Addye Susnick
Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science (PhD)
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hayat, Zahra | Department of Anthropology | Pharmaceutical pricing; Quality and intellectual property |
| Heatherington, Tracey | Department of Anthropology | Social and cultural anthropology; Environment, space and place; Anthropocene studies; Environmental anthropology; Critique of neoliberalism; Critical approaches to energy transition; Sustainable food systems; Human and cultural perspectives on the climate and nature emergency; Political ecology of nature conservation; Power, resistance and justice; Multispecies ethnography; Anthropological engagements with fiction; Ethnographic writing and reflexivity |
| Heatley, Stephen | Department of Theatre & Film | Theatre, acting, directing, new play development, comedy, commedia dell’arte, solo performance, play producing, Canadian theatre, Canadian plays, Literature, gender/sexuality |
| Heine, Steven | Department of Psychology | Culture and human nature in psychology, culture, how people strive to maintain a sense of meaning in their lives when they encounter anomalies which they are unable to make any sense of, how people understand essences and genetic foundations for human behavior |
| Hermida, Alfred | School of Journalism, Writing, and Media | Journalism studies; Digital journalism; Media innovation; social media; Transformation of news; Entrepreneurship |
| Hermiston, Nancy Jane | School of Music | Performing arts, n.e.c.; Other medical sciences; opera, voice, theatre, interdisciplinary work with a diversity of fields and opera; Opera training and its effect on sculpting the brain - Wall Opera Project, Hermiston/L/Boyd/J Werker |
| Hesselink, Nathan | School of Music | Music; ethnomusicology; music analysis; entrainment; rhythmic play and social meaning; Anglo-American rock music; African American popular music |
| Hewitt, Paul | Department of Psychology | perfectionism, Therapy Perfectionism, personality vulnerability, depression, suicide in adults and children |
| Hill, Ian | Department of English Language and Literatures | rhetoric, persuasion, argumentation, technology, weapons, interrogation, political economy, war rhetoric, conflict rhetoric, dissent, mass movements |
| Hirsh, Elizabeth | Department of Sociology | Sociology; Law; Structures and Organization; Inequality, Gender and Race Discrimination, Work Organizations, Law |
| Hnatkovska, Viktoriya | Vancouver School of Economics | International finance, macroeconomics, development economics in India |
| Ho, Janice | Department of English Language and Literatures | English language; twentieth- and twenty-first century British literature and culture; British and transnational modernisms; postcolonial and world Anglophone literatures; contemporary fiction; histories and theories of the novel; human rights studies; infrastructure studies |
| Hodgson, Elizabeth | Department of English Language and Literatures | English Renaissance |
| Hoffmann, Alexandra | Department of Asian Studies | Literature and literary studies; Classical Persian Literature |
| Hoffmann, Florian | Vancouver School of Economics | Labor Economics, Macro Economics, Income Inequality, Education, Mobility |
| Hopewell, Kristen | School of Public Policy and Global Affairs | Public policy; International Political Economy; international relations; international trade; Trade Policy; Global Governance; industrial policy; Development; emerging powers; China; India; Brazil; World Trade Organization (WTO); US-China relations |
| Hopkins, Vincent | Department of Political Science | Political science; Democratic theory and practice; Federalism and Local Politics; Migration Policy and Politics; Public Management; public opinion |
| Hopkinson, Nalo | School of Creative Writing | Creative writing, n.e.c.; Humanities and the arts; Creative Writing: Speculative Ficton, Fantasy, Science Fiction, especially Other Voices |
| Hoppmann, Christiane | Department of Psychology | Psychology and cognitive sciences; Aging Process; Social Aspects of Aging; stress; Health Promotion; social determinants of health; Health and well-being across the adult lifespan and into old age; individual differences in goals |
| Huberman, Isabella | Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies | 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 |
| Huddart, Emily | Department of Sociology | Sociology; Environment and Society; Social and Cultural Factors of Environmental Protection; Gender; social class; Sustainable consumption |
| Hudson, Peter | Department of Geography | Historical studies, n.e.c.; Economic geography; American history; Pan-Africanism and the Black radicalism; Political Economy, capitalism, imperialism; Historical Studies; Social and Economic Geography |
| Hudson Kam, Carla | Department of Linguistics | Language development, second language acquisition, critical periods for learning, input and language learning, language learning and language change, Psychology, First and second language acquisition, gesture and language learning, language contact and language change |
| Huebner, Kurt | Department of Political Science | European integration; euro and global currency regimes; international trade and fdi; sustainability and innovation policies; global macroeconomics;European politics, Money and currency regimes, politics and economics of European integration as well as on contradictions and complementarities of sustainability and international competitiveness |
| Huemoeller, Katharine | Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies | Classical Greek and Ancient Rome history; Classical archaeology; Classical linguistics; Religion and religious studies; Ancient law (in theory and in practice); Documentary texts; gender and sexuality; Non-urban life in antiquity; Roman social history; Slavery (ancient and comparative) |
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Dr. Jopling documented the ways in which social-contextual factors impact the biological embedding of stress to influence wellbeing in adolescent youth. | Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. John showed that the division between loggers and environmentalists over old growth forests has been created by mass media marketing and forest industry publicity campaigns. Environmentalism has been a part of woodworker cultures on South Vancouver Island since the early twentieth century, the "War in the Woods" was partially constructed by forces wishing to splinter a united front between forest workers and eco-activists. | Doctor of Philosophy in History (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Knight's work looks at the author's personal lived experiences of gender and sexuality through the lens of an original music composition that tackles these issues and presents them in a new way for audiences to engage with. The music explores virtuosity in vocal writing with the addition of movement interwoven into the music to aid in expression. | Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition (DMA) |
| 2024 | Dr. Stewart’s research found that being likeable during initial impressions is a stable trait that directly predicts educational attainment and social class, and indirectly predicts cardiometabolic risk. Her research increases our understanding of the importance of initial interactions during childhood. | Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Brown analyzed the long-run effects of historical Bible translations in Africa. Areas where the Bible was translated demonstrate today higher literacy rates and improved child health outcomes. Bible translations broke down language barriers leading to an influx of missionaries and infrastructure while promoting the language for use in schools. | Doctor of Philosophy in Economics (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Jaswal's research explores misokinesia, the discomfort caused by others' repetitive movements. Her findings reveal that misokinesia affects a significant portion of the general population, not just clinical cases. By shedding light on its social impact, her work paves the way for better understanding and support for those affected. | Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Eshghi Furuzawa analyzed Japanese short stories from the By Women, For Women R-18 Literary Prize. Through an examination of the historical role of governments, publishers and libraries in managing access to sexual writing, she argues that the prize stories represent a source of sexual knowledge and empowerment that challenge chastity ideals. | Doctor of Philosophy in Asian Studies (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Stillwagon analyzed restricted-use government data and 50+ interviews to explore predictors of queer food insecurity among Two-Spirit, trans, and queer people in Canada. They found trans and queer identities predict food insecurity, worsened by trauma but mitigated by community. Their research highlights systemic policy failures through lived experiences." | Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Blum analyzed the transformation of plants into humans in premodern Japanese short fiction. She showed that plant characters offered religious and educational messages to readers and listeners while providing entertainment and the novelty of the supernatural.Her work provides new insights into the matrix of Buddhism and popular culture in that period. | Doctor of Philosophy in Asian Studies (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Gámez studied how Indigenous communities of Mexico City organize independently to defend their territories and right to self-determination. | Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD) |