Faculty Associates | The Social Justice Institute

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


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
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, Statelessness, Ethnographic methods and writing; Socialist cultures and projects of modernity; Eurasia; Peoples of Siberia
Briggs, Marlene	English	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	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
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.
Dalziel, Pamela	English	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
Dixon, Joy	History	Arts	Associate	history; gender; sexuality; religion; science; culture; empire; queer; theology
Fee, Margery	English	Arts	Professor	Canadian literature, comparative aboriginal literature, postcolonial theory
Frackman, Kyle	Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies (CENES)	Human Early Learning Partnership	Assistant 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
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).
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	Human Early Learning Partnership	Professor	Renaissance poetry, queer literary history and queer comparative literature
Hare, Jan	Language Literacy and Education	Education	Associate	Adolescent Issues, Children and Youth, Cultural Studies, Early Childhood, First Nations education, Historical Perspectives, Literacy
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
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
Law, Heddy	School of Music	Arts	Assistant Professor	History of Music
Lee, Chris	English	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
Mawani, Renisa	Sociology	Arts	Associate	empire, governmentality, biopolitics, nationalism, racism, affect, transnational history, law and space
McNeill, Laurie	English/Coordinated Arts Program	Arts	Instructor 1	auto/biography and genre studies
Myers, Tamara	History	Arts	Associate	women’s and girls’ history, history of adolescence, juvenile delinquency, Quebec and Canada
Nason, Dorothy	English/First Nations and Indigenous Studies	Arts	Assistant Professor	Indigenous feminism and literature
Orbaugh, Sharalyn	Asian Studies	Arts	Professor	women writers – Japan
Pratt, Geraldine	Geography	Arts	Professor	feminist geography, labour, immigration, film
Pue, Wesley	Peter A. Allard School of Law	UBC-O	Professor	Australia, curriculum, civil rights, education, equity, ethnicity, First Nations, history, human rights, law, masculinities, police, post-colonial
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
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
Varcoe, Colleen	Nursing	Applied Science	Professor	violence, women’s health, inequity, ethics, health policy, ethnography, critical theory, Aboriginal health, racism
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	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)
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	Children and youth, Cultural studies, International and Comparative Education, Multiculturalism,Post-colonial studies Race/ethnicity, Research methodologies
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