Current Faculty
Adrian Lou
Dr. Adrian Lou earned his PhD in English from the University of British Columbia. His research aims at identifying the cognitive properties of figurative language. In particular, his work examines the rhetorical functions of multimodal metaphors and similes in discourse.
Adrian’s other research interests include science and technology studies, media studies, and game studies. Most recently, Adrian has been investigating the ways in which tabletop board games foster unique intersubjective interactions among players. He wants to understand how rules and mechanisms of thematic games can represent and reproduce certain economic and political ideologies....Read more
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Amirpouyan Shiva
I am socio-cultural anthropologist. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. My research looks at how technologies limit, enable, and program their users. My PhD dissertation, based on a long-term ethnographic fieldwork, addresses human-computer interaction and user experience in the Pe...Read more
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Anne Stewart
Anne Stewart
Coordinated Arts Program
emailannesgr8@mail.ubc.ca
location_onIrving K. Barber Learning Centre IBLC IBLC 359 (Inside of 355)
Anne Stewart received her PhD in English literature from the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches ASTU in the Coordinated Arts Program, and her classes usually cover 20th century and contemporary literature and culture.
Bradley Miller
Bradley Miller
Department of History
emailbrmiller@mail.ubc.ca
location_onBuchanan Tower 1118
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Christine D'Onofrio
Christine D'Onofrio
Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory (AHVA)
phone604 822 6637
location_onDorothy Somerset Studios 206
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Media StudiesChristine D’Onofrio is a visual artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She attended York University in Toronto for her BFA, and completed her MFA at the University of British Columbia. D’Onofrio has held positions at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, University of Toledo, and the University of Windsor. She has exhibited her work extensively across Canada, at galleries such as: Eyelevel Gallery, Modern Fuel Gallery, Charles H Scott Gallery, Republic Gallery, Helen Pitt Gallery, Gallery 44, La Centrale, and WARC Gallery. D’Onofrio has also given artist talks and served on panels in various institutions, including the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the prestigious “Art Now” lectures at the University of Lethbridge. Christine works in photography, video, digital media, interactive media, printmaking, sculpture, book works, and installation....Read more
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Clive Chapple
Emrul Hasan
Emrul Hasan
Vancouver School of Economics
emailemrul.hasan@ubc.ca
Evan Mauro
Evan Mauro
Coordinated Arts Program
emailevan.mauro@ubc.ca
location_onIrving K. Barber Learning Centre
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Jennifer Moss
Jen has spent nearly 20 years as a storyteller. Starting in theatre, she moved into print journalism, radio, and eventually became a new media writer and digital interactive producer. Her writing revolves primarily around arts, local issues, and character-driven stories. She has a strong track recor...Read more
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Kasim Husain
Kasim Husain has a PhD in English and Cultural Studies from McMaster University. His research focuses on the emergence of the so-called “model minority” in contemporary British culture and fiction. His work has appeared in Postcolonial Text and South Asian History and Culture, as well as a co-authored chapter with Sarah Brophy on new directions in queer British fiction in the Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945. Other interests include decolonial pedagogy, empathy, Islamophobia, neoliberalism, and the podcast as media form and research method.
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Kenny Ie
Kenny Ie
Department of Political Science
emailkenny.ie@ubc.ca
Kenny Ie is an instructor in the department of political science at UBC. He received his PhD from the University of Western Ontario in 2017, and prior degrees from McGill University and Simon Fraser University. His research examines the institutional development of organizations which advise and support political leaders, particularly prime ministers and other chief executives. His research and teaching interests are in political leadership, Canadian politics, comparative executives, and institutional change....Read more
Kirby Manià
Kirby Manià
Assistant Professor of Teaching, School of Journalism, Writing and Media (JWAM), and CAP
emailkirby.mania@ubc.ca
Kirby Manià is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Coordinated Arts Program and the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media and the Coordinated Arts Program. She received her PhD in English from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa) and holds a Master of Arts in Modern Literature and Culture from the University of York (United Kingdom). She has taught courses in the environment, literary studies, and academic writing at universities in South Africa and Canada. Her literary research and creative work focus on the crossover between urban spaces and the environment....Read more
Loch Brown
Loch’s interests lies primarily in the theory and practice of political ecology, with a focus on global human-environmental systems and the use of emerging technologies in environmental and geographic education. His courses examine a wide range of human-environment dynamics, and seek to engage with questions of socio-natural sustainability from an interdisciplinary perspective and at multiple temporal and spatial scales. Taught subjects currently span Sustainability, Political Ecology, Environmental Thought, Global Environmental and Social Trending, Environmental Management and Impact Assessment, Agriculture and Agro-food systems, and Natural Hazards....Read more
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Mark Lam
Mark Lam
Department of Psychology
emailmlam@psych.ubc.ca
phone604 827 3768
location_onKenny Room 3523
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Minelle Mahtani
Minelle Mahtani
Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
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Law & SocietyDr. Mahtani has been a national television news producer, an award winning radio host, a consultant on Canadian immigration for both the national and provincial government. She recently published an award-winning memoir, May it Have a Happy Ending (Penguin Random House) about losing her mother to to...Read more
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Moberley Luger
Moberley Luger
CAP Chair
emailmluger@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 9558
location_onIrving K. Barber Learning Centre 357
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Individual & SocietyI am an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of English Language and Literatures and Chair of the Coordinated Arts Program. My research has generally focused on contemporary American poetry and its relation to crisis and memory; more recently, my scholarship has turned toward pedagogy a...Read more
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Neil Armitage
Neil Armitage
Department of Sociology
emailneil.armitage@ubc.ca
phone604 822 2632
location_onANSO 123
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Peter Hudson
Peter Hudson
Department of Geography
emailpeter.hudson@ubc.ca
location_onGEOG 225
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Environment & SocietyPeter James Hudson is a historian who teaches in the Department of Geography at UBC. His research interests are in the political economy of capitalism, especially as that history intersects with racism and imperialism, and in twentieth century Black political and intellectual history. Hudson is the author of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean and is currently working on two projects: Black Marxisms: A Global History and George Padmore and the Pan-African Century. Hudson was born in Edmonton, grew up in Vancouver, studied in New York City, and has taught in Buffalo, Nashville, and Los Angeles....Read more
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Spencer McKay
Spencer McKay
Department of Political Science
emailspencer.mckay@ubc.ca
Suzanne James
Suzanne James
Department of English Language and Literatures
emailSuzanne.James@ubc.ca
location_onBuchanan Tower 428
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Media StudiesSuzanne James is a lecturer and First-year Coordinator in the department of English. She completed a PhD at SFU on the nineteenth-century Canadian writer Catharine Parr Traill, and has taught in Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Romania. Her research interests include post-apartheid South African writing, contemporary Canadian writing, children’s literature and literary prize culture....Read more
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Tina Loo
Tina Loo
Department of History
emailtina.loo@ubc.ca
location_onBuchanan Tower 1124
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Environment & SocietyTina Loo teaches environmental and Canadian history. Her research has focused on wildlife conservation and the impacts of energy development, among other things.
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Trevor Barnes
Trevor Barnes
Department of Geography
phone604 822 5804
location_onGeography 140C
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Environment & SocietyI have three main research projects. The first is investigating Vancouver’s new economy and its effects on the city. I am undertaking this project in collaboration with Tom Hutton, School of Planning UBC. We have examined the video game industry, as well as architecture, and plan also to investigate the film and TV, and fashion industries. The second is a history of American geography from the Second World War through the Cold War. The project stems from an earlier one concerned with geography’s quantitative revolution. It became clear that the roots of that revolution lay in Cold War, and earlier, Second World War, social scientific methods, aims, and above all money. The research is primarily archival. The last is a continuing interest in forest economies, primarily BC’s, but also those in the Antipodes....Read more
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