W.N. Holden
Positions
Associate Professor
Contact information
Background
Educational Background
Doctor of Philosophy Geography, University of Calgary, 2003
Master of Economics Economics, University of Calgary, 1996
Bachelor of Arts Economics, University of Calgary, 1993
Bachelor of Law LL.B., University of Western Ontario, 1987
Biography
Holden (a non-practicing member of the Law Society of Alberta)joined the Geography Department as a cross-appointee with the B.Sc in Environmental Science program on 1 September 2004. This followed an eight-year stint as an award-winning Instructor in the Department of Economics, six years teaching law at a private vocational college, time spent as an associate counsel in a law firm, articles as a student at law with the Attorney General of Ontario, and employment as a general duty kitchen worker at Banff National Army Cadet Camp.
Holden was nominated for a Students’ Union Teaching Excellence Award in: 1996-1997, 1997-1998, 1998-1999, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007. 2007-2008, 2010-2011, and 2012-2013. Holden received Students’ Union Teaching Excellence Award Honorable Mentions in: 2001-2002, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, and 2005-2006. Holden received a Students’ Union Teaching Excellence Award in 1996-1997 and 2012-2013. Holden also received a Faculty of Social Sciences Distinguished Teacher Award in 1999, the Students' Union Presidential Citation in 2000, was nominated for the Mount Royal College Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award (while teaching as a sessional instructor at Mount Royal College) in 2000, was nominated for the Faculty of Arts Teaching Award in 2015, and was nominated for the Killam Award in Undergraduate Mentorship in 2016.
Holden was listed in Maclean's Magazine's Guide to Canadian Universities profile of the University of Calgary as a "popular professor" in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006.
While a PhD student, Holden won the award for best presentation by a PhD student at the Geography Department conference in March 2001 and received the Graduate Faculty Council Scholarship in both 2001 and 2002.
During the 2012-2013 academic year Holden was a finalist for the University of Calgary's Teaching Leadership Sustainability ON Award.
In September 2013 and September 2014, Holden had the honor of giving the ceremonial "first lecture" to all in-coming students in the Faculty of Arts at new student orientation.
In the Fall of 2015, Holden was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Geography at San Diego State University in San Diego, California.
In the Fall of 2019, Holden was a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at University of the Philippines Diliman in Quezon City, Philippines.
Research
Areas of Research
Courses
| Course number | Course title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| GEOG 352 | Political, Economic, and Urban Geography | Fall 2024 |
| GEOG 354 | Social and Cultural Geography | Fall 2020 |
| GEOG 458 | Political Geographies | Winter 2020 |
| ENSC 201 | Introduction to Environmental Science | Winter 2018 |
| GEOG 251 | Human Geography | Fall 2016 to Winter 2019 |
| GEOG 554 | World Cities | Fall 2015 |
| GEOG 573 | Population and Environment | Fall 2015 |
| GEOG 251 | Human Geography | Winter 2013 |
| GEOG 365 | Political Geography | Winter 2011 |
| ENSC 503 | Environmental Impact Assessment | Winter 2009 |
| GEOG 341 | Economic Geography | 2008 to 2014 |
| GEOG 251 | GEOG 251 | Winter 2006 |
| GEOG 321 | Environmental Geography | 2004 to 2008 |
| GEOG 597.02 | Urban Economic Geography | Winter 2004 |
Awards
- Nominee: Killam Award in Undergraduate Mentorship, 2017
- Nominee: Faculty of Arts Teaching Award, University of Calgary. 2015
- Winner: Students’ Union Teaching Excellence Award, University of Calgary. 2013
- Nominee: Students’ Union Teaching Excellence Award, University of Calgary. 2011
Publications
- “Jurisdictional Imaginaries as Contested Geographies: A Metaphor analysis of Reference Cases About Canada’s Impact Assessment Act.”. Blue, G., L. Lefsrud, A. Lajoie-O’Malley, H. Yaworski, and W.N. Holden. Political Geography (in press). (2024)
- “Gibsland, Louisiana’s Memoryscape of Bonnie and Clyde: Putting the Past in the Present.”. Holden, W.N.. Memory Studies. 17 (6): 1536-1553. (2024)
- “Bonnie and Clyde’s Crime Wave: Social Banditry, Social Change, and Political Geography.”. Holden, W.N.. Geojournal (in press). (2023)
- “Bonnie and Clyde’s Extrajudicial Killing: Gibsland, Louisiana’s Dark Tourism.”. Holden, W.N.. Journal of Heritage Tourism. 18 (5): 658-675. (2023)
- “Climate Change, Neoauthoritarianism, Necropolitics, and State Failure: The Duterte Regime in the Philippines.”. Holden, W.N.. Asian Geographer. 40 (2): 145-167. (2023)
- President Rodrigo Duterte and the War on Drugs: Fear and Loathing in the Philippines.. Holden, W.N.. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. (2021)
- Ecological Liberation Theology: Faith-Based Approaches to Poverty and Climate Change in the Philippines.. Holden, W.N., Nadeau, K.N, and Porio, E.. Springer Briefs in Geography. New York: Springer.. (2017)
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