History

Ira Nadel, PhD

Professor

Biography, Modernism, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, Leonard Cohen, Philip Roth, Oriental Modernism

Patrick Moore

Associate Professor

Anthropological linguistics, languages of North America, sub-Arctic ethnography, ethno-history, gender

Catherine Soussloff

Professor and Department Head

Art, art history, European art, performance art, performance studies, art theory, aesthetics

Roger Wilson

Professor Emeritus

Archaeology of the Roman world, especially Sicily, Britain and north Africa

Leslie Paris

Associate Professor

History of American childhood, history of American summer camps

Scott MacKenzie

Assistant Professor

Eighteenth century, Romantic, Britain, Scotland, home, poverty, novel, poetry, drama, fiction, domestic, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Laurence Sterne, Henry Fielding, Gothic, Picturesque, aesthetics

Gunnar Hansson

Associate Professor

Phonetics (speech sounds), phonology (sound patterns, sound systems), language change, linguistic relationships (language families), reconstruction of proto-languages, language contact, Scandinavian languages (esp. Icelandic, Faroese, Swedish), Athabaskan (Dene) languages, Saami (Lapp) languages, Russian

Christopher Hives

University Archivist

UBC history, archival science, records management

Jon Beasley-Murray, PhD in Literature (Duke)

Jon Beasley-Murray, PhD in Literature (Duke)

Associate Professor, Hispanic Studies; Chair, Latin American Studies Program

Latin America, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Central America, Mexico, politics, political theory, cultural studies, literature, culture, film, history, the Left, revolution, revolutionary movements, populism, civil society, affect, habit, multitude, posthegemony, educational technology, blogs, Wikipedia

Leanne Bablitz

Associate Professor

Roman history, Roman law, Roman courtrooms

Penney Clark

Professor

History education

Duanduan Li, Ed.D

Duanduan Li, Ed.D

Associate Professor

Chinese linguistics, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, Chinese language and culture, second language acquisition, language socialization, Chinese heritage language education, bilingualism and multilingualism

Christina Laffin

Christina Laffin

Associate Professor

Canada Research Chair in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture

Women writers of Japan before the 19th century, history of women in Japan before the 19th century, Japanese diaries and memoirs, Japanese poetry, Japanese travel writing

Mona Gleason

Mona Gleason

Professor

History of education, education, K-12, teachers, teacher education, history of children and youth, social history of women, gender, and sexuality, history of health education

Prof. Hyung-Gu Lynn

Prof. Hyung-Gu Lynn

AECL/KECPO Chair in Korean Research

Editor, Pacific Affairs

South Korea, North Korea, Japan, politics, popular culture, society,

Prof. Christopher Rea, PhD

Prof. Christopher Rea, PhD

Professor

Modern Chinese language, culture, history, literature, and cinema, modern China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, undergraduate research, graduate research, research methodology, fraud, translation, celebrity culture in Asia,

Sebastian Prange, PhD

Sebastian Prange, PhD

Assistant Professor

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

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

Patricia Dawn Mills, PhD Law

Patricia Dawn Mills, PhD Law

Adjunct Professor

Canadian First Nation rights and titles as it relates to Federal and Provincial Resource management, mining law, equity and the sustainability of a finite, location-specific resource

Prof. John Roosa, MA, PhD

Associate Professor

Indonesia, Southeast Asia,