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Alifa Bandali

Alifa Bandali

Assistant Professor of Teaching

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

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

phone604 827 2156
ON LEAVE
On leave until 12/31/2024

Denise Ferreira da Silva

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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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

Leonora Angeles

Director | Associate Professor

phonephone 604 822 9312
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
ON LEAVE
June 2024

Mark Harris

Mark Harris

ON LEAVE
June 2024

Associate Professor

Biography (On Leave) 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...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)

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

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

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

Biography Dr. Sneja Gunew (1946-2024) 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 Stu...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

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

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

Caroline Locher-Lo

Caroline Locher-Lo

Lecturer

Caroline was raised in Taiwan where she completed her bachelor’s degree before leaving to travel the world. She was conferred a PhD degree from the department of Educational Studies at UBC in 2020. Her research and teaching interests are predominantly in the parameters of racialized inequality, ge...Read more

Christopher Patterson

Christopher Patterson

Associate Professor | Graduate Chair and Advisor

phone604 827 2156
ON LEAVE
On leave until 12/31/2024

Denise Ferreira da Silva

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

Leonora Angeles

Director | Associate Professor

phonephone 604 822 9312
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
ON LEAVE
June 2024

Mark Harris

Mark Harris

ON LEAVE
June 2024

Associate Professor

Biography (On Leave) 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...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)

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

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

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
Faculty Associates

Alessandra Santos

Alessandra Santos

Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies.

Althea Thauberger

Althea Thauberger

Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory

Amy Hanser

Amy Hanser

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology

Amy Metcalfe

Amy Metcalfe

Professor, Department of Educational Studies

Andrew Binet

Andrew Binet

They/Them

Assistant Professor of Community-Engaged Research, School of Community and Regional Planning

Anita Ho

Anita Ho

Associate Professor, School of Population and Public Health

ON LEAVE
On Leave

Bonnie Effros

Bonnie Effros

ON LEAVE
On Leave

Department Head and Professor, Department of History

Bozena Karwowska

Bozena Karwowska

Professor, Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies

Brenna Bhandar

Brenna Bhandar

Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law

Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson

Professor & Director of the Centre for Sport and Sustainability (CSS), School of Kinesiology

Carole Blackburn

Carole Blackburn

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

Cash Ahenakew

Cash Ahenakew

Associate Professor, Department of Educational Studies

ON LEAVE
July 1 2023-June 30 2024

Christina Laffin

Christina Laffin

ON LEAVE
July 1 2023-June 30 2024

Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies

ON LEAVE
September 1 2023- August 31 2024

Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee

ON LEAVE
September 1 2023- August 31 2024

Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literatures. Director, Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program

Claudia Ruitenberg

Claudia Ruitenberg

Professor, Department of Educational Studies.

Deirdre Kelly

Deirdre Kelly

Professor, Department of Educational Studies

Desiree Valadares

Desiree Valadares

Assistant Professor & Affiliated Faculty, Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies (ACAM), Department of Geography

Donal O'Donoghue

Donal O'Donoghue

Professor, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy

Elif Sari

Elif Sari

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

Elizabeth Lagresa-Gonzalez

Elizabeth Lagresa-Gonzalez

Assistant Professor of Spanish/Associate Head of Romance Studies, Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies

Erin Silver

Erin Silver

Assistant Professor & Critical and Curatorial Studies Graduate Advisor, Department of Art History, Visual Arts & Theory

Farah Shroff

Farah Shroff

Adjunct Professor, School of Population & Public Health

Gareth James

Gareth James

Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory

Geertje Boschma

Geertje Boschma

Professor, Department of Nursing

Geraldine Pratt

Geraldine Pratt

Head of Department and Professor, Department of Geography

Handel Wright

Handel Wright

Professor, Director of Centre for Culture, Identity & Education (CCIE); Deputy Head, EDST , Department of Educational Studies

Hedy Law

Hedy Law

Associate Professor, School of Music

Helen Brown

Helen Brown

Associate Professor, Department of Nursing

Helena Zeweri

Helena Zeweri

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

Hicham Safieddine

Hicham Safieddine

Associate Professor, Department of History

Irem Ayan

Irem Ayan

Assistant Professor of French, Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies.

Jennifer Jenson

Jennifer Jenson

Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education

Jessica Dempsey

Jessica Dempsey

She/Her/Hers

Associate Professor and Associate Head of Undergraduate Program, Department of Geography

Jodey Castricano

Jodey Castricano

Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies. Professor English and Cultural Studies- Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Okanagan

John Roosa

John Roosa

Professor, Department of History

Joy Dixon

Joy Dixon

Associate Professor, Department of History

Juanita Sundberg

Juanita Sundberg

She/Her/Hers

Associate Professor, Department of Geography

Jude Kornelsen

Jude Kornelsen

Associate Professor & Co-Director of the Centre for Rural Health Research, Department of Family Practice

Judith Paltin

Judith Paltin

Associate Professor, Department of English

Julia Harten

Julia Harten

She/Hers

Assistant Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning

Kuni Kamizaki

Kuni Kamizaki

Assistant Professor and Admissions Chair, School of Community and Regional Planning

ON LEAVE
2023-2024 Term 2

Kyle Frackman

Kyle Frackman

ON LEAVE
2023-2024 Term 2

Associate Professor, Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies

Laura Hurd

Laura Hurd

Professor, School of Kinesiology. Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs Faculty of Education.

Laura Ishiguro

Laura Ishiguro

She/Her/Hers

Associate Professor, Department of History

Leslie Robertson

Leslie Robertson

Professor, Department of Anthropology

Leslie Roman

Leslie Roman

Professor, Department of Educational Studies

Lisa Loutzenheiser

Lisa Loutzenheiser

Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy

Maggie Low

Maggie Low

She/Hers

Assistant Professor & Co-Chair of the Indigenous Community Planning (ICP) program, School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP)

Manuel Pina

Manuel Pina

Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory (On Leave)

Margot Young

Margot Young

Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law

Marianne Legault

Marianne Legault

She/Her/Hers/Elle

Associate Professor, French Languages and World Literatures

ON LEAVE
During T2 2023/24

Markus Hallensleben

Markus Hallensleben

ON LEAVE
During T2 2023/24

Associate Professor, Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies

Marlene Briggs

Marlene Briggs

Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literatures

ON LEAVE
January 1 2024- December 31 2024.

Mary Chapman

Mary Chapman

ON LEAVE
January 1 2024- December 31 2024.

She/Her/Hers

Professor, Department of English Language and Literatures

Michael Fabris

Michael Fabris

He/They

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography

Michelle Stack

Michelle Stack

Associate Professor, Department of Educational Studies

Mohammed Arefin

Mohammed Arefin

He/Him/His

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography

Mona Gleason

Mona Gleason

Professor, Department of Educational Studies

Nancy Frelick

Nancy Frelick

Associate Professor of French, Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies

Olivia Michiko Gagnon

Olivia Michiko Gagnon

She/They

Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies, Department of Theatre & Film

Priti Narayan

Priti Narayan

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography

Renisa Mawani

Renisa Mawani

Professor, Department of Sociology

Rima Wilkes

Rima Wilkes

Professor & Grad Chair, Department of Sociology

Scott Anderson

Scott Anderson

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy (On Leave)

Shannon Leddy

Shannon Leddy

Associate Professor , Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy

Stephen Guy-Bray

Stephen Guy-Bray

He/Him/His

Professor, Department of English Language and Literatures

Susan Cox

Susan Cox

Professor, The W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, School of Population and Public Health & Chair of Biomedical Ethics, Centre for Applied Ethics

Tamara Myers

Tamara Myers

Associate Head & Professor, Department of History

ON LEAVE
2023-2024 Academic Year

Thomas Kemple

Thomas Kemple

ON LEAVE
2023-2024 Academic Year

Professor, Department of Central Eastern and Northern European Studies

Tracey Heatherington

Tracey Heatherington

She/Her/Hers

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

Yue Qian

Yue Qian

She/Her/Hers

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology

Teaching Faculty

Jessi Taylor

Jessi Taylor

Sessional Lecturer

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

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