Please touch base with a faculty supervisor before you start the application process. We look forward to hearing about your research interests and career goals.
Luis LM Aguiar | Sociology | luis.aguiar@ubc.ca |
Research interests: The globalization of the “Justice for Janitors” campaigns; global unions; Eddie Melo: What were you? The Neoliberal University; whiteness; the Canadian Hinterland.
Anderson Araujo | English | anderson.araujo@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Literary modernism; avant-garde movements; transatlantic aesthetics; politics.
Lawrence Berg | Geography | lawrence.berg@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Critical studies of neoliberalism; geographies of academic knowledge production; place and the politics of identity; postcoloniality; white supremacy.
Bonar Buffam | Sociology | bonar.buffam@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Race and empire; crime and punishment; socio-legal studies; religion and secularity; urban geographies; social and cultural theory.
Michael Burgess | Southern Medical Program | michael.burgess@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Bioethics; biotechnology and ethics; culture and ethics; democracy and ethics; ethics of health policy; genetics and ethics; genomics and ethics; health care ethics; public engagement and ethics; research ethics.
Margaret Carlyle | History | margaret.carlyle@ubc.ca
Research interests: History of science, technology, and medicine; history of reproduction and the life sciences; gender and women’s studies; history of the body; material culture; science and race in the Atlantic world.
Jodey Castricano | English | jodey.castricano@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Eco-cultures; critical animal studies; eco-criticism – critical theory (feminist, queer, gender studies); media and digital cultures; digital humanities; virtual reality; narrative; HCI theory.
Thomas Heilke | Political Science | thomas.heilke@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Political philosophy and theory; classical political thought; modern political thought; political theology; religion and politics; political ideologies; international relations in political philosophy.
Maxime Heroux-Legault | Economics, Philosophy and Political Science | maxime.heroux-legault@ubc.ca
Research Interests: Canadian Politics, Research Methods, Election studies.
Catherine Higgs | History | catherine.higgs@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Southern Africa; Portuguese Africa; Atlantic World; religion; politics; activism; labour; agriculture; policy.
Jasmin Hristov | Sociology | jasmin.hristov@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Development and conflict; political violence; non-state armed actors; human rights; neoliberalilsm; Latin America; land dispossession; human trafficking and sexual violence.
Jelena Jovicic | French | jelena.jovicic@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Literary theory; critical intellectual history; the epistolary genre and 19th and 20th Century literature (in France and the French Caribbean region); the relationship between the formation of knowledge across disciplines (medicine, law, sciences); dissemination through various discursive practices (literature, architecture, visual arts).
Heather Latimer | Gender and Women’s Studies | heather.latimer@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Reproductive technologies and politics, especially reproductive futurism; biopolitics; sexuality studies; science and technology studies; feminist new materialism and post-humanism; cultural studies; literature and film.
Sean Lawrence | English |sean.lawrence@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Shakespeare; canonical literature and 20th-century French philosophy; Medieval and Renaissance studies; peace and war studies; drama and theatre studies; ethics.
Kelly Struthers Montford | Sociology | k.sm@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Critical prison studies; critical animal studies; philosophy; social theory; food studies; climate change.
Jessica Stites Mor | History | jessica.stites-mor@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Transnational solidarity movements; politics and culture of the left; cinema and digital media.
Ilya Parkins | Gender & Women’s Studies | ilya.parkins@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Feminist theories, especially epistemologies; history and theory of fashion; theories of modernity and early twentieth-century cultural formations; femininities.
Tim Paulson | History | tim.paulson@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Environmental history; economic history; applied/public history; arid landscapes; food; capitalism; markets.
Francisco Peña | World Literatures & Spanish | francisco.pena@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Literary studies; biblical studies; religious studies; history of ideas.
Deana Simonetto | Assistant Professor | Sociology | deana.simonetto@ubc.ca
Research Interests: Gender, Health and Sport, Qualitative Methods Methods, Self and Identity, Symbolic Interaction, Deviance and Social Problems, Social Media.
Margo Tamez | Indigenous Studies | margo.tamez@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Ndé consciousness of time, place, and homeland; Indigenous women’s consciousness of land-based relations in Kónitsąąíí gokíyaa (Lipan Apache country); Indigenous consciousness along the Río Grande River; Indigenous peoples and human rights; borders; militarization; memory; Indigenous decolonial concepts; self-determination; transitional justice; the poetics of Indigenous movements
John Wagner | Anthropology | john.wagner@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Environmental anthropology; political ecology; water, food security and food sovereignty; local ecological knowledge; conservation and development; language documentation; Okanagan Valley; Columbia River Basin; Papua New Guinea.
Helen Yanacopulos | Political Science | helen.yanacopulos@ubc.ca
Research Interests: International Development; collective action and strategy of transnational networks; civil society and NGOs; political communication; international norms; anti-slavery; conflict and development.
Michael Zajko | Sociology | mike.zajko@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Internet and telecom policy; governance of artificial intelligence and algorithms; security and surveillance studies; social and political theory.
Giovanni Grandi | Philosophy | giovanni.grandi@ubc.ca |
Research interests: The history of philosophy and the history of ideas with a particular focus on the early modern period and the Scottish Enlightenment. Theories of sensory perception, moral psychology, philosophy of religion, the philosophy of action, political economy, and philosophical anthropology.