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The Faculty of Arts at UBC brings together the best of quantitative research, humanistic inquiry, and artistic expression to advance a better world. Graduate students in the Faculty of Arts create and disseminate knowledge in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Creative and Performing Arts through teaching, research, professional practice, artistic production, and performance.
Arts has more than 25 academic departments, institutes, and schools as well as professional programs, more than 15 interdisciplinary programs, a gallery, a museum, theatres, concert venues, and a performing arts centre. Truly unique in its scope, the Faculty of Arts is a dynamic and thriving community of outstanding scholars – both faculty and students.
Here, our students explore cutting-edge ideas that deepen our understanding of humanity in an age of scientific and technological discovery. Whether Arts scholars work with local communities, or tackle issues such as climate change, world music, or international development, their research has a deep impact on the local and international stage.
The disciplinary and multi-disciplinary approaches in our classrooms, labs, and cultural venues inspire students to apply their knowledge both to and beyond their specialization. Using innovation and collaborative learning, our graduate students create rich pathways to knowledge and real connections to global thought leaders.
Research Centres
Research Facilities
UBC Library has extensive collections, especially in Arts, and houses Canada’s greatest Asian language library. Arts graduate programs enjoy the use of state-of-the-art laboratories, the world-renowned Museum of Anthropology and the Belkin Contemporary Art Gallery (admission is free for our graduate students). World-class performance spaces include theatres, concert venues and a performing arts centre.
Since 2001, the Belkin Art Gallery has trained young curators at the graduate level in the Critical and Curatorial Studies program in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory. The Master of Arts program addresses the growing need for curators and critics who have theoretical knowledge and practical experience in analyzing institutions, preparing displays and communicating about contemporary art.
The MOA Centre for Cultural Research (CCR) undertakes research on world arts and cultures, and supports research activities and collaborative partnerships through a number of spaces, including research rooms for collections-based research, an Ethnology Lab, a Conservation Lab, an Oral History and Language Lab supporting audio recording and digitization, a library, an archive, and a Community Lounge for groups engaged in research activities. The CCR includes virtual services supporting collections-based research through the MOA CAT Collections Online site that provides access to the Museum’s collection of approximately 40,000 objects and 80,000 object images, and the Reciprocal Research Network (RRN) that brings together 430,000 object records and associated images from 19 institutions.
Research Highlights
The Faculty of Arts at UBC is internationally renowned for research in the social sciences, humanities, professional schools, and creative and performing arts.
As a research-intensive faculty, Arts is a leader in the creation and advancement of knowledge and understanding. Scholars in the Faculty of Arts form cross-disciplinary partnerships, engage in knowledge exchange, and apply their research locally and globally.
Arts faculty members have won Guggenheim Fellowships, Humboldt Fellowships, and major disciplinary awards. We have had 81 faculty members elected to the Royal Society of Canada, and several others win Killam Prizes, Killam Research Fellowships, Emmy Awards, and Order of Canada awards. In addition, Arts faculty members have won countless book prizes, national disciplinary awards, and international disciplinary awards.
External funding also signifies the research success of our faculty. In the 2020-2021 fiscal year, the Faculty of Arts received $34.6 million through over 900 research projects. Of seven UBC SSHRC Partnership Grants awarded to-date, six are located in Arts, with a combined investment of $15 million over the term of the grants.
Since the 2011 introduction of the SSHRC Insight Grants and SSHRC Insight Development Grants programs, our faculty’s success rate has remained highly stable, and is consistently higher than the national success rate.
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| Name | Academic Unit(s) | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Aydede, Murat | Department of Philosophy | Philosophy; Philosophy of Mind |
| Baada, Jemima | Department of Geography | intersections of gender, climate change, migration, health and development equity |
| Babel, Molly | Department of Linguistics | Linguistics; Phonetics; Recognition of Speech; Perception and Representation; Acoustics; Dialects; acoustics of speech production; phonetic variation; speech perception; spoken word recognition |
| Bablitz, Leanne | Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies | Roman history, Roman law, Roman courtrooms, , Roman social history and law, Roman topography, Roman legal procedure |
| Badir, Patricia | Department of English Language and Literatures | English language; Canadian Modernism; Early Modern Drama; Early Modern Literature and Religion; Medieval Drama; Shakespeare; Shakespeare in Canada |
| Baier, Gerald | Department of Political Science | Canadian politics, federalism, constitutional law, courts, federal-provincial relations, Constitution, federalism and public law in Canada |
| Bailey, C. D. Alison | Department of Asian Studies | pre-modern literature; fiction and literary criticism |
| Bain, Kimberly | Department of English Language and Literatures | Humanities and the arts; Black Studies; racial capitalism; Anthropocene; critical-creative methodologies |
| Baines, Donna | School of Social Work | Social work; Anti-oppressive, decolonizing and critical approaches to theory and practice; Decent work and good care in social services, long term care, home care, etc.; Age-equity, age-inclusion, age-friendly cities; Harm reduction and supportive housing |
| Baines, Erin | School of Public Policy and Global Affairs | transitional justice; the politics of humanitarianism and forced displacement; and, the study of gender and armed conflict, with a regional focus on northern Uganda |
| Baker, Donald Leslie | Department of Asian Studies | Asian history; History and philosophy of specific fields, n.e.c.; Korean History; Confucian Philosophy; Religion in Korea; science in pre-modern Korea; Kwangju Uprising of 1980 |
| Ballarin, Roberta | Department of Philosophy | Philosophical logic, nature and sources of necessity |
| Barnes, Trevor | Department of Geography | Vancouver |
| Barnett, Kristen | Department of Anthropology | intersection of Indigenous and western science; research and data sovereignty; Indigenous feminisms; decolonizing; reframing archaeology |
| Baron, Andrew | Department of Psychology | cognitive development, infancy, childhood, adolescence, racism, race, stereotypes, cooperation, bias, innateness, science education, multiculturalism, gender, ethnicity, neuromarketing, attitudes, preferences, psychology |
| Bartha, Paul | Department of Philosophy | Philosophy of sciences and technologies; Environmental philosophy; philosophy of science; Philosophy of Probability; Confirmation; Decision Theory |
| Baum, Bruce | Department of Political Science | Political Culture, Society and Ideology; critical social theory; feminist theory; critical hermeneutics; issues of cross-cultural interpretation; American political thought and cultural politics; political theories of Mill and Marx; philosophy of political inquiry; liberal and democratic theory |
| Baylis, Patrick | Vancouver School of Economics | Economics; Climate Changes and Impacts; Economic Planning of Energy; climate change economics; energy economics; environmental economics |
| Beasley-Murray, Jon | Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies | Latin American studies, social and political theory |
| Beatty, John Henry | Department of Philosophy | Socio-political dimensions of genetics and evolutionary biology |
| Beauchesne, Kim | Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies | Literature and literary studies; Colonialism; Latin America; Trans-Pacific Studies; Globalization |
| Beaudry, Paul | Vancouver School of Economics | National and International macroeconomic issues, Business cycles, inflation, financial markets, the macro-economic effects of technological change and globalization, and the determinants of aggregate employment and wages |
| Bedke, Matthew | Department of Philosophy | Philosophy; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies; Foundations of Ethics; Social Organization and Political Systems; Ethics and Fundamental Issues of Law and Justice; epistemology; ethics; metaethics; philosophy of law; political philosophy |
| Belcourt, Billy-Ray | School of Creative Writing | Fiction; Nonfiction; Poetry |
| Berdahl, Jennifer | Department of Sociology | Ostracism, Harassment and Bullying, Gender and Diversity in Organizations, Power and Status in Groups, Harassment, Work-Family Interface |
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Recent Publications
This is an incomplete sample of recent publications in chronological order by UBC faculty members with a primary appointment in the Faculty of Arts.
Recent Thesis Submissions
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Doctoral Citations
A doctoral citation summarizes the nature of the independent research, provides a high-level overview of the study, states the significance of the work and says who will benefit from the findings in clear, non-specialized language, so that members of a lay audience will understand it.
| Year | Citation | Program |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Dr. Gillette’s doctoral studies focused on the role of scientific authority in democracy. He developed criteria for how to balance popular will and expert input in democratic decision-making despite conflicts over science. His research also reframed questions about the causes of public distrust in science. | Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy (PhD) |
| 2025 | Dr. Mellesmoen analysed reduplication across all 23 Salish languages using a combination of novel fieldwork and existing documentation. Her research furthers the understanding of word-building strategies, which allows for the creation of teaching materials for language revitalisation and challenges existing theoretical approaches in linguistics. | Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD) |
| 2025 | Dr. Jewell examined lived experience of anxiety and how an individual’s sense of self and reality become altered in anxiety disorders. Her work integrated empirical data and phenomenological insights to reinterpret anxiety disorders and provide a novel framework for understanding self-disorders, or disruptions of self- and world-experience. | Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy (PhD) |
| 2025 | Dr. Holmberg studied how USAID’s PREDICT program shaped emerging disease response and global health inequalities. She found that it introduced new risks and inefficiencies into public health systems while framing the West as inherently disease-free relative to the rest of the world. Her findings shed light on why global health security fails. | Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD) |
| 2025 | Dr. Trainini's research looks at how an approach that integrates body and mind enhances instrumental learning and music performance, with a focus on bodily awareness and multisensory feedback within the paradigm of embodied cognition. | Doctor of Musical Arts in Orchestral Instrument (DMA) |
| 2025 | Migrants in Latin America increasingly come from demographically diverse backgrounds. Dr. Yates found that non-Latin American migrants experiences and reception in Latin America differ widely based on the race, nationality, religion, & language of migrants themselves. This research informs hemispheric migration enforcement & protection policies. | Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD) |
| 2025 | Dr. Jiang studied how Chinese huaju (spoken drama) actors professionalized in the mid-20th century. His historical research demonstrated that this process presupposed systematic training in characterization, voice, and deportment, underpinned by a theatrical science of mind and body. | Doctor of Philosophy in Theatre (PhD) |
| 2025 | Dr. Caverhill studied Niitsitapi, settler, and European artists who formed an art colony in the 1930s. She explored the new strategies for art and design that emerged from intercultural exchange within the colony. Her research centres past and present. Niitsitapi artists and expands our understanding of artistic modernisms in North America. | Doctor of Philosophy in Art History (PhD) |
| 2025 | Dr. Daurio's research explores how people make sense of dramatic changes to their lives and the landscapes in which they live as a result of wildfire and post-fire flooding. Understanding sensemaking processes can help society prepare for future wildfires and disasters. | Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD) |
| 2025 | Dr. Jacobs’ research explored the tendency of people to perceive AI and large language models as having a mind of their own. He found that these beliefs are common and that it can shape how people see themselves and what it means to be human. His results add to a growing understanding of human-computer interaction. | Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD) |