JP Catungal Receives Killam Teaching Prize
Congratulations to Dr. JP Catungal who has received the prestigious Killam Teaching Prize. The award recognizes excellence in teaching and Dr. Catungal joins a celebrated circle of committed and talented instructors at UBC. Dr. Catungal is an interdisciplinary scholar of critical geography and feminist and queer of colour theorizing. He has taught in the Institute […]
Minelle Mahtani named BC and Yukon Book Prize Finalist
Congratulations to Minelle Mahtani, whose debut memoir May It Have a Happy Ending: A Memoir of Finding a Voice as My Mother Lost Hers (Doubleday Canada) was recently named a finalist for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize awarded to the author of the best original non-fiction literary work. A soirée to celebrate the shortlisted authors will […]
Podcast: The World is in Crisis – What Role Should Our Universities Play?
With today’s world in crisis, what should the role of the university be? And why are our public universities so underfunded? And how can they continue to serve their communities? Annette Henry (GRSJ Emerita) and Michelle Stack (GRSJ Faculty Associate/Education UBC) tackled these big questions and more on the Don’t Call Me Resilient podcast recorded live in front of an audience at UBC.
Jasbir Puar Extraordinary Professor at the University of Western Cape
It has been a busy few months for GRSJ’s Jasbir Puar. Between January and March 2025, she has spent time as an Extraordinary Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the University of the Western Cape. During her stay, Dr. Puar, a leading scholar in gender, race, and debility studies, engaged in a […]
Trans* Journeys: Centering marginalized voices through open pedagogy and open publishing
While open educational resources (OER) are often created by faculty and instructors for use in the classroom, there is a growing interest in giving students the opportunity to engage with the open publishing process directly as part of their coursework. GRSJ’s Isabel Machado’s approach with her CSIS 301 students is featured in a story by the UBC Library as part of Open Education Week happening in March.
Open Call: GRSJ’s Yao Xiao co-edits Critical Arts Journal Special Issue
GRSJ sessional instructor, Dr. Yao Xiao, is co-editing a special issue of Critical Arts: North South Cultural Media Studies. The deadline for abstract submission is April 15, 2025. This special issue is an international collaboration, co-edited by Dr. Yao Xiao at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia, with Aizada Arystanbek at the Department […]
CBC Reads Selects May It Have a Happy Ending as Must-Read
Congratulations to Minelle Mahtani whose debut memoir May It Have a Happy Ending was selected by CBC Reads as one of 30 must read Canadian books for Winter 2025!
Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Imperial Lifeworlds
Congratulations to GRSJ Faculty Associate Renisa Mawani (UBC Sociology) and her co-editors Antoinette Burton and Samantha Frost from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, on the publication of Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Imperial Lifeworlds (Bloomsbury). The open access collection challenges the idea of human species supremacy that is one of the most persistent fictions at work […]
Pilar Riaño publishes new book: Avanzar a tientas
Congratulations to Dr. Pilar Riaño on the publication of Avanzar a tientas. Memorias, violencias y producción de conocimiento (Universidad de Guadalajara and CALAS Publications), The Spanish-language publication, is available here. In Avanzar a tientas, Dr. Riaño interrogates the dynamic field of memory, its languages, initiatives, and disputes in the afterlife of mass violence. In particular, she examines the impact […]