Welcoming new faculty to the department
Learn more about our new faculty members and their work: Kimberly Huyser, Tony Silva and Michela Musto.
Prof. Sylvia Fuller Joins Board Looking into Drivers of Change for Women’s Representation on Boards
Board seats are some of the most influential positions in the corporate world. While there has been an increase of women in leadership roles in recent years, women’s representation on boards remains low. The Conference Board of Canada launches a new research project to help answer why Canada missed its national target of 30 per […]
Ph.D. Candidate Adriana Bordyn Receives Top Cited Article Award of 2018-19 from Wiley Publishing
Congratulations Adriana Bordyn, a Ph.D. student at the UBC Department of Sociology, who has recently received the top cited article award for her paper “Performative Progressiveness: Accounting for New Forms of Inequality in the Gayborhood” (Co-Authored with Prof. Amin Ghaziani). Performative Progressiveness looks at the co-occurrence of progressive mindsets and homonegative actions among straight residents […]
Prof. Amin Ghaziani Receives two ‘Top Cited Articles of 2018-19’ Awards from Wiley Publishing
Congratulations to Professor Amin Ghaziani for receiving two “Top Cited Article, 2018-2019” awards from Wiley publishing . His articles, Performative Progressiveness: Accounting for New Forms of Inequality in the Gayborhood (co-Authored with doctoral student Adriana Brodyn) and Cultural Archipelagos: New Directions in the Study of Sexuality and Space were both published in City & Community […]
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 […]