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. She studies how legal status and documentation shape people's lives, working primarily with stateless, undocumented, and refugee communities in Southeast Asia and North America.
Research Area
Race, Ethnicity, and Migration
Amin Ghaziani
Amin Ghaziani
Professor | Canada Research Chair in Urban Sexualities
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. Dr. Hanser’s research spans numerous subfields of sociology, from the sociology of work, gender, consumer culture and markets to service work in reform-era China, the regulation of street commerce in China cities, and contemporary street food scenes in North America. Current research includes a study of immigrant Chinese women’s experiences with childbirth and postpartum recovery in Canada, and a new study of public transit and people’s experiences riding the public bus....Read more
Research Area
Sex, Gender & Sexuality
Andrew Jorgenson
phone604 822 6683
location_onANSO 3108
Andrew Jorgenson is a Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of the Climate & Society Lab at the University of British Columbia. As a macrosociologist trained in global political economy, he uses a range of quantitative methods to conduct research on the human dimensions of global and regional environmental change, with a focus on the societal causes and consequences of the climate crisis....Read more
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.
Aryan Karimi
Aryan Karimi (PhD, University of Alberta) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia.
Research Area
Race, Ethnicity, and Migration
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
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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
Lecturer
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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.
Clayton Childress
Clayton Childress
Associate Professor
Research Area
Environment and CommunityClayton Childress is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on topics related to taste-, decision-, and meaning-making.
Research Area
Environment and Community
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 is Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, where she studies work and employment, organizational dynamics, gender and race inequality, and the law.
Emily Huddart
Emily Huddart
Professor and Associate Head
emailemily.huddart@ubc.ca
phone604 822 1184
location_onANSO 1313
Emily Huddart (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
location_onANSO 1321
Research Area
Sociology of HealthGerry Veenstra (PhD, McMaster University) is a Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on how social class and racial/ethnic identity are associated with physical and mental health.
Research Area
Sociology of Health
Guy Stecklov
Guy Stecklov (PhD, University of California-Berkeley) is a 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.
Irene Bloemraad
I study how immigrants are incorporated into the polity and the impact of migration on politics and political membership. My research engages debates at the intersection of political science, sociology and migration studies, focused on North America & Western Europe. I use a wide range of methods....Read more
Research Area
Race, Ethnicity, and Migration
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 harassment.
Research Area
Sex, Gender & Sexuality
Katherine Lyon
Katherine Lyon (PhD, University of British Columbia) is Associate Professor of Teaching with UBC Sociology. Her research focuses on the sociology of education and scholarship of teaching and learning.
Research Area
Sociology Pedagogy
Kathryn McConnell
Kathryn McConnell is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research examines the social dynamics of climate change, with a focus on the intersection of climate hazards, the built environment, and population mobility. This work is motivated by using social science tools to inform equitable climate adaptation and mitigation efforts....Read more
Kathy Greaves
Kathy Greaves (PhD, Oregon State University) is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of British Columbia.
Research Area
Sociology Pedagogy
Kerry Greer
Kerry Greer
Associate Professor of Teaching
emailkerry.greer@ubc.ca
phone604-827-0668
location_onAnSo-3101
Kerry 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.
Kimberly Huyser
Kimberly Huyser
Associate Professor
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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 Associate 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 | Canada Research Chair in Social Inclusion and Health Equity
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
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.
Neda Maghbouleh
Neda Maghbouleh
Associate Professor | Canada Research Chair in Race, Ethnicity, Migration, and Identity
Research Area
Race, Ethnicity, and MigrationNeda Maghbouleh is Canada Research Chair in Race, Ethnicity, Migration, and Identity and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia.
Research Area
Race, Ethnicity, and Migration
Neil Armitage
Neil 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.
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 social interactions, urban space, Chinese societies, and methods.
Renisa Mawani
Renisa Mawani
Professor | Canada Research Chair in Colonial Legal Histories
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
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 is a Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. His current projects focus on social infrastructure and friendship in complex, diverse contexts.
Seth Abrutyn
Seth Abrutyn
Professor
emailseth.abrutyn@ubc.ca
phone604-822-3845
location_onANSO-2216
Research Area
Sociology of HealthSeth Abrutyn is Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, where he studies Sociological Theory, Youth Suicide and Mental Health, Emotions, Social Psychology, and Culture.
His theoretical and empirical work focuses on the interplay between individuals and their local structural and cultural milieu. His has authored work in journals like the American Sociological Review, Sociological Theory, Journal for Health and Social Behavior, andSocial Science & Medicine, in addition to Oxford University Press....Read more
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
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
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 gender, family and work, and inequality.
Research Area
Family Studies | Race, Ethnicity, and Migration | Sex, Gender & Sexuality | Sociology of HealthEmeritus
Anne Martin-Matthews
Anne Martin-Matthews
Professor Emerita
emailamm@mail.ubc.ca
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.
Becki Ross
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.
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
Gillian Creese
Gillian Creese
Professor Emerita
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.
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. I am currently completing a book manuscript, tentatively titled “Canada’s Ongoing Gender Equity Revolution.” In 2016, I was recognized with an Outstanding Contribution Award from the Canadian Sociological Association. At the same time an article I c...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
Nicolas Graham
location_onANSO 125
Research Area
Environment and CommunityNicolas Graham is a Postdoctoral Fellow at UBC Sociology. His research focuses on the political economy of decarbonization and energy transition and seeks to understand the forces and actors enabling and obstructing effective climate action.
Research Area
Environment and CommunitySessional Instructors
Ali Kaveh
Ali Kaveh is a sessional instructor at the sociology department of the University of British Columbia. He has been teaching undergraduate sociology courses mainly social theories, research methodologies, sociology or gender, migration, ethnicity, and religion since 2010. His recent research focused on migration and identity, diaspora, and transnationalism....Read more
Research Area
Race, Ethnicity, and Migration
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
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 a Seattle native. 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. In 2021, Richlen completed a PhD at Ben Gurion University of the Negev ...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