Cultural studies

This class comprises research and experimental development in cultural studies.
Parent Category
Sub-Categories
Critical identity, ethnic and race studies
Environment, space and place
Critical film studies
Media, visual and digital culture
Critical studies of technology
Theories of cultural studies
Globalization and culture
Critical studies of literature
Other cultural studies, n.e.c.
 
 
 

Graduate Degree Programs in Cultural studies

Doctor of Philosophy in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (PhD)

The PhD in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice is an interdisciplinary program which allows students to explore their interests in diverse areas while employing feminist, intersectional, and decolonizing methodologies. It is intended to be flexible and to accommodate the needs of individual...

Doctor of Philosophy in Germanic Studies (PhD)

The Graduate Program in Germanic Studies at UBC integrates a large scope of thematic and theoretical research areas. Students are guided by faculty whose teaching and research cover a wide range of German literature, film, culture, and media. Course offerings feature approaches grounded in varied...

Doctor of Philosophy in Hispanic Studies (PhD)

The Graduate Program in Hispanic Studies offers a dynamic curriculum focusing on a contextualized knowledge of the languages, literatures, and cultures of Latin America, Spain, and other Spanish-speaking communities within the US and Canada.

Doctor of Philosophy in Human Development, Learning, and Culture (PhD)

The Human Development, Learning, and Culture (HDLC) program at UBC advances research and practice in education through the application of theoretical models and concepts to real world educational issues. Investigations of learning and developing, including the unique contributions of culture to...

Master of Arts in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (MA)

The MA program at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice is a vibrant, interdisciplinary graduate program, that attracts excellent scholars from around the world. Our MA program incorporates research and theory from the social sciences, humanities, science, education, and law...

Master of Arts in Germanic Studies (MA)

The Graduate Program in Germanic Studies at UBC integrates a large scope of thematic and theoretical research areas. Students are guided by faculty whose teaching and research cover a wide range of German literature, film, culture, and media. Course offerings feature approaches grounded in varied...

Master of Arts in Hispanic Studies (MA)

The Graduate Program in Hispanic Studies offers a dynamic curriculum focusing on a contextualized knowledge of the languages, literatures, and cultures of Latin America, Spain, and other Spanish-speaking communities within the US and Canada.

Master of Arts in Human Development, Learning, and Culture (MA)

The Human Development, Learning, and Culture (HDLC) program at UBC advances research and practice in education through the application of theoretical models and concepts to real world educational issues. Investigations of learning and developing, including the unique contributions of culture to...

Master of Education in Human Development, Learning, and Culture (MEd)

The Human Development, Learning, and Culture (HDLC) program at UBC advances research and practice in education through the application of theoretical models and concepts to real world educational issues. Investigations of learning and developing, including the unique contributions of culture to...

Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs (MPPGA)

UBC’s professional Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs (MPPGA) program equips future policy makers with a profound understanding of policy-making processes through a solid foundation of rigorous knowledge acquisition, policy analysis, career development, and experiential learning. With a...
 

UBC Researchers conducting research in Cultural studies

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Al-Kassim, Dina

Department of English Language and Literatures, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Critical identity, ethnic and race studies; English language; Gender, sexuality and education; Human rights, justice, and ethical issues; anti-colonial; Artistic and Literary Movements, Schools and Styles; Artistic and Literary Theories; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; comparative literature: Arabic, English, French; feminist; Gender Relationship; Identity and Transnationality; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies; postcolonial; psychoanalysis; queer theory; sexuality; Subjectivity

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Frackman, Kyle

Department of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Cinema studies; Media studies (except social media and digital media); Literature and literary studies; Cultural studies; queer studies; German studies; media studies; history of sexuality; sexuality; sexuality studies; East Germany; film; Gender Studies; history of science; literature; Media; Media Types (Radio, Television, Written Press, etc.); Scandinavia

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Gaertner, David

Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Indigenous literatures; Media, visual and digital culture; Critical identity, ethnic and race studies; Indigenous Literature; Digital storytelling; Digital Humanities; Speculative fiction; Reconciliation; New Media; Indigenous Cyberspace

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Harris, Leila

Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability, Institute for Gender, Race, Sex and Social Justice, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Critical identity, ethnic and race studies; Gender, sexuality and education; Human rights, justice, and ethical issues; Africa; Development Policies; Drinking Water; Environmental justice; equity and social justice; Ethics and Fundamental Issues of Law and Justice; Fresh Water; Gender Relationship; gender and social difference; Ghana; International development; participatory resource management; Resources Management; Social Contract and Social Justice; Social and Cultural Factors of Environmental Protection; South Africa; Turkey and Middle East; Water; water governance; water politics

Huberman, Isabella

Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Indigenous literatures; Environment, space and place; Quebec literatures; Indigenous Literature; Cinema of Quebec; Francophone Indigenous narrative arts; Environmental Humanities; Archives and cinema studies; Quebec-Indigenous studies; Decolonial and anticolonial theory; Research creation

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Iurascu, Ilinca

Department of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Comparative literatures; Theories of cultural studies; Media, visual and digital culture; German literature; Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies; media theory; Media history; critical theory; film studies

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McCready, Samuel

Faculty of Education

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Curriculum, pedagogy and didactics, n.e.c.; Critical studies of technology; Historical studies, n.e.c.; Media, visual and digital culture; Game Studies; Game-based Learning; Productive pedagogies; Historical Games Scholarship; History Education

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Nakamura, Fuyubi

Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Social and cultural anthropology; Museum studies (Museology); Visual theory, visual culture and visual literacy; Globalization and culture; Environment, space and place; Anthropology of art; museum studies (working as curator at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC); material and visual culture; Contemporary Japanese calligraphy; Indigenous cultures, especially Ainu; disaster and memory, especially in the context of the Great East Japan Earthquake (3.11).; contemporary Asian art and culture

Nathan, Lisa

School of Information, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Other studies in human society; Critical studies of technology; Climate Justice; Indigenous-led Information Initiatives; Information Ethics & Policy; Storied Information

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Perley, Bernard

Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Linguistic anthropology; Performance and installation art; Critical identity, ethnic and race studies; Linguistic Anthropology; Indigenous studies; Language Revitalization

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Rouse, Robert

Department of English Language and Literatures, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Medieval Literatures; Environment, space and place

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Walsh, Shannon

Department of Theatre & Film, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Media arts; Critical identity, ethnic and race studies; Social and cultural anthropology; South Africa; Afropessimism & Critical Race Studies; Documentary; Film Production; Indigenous studies; Environmental justice; Affect Theory

Wu, Helena

Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Critical identity, ethnic and race studies; Media, visual and digital culture; Critical film studies; Theories of cultural studies; Globalization and culture; Other cultural studies, n.e.c.; Hong Kong cinema, literature and culture; Asian screen cultures; Media narratives; Creative industry and spectatorship; Identity and cultural flows; critical theory; postcolonialism; Thing theory
 

Student & Alumni Stories in Cultural studies

Sokyee Angela Low

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Human Development, Learning, and Culture (PhD)

Parenting pains and pleasures: examining the effects of cultivating happiness and self-compassion on parents' efficacy and well-being
UBC graduate student Ben Dantzer

Ben Dantzer

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Human Development, Learning, and Culture (PhD)

Youth-Initiated Mentoring and Community-Based Participatory Research: A Participatory Model for Research and Practice.

Natasha Parent

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Human Development, Learning, and Culture (PhD)

Adolescent Technology Engagement and Mental Health and Well-Being

Braden Russell

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Germanic Studies (PhD)

Intersections of belonging and identity in queer Jewish German cultural products

Susanna Cassisa

Student

Master of Arts in Germanic Studies (MA)

Moral panic and anti-gay rhetoric in East German print media (1950-1955)

Fabiola Bazo

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (PhD)

Exhibition: Feminist and queer interventions in contemporary urban popular music in Peru

Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson, KC

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Law (PhD)

Kil ‘yahda sing.Ga suu | Haida laws ceremony

Alim Fakirani

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum Studies (PhD)

The representation of refugee, immigrant and minority histories in the secondary-level social studies and history curricula of British Columbia and Ontario

Aram Bajakian

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Ethnomusicology (PhD)

Navigating nostalgias: Musical identities in the Armenian diaspora

Cheyanne Connell

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD)

Naachin of Past and Present

Sydney Lines

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in English (PhD)

Romancing the empire: Race, ethnicity, and nationalism in the writings of Winnifred Eaton and Laura Goodman Salverson

Ajibola Fabusuyi

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Germanic Studies (PhD)

The subject of becoming in Black German autobiographical nonfiction and documentary film-making

Dana Johnson

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Co-constructing a mutualistic city: Envisioning future scenarios to support people and nature in urban landscapes

Jimmy Lo

Student

Master of Fine Arts in Film Production (MFA)

Visual research on multigenerational, transnational migration experiences of the Hong Kong diaspora in Vancouver, BC Canada

Gerrit Krueper

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Cinema and Media Studies (PhD)

Dialectical Stream Studies - Social(ist) Participatory Media Consumption on Twitch
 
 
 
 
French Name
Études culturelles
French Description
Cette classe comprend la recherche et le développement expérimental en études culturelles.
 
 

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