Faculty of Arts

Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe, PhD

Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe, PhD

Professor Emeritus

Art and architectural (and cultural) history, especially 18th-20th-century North American and British

Paul L. Hewitt, PhD, R. Psych.

Professor

Perfectionism

Simon Donner

Simon Donner

Professor

Climate change, climate change policy, ocean conservation, marine science, coral reefs, water pollution, nutrient pollution, climate change adaptation, Pacific Islands, sustainable development, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases

Zhichun Jing, PhD

Zhichun Jing, PhD

Associate Professor

Canada Research Chair in Pacific Asia Archaeology

archaeology, ancient China, ancient technologies, jades, geoarchaeology, prehistory, bronze, Shang civilization, early Chinese civilizations, Bronzes, material culture, anthropocene, early urbanization, ancient cities, ancient globalization

Gavin Paul, PhD

Gavin Paul, PhD

Instructor

Shakespeare, renaissance drama, comic book and comic strip literature

Derek Gregory, MA, PhD (Cambridge), FBA, FRSC

Peter Wall Distinguished Professor

Aerial violence, Afghanistan, attacks on hospitals, bombing (past and present), casualty evacuation, civilian casualties, drone warfare, medical care in conflict zones, Syria, war

Stanley Coren

Stanley Coren

Professor Emeritus

Canine behavior, and human/animal bonding

George Hoberg

George Hoberg

Professor

Energy policy (oil sands, transition to clean energy), climate policy, environmental policy, governance (including role of First Nations in decision-making), global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases 

Dr. Allan Tupper

Professor

Canadian politics, Western European Politics, Canadian Federalism (Aboriginal, Federal, Municipal, Provincial), Public Management (program delivery), Political Ethics

Timothy Stainton, BSW, MSW, PhD

Professor and Director, Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship

Disability, intellectual disability, ethics, social policy, inclusion

Errol Durbach

Errol Durbach

Professor Emeritus

Theatre topics generally, Ibsen, Shakespeare

Dennis Danielson

Professor

Cosmology, science and religion, John Milton, Copernicanism

Ian Hill, PhD

Assistant Professor

Rhetoric, persuasion, argumentation, technology, weapons, interrogation, political economy, war rhetoric, conflict rhetoric, dissent, mass movements

Lorraine Weir, PhD

Lorraine Weir, PhD

Professor

Tsilhqot’in Title case, Oral history evidence in Canadian courts, Oral history, “Time immemorial” in Indigenous contexts, First Nations, Indigenous literature

Michel Ducharme

Associate Professor

Canadian history before Confederation, Quebec history, liberalism and nationalism in Canada and Quebec

Margot Leigh Butler

Academic Director

Vancouver Downtown Eastside, community education, free community education with Downtown Eastside residents who experience marginalization, poverty, addictions and education, community-university relationships, representation, cultural studies, critical and creative pedagogy, interdisciplinarity, site-specific art, collectives, implicatedness, activism

Peter Graf

Peter Graf

Professor

Memory, prospective memory, morality of memory, memory and aging, cognitive changes across the lifespan, memory in Alzheimer’s disease

Jerry Wasserman, PhD

Jerry Wasserman, PhD

Professor Emeritus

Canadian theatre, history of theatre, Vancouver film, blues music

Gerald Baier, PhD

Gerald Baier, PhD

Associate Professor

Canadian politics, federalism, constitutional law, courts, federal-provincial relations, political parties in Canada, Canadian government

Alan Jacobs

Professor

European politics, European public policy, German politics, British politics, U.S. politics, U.S. public policy, European and U.S. welfare state, pensions, health care