PhD student Colter Uscola publishes paper on drinker identity development in Society and Mental Health
UBC Sociology Masters student Colter Uscola recently published a paper “Drinker Identity Development: Shame, Pride and a Thirst to Belong” in Society and Mental Health. We spoke to him about his work.
Prof. Renisa Mawani awarded 2022 UBC Killam Research Prize
Prof. Mawani is among the six Arts scholars to receive a 2022 UBC Faculty Research Award for her work relating to colonial legal history, the interplay between critical theory and legal history, and the idea of legalities of nature.
PhD student Manlin Cai publishes first-author paper on online dating preferences among Chinese immigrant communities in Vancouver in the Canadian Review of Sociology
Monica Manlin Cai is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on family and work, gender, migration, and social inequality in Chinese and Canadian societies. She has recently published a first-authored paper “Mate Preferences and Platform Choices Among Chinese Immigrant Online Daters in Vancouver” in […]
Honours student Guoliang Zhang explores how China is handling anti-corruption
Honours student Guoliang Zhang’s (Bond) thesis focuses on focuses on China’s newly established National Supervision Commission (NSC), which is the country’s sole anti-corruption agency.
Contexts magazine publishes first issue under leadership of Prof. Abrutyn and Ghaziani
Contexts aims to make the best sociological research accessible to broad audiences while focusing on the most pressing issues and debates of our time. Led by Sociology Profs. Seth Abrutyn and Amin Ghaziani, the issue focuses on the unfulfilled promise of choice.
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.
PhD student Manlin Cai publishes single authored paper “For the Sake of Parents? Marriages of Convenience between Lesbians and Gay Men in China” in LGBTQ+ Family: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Cai’s article “For the Sake of Parents? Marriages of Convenience between Lesbians and Gay Men in China” examines how parents of couples entering into “convenience marriages” make sense of these unions. Her work highlights how familism and individualism are intertwined to shape Chinese families and sexualities.
Profs. Nelson and Raker interviewed by department led Contexts Magazine
Profs. Laura Nelson and Ethan Raker were interviewed by Contexts Magazine, a quarterly sociology magazine aimed at the broader public, and led by UBC Sociology Profs. Amin Ghaziani and Seth Abrutyn.
Prof. Amanda Cheong invited to Vancouver’s US Consulate to discuss her research on statelessness during AAPI Heritage Month in May
Prof. Cheong was invited in thanks for her sharing her research on statelessness, undocumented migration and the history of Asian exclusion as part of last year’s AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) Heritage Month in May.
Professor Tom Kemple explores the ‘Faustian’ bargain Marx and sociologists make when translating theory into practice
Professor Tom Kemple’s new book explores how Karl Marx and classical sociologists take up a ‘Faustian’ bargain by translating theory into practice while making a pact or wager with the diabolical social, political, and economic forces of the modern world.