Geography
Alan Walks
Associate Professor and Acting Chair, Department of Geography, University of Toronto Mississauga
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Gentrification
- Housing and mortgage markets
- Housing policy
- Urban and Suburban Development
- Urban Political Geography and The Politics of Planning
- Urban social inequality among neighbourhoods
Office: 905-828-3932
Email: alan.walks@utoronto.ca
Andre Sorensen
Associate Professor, Department of Urban Geography, University of Toronto Scarborough
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Growth management
- Intensification and redevelopment
- Japanese urban history
- Public participation in planning
- smart growth
- Sustainable cities
- Urban development
- Urban sprawl
Office: 416-978-8898
Home: 416-532-1140
Languages: Japanese
Email: sorensen@utsc.utoronto.ca
Carl Mitchell
Assistant Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Contaminant transport
- Environmental Contamination
- Hydrology
- Mercury and methylmercury
- Water quality
- Wetlands
Office: Not available
Home: 647-341-9018
Mobile: 647-282-7627
Languages: Some French
Email: carl.mitchell@utoronto.ca
Dan Lang
Professor, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Science
Professor, Department of Theory and Policy Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Professor, Department of Management, University of Toronto Scarborough

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Accountability and performance indicators
- Comparative analysis
- Economics of education
- Educational management and finance
- Funding formulas
- Quality assurance
Office: 416-978-1246
Mobile: 416-230-2684
Email: dan.lang@utoronto.ca
Danny Harvey
Professor, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-1588
Home: 416-778-0670
Languages: French
Email: harvey@geog.utoronto.ca
Harald Bathelt
Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Science
Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- COVID-19 – Economic impact of travel restrictions & border closures
- Economic geography
- Economic globalization and international trade fairs
- Economic/Technology/Innovation policy
- German political economy
- Regional economic development and industry clusters
- Regional/National innovation and technological change
Office: 416-946-0183
Home: 416-597-2099
Languages: German
Website
Email: harald.bathelt@utoronto.ca
Jason Hackworth
Professor, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: (416) 946-8764
Email: jason.hackworth@utoronto.ca
Jing Chen
Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Climate change
- Disturbance and forest management effects
- Forest carbon cycle
- Kyoto Agreement
- Remote sensing and applications to environment
Office: 416-978-7085
Home: 905-755-9381
Languages: Chinese
Website
Email: chenj@geog.utoronto.ca
Kenneth MacDonald
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Cultural identity politics
- Culture and biodiversity conservation
- Environment and development
- Ethics and development
- Exploitation of mountaineering porters
- Kashmir
- Natural hazards and vulnerability
Office: 416-287-7294
Home: 416-466-2651
Languages: Balti
Email: kmacd@utsc.utoronto.ca
Matthew Farish
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-6671
Website
Email: farish@geog.utoronto.ca
Matti Siemiatycki
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Community and regional planning
- Congestion management
- Cycling
- Infrastructure finance and delivery
- Public-private partnerships
- Transit and commuting
- Transportation policy and planning
- Urban planning
Office: 416-946-5145
Mobile: 647-680-8963
Website
Email: siemiatycki@geog.utoronto.ca
Myrna Simpson
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Carbon sequestration in soils
- Climate change and global carbon cycling
- Environmental geochemistry
- Soil contamination and remediation
Office: 416-287-7234
Email: myrna.simpson@utoronto.ca
Pierre Desrochers
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Toronto Mississauga
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Economic development
- Environmental policy
- Environmentalist movement
- Food policy
- Science and technology policy
- Sustainable Development
Office: 905-828-5206
Languages: French
Website
Email: pierre.desrochers@utoronto.ca
Sarah Wakefield
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-3653
Email: sarah.wakefield@utoronto.ca
Susannah Bunce
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-287-7296
Website
Email: susannah.bunce@utoronto.ca
William Gough
Professor, Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough
Vice-Principal Academic and Dean, Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: (416) 287-7027
Email: william.gough@utoronto.ca
William Scott Prudham
Professor, Department of Geography & Program in Planning, Faculty of Arts and Science
Professor, School of the Environment
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental politics
- Natural resources
- Political economy and environment
- Regulation of genetically modified foods and crops
Office: 416-978-4975
Email: scott.prudham@utoronto.ca