Faculty of Arts

Dr. Avery Everhart

Dr. Avery Everhart

Assistant Professor

transgender, LGBT, law & policy affecting trans people, health systems and services, geographic information science, public health, transgender health, gender-affirming healthcare, science of sex and gender, demography, human rights, the right to health, sexual and reproductive health and rights

Dr. Stewart Prest

Dr. Stewart Prest

Lecturer

Political Institutions, Democracy, Canadian politics, Canadian Foreign Policy, British Columbia Politics, Vancouver Politics, International Relations, Conflict

Dr. Anabel Maler

Assistant Professor of Music Theory

Deaf music, sign language music, music and disability, post-tonal music

Dr. Zoe Lam

Dr. Zoe Lam

Lecturer

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

Maya Daurio

Maya Daurio

PhD Candidate

Wildfire, disaster, disaster recovery, flooding, Lived experiences of wildfire, Cascading hazards and consequences of disaster, Human-environment dimensions of wildfire and disaster, Member of the UBC Disaster Resilience Research Network

Dr. Anna Jurkevics

Dr. Anna Jurkevics

Assistant Professor

Philosophy of land, philosophy of borders, German political thought, Hannah Arendt, democratic theory, critical theory, Frankfurt School critical theory

Dr. Celia Edell

Dr. Celia Edell

Postdoctoral Fellow

Scapegoating, blame, oppression, accountability, internet relations, online shaming, feminism, epistemology, witches, feminist ethics, ignorance

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

Dr. Amanda Cardoso

Lecturer

Accents, sociolinguistics, phonetics, dialects, accent bias, perception of accents, vowel pronunciation, English in British Columbia, English in the United Kingdom

Prof. Ramon Victoriano

Prof. Ramon Victoriano

Assistant Professor

Dominican Republic, Dominican Literature and Culture, Dominican and Haitian relations, Dominican Diaspora, Caribbean Literatures, Caribbean Diasporas, Afro-Latinidad, Global Blackness

Delroy (Del) Paulhus

Delroy (Del) Paulhus

Professor

Academic dishonesty, faking on questionnaires, dark personalities

Réjean Beaudoin

Professor Emeritus

Quebec literature

Paul Bartha, PhD

Professor

Logic, probability, analogical reasoning

Dr. Don Baker, PhD

Dr. Don Baker, PhD

Professor

Korean history, religion in Korea, the Kwangju (Gwangju) Democratization Movement of 1980,

Paul Burns

Professor Emeritus & Sessional Lecturer

Post-biblical Christianity to 6th century, religious tolerance, religion and literature, Augustine of Hippo, multidisciplinary approaches to the study of the Humanities

Dr. Michael Blake, PhD

Dr. Michael Blake, PhD

Professor Emeritus

Archaeology of Mexico and Central America, Origins and spread of agriculture–especially maize (corn) and cacao (chocolate), Archaeology of the First Nations peoples of British Columbia (especially in the Salish Sea and Fraser River regions)

Max Cameron, PhD University of California, Berkeley (1989)

Max Cameron, PhD University of California, Berkeley (1989)

Professor of Political Science

Politics, democracy, constitutions, separation of powers, electoral reform, Latin America, Canadian foreign policy, development, training politicians

Dr. Mary Chapman, PhD, MA, BA Hon. English

Dr. Mary Chapman, PhD, MA, BA Hon. English

Professor, Dept. of English

Academic Director, Public Humanities Hub

US literature, 19th-century women writers, suffrage, women in politics, public humanities, humanities education, Sui Sin Far, Onoto Watanna, Chinese Canadian history, literary canon, Chinese Canadian writers, modernism, poetry,

Richard Cavell, PhD

Richard Cavell, PhD

Professor

Co-Founder, Bachelor in Media Studies Program

Marshall McLuhan, media theory, Canadian cultural production, media studies, Canadian cultural studies, politics and aesthetics

John Xiros Cooper, PhD

Professor

Contemporary culture, modernism, T.S. Eliot, contemporary Europe, the Balkans, Sylvia Plath