ACADIA ALERT - Delayed Campus Opening (Weather)

Due to the continued weather and ongoing snow clearing efforts, Acadia University will delay opening campus on Tuesday, February 24, 2026 until 12:00pm, with classes resuming at 12:30pm. Conditions on campus will be assessed throughout the morning and if there is a need to remain closed a follow up message will be sent.

Employees and students are not expected to come to campus until it opens. Residences will be accessible, and Wheelock Dining Hall will be open.

Updates will be posted on www.acadiau.ca and pre-recorded on Acadia’s Information Line: 902-585-4636 (585-INFO). If you need emergency-related information, please contact the Department of Safety and Security by calling 902-585-1103.

(Tuesday February 24, 2026 @ 5:55 am)

Dr. Katie Mazer

Assistant Professor
Cross-appointed, WGST & Environmental and Sustainability Studies

Office: BAC 313
Phone: 902-585-1350
Email: katie.mazer@acadiau.ca
Office Hours: TBD

Education
  • PhD (Geography, University of Toronto)
  • M.Sc.Pl. (University of Toronto)
  • BA (McGill)
Research/Teaching Interests
  • Critical perspectives on work and unemployment
  • Feminist political economy
  • Social reproduction
  • Natural resource economies
  • Welfare state
  • Race, class, gender
  • Environmental justice
  • Critical geography
Teaching (2024-25)

WGST 1413 Intro to Women's and Gender Studies
WGST 2013 Environmental Justice and Equity
WGST 4923 Contemporary Feminist Issues
Selected Publications

Mazer, Katie. “Dump Truck Destiny: Alberta Oil, ‘East Coast’ Workers, and Attachment to Extraction.” Antipode, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12860.

Mazer, Katie, Suzanne Mills, and Séverine Bouard. “Pathways to Nickel Mining Employment among Inuit Women in Nunavik, Canada and Kanak Women in New Caledonia: A Comparative Study.” The Extractive Industries and Society 10 (June 2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2022.101088.

Mazer, Katie. “Making the Welfare State Work for Extraction: Poverty Policy as the Regulation of Labor and Land.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers 109, no. 1 (2019): 18–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2018.1480929.

Mazer, Katie, Martin Danyluk, Elise Hunchuck, and Deborah Cowen. “Mapping a Many-Headed Hydra: Transnational Infrastructures of Extraction and Resistance.” In Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement, edited by Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.