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Department of History and Sociology
Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of British Columbia Okanagan
1147 Research Road
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7
Canada

Email: hs.okanagan@ubc.ca
Please direct all general inquires to the above email address.

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Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: The globalization of the "Justice for Janitors" campaigns; global unions; Eddie Melo: What were you? The Neoliberal University; whiteness; the Canadian Hinterland.

Courses & Teaching: Globalization and labour; urban sociology; sociology of tourism; race and racism; qualitative methods; urban studies.

Piotr (Peter) Ahmad | Lecturer | Sociology | p.ahmad@ubc.ca | ART 273

Research Interests: Sociology of identity, ethnic and political identities, national identity and citizenship, nationalism, political and social theory, sovereignty and Indigenous sovereignty, theory of cultural and minority rights.

Courses & Teaching: Introduction to sociology, political sociology, social inequality (UBCO); in the past: global politics.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Race and empire; crime and punishment; socio-legal studies; religion and secularity; urban geographies; social and cultural theory.

Courses & Teaching: SOCI 209: Foundations of Sociological Thought (Term 1); SOCI 496D: True Crime Sociology (Term 1); SOCI 377: Contemporary Sociological Theory (Term 2); SOCI 496N: Sociology of Religion (Term 2)

Margaret Carlyle | Assistant Professor | History | margaret.carlyle@ubc.ca | ART 247

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: History of medicine, science, & technology; history of reproduction and the life sciences; gender and women's studies; history of the body; material culture & medical technologies; medical science and race in the French Atlantic world.

Courses & Teaching: Courses Offered (please check course calendar for current offerings): HIST 118: History of Science, Medicine, & Technology from Antiquity; HIST 308: The Scientific Revolution; HIST 310A Topics in the History of Medicine & Disease: The History of Motherhood & Reproduction (1700-present); HIST 375: History of Pandemics; HIST 373: History of Gender, Race, and Science in the Atlantic World; HIST 374: History of Science and the Enlightenment; HIST 492/IGS 592: History, Theory, & Method. Graduate Student Supervision: I am happy to supervise projects in the history of medicine, science, and technology broadly construed. Please email me to discuss your thesis topic.

Lesley Cormack | Principal and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor | History | ubco.principal@ubc.ca | ADM 102

Research Interests: History of science, history of geography, mathematics, early modern England

Research Interests: Nexus of psychiatry and law; socio-legal studies of the everyday life of law; institutional ethnography; science, technology, and regulation; expert knowledge; regulatory spaces and pharmaceutical governance, psychedelics and drug policy, feminist and qualitative methodologies.

Courses & Teaching: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Introduction to Sociology, Law and Gender, Health Law, Qualitative and Ethnographic Research, Institutional Ethnography

Research Interests: Late medieval English urban history.

Francois Gauthier | Lecturer | History, Languages and World Literatures | francois.gauthier@ubc.ca | ART 244

Research Interests: History of the Roman Republic; financing of the Roman army; socio-economic organization of the Roman army; political culture; taxation.

Courses & Teaching: HIST 110 Survey of the Ancient World; HIST 203 The Roman Empire; HIST 302 Classical Greece and the Mediterranean World; HIST 303 The Hellenistic World from the Mediterranean to India; HIST 304 The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic; WRLD 310 Mythologies in Motion; WRLD 351 The Ancient Mediterranean World in Cinema and Literature; HIST/WRLD 353 Ancient Mediterranean Science and Technology; LATN 300 Intensive Introduction to Latin.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Southern Africa; Portuguese Africa; Atlantic World; activism; politics; labor; agriculture; policy.

Courses & Teaching: Africa (commodities, cities, imperialism and decolonization); Southern and South Africa; British and Portuguese colonialism; political history; women's history; contemporary world history.

James Hull | Associate Professor Emeritus | History | james.hull@ubc.ca

Research Interests: History of the Second Industrial Revolution as an historical phenomenon, as an historical concept, and as an historiographic problem; understanding how and why technology changes.

Courses & Teaching: History of science and technology; industrialization.

Graduate student supervisor

Courses & Teaching: Constitutional/Charter Litigation & Social Policy Policy and Practice Issues Affecting an Older Population Social Policy and Comparative Family Policy Social Welfare Law and Human Rights: International Human Rights & Aging Aging/Gerontological Social Work Intergenerational Relationships Visual Sociology

Sajjad Nejatie | Assistant Professor | History | sajjad.nejatie@ubc.ca | ART 263

Research Interests: Islam in Asia; The Persianate World; Historiography; Narrative Theory; Migration; Tribalism; Ethnic Identity; Empire and State Formation and Nationalism.

Courses & Teaching: HIST 160 – Introduction to Asian History; HIST 396 – History of South Asia; HIST 495 – Special Topics: History of Afghanistan

Research Interests: Popular religion and social history of the Middle Ages.

Courses & Teaching: History of Medieval Europe; early modern England. Specifically: HIST 110 Survey of the Ancient World; HIST 119 Medieval Europe; HIST 201 Religion in the West; HIST 325 Europe in 1215; HIST 324 Tudor England, 1485-1603; HIST 344 Stuart England, 1603-1714; HIST 413 Reformation Europe; HIST 414 Medieval England

Research Interests: Indigenous History; Community-Engaged History; Settler Colonialism; Ethnohistory; Environmental History; Labour History; Public History

Courses & Teaching: HIST 300: History of Indigenous Peoples of Canada to 1876; HIST 301: History of Indigenous Peoples of Canada Since 1876; HIST 383A: Canadian Settler Colonialism

Doug Owram | Professor Emeritus | History | doug.owram@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Post-Confederation Canadian history, with a specialization in intellectual, social and economic history.

Courses & Teaching: Canadian foreign policy; Canadian intellectual history; post 45 Canada.

Shelley Pacholok (On Leave) | Assistant Professor | Sociology | shelley.pacholok@ubc.ca | 250.807.8707

Research Interests: Gender; families; work; disaster.

Courses & Teaching: Gender; work; families; social inequality; qualitative methods.

Research Interests: Cultural environmental sociology; suburban imaginary; theories of space and spatialization; social and cultural theory; seasonal sociology; aesthetic sociology

Courses & Teaching: Environmental sociology courses including Sociology of the Anthropocene, Sociology of Food; introductory sociology

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Canadian history; environmental history; economic history; history of capitalism.

Courses & Teaching: Environmental history; Canadian history; North American history; world history.

Research Interests: Canadian social and political history.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Gender, Health and Sport, Qualitative Methods, Self and Identity, Symbolic Interaction, Deviance and Social Problems, Social Media.

Courses & Teaching: Sociology of gender, sociology of sport, introduction to sociology, qualitative methods.

Emily Snyder | Associate Professor | Sociology | emily.snyder@ubc.ca | ART 315

Research Interests: Socio-legal studies; social inequalities; gender, sexuality, and law; HIV criminalization; Indigenous laws and legal issues; connections between health and law.

Courses & Teaching: Fundamentals of Sociological Research; Sexuality, Law, and Society; Social Inequality; Feminist Theory

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Transnational solidarity movements; politics and culture of the left; history of cinema.

Courses & Teaching: Latin America; Global South; documentary filmmaking.

Duane Thomson | Professor Emeritus | History | duane.thomson@shaw.ca

Research Interests: British Columbia history, First Nations and Metis history and Okanagan history.

Patricia Tomic | Associate Professor Emerita | Sociology | patricia.tomic@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Politics of language; Latin American immigration to Canada; feminism; Chile; the Okanagan.

Courses & Teaching: Sociological theory; sociology of education; feminism.

Ricardo Trumper | Associate Professor Emeritus | Sociology | ricardo.trumper@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Latin America; neoliberalism; racism.

Courses & Teaching: Sociology of development; sociology of fear; political sociology; Latin America; racism.

Peter Urmetzer | Associate Professor Emeritus | Sociology | peter.urmetzer@ubc.ca | ART 315

Research Interests: Economic sociology; particularly globalization and free trade; how non-economic factors, such as values and culture, influence economic decision making.

Courses & Teaching: Introduction to sociology; Canadian society; political economy; survey methods.

Research Interests: United States history.

Courses & Teaching: United States; French Americas.

Maurice Williams | Professor Emeritus | History | maurice.williams@ubc.ca

Research Interests: National Socialism in Central Europe; the Kettle Valley Railway in the Okanagan Valley.

Courses & Teaching: Early modern and modern Europe; German and Habsburg history; great power diplomacy in 20th century; the Kettle Valley Railway.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Governance; internet policy; security; social media.

Courses & Teaching: Social theory; criminology; surveillance studies; quantitative methods; introductory sociology.

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