Faculty Associates | The Social Justice Institute

Faculty Associates can supervise graduate students at the Institute. See below for complete list:

Faculty Associate	Department	Faculty	Rank	Research
Anderson, Scott A.	Philosophy	Arts	Associate	affirmative action, civil rights, domestic violence, employment, equity, feminism, human rights, inequality, law, pornography, prostitution, rape, sex, sex industry, sex work, sexual assault, sexual harassment, social policy, technology, women, gender, coercion, privacy, domination
Anderson, K. Siwan	Economics	Arts	Professor	marriage, dowry, bride price, missing women, female savings groups, India, Kenya, female autonomy, Bangladesh
Andreotti, Vanessa	Educational Studies	Education	Professor	Education for/about international development, Global Citizenship Education, Global Justice, Ethics of Internationalization
Antwi, Phanuel	English Language and Literatures	Arts	Assistant	critical black studies; settler colonial studies; black Atlantic and diaspora studies; Canadian literature and culture since 1830; critical race, gender, and sexuality studies; and material cultures
Averill, Gage	Dean’s Office	Arts	Dean	ethnomusicology, Haitian music
Boschma, Geertje	Nursing	Applied Science	Professor	mental health, nursing history, history of mental health (western Canada), oral history, gender and health, family and community responses to psychiatric care
Bloch, Alexia	Anthropology	Arts	Associate	migration, mobility and immobility, anthropology of gender, Ssatelessness, Ethnographic methods and writing; socialist cultures and projects of modernity; Eurasia; Peoples of Siberia
Briggs, Marlene	English Language and Literatures	Arts	Assistant	conflict, gender, memory, mourning, reconstruction, testimony, trauma, war, writing
Browne, Annette	Nursing	Applied Science	Professor	health and healthcare inequities, with a particular focus on health inequities affecting indigenous peoples
Brown, Helen	Nursing	Applied Science	Associate	women’s health, maternal-infant health care and nursing practices, Aboriginal health, vulnerable populations, health inequities, structural context of health and health care, social determinants of maternal-infant health, critical theoretical perspectives, Indigenous knowledge, health care and nursing ethics, feminist participatory research, decolonizing knowledges, community-based research, critical hermeneutic methods, critical ethnography
Castricano, Jodey	Critical Studies, UBC-O	Creative and Critical Studies	Associate	gender studies, queer, cultural and psychoanalytic theory, postcolonial studies, gothic studies (fiction, film), animal studies, humanities/digital technology, virtual reality
Chan, Jennifer	Educational Studies	Education	Associate	Asia, education, Europe, feminism, food, globalization, human rights, immigration, multicultural, pornography, post-colonial, post-modern, post-structuralist, reproductive rights, sexual harassment, social movement, transnational
Chapman, Mary	English Language and Literatures	Arts	Professor	American literature and transnational American Studies; in particular, intersections between cultural forms (i.e. suffrage activism, print culture, parlor theatricals, parades), literary production, and politics in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America
Cheek, Timothy	Inst. of Asian Research	Arts	Professor	modern China, particularly China’s intellectuals and Chinese Communist Party history. Current projects include contemporary Chinese intellectuals and Chinese thought, writings of Mao Zedong (Yan’an period), and Chinese historiography.
Cole, Peter	Curriculum and Pedagogy	Education	Assistant	Indigenous education; Aboriginalizing/indigenizing research methodology; orality; narrativity; environmental thought; Indigenous self-determination and self-governance; traditional Aboriginal and Indigenous technologies.
Condon, Anne	Computer Science	Science	Professor	theoretical computer science, analysis of algorithms, dna computing, verification of finite state protocols, computational complexity theory
Coulthard, Glen	First Nations and Indigenous Studies	Arts	Associate
Cox, Susan M.	The W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics	Medicine	Associate	1) Research ethics, especially the meaning and experience of being a human subject in health research and how this may better inform an evidence-based approach to research ethics and its governance 2) Arts based methods in health research, especially the use of various artistic approaches to actually doing research as well as disseminating the findings in non-traditional ways 3) Illness experiences throughout the life course, especially as they are shaped by as well as reflected through narrative.
Dalziel, Pamela	English Language and Literatures	Arts	Associate	Victorian literature
Daniluk, Judith	Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education	Education	Professor	abortion, birth control, bisexuality, breastfeeding, bulimia, divorce, family planning, female genital mutilation, feminism, fertility, gay, gay marriage, health, homosexuality, infertility, lesbian, menopause, mother, parenting, pornography, pregnancy, prostitution, puberty, reproduction, sex, sexuality, women
Daum, Robert	Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies	Arts	Adjunct	Bible, Judaism, Talmud, talmudic, Midrash, gender, queer, sexuality, homosexuality, rabbis, rabbinic, halakhah, aggadah, synagogue, Leviticus, Torah, rape, prostitution
Dharamsi, Shafik	Family Practice	Medicine	Associate
Dixon, Joy	History	Arts	Associate	history; gender; sexuality; religion; science; culture; empire; queer; theology
Frackman, Kyle	Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies (CENES)	Human Early Learning Partnership	Associate Professor	18th- to 20th-century German and Austrian literature, German and Nordic film, gender studies, feminist theory, queer theory, music history, cultural studies, German, Swedish, Finnish language
Frank, Blye	Dean’s Office	Education	Professor	diversity, sociology of masculinity, boys’ and men’s health
Frelick, Nancy	French, Hispanic and Italian Studies	Human Early Learning Partnership	Associate	auto/biography, Europe, feminism, feminist, post-colonial, post-modern, post-structuralist, sexuality, theory, women, writing, literature, literary theory & criticism, comparative literature, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, gender studies
French, William	History	Arts	Associate	Latin American history, Mexican history (19th and 20th century), Cultural and gender history, Romantic love
Fuller, Sylvia	Sociology	Human Early Learning Partnership	Associate	understanding the relationships among changing employment relations, institutional and regulatory contexts, and patterns of inequality and economic insecurity (particularly as this relates to intersections of gender, class, ethnicity and citizenship).
Ghaziani, Amin	Sociology	Arts	Associate	gender and sexuality, knowledge, culture and power
Gleason, Mona	Educational Studies	Education	Professor	children and youth, gender studies, history of education, social justice
Gorsuch, Anne	History	Arts	Professor	Soviet Union, tourism, cultural exchange and global encounter, global sixties, youth, Cuba
Gurstein, Penny	School of Community & Regional Planning	Applied Science	Professor	women and work, women and community planning and development, women and poverty, youth participation in planning, social construction of marginalization
Guy-Bray, Stephen	English Language and Literatures	Human Early Learning Partnership	Professor	Renaissance poetry, queer literary history and queer comparative literature
Hallensleben, Markus	Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies	Arts	Associate	19th to 21st Century Austrian and German literature, 20th Century European avant-garde movements and aesthetics, transcultural images of the body in literature, sciences, and art performances
Hanser, Amy	Sociology	Arts	Associate	work, social inequality, gender, economy, culture
Hare, Jan	Language Literacy and Education	Education	Associate	adolescent Issues, children and youth, cultural studies, early childhood, First Nations education, historical perspectives, literacy
Henry, Annette	Language and Literature Education	Education	Professor	race, class, language, gender and culture in socio-cultural contexts of teaching and learning in the lives of Black students, Black oral histories, and Black women teachers’ practice in Canada, the U.S. and the Caribbean
Ho, Anita	School of Population and Public Health	Medicine	Associate	ethical dimensions of utilizing innovative and artificial intelligence technologies in health care, trust and decision making in domestic and international clinical and research medicine, organizational and system ethics in medicine, cross-cultural and global health ethics, health-care resource allocation and disparity, professional-patient relationship, ethics education for health professionals, disability and pain experiences, and various concepts of autonomy
Hurd Clarke, Laura	School of Kinesiology	Education	Professor	ageing, body image, disability, gender, health promotion, health and illness experiences, physical activity, qualitative methodologies
Irwin, Rita	Curriculum and Pedagogy	Education	Professor	education, arts education, socio-cultural concerns, gender studies, international studies, a/r/tography, practice-based research, post-qualitative, teacher education, professional development
Johnson, Shelly	Social Work	Human Early Learning Partnership	Assistant Professor	Indigenous child well-being, trauma and education, political and community-based leadership, justice, advocacy and activism
Justice, Daniel	First Nations and Indigenous Studies	Human Early Learning Partnership	Professor	Aboriginal Studies and Indigenous Native North American literatures, Cultural studies and literary history, and Speculative fiction
Karwowska, Bozena	Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies	Human Early Learning Partnership	Associate	women in Russian and Polish literature and culture, Nazi concentration camps, body, sexuality, exile, women immigrants
Kazanjian, Arminee	School of Population and Public Health	Medicine	Professor	women, health, health care, insurance, equity, ethnicity, international, work, workplace
Kelly, Deirdre	Educational Studies	Education	Professor	children and youth, gender, media and democracy, social justice, sociology of education
Kemple, Thomas	Sociology	Arts	Professor	contemporary social and cultural theory (including post-structuralist, semiotic, psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer theory); the history of the social sciences; sociological classics, canons, and founders; literary and interpretive methods; aesthetic sociology; the visual representation of concepts and arguments.
Kershaw, Paul	Human Early Learning Partnership	School of Population and Public Health	Associate	social citizenship, social care, child care, class, day care, domestic workers, employment, family, father, feminism, feminist, government, income assistance, inequality, interdisciplinarity, intersectionality, masculinities, mother, politics, race, rights, responsibilities, social policy, social security, taxes, theory, welfare, women, work
Kornelson, Jude	Family Practice	Medicine	Assistant	Rural maternity care; rural health service delivery; women/care provider experiences; maternity services; maternal and newborn outcomes
Kreisel, Deanna	English Language and Literatures	Arts	Associate	Victorian literature and culture
Laffin, Christina	Asian Studies	Arts	Associate	medieval travel diaries; women’s education and socialization before 1600; poetic practices and waka culture; theories of travel, gender, and autobiography; noh theatre; and comparative approaches to medieval literature
Lagresa, Elizabeth	French, Hispanic and Italian Studies	Arts	Assistant	early modern literature and culture; early modern theater; early modern visual and material culture; queer, gender and sexuality studies; cross-cultural and comparative studies
Lauster, Nathanael	Sociology	Arts	Associate	housing; home; urban; family; immigration; population; environment; health; methods
Law, Heddy	School of Music	Arts	Assistant Professor	history of music
Lee, Chris	English Language and Literatures	Arts	Associate	Asian diaspora studies (including Asian Canadian, Asian American, and comparative studies), critical race studies, transnational studies, literary and critical theory, and aesthetic philosophy
Legault, Marianne	French – UBCO	Creative and Critical Studies	Associate	early modern French, literature, lesbian studies, women’s literary production, history
Loutzenheiser, Lisa	Curriculum and Pedagogy	Education	Associate	multicultural, anti-racist curriculum and pedagogy, intersection of race, gender, class, sexuality in schooling, alternative education, foster care, curriculum theory, qualitative methods, social studies, gender/queer/theories, anthropology/social sciences of education
Mackie, Gregory	English Language and Literatures	Arts	Associate	Victorian and Modernist literature, drama, and book history
Martin-Matthews, Anne	Sociology	Arts	Professor	family and life course, health and health care
Mawani, Renisa	Sociology	Arts	Associate	empire, governmentality, biopolitics, nationalism, racism, affect, transnational history, law and space
McGeogh, Michelle	Art History, Visual Art and Theory	Arts	Assistant	contemporary and historical Indigenous cultural production and Indigenous non-binary identities
McNeill, Laurie	English/Coordinated Arts Program	Arts	Instructor 1	auto/biography and genre studies
Metcalfe, Amy	Educational Studies	Education	Associate	higher education, international comparative higher education, policy, research methodologies, sociology of higher education
Mintzes, Barbara	Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics	Medicine	Assistant	effects of direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs on prescribing and medicine use
Myers, Tamara	History	Arts	Associate	women’s and girls’ history, history of adolescence, juvenile delinquency, Quebec and Canada
O Donoghue, Dónal	Curriculum and Pedagogy	Education	Professor	art education research, curriculum theory, masculinities, place theory, visual culture, visual sociology
Oliffe, John	Nursing	Applied Science	Professor
Orbaugh, Sharalyn	Asian Studies	Arts	Professor	women writers – Japan
Paris, Leslie	History	Arts	Associate	modern American social and cultural history childhood and youth gender and sexuality popular culture
Piña, Manuel	Art History, Visual Art and Theory	Arts	Associate
Pratt, Geraldine	Geography	Arts	Professor	feminist geography, labour, immigration, film
Prior, Jerilynn	Division of Endocrinology	Medicine	Professor	osteoporosis, post-menopausal women's health, reproductive endocrinology
Raibmon, Paige	History	Art	Professor	Indigenous peoples and colonialism, life writing and life history
Roman, Leslie	Educational Studies	Education	Professor	advocacy, antiracism / antiracist pedagogy, cultural studies, diaspora, disability, discourse / discourse analysis, education, equity, ethnicity, ethnography, feminism, feminist, girl, globalization, homelessness, human rights, immigration, inequality, institutional ethnography, Marxism / materialism, multicultural, feminist qualitative methods, politics, popular culture, pornography, post-colonialism, post-structuralist, race, standpoint, teenager, theory, women, youth
Ruitenberg, Claudia	Educational Studies	Education	Professor	agonistic (i.e., conflict-oriented) conceptions of politics and democracy; ethics (including, but not limited to, Derrida’s ethics of hospitality); speech act theory and discursive performativity; philosophical research methods; questions of epistemological diversity in education; aesthetics and art education; gender and queer theory in education
Santos, Alessandra	French, Hispanic and Italian Studies	Arts	Assistant Professor	literature and culture in contemporary Latin America with special focus on Brazil; displacement and African Diasporas.
Sarra, Janis	Peter A. Allard School of Law	Law	Professor	corporate law and corporate finance, securities law and commercial insolvency law
Sensoy, Ozlem	Faculty of Education, SFU	Education	Associate Professor	social justice education, critical pedagogy, cultural studies, Islam, Middle East, popular culture, feminist postcolonial theory, visual research methods
Shroff, Farah	School of Population and Public Health	Medicine	Adjunct Professor	social justice approaches to health; holistic mind-body practices; international health
Silver, Erin	Art History, Visual Art and Theory	Arts	Assistant	historian of queer and feminist art, visual culture, performance, and activism
Stack, Michelle	Educational Studies	Education	Associate	media and policy, lifelong media education, politics and media, academic-journalist engagement, journalism education
Sundberg, Juanita	Geography	Arts	Associate	Caribbean, civil rights, development, environment, equity, feminism, feminist, Hispanic, human rights, inequality, international, Latin America, Latina, post-colonial, post-structuralist, sexuality, social movement, theory, transnational, conservation, environmental justice, borders, nature, qualitative, methods
Taubeneck, Steven	Central, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies	Arts	Associate	intersections between culture as literature and film, philosophy and history, phenomenology, hermeneutics and pragmatism in philosophy, comparative cultural history
Varcoe, Colleen	Nursing	Applied Science	Professor	violence, women’s health, inequity, ethics, health policy, ethnography, critical theory, Aboriginal health, racism
Vertinsky, Patricia	School of Kinesiology	Education	Professor	community and public health, gender and sexuality, health promotion, history of health, fitness, physical education and modern dance, physical cultural studies, qualitative methodologies, sport and exercise culture, sport and the modern Olympics, sport history
Walter, Pierre	Educational Studies	Education	Professor	Asia, development, economic development, education, environment, globalization, immigration, multicultural, rural, social movement, transnational, urban, women
Watson, Scott	Art History, Visual Art & Theory	Arts	Professor	contemporary art and issues, Art theory and criticism, 20th century art history, Curatorial and exhibition studies
Weir, Lorraine	English Language and Literatures	Arts	Professor	critical theory; Indigenous literature; Indigenous epistemology; Socio-legal studies (Indigenous land title cases in B.C., oral history in the courtroom, expressive freedoms/censorship in Canada)
Wilson, Brian	School of Kinesiology	Education	Professor	consumer culture, media, youth, the environment, social inequality, peace, social movements, qualitative methods, and sport and leisure studies
Wong, Sabrina	Nursing	Applied Science	Professor	health disparities/inequalities, health service delivery, immigrant and marginalized populations, primary health care, mixed methods, survey design and analysis
Wright, Handel	Educational Studies	Education	Professor	cultural studies of education, multiculturalism (critical and comparative) and its alternatives: anti-racism, critical race theory, cosmopolitanism, interculturalism, Identity issues (youth, Africana, politics of difference, complexities of identity and identification), comparative and international education issues, postcolonialism and diaspora
Yodanis, Carrie	Sociology	Arts	Associate	gender studies, family and intimate relationships, violence, inequality
Young, Margot	Peter A. Allard School of Law	Law	Associate	equality law and theory, social and economic rights, comparative constitutional Law, social welfare law, Canadian social union
Yu, Henry	History	Arts	Associate	global Vancouver, trans-pacific migration, Asian Canadian and Asian American history, race and immigration