MA student Caitlin Chong wins 2025 CCHSBC Wickberg Graduate Prize
Caitlin received the award for her thesis research on Chinese activism in Vancouver through the fight for 105 Keefer.
Honours student Rowen Francisco explores the potential of queer friendship to disrupt mononormativity
Their research used in-depth interviews to explore how queer conceptions of friendship can be used to disrupt patriarchal ideologies.
Yujia Huang investigates corporal punishment in Chinese schools in her honours thesis
Her research examines how social class and past experience with corporal punishment impacts people’s understanding of it.
2025 PROSE Awards: Profs. Seth Abrutyn and Amin Ghaziani announced as finalists
The two UBC Sociology faculty members were named as finalists in the category of Cultural Anthropology and Sociology.
Prof. Neda Maghbouleh examines central paradox in research on MENA populations
She argues that past scholarship has advanced sociology in three key areas: identity, racialization, and integration.
Prof. Amin Ghaziani argues for a conceptual shift in understanding queer nightlife
More than just an art form, queer nightlife is a cultural field. This shift accents relational artmaking and the aesthetics of activism.
Honours student Ayden Clarke examines challenges facing worker cooperatives in BC
Ayden’s paper explores the worker cooperative support ecosystem in BC, attempting to determine the challenges that these organizations face.
Statelessness by design: Prof. Amanda Cheong examines Myanmar’s erasure of the Rohingya
Bureaucracies that “fail” to document every citizen may be deliberately creating statelessness for populations like the Rohingya.
Alexander Murphy investigates how non-binary transmasculine people enact masculinity in honours thesis
We spoke to Alexander about his research and what he’s learned so far through his study’s qualitative, semi-structured interviews.
Flooding, Sociospatial Risk, and Population Health: Prof. Ethan Raker investigates how climate change is affecting flood patterns
In Demography, Raker explores how an underexamined dimension of vulnerability—sociospatial risk determinations—can stratify population health.