Profs. Aryan Karimi and Rima Wilkes investigate how to assign social groups to ethnic and racial categories
Karimi and Wilkes analyze ethnic and racial models and whether they settle the questions of who is race and who is ethnicity.
New research brief from Prof. Ethan Raker and PhD candidate Rose Xueqing Zhang on emergency orders in BC
Prof. Ethan Raker and PhD candidate Rose Xueqing Zhang introduce a new way to estimate the population burden of environmental emergency orders.
More people may flee to B.C. after Trump’s immigration clamp down: Prof. Irene Bloemraad on CBC News
Prof. Irene Bloemraad was interviewed about President Trump’s anti-immigration offensive and what it could mean for Canada.
Prof. David Tindall comments on head of UBCIC’s stance reversal on Northern Gateway pipeline
Tindall called Grand Chief Stewart Phillip’s recent comments reversing his previous opposition to the scrapped Northern Gateway pipeline “very surprising.”
“There is no way to retreat from the risk of wildfires”: Prof. Katie McConnell on LA wildfires for NYT Opinion
Prof. Katie McConnell writes in NYT Opinion with Dr. Liz Koslov about the fires burning across Los Angeles and the feasibility of managed retreat.
Watch: Dr. Jenny Trinitapoli on the HIV epidemic and its impact on young adulthood in Malawi
We hosted Dr. Jenny Trinitapoli on September 3 for our academic launch and the first lecture in our 2024-25 Distinguished Speaker Series.
Prof. Yue Qian explores how sexuality conflicts are quietly breaking relationships apart
A new study from Prof. Yue Qian identified how this surprising factor undermines relationship satisfaction and stability.
Prof. Irene Bloemraad comments on the realities of undocumented people in Canada for the CBC
She expects the number of undocumented people in Canada will grow due to the federal government’s plan to reduce spots for permanent residents.
Prof. Amin Ghaziani and PhD student Alyy Patel speak to the Toronto Star about community building efforts by queer women
Groups like the Queer South Asian Women’s Network, founded by Alyy, are in line with a larger trend shifting away from permanent venues to one-off events.
Prof. Amin Ghaziani examines the situational fluidity of identity labels for LGBTQ+ people in new paper
His new article shows that LGBTQ+ people adopt multiple identity labels and adjust their usage relative to the interactional demands at hand.