hello! i’m gabi (they/she) and i’m a writer, artist, educator, and PhD candidate interested in relations to urban ecologies and questions of ecological belonging in neoliberalized, settler-colonial places. my research areas include invasive species, urban ecological restoration, logics of conquest and dispossession, property regimes, decolonial and antiracist environmental education, feminist political ecology, abolition ecologies, and more-than-human geographies.
i’m a settler of irish, french, and acadian ancestry born on the traditional unceded territory of the Wəlastəkwiyik (Maliseet). i’m currently based in Tkaronto (toronto) in the Dish With One Spoon Territory, on the traditional territories of the Wendat, the Anishnaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Métis, and the Treaty lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.
education
- PhD Human Geography, University of Toronto (in progress)
- MA Art History, Concordia University (2017)
- BHum Humanities & Art History, Carleton University (2015)
awards
- Canada Graduate Scholarship, Doctoral, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) (2021)
- Faculty of Arts & Science Top (FAST) Doctoral Fellowship, University of Toronto (2019)
- Faculty of Fine Arts Fellowship, Concordia University (2016)
- Faculty of Fine Arts Internship Award, Concordia University (2016)
- School of Graduate Studies Award, Concordia University (2015)
- Canada Graduate Scholarship, Master’s Program, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) (2015)
- Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Educational Development Centre (EDC), Carleton University (2015)
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