Prof. Amin Ghaziani interviewed by the Brick Underground about LGBT Neighbourhoods in New York City
Can we trace the history of NYC’s gaybourhoods from past to present? Read the story here.
Prof. Amin Ghaziani Receives Honourable Mention from The American Sociological Association.
There Goes the Gayborhood? won an Honourable Mention for the Community and Urban Sociology section’s Robert Park Award for best book.
Graduate student Valerie Berseth has been awarded a Killam Doctoral Scholarship for 2016-2018
Congratulations to Valerie! Read more about the prize here.
Prof. Amin Ghaziani interviewed by Global News about the Orlando massacre, the worst mass shooting in the United States.
Why LGBTQ pride and gay bars still matter. Read the story here.
Students Gathered at UBC for The Third International Summer School on Ageing
From June 5-10, twenty doctoral and post-doctoral participants (from seven countries of Europe, Brazil, the USA and Canada) gathered at UBC for the Summer School, jointly sponsored by the Department of Sociology, SSHRC, the UBC Hampton Research Endowment Fund, the Italian National Institute of Health & Science on Ageing and the Centre for Ageing and […]
Prof Gillian Creese Appointed Acting Associate Dean, Faculty and Equity
Congratulations to Dr. Gillian Creese for her new appointment!
Prof. Amin Ghaziani interviewed by the Financial Times for his research on gay neighbourhoods
LGBT people once sought refuge in poor areas, but do liberation and gentrification mean that these spaces are on their way out? Read the story here.
PhD Student François Lachapelle publishes in Global Dialogue
François Lachapelle published “The Genesis of a Chinese Public Sociology” in the new issue of Global Dialogue, a publication of the International Sociological Association. (Will be translated in 15 languages!) View publication.