor, Department of History
David Massell teaches courses in United States history, Canadian history, Canadian-American relations and seminars in environmental history, the history of Quebec, Canadian-American Relations and the Canadian North.
Professor Massell's book, Amassing Power: J.B. Duke and the Saguenay River, 1897-1927, was published in 2000 by McGill-Queen's University Press. His current research, funded in part by the Government of Quebec, advances the story of the Saguenay River's exploitation through the years of the Second World War. As in the earlier period, northern resource development is driven by escalating American demand for both electrical energy and raw aluminum. Professor Massell's research continues to speak to the integration of North American economies, vividly illustrating the process by which American capital and industry drew Canada's resource-rich North into the economic orbit of the United States.
An avid and skilled whitewater canoeist, Professor Massell periodically leads a summer course/canoe trip entitled "Discovering Canada by Canoe".
Donna Ramirez-Harrington
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Donna Ramirez-Harrington, an Assistant Professor at the Department of
Economics received her B.S. in Economics (1996) from the University of
the Philippines and Ph.D. (2004) in Environmental, Natural Resource and
Production Economics from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. She comes to the UVM Economics Department from the
University of Guelph where she was an Assistant Professor from September
2004 until August 2007.
Her research interests are in the field of environmental economics with
emphasis on firm strategy and the environment, specifically
game-theoretic modeling of oligopolistic competition, empirical analysis
of the environmental technology adoption and voluntary environmental
initiatives. Other research interests include environmental information
disclosure mechanisms for climate change and resource policy, economic
growth and sustainability, and corporate environmental management.
Shelly A. Rayback
PhD, University of British Columbia
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
Shelly Rayback is a biogeographer who is interested in the global climate change, dendrochronology and the Arctic. She joined the Department of Geography in 2006 after completing her post-doctoral studies at the University of British Columbia as part of the ArcticNet project. ArcticNet, a multidisciplinary research project funded by the Canadian federal government, was initiated to address the issues of current and future impacts of climate change on the Canadian Arctic. Dr. Rayback's research focuses on the reconstruction of past climate in the Arctic through the use of paleoclimatic techniques. She uses both dendrochronological and isotopic analysis on the evergreen, dwarf-shrub Cassiope tetragona (arctic white heather) to reconstruct past temperature and large-scale atmospheric circulation in the high arctic.
André Senécal
PhD, University of Massachusetts
Professor of French, Department of Romance Languages
Jeanne Shea
PhD, Harvard University, 1998
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
As a sociocultural anthropologist specializing in psychological and medical issues and the geographic areas of China, the U.S., and Canada, my research interests revolve around identity and experience, gender and sexuality, health and healing, lifecycle and intergenerational issues, and cultural diversity and social change. I earned a B.A. in Asian Studies from Dartmouth College in 1989, and an M.A. and a PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University in 1994 and 1998. My main research projects include the China Study of Midlife Women (CSMW) which explores experiences of gender, sexuality, health, and aging among older women in China, and the Montréal Chinese Interview Project (MCIP) which examines how Chinese men and women living in Montréal negotiate linguistic and cultural diversity in their everyday lives, across the lifecycle, in their intergenerational interactions, and in health maintenance and treating illness. I was born and raised in Vermont, with French Canadian, Irish, English, and a bit of Micmac ancestry.
Harvey Amani Whitfield
PhD, Dalhousie University 2003
Associate Professor, Department of History
Harvey Amani Whitfield is an assistant professor in the Department of
History. He lived in Canada for seven years and finished his doctorate at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2003.
His research focuses on black migration to Maritime Canada in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Jeffrey Ayres
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Adjunct, UVM Canadian Studies Program; Professor of Political Science and Department Chair, Saint Michael's College
Dr. Ayres' concentrations are international politics, international/comparative political economy, Canada/North American politics and social movements.
Pierre Deslauriers
PhD, Université de Montréal
Lecturer, Department of Geography
Pierre Deslauriers is a geographer specializing in metropolitan land use dynamics and urban agriculture. Since the 1980s he has worked as consultant both for government and NGOs. More recent specific teaching and research has been in urban ecology, and leisure activity in the urban field. He has made recent significant contributions to the resource package of a major human geography textbook, and to the entry on Québec in the World Book Encyclopedia (Chicago). Dr Deslauriers is Adjunct-professor of Geography and Canadian Studies at the University of Vermont, teaches at Concordia University in Montreal, and also occasionally lectures at the Université de Montréal.
Michèle Laliberté
PhD, Université de Montréal, 2005
Lecturer, Department of Romance Languages
Born
in Montreal in 1961, I have studied psychology, French and Québécois
literature, German literature, and translation. My master's thesis is on
theatre translation in Quebec. My Ph.D. in Translation Studies is from
the Université de Montréal (2005). I've been teaching languages,
literature, and translation for the last 20 years. I taught a
course on Québécois film in spring 2007.
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