Affiliated Faculty


Heidi Tworek

Read more about Heidi Tworek here.

heidi.tworek@ubc.ca


Ibrahim Muradov

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. He served as a faculty member in the […]


Igor Drljaca

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.

igor.drljaca@ubc.ca


Ilinca Iurascu

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.

ilinca.iurascu@ubc.ca


Ira B Nadel

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.


nadel@mail.ubc.ca


Irem Ayan

Dr Ayan's research and teaching interests include translation, interpreting, gender studies, as well as the sociology and (auto)ethnography of translation and interpreting.

irem.ayan@ubc.ca


Irene Bloemraad

Professor Irene Bloemraad studies the political and civic incorporation of immigrants into Western liberal democracies and the consequences of migration for politics and receiving countries’ sense of national belonging. How do migrants gain voice in the political systems where they live?   She joined UBC in 2024 as the inaugural President’s Excellence Chair in Global Migration, with a joint appointment in Political Science and Sociology. She also co-directs the Centre for Migration Studies.   i.bloemraad@ubc.ca


Jaleh Mansoor

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.

jaleh.mansoor@ubc.ca


Jason Lieblang

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.

Jason.Lieblang@ubc.ca


Jeffrey Byrne

I am a scholar of decolonisation, revolutionary movements, and the history of international relations. My first book, Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order, won numerous awards and distinctions in the fields of global history, African studies, and Middle Eastern studies. My current project is a global history of revolutionary anticolonialism that […]