Congratulations!!! GRSJ Graduates 2023
We take pride sharing the list of our new graduating Masters and Bachelors at GRSJ. Master of Arts Emily Baird Shannon Srivastava Bachelors of Arts Alice Derieux Chagnard Aliyah Ali Bede Marchand Divine Reyes Elijah Foran Emily Baird Emma Owens Erika Scheidegger Jackie Lai Jasleen Sandhu Kim Ji Youn Jude Al-Ghoul Julia Hay Kaitlin Wu […]
Congratulations! Ly Min Ren on receiving the 2023 Public Humanities Seed Grant
Congratulations! Ly Min Ren for being one of the 2023 Public Humanities Seed Grant award holders. Public Humanities Seed Grants (April 2023) The Public Humanities Seed Grant program aims to provide support for new creative, collaborative, and experimental public humanities projects imagined broadly. Ly Min Ren – Graduate Student, Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice “Decolonial Trans* […]
Congratulations! 2023 Sustainability Leadership Award Winner – Kaitlin Wu
Kaitlin spoke to a GRSJ interviewer about her life and educational background, with inspiring message to GRSJ students
Message from Chloe Reyes, the Social Justice Undergraduates Association
Warm greetings from the Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice Undergraduates Association! We are excited to be part of the celebration of the UBC Social Justice Institute’s 10th-year anniversary. The Social Justice Institute has provided students with the opportunity to explore and challenge the way we see the world around us, effecting global change one […]
Message from Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, Graduate Chair
2023 has been a busy year in the Graduate program of the Social Justice Institute. Working closely with the Graduate Student Association (GSA) and our core faculty members, we welcomed outstanding critical scholars, artists and activists every month in the Noted Speaker Series that this past year had as a theme “Knowledge twilights, sensorial aesthetics […]
Message from Pauahi Souza, the Graduate Student Association (GSA)
Dear Alumni, Faculty, Staff, Colleagues, and Friends, Welcome! Bienvenidos! Mabuhay! Bem Vindo! Bienvenue! E Komo Mai! The Social Justice Institute (or the Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice Institute) has several exciting anniversaries to celebrate this coming 2022-2023 academic year! The Centre for Women’s Studies and Gender Relations celebrates 30 years of impacting, challenging, and transforming fields […]
Message from Kim Snowden, Undergraduate Chair
Greetings from GRSJ Undergraduate Programs This has been a year of exciting changes in GRSJ. In May, we were delighted to celebrate our graduating students in the first in-person graduation ceremony since 2019. They faced many challenges completing their degrees during an unpredictable pandemic and we couldn’t be prouder of their accomplishments. We hope to […]
Message from the Director, Nora Angeles
The 10th year Anniversary of the UBC Social Justice Institute coincides with the 30th Anniversary of the now defunct Centre for Women’s Studies and Gender Relations (CWSGR) and its Women’s Studies (WMST) Undergraduate Program. Celebrating the Institute’s 10th anniversary, alongside launching the Noted Scholar’s Series with an Inaugural Lecture by our former Director Professor Denise […]
GRSJ Ph.D. Student Wajiha Mehdi Accepted into the Public Scholars Initiative
Congratulations to GRSJ Ph.D. Student Wajiha Mehdi, who was accepted into the Public Scholars Initiative for the 2021/22 academic year! The PSI was launched in 2015 to support UBC doctoral students whose research extended beyond traditional/academic disciplinary approaches. Recognized at the Reimagining the PhD Symposium 2017 as ‘revolutionary’, and praised in the UBC Strategic Plan as “a key component” of UBC’s Public […]
GRSJ Ph.D. Student David Ng wins UBC Public Engagement Award
Congratulations to GSRJ Ph.D. student David Ng and his co-winner Henry John (History) on receiving the 2022 UBC Public Engagement Award. The Public Engagement Award is given to individuals who have exhibited outstanding public humanities engagement in the past two years, and whose work has contributed to the expansion of the range of voices in […]