MA student Kelsea Perry has won the UBC Affiliate Award.
The award, based on academic excellence, is worth $16,000.
Undergraduate student Vahid Rashidi has been accepted to present at the Eighth International Conference on Sport and Society.
The proposal is titled “Tractor Sazi F.C. and the Civil Rights Movement of Turks in Iranian Azerbaijan.” The conference will be at Imperial College of London, United Kingdom between 10–11 July 2017. Website Accepted Proposal Conference Program
Prof. Rima Wilkes was interviewed for a Canadian Press story
about the Canada 150 celebrations: “For many, Canada 150 celebrations pale in comparison to Expo 67.” The interview appears in CTV News, National Post, 660 News and other Postmedia outlets.
UBC’s Urban Ethnographic Field School takes learning out of the classroom and into Vancouver’s diverse communities
Co-taught by Prof. Kerry Greer, the course gives students an opportunity to work with a community organization while conducting ethnographic research. Students collaborate with a partner agency to work on projects that help to promote the organization’s mission, while reflecting on social, economic and political issues in the Downtown Eastside.
PhD Student Kaitlyn Jaffe has received the Public Scholars Initiative award.
The award is given to those whose work is of significant merit and has potential to advance scholarship in the public interest. It also includes a $5000 research allowance.
PhD Candidate Cary Wu received Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad.
This award includes a $6,000 prize and a CSC-issued cetificate. It was set up by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to encourage research excellence and to recognize the achievements among Chinese students abroad.
Prof. Amin Ghaziani quoted extensively in the New York Times
in a feature story on the fate of gay neighborhoods: “There Goes the Gayborhood.”
Prof. Amin Ghaziani featured in Billy Penn article
about the “straightwashing” of gay bars and LGBTQ spaces: “Straightwashing: Woody’s and how Philly’s gay bars are less gay.”
Prof. Neil Guppy featured in the Globe and Mail
talking about the murky intersection of academic freedom, safe spaces and private donors on university campuses: “Your rights, my rights: Academic freedom faces off with a clarion call for safety on campus.”