PE2 Group

Welcome to the home of PE2 which is short for the political economy of environment and political ecology research group. Substantively, this is a research group based in the Department of Geography and Planning and the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto.

Our group is organized loosely around current or former graduate students at the University of Toronto who are supervised by or work in some capacity with Professor Scott Prudham, and who share a common interest in a broad political economy approach to understanding environmental issues (i.e., environmental change, natural resource appropriation, environmental politics and social movements, environmental regulation, environmental injustice, etc.). Some in the group are also drawn to embracing the umbrella descriptor “political ecology” to describe the scope of our shared interests. We don’t care too much about being classified.

We are more or less a co-operative, non-hierarchical group set up to mentor one another and to share and advance our research programs, particularly through the production and dissemination of scholarly writing.

The current roster of people in group includes:

  • Zach Anderson, ABD Ph.D. student, Geography
  • Hernán Bianchi Benguria, Ph.D. student, Geography
  • Travis Bost, Ph.D. graduate, Program in Planning
  • Marcellinus Essah, ABD Ph.D. student, Geography
  • Liam Fox, ABD Ph.D. student, Geography
  • Meghan Gagliardi, ABD Ph.D. student, Geography
  • Jo-Tzu Huang, ABD Ph.D. student, Geography
  • Lazar Konforti, Ph.D. graduate, Geography
  • Michael Lawler, Ph.D. student, Geography
  • Elsie Lewison, Postdoctoral Fellow, Geography
  • Rebecca McMillan, ABD Ph.D. student, Geography
  • Zahra Moloo, Ph.D. student, Geography
  • Cynthia Morinville, Ph.D. graduate, Geography
  • Jonah Olsen, ABD Ph.D. student, Geography
  • Nadine Plachta, Postdoctoral Fellow, Program in Planning
  • Scott Prudham, Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, School of the Environment
  • Anahid Z. Simitian, PhD Student, Geography 
  • Nicole Van Lier, ABD Ph.D. student, Geography
  • Laura Vaz-Jones, ABD Ph.D. student, Geography
  • Juan-Manuel Velez-Villegas, Ph.D. student, Geography