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Department Chair
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PhD, MA (University of Guelph); BA (University of Northern British Columbia)
Program Chair, Northern Studies
Professor, Geography
Canada Research Chair, Cumulative Impacts of Environmental Change
Phone
250-960-5766
Email
Office
8-138
Website
Biography
Tristan Pearce is a Professor in the Geography Program at the University of Northern British Columbia, where he is also the Canada Research Chair in the Cumulative Impacts of Environmental Change.
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Faculty
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BSc, MSc (Atmospheric Science - York University), PhD (Atmospheric Science - McGill University)
Professor, Environmental Science (on sabbatical)
Program Committee Member, Northern Studies
Phone
250-960-5193
Email
Office
8-414
Website
Research and expertise
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PhD (Queens University), MA (National University of Ireland - Galway), BA (University of British Columbia)
Assistant Professor
Phone
250-960-5819
Email
Office
10-3062
Research and expertise
Areas of expertise
critical policy studies, resource governance, low-carbon transitions, environmental justice, procedural policy tools, settler colonialism, decolonization, neoliberalism, critical resource geographies
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Joly, Dr. Tara
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PhD (University of Aberdeen)
Assistant Professor, First Nations Studies
Adjunct Professor, Anthropology
Phone
250-960-6495
Email
Office
CJMH-3018
Website
Research and expertise
Areas of expertise
Dr. Joly has conducted numerous applied research projects with Indigenous Nations in northern Alberta and British Columbia, including community-based research, Indigenous land use/impact assessments, social scientific technical reviews, Indigenous environmental monitoring research, and oral history research. Her research includes varied intersections between Indigenous rights, extractive industries, histories of dispossession, gendered violence, settler colonialism, human-environment relations, history of science, research methodologies, and interdisciplinary studies.
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PhD, MA (University of Toronto), BA Honours (Carleton University)
Chair, Political Science
Professor
Phone
250-960-5514
Email
Office
CJMH-3066
Research and expertise
Areas of expertise
Northern governance and politics, Indigenous-state relations in the circumpolar north, northern development, island studies, language revitalization.
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Professors Emeriti/Emeritae
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PhD, MA (University of California - Berkeley); BA (Dartmouth College)
Adjunct Professor
Professor Emerita
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Research and expertise
Areas of expertise
Indigenous rights in Russia; Arctic human development; Arctic social indicators