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.
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. Yue Qian co-authors paper on the role of gender in how education expansion matters for intergenerational mobility
The paper “Gender, equation expansion and intergenerational mobility around the world” looks at global evidence of education’s role in intergenerational mobility, and presents global evidence as calling for a gender-sensitive understanding of how education expansion matters for intergenerational mobility.
Contexts magazine publishes first issue under leadership of Prof. Abrutyn and Ghaziani
Contexts aims to make the best sociological research accessible to broad audiences while focusing on the most pressing issues and debates of our time. Led by Sociology Profs. Seth Abrutyn and Amin Ghaziani, the issue focuses on the unfulfilled promise of choice.
Congratulations to Operations Coordinator Conor Trahar on new role with Faculty of Arts
UBC Sociology congratulates our Operations Coordinator Conor Trahar on his new Project Coordinator position at UBC Faculty of Arts’ Workday Student Implementation. His last day at UBC Sociology will be March 3.
Undergraduate student Stephanie Jiang writes and directs video on anti-Asian racism for Plug Vancouver
Undergraduate student Stephanie Jiang’s project was born out of a final assignment proposal for Prof. Oral Robinson’s SOCI302 class. She aimed to address anti-Asian racism by combining anti-racism theory and family studies, all while creating an accessible form of content for non academic audiences.