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.
Share your stories to celebrate Profs. Becki Ross’ and Gillian Creese’s retirements
As part of our celebration of their careers and retirement, we invite students, alumni, faculty and staff to share stories and photos Profs. Becki Ross and Gillian Creese. These stories and pictures will be used as part of our celebrations, shared via our website and delivered to each of them respectively.
Prof. Becki Ross revisits her article about memorializing sex workers in Talking Papers
“Sex workers were always feeling, because of the stigma and criminalization of their work, that they were always at risk of violence, of murder, of all variety of whorephobia from every institution,” Prof. Ross says.
Revealing the long but hidden history of queer women in sport
Dr. Becki Ross writes in The Conversation Canada about how the Netflix documentary ‘A Secret Love’ helps illuminate a missing historical piece about queer women and sport.
Prof Becki Ross Comments on the Passing of Vancouver Sex Workers Advocate, Jamie Lee Hamilton, in the Vancouver Sun
Hamilton began to transition in 1969 so that she could live in the world as a woman, as friend Becki Ross put it, and she started to work in the sex industry as a teenager. Ross, a sociology professor at the University of B.C., has known and worked with Hamilton since the mid-1990s, when she […]
Prof. Becki Ross and Jamie Lee Hamilton are the recipients of the 2018 BC Studies Prize
Ross and Hamilton receive the 2018 BC Studies Prize for their article, “Loss Must Be Marked and It Cannot be Represented: Memorializing Sex Workers in Vancouver’s West End”
Professor Becki Ross receives the Angus Reid Practitioners/Applied Sociology Award
Congratulations to Professor Becki Ross and Jamie Lee Hamilton, who are the co-winners of the CSA’s Angus Reid Practitioners/Applied Sociology Award for 2019. Both Ross and Hamilton are the first co-winners of the award.
Professor Becki Ross featured in the UBC Library
Professor Ross talks about how UBC Library users are now able to access archives offering an expansive and detailed look at LGBT2SQIA history.