Core Faculty
Alifa Bandali
Alifa Bandali
Assistant Professor of Teaching
emailalifa.bandali@ubc.ca
Alifa Bandali is an Assistant Professor of Teaching at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ). Dr. Bandali’s research focuses on feminist activism in institutional and creative spaces; Muslim women’s representations; and creating accessible and inclusive learning env...Read more
Annette Henry
Annette Henry
Professor | 2021 Wall Scholar
emailannette.henry@ubc.ca
Biography
Annette Henry holds the David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. She is a Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education and cross-appointed to the Institute for Race, Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice...Read more
Ayesha S. Chaudhry
Ayesha S. Chaudhry
Professor | Canada Research Chair in Religion, Law and Social Justice
phonephone 604 827 0376
Biography
Ayesha S. Chaudhry is the Canada Research Chair in Religion, Law and Social Justice and Professor of Islamic studies and Gender studies at the University of British Columbia. She is a Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellow. She has held r...Read more
Christopher Patterson
Christopher Patterson
Associate Professor | Graduate Chair and Advisor
emailc.patterson@ubc.ca
phone604 827 2156
Biography
Christopher B. Patterson is an Associate Professor in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on transpacific discourses of literature, games, and films through the lens of empire studies, queer theory and creative writing. His first book,Â...Read more
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Professor
Biography
An academic and an artist, Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva writes on crucial global issues, which she approaches from an anticolonial black feminist perspective. A prolific author, her field-changing books – such as Toward a Global Idea of Race and Unpayable Debt -- have been published by...Read more
Dory Nason
Dory Nason
Associate Professor of Teaching
emaildory.nason@ubc.ca
phone604 827 5688
location_onBuchanan E-261
Dory Nason (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) is Anishinaabe and an enrolled member of the Leech Lake Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. Her areas of research include contemporary Indigenous Feminisms and related Native women’s intellectual history and literature. At UBC, Professor Nas...Read more
Isabel Machado
Isabel Machado
Lecturer
Dr. Isabel Machado is a Lecturer at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ). A cultural historian whose work often crosses national and disciplinary boundaries, she specializes in the fields of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Festive Studies. Her first book, Carnival ...Read more
Janice Stewart
Janice Stewart
Professor of Teaching | Associate Dean, Faculty
phonephone 0
PhD, McGill University (2001)
Biography
Currently Dr. Stewart's work engages the teaching and learning benefits of socially networked, online Community Mapping tools and the unique potential of locative media for social justice initiatives on the UBC campus. Social Justice @UBC considers how of...Read more
Jasbir Puar
Jasbir Puar
Professor
emailjpuar02@mail.ubc.ca
Jasbir K. Puar is the author of the award-winning books The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017), which has been translated into Spanish and Portuguese, and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007), available in French and Spanish, re-issued as an expanded ver...Read more
Jemima Pierre
Jemima Pierre
Professor
emailjpierr02@mail.ubc.ca
Dr. Jemima Pierre is Professor of Global Race in the Institute of Race, Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ) at the University of British Columbia and a research associate at the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class at the University of Johannesburg. Trained as a sociocultural anth...Read more
John Paul (JP) Catungal
John Paul (JP) Catungal
Assistant Professor, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
emailcatungal@mail.ubc.ca
BA Honours, Geography with Sociology minor, Simon Fraser University (2006)
MA, Geography, University of Toronto (2007)
PhD, Geography, University of Toronto (2014)
Biography
Dr. John Paul (JP) Catungal is an interdisciplinary scholar trained in the nexus of critical human geogra...Read more
Kim Snowden
Kim Snowden
Assistant Professor of Teaching | Undergraduate Chair and Advisor
emailkim.snowden@ubc.ca
phone1
Assistant Professor of Teaching, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice, Chair, Undergraduate Program and Undergraduate Academic Advisor
Biography
Dr. Kim Snowden is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in Feminist Media Studies and Popular Culture at the Institute for Gender, Rac...Read more
Leila Harris
Leila Harris
Professor
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Geography with minor in Development Studies and Social Change, 2004, PhD
Biography
I am most interested in gender, inequality and justice in relation to environment and development (from a feminist political ecology perspective), as well as intersections ...Read more
Leonora Angeles
Biography
Dr. Leonora (Nora) C. Angeles is Associate Professor at the School of Community and Regional Planning and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. She is also faculty research associate at the UBC Centre for Human Settlements wher...Read more
Mark Harris
Mark Harris
Associate Professor
emailmark.harris@ubc.ca
Biography
Dr. Mark Harris is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice. His research focuses on Indigenous rights in relation to cultural heritage, land claims, the stolen generations, intellectual property and criminal justice issues. He has worked as ...Read more
Minelle Mahtani
Minelle Mahtani
Associate Professor | Brenda and David McLean Chair in Canadian Studies
Minelle Mahtani is Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Justice at UBC. She held the role of the Senior Advisor to the Provost on Racialized Faculty where she supported the recruitment and retention of racialized faculty. She is also a former national television news journalist at the CBC...Read more
Pilar Riaño-Alcalá
Pilar Riaño-Alcalá
Professor | (On Leave)
emailPilar.Riano@ubc.ca
Biography
Pilar Riaño-Alcalá is a professor at the Social Justice Institute and co-lead of the Memory and Justice Research Stream. She is an anthropologist and interdisciplinary scholar. Her research interests are on historical memory and the lived experience of violence in the afterlives of mass...Read more
Rosanne Sia
Rosanne Sia
Assistant Professor
emailrosanne@mail.ubc.ca
Rosanne Sia works across Cold War cultural history, performance studies, critical race studies, and queer studies. Her book manuscript, Mujer Peregrina: Performing Racial Fantasies in the early Cold War, focuses on women of Asian and Latinx descent who danced and sang on nightclub circuits in the e...Read more
Tara Mayer
Tara Mayer
Associate Professor of Teaching
emailtara.mayer@ubc.ca
Dr. Tara Mayer is a historian of colonial South Asia whose scholarship traces material and aesthetic exchanges between India, Britain, and France in ways that blur the boundaries of her discipline. Through visual and textual sources that connect the metropole to the colony, her work examines the ten...Read more
Emeritus
Sneja Gunew
Sneja Gunew
Professor Emerita, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice | Fellow of Royal Society of Canada
emailsneja.gunew@ubc.ca
Biography
Dr. Sneja Gunew (FRSC) B.A. (Melbourne), M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Newcastle, NSW) has taught in England, Australia and Canada. She has published widely on multicultural, postcolonial and feminist critical theory and is Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Briti...Read more
Valerie Raoul
Valerie Raoul
Professor Emerita, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice, French, Hispanic and Italian Studies
Biography
Professor Emerita Valerie Raoul retired in 2007, after 28 years at UBC as a member of the French Department (now FIHS), of which she was Head from 1991-6. Her background before coming to Canada from England in 1970 was already interdisciplinary (BA Cambridge, Modern Languages; Teaching Ce...Read more
Veronica Strong-Boag
Veronica Strong-Boag
Professor Emerita, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice and Educational Studies. University of British Columbia | Director, womensuffrage.org, UBC
Biography
Dr. Veronica (Nikki) Strong-Boag is a feminist historian focusing on women, children, and social justice in Canada. Professor Emerita with UBC's Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice and the Department of Educational Studies, she is a former president of the Canadian H...Read more
Faculty
Alifa Bandali
Alifa Bandali
Assistant Professor of Teaching
emailalifa.bandali@ubc.ca
Alifa Bandali is an Assistant Professor of Teaching at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ). Dr. Bandali’s research focuses on feminist activism in institutional and creative spaces; Muslim women’s representations; and creating accessible and inclusive learning env...Read more
Annette Henry
Annette Henry
Professor | 2021 Wall Scholar
emailannette.henry@ubc.ca
Biography
Annette Henry holds the David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. She is a Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education and cross-appointed to the Institute for Race, Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice...Read more
Ayesha S. Chaudhry
Ayesha S. Chaudhry
Professor | Canada Research Chair in Religion, Law and Social Justice
phonephone 604 827 0376
Biography
Ayesha S. Chaudhry is the Canada Research Chair in Religion, Law and Social Justice and Professor of Islamic studies and Gender studies at the University of British Columbia. She is a Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellow. She has held r...Read more
Christopher Patterson
Christopher Patterson
Associate Professor | Graduate Chair and Advisor
emailc.patterson@ubc.ca
phone604 827 2156
Biography
Christopher B. Patterson is an Associate Professor in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on transpacific discourses of literature, games, and films through the lens of empire studies, queer theory and creative writing. His first book,Â...Read more
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Professor
Biography
An academic and an artist, Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva writes on crucial global issues, which she approaches from an anticolonial black feminist perspective. A prolific author, her field-changing books – such as Toward a Global Idea of Race and Unpayable Debt -- have been published by...Read more
Dory Nason
Dory Nason
Associate Professor of Teaching
emaildory.nason@ubc.ca
phone604 827 5688
location_onBuchanan E-261
Dory Nason (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) is Anishinaabe and an enrolled member of the Leech Lake Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. Her areas of research include contemporary Indigenous Feminisms and related Native women’s intellectual history and literature. At UBC, Professor Nas...Read more
Isabel Machado
Isabel Machado
Lecturer
Dr. Isabel Machado is a Lecturer at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ). A cultural historian whose work often crosses national and disciplinary boundaries, she specializes in the fields of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Festive Studies. Her first book, Carnival ...Read more
Janice Stewart
Janice Stewart
Professor of Teaching | Associate Dean, Faculty
phonephone 0
PhD, McGill University (2001)
Biography
Currently Dr. Stewart's work engages the teaching and learning benefits of socially networked, online Community Mapping tools and the unique potential of locative media for social justice initiatives on the UBC campus. Social Justice @UBC considers how of...Read more
Jasbir Puar
Jasbir Puar
Professor
emailjpuar02@mail.ubc.ca
Jasbir K. Puar is the author of the award-winning books The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017), which has been translated into Spanish and Portuguese, and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007), available in French and Spanish, re-issued as an expanded ver...Read more
Jemima Pierre
Jemima Pierre
Professor
emailjpierr02@mail.ubc.ca
Dr. Jemima Pierre is Professor of Global Race in the Institute of Race, Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ) at the University of British Columbia and a research associate at the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class at the University of Johannesburg. Trained as a sociocultural anth...Read more
Kim Snowden
Kim Snowden
Assistant Professor of Teaching | Undergraduate Chair and Advisor
emailkim.snowden@ubc.ca
phone1
Assistant Professor of Teaching, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice, Chair, Undergraduate Program and Undergraduate Academic Advisor
Biography
Dr. Kim Snowden is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in Feminist Media Studies and Popular Culture at the Institute for Gender, Rac...Read more
Leila Harris
Leila Harris
Professor
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Geography with minor in Development Studies and Social Change, 2004, PhD
Biography
I am most interested in gender, inequality and justice in relation to environment and development (from a feminist political ecology perspective), as well as intersections ...Read more
Leonora Angeles
Biography
Dr. Leonora (Nora) C. Angeles is Associate Professor at the School of Community and Regional Planning and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. She is also faculty research associate at the UBC Centre for Human Settlements wher...Read more
Mark Harris
Mark Harris
Associate Professor
emailmark.harris@ubc.ca
Biography
Dr. Mark Harris is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice. His research focuses on Indigenous rights in relation to cultural heritage, land claims, the stolen generations, intellectual property and criminal justice issues. He has worked as ...Read more
Minelle Mahtani
Minelle Mahtani
Associate Professor | Brenda and David McLean Chair in Canadian Studies
Minelle Mahtani is Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Justice at UBC. She held the role of the Senior Advisor to the Provost on Racialized Faculty where she supported the recruitment and retention of racialized faculty. She is also a former national television news journalist at the CBC...Read more
Pilar Riaño-Alcalá
Pilar Riaño-Alcalá
Professor | (On Leave)
emailPilar.Riano@ubc.ca
Biography
Pilar Riaño-Alcalá is a professor at the Social Justice Institute and co-lead of the Memory and Justice Research Stream. She is an anthropologist and interdisciplinary scholar. Her research interests are on historical memory and the lived experience of violence in the afterlives of mass...Read more
Rosanne Sia
Rosanne Sia
Assistant Professor
emailrosanne@mail.ubc.ca
Rosanne Sia works across Cold War cultural history, performance studies, critical race studies, and queer studies. Her book manuscript, Mujer Peregrina: Performing Racial Fantasies in the early Cold War, focuses on women of Asian and Latinx descent who danced and sang on nightclub circuits in the e...Read more
Tara Mayer
Tara Mayer
Associate Professor of Teaching
emailtara.mayer@ubc.ca
Dr. Tara Mayer is a historian of colonial South Asia whose scholarship traces material and aesthetic exchanges between India, Britain, and France in ways that blur the boundaries of her discipline. Through visual and textual sources that connect the metropole to the colony, her work examines the ten...Read more
Teaching Faculty
Jessi Taylor
Jessi Taylor
Sessional Lecturer
emailjessi.taylor@ubc.ca
PhD, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of New Brunswick (2017)
MA, Women’s Studies, University of Ottawa (2010)
Theology, Saint Paul University (2009)
Biography
Jessi Taylor is a queer feminist interested in interdisciplinary approaches to understanding violence, international relations an...Read more
Litsa Chatzivasileiou
Litsa Chatzivasileiou
Sessional Lecturer
emaillitsac@mail.ubc.ca
PhD, Hispanic Studies, University of British Columbia (2001)
Biography
Litsa Chatzivasileiou has worked as an assistant professor at the Hispanic Studies at the University of British Columbia and is currently teaching as a sessional instructor at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and So...Read more