Yasmin Koop-Monteiro is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of British Columbia (with an MA and BA in Sociology from the University of Toronto).

Yasmin’s main research foci include social network analysis, social movements, and environmental sociology. She is particularly interested in issues and advocacy surrounding climate change, biodiversity loss, and human–nature interactions in general.

Yasmin’s PhD thesis draws heavily from the literatures on social network analysis, social-ecological network analysis, and social movements to explore key factors promoting high-risk/cost activism within the animal rights movement (using survey and interview data). She is also a member of the Climate & Society Lab at UBC.

Yasmin’s published works include an analysis of community gardens and crime in the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, a review of innovations developed to include animals within sociological research in Current Sociology, a co-authored review of recent developments within social network analysis in the Canadian Review of Sociology, a co-authored book chapter on scientific software for social network analysis in the Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis (2nd ed.), and a co-authored mixed methods analysis of climate-related Instagram posts in Environmental Sociology.

• Stoddart, Mark C. J., Yasmin Koop-Monteiro, and David B. Tindall. 2024. “Instagram as an Arena of Climate Change Communication and Mobilization: A Discourse Network Analysis of COP26.” Environmental Communication, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2024.2377719.
• Jorgenson, Andrew, Taekyeong Goh, Ryan Thombs, Yasmin Koop-Monteiro, Mark Shakespear, Nicolas Viens, and Grace Gletsu. 2024. “Economic growth and income inequality increase the carbon intensity of human well-being for Canada’s provinces.” npj Climate Action 3(58). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44168-024-00144-y.
• Koop-Monteiro, Yasmin, Mark C.J. Stoddart, David B. Tindall. 2023. “Animals and climate change: A visual and discourse network analysis of Instagram posts.” Environmental Sociology, 9(4), 409–426. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2023.2216371.
• Browne, Pierson, Adam Howe, Yasmin Koop-Monteiro, Yixi Yang, and John McLevey. 2023. “Scientific software for network analysis.” Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis (Second Edition). Edited by John McLevey, Peter J. Carrington, and John Scott (Eds.).
• Tindall, David B., John McLevey, Yasmin Koop-Monteiro, and Alexander V. Graham. 2022. “The Big Data and Computational Social Science Revolution: Implications for Social Network Analysis.” Canadian Review of Sociology, 59(2): 271-288. https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.12377.
• Koop-Monteiro, Yasmin. 2021 (published online on December 29). “Including Animals in Sociology.” Current Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921211065492.
• Koop-Monteiro, Yasmin. 2021. “The Social Organization of Community-Run Place: An Analysis of Community Gardens and Crime in Vancouver (2005-2015).” Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice 63(1): 23-51. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjccj.2020-0013.

• Richard J. Borden Award (2023), Society for Human Ecology (SHE) conference
• Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (2018), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
• Four-year Phd Scholarship (2017), University of British Columbia
• R. Howard Webster Foundation Fellowship (2017), University of British Columbia
• Outstanding Admissions Application (2016), University of Toronto
• University of Toronto Fellowship (2016), University of Toronto
• Harris Rosen Book Prize in Sociology (2016), University of Toronto
• Rex A. Lucas Memorial Scholarship in Social Sciences (2015), University of Toronto
• New College Council In-Course Scholarship (2015), University of Toronto

SOCI 100 H5F – Introduction to Sociology, University of Toronto

SOCI 102 – Introduction to Sociology, University of British Columbia