China

Dr. Zoe Lam

Dr. Zoe Lam

Lecturer

Cantonese, bilingualism, multilingualism, Chinese, Chinese diaspora, Chinese Canadian, language maintenance, language education

Dr. Shannon Ward

Dr. Shannon Ward

Assistant Professor

Multilingualism, Language acquisition, Chinese language, Tibetan language, Language revitalization, Refugees, Migration

Raymond Pai

Raymond Pai

Lecturer of Cantonese Language and Culture

Cantonese, Cantonese learning, Cantonese teaching, language and culture, heritage language, language pedagogy, language identity, language ideology, language testing, language technology

Sie-Tan Chieng, PhD, PEng

Sie-Tan Chieng, PhD, PEng

Professor Emeritus

Irrigation and drainage for food and non-food plant production, water management system planning, design, installation and operation, environment, soil-water-plant relationships, soil and water conservation, soil salinity and reclamation, water quality, environmental impact assessment, hydrology, windblown dust mitigation

Raymond Lam, MD, FRCPC

Professor

BC Leadership Chair in Depression Research

Seasonal affective disorder, winter depression, antidepressants, light therapy, depression, clinical guidelines, circadian rhythms, melatonin, serotonin, dopamine, noradrenaline, tryptophan, cognition, technology, eHealth, mHealth, guidelines, biomarkers, diagnosis, internet, mental illness

Daniel L. Overmyer, PhD, FRSC

Daniel L. Overmyer, PhD, FRSC

Professor Emeritus

Chinese philosophy and religions, local religion in Chinese villages

Zhichun Jing, PhD

Zhichun Jing, PhD

Associate Professor

Canada Research Chair in Pacific Asia Archaeology

archaeology, ancient China, ancient technologies, jades, geoarchaeology, prehistory, bronze, Shang civilization, early Chinese civilizations, Bronzes, material culture, anthropocene, early urbanization, ancient cities, ancient globalization

Kenneth Fung

Clinical Associate Professor

Healthcare policy

Josephine Chiu-Duke, PhD in Asian Studies (Chinese Intellectual History)

Associate Professor

Chinese history, intellectual history, thought and institutions (traditional and modern), Taiwan

Amy Hanser

Amy Hanser

Associate Professor

Work and employment, gender, consumption/consumerism, contemporary Chinese society

Patricia Duff, PhD

Professor

Applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, multilingualism and work, sociocultural and sociopolitical aspects of languages in education

Prof. Yves Tiberghien, PhD

Prof. Yves Tiberghien, PhD

Professor, Department of Political Science

Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Director, Center for Japanese Research

Director, UBC Sciences Po Dual Degree program

Global Economic governance, COVID politics, G20, WTO, RCEP, CPTPP, Global environment, climate change, biodiversity governance, GMO, Japan, Chinese political economy, China and global order, China global, EU, France, COVID-19 politics, WHO, EU-China relations, Japan-China relations,

Rob Tierney, PhD

Professor

Global epistemologies and cross-cultural research in education and literacy, social science research, diversity, social justice, equity, indigenous matters, digital literacies, nature of literacy, meaning making, reading comprehension, reading-writing relationships, teaching, learning, educational assessment, teacher education

Prof. Christopher Rea, PhD

Prof. Christopher Rea, PhD

Professor

Modern Chinese language, culture, history, literature, and cinema, modern China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, undergraduate research, graduate research, research methodology, fraud, translation, celebrity culture in Asia,

Dr. Eric Li

Dr. Eric Li

Associate Professor

social enterprise, social innovation, not-for-profit marketing, pro-social behaviour, multicultural marketing and consumption, consumer well-being, health promotion, consumer privacy, food security, digital marketing, social media marketing, community well-being, sustainable rural communities,

Edward Slingerland

Edward Slingerland

Professor, Dept. of Asian Studies

Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied Cognition

Director, Cultural Evolution of Religion Research Consortium

Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Human Evolution, Cognition and Culture

Associate Member, Depts. of Philosophy and Psychology

Asian Studies, Chinese philosophy, philosophy, religion, religion and conflict, secularism, spontaneity, ethics, science-humanities integration, interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary research

Stuart MacLeod, MD, PhD

Stuart MacLeod, MD, PhD

Professor

Child health, medical education, clinical pharmacology, pharmacoepidemiology, global health, treatment of rare disorders, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, drugs in children

Yue Qian

Yue Qian

Assistant Professor

Family, marriage, divorce, intimate relationships, gender, demography, inequality, China, Asia, United States, Canada,

Wei Cui, MA, JD, LLM

Professor

Director, Centre for Asian Legal Studies

Chinese legal system, Chinese taxation, United States taxation, tax policy, international taxation, tax law, law and development

Jie Cheng, LLB, PhD

Jie Cheng, LLB, PhD

Associate Professor

Constitutional law, Chinese law and government, Hong Kong Basic Law, Macau Basic Law, comparative law, comparative constitutional law, Chinese legal system, information law, East Asian legal study