Director
Heidi Tworek
Heidi Tworek
Interim Director, Centre for European Studies | Professor | Director, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions
emailheidi.tworek@ubc.ca
Dr. Heidi Tworek is a Canada Research Chair and professor of history and public policy at UBC. She directs the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Her work examines history and policy around communications, particularly the effects of new media technologies on democracy....Read more
ON LEAVE
Summer 2026
Katherine Bowers
Katherine Bowers
ON LEAVE
Summer 2026
Director | Associate Professor
Katherine Bowers is an expert in Russian literature and culture. Her research interests include genre, narrative, environmental humanities, imagined geography, and digital humanities.
Executive Council
Georgios Makris
Georgios Makris
Assistant Professor
Georgios Makris specializes in Byzantine art and archaeology. His work lies at the intersection of art history, archaeology, and cultural history.
Heidi Tworek
Heidi Tworek
Interim Director, Centre for European Studies | Professor | Director, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions
emailheidi.tworek@ubc.ca
Dr. Heidi Tworek is a Canada Research Chair and professor of history and public policy at UBC. She directs the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Her work examines history and policy around communications, particularly the effects of new media technologies on democracy....Read more
Katharina Piechocki
Katharina Piechocki
Associate Professor of French | Associate Head of Renaissance Studies
Katharina Piechocki specializes in early modern French and Romance literature, in particular theatre, opera, cartography, medicine, gender, affect, and translation studies. Having studied French, Italian, and Portuguese as well as Theater, Film, and Media Studies, she has completed two doctorates, in Romance Studies (University of Vienna) and in Comparative Literature (NYU)....Read more
Ljiljana Biukovic
Ljiljana Biukovic
Professor
Ljiljana Biukovic is an international law scholar whose research focuses on trade and investment issues of international economic integration and on the impact of international trade law on national regulatory governance.
Tim Frandy
Tim Frandy
Assistant Professor of Nordic Studies | Director of Undergraduate Studies, Nordic
emailtim.frandy@ubc.ca
Tim Frandy’s work involves traditional culture, decolonization, environments, education, and cultural revitalization, having conducted ethnographic fieldwork with Indigenous reindeer herders, salmon fishermen, birchbark canoe builders, ceremonial leaders, musicians, artists, activists, educators, and more....Read more
ON LEAVE
June 2025-July 2027
Yves Tiberghien
Yves Tiberghien is a comparative political economist with interest in both European and Asian political economy, as well as a particular interest in French politics. His research focuses on comparative economic policies in the context of globalization, climate politics, and the changing framework of global governance....Read more
Steering Committee
Alexei Kojevnikov
Alexei Kojevnikov
Professor
emaila.nikov@ubc.ca
Alexei Kojevnikov is currently Co-Director of Science, Technology, and Society Program. Current projects include: Space-Time, Death-Resurrection, and the Russian Revolution; Biosocial Boundaries and Cross-Cultural Encounters.
Ilinca Iurascu
emailiurascu@mail.ubc.ca
Ilinca Iurascu’s research focuses on intersections between literature and media theory, histories of material culture and technology in German and comparative studies, 18th-early 20th c.
Merje Kuus
Merje Kuus
Professor
Merje Kuus is a political geographer who investigates the workings of expertise in policy-making processes. She examines how national and transnational institutions, such as government agencies, international organizations, or civil society groups, know what they know, how they have come to know what they know, and how they persuade themselves and others that this is so....Read more
Mo Pareles
Mo Pareles
Associate Professor
emailMo.Pareles@ubc.ca
Dr. Pareles’s teaching interests include animal studies, Old and Middle English literature, translation, and Jewish-Christian relations. Ze is a member of the Oecologies collective.
Patrick Moran
Patrick Moran
Associate Professor of French
emailpatrick.moran@ubc.ca
Patrick Moran is a specialist of medieval French literature. His research interests include medieval literature, 12th and 13th century narrative genres, codicology and material philology, literary theory and cognitive poetics, modern fantasy fiction and modern medievalism.
T'ai Smith
T'ai Smith
Associate Professor
emailtai.smith@ubc.ca
T’ai Smith is an historian of modern and contemporary art, design, and visual culture in Europe and North America. Her research focuses on textiles and fashion as economic and medial forms.
Terri Givens
emailterri.givens@ubc.ca
Givens’ research and teaching focuses on comparative politics in Europe and the US, including immigration policy, the politics of race, and anti-discrimination policy. She conducted ground-breaking research on the radical right in Europe in the 1990s and early 2000s, including a focus on the role of gender and race in electoral politics. Her current research project focuses on the intersection of migration and race politics in a global context....Read more
Tracey Heatherington
Tracey Heatherington
Associate Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology
Tracey Heatherington is an environmental anthropologist whose research explores the cultural politics of nature, climate and biodiversity in the context of Italy and the European Union.
William Brown
William Brown
Assistant Professor | Cinema and Media Studies | Graduate Advisor, Cinema and Media Studies
emailWilliam.Brown@ubc.ca
William Brown is both a scholar and a maker of films, with work spanning fiction, documentary, the video-essay and hybrids of all three.
Affiliate Faculty
Alan Jacobs
Alan Jacobs
Professor | Department Head
emailalan.jacobs@ubc.ca
Alan Jacobs works on comparative public policy and political economy of advanced industrialized democracies and on qualitative and mixed-method methodology.
Alexander Fisher
Alexander Fisher
Professor, Early Music & Musicology, Renaissance and Baroque Studies | Area Coordinator for Early Music
Dr Fisher's interests include German music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, ritual contexts for sacred music in the early modern era, sound studies, and aspects of music, soundscape, and religious identity in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.
Alexei Kojevnikov
Alexei Kojevnikov
Professor
emaila.nikov@ubc.ca
Alexei Kojevnikov is currently Co-Director of Science, Technology, and Society Program. Current projects include: Space-Time, Death-Resurrection, and the Russian Revolution; Biosocial Boundaries and Cross-Cultural Encounters.
Alexia Bloch
Alexia Bloch
Professor
emailabloch@mail.ubc.ca
Alexia Bloch is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on mobility and immobility, with particular emphasis on gender, families, and citizenship in contemporary Eurasia.
Allen Sens
Allen Sens
Professor of Teaching
emailallen.sens@ubc.ca
Allen Sens is engaged in research on international security, teaching and learning, and knowledge mobilization.
Althea Thauberger
Althea Thauberger
Associate Professor | Visual Arts Graduate Advisor | Public Humanities Hub Academic Director
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Althea Thauberger is an artist, filmmaker and educator known for place-based experimental documentary projects that emerge from collaborative research and production processes. Her work—spanning photography, film, video, and performance—explores relationships between community stories and geopol...Read more
Anna Casas Aguilar
Anna Casas Aguilar
Associate Professor of Spanish | Graduate Advisor
emailanna.casas@ubc.ca
Anna Casas Aguilar is a literary and cultural studies scholar, and her research explores the intimate connections between gender, nationalism, and regionalism in modern Spanish and Catalan literature and visual culture.
Anna Jurkevics
Anna Jurkevics
Associate Professor
Anna Jurkevics is a political theorist and an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Her research is in the fields of critical theory, democratic theory, and the history of German political thought. In her work, she investigates themes related to land and territory. She also specializes in the political thought of Hannah Arendt. She is the author of Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy Beyond Sovereign Bounds (Oxford University Press 2025)....Read more
Anne Salamon
Anne Salamon
Department Head | Associate Professor of French
emailanne.salamon@ubc.ca
Anne Salamon specializes in philology and history of Romance languages. Her research focuses primarily on medieval French-language texts, from the point of view of ecdotics, codicology and material philology.
Benjamin Bryce
Benjamin Bryce
Associate Professor
emailben.bryce@ubc.ca
Benjamin Bryce is a historian of migration in the Americas. Among his major projects, two deal with German emigration and transatlantic connections to Germany. At UBC, he teaches “History 356: Twentieth Century Germany.” He is a co-editor of the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association.
Bernard C Perley
Bernard C Perley
CIS Director | Professor
emailcis.director@ubc.ca
Bernard is an activist/advocate Indigenous anthropologist. His academic training is interdisciplinary and aims to transcend disciplinary boundaries to serve his commitment to Indigenous community-based research and advocacy.
Biz Nijdam
Biz Nijdam
Assistant Professor of Teaching | Director of Undergraduate Studies, German
emailbiz.nijdam@ubc.ca
Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam is an Assistant Professor and settler scholar in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where she works, learns, and lives on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations....Read more
Bonnie Effros
Bonnie Effros
Department Head | Professor
emailbonnie.effros@ubc.ca
Bonnie Effros teaches and conducts research on the history of archaeology, antiquarianism, and collecting in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; late antique and early medieval history and archaeology; and gender history and archaeology.
Caroline Lebrec
Caroline Lebrec
Assistant Professor of Teaching | Language Program Director of French
Caroline Lebrec is a specialist of the forms of writing under constraints and gender-inclusive writing. Her research interests include French literature from 1900 to the present, especially avant-gardes and Oulipo (Workshop for Potential Literature) and inclusive pedagogy.
Charles Menzies
Charles Menzies
Professor
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Claudio Vellutini
Claudio Vellutini
Associate Professor, Musicology
Claudio Vellutini is a music historian whose research focuses on the dissemination of Italian opera in Europe and beyond during the 19th century. His current book project examines opera exchanges between Austria and the Italian states in the post-Napoleonic era and their intended function in promoting an imperial and supernational cultural identity....Read more
Courtney Booker
Courtney Booker
Professor | Associate Head - Graduate
emailcbooker@mail.ubc.ca
Dr. Booker specializes in early medieval Europe, and his research interests include Carolingian intellectual and cultural history, historiography, literacy and textual criticism, and Latin philology.
David Gramling
Prof. Gramling’s (he/they) research explores linguistics, intersectionality, and cultural communications in Europe. Gramling is a proud member of the AHRC Translating Cultures Theme Researching Multilingually at Borders, the American Literary Translators Association, and is the Translations section editor of Transgender Studies Quarterly (Duke University Press)....Read more
Dennis Britton
Dennis Britton
Associate Professor
Dennis Britton researches and teaches early modern English literature, with a focus on the history of race, critical race theory, Protestant theology, and the history of emotion.
Eagle Glassheim
Eagle Glassheim
Professor
emaileagle.g@ubc.ca
Eagle Glassheim is a historian whose current research focuses on the environmental history of Eastern and Central Europe.
Elizabeth Lagresa-González
Elizabeth Lagresa-González
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Dr. Elizabeth S. Lagresa-González obtained her Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University. Her area of specialization is early modern Hispanic literature and culture, which she addresses at the intersection of gender, visual and material studies.
Erik Kwakkel
Erik Kwakkel
Professor | Director, Minor in Informatics
emailerik.kwakkel@ubc.ca
Erik Kwakkel's research interests include the history of the book, book design and communication, digital humanities, the digitization of cultural heritage, and the dissemination of information.
Erika Frank
Erika Frank
Professor
emailerica.frank@ubc.ca
Erica Frank, MD, MPH, FACPM is a physician and Professor in UBC’s School of Population and Public Health and Department of Family Medicine in UBC’s Faculty of Medicine. She is also Affiliate Faculty in Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies, and served two terms as the Tier I Canada Research Chair in Preventive Medicine and Population Health and as a UBC University Sustainability Initiative Fellow....Read more
Ernest Mathijs
Ernest Mathijs
Professor
Ernest Mathijs researches cult film, genre cinema, David Cronenberg, and European horror.
Ervin Malakaj
Ervin Malakaj
Associate Professor and Department Head | Department of Central, Eastern, & Northern European Studies
emailervin.malakaj@ubc.ca
Ervin Malakaj, Associate Professor of German Studies, works on queer German studies with a special focus on visual culture. He is the recipient of, among other, the DAAD Grimm Prize for advancement in German studies.
Gaby Pailer
Gaby Pailer
Professor
emailpailer@mail.ubc.ca
Gaby Pailer’s work focuses on German literature in transcultural contexts from the Renaissance to the 21st century, women’s drama and theatre in German cultural history, and the decolonization of German literature.
Gaoheng Zhang
Gaoheng Zhang
Associate Professor of Italian
emailgaoheng.zhang@ubc.ca
章杲恆 Gaoheng Zhang is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is a humanities scholar of migration, mobilities, multiculturalism, media, rhetoric, ethics, and masculinity. His recent research seeks to provide a road map for analyzing cultural mobilities concerning contemporary Italy’s and Europe’s global networks with Asia, America, and Africa....Read more
Georgios Makris
Georgios Makris
Assistant Professor
Georgios Makris specializes in Byzantine art and archaeology. His work lies at the intersection of art history, archaeology, and cultural history.
Gregory Mackie
Gregory Mackie
Associate Professor
emailmackieg@mail.ubc.ca
Gregory Mackie's research emphases are drama, book history, and queer studies at the turn of the twentieth century.
Heidi Tworek
Heidi Tworek
Interim Director, Centre for European Studies | Professor | Director, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions
emailheidi.tworek@ubc.ca
Dr. Heidi Tworek is a Canada Research Chair and professor of history and public policy at UBC. She directs the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Her work examines history and policy around communications, particularly the effects of new media technologies on democracy....Read more
Ibrahim Muradov
Ibrahim Muradov
Sessional Lecturer
Dr. Ibrahim Muradov joined the University of British Columbia as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in September 2022 and currently serves as a Sessional Lecturer in the Department of Political Science. Dr. Muradov also serves as Head’s Assistant to UBC’s Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies....Read more
Igor Drljaca
Igor Drljaca
Associate Professor, Film Production
emailigor.drljaca@ubc.ca
Igor Drljaca is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of British Columbia. He completed his Master’s in Film Production at York University in 2011. He is the recipient of the Ontario Art Council’s K.M. Hunter artist award for media arts in 2014. His work has been supported by dozens of organizations including Telefilm Canada, Eurimages, Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, Ontario Creates, and the Ontario Arts Council....Read more
Ilinca Iurascu
emailiurascu@mail.ubc.ca
Ilinca Iurascu’s research focuses on intersections between literature and media theory, histories of material culture and technology in German and comparative studies, 18th-early 20th c.
Irem Ayan
Irem Ayan
Assistant Professor of French
emailirem.ayan@ubc.ca
Dr Ayan's research and teaching interests include translation, interpreting, gender studies, as well as the sociology and (auto)ethnography of translation and interpreting.
Jaleh Mansoor
Jaleh Mansoor
Associate Professor
emailjaleh.mansoor@ubc.ca
Jaleh Mansoor teaches modern and contemporary art history with an emphasis on Post WWII European Art. Her areas of interest, in addition to art and its histories, include Formalism, Marxist Feminism, Frankfurt School Theory and art as technology.
Janice Ho
Janice Ho
Associate Professor and Associate Head (Curriculum and Planning) of English Language and Literatures
emailj.ho@ubc.ca
Janice Ho is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures. Her fields of research are in British and transnational modernisms; contemporary British literatures; and postcolonial and Anglophone world literatures. She is particularly interested in how literary representations and novelistic forms intersect with, among other things, histories of colonialism and migration; the politics of human rights; and development and infrastructure studies....Read more
Jason Lieblang
Jason Lieblang
Associate Professor of Teaching | Director of First-Year and Interdisciplinary Programs for Arts
Jason Lieblang is a Senior Instructor in the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies specializing in German Studies. He works at the intersection of crisis, culture, and masculinities, especially in Germanic contexts.
Jeffrey Byrne
Jeffrey Byrne
Associate Professor
emailjeffrey.byrne@ubc.ca
Jeffrey Byrne is a scholar of decolonization, revolutionary movements, and the history of international relations.
Joël Castonguay-Bélanger
Joël Castonguay-Bélanger
Associate Professor of French | Associate Head of French Studies
emailjoel.cb@ubc.ca
Joël Castonguay-Bélanger research focuses primarily on the Enlightenment and its legacies, the literature and culture of the French Revolution, and the circulation and transmission of knowledge in eighteenth-century France.
John Christopoulos
John Christopoulos
Associate Professor
John Christopoulos researches areas include early modern Europe, the history of pre-modern medicine and the social and cultural history of early modern Italy.
Joseph Monteyne
Joseph Monteyne
Department Head | Professor
Dr. Monteyne teaches the art history and media cultures of Renaissance Italy and Northern Europe, of Counter-Reformation Rome, 16th and 17th century Spain and Spanish America, and the Northern European urban and courtly cultures of the 17th century.
Josh Timmermann
Josh Timmermann
Sessional Lecturer
emailjoshtimm@mail.ubc.ca
Dr. Josh Timmermann is an historian of Late Antiquity and early medieval Europe, in particular the Carolingian era (ca. 751–888 C.E.) and with emphases on intellectual, cultural, and reception history.
Joy Dixon
Joy Dixon
Associate Professor
emailjoy.dixon@ubc.ca
Joy Dixon’s research currently focuses on gender, sexuality, and the body in Modern Britain, as well as how this relates to the history of religion and human sciences. In 2022-2024 she will be teaching the Arts One Program at UBC.
Judith Paltin
Judith Paltin
Associate Professor
emailJudith.Paltin@ubc.ca
Judith Paltin is an Associate Professor in Modernist studies. Her current research focuses on the politics of British and Irish modernism and on modern and contemporary theories of collective identification and action.
Julen Etxabe
Julen Etxabe
Assistant Professor | Canada Research Chair in Jurisprudence and Human Rights
emailetxabe@allard.ubc.ca
Julen Etxabe is Canada Research Chair in Jurisprudence and Human Rights and joined Allard Law as Assistant Professor in July of 2019. His current research combines legal and literary theory to identify a new model of dialogical judgment emerging in the area of human rights, which is transforming inherited notions of reasoning, rights, authority, and law in the post-national and diverse societies of the 21st century....Read more
Katharina Piechocki
Katharina Piechocki
Associate Professor of French | Associate Head of Renaissance Studies
Katharina Piechocki specializes in early modern French and Romance literature, in particular theatre, opera, cartography, medicine, gender, affect, and translation studies. Having studied French, Italian, and Portuguese as well as Theater, Film, and Media Studies, she has completed two doctorates, in Romance Studies (University of Vienna) and in Comparative Literature (NYU)....Read more
Kyle Frackman
Kyle Frackman
Associate Professor
emailkyle.frackman@ubc.ca
Kyle Frackman is a film and literature scholar whose research focuses primarily on representations of gender and sexuality in German and Scandinavian culture and history.
Lisa Sundstrom
Lisa Sundstrom
Professor
Lisa Sundstrom’s research focuses on transnational activism and NGO politics, particularly involving Russian civil society. She is also the leader of the SSHRC-funded network Activists in International Courts (ActinCourts), which connects researchers and human rights practitioners to build knowledge on the roles of nongovernmental activists in international human rights courts and tribunals, including the European Court of Human Rights....Read more
Ljiljana Biukovic
Ljiljana Biukovic
Professor
Ljiljana Biukovic is an international law scholar whose research focuses on trade and investment issues of international economic integration and on the impact of international trade law on national regulatory governance.
Markus Hallensleben
Markus Hallensleben
Associate Professor
emailmhallen@mail.ubc.ca
Markus Hallensleben’s field is Germanic Studies and his current research focuses on Transitional Spaces in Post-Migration German-Language Literatures.
Meike Wernicke
Meike Wernicke is an Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at UBC. Wernicke's current scholarship in French language teacher education builds on a twenty-five-year career in modern language teaching (German and French), German heritage language education, and French Linguistics....Read more
Merje Kuus
Merje Kuus
Professor
Merje Kuus is a political geographer who investigates the workings of expertise in policy-making processes. She examines how national and transnational institutions, such as government agencies, international organizations, or civil society groups, know what they know, how they have come to know what they know, and how they persuade themselves and others that this is so....Read more
Mhishi Lennon
Mhishi Lennon
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
emaillennon.mhishi@ubc.ca
I am an anthropologist whose interdisciplinary work spans interests in Africa and its diasporas; museums; material culture and art practices; the afterlives of slavery and colonialism; and approaches to contemporary forms of exploitation, forced labour and human rights in different African countries. I have experience in migration and diaspora, heritage, music, and other arts-based, creative approaches to knowledge-making and engagement. I am keen to pursue a research agenda and curatorial and museum practice that centre community-engaged, collaborative, antiracist, and inclusive practice....Read more
Mo Pareles
Mo Pareles
Associate Professor
emailMo.Pareles@ubc.ca
Dr. Pareles’s teaching interests include animal studies, Old and Middle English literature, translation, and Jewish-Christian relations. Ze is a member of the Oecologies collective.
Nancy Frelick
Nancy Frelick
Associate Professor
emailnancy.frelick@ubc.ca
Nancy Frelick specializes in French Renaissance Literature and visual culture, as well as post-structuralist psychoanalytic criticism and gender studies, among others. She is currently completing two book projects: one on mirror motifs; and the other on the reception of women writers.
Nikki Georgopulos
Nikki Georgopulos
Assistant Professor
Nikki Georgopulos is an historian, curator, and educator specializing in European art of the nineteenth century. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory at the University of British Columbia.
Patrick Moran
Patrick Moran
Associate Professor of French
emailpatrick.moran@ubc.ca
Patrick Moran is a specialist of medieval French literature. His research interests include medieval literature, 12th and 13th century narrative genres, codicology and material philology, literary theory and cognitive poetics, modern fantasy fiction and modern medievalism.
Ramesh Mallipeddi
Ramesh Mallipeddi
Associate Professor | Editor, Eighteenth-Century Studies
Ramesh Mallipeddi's areas of expertise include restoration and eighteenth-century English literature; the early novel; historiographies of colonialism and slavery; sentimentalism; transatlantic studies; critical theory; postcolonial literature and criticism.
Raúl Álvarez Moreno
Raúl Álvarez Moreno
Associate Professor of Spanish | Associate Head of Spanish Studies
Raúl Álvarez Moreno specializes in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish literature, culture, and language. His current research focuses on the connections between economic thought and medieval/early modern sources. He also has a particular interest in how the relation between language and reality articulates ideology....Read more
Renisa Mawani
Renisa Mawani
Professor | Canada Research Chair in Colonial Legal Histories
emailrenisa@mail.ubc.ca
Renisa Mawani works in the fields of critical theory and colonial legal history and has published widely on law, colonialism, and legal geography.
Ross King
Ross King
Professor | Korean Language and Literature
emailross.king@ubc.ca
Ross King’s research interests include history of language, writing and literary culture in the Sinographic cultural sphere, Korean historical linguistics, and Korean dialectology.
Sabina Magliocco
Sabina Magliocco
Adjunct Professor
A recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities, SSHRC, Fulbright and Hewlett fellowships, and an honorary Fellow of the American Folklore Society, she has published on religion, folklore, foodways, festival and witchcraft in Europe and North America, and is a leading authority on the modern Pagan movement....Read more
Sara Ann Knutson
emailsa.knutson@ubc.ca
Sara Ann Knutson is Assistant Professor of Teaching, chair of Medieval Studies, and a historian and anthropological archaeologist specializing in premodern Afro-Eurasia, including the Islamic World and Scandinavia, and contemporary cultural heritage.
Saygin Salgirli
Saygin Salgirli
Associate Professor | Art History Graduate Advisor
Salgirli’s research includes early Ottoman and Islamic art and architecture, medieval Mediterranean art and architecture, architectural history.
Stefan Dollinger
Stefan Dollinger
Prof. Dr. Mag.
Stefan is interested in the connection of language and identity, broadly construed, which he most often explores from the vantage points of sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, dialectology and lexicography. He has published monographs on Canadian English, Austrian German and other non-dominan...Read more
Stephen Guy-Bray
Stephen Guy-Bray specializes in Renaissance poetry, queer theory, and queer poetics. His most recent monograph is Shakespeare and Queer Representation (2020).
T'ai Smith
T'ai Smith
Associate Professor
emailtai.smith@ubc.ca
T’ai Smith is an historian of modern and contemporary art, design, and visual culture in Europe and North America. Her research focuses on textiles and fashion as economic and medial forms.
Terri Givens
emailterri.givens@ubc.ca
Givens’ research and teaching focuses on comparative politics in Europe and the US, including immigration policy, the politics of race, and anti-discrimination policy. She conducted ground-breaking research on the radical right in Europe in the 1990s and early 2000s, including a focus on the role of gender and race in electoral politics. Her current research project focuses on the intersection of migration and race politics in a global context....Read more
Thomas Kemple
Thomas Kemple
Professor | Director of Graduate Studies
emailkemple@mail.ubc.ca
Thomas Kemple's research advances European and North American traditions of classical and contemporary social theory from the late 18th century to the present.
Tijana Vujosevic
Tijana Vujosevic
Associate Professor and Chair, Architecture
Tijana Vujosevic is Associate Professor and Chair of Architecture at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia. She is a historian of architecture, design and spatial theory with publications in several interrelated fields: utopia, domesticity, and the avant-gardes....Read more
Tim Frandy
Tim Frandy
Assistant Professor of Nordic Studies | Director of Undergraduate Studies, Nordic
emailtim.frandy@ubc.ca
Tim Frandy’s work involves traditional culture, decolonization, environments, education, and cultural revitalization, having conducted ethnographic fieldwork with Indigenous reindeer herders, salmon fishermen, birchbark canoe builders, ceremonial leaders, musicians, artists, activists, educators, and more....Read more
Tracey Heatherington
Tracey Heatherington
Associate Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology
Tracey Heatherington is an environmental anthropologist whose research explores the cultural politics of nature, climate and biodiversity in the context of Italy and the European Union.
Vin Nardizzi
emailnardizzi@mail.ubc.ca
Dr. Nardizzi specializes in English Renaissance literature, especially Shakespeare. He also has research interests in ecotheory, plant studies, queer studies, and disability studies.
ON LEAVE
2025-2026
Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire
Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire
ON LEAVE
2025-2026
Associate Professor of French
Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire works on French and Francophone literatures from 1945 to the present, with a particular focus on the spatial invention and representation of post-conflict and post-industrial environments.
William Brown
William Brown
Assistant Professor | Cinema and Media Studies | Graduate Advisor, Cinema and Media Studies
emailWilliam.Brown@ubc.ca
William Brown is both a scholar and a maker of films, with work spanning fiction, documentary, the video-essay and hybrids of all three.
ON LEAVE
June 2025-July 2027
Yves Tiberghien
Yves Tiberghien is a comparative political economist with interest in both European and Asian political economy, as well as a particular interest in French politics. His research focuses on comparative economic policies in the context of globalization, climate politics, and the changing framework of global governance....Read more
Emeritus
Ira Nadel
Ira Nadel
Professor Emeritus
emailnadel@mail.ubc.ca
Educated at Rutgers and Cornell, Ira Nadel has concentrated on the Victorians and Moderns, while pursuing the critical and practical matters of biography. Current research involves Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes.
Richard Johnston
Richard Johnston
Professor Emeritus
Richard Johnston is starting work on a comparative study of campaigns and elections with European and North American cases. He is also continuing his collaborative work on immigration, diversity, multiculturalism, and the welfare state.
Sima Godfrey
Sima Godfrey
Associate Professor Emerita of French
emailsima.godfrey@ubc.ca
Sima Godfrey is a specialist in 19th-century French literature and cultural history. Her current research interests include discourse of fashionability in modern French culture (19th-20th century) as well as 19th century French cultural memory.