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.