Graduate Students
Gail Fondahl, PhD
Professor of Geography
BA (Dartmouth College), MA, PhD (University of California-Berkeley, 1989)
Graduate Students (Recently Completed)
Tsatia Adzich
MA Interdisciplinary Studies (IDIS), 2017-2019
MA Indigenous Governance (non-thesis), University of Victoria, 2017
BA Communications and First Nations Studies (Honours), SFU, 2016
Thesis title: Storying Urban Indigeneity in the Russian Far East: Eveny and Evenki Women Navigating Yakutsk, Sakha Republic
Sean O'Rourke
MA Interdisciplinary Studies (IDIS), 2017-2019
RMA (Masters of Arts in Research), Mount St. Vincent University, 2017; BASc (Anthropology [BA] & Psychology [BSc]), University of Lethbridge, 2015
Thesis title: It's Good for the Soul": Eveny Traditional Land-Use and Meaning in Life
Nicolas Parlato
MA Interdisciplinary Studies (IDIS), 2017-2019
BA Oberlin College, 2012
Thesis title: A Critical Legal Geography of 'Territory of Traditional Nature Use" (TPP) Formation in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
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R.G. Chris Turner (PhD NRES Geography '17), Co-supervised by Dr. Michael Murphy
Dissertation: A Geography of Reconciliation: An Effective and Lawful Framework for Achieving Clarity of First Nations Territorial Jurisdiction in British Columbia
* Awarded the Governor General's Gold Medal at UNBC's May 2018 Convocation -
Christine Creyke (MA NRES Geography '11), Co-supervised by Dr. Greg Halseth
Thesis: The Tahltan Nation and Our Consultation Process with Mining Industry: How a Land Use Plan Might Improve the Process -
Jamie Pepper (MNRES Geography '11)
Thesis: From a Different Perspective: A First Nations Approach to Marine Near-Shore Natural Resource Management on Coastal British Columbia -
R.G. Chris Turner (MA NRES Geography '11)
Thesis: Thesis: Overlap: Causes and Implications of Contested Indigenous Claims to Territory in the Context of the BC Treaty Process
* Awarded the Canadian Association of Geographers Robin P. Armstrong award for “excellence in applied research on Canada's Aboriginal peoples” (2012)
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Domenic Santomauro (MNRES '09)
Thesis: The Historical Distribution of Woodland Caribou and Moose in the Fort St. James Region, Northern British Columbia, 1800-1950 -
Karen Heikkila (MA NRES '07)
Thesis: Teaching through Toponymy: Using Indigenous Place Names in Outdoor Science Camps -
Sarah Quinn (MA NRES '07)
Thesis: Locally based Measures of Successful Forest Co-Management: A Case Study of Tl'azt'en Nation and the John Pince Research Forest -
S. Arian Spiteri (MNRES '06), Co-supervised by Dr. Sanjay Nepal, Texas A & M University
Thesis: Evaluating Community Incentives for Biodiversity Conservation in Protected Areas in Nepal -
Melissa Baxter (MA NRES '05)
Thesis: Devolution and Post-secondary Education: Challenging First Nations Geo-Legal Spatiality -
Philip Morris (MA NRES '99)
Thesis: Negotiating the Production of Space in Tl'azt'en Territory, 1969-1984
*Awarded the Canadian Association of Geographers Starkey-Robinson Award for “high quality graduate research that furthers understanding of the geography of Canada” (2000)
