Welcome GRSJ Faculty Associates
GRSJ faculty associates are selected based on their exemplary research and teaching interests that align iwth the Institute vision and mandate. Many associates hae been involved with GRSJ in the past as a former guest speakers or research supervisors of our graduate students. The appointments are in place for as long as the faculty […]
Mistaken Identity: “Asian Indigenous Relation” and the Afterlives of Feminist Critique
Rusaba Alam has had her first peer-reviewed article published in a special issue of Canadian Literature. The article is called “Mistaken Identity: ‘Asian-Indigenous Relation’ and the Afterlives of Feminist Critique,” Abstract: Using the case study of Lee Maracle’s short story “Yin Chin” (1990) and its uptake in literary criticism on the topic of Asian/Indigenous relation, […]
Romina Tantaleán-Castañeda Receives 2023 IDRC Award
Congratulations to GRSJ PhD candidate Romina Tantaleán-Castañeda on her recent International Doctoral Research Award for her research in collaboration with the Federation of Indigenous Women of Atalaya Province (FEMIPA) in the Peruvian Central East Amazon. The study aims to explore ways to conceptualize and enforce the rights of mother nature from a legal pluralist approach based on Indigenous knowledge […]
Isabel Machado Receives Fellowships to Explore History of Drag Pageants in Alabama
Since the publication of her first book Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile early last year, GRSW’s Dr. Isabel Machado has been busy expanding her specialized research in the fields of Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Festive Studies. In 2023-24 she’s been the recipient of 2 fellowships that support her documentation […]
What Happens When Theatre Migrates?
Congratulations to GRSJ Director Dr. Nora Angeles and community partner, National Pilipino Canadian Cultural Centre Society (NPC3), on being named a recipient of UBC’s Winter 2023 Partnership Recognition and Exploration (PRE) Fund. The project “What Happens When Theatre Migrates” situate theatre as a method of community partnership that employs performance as a lens of understanding […]
GRSJ Statement on Palestine
The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at UBC-Vancouver strongly condemns the Israeli-state violence against civilians in Gaza and the West Bank and calls for an immediate ceasefire as a necessary first step on the path to a justice-based resolution to the decades-long settler colonial occupation in the Palestinian territories.
Dr. Denise Ferriera da Silva Receives Frantz Fanon Book Award
Congratulations to Dr. Denise Ferriera da Silva whose book Unpayable Debt recently received the Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. The Frantz Fanon Prize is awarded annually in recognition of up to three works in or of special interest to Caribbean thought. The nominations are made during the fall of each […]
Remembering Dr. Sneja Gunew
Dr. Sneja Gunew (1946-2024) It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of our colleague, Dr. Sneja Gunew, Professor Emerita at GRSJ and former Director of the Centre for Research in Women’s and Gender Studies at Women’s Studies at UBC. Dr. Sneja Gunew taught in England, Australia before joining […]
Alumni Receives MSHRBC Funds for Knowledge Translation Project
Michael Smith Health Research BC (MSHRBC) has announced the recipients of the 2023 Convening & Collaborating (C2) and Reach competitions to create pathways from research evidence to impact and help ensure that cutting-edge health research can directly improve the health of British Columbians and BC’s health system. GRSJ Alumni A.J. Lowik is a co-lead on […]