Graduate Student Supervision

Fieldwork with Hmong householders and graduate students, Northern Vietnam

Also see Research Lab

**NEW** I am looking for an undergraduate student who speaks Vietnamese who might like to do an independent study or Honours thesis with me, undertaking a critical discourse analysis relating to urban middle class in Hanoi. Please contact me if you might be interested.

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I am interested in supervising graduate students undertaking studies similar to my research foci outlined on my homepage, regarding ethnic minority livelihoods in upland Southeast Asia and southern China, and small scale entrepreneurs, street-vendors and market traders in urban and rural Southeast Asia and China. I'm also open to considering a range of other potential human geography topics in the region.

You are welcome to contact me regarding graduate work at McGill, but please consider the following first:

1. review the range of topics I am willing to supervise.
2. send with your initial email query, an electronic copy of your academic transcript, a copy of your CV, and a paragraph regarding your research interests. Please also include your last TOEFL score if you do not have English as your first language.
3. note that McGill encourages students to find their own funding. Please see the graduate and postdoctoral studies webpage: http://www.mcgill.ca/gps/ for possible funding information, and include in your email how you propose to fund your studies.
4. for information regarding admission procedures to the Department of Geography, please see the Department Graduate webpage: http://www.geog.mcgill.ca/graduate.html

Please note that due to the number of email enquires regarding supervision, I will often only be able to respond to those enquires that take the above points into account.

Yao (Dao) marketplace traders in Northern Vietnam

Current and Recent Graduate Students

Bonnin, Christine (PhD, Sept 2004-) Supervisor
Thesis : 'Markets in the Mountains: Market Exchange, Trade Practices and Trader Livelihoods in Highland Northern Vietnam'.
Interests: gender, informal livelihoods, micro-finance, small enterprises, tourism, Vietnam, Philippines.

Huber, Bernard (PhD, Sept 2009-) Supervisor.
Thesis : 'How do non-timber forest products sustain the livelihoods of ethnic minorities in Northern Vietnam?' (provisional title).
Interests: political ecology; minority livelihoods; borderland politics; Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFP); conservation/livelihood balance; post-socialist transformations; Vietnam

Rousseau, Jean-François (PhD, Jan 2010-) Supervisor.
Thesis: 'Green energies’ along the Red River: the modernisation of a Chinese frontier region and the implications for riparian rural livelihoods in Honghe Prefecture.
Interests: Political ecology, livelihood approaches, renewable energy development, agricultural intensification, water management

Champalle, Clara (MA, Sept 2010-). Supervisor.
Thesis: ‘Climate variability, ethnic minority migration, and livelihood coping mechanisms in southeast Yunnan’. (provisional title).

Delisle, Sarah (MA, Sept 2011-) Supervisor.
Thesis: Local Knowledge, State Policies and Climate Change: An examination of climate hazards, food security and livelihood sustainability among ethnic minorities in the northern uplands of Vietnam.

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Elias, Marlene (PhD, Jan 2005-2010). Co-supervisor.
Thesis : 'Transforming Nature's Subsidy: Global Markets, Burkinabé Women, and Africa's Sheanut Tree'

Gerber, Jonathan (MA, Sept 2008-2010). Supervisor.
Thesis: 'From farm plot to cooking pot: regional and local fruit and vegetable commodity chains supplying Hanoi, Vietnam'.

Long, Lindsay (MA, Sept 2007-2010). Supervisor.
Thesis: 'Unravelling the Threads: The Evolving Complexities of the Highland Textile Trade in Northern Vietnam and Beyond'

Zunn, Heidy (MA, Sept 2005-2008) Supervisor.
Thesis: ‘Bartering Place: (Re)defining Hong Kong Public Market Spaces’

Tugault-Lafleur, Claire (MA, Sept 2005-2007) Supervisor.
Thesis: 'Diversifying Livelihoods: Hmong Use and Trade of Forest Products in Northern Vietnam'

Schoenberger, Laura (MA, Sept 2004-2006). Supervisor.
Thesis: 'Crossing the Line: The Changing Nature of Highlander Cross-Border Trade in Northern Vietnam'.

Coen, Stephanie (MA, Sept 2004-2006). Co-supervisor.
Thesis: 'Economic and Social dimensions of Neighbourhood Trade-stores in Cochabamba, Bolivia'.

Raj, Papia (PhD, Sept 2002-2009). Supervisor
Thesis : 'Social Impacts of Economic Liberalization on Young Adults in India: A Study of Call Centers in the environs of New Delhi'.

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Fieldwork in Guizhou province, southwest China