International Canadian Studies Centre
The International Canadian Studies Centre is the hub of Canadian Studies at UBC. The McLean endowment grants the Centre an entrepreneurial role within the Faculty, allowing it to bring together multi-disciplinary initiatives and to support a range of academic events.
Campus
Vancouver
Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Baier, Gerald | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Canadian politics, federalism, constitutional law, courts, federal-provincial relations, Constitution, federalism and public law in Canada |
| Bakker, Karen Jessica | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Political economy, political ecology, environmental studies, development studies, and resource and environmental management |
| Barnes, Trevor | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Vancouver |
| Blackburn, Carole | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | relationship between Indigenous peoples and settler states; how Indigenous nations assert their rights and sovereignty in struggles over land and political recognition, and the consequences for Indigenous people of engaging states in legal and political arenas. |
| Bloch, Alexia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Migration and Transnationalism, Anthropology of Gender, Statelessness, Ethnographic Methods and Writing, Socialist Cultures and Projects of Modernity, Eurasia, Peoples of Siberia |
| Byers, Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | International Law, International Cooperation, international relations, oceans, Arctic, space, war |
| Coulthard, Glen | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | First Nations politics – national; political theory |
| Creese, Gillian | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Women topics, Intersections of gender, sexuality, racialization and class, Processes of immigration and settlement in Canada, Gender, racialization, work and trade unions |
| Creighton, Millie | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Japan, Japanese descent communities (Nikkei or Nikkeijin), Korea, Inter-Asian Relations, Identity, Consumerism, Popular and Mass Culture, Gender, Minorities, Work and Leisure |
| Cutler, Frederick | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Canadian Politics, Political Parties, Elections, Public Opinion, Political Psychology, Research Methodology and Statistics, Contemporary Political and Democratic Theory, American Politics |
| Deer, Glenn | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | discourse studies, the rhetoric of power in narrative fiction, and postmodernism and Canadian Literature |
| Ducharme, Michel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Social Organization and Political Systems, Political Ideologies, Canadian History before Confederation, Quebec History, Liberalism and Nationalism in Canada and Quebec, Canada and the Atlantic World |
| Evenden, Matthew | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Environmental history and water history, with a regional specialization in Canada, particularly Alberta and British Columbia |
| Fuller, Sylvia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | precarious employment; inequality; work; gender and work; immigration, Work and Labour, Inequality, Gender, Economic Sociology, Social Policy, Welfare state restructuring |
| Gleason, Mona | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | History of Major Eras, Great Civilisations or Geographical Corpuses, history of education, history of children and youth, critical youth studies, gender and sexuality |
| Guppy, Neil | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Social Contexts, sociology, social inequality, sociology of education, gender relations |
| Harrison, Kathryn | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Canadian politics, environmental politics, environmental policy, climate change, global warming, climate change policy, Canadian public policy |
| Henry, Gregory H | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biodiversity and Biocomplexity, Biogeography, Ecological and Ecophysiological Processes, Climate Changes and Impacts, Environment and Habitats, Plants, Genotype and Phenotype, tundra ecosystems, experimental climate change, plant-animal interactions, Arctic environments, vegetation change, plant traits |
| Hiebert, Daniel Joseph | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | immigration, diversity, national security, social policy, urban geography |
| Ishiguro, Laura | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | British Columbia, Canada, and the British Empire; settler colonialism; migration; family; gender; Publications |
| Job, Brian | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | international relations of Asia Pacific countries, especially political/security matters; Canadian political/security interests and policies vis-a-vis Asia, International security, liu institute |
| Johnston, Kirsty | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Dramatic literature and theatre history with particular interest in disability arts and intersections between health, disability and performance |
| Kam, Christopher | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Nature and evolution of parliamentary democracy, historical development of institutions |
| Kesler, Roland Lincoln | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | First nations |
| Kramer, Jennifer | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Visual culture and art of the First Nations |
| Lauster, Nathanael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Population, Housing, Urban Studies, Crowding, Home & Housing, Technology & Environment, City Building & Regulation, Family, Demography, Health |
| Lee, Christopher | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Asian North American literatures and cultures, Asian diaspora studies, American Studies, race and ethnicity, aesthetic philosophy, critical theory |
| Loo, Tina | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Environmental history of Canada |
| Mahtani, Minelle | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | critical mixed race theory, cultural forgetting, Social justice |
| Martin-Matthews, Anne | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Aging and lifecourse, health and society, health and social care services especially home and community care, intersections of formal and informal care, especially involving the nexus of the public and private spheres, transitional life events such as widowhood |
| Martindale, Andrew | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Archeological Data Analysis, Archeological Excavation Methods and Techniques, Prehistory, History of Major Eras, Great Civilisations or Geographical Corpuses, Indigenous Archaeology, Northwest Coast, Oral Traditions, Spatial Analyses, Archaeology and the Law, Political economy, Radiocarbon Dating, Indian Residential Schools |
| Mathijs, Ernest | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | film, alternative cinema, independent cinema, European cinema, horror film, David Cronenberg, film audiences, film festivals, censorship, fantasy film, Lord of the Rings, Film studies |
| Mawani, Renisa | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies, Colonial Legal History, critical theory, Race and Racism, Oceans and Maritime Worlds, Time and Temporality |
| McKellin, William | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical, linguistic and cultural anthropology; socio-linguistics and discourse analysis; clinical medical anthropology; genetics and society; international health; cognitive anthropology; kinship and social organization; Papua New Guinea; Canada. |
| McNeilly, Kevin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Literary theory, music history |
| Menkis, Richard | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Jews and Judaism in Canada Antisemitism in Canada Canada and the Holocaust Jewish historical memory and identity, Modern Jewish history, Canada, ethnicity and historical memory, religion and society, antisemitism, responses to the Holocaust |
| Menzies, Charles | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Local Cultures and Dynamics, Resources Management, Dynamics of Social Transformations, Social Movements, Indigenous studies, Natural Resource Management, Maritime Anthropology, Western Europe, Ethnographic Film |
| Miller, Bruce | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Anthropology of Law, ethnography, ethnohistory of Coast Salish of BC and Washington, Indigenes worldwide, state-Indigenous relations |
| Moore, Patrick | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Anthropological linguistics, languages of North America, sub-Arctic ethnography, ethno-history, gender, First Nations Languages, Literacy and Orality, Oral Traditions, Dene (Athbaskan Languages and Cultures), Codeswitching, Gender, Indigenous Activism, and the Anthropology of Media |
| Moss, Laura | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Public poetry, public policy, strategic nationalism |
| Myers, Tamara | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | History of children and youth, gender/women's history, history of crime and delinquency, history of adolescence and the family, Quebec/Canada |
| Pratt, Geraldine | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Feminist Geographies |
| Raibmon, Paige | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | first nations on the northwest coast, cultural representations, relocation of aboriginal peoples, environmental health on reserves, first nations history, Indigenous people and colonisation, life writing and life history |
| Ross, Becky | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Qualitative/historical methods, feminist/gender/anti-racist, family sociology |
| Rowley, Susan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Archaeology, Arctic, Museums, Public archaeology, oral history, ethnohistory, material culture |
| Tindall, David | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | environmental movement, social movements, environmental protest, social protest, social networks, social aspects of climate change, Aboriginal protest about natural resources and environmental issues, social surveys, polling, environmental politics, environmental attitudes, environmental values, opinion about the environment, protest about pipelines, protest about oil sands, protest about tar sands, wilderness, wilderness preservation, use of social media in social protest, use of social media in social movements, social media and social networks, social aspects of forestry, climate change policy, news media, social psychology of environmental issues, Envionmental sociology, social research methods, aboriginal forestry, social science |
| Tupper, Allan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Canadian Politics, Western Canadian Politics, Government Ethics, Public Administration, Canadian Politics and Government, Public Management, Public Policy and Western Canadian politics |
| Veenstra, Gerry | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Social Determinants of Health, Lifestyle Determinants and Health, Arts and Cultural Traditions, racial health inequalities, social class and health, intersectionality theory and health, Bourdieusian field theory, lifestyle practices and health, culture and class |
| Weir, Lorraine | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Indegenous studies |
| Wilkes, Rima | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | protest, media and First Nations, media and racism, immigration, Collective Action by Indigenous Nations, Media and social movements, Public Opinion, Immigration, Trust |