Core Faculty
Alifa Bandali
Alifa Bandali
Lecturer
emailalifa.bandali@ubc.ca
Alifa Bandali is a lecturer in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ). Dr. Bandali’s research focuses on feminist activism both in institutional and creative spaces. Her PhD thesis titled: Paid to care: Women’s experiences in non-profit/NGO work in Malaysia examined ...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
Becki Ross
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto, 1992, Ph.D., Sociology of Education
Queen’s University, 1984, MA, Physical and Health Education
Biography
Since 1995, Dr. Becki Ross has held a joint appointment in the Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice and...Read more
Christopher Patterson
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, ...Read more
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Professor
Biography
An academic and an artist, Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva’s work addresses the ethico-political challenges of the global present. She is the author of Toward a Global Idea of Race (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), A Dívida Impagavel (OIP and Living Commons, 2019), Unpayable Deb...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
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
John Paul (JP) Catungal
John Paul (JP) Catungal
Assistant Professor, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (On Leave)
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 of g...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 | Professor Graduate Chair and Advisor
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 (On Leave)
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
Lecturer
emailalifa.bandali@ubc.ca
Alifa Bandali is a lecturer in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ). Dr. Bandali’s research focuses on feminist activism both in institutional and creative spaces. Her PhD thesis titled: Paid to care: Women’s experiences in non-profit/NGO work in Malaysia examined ...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
Becki Ross
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto, 1992, Ph.D., Sociology of Education
Queen’s University, 1984, MA, Physical and Health Education
Biography
Since 1995, Dr. Becki Ross has held a joint appointment in the Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice and...Read more
Christopher Patterson
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, ...Read more
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Professor
Biography
An academic and an artist, Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva’s work addresses the ethico-political challenges of the global present. She is the author of Toward a Global Idea of Race (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), A Dívida Impagavel (OIP and Living Commons, 2019), Unpayable Deb...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
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
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 of g...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 | Professor Graduate Chair and Advisor
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 (On Leave)
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
Visiting Professors
Ezekiel Dixon-Román
Ezekiel Dixon-Román
Honorary Associate Professor
Ezekiel Dixon-Román's research seeks to make cultural and critical theoretical interventions toward rethinking and reconceptualizing the technologies and practices of quantification as mediums and agencies of systems of sociopolitical relations whereby race and other assemblages of difference are b...Read more
Hortense Spillers
Hortense Spillers
Honorary Professor & Distinguished Visiting Professor of Social Justice
Dr. Hortense Spillers was the Peter Wall Visiting Scholar at the Institute during the 2018 fall term. She is an American literary critic, Black Feminist scholar and the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor at Vanderbilt University. A scholar of the African diaspora, Spillers is known for her essay...Read more
Karen Barad
Karen Barad
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Social Justice
Karen Barad is Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Barad is also affiliated with the program in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, and is the former Director of the Graduate Training Program for the Science & Justi...Read more
Stefano Harney
Stefano Harney
Honorary Professor
Stefano Harney is author with Fred Moten of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (2013) and All Incomplete (2020) both published by Minor Compositions/Autonomedia. He has taught widely in South East Asia, North America, and Europe. He works in a number of collectives including...Read more