Post Doctoral Fellows


Babak Amini

Babak Amini is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies (UBC). His research examines how the theoretical foundations of social sciences were impacted by the First World War (WWI) and the postwar reconstruction process. The research is a critical history of the present insofar as many of the […]


Matthew Tomkinson

Matthew Tomkinson is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in CENES at the University of British Columbia. He holds a PhD in Theatre Studies from UBC Theatre. His forthcoming monograph with Palgrave Macmillan, titled Sound and Sense in Contemporary Theatre: Mad Auralities, critically examines auditory simulations of mental health differences. His current postdoctoral research, titled Adapting Schreber: From Memoir to Multimedia and Beyond, surveys a wide range of multimedia adaptations of Schreber’s memoir in order to develop a comprehensive production history.


Jonah Garde

Jonah I. Garde is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies (CENES). Their research interests include queer and trans histories in the German-speaking world, modernity/coloniality, collective memory, visual cultures, archives, and affects. They hold a PhD in Gender Studies from the University of Bern.

jonah.garde@ubc.ca