The Department of Sociology at UBC is a research powerhouse—involved in a wide scope of research examining areas such as gender and sexuality, ethnicity, family and life course, environments, knowledge, and health and healthcare.

Our faculty and graduate students are dedicated to theoretically strong and empirically-oriented research representing our commitment to excellent scholarship.

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Prof. Renisa Mawani’s Book Shortlisted for Award by UK Socio-Legal Studies Association

Prof. Renisa Mawani’s book wins award from Association for Asian American Studies

 
Congratulations to UBC Sociology Professor Renisa Mawani. Her second book, Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire, was awarded the 2020 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Outstanding
Prof. Amin Ghaziani Receives two 'Top Cited Articles of 2018-19' Awards from Wiley Publishing

Prof. Amin Ghaziani Receives two ‘Top Cited Articles of 2018-19’ Awards from Wiley Publishing

 
Congratulations to Professor Amin Ghaziani for receiving two “Top Cited Article, 2018-2019” awards from Wiley publishing . His articles, Performative Progressiveness: Accounting for New Forms of Inequality in the Gayborhood (co-Authored with
Prof. Thomas Kemple Wins 2019 Killam Mentoring Prize

Prof. Thomas Kemple speaks about his 2019 Killam Mentoring Prize

 
The Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring recognizes the outstanding efforts in the mentorship of graduate students by a faculty member over the course of many years. This year, the Department of Sociology's Thomas Kemple is the recipient of the
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Research

In the Media, Research

Prof. Amy Hanser on the Unwritten Rules of the Bus in University Affairs

February 5, 2020
Prof. Amy Hanser on the Unwritten Rules of the Bus in University Affairs
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Prof Amy Hanser Studies The Unwritten Rules of Public Transit

November 29, 2019
Prof Amy Hanser Studies The Unwritten Rules of Public Transit
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Divergent Public Health Responses to a New HIV Prevention Option: Comparing Health Equity Approaches in Two North American Cities

July 25, 2019
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