CSIS Pedagogy Project Receives OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Congratulations to GRSJ PhD candidate Allen Baylosis and GRSJ faculty member Dr. Isabel Machado, who have received an OER (Open Educational Resources) Rapid Innovation Grant to support the development of an open pedagogy project in Machado’s CSIS 450 course. The project involves students writing and producing illustrated essays as part of an open-access digital book. […]
The Anthropology of White Supremacy: A Reader
Congratulations to Dr. Jemima Pierre on the publication of The Anthropology of White Supremacy: A Reader (Princeton University Press). The book is an anthology of original essays that examine white supremacy around the globe through the lens of anthropology and is co-edited by Dr. Jemima Pierre, Dr. Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús (Princeton University) and Dr. […]
Minelle Mahtani interviewed by CBC’s The Next Chapter
In a recent interview with The Next Chapter’s Antonio Michael Downing, GRSJ’s Minelle Mahtani spoke about her best-selling debut memoir, May It Have a Happy Ending, which is about the anticipatory grief of caring for a dying loved one and the gravity of their loss when they do pass. Mahtani’s shares how her role […]
Drag as Alabama Folklife
Dr. Isabel Machado has a new essay in Tributaries, the journal of the Alabama Folklife Association. This publication is part of Machado’s 2023/24 The Alabama Folk Life Associations Cauthen Fellowship, which is awarded to individuals to conduct original research on an Alabama folk tradition, defined as a tradition passed down through the generations or shared […]
Farm workers’ food security during food price hikes: a political economy of landless rice-wheat farm labourers in Pakistan’s Punjab
GRSJ Director, Dr. Nora Angeles and Khadija Anjum (PhD candidate, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs) have recently published in”Agriculture and Human Values”. The Journal publishes research that critically examines the values, relationships, conflicts and contradictions within contemporary agricultural and food systems and that addresses the impact of agricultural and food related institutions, policies, and practices on […]
Failing at Being Feminine
Dr. Kim Snowden was interviewed for a special cultural issue of UBC’s student newspaper, The Ubyssey, earlier this month. The piece, Failing at Being Feminine looks at how media and gender norms influence femininity in our bodies. Dr. Snowden, who teaches GRSJ 401 (Gender, Body & Society) shared her thoughts on a variety of issues […]
The Witch Studies Reader Featuring Isabel Machado Available for Pre-Order
Dr. Isabel Machado has contributed a chapter to The Witch Studies Reader (Duke University Press). The collection is edited by Soma Chaudhuri and Jane Ward and will be published in Spring 2025. The publisher is offering a 30% savings on preorders at their website. Use the code E25WTSTR. Mista Boo: Portrait of a Drag Witch […]
Transpacific Undisciplined
Congratulations to GRSJ’s Christopher Patterson on the publication of Transpacific Undisciplined (University of Washington Press). He is co-editor along with Lily Wong, American University and Chien-ting Lin, National Central University in Taiwan.
Translating disaster resilience: How values, world view, and politics complicate interpretation and implementation
GRSJ Director, Dr. Nora Angeles and her PhD advisee Dr. Sunya Zaman have co-published in the International Journal of Distaster Reduction. Their paper, Translating disaster resilience: How values, world view, and politics complicate interpretation and implementation, looks at how resilience ideologies and practices adopted from the Global North may lead to counterproductive interventions in postcolonial […]
Jasbir Puar Leads Queer and Trans Anti-Fascisms Research Cluster
Congratulations to GRSJ’s Dr. Jasbir Puar and their interdisciplinary research team on being awarded funding for their Queer and Trans Anti-Fascisms Research Cluster. Abstract: With fascism on the rise globally, we propose a research cluster exploring the intersection of global fascism and queer and trans resistance, with a focus on anti-gender ideology movements in Canada, […]