Luke Clark, PhD
Professor
Director, Centre for Gambling Research at UBC
Gambling, problem gambling, addiction, decision-making, reward, cognitive neuroscience
Susan Birch, PhD Yale
Associate Professor
Social perspective taking, social learning, social cognition, imitation, nonverbal behavior, confidence, communication, decision-making, impression formation, child development, the study of children and adults’ social perspective taking abilities (i.e., their abilities to reason about other peoples’ mental states–their intentions, knowledge, and beliefs) and how their abilities to take another person’s perspective impacts how they form impressions of others, learn from others, communicate with others, and informs a range of socials. Of particular interest is a) how children make inferences about what is credible information to learn (e.g., how they decide whether someone is a credible source of information based on how confident that person seems) and b) how a widespread bias in perspective taking referred to as ‘the curse of knowledge bias’ (a difficulty reasoning about a more naive perspective as the result of being biased by one’s current knowledge) can impair communication (both written and in person) and decision-making across a range of fields (politics, law, education, economics, medicine, etc.)
Sara Shneiderman, PhD
Associate Professor
Himalaya, Nepal, India, Tibet, social and cultural impacts of disaster and disaster response, migration and citizenship, democratization and secularization, political and social change, ethnicity and religion, inequality and poverty, affirmative action, Indigenous peoples,
Prof Graham Riches, MA
Emeritus Professor
Social policy, poverty studies, human rights, welfare politics, hunger/Canada and global North, food insecurity, right to food, food banks, food charity, food policy, food security, food justice
Mandy Catron
Lecturer
Love, Love Stories, Relationships, Marriage, Creative Writing, Creative Nonfiction Writing, Personal Essay, Gender, Feminism,
Kai Ostwald, PhD
Assistant Professor
Southeast Asia, South East Asia, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Burma, ASEAN, development, ethnicity, race, integration, international trade, South China Sea
Daniel Justice, PhD
Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture
Indigenous literature, Indigenous Studies, speculative fiction, animal studies, raccoons, badgers
Dr. Lisa Coulthard, PhD
Professor, Cinema and Media Studies
film violence, film sound, film music, crime television and film, action cinema, the fight sequence in cinema, stuntwork in cinema, sonic immersion in media, sex in cinema, media violence, American cinema, European cinema, art films, cognitive studies and cinema, film theory, film philosophy, contemporary blockbusters, superhero films,
Yue Qian
Assistant Professor
Family, marriage, divorce, intimate relationships, gender, demography, inequality, China, Asia, United States, Canada,
John Paul Catungal, PhD
Assistant Professor
Bullying, diversity, equity, gender and women’s studies, HIV / AIDS, Filipino, race, sexuality, migration, immigration, social services, Philippines, HIV, cities, diversity, multiculturalism, racism, caregivers, nannies, LGBT, gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, queer
Adheesh Sathaye
Associate Professor of Sanskrit Literature and South Asian Folklore
Sanskrit literature, ancient India, Asian folklore, digital humanities, manuscripts, Hinduism, caste, Hindu mythology, Sanskrit theater, Sanskrit poetry
Gaoheng Zhang, PhD
Assistant Professor of Italian Studies
Italian-Chinese cultural relationships, Chinese migrations to Italy, gender in Italy, Italian media and cinema, Italian literature and culture, Italian colonial and postcolonial cultures, Italian travel and migration literature and cinema
Marina Adshade, PhD
Assistant Professor of Teaching
Economics of sex, love, marriage, gender, fertility, and women in the workplace
M.V. Ramana, PhD
Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Affairs
Professor
Nuclear energy, nuclear disarmament, nuclear reactors, small modular reactors, economics of nuclear power, energy in India, nuclear weapons in India, radioactive waste, nuclear accidents
Dr. Gerry Veenstra, PhD
Professor
Social determinants of health,
Alexia Bloch, PhD
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Russia, gender, labor migration, former Soviet Union, Siberia
Prof. Alessandra Santos, PhD
Associate Professor
Chair of Latin American Studies
Brazil, Brazilian literature and culture, Brazilian cinema, Brazilian music, Brazilian art, Brazilian current affairs, Amazon rain forest, Latin American literature, Latin American cinema,
Dr. Shannon Walsh
Associate Professor
Documentary, film production, South Africa, politics of friendship, social movements, gig economy, gig work, platform economy, cinema, activism, popular education
Jennifer Kramer, PhD
Associate Professor
First Nations of the Northwest Coast, visual culture, art market economies, identity production, representation, repatriation, cultural property, aboriginal cultural tourism, collaborative and critical museology
Dr. Alec Beall, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dating, Attraction, Relationships,