Steering Committee
Amanda Giang
Amanda Giang is an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UBC. Her research addresses challenges at the interface of environmental modelling and policy through an interdisciplinary lens, with a focus on air p...Read more
Bernard Perley
Bernard Perley
Steering Committee
Bernard C. Perley is Maliseet from Tobique First Nation, New Brunswick and Director and Associate Professor at the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia. He holds Bachelor of Fine Arts (studio arts) and Master of Architecture (architectural design) degrees f...Read more
Brenna Bhandar
Prior to joining Allard Law, Brenna was a Reader in Law and Critical Theory at SOAS, University of London, and previously held faculty positions at the Queen Mary School of Law, Kent Law School and the University of Reading Law School. She has also held visiting appointments at L’École des hau...Read more
Candis Callison
Candis Callison
Steering Committee
Currently on leave
Canada Research Chair in Indigenous journalism, media, and public discourse
Candis Callison is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, and in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies.
Her research and teaching are focused on change...Read more
Holly Caggiano
location_onWMAX 235
Holly Caggiano is an Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia. Her research explores social dimensions of climate transitions in the US and Canada. Her interdisciplinary scholarship draws from various social science theories and methods, often comm...Read more
Jarrett Martineau
Jarrett Martineau
Steering Committee
A nêhiyaw (Plains Cree) and Dene Sųłiné producer, artist, scholar, and storyteller, Jarrett is a leading voice in Indigenous music and cultural production. Jarrett holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Indigenous Governance from the University of Victoria. He is the host, creator and producer of ...Read more
Jessica Dempsey
Jessica Dempsey
Steering Committee
Jessica Dempsey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Associate Head of Undergraduate Programs at the University of British Columbia. Her research and teaching focus on environmental politics. In geography this often goes under the label of political ecology, which refers to m...Read more
Kavita Philip
Kavita Philip
Steering Committee
Kavita Philip is the President’s Excellence Chair in Network Cultures at UBC, Professor of English, and Associated Faculty in Geography and STS. She has written about nineteenth-century environmental knowledge in British India, information technology in post-colonial India, and the intersections...Read more
Mohammed Rafi Arefin
Mohammed Rafi Arefin
Steering Committee
emailrafi.arefin@ubc.ca
location_onGEOG 123, Department of Geography 1984 West Mall Vancouver, BC
Mohammed Rafi Arefin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. Drawing on urban political ecology and environmental justice, science and technology studies, and discard studies, his research and teaching are focused on urban environmental politic...Read more
Onyx Sloan Morgan
Onyx’s research is most often conducted in partnership with and at the direction of communities who experience disproportionate impacts of climate injustices. As a white settler of Irish and Scottish ancestries who grew up on unceded Lekwungen territories, Onyx’s research interrogates how persis...Read more
Affiliate Faculty
Adeniyi Asiyanbi
Adeniyi Asiyanbi
Assistant Professor, Department of Community, Culture and Global Studies
emaila.asiyanbi@ubc.ca
Research Area
Indigenous climate research and actionPrior to joining UBCO, I held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Geography, University of Calgary, and a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield. I also previously held teachi...Read more
Research Area
Indigenous climate research and action
Alexandra Tavasoli
emailalex.tavasoli@ubc.ca
Research Interests
Industrial decarbonization
Community-based and/or distributed infrastructure
Chemical and material manufacturing processes
Alex’s research group, the Laboratory of Future Industry (LoFI), studies low-impact chemical and materials manufacturing systems that integrat...Read more
Andrea Hilland
location_onAllard Hall, Room 357
Research Area
Indigenous climate research and actionAndrea Hilland, KC is a member of the Nuxalk Nation and an Assistant Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. Her research examines the intersections of Indigenous laws, Aboriginal rights, and environmental regulation to challenge discriminatory theories of colonial supremacy and Indigenous i...Read more
Research Area
Indigenous climate research and action
Andrew Jorgenson
Andrew Jorgenson is a Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of the Climate & Society Lab at the University of British Columbia. Working in the areas of environmental sociology, global political economy, and the sociology of development, he conducts research on the human dimensions of glob...Read more
Astrida Neimanis
Astrida Neimanis
She/They
Canada Research Chair, Feminist Environmental Humanities; Associate Professor, English and Cultural Studies & Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
Astrida Neimanis is a cultural theorist working at the intersection of feminism and environmental change. Her research focuses on bodies, water, and weather, and how they can help us reimagine justice, care, responsibility and relation in the time of climate catastrophe. Her most recent book, Bodies...Read more
Daniel Steel
emaildaniel.steel@ubc.ca
Dr. Daniel Steel, Associate Professor in the School of Population and Public Health and the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Steel earned his PhD from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh in 2002 and ...Read more
Elise Stickles
Elise Stickles (Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California Berkeley) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures. She is a cognitive linguist whose research focuses on applications of metaphor analysis and frame semantics to public policy, particularly in the ar...Read more
Emily Huddart
Emily Huddart
Associate Professor and Associate Head, Department of Sociology
emailemily.huddart@ubc.ca
My research program is inspired by my curiosity with human-environmental relationships. Within this general area, I use empirical evidence to explore two broad questions. First, what motivates civic engagement in efforts to protect the environment? Second, how do pro-environmental practices reflect ...Read more
Ethan Raker
emailethan.raker@ubc.ca
Ethan J. Raker is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia working in the areas of social stratification, medical sociology, and environmental sociology. His scholarship brings together various sources of novel data to examine the relationship between climate change ...Read more
Gastón Gordillo
emailgordillo@mail.ubc.ca
location_onPonderosa Office Annex G, Room 12
Professor Gastón Gordillo was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He graduated from the University of Buenos Aires (1990) and completed his PhD at the University of Toronto (1999). He is a Guggenheim Fellow, was a visiting scholar at Harvard and Yale, a visiting professor at Cornell, and a ...Read more
Glen Coulthard
Glen Coulthard
Core Faculty | Associate Professor, Political Science and First Nations and Indigenous Studies
location_onBuchanan E263
Glen Coulthard is Yellowknives Dene and an associate professor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program and the Departments of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (Minneapolis: U...Read more
Hamish van der Ven
Hamish van der Ven
Assistant Professor | Sustainable Business Management of Natural Resources
phone604.822.4142
location_on4644 – 2424 Main Mall Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
Hamish van der Ven Assistant Professor of Sustainable Business Management of Natural Resources in the Department of Wood Science and Faculty of Forestry at UBC where he runs the Business, Sustainability and Technology Lab. He is also affiliated with the Environmental Governance Lab at the Unive...Read more
Hannah Wittman
Hannah Wittman
Core Faculty
Hannah Wittman is a Professor in the Institute of Resources, Environment and Sustainability, and Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She received her PhD from Cornell University in the field of Development Sociology. She served as Project Lead of the HLPE...Read more
Jemima Baada
emailjemima.baada@ubc.ca
I am an interdisciplinary climate-migration scholar, and my research and teaching are at the intersections of gender, climate change, migration, health and development equity.
My teaching focuses on how gendered structures, geopolitical and sociocultural relations, climate change and ongoing deve...Read more
Jennifer Baumbusch
Jennifer Baumbusch
Professor, UBC Nursing | Associate Director, Graduate Programs and CIHR Chair in Sex and Gender Science: Dynamics of Caregiving in an Aging Society
location_onUBC School of Nursing T201 2211 Wesbrook Mall Vancouver BC V6T2B5 Canada
Jennifer’s research program is focused on health equity in the context of climate change. Her projects explore the impact of climate-related weather events on older people, people with lifelong disabilities, and their formal and informal care partners. She is also examining climate readiness in th...Read more
Jordy Rosenberg
Research Area
Conspiracy culture, authoritarianism, and ecofascismJordy Rosenberg is the author of the novel Confessions of the Fox and the forthcoming hybrid work Good Material (Random House/One World). He is also the author of the scholarly monograph, Critical Enthusiasm: Capital Accumulation and the Transformation of Religious Passion.
Confessions of the Fox...Read more
Research Area
Conspiracy culture, authoritarianism, and ecofascism
Juanita Sundberg
I bring the insights of feminist political ecology and the sensibilities of an ethnographer to bear on nature conservation, border security, and militarization.
My work seeks to foster conversations between feminist geopolitics, critical race theory, posthumanism, political ecology, and Latin Ame...Read more
Kimberley Brownlee
Kimberley Brownlee
she/her
Canada Research Chair, Ethics and Political & Social Philosophy | Professor, Department of Philosophy
Kimberley Brownlee holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political & Social Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Her current work focuses on loneliness, belonging, social human rights, and freedom of association. Her past work focused on civil disobedience, punishment, and r...Read more
Laura Moss
emailLaura.Moss@ubc.ca
Laura Moss (BA, U of Toronto; MA U of Guelph, PhD Queen’s U) is Professor of English at UBC where she teaches Canadian and postcolonial literatures, particularly those of Africa. Her current book project is entitled “Necessary to Act: Canadian Environmental Art, Literature, and Creative Activis...Read more
Lindsay Cole
emaillindsay.cole@ubc.ca
Lindsay is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the UBC School of Community and Regional Planning, as well as at Emily Carr University of Art and Design Faculty of Graduate Studies.
Her research, teaching, and professional practice bring together multiple disciplines, practitioner intelligences, and ...Read more
Liv Yoon
emailliv.yoon@ubc.ca
Dr. Liv Yoon is an Assistant Professor in the School of Kinesiology at UBC. Her research is at the intersection of climate change, social inequities, and health, with a focus on community engagement and participatory methods. Her PhD training in social sciences and socio-cultural kinesiology informs...Read more
M. V. Ramana
M. V. Ramana
Core Faculty | Professor & Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security
emailm.v.ramana@ubc.ca
location_onLiu Institute, Room 313
V. Ramana is Professor and Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He is the author of Nuclear is not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Changeand The Power of...Read more
Mary Stockdale
Mary Stockdale
Adjunct Professor, Geography
location_on3333 University Way, ASC 413 Kelowna, BC Canada V1V 1V7
Research Area
Indigenous climate research and actionI am concerned with finding innovative ways of effectively engaging communities in the rural interior of BC in climate action, while addressing the underlying risks of increasing conspiracy-based polarization. My focus is on widening the social mandate for climate action, by finding ways to reach co...Read more
Research Area
Indigenous climate research and action
Patricia Barkaskas
location_onAllard Hall, Room 451
Patricia M. Barkaskas is Métis from Alberta. Her work examines the intersections of justice and law, with an emphasis on the experiences of Indigenous peoples, and disrupting the normative violence of colonial legal education. Her research focuses on Indigenous laws, access to justice for Indigenou...Read more
Petra Mikulan
Petra Mikulan
Sessional Lecturer, Department of Educational Studies
emailp.mikulan@ubc.ca
Dr. Mikulan is a South Slav immigrant settler whose research addresses transdisciplinary intersections between ideas of time, vitalism and life in the Anthropocene, as they pertain to educational ethics, feminist race theory, decoloniality, trauma, and neurodiversity. She completed SSHRC, and Killam...Read more
Philip Ainslie
Philip Ainslie
Professor, School of Health and Exercise Sciences
Research Area
Indigenous climate research and actionThe specific focus of Phil’s research is directed to two main inter-related areas of research:
Regulation of cerebral blood flow in health, exercise and disease;
Influence of environmental stress on integrative physiological function (esp. hypoxia, thermal stress, and diving physiology)
...Read more
Research Area
Indigenous climate research and action
Renisa Mawani
emailrenisa@mail.ubc.ca
Renisa Mawani has a PhD from the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. She is Tier I Canada Research Chair in Colonial Legal Histories and Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, which is located on the occupied territori...Read more
Rob VanWynsberghe
location_onOffice: PCOH 3053, Ponderosa Commons North (Oak House), 6445 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z2
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. I have a PhD in Sociology. My research expertise is in sustainability and the related areas of social movements and capacity building.
My research is rooted in an...Read more
Sandra Scott
emailsandra.scott@ubc.ca
Before joining UBC I was a classroom teacher and also worked as a marine educator and park naturalist. These experiences prompted me to pursue a MA and PhD in Science and Environmental Education. I teach elementary science methods as well as courses in communications, environmental learning, and res...Read more
Sara Ghebremusse
Sara Ghebremusse
Assistant Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law
location_onAllard Hall, room 445
Dr. Sara Ghebremusse is an Assistant Professor at the Allard School of Law. She writes, researches, and teaches in the areas of African law and society, law and development, mining governance in the Global South, human rights, and transnational law. She has published in all these fields and has pre...Read more
Sara Shneiderman
Sara Shneiderman
she/her
Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs & Department of Anthropology
Sara Shneiderman is an Associate Professor and Ivan Head South-North Chair in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and cross-appointed with the Department of Anthropology.
Sara is a sociocultural anthropologist whose current research focuses on community resilience and disaster governan...Read more
Sharon Stein
emailsharon.stein@ubc.ca
I am a white settler scholar whose research asks how education (particularly higher education) can prepare people to respond to ‘wicked’ social and ecological problems in relevant, responsible, and reparative ways. I am committed to developing frames of inquiry and pedagogical practices that can...Read more
Srinivas Murthy
Dr. Srinivas Murthy is co-chair of the World Health Organization’s clinical research committee on COVID-19. He is an associate professor in the Faculty of Medicine at University of British Columbia, as well as a critical care and infectious diseases physician at B.C. Children’s Hospital in Vanco...Read more
Stepan Wood
Stepan Wood
Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law | Canada Research Chair in Law, Society and Sustainability | Director of the Centre for Law and the Environment
emailwood@allard.ubc.ca
location_onAllard Hall, Room 352
Professor Stepan Wood’s research relates to sustainability, globalization, transnational governance, voluntary environmental standards, climate change, environmental law, corporate social responsibility and social justice. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Law, Society and Sustainability at th...Read more
Tareq Yousef
emailtareq.yousef@ubc.ca
Tareq Yousef is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and holds a PhD in Anatomy and Neurobiology from Dalhousie University, where he completed a thesis on the neuromodulatory properties of nitric oxide in the process of light adaptation in the vertebrate retina. As an Assistant Professor of Teaching...Read more
Theodore Lim
emailtheo.lim@ubc.ca
location_onOffice WMAX 231, 6333 Memorial Rd Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z2
Theo Lim is an associate professor at UBC SCARP. He received his PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania, a master of science in Environmental Engineering from Tsinghua University (China), and a bachelor’s degree in Immigrant Studies from Swarthmore College. From 2019...Read more
Tim Frandy
emailtim.frandy@ubc.ca
Research Area
Indigenous climate research and action
Tim Frandy is a Sámi- and Finnish-American born and raised on Anishinaabe Aki in northernmost Wisconsin on the south shore of Gitchi-Gami, Lake Superior, amidst the region’s thousands of lakes and deep forests of pine, birch, maple, and balsam. Growing up in close relation with the woods and ...Read more
Research Area
Indigenous climate research and action
Wendy Wong
Wendy H. Wong is Professor and Principal’s Research Chair in the Department of Economics, Philosophy, and Political Science at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan). A distinguished political scientist specializing in International Relations, her research encompasses global governance, tec...Read more
Research Area
AI and the Future of Extractive PoliticsCo-Director
Carol Liao
emailliao@allard.ubc.ca
Dr. Carol Liao is a Professor at Allard Law and the UBC Sauder Distinguished Fellow of the Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics at the UBC Sauder School of Business. Her research focuses on corporate law and sustainability, climate governance, and social justice. She is the Co-Director (Ac...Read more
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein is Co-Director of the Centre for Climate Justice, and Professor of Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia.
Her research and teaching take place at the intersection of crisis and political transformation. She looks at the ways that large-scale shocks – from economic cr...Read more
