Dr. Patricia Ballamingie

CURRENT RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS

Principal investigator on SSHRC Connection Grant: Mobilizing Knowledge from Food Movement Elders: Building a Digital Library of Actionable Wisdom (2025-2026)

Co-investigator on SSHRC Partnership Grant: Food Learning and Growing (FLOW) Partnership: Seeding Sustainability Transformation (2023-2028) [PI: Alison Blay-Palmer]

Co-investigator on SSHRC/CMHC Partnership Grant: A Safe and Affordable Place to Call Home (2023-2028) [co-PIs: Jackie Kennelly, Liam O’Brien]

Co-investigator on SSHRC Insight Grant: Civil Society and Social Movement Engagement in Food Systems Governance (2019-2025) [PI: Charles Levkoe]

Collaborator on SSHRC Partnership Development Grant: Living Relationships: Sharing Stories of Decolonizing Food System Transitions in Aotearoa and Canada (2024-2027) [PI: Peter Andrée]

Advisory Committee Member, UNESCO Chair on Food, Biodiversity and Sustainability Studies (2020-IP) [Chair: Alison Blay-Palmer]

PREVIOUS RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS

Member, Building Back Better Post COVID-19 Task Force – Established by the Canadian Commission for UNESCO and the UNESCO Chair on Food, Biodiversity, and Sustainability Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Co-investigator on SSHRC Partnership Grant: Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged (FLEdGE) (2015-2022) [PI: Alison Blay-Palmer]

Co-investigator on SSHRC Partnership Grant: Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) (2011-2017) [PI: Peter Andrée]

o   Academic Co-Lead of the Community Environmental Sustainability Hub (2011-2015)

o   Academic Co-Lead of the Aligning Institutions for Community Impact Working Group (2016-2017)

Littlefield, C., Stollmeyer, M., Andrée, P., Ballamingie, P. & Levkoe, C.Z. (2024, January 31). Exploring Settler-Indigenous engagement in participatory food systems governance. Agriculture and Human Values.

Levkoe, C. Z., Andrée, P., Ballamingie, P., Tasala, K., Wilson, A., & Korzun, M. (2023). Civil society engagement in food systems governance in Canada: Experiences, gaps, and possibilities. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development.

Levkoe, C.Z., Andrée, P., Ballamingie, P., Changfoot, N.A., & Schwartz, K. (2023, February 1). Building action research partnerships for community impact: Lessons from a national community-campus engagement project. Community first: Impacts of community engagement (CFICE).

Ballamingie, P., & Szanto, D. (Eds.). (2022). Showing Theory to Know Theory: Understanding Social Science Concepts through Illustrative Vignettes. Showing Theory Press.

Ballamingie, P. (2022). The American Bullfrog: Economic savior to monster to miracle cure. In P. Ballamingie & D. Szanto (Eds.), Showing Theory to Know Theory: Understanding Social Science Concepts through Illustrative Vignettes. Showing Theory Press.

Ballamingie, P., & Levkoe, C.Z. (2021, October). Wayne Roberts: Food systems thinker, public intellectual, “actionist”. Canadian Food Studies, 8(3): 130-145.

Andrée, P., Ballamingie, P. & Coulas, M. (2021, August). Integrative governance for ecological public health: An analysis of ‘Food Policy for Canada’ (2015-2019). Canadian Food Studies, 8(2): 189-226.

Spring, A.; Nelson, E.; Knezevic, I.; Ballamingie, P.; & Blay-Palmer, A. (2021). Special Issue:

Levering sustainable food systems to address climate change (pandemics and other shocks and hazards): Possible transformations. Sustainability, 13, 8206.

Blay-Palmer, A., Goupil, S., Van Nijnatten, D., Haine-Bennett, E., Friedmann, H., Vasseur, L.,

Dalby, S., Ballamingie, P., Di Battista, A., Reid, H., Wilkes, J., Zandvliet, D., Mcleod-Kilmurray, H., Roberts, W., & Fitz-Gerald, A. (2020, June 22). Transformative Post-COVID Infrastructure Investment in Canada – Infrastructure investments for a greener, more resilient and sustainable country: Ideas and considerations for Canadian decision-makers. iPolitics.

Blay-Palmer, A., Haine-Bennett, E., Goupil, S., Friedmann, H., Mullinex, K., Ballamingie, P., Settee, P., Wilkes, J., Ballamingie, P., Di Battista, A., Reid, H., Mcleod-Kilmurray, H., & Mount, P. (2020, July 15). Now is the time to build sustainable food system resilience. Canadian Commission for UNESCO and UNESCO Chair on Food, Biodiversity, and Sustainability Studies. iPolitics.

Ballamingie, P., Blay-Palmer, A.D., Knezevic, I., Lacerda, A.E.B., Nimmo, E.R., Stahlbrand, L., & Ayalon, R. (2020, Spring). Integrating a food systems lens into discussions of urban resilience: Analyzing the policy environment. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development, 9(3): 227-243.

Ballamingie, P., Poitevin-DesRivières, C., & Knezevic, I. (2019, Fall). Hidden Harvest’s transformative potential: An example of ‘community economy’. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development, 9(1): 125-139.

Martin, M.A., Knezevic, I. & Ballamingie, P. (2019). Social economy of food initiatives that are nourishing communities through power-with practices. Canadian Food Studies /La Revue Canadienne Des Études Sur L’alimentation, 6(3): 148-169.

Andrée, P., Coulas, M. & Ballamingie, P. (2019, September). Canada’s national food policy: The political basis for coordination and integration. In H. McLeod-Kilmurray, A. Lee & N. Chalifour (Eds.), Food Law and Policy in Canada. Carswell Publishing. ISBN: 978-0-7798-9152-8

Ballamingie, P. & Koller, K. (2018). Environmental conflict/ Access to natural resources. In D.C.  Poff & A.C. Michalos (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer, Cham. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23514-1

Ballamingie, P., Goemans, M., & Martin, G. (2018). Chapter 6: Supporting local civic engagement through a ‘Community First’ approach to foster broader social inclusion in development. In F. Klodawsky, J. Siltanen & C. Andrews (Eds.) Toward equity and inclusion in Canadian cities: Lessons from critical praxis-oriented research, pp. 148-177.

Andrée, P., Coulas, M., & Ballamingie, P. (2018, September). Governance recommendations from forty years of national food policy development in Canada and beyond. Canadian Food Studies, 5(3): 6-27. DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.283  

Ballamingie, P., Andrée, P., Martin, M.A., & Pilson, J. (2017). Chapter 1: Connecting food access and housing security: Lessons from Peterborough, Ontario. In I. Knezevic, A.D. Blay-Palmer, C.Z. Levkoe, P. Mount & E. Nelson (Eds.) Nourishing Communities: From Fractured Food Systems to Transformative Pathways. New York, NY, USA: Springer, pp 3-22.

Andrée, P., Ballamingie, P., Piazza, S., & Jarosiewicz, S. (2017). Chapter 5: Can community-based initiatives address the conundrum of improving household food access while supporting local smallholder farmer livelihoods? In I. Knezevic, A.D. Blay-Palmer, C.Z. Levkoe, P. Mount & E. Nelson (Eds.) Nourishing Communities: From Fractured Food Systems to Transformative Pathways. New York, NY, USA: Springer, pp. 77-94.

Ballamingie, P. & Jarosiewicz, S. (2017, June) Kudrinko’s Food Hub Case Study on Nourishing Communities: Sustainable Local Food Systems Research Group. 

Martin, G., McKay, R. & Ballamingie, P. (2017). Climate change and housing production in Ottawa, Canada: The business case for change. Journal of Transnational Corporations Review. Taylor & Francis Online, pp. 1-12.

Martin, G. & Ballamingie, P. (2016). Faith missions and church redevelopment in Ottawa, Ontario. Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 25 (1), 80-87.

Ballamingie, P, & Goemans, M. (August 29, 2016). Community Environmental Sustainability (CES) Ottawa Hub: Evaluation Synthesis Report, Years 1-4, 2012-2016. Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE).

Andrée, P., Ballamingie, P., & Sinclair-Waters, B. (2014). Neoliberalism and the making of food politics in Eastern Ontario. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability. 

Piazza, S., Andrée, P., & Ballamingie, P. (2014). Food Access and Farm Income Environmental Scan. Nourishing Communities Working Paper. 

Ballamingie, P. & Walker, S.M.L. (2013). Field of dreams: Just Food’s proposal to create a community food and sustainable agriculture hub in Ottawa, Ontario. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability. 18 (5): 529-542.

Andrée, P., Ballamingie, P. & Sinclair-Waters, B. (2013). Chapter 2: Eastern Ontario. In I. Knezevic, K. Landman, A.D. Blay-Palmer, & E. Nelson (Eds.) Models and Best Practices for Building Sustainable Food Systems in Ontario and Beyond.  Guelph, ON: Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA). 

Walker, S.M.L. & Ballamingie, P. (2013) Just Food Ottawa. In Community Food Toolkit: Ontario Case Studies.  URL:  Waterloo, ON: Sustainable Local Food Systems Research Group.

Goemans, M. & Ballamingie, P. (2013). Forest as hazard, forest as victim: Community perspectives and disaster mitigation in the aftermath of Kelowna’s 2003 wildfires. The Canadian Geographer, 57 (1), 56-71. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0064.2012.00447.x

Ballamingie, P. & Tudin, S. (2012). Publishing graduate student research in geography: The fundamentals. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 37(2): 304-314. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2012.729815

Donald L. & Ballamingie, P. (2012). Governmentality, environmental subjectivity, and urban intensification. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, 18(2): 134-151. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2012.719016

Ballamingie, P. (2011). Contester l’effacement: Les premières nations et l’étude du cas Lands for Life’(translated: Contesting Erasure: First Nations and the Lands for Life Case Study) in Écologie et Politique, 41, 1-13. URL: http://www.ecologie-et-politique.info/

Ballamingie, P. & Johnson, S. (May 2011). Researcher vulnerability: Some unanticipated challenges of doctoral fieldwork. The Qualitative Report, 16 (3): 711-729.

Ballamingie, P., Chen, X., Henry, E. & Nemiroff, D. (2010). Edward Burtynsky’s China Photographs – A Multidisciplinary Reading. In Environments Journal, 37 (2), 66-92. URL: http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ejis/article/view/14581

Ballamingie, P. (2009). Democratizing public consultation processes: Some critical insights. Journal of Public Deliberation, 5 (1), Article 11, pp. 1-14. Berkeley Electronic Press.

Ballamingie, P. (2009). First Nations, ENGOs, and the paradox of Ontario’s Lands for Life process. In L.E. Adkin (Ed.) Environmental conflicts and democracy in Canada.  Vancouver: UBC Press.

CURRENT GRADUATE SUPERVISIONS:

Sun Shan, Ph.D. Supervisor, DGES, 2025-IP: TBD 

Misha Hollman, MA Supervisor, DGES, 2025-IP: TBD

Arianna Fuke, MA Co-supervisor (with Jill Wigle), DGES, 2024-IP: Integrating housing security and food access: Addressing urban precarity through combined planning 

Michaela Tokarski, MA Supervisor, DGES, 2024-IP: Examining an Urban Food Bank in Crisis: A Case Study of the Ottawa Food Bank

Katalin Koller, Ph.D. Supervisor, DGES, 2015-IP: Networks of solidarity counter environmental injustice: Ally-ship and the politics of reconciliation in settler-colonial Mi’kma’ki

Kata Georgaras, Ph.D. Co-supervisor (with Sophie Tamas), DGES, 2024-IP: Narratives of sex work in Canadian academic research from 2014-present

Lisa Wong, Ph.D. Co-supervisor (with Peter Andrée), DGES, 2021-LOA: Plant-based diets and traditional knowledge(s)

Maria Dabboussy, Ph.D. Co-supervisor (with Sophie Tamas), DGES, 2022-LOA: Mapping reparative pedagogy in the academy

CURRENT COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS

Kaleigh McIntosh, PhD Committee, DGES, 2021-IP: Watershed governance in the Wolostoq River: Towards resilience and adaptation

Moira Matsubishi-Shaw, PhD Committee, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, 2024-IP: Growing a Sovereign Local Food Network in Halton.

Mary Coulas, Ph.D. Committee, Political Science, 2016-IP: Pan-Canadian Food Policy Project: Evolution of a National Food Policy in Canada

COMPLETED POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS:

Dr. Monika Korzun (May 2021 – May 2022, with Dr. Amanda Wilson, SPU): Food Communities Network + Participatory Food Governance

Dr. Mary Anne Martin (September 2018- June 2019): Common Approach to the Social Economy of Food – co-supervised with Dr. Irena Knezevic

Dr. Abra Adamo, Mitacs-Accelerate Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Advancing Innovations in Affordable Housing Development in Ottawa (June 1, 2015 – May 30, 2016)

Dr. Gary Martin, Mitacs-Accelerate Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2013-2014: Accelerating the Market for Green Urban Housing

COMPLETED GRADUATE SUPERVISIONS:

Rachel Woods, MA Co-supervisor (with Meera Karunananthan), IPE, 2022-2025 [C]: Canadian Impact Investments for an Equitable Future in Rural Senegal

Catherine Littlefield, MA Supervisor, IPE, 2021-2023 [C]: Gathering, Governing, and Gifting Food: Community Economy and Food Distribution in the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun

Iain Storosko, MA Co-supervisor (with Peter Andrée), DGES, 2019-2022 [C]: Evaluating participatory plant breeding programs in Canada and their effectiveness as a strategy for climate change adaptation

Chloé Poitevin-DesRivières, Ph.D. Co-supervisor (with Irena Knezevic), 2015-2021 [C]: Crafting Community Economies:  Tapping into Localism, Place-making, and Diverse Economies through Craft Brewing

Erin Snider, MA Co-Supervisor (with Peter Andrée and Andrew Spring), IPE, 2019-2021 [C]: The political ecology of sustainable livelihoods in Kakisa, NT: Fish waste composting for enhancing soil productivity and waste management capacity in northern Indigenous communities

Tess MacMillan, MA Co-supervisor (with John Milton), DGES, 2018-2020 [C]: The Role of Regulations in Decisions Regarding the Transition to Organic, Biodynamic, and Sustainable Agricultural Productions: The Case of Niagara Vineyards

Magda Goemans, Ph.D. Co-supervisor (with Chris Stoney), DGES, 2013-2019 [C]: Bringing adaptation home: Engaging with climate change, municipal policy and urban natures at household scales

Jennifer Barron, Ph.D. Supervisor, DGES, 2013-2018 [C]: The Giving Trees: Community Orchards as New Urban Commons

Michael Lait, Ph.D., Supervisor, Sociology, 2012-2017: The rotting heart of Gatineau Park: How and why the Kingsmere-Meech Lake privatopia prevented a national park in Canada’s capital region

Nadia Ibrahim, MA Co-supervisor (with Peter Andrée), IPE, 2015-2017: Adopting a Food Systems Approach: The Case Study of Just Food, Ottawa

Deborah Carroll, MA Co-supervisor (with Irena Knezevic), DGES, 2013-2016: Consumer, Producer and State Relations within the Multiple Scales of the Eastern Ontario Egg Industry: Exposing Scalar Relations and Neoliberal Tensions

Katalin Koller, MA Supervisor, IPE, 2014-2015: Toward a political economy of on-reserve Indigenous education in Canada: Problematizing Bill C-33

Gary Martin, Ph.D. Supervisor, Geography, 2008-2013: Manufacturing ‘Home’: Sustainability Discourses in Suburban Ottawa

Lauren Allen, MA Co-supervisor (with Scott Mitchell), Geography, 2013-2015: Growing in the city: Analyzing Public Urban Agriculture in Ottawa, Ontario

Meaghan Kenny, MA Supervisor, Geography, 2010-2014: Exploring Immigrant Experiences of Urban Agriculture in Ottawa: From Food Security to Cultural Identity

Stephen Piazza, MA Co-supervisor (with Peter Andrée), IPE, 2012-2013: Food Access and Farmer Livelihoods: Policy Reflections from Stakeholders in Eastern Ontario

Stephanie Kittmer, MA Supervisor, Political Economy, 2010-2013: Neoliberal conservation: Legitimacy and exclusion in the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement

Chris Bisson, MA Co-supervisor (with Jill Wigle), Geography, 2010-2013: Food Forests in the Ottawa Greenbelt: Representing Forests and Reconciling Land Use

Brynne Sinclair-Waters, MA Co-supervisor (with Peter Andrée), Political Economy (2011-2012): Rethinking Eastern Ontario’s Local Food Systems through a Feminist Political Economic Lens

Geri Blinick, MA Supervisor, Geography, 2008-2012: Wild Rice in the Ottawa Valley: A Question of Food, Sovereignty and Decolonization

Lina Johnston, MA Co-supervisor (with Claudio Aporta), Anthropology, 2010-2012: Discourses of Survival and Security: Cuban Agricultural Reform and Construction of Local Farmer Identity 

Eric Lloyd Smith, MA Supervisor, Political Economy, 2010-2011: Asinabka: Toward a methodology of decolonial praxis

Austin Miller, MA Supervisor, Political Economy, 2010-2011: Rising to the Challenge of Global Resistance: The Political Economy of Vertical Farming in Canada

Donald Leffers, MA Supervisor, Geography, 2008-2010: Contested Discourses of Sustainability in Old Ottawa South

Madgalene Goemans, MA Supervisor, Geography, 2007-2009: Forest as Hazard, Forest as Victim: The Influence of Community Perceptions of Nature and Disaster on Forest Fire Mitigation Strategies in Kelowna, British Columbia

Jeffrey Barnes, MA Co-Supervisor (with Derek Smith), DGES, 2007-2009: Cultural Keystone Theory: Theobroma Cacao Among the Kuna of Panama

2025-2026 Courses

·       Fall 2025:

• • GEOG 5003F (Critical Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry)/CDNS 5002F (Interdisciplinary Methods)

  • GEOG 3000/ENST 3900 (Honours Field Course)

·       Winter 2026:

• • GEOG 6001 (Doctoral Core Seminar: Geography, Society and the Environment – Research and Professional Practice)

  • ENST/GEOG 4050 (Environmental and Geographic Education)

Carleton University Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award (2025, 2016) + Nominations (2011, 2012, 2023) – Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs and the Office of the Vice President

Carleton University Research Achievement Award (to be taken up through 2021): Governance Insights from Food System Elders: Civil Society and Social Movement Perspectives

Favourite Faculty 2019-2020 – Resident Nominations, Housing and Resident Life Services (January 3, 2020)

CUSA Teaching Excellence Award (May 2019)

Co-applicant on Dr. Alison Blay-Palmer’s SSHRC Research Impact Award – named one of three finalists in Partnership category (September 4, 2019)

FASS Excellence in Teaching Award (March 20, 2019)

Carleton University Research Time Release Award (2015)

FASS Research Achievement Award (April 2013)

Finalist for the Capital Educator’s Award (May 2012, Nominated 2006 & 2013)

FASS Teaching Award (March 2012)

Teaching Achievement Award, Carleton University ($15,000) (May 1, 2008-April 31, 2009): USING PODCASTS TO ENGAGE, REINFORCE AND EXPLORE CRITICAL CONCEPTS

Inaugural “Featured Faculty” award winner in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (Winter 2006).