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The network

Team

Fifty-five researchers, curators, and community leads across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Barbados, India, and South Africa.

Cluster

55 members

Director

  • Jill Didur

    Concordia University

    Co-directs the Speculative Life Research Cluster at Concordia's Milieux Institute, and leads ReSuRGEH from the host institution.

Members

  • Amit Baishya

    University of Oklahoma

  • Andil Gosine

    York University

  • Angélique Willkie

    Concordia University

  • Anne Pasek

    Trent University

  • Cynthia Quarrie

    Concordia University

  • Derek Woods

    McMaster University

  • Elizabeth DeLoughrey

    University of California, Los Angeles

  • Francine McCarthy

    Brock University

    Earth science research at Crawford Lake, and a critical reference for reading the site's core sample.

  • Gage Diabo

    Concordia University

  • Jean-Thomas Tremblay

    York University

  • Jesse Arseneault

    Concordia University

  • Joni Adamson

    Arizona State University

  • Jordan Kinder

    New York University

  • Kathryn Yusoff

    Queen Mary, University of London

    Author of work on geotrauma and the racial histories embedded in geological categories.

  • Kregg Hetherington

    Concordia University

    Co-directs the Speculative Life Research Cluster and the Ethnography Lab; developed the composite ethnography method the OAiS Labs use.

  • Lesley Green

    University of Cape Town

    Her work on habitability underpins the network's central reframing of sustainable development, and the CzASE Studies project informs the Xolobeni cluster.

  • Nalini Mohabir

    Concordia University

  • Philip Aghoghovwia

    Kwantlen Polytechnic University

  • Susie O'Brien

    McMaster University

Collaborators

  • Adam Dickinson

    Brock University

  • Alexander Phillips

    Ashoka University

  • Alice Jarry

    Concordia University

  • Alison Donnell

    University of Bristol

  • Alissandra Cummins

    Barbados Museum and Historical Society

    Director of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society.

  • Anatole Tchikine

    Dumbarton Oaks

  • Annu Jalais

    Krea University

  • Anthony Gomez

    University of Oklahoma

  • Arjun Singh

    Ecological Restoration Alliance

    ERA authored the Ecological Restoration Charter (2022), which frames restoration as a conversation between communities and the land.

  • Brenna Bartley

    Conservation Halton

  • Catherine Tàmmaro

    Tàmmaro Art Design

  • Christine Daigle

    Brock University

  • Damon Matthews

    Concordia University

  • David Goldblum

    Brock University

  • Hugo Canham

    University of South Africa

  • Julia Baird

    Brock University

  • Kevin Turner

    Brock University

  • Liette Vasseur

    Brock University

  • Mark Nesbitt

    Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

  • Michael Hrebeniak

    New School of the Anthropocene

  • Miranda Smitheram

    Concordia University

  • Natalie McGuire-Batson

    Barbados Museum and Historical Society

    Curator at the Barbados Museum and Historical Society.

  • Pradip Krishen

    Independent

  • Pramod Nayar

    University of Hyderabad

    Holds the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies.

  • Raphaelle Aubin

    Les Amis du Champ des Possibles

  • Ravi Agarwal

    Independent

  • Ryan Van Huijstee

    Concordia University Press

  • Sharon Willoughby

    Diocese of Truro

    Head of Interpretation at RBG Kew from 2017 to 2025.

  • Sita Reddy

    Independent

    Co-curator of Kew's Seeds of Empire and Flora Indica (2025).

  • Soren Brothers

    University of Toronto

  • Stephanie Rutherford

    Trent University

  • Sugirthini Selliah

    Les Amis du Champ des Possibles

  • Sumana Roy

    Ashoka University

  • VK Preston

    Concordia University

  • Yota Batsaki

    Dumbarton Oaks