Csillag Past Speaker List

Sanjeev Vidyarthi - October 27, 2010

From Prosaic to Profound: Modern neighborhoods of Nehru's India

Sanjeev Vidyarthi is an Assistant Professor in the department of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago. His doctoral research investigates the travel and travails of the American neighborhood unit in India and explains how different urban actors appropriated the concept over time. Apart from international exchanges of planning ideas, his research interests include city-building processes, urban theory and design, and globalization and development studies.

 

 

Gavin Hilson - March 24, 2010

Poverty, Smallholder Farming and the Rise of Artisanal Mining in Rural sub-Saharan Africa

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Gillad Rosen - January 27, 2010

Gated Communities in Israel: Utopian Communities or Exclusive Club Realms in a Neoliberal Era?

Gillad Rosen is an urban geographer studying social aspects of urban development.  His work explores residential segregation, privatization and urban regeneration.  Currently he is a postdoctoral fellow with the Geography department and a research associate with the Cities Centre University of Toronto studying the role of condominiums and private urban governance in regenerating the inner cores of Canadian cities.  He recieved his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel on his work titled "from public space toprivate places - the rise of Gated Communities in Israel".

 

 

Trevor A. Jones - November 18, 2009 

The Evolution of Forest Management in Ontario's Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Forests: From Exploitation to Ecological Sustainability

Trevor A. Jones is a Hardwood Ecosystem Research Scientist working for the Ontario Forest Research Institute (OFRI) of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR). He holds a B.Sc. in Biology from Laurentian University, an M.Sc. in Biology from Acadia, and a Ph.D. in Forestry from the University of Toronto.

 

 

Susan Chen - October 7, 2009

Obesity in Urban Food Markets: Evidence fromGeoreferenced Micro Data

Susan Chen is an economist with a research agenda that focuses on a variety of topics in health economics.  She received her B.A. in economics and chemistry from Cornell University, her M.S. in agricultural economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her PhD in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is an assistant professor in the Agricultural Economics Department at Purdue University and a core faculty member in the field of Space Health and Population Economics (SHaPE) in the Agricultural Economics Department at Purdue University.

 

 

Dana Wilson - March 4, 2009

Local Contexts and Opportunities for Youth Gambling in Canada

Dana received her doctoral degree from McGill University in the Department of Geography. Previously, she earned a Master's (M.A.) degree at McMaster University in Geography, and a bachelor's degree (B.E.S. honors) in Environment and Resource Studies and Geography at the University of Waterloo. Dana’s current research interests include the social inequalities in the health and well-being of youth and young adults, the role of social environments in influencing health-related behaviours like gambling, physical activity and healthy eating, and pathways to resiliency and positive health and development among vulnerable youth populations.

 

 

Chantelle Richmond - February 11, 2009

The Determinants of First Nation and Inuit Health: A Critical Population Health Approach

Dr. Chantelle Richmond is Ojibway of the Pic River First Nation in Ontario.  She completed her graduate degrees at McMaster University and McGill University, and she is currently Assistant Professor in Geography and First Nation Studies at The University of Western Ontario.  Chantelle is a health geographer by training and her research seeks to understand how the physical and social environments can interact to influence the health and wellness of Indigenous Canadaians.  Chantelle is particularly excited about engaging with First Nations communities in the Great Lakes region on projects that will promote health, engage youth and preserve local knowledge.

 

 

Tarmo Remmel - November 26, 2008

Assessing the Accuracy of Per-Pixel Class Assignments in Remote Sensing: Distance Measurements in Multi-Spectral Space

Tarmo Remmel completed his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in the Department of Geography.  He holds a bachelor’s degree in geography and earth science from the University of Waterloo and a master’s degree in forestry from Lakehead University.  His interests are in remote sensing, GIS, and the assessment of uncertainty, especially where spatial pattern description and comparison is concerned.  He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Geography Department at York University.

 

 

Bill Anderson - October 15, 2008

The Border and the Ontario Economy: Infrastructure, Security and the Future of Exports, Bill Anderson, Ontario Research Chair in Cross-Border Transportation Policy, University of Windsor 

 

 

Professor Antonia Paez, McMaster University