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