Core Faculty
Alyssa Alexander
Alyssa Alexander
Lecturer
location_onAnSo-2220
Alyssa Alexander (PhD, North Carolina State University) is a Lecturer at the University of British Columbia’s Sociology Department. Her research focuses on care work and inequality, the relationship between family structure and child/youth outcomes and military families.
Amanda Cheong
Amanda Cheong
Assistant Professor
emailamanda.cheong@ubc.ca
location_onAnSo-1318
Research Area
Race, Ethnicity, and MigrationAmanda Cheong (PhD, Princeton University) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the links between legal status and the reproduction of inequality, with a focus on undocumented migrants, stateless persons, and refugees.
Research Area
Race, Ethnicity, and Migration
Amin Ghaziani
Amin Ghaziani
Professor
emailamin.ghaziani@ubc.ca
phone604 822 2268
location_onAnSo 2325
Research Area
Sex, Gender & SexualityAmin Ghaziani (PhD, Northwestern University) is a Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on urban sexualities and elevating the status of sexuality as a centrepoint for thought.
Research Area
Sex, Gender & Sexuality
Amy Hanser
Amy Hanser
Associate Professor
emailhanser@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 827 3135
location_onAnSo-1319
Research Area
Sex, Gender & SexualityAmy Hanser (PhD, University of California-Berkeley) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on work, gender, and cultural aspects of the market, with an emphasis on contemporary China.
Research Area
Sex, Gender & Sexuality
Anna Dawczyk
Anna Dawczyk (PhD, University of Guelph) is a Lecturer at the Sociology Department in the University of British Columbia. Her research involves enhancing problem gambling interventions to reduce the negative impact of problem gambling on individuals and their families.
Anne Martin-Matthews
Anne Martin-Matthews (PhD, McMaster University) is a Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the provision of health and social care to elderly people, and Finland-Canada comparisons of issues of formal and informal care.
Aryan Karimi
Aryan Karimi
Assistant Professor
emailaryan.karimi@ubc.ca
Aryan Karimi (PhD, University of Alberta) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on migration and refugee flows through a qualitative approach.
Becki Ross
Becki Ross
Professor | Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
emailbecki.ross@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4389
location_onAnso-3119
Becki Ross (PhD, University of Toronto) is a Professor at the University of British Columbia, both in the Department of Sociology and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice. Her research focuses on discourses and practices of identities, families, communities and the nation.
Carrie Yodanis
Carrie Yodanis
Associate Professor
phone604 822 3185
location_onAnSo-3113
Research Area
Sex, Gender & SexualityCarrie Yodaniss (PhD, University of New Hampshire) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research previously focused on marriage, with a current shift towards the sociology of arts. She is currently working on a project on the social meaning of jewelry.
Research Area
Sex, Gender & Sexuality
Catherine Corrigall-Brown
Catherine Corrigall-Brown
Professor and Department Head
location_onANSO-2115
Catherine Corrigall-Brown (PhD, University of California-Irvine) is a Professor and head of the Sociology Department at the University of British Columbia. Her research bridges the subfields of social movements, political sociology, and social psychology – particularly the study of identity.
Chelsea Freeborn
Chelsea Freeborn (PhD, University of Alberta) is a Lecturer at the Sociology Department in the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on human ecology, academic decolonization, and family experiences with early learning and child care.
Research Area
Family Studies
David Tindall
David Tindall
Professor
emailtindall@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 2363
location_onAnSo-1317
Research Area
Environment and CommunityDavid Tindall (PhD, University of Toronto) is a Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on contention over environmental issues, with a particular emphasis on environmental movements in British Columbia.
Research Area
Environment and Community
Elic Chan
Elic Chan (PhD, University of Toronto) is a Lecturer at the Sociology Department at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the social and economic integration of Asian Canadians and their experiences across Canadian cities.
Elizabeth Hirsh
Elizabeth Hirsh (PhD, University of Washington) is a Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on examining how people identify discrimination on the job, what leads to legal file claims and whether legal intervention and diversity policies reduce discrimination....Read more
Emily Huddart Kennedy
Emily Huddart Kennedy
Associate Professor and Associate Head
emailemily.huddart@ubc.ca
phone604 822 1184
location_onANSO 1313
Emily Huddart Kennedy (PhD, University of Alberta) is an Associate Head and Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research explores the motivations behind civic engagement aiming to protect the environment, and how pro-environmental practices reflect and reproduce social differences....Read more
Ethan Raker
Ethan Raker (PhD, Harvard University) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the relationship between climate change and inequalities in human health and community wellbeing.
Gerry Veenstra
Gerry Veenstra (PhD, McMaster University) is a Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on how social class, socioeconomic status and racial/ethnic identity are associated with physical and mental health.
Research Area
Sociology of Health
Gillian Creese
Gillian Creese
Professor | Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
Gillian Cresse (PhD, Carleton University) is a Professor at the University of British Columbia, both at the Sociology Department and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice. Her research focuses on issues of immmigration, settlement, anti-racism and social justice in Canada.
Guy Stecklov
Guy Stecklov (PhD, University of California-Berkeley) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the relationship between inequality and an array of social and demographic outcomes.
ON LEAVE
On leave, 2022-23.
Jennifer Berdahl
Jennifer Berdahl (PhD, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana) is a Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the social psychology of gender and power at work, specializing in the relationship between organizational culture and sexual harrasment.
Research Area
Sex, Gender & Sexuality
Katherine Lyon
Katherine Lyon (PhD, University of British Columbia) is an Assistant Professor of Teaching at the University of British Columbia’s Sociology Department. Her research focuses on the sociology of education and scholarship of teaching and learning.
Kathy Greaves
Kathy Greaves (PhD, Oregon State University) is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of British Columbia.
Kerry Greer
Kerry Greer
Associate Professor of Teaching
emailkerry.greer@ubc.ca
phone604-827-0668
location_onAnSo-3101
Research Area
Environment and CommunityKerry Greer (PhD, Indiana University), is an Associate Professor of Teaching at the University of British Columbia’s Sociology Department. Her work within the department focuses on developing ways of increasing experiential learning and supporting students as they transition to university.
Research Area
Environment and Community
Kimberly Huyser
Kimberly Huyser
Associate Professor
location_onAnSo-3115
Kimberly Huyser (PhD, University of Texas, Austin) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. An enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, her research focuses on combining medical sociology and the sociology of race and ethnicity.
Laura Nelson
Laura Nelson (PhD, University of California-Berkeley) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her current research seeks to examine intersectional in US women’s movements, news media coverage of social movements and gender equality in STEM related fields.
Research Area
Sex, Gender & Sexuality
Lindsey Richardson
Lindsey Richardson
Associate Professor
phone604-827-5511
location_onAnSo-3125
Research Area
Sociology of HealthLindsey Richardson (PhD, University of Oxford) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the health consequences of poverty and marginalization, and the upstream determinants of health.
Research Area
Sociology of Health
Michela Musto
Michela Musto (PhD, University of Southern California) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Their research focuses on the social construction of exceptionalism.
Nathanael Lauster
Nathanael Lauster (PhD, Brown University) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on housing, urbanity and immigaration. He is currently the Principle Investigator of the Metro Vancouver Zoning Project.
Neil Armitage
Neil Armitage
Lecturer
emailneil.armitage@ubc.ca
phone604-822-2632
location_onANSO-123
Research Area
Family StudiesNeil Armitage (PhD, University of Manchester) is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of British Columbia. His current research focuses on student-led pedagogy, youth transitions and the sociology of sport.
Research Area
Family Studies
Oral Robinson
Oral Robinson (PhD, University of Saskatchewan) is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on intercultural contact and friendship formation in Canada, and migration and identities in the Caribbean.
Phyllis Johnson
Phyllis Johnson (PhD, Ohio State University) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the allocation of financial and human resources by families coping with stressful circumstances.
Qiang Fu
Qiang Fu (PhD, Duke University) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on health, social capital and urban space; temporal and spatial analysis in social science research and developing machine-learning algorithms.
Renisa Mawani
Renisa Mawani
Canada Research Chair, Colonial Legal Histories & Professor
emailrenisa@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 6494
location_onAnSo-2315
Research Area
Race, Ethnicity, and MigrationRenisa Mawani (PhD, University of Toronto) is Canada Research Chair in Colonial Legal Histories (Tier 1) and Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the interface of critical theory and legal history; and the “legalities of nature”, the coalescence of science, law and history....Read more
Research Area
Race, Ethnicity, and Migration
Rima Wilkes
Rima Wilkes
Professor | Grad Chair
emailwilkesr@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 6855
location_onAnSo-1309
Research Area
Race, Ethnicity, and MigrationRima Wilkes (PhD, University of Toronto) is a Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the persistence of racial and ethnic inequality despite the fall in overt racism in Western societies.
Research Area
Race, Ethnicity, and Migration
Sean Lauer
Sean Lauer (PhD, University of New Hampshire) is a Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. His recent research focuses on new institutional perspectives to family and community sociology.
Seth Abrutyn
Seth Abrutyn
Associate Professor
emailseth.abrutyn@ubc.ca
phone604-822-3845
location_onANSO-2216
Research Area
Sociology of HealthSeth Abrutyn (PhD, University of California-Riverside) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. His current research seeks to explain why and how some places, such as a high school, are sites of enduring suicide problems when others that look similar are not.
Research Area
Sociology of Health
Silvia Bartolic
Silvia Bartolic
Undergraduate Chair | Associate Professor of Teaching
emailbartolic@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 827 0684
location_onAnSo-1315
Silvia Bartolic (PhD, University of Texas, Austin) is an Associate Professor of Teaching at the University of British Columbia’s Sociology Department. Her research focuses on the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Sylvia Fuller
Sylvia Fuller
Professor
emailsylvia.fuller@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4837
location_onAnSo-2321
Research Area
Sex, Gender & SexualitySylvia Fuller (PhD, Rutgers University) is a Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on understanding how entrenched patterns of inequality in the labor market develop and erode, and the implications of changing employment relations for workers.
Research Area
Sex, Gender & Sexuality
Thomas Kemple
Thomas Kemple
Professor
emailkemple@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 3579
location_onAnSo-2211
Research Area
Environment and CommunityThomas Kemple (PhD, York University) is a Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on contemporary social and cultural theory, the history of the social sciences and the visual representation of concepts and arguments.
Research Area
Environment and Community
Tony Silva
Tony Silva
Assistant Professor
emailtony.silva@ubc.ca
location_onAnSo-2320
Research Area
Sex, Gender & SexualityTony Silva (PhD, University of Oregon) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. His reach focuses on gender, sexuality, family and rural sociology through national representative surveys and qualitative interviews.
Research Area
Sex, Gender & Sexuality
Yue Qian
Yue Qian
Associate Professor
emailyue.qian@ubc.ca
phone604-822-9972
location_onANSO-122
Research Area
Family Studies | Race, Ethnicity, and Migration | Sex, Gender & Sexuality | Sociology of HealthYue Qian (PhD, Ohio State University) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on how gender intersects with family and population processes.
Research Area
Family Studies | Race, Ethnicity, and Migration | Sex, Gender & Sexuality | Sociology of HealthEmeritus
David Schweitzer
David Schweitzer
Associate Professor Emeritus
Research Area
Race, Ethnicity, and MigrationResearch Area
Race, Ethnicity, and Migration
Dawn Currie
Undergraduate Teaching Areas:
Women in Comparative Perspective (Anth/Soc 213)
Gender Relations (Anth/Soc 312)
Women's Studies in the Social Sciences (WMST 322)
Qualitative Research Methods (Soc 382)
Feminist Theory (Soc 414)
An Advanced Research Seminar in Women's Studies in the Social Science...Read more
Graham Johnson
Graham Johnson
Professor Emeritus
Early Life
I was born in the northern industrial town of Sheffield, England in May 1941. I grew up in my early years in my maternal grandfather’s house in an inner-city location. My grandfather was a labourer in a large steel firm, chipping the impurities out of molten steel. All but one of my ...Read more
James White
Research Area
Family Studies
Neil Guppy
I am an emeritus professor in Sociology. My most recent research examines the impact of COVID-19 on teaching and learning in higher education. I am also continuing research on issues of gender and social inequality. In 2016, I was recognized with an Outstanding Contribution Award from the Canadian...Read more
Ralph Matthews
Ralph Matthews
Professor Emeritus
emailralphm@mail.ubc.ca
location_onAnso-2206
Research Area
Environment and CommunityOther Affiliations
Faculty Associate, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia
Faculty Associate, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia
Faculty Associate, Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability, University of British Columbia
Adjunct ...Read more
Research Area
Environment and Community
Robert Ratner
Robert Ratner
Professor Emeritus
emailrsratner@mail.ubc.ca
Research Interests
Critical criminology; social movements; genocide; mediation and restorative justice; deliberative democracy; long-term group interaction.
In Memoriam
Sinikka Elliott
Sinikka Elliott
Associate Professor | In Memoriam
Dr. Sinikka Elliott, dear colleague, friend, mentor, and teacher, was found deceased on May 15, 2021, after going missing on Salt Spring Island, BC.
Dr. Elliott had an international reputation as a scholar of family, inequality, and health. Elliott was an Associate Professor in the Department o...Read more
Postdoc Research Fellows
Francois Lachapelle
Francois Lachapelle
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Research Area
Environment and CommunityFrançois Lachapelle (蓝不反) is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Sociology. He spent several years in China perfecting his language skills before joining the department for his graduate work in 2011.
François is the co-founder and lead data scientist at relational-academia...Read more
Research Area
Environment and Community
Simon Lafontaine
Simon Lafontaine
Postdoc Research Fellow
Simon Lafontaine is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia. He graduated with a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the University of Brussels. His work evolves around the phenomenological and constructivist traditions in the social sciences,...Read more
Sessional Instructors
Ana Vivaldi
Ana Vivaldi
Sessional Instructor
emaila.vivaldi@ubc.ca
location_onAnSo-157
Research Area
Race, Ethnicity, and MigrationBio:
My interdisciplinary research brings politics of indigeneity and race into inquiries on the production of space, (im)mobilities and embodiment. Through the use of ethnographic and visual methodologies, it clarifies questions surrounding indigenous sovereignties, and emergent forms of urban con...Read more
Research Area
Race, Ethnicity, and Migration
Brandy Wiebe
Dr. Brandy Wiebe has always been excited by the prospect of sharing her academic explorations not only with undergraduate students but also with the broader community. Her concurrent work as a sexuality educator in the community has allowed her to create highly engaging academic learning contexts th...Read more
Dan Small
Dan Small
Sessional Instructor
emaildansmall@mail.ubc.ca
location_onANSO-153
Research Area
Sociology of HealthBiographical Statement
Dan Small is a medical anthropologist and Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. He has a PhD in medical anthropology (University of British Columbia), an MPhil in circumpolar studies (University of Cambridge), an undergrad...Read more
Research Area
Sociology of Health
David Ryniker
Education
Ph.D. UBC, 2001
Debra Pentecost
Education
Ph.D., 2002, Simon Fraser University
M.A., 1989, York University
B.A., 1983, Simon Fraser University
Lisa Richlen
Lisa Richlen
Sessional Instructor
phone236 838 5644
location_onANSO-124
Research Area
Race, Ethnicity, and MigrationLisa Richlen, a Canadian citizen through her mother, is originally from Seattle. She lived in Israel from 2000-2021 and, from 2004-2021 worked as an employee of and a consultant for tens of social change and human rights organizations. n 2021, Richlen completed a PhD at Ben Gurion University of the ...Read more
Research Area
Race, Ethnicity, and Migration
Rafael Wainer
I am a Doctor in Anthropology with a specialization on medical anthropology. My main interests are biomedical knowledge and practices, especially paediatrics; children’s experience of cancer treatment, end-of-life and palliative care, medical assistance in dying, chronicity and disability, and re...Read more
Stefano Gulmanelli
Education
Ph.D. in Sociology and International Relations, University of South Australia, 2014
M.A. equivalent in Economic Sciences, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy, 1984
Scientific Liceum, Liceo Scientifico Maria Luigia, Parma, Italy, 1973-1978
Fields of Interest
Stefano’s m...Read more
Visiting Faculty
Suowei Xiao
Suowei Xiao
Visiting Associate Professor
emailsxiao08@mail.ubc.ca
location_onAnSo 125
Research Area
Sex, Gender & SexualitySuowei Xiao (PhD, University of California-Berkeley) is a Visiting at the Sociology Department at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on gender, family and migration.
Research Area
Sex, Gender & Sexuality