Graduate academic calendar 2012 - 2013 - Trent University

GRADUATE PROGRAMS Canadian Studies & Indigenous Studies
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M. Steffler, B.A. (Victoria), M.A., Ph.D. (McMaster), Canadian literature; children’s literature;
environmental issues in literature; romanticism, postcolonial and feminist theory.
Environmental & Resource Science/Studies
S. Bocking, B.Sc., M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), environmental history, history of science, science in
Canadian society.
C. Furgal, B.Sc. (Western), M.Sc. Ph.D. (Waterloo), environmental health impact assessment;
environmental health risk management, assessment, and communication; mixed methods and
involvement of Indigenous knowledge and western science in environment and health studies;
Aboriginal and circumpolar health and environmental change (e.g., contaminants, climate change
and food security).
S. Hill, B.Sc., B.A. (Queen’s), Ph.D. (Calgary), P.Eng., environmental policy, risk management, climate
change, impact assessment, environmental auditing and indicators.
D. G. Holdsworth, B.Sc. (Waterloo), M.Sc. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Western), risk analysis, nuclear
regulation, science policy, environmental philosophy.
T. C. Hutchinson, (Emeritus), B.Sc. (Manchester), Ph.D. (Sheffield), environmental and agricultural
history of Canada, impacts of pioneers on environment biota and on forest, social history of mining
and smelting towns.
R. C. Paehlke, (Emeritus), B.A. (Lehigh), M.A. (New School for Social Research), Ph.D. (British
Columbia), Canadian and comparative environmental policy, history of North American
environmental movement, Canadian public policy in global perspective.
D. Torgerson, B.A. (California-Berkeley), M.E.S. (York), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), critical theory, political
action, the public sphere, policy discourse, green political thought, environmental policy.
T. H. Whillans, B.A. (Guelph), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Toronto), bioregionalism, community-based natural
resource management, ecological restoration, historical ecology, wetlands, watersheds and lakes.
Geography
A. G. Brunger, (Emeritus), B.Sc. (Southampton), M.Sc. (Alberta), Ph.D. (Western), settlement
process, Upper Canada/Ontario, regional development, public works.
H. Nicol, B.A. (Toronto), M.E.S. (York), Ph.D. (Queen’s), Canadian and political geography with
emphasis on the circumpolar north, Canada-US borders and geopolitics.
M. Skinner, B.A. (Wilfrid Laurier), M.A. (Guelph), Ph.D. (Queen’s), health geography: welfare state
restructuring, challenges facing the voluntary sector, health and social care in the community.
J. S. Marsh, (Emeritus), B.A. (Reading), M.Sc. (Alberta), Ph.D. (Calgary), conservation and tourism,
history, planning and management in Canada and abroad.
S. E. Wurtele, B.Sc. (Trent), Ph.D. (Queen’s), cultural heritage, ethnicity, gendered spaces.
History
D. Anastakis, B.A. (Western), M.A., Ph.D. (York), 20th century Canadian economic and political
history, particularly post-World War II trade, economic and business history, government and
politics.
C. Dummitt, B.A. (Trent), M.A. (Dalhousie), Ph.D. (Simon Fraser), 20th-century Canadian cultural
and political history, morality, modernity, gender and masculinity, western Canada.
F. Dunaway, B.A. (N. Carolina), Ph.D. (Rutgers), modern United States cultural, environmental, and
political history; American Studies; visual culture.
B. W. Hodgins, (Emeritus), B.A. (Western Ontario), M.A. (Queen’s), Ph.D. (Duke), Canadian North,
Aboriginal history, Canada and Australia, canoe travel history.
J. S. Milloy, B.A. (St Patrick’s), M.A. (Carleton), Ph.D. (Oxford), Aboriginal policy, Aboriginal
education and health issues, plains Indian history.
J. Miron, B.A. (McGill), M.A., Ph.D. (York), cultural history; medicine and crime in the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries; sexuality; Canadian history.
J. Sangster, B.A. (Trent), M.A., Ph.D. (McMaster), Canadian working-class and women’s history,
gender, labour and social policy, women and the criminal justice system.