Martine August is an Associate Professor in the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo. She teaches classes related to urbanization, social justice, and housing. Her research focuses on housing, financialization, and inequality, and has appeared in journals including the Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Studies, and Antipode. She has collaborated with community-based organizers in Toronto and Canada’s Federal Housing Advocate to promote affordability and secure tenure in housing. She formerly held a postdoctoral fellowship at Rutgers University and worked as a housing policy advisor for the Ontario government’s housing ministry. Originally from Winnipeg, she received her Master’s and Doctoral degrees from the Department of Geography and Program in Planning at the University of Toronto.
Martine has been attending the UAA since 2010. She has presented many numerous papers at the annual conference, and served as a conference volunteer. She is a member of the 2024 Program Committee, has served on the Emerging Scholar Award adjudication committee and has for several years taken part in professional development sessions for graduate students. She is honoured to have received the 2011 Emerging Scholar Award, and the 2018 Best Conference Paper Award.
Martine’s purpose in serving on the board is to support the UAA in continuing to strengthen the supportive intellectual community the organization has built. She is interested in continuing to build spaces for member collaboration on shared research interests both during and beyond the annual meeting, to emphasize social justice in urban affairs scholarship, and to promote inclusion and professional development for graduate student members.