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Dr. Rebecca Ellis

Dr. Rebecca Ellis

Sessional Instructor, Geography, Geology and Land Stewardship Program, Mohawk College

Dr. Rebecca Ellis is a professor of Environmental Sustainability in the School of Climate Action at Mohawk College. She is also an occasional sessional instructor in Geography at Algoma University. Her PhD dissertation, “Pollinator People: An ethnography of bees, bee advocates and possibilities for multispecies commoning in Toronto and London, ON”, examined the entangled and embodied relationship between people and urban bees. Her book Capitalist Agriculture and the Global Bee Crisis (Routledge Press, 2022) is a political ecology of pollination, with a focus on how bees are embedded within the global agricultural system. Her research interests include animal geographies, political ecology, commons and commoning, and sustainable food systems.