Rob Shields D.Phil.
Henry Marshall Tory Endowed Research Chair and Professor of Human Geography and Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton Canada.
Contact: rshields (one word) -at- ualberta -dot- ca
The Henry Marshall Tory Chair is named for the first President of the University 1908-1929, first President of the National Research Council of Canada 1928-1935, and first President of Carleton College 1942-1947, now Carleton University, where I also both studied and taught.
Courses Offered 2022-23: University of Alberta.
Cities and Suburbs SOC 445/585 Jan-Apr
Human Dimensions of Environmental Change HGEO 452/552 Jan-Apr
Material and Virtual Culture Contact me to take this as a individual reading course and/or virtually SOC403/634 (sample Jan-Apr 2020 outline).Publishing and getting published Contact me to take an individual practice-based course SOC 403/504.
Links to Current Projects and research assistant/postdoc opportunities:
Contact me about graduate and postdoc job opportunities for Eastern James Bay Cree speakers related to Eeyou Istchee political geographies and energy infrastructure
Reimagining Community Housing Futures CMHC, SSHRC Research Network,
Ecological mythtelling: Indigneous and settler futures,
Visual ethnographies, cultures and Visualicities
UArctic Thematic Network on Local-Scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience
Further Links
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- Past Students and Postdocs
- Curriculum Vitae
- Intermedia Research Studio, Sociology, Univ. of Alberta
- Space and Culture Research & Reading Group Facebook
- Space and Culture Online
- Espaces et Sociétés journal
- Theory Culture and Society journal
- Social Spatialization
- Cultural Topology / Topological Culture
- Henri Lefebvre
- Past Students and Postdocs
Sample of Recent Work: see our Research Archive, Researchgate.net and Scribd.com for other works. Complete list in cv.
Overview of my past work in Work of Arts (2005).
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