Honours student Hal Kowalewski’s research questions the nature of identity and how our social positions shape our lives
Hal Kowalewski’s work under the supervision of Dr. Amy Hanser focuses on the role of consumption in the construction of individual and collective queer identity, utilizing theorists such as Michel Foucault and Judith Butler.
Sociology Honours student Aida Ardelean to present research at American Sociological Association general meeting
Fifth Year Honours Sociology student Aida Ardelean will be presenting her Honours research paper at the upcoming American Sociological Association general meeting in Philadelphia. Her research, under the supervision of Dr. Sylvia Bartolic, focuses on personal attachment styles in relation to modern-day dating norms and hookup culture. We spoke to her about her work and […]
Watch: Dr. Erika Summers-Effler’s Distinguished Speaker Series Lecture
Dr. Erika Summer-Effler explores stories of environmental researchers and educators, particularly marine biologists and naturalists studying and teaching about whales with the goal of preservation of whale species, to better understand the relationships between emotion and other purposeful efforts to bring about social change.
Congratulations to MA Student Nathan Shen for being awarded a Canada Graduate Scholarship by CIHR in support of his research efforts in Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivorship in BC
Sociology MA student Nathan Shen has been awarded a Canada Graduate Scholarship by CIHR, which will support his research into the experience of adolescent and young adult cancer survivors in BC and the province’s healthcare system.
Prof. Renisa Mawani awarded 2022 UBC Killam Research Prize
Prof. Mawani is among the six Arts scholars to receive a 2022 UBC Faculty Research Award for her work relating to colonial legal history, the interplay between critical theory and legal history, and the idea of legalities of nature.
PhD student Manlin Cai publishes first-author paper on online dating preferences among Chinese immigrant communities in Vancouver in the Canadian Review of Sociology
Monica Manlin Cai is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on family and work, gender, migration, and social inequality in Chinese and Canadian societies. She has recently published a first-authored paper “Mate Preferences and Platform Choices Among Chinese Immigrant Online Daters in Vancouver” in […]
Prof. Kimberly Huyser among 2022/23 Dean of Arts Faculty Research Award Recipients
Prof. Huyser’s research focuses on understanding the social determinants of health problems faced by Indigenous peoples, furthering our comprehension of the social mechanisms that undergird population health
Prof. Berdahl and UBC PhD grad Barnini Bhattacharyya co-author study on women of color’s experiences of and response to invisibility at work
Prof. Berdahl and Dr. Bhattacharrya study finds invisibility is a salient and recurring experience for women of color working in traditionally white and male environments. Through inductive interviews of a diverse sample of 65 women of color in the US and Canada, the authors identify four forms of invisibility and three response pathways.
Profs. Aryan Karimi and Rima Wilkes co-author paper delineating a transnational amendment to assimilation theory for Ethnic and Racial Studies
Profs. Karimi and Wilkes look at examples from European and non-European migrants’ assimilation trajectories to delineate a transnational approach to assimilation and inclusion as requiring similarity between the imagined racial status of origin and host country.
Honours student Guoliang Zhang explores how China is handling anti-corruption
Honours student Guoliang Zhang’s (Bond) thesis focuses on focuses on China’s newly established National Supervision Commission (NSC), which is the country’s sole anti-corruption agency.