Braden Russell
Doctor of Philosophy in Germanic Studies (PhD)
Intersections of belonging and identity in queer Jewish German cultural products
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Givens, Terri Elizabeth | Department of Political Science | |
| Glassheim, Eagle | Department of History | European history (except British, classical Greek and Roman); History of Central and Eastern Europe; Environmental History |
| Glassman, James Francis | Department of Geography | Development Geography, Third World Urbanization, Economic Geography, Political Economy, Political Geography, Southeast Asia, Pacific Rim |
| Goetz, Friedrich | Department of Psychology | Psychology, social and behavorial aspects; Geographical psychology; Causes and consequences of regional personality differences; Mobility and migration; Wanderlust; Courage; Entrepreneurship; Personality development; open science |
| Gordillo, Gaston | Department of Anthropology | Space and violence, affect, ruins and ruination, critical theory and continental philosophy, object-oriented ontologies, resistance to agribusiness, Latin America, Argentina, the Gran Chaco |
| Gramling, David | Department of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies | Humanities and the arts; Social sciences; Medical, health and life sciences; multilingualism / monolingualism; Literary Theory; lgbtq queer studies; labour migration; applied linguistics; health communication; translation; Turkish literature; German studies |
| Green, David | Vancouver School of Economics | Antibiotic Resistance, Infectious Disease, Epidemiology, Determinants of the wage and employment structure bridging between macro labour and micro labour identification issues |
| Griffin, Michael | Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, Department of Philosophy | Greek philosophy, Ancient philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Proclus, Neoplatonism, Ancient logic |
| Gu, Xiong | Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory | Fine Art. Transcultural identity and hybridity. Through the critical angle of visual art, my work encompasses other elements such as sociology, geography, economics, politics, literature; and finally, the dynamics of globalisation, local culture and individual identity shifts. These shifts do not merely constitute a simple amalgamation of two original subjects, but instead, seek to create an entirely new space., Installation, painting, drawing, photography, contemporary art theory |
| Gusterson, Hugh Phillimore | Department of Anthropology, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs | Other studies in human society, n.e.c.; militarism; drug policies and cultures; Science Policy; nuclear weapons; ethnography |
| Guy-Bray, Stephen | Department of English Language and Literatures | Renaissance poetry |
| Hale, Kate | Department of Geography | characterizing snowpack, climate, and ecohydrologic variability; identify drivers of water availability in alpine and Arctic watersheds; Snowpack water storage heterogeneity and related hydrologic partitioning impacts; Historical and future variability in spatial and temporal hydrologic sensitivity |
| Hall, Alycia | Department of History | |
| Hall, Kathleen | Department of Linguistics | Linguistics; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Phonology; Phonetics; Laboratory Phonology; Sign Languages |
| Hall, David Geoffrey | Department of Psychology | Lexical and conceptual development, semantic development, language acquisition |
| Hallensleben, Markus | Department of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies | Comparative literatures; Other Arts; German Language Cultures and Literatures; Transnational Literatures; Visual Arts and Literature; European Studies; Literature and Sciences; Literature and Migration; Narratives of Belonging; Decolonization and Indigenization |
| Hamel, Keith | School of Music | Music composition; Composition; Interactive Computer Music |
| Hamlin, Kiley | Department of Psychology | Psychology and cognitive sciences; Cognitive development; Moral Judgement and Duty or Obligation Morals; Infant / Child Development; Foundations of Religious, Mystical, Mythical and Moral Thoughts; Infant moral cognition; infant social cognition |
| Hamm, Corey | School of Music | Piano and Chamber music |
| Hammerly, Christopher | Department of Linguistics | Syntax & Morphology; Psycholinguistics; Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) |
| Handy, Todd | Department of Psychology | aging and cognition, aging and exercise, cognitive neuroscience, attention, migraine, fMRI, Cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, attention and its impairment in clinical populations, mind wandering, and real-world human behaviour |
| Hanser, Amy | Department of Sociology | Work and employment; gender; consumption/consumerism; contemporary Chinese society, Culture and markets, inequality, gender, consumption, service work, China |
| Hansson, Gunnar | Department of Linguistics | Linguistic structures (including grammar, phonology, lexicon and semantics); Cognitive sciences; theoretical phonology; morphology-phonology interface; phonological typology; historical linguistics (language change); locality relations; Icelandic |
| Harrison, Kathryn | Department of Political Science | Canadian politics, environmental politics, environmental policy, climate change, global warming, climate change policy, Canadian public policy |
| Hassan, Marwan | Department of Geography | Other physical sciences, n.e.c.; Earth and related environmental sciences; Geological and Geomorphological Processes; Channel Stability,; Fluvial geomorphology; Landscape evolution; Sediment transport; Surface hydrology |
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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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The Arthur of the March of Wales (ENGL - PHD)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Dr. Rojas-Bernal showed that the distributional reallocation of expenditure across households affects an economy's output through the reallocation of resources across firms. He does this for an environment with general connectivity between firms and household heterogeneity in income and expenditure. | Doctor of Philosophy in Economics (PhD) |
| 2024 | What does it mean to be a group? In her research, Dr. Underhill analyzed the meaning of groups and non-groups in Ktunaxa, an indigenous language of British Columbia, Montana, and Idaho. She found that the language provides a unique window into the ways grammar can indicate number, in particular why a language might limit certain kinds of plural for | Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Smit’s work emphasized the importance of considering the mental health of parents in parenting interventions for children with ADHD. Findings suggested that parent mental health is associated with parenting behaviours. Her work further highlighted the importance of tailoring parenting interventions to enhance parent engagement. | Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Kysow conducted the first systematic research on hoarding clean-outs. She examined the factors precipitating these interventions, the range of client-centered practices used, and their outcomes. She followed a public scholarship approach which resulted in the formation of a best practice toolkit for dissemination among community providers. | Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Luu looked at social motivations for excessive acquisition. She found that people who acquire excessively are more materialistic and experience more severe depression than people who acquire in a healthy way, but these factors did not distinguish compulsive buying and hoarding symptoms. This work suggests new avenues for treating excessive acquisition. | Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Marković's work examines Miloje Milojević’s piano music, focusing on his incorporation of Serbian folk elements, Western classical forms, and modernist trends. It offers a deeper understanding of 20th-century Serbian piano music. The insights gained will aid future pianists in interpreting these underrepresented compositions. | Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano (DMA) |
| 2024 | Dr. Karimirad's research illuminates the effects of financial frictions and supply chain disruptions on firm default risk. His studies reveal how limited liability constraints cause economic distortions, identify key factors behind rising corporate yield spreads, and highlight the impact of supply chain disruptions on financial stability. | Doctor of Philosophy in Economics (PhD) |
| 2024 | Although nightly sleep and daily stress are closely linked, however, the pathways remain unclear. Dr. Wen's work explored how sleep relates to stressful experiences on a daily basis and how stressful experiences, in turn, affect sleep.The findings underscore sleep’s importance to daily well-being and can inform current sleep interventions. | Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Milewski's research focuses on the poetry of seventeenth-century German author Gertrud Möller and especially the songbooks that she published in collaboration with composer Johann Sebastiani. This work advances existing scholarship on Baroque song culture and the creative practices of female authors of this early modern period. | Doctor of Philosophy in Germanic Studies (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Watermeyer studied Tibetan organizations in Canada to explore how diasporic identity shapes social helping notions, activities and structures. Her research argues the need to expand dominant understandings of social help beyond its state-centered, utilitarian emphasis to include alternative modes of culture-based kinship practices. | Doctor of Philosophy in Social Work (PhD) |