Daddies of a Different Kind: Prof. Tony Silva asks why young adult men like older partners in new book
Daddies of a Different Kind, by Asst. Prof. Dr. Tony Silva, analyzes the stories of gay and bisexual daddies and asks why younger adult men are interested in older men for sex and relationships.
Welcome to our new graduate students | 2023W
UBC Sociology is excited to welcome our incoming cohort of doctoral and master’s students to the department! With a wide range of focuses from gender and sexuality to transnationalism to environmental sociology, we look forward to seeing what new perspectives and research they will bring to our community. Minheng Chen PhD Student Minheng’s research area […]
Alum Julia Goldman-Hasbun on her UBC experience and finding an academic position after her PhD
Julia Goldman-Hasbun is recent alumni who earned her PhD at UBC Sociology. After finishing her doctoral dissertation, she will be starting an academic teaching position in the Southern Maine Community College’s sociology department this coming fall. She shared her experience in UBC’s PhD program with us and imparted her advice to new graduate students.
Honours student Liva Bahji conceptualizes the “sisterhood wound” in her thesis
Liva Bahijj’s thesis “Unsmothering Girlhood: The Geometry of the Sisterhood Wound” offers a sociological approach to the degenerative and often default emotional dynamics between women.
Remembering Professor Emerita Margaret Arcus (1935-2023)
It is with profound sadness that we acknowledge the passing of Dr. Margaret Arcus, Professor Emerita of the School of Family and Nutritional Sciences, on June 27, 2023. Margaret completed her PhD in Home Economics Education from Iowa State University and she was the founder of the Family Studies program at UBC. She was the […]
PhD student Colter Uscola wins Best Graduate Student Paper award from the American Sociology Association
Colter Uscola’s paper, “Drinker Identity Development: Shame, Pride and a Thirst to Belong,” discusses how marginalized identities form, aiming to challenge current theoretical assumptions that dominate intervention strategies and recovery policy. We talked to him about his work on this article.
PhD student Yasmin Koop-Monteiro presents her paper published in Environmental Sociology
UBC Sociology PhD student Yasmin Koop-Monteiro recently published a paper titled, “Animals and climate change: A visual and discourse network analysis of Instagram posts” in Environmental Sociology with UBC Sociology Prof. David Tindall.
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Profs. Katherine Lyon and Tony Silva recognized by Canadian Sociological Association
Prof. Katherine Lyon received Lorne Tepperman Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Award and Tony Silva was recognized with the Early Investigator Award by the Canadian Sociological Association.
Celebrating Prof. Becki Ross’ contributions to UBC Sociology and GRSJ
Dr. Becki Ross has worked at the University of British Columbia for almost 30 years in the Departments of Sociology and GRSJ. Becki’s public sociology has focused on her long-standing commitment to honouring the lives and stories of sex workers through engagement in community dialogue around protecting the rights and dignity of this group.