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UBC Sociology Team in Vancouver Sun Run once again

11 Members of the Department of Sociology Competed in Vancouver’s Sun Run on Sunday, April 23rd in the Education Category. The team was led by Beth Hirsh, who finished with a 41 minute time. Photo: Cary Wu, Beth Hirsh, Rima Wilkes, David Tindall, Carrie Yodanis, Kristin Sopotiuk, Amin Ghaziani, Debbie Dergousoff, Josephine Sopotiuk (Not Pictured: […]

UBC Sociology Department Newsletter Fall 2016 Released

Aldon D. Morris Launches Department’s academic year – Seminar Tues Sept 6

Aldon D. Morris (Northwestern University’s Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies) speaks at the Department of Sociology’s Academic Launch 2016, on “W. E. B. Du Bois at the Center: From Science, Civil Rights Movement, to Black Lives Matter, 2016″ Tues Sept 6, 2:00-3:30 (ANSO 207) Abstract: W. E. B. Du Bois was […]

Congratulations to Yvonne Diamond on Her Retirement!

Our Manager of Admin, Yvonne Diamond, is retiring this year after 35 years of service to UBC and three years in our department. Thank you for all your hard work, UBC Sociology will miss you!

RISING RESEARCHERS

Our newest faculty members are internationally recognized and award-winning researchers, including featured professor Lindsey Richardson (Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator Award), as well as professor Catherine Corrigall-Brown (Canadian Sociology Association Early Career Research Award).

Study of International Student Integration at UBC

I created the Study of International Student Integration at UBC in 2006 as a pedagogical exercise to give students in my qualitative research methods classes (SOCI 382 and SOCI 503) hands-on experience conducting in-depth interviews. As the number of international students at UBC and in Canada has dramatically increased, it is important to consider whether […]

Departmental History of Sociology at UBC

This short history documents some of the major milestones of Sociology at UBC-Vancouver from the perspective of the Department of Sociology. It does not do justice to the contributions of sociologists located elsewhere on the Vancouver campus or at UBC-Okanagan. Comments on this document would be welcome. In the fall of 1915, when UBC […]