Faculty of Arts

Sebastian Prange, PhD

Sebastian Prange, PhD

Assistant Professor

History, maritime trade, Indian Ocean, India, piracy, Islam

Mark Turin, PhD

Mark Turin, PhD

Associate Professor

Himalaya, Nepal, First Nations, indigenous, anthropology, linguistics, endangered languages, digital, archives, museums, Bhutan, India, Tibet, technology

Anita DeLongis, PhD

Anita DeLongis, PhD

Professor

Marriage, family, stress, social support, relationships, pain, couples, arthritis, spinal cord injury, stepfamilies, chronic illness, work stress, virus

Ms. Christine D’Onofrio, BFA, MFA

Ms. Christine D’Onofrio, BFA, MFA

Instructor

Contemporary visual arts, digital media in art, teaching visual arts higher education, photography, moving image, film, print, new media, art & art theory

Barbara Zeigler, MFA

Barbara Zeigler, MFA

Professor

Visual art (print media, printmaking, drawing, installation art, video, and collaborative public art), environmental politics, BC salmon populations,

Dr. Lisa Sundstrom, PhD

Dr. Lisa Sundstrom, PhD

Professor

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs), global activism, civil society, human rights, women’s rights, feminism, Russian politics,

Tara Mayer, PhD

Tara Mayer, PhD

Instructor

Global history of fashion, clothing, material culture, and identity, colonial South Asian history, constructions of Britishness, Indo-European commodity exchanges, clothing and other forms of material culture, Orientalist portraiture, empire and aesthetic influence

David Metzer, PhD

David Metzer, PhD

Professor

Popular Music, Popular Culture, Classical Music, Jazz, LGBTQ in Popular Culture

Edward Slingerland

Edward Slingerland

Professor, Dept. of Asian Studies

Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied Cognition

Director, Cultural Evolution of Religion Research Consortium

Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Human Evolution, Cognition and Culture

Associate Member, Depts. of Philosophy and Psychology

Asian Studies, Chinese philosophy, philosophy, religion, religion and conflict, secularism, spontaneity, ethics, science-humanities integration, interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary research

Amin Ghaziani, PhD

Amin Ghaziani, PhD

Associate Professor

Canada Research Chair in Sexuality and Urban Studies

LGBT issues, sexuality, gay and lesbian rights, gay communities, gay politics, gay neighbourhoods, queer politics, political infighting

Patrick Francois, PhD

Patrick Francois, PhD

Professor of Economics, Distinguished University Scholar

African autocracies, economics of developing countries, Indian village governance

Dr. Sheila Marshall, PhD

Dr. Sheila Marshall, PhD

Professor

adolescence, parent-child relationships, mattering,

Natalie Clark, PhD

Instructor

Trauma, child and youth mental health, Indigenous health, girls health

Elizabeth Volpé Bligh, BMus

Elizabeth Volpé Bligh, BMus

Adjunct Professor, Harp

Harp, music, orchestra, chamber music

Edward Kruk, MSW, PhD

Associate Professor

Child and family policy and practice, fatherhood and fathering, family mediation and conflict resolution, co-parenting after divorce, substance and other addictions, harm reduction

Prof. John Roosa, MA, PhD

Associate Professor

Indonesia, Southeast Asia,

Dr. Stan Floresco, PhD

Dr. Stan Floresco, PhD

Professor

Dopamine, reward, decision making, cognitive flexibility, frontal lobes, addiction,

Darko Odic, PhD

Darko Odic, PhD

Assistant Professor

Cognitive development, language acquisition, mathematics, perception of time and space, psychophysics, visual cognition, preschoolers, confidence, statistics

Lindsey Richardson, D.Phil

Lindsey Richardson, D.Phil

Associate Professor

Drug Use, Poverty, Social Determinants of Health, Social Welfare/Income Assistance, Precarious Employment

Amori Mikami, PhD

Amori Mikami, PhD

Associate Professor

Peer relationships, friendships, peer rejection, bullying, social skills training, social networking, Facebook, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, children, adolescents