Lillie Goodson explores how LGTBQ+ people negotiate their identities in the outdoors
Honours student Lillie Goodson is a fourth-year student working under the supervision of Tony Silva. Her research project, “Out in the Outdoors,” uses qualitative methods to explore how LGBTQ+ people negotiate their LGBTQ+ identities while participating in outdoor activities and communities.
PhD student Alyy Patel writes about the conflicting demands queer South Asian women experience from both ethnic and LGBTQ communities in The Ubyssey
Working from Prof. Amin Ghaziani’s class in advanced qualitative data analysis and professional writing, PhD student Alyy Patel authored an op-ed about the conflicting demands experienced by queer South Asian women from ethnic and LGBTQ communities
PhD student Erica Mildner investigates the gender divide in family welfare policy knowledge in sole-authored paper
“What do prospective parents know about family welfare incentives?” UBC Sociology PhD student Erica Mildner recently published a sole-authored paper in Community, Work & Family investigating this question in the contexts of the United States and Hungary.
Honours student Teodora Rawsthorne Eckmyn examines “commoning” through community-based arts practices
Teodora Rawsthorne Eckmyn is a fourth year Sociology major. Her research interests lie in the areas of cultural and urban sociology, to which she seeks to apply a critical intersectional lens.
Discover how Dr. Katherine Lyon applies an experiential learning activity in her Global Pandemics course
Professor Katherine Lyon applies an experiential learning activity in her Global Pandemics course by having teams of students interview non-profit organizations that work with disaster-affected groups.
Welcome to our new graduate students | 2023W
UBC Sociology is excited to welcome our incoming cohort of doctoral and master’s students to the department! With a wide range of focuses from gender and sexuality to transnationalism to environmental sociology, we look forward to seeing what new perspectives and research they will bring to our community. Minheng Chen PhD Student Minheng’s research area […]
Honours student Liva Bahji conceptualizes the “sisterhood wound” in her thesis
Liva Bahijj’s thesis “Unsmothering Girlhood: The Geometry of the Sisterhood Wound” offers a sociological approach to the degenerative and often default emotional dynamics between women.
PhD student Colter Uscola wins Best Graduate Student Paper award from the American Sociology Association
Colter Uscola’s paper, “Drinker Identity Development: Shame, Pride and a Thirst to Belong,” discusses how marginalized identities form, aiming to challenge current theoretical assumptions that dominate intervention strategies and recovery policy. We talked to him about his work on this article.
PhD student Yasmin Koop-Monteiro presents her paper published in Environmental Sociology
UBC Sociology PhD student Yasmin Koop-Monteiro recently published a paper titled, “Animals and climate change: A visual and discourse network analysis of Instagram posts” in Environmental Sociology with UBC Sociology Prof. David Tindall.
Meet our Sociology Faculty!
Welcome to UBC Sociology where we do transformational teaching, impactful research and engage with our community and the world.