Political and Social Geography
Associate Professor in the Department of Geography
Office: Burnside Hall 308A
Phone: 514-398-4953
Fax: 514-398-7437
benjamin.forest [at] mcgill.ca (E-Mail)
Academic background
- , UCLA (1997)
- Associate Member, Department of Political Science, McGill University
- Member, , McGill University
- Research Fellow, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (2021-2023)
Research interests
I study the geographical nature of identity and identifications, and I am especially concerned with the political representation and construction of race, ethnicity, and nationality. My current research examines the political representation of ethnic minority groups, the use of monuments and memorials for (re)constructing post-Soviet national identities, and various issues of electoral geography, political parties, and governance.
Current projects
- Shaping Democracy: Boundary Commissions, Parties, and Citizens听
- The Politics of Complex Diversity in Contested Cities (Montreal)
- The Power of Symbolic Capital:
Some recent publications
Forest, Benjamin (2022) 鈥淎s Maine Goes, No Goes the Nation: The 2020 Senate Election" in , edited by Robert H. Watrel, et al. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield: 225-228.听
Forest, Benjamin and Mike Medeiros (2021) 鈥淐ontiguity, Constituencies and the Political Representation of Minorities鈥� EPC: Politics and Space 39 (5): 879-899.听
Medeiros, Mike, Benjamin Forest, and Patrik 脰hberg (2020) 鈥淭he Case for Non-Binary Gender Questions in Surveys鈥� PS: Political Science & Politics 53 (1): 128-135. DOI:
Medeiros, Mike, Benjamin Forest, and Chris Erl (2019) 鈥淲here Women Stand: Parliamentary Candidate Selection in Canada鈥� Politics, Groups, and Identities 7(2): 389-400.听DOI: