INFRASTRUCTURE BEYOND EXTRACTIVISM - Key Persons


Anne Spice

Job Titles:
  • Acting Assistant Professor / Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University

Christine Sy

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Damien Lee

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Deborah Cowen

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Geography, University of Toronto

Deborah Curran

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Dr. Dayna Nadine Scott

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director
  • Co - Director / Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School & Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University
Co-director Dr. Dayna Nadine Scott is York Research Chair in Environmental Law & Justice in the Green Economy and has a wealth of experience leading large interdisciplinary teams. She brings to the project expertise in environmental law and justice, just transition, resistance to extraction, and Indigenous jurisdiction.

Dr. Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director
  • Co - Director / Associate Professor of Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria
Co-Director Dr. Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe) is a widely recognized expert on Anishinaabe law, Indigenous legal and political orders, and treaty-making. She brings deep expertise on Indigenous sovereignty and nationhood, accountability and relational modes of governance. She is also an expert in land-based learning strategies for the revitalization of Indigenous law. In addition to Dr. Scott and Dr. Stark, the team includes eminent, globally renowned senior scholars; established mid-career researchers; early-career researchers (ECR) on exciting trajectories of influence; and community-based practitioners of jurisdiction-building from across distinct North American bio- regions. These scholars, practitioners, and leaders will collaborate across three research clusters.

Irina Ceric

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Jason Lewis

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Jeff Corntassel

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Jeffery Hewitt

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

John Borrows

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Maya Trotz

Job Titles:
  • Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, University of South Florida
  • Professor

Melina Laboucan-Massimo

Job Titles:
  • Senior Director

Michelle Daigle

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Robert Clifford

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Shiri Pasternak

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor