Prof. Amin Ghaziani examines new evidence from Census 2020 on the residential segregation of same-sex households
In a new research note, Prof. Amin Ghaziani uses 2020 census data to examine the residential patterns of same-sex households down to the neighborhood level.
Profs. Amin Ghaziani and Seth Abrutyn expand Durkheim’s theory of disruptions via queer nightlife in new paper
Profs. Ghaziani and Abrutyn develop a new Durkheimian theory of disruptions that explains why some members of a community are motivated to renew rather than replicate existing institutional structures.
PhD candidate Tori Yang awarded Fox International Fellowship at Yale University for 2024-25
Tori will join Yale as a Visiting Assistant in Research at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.
PhD student Sonali (Alyy) Patel theorizes a denial reaction to coming out in her new paper
In Sociology Compass, Patel uses data from qualitative interviews with queer South Asian women in Canada to propose revisions of Goffman’s Stigma theory.
UBC Sociology alum Frances Shaver appointed to the Order of Canada for her research on sex work
Concordia University professor emeritus and UBC alum Frances Shaver (BA’67, MA ’72) is one of 64 new members of the Order of Canada this year.
Is the golden age of London’s queer nightlife nearly over? Prof. Amin Ghaziani answers in the Guardian
Prof. Amin Ghaziani relives the three months he spent visiting London’s underground queer spaces in the Guardian’s First Edition newsletter.
PhD candidate Manlin Cai receives 2024 Canadian Population Society Student Paper Award
Manlin was awarded for her working paper, “Workplace Authority in China: Gender, Parenthood, and Work Sectors.”
PhD candidate Tori Yang receives CSA’s Sociology of Migration Cluster Best Student Paper Award
PhD candidate Tori Yang receives the Canadian Sociological Association award for her paper, “Gendering Queer Migration: Evidence from Chinese LGBTQ+ Migrants.”
Prof. Lindsey Richardson and PhD student Alyy Patel receive 2024 awards from the Canadian Sociological Association
Prof. Richardson was honoured with the Angus Reid Applied Sociology Award, while graduate student Alyy Patel won the Best Student Paper Award.
Where have all the gay bars gone? Prof. Amin Ghaziani discusses on Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness
Between 2006 and 2016, 58% of bars, pubs, and nightclubs that catered to the LGBTQ community closed in London. Prof. Ghaziani joins JVN to explain this phenomena and how the queer community is adapting.