Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Culture & History
- Environment & Climate
- Social & Political Geography
Areas of Interest
Diaspora and transnational geographies, food security and provisioning, markets and market culture, municipal governance, housing and gentrification, geographies of institutional power, agribusiness and agricultural production, capitalism, geographies of production and consumption, urban studies.
Working Dissertation
Supervisors
Biography
Mike's research interests include street food vending, urban space, and informality, diaspora foodways, institutional food provisioning, matters of food sovereignty and community engagement, as well as the transmission of culinary knowledge between generations and across space. Outside of school, he has managed multiple farmers’ markets throughout Toronto, led international experiential education programs based on food and agriculture, cooked professionally, led historical food tours, and been involved with a range of NGOs and community organizations.
Outside of his PhD project, he is part of the 'Discovering University Worlds' project (SSHRC Insight Development Grant), where he is drafting an auto-ethnography related to food provisioning and student advocacy in student residences. A recent essay on automation and technology within the animal livestock industry is set to be published as part of the yearly 'Investigating Infrastructures' web-series for Society and Space. He is also co-authoring a long-form generalist article related to digital infrastructure and housing tenure in Ontario, set to be published in 2023.
Education
Cohort
- 2020-2021