Saying goodbye to staff members Lyndsie Plowman and Nick Matsuba
UBC Sociology wishes staff members Lyndsie Plowman and Nick Matsuba all the best as they move on from the department for new opportunities.
Watch: Dr. Erika Summers-Effler’s Distinguished Speaker Series Lecture
Dr. Erika Summer-Effler explores stories of environmental researchers and educators, particularly marine biologists and naturalists studying and teaching about whales with the goal of preservation of whale species, to better understand the relationships between emotion and other purposeful efforts to bring about social change.
Watch: Dr. Waverly Duck explains how a “food oasis” formed in a poor and working-class Black neighborhood in Pittsburgh
Dr. Waverly Duck presented a Distinguished Speaker Lecture at UBC Sociology where he explained the formation of a “food oasis,” a concentration of seven supermarkets within a quarter-mile radius in East Liberty, a poor and working-class Black neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Remembering Professor Emeritus James Ponzetti
UBC Sociology sends our condolences to the family and friends of Professor Emeritus James Ponzetti, who passed away unexpectedly last week
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.
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.
Watch: Dr. Anna Zajacova presents the Kaspar Naegele Honorary Lecture
Dr. Anna Zajacova argues chronic pain should play a central role in the sociodemographic study of health, health care and policy because it is a sensitive measure of population health, and reflects social conditions, sociopolitical context, and beliefs and prejudices of society.
Dr. Kathryn McConnell to join UBC Sociology faculty in 2024
We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Kathryn McConnell will be joining our department in July 2024.
Professor Tom Kemple receives the Martha Foschi Award
Dr. Tom Kemple has brought research and teaching together in very compelling and creative ways, through his teaching work in the Urban Ethnographic Field School and a global seminar in Guatemala (both of which provide research opportunities for students) but also through research he is currently engaged in examining these very fields schools and the experiences of students and community partners, truly bringing research and teaching into dialogue with each other.
Watch: Dr. Jane Sell’s Martha Foschi Lecture
Dr. Jane Sell reports on decades of social psychological research directed at determining how race/ethnicity operates in small groups and what interventions are successful in the 2022 Martha Foschi Honorary Lecture.