Acadia ALERT - Campus Closed (Weather)

Today, Monday, February 23, 2026, Acadia University will remain closed, with the exception of residences and Wheelock Dining Hall, due to the forecasted weather. Wheelock Dining Hall may adjust their hours due to the weather and any change in hours will be communicated through Residence Life.

Employees and students are not expected to come to campus and only employees deemed essential are required to report to work. Non-essential employees are not expected to work during the closure. Any events scheduled for today will be postponed or cancelled.

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 dialing 88 on all 585-phone systems, or by calling 902-585-1103.

If you have any questions, please contact:

Acadia University

Department of Safety & Security

902-585-1103

security@acadiau.ca

(Monday February 23, 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

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
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.