Affiliate Faculty
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
Carol Liao
emailliao@allard.ubc.ca
Dr. Carol Liao is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Business Law at the UBC Allard School of Law. She is also the UBC Sauder Distinguished Scholar of the Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics, UBC Sauder School of Business. Her research focuses on corporate law and sustainability, c...Read more
Daniel Steel
emaildaniel.steel@ubc.ca
Research Area
Climate Just Housing, Transport, and InfrastructureDr. 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
Research Area
Climate Just Housing, Transport, and Infrastructure
Emily Kennedy
Emily Kennedy
Associate Professor and Associate Head, Department of Sociology
emailemily.huddart@ubc.ca
Research Area
Just Transitions in Energy, Water, and AgricultureMy 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
Research Area
Just Transitions in Energy, Water, and Agriculture
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
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
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
Kimberly Bain
emailkimberly.bain@ubc.ca
Dr. Bain’s most pressing and urgent scholarly and critical-creative pursuits have consolidated around the history, theory, and philosophy of the African diaspora, race, gender, environmental and medical racism, the Anthropocene, and Black arts and letters.
She is currently working on two schola...Read more
Kimberly Richards
Kimberly Skye Richards is a settler scholar whose writing, teaching, activism, and artistic work engages performance as a vehicle for resisting extractivism and inspiring a just energy transition. She recently co-edited an issue of Canadian Theatre Review on “Extractivism and Performance” (April...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
Pasang Sherpa
Pasang Sherpa
Assistant Professor, Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and Department of Asian Studies
emailpasang.sherpa@ubc.ca
Tashi Delek!
I am a Sharwa anthropologist from Pharak, southern part of Mt. Everest region in northeastern Nepal. My research, writing and pedagogy focus on climate change and Indigeneity among Himalayan communities, guided by the question: How do we live in the midst of dying?
I am currentl...Read more
Renisa Mawani
emailrenisa@mail.ubc.ca
Research Area
Climate Just Housing, Transport, and InfrastructureRenisa 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
Research Area
Climate Just Housing, Transport, and Infrastructure
Sharon Stein
emailsharon.stein@ubc.ca
Research Area
Climate Just Housing, Transport, and Infrastructure | Debt and Reparations | Emergent Climate Response Research | Indigenous-Led Climate Action and Planning | Just Transitions in Energy, Water, and Agriculture | Labour of Climate Adaptation and Mitigation | Narratives, Visions, and Vocabularies of Climate Justice | Transforming Institutions and Governance for Climate JusticeI 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
Research Area
Climate Just Housing, Transport, and Infrastructure | Debt and Reparations | Emergent Climate Response Research | Indigenous-Led Climate Action and Planning | Just Transitions in Energy, Water, and Agriculture | Labour of Climate Adaptation and Mitigation | Narratives, Visions, and Vocabularies of Climate Justice | Transforming Institutions and Governance for Climate Justice
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
Co-Director
Candis Callison
Candis Callison
Co-Director | On Leave
Currently on leave
Canada Research Chair in Indigenous journalism, media, and public discourse
Candis Callison is Co-Director of the Centre for Climate Justice, and an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, and in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies....Read more
Jessica Dempsey
Jessica Dempsey
Interim Co-Director
Research Area
Indigenous-Led Climate Action and PlanningJessica 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
Research Area
Indigenous-Led Climate Action and Planning
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein
Co-Director
Naomi Klein is Co-Director of the Centre for Climate Justice, and Associate 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 e...Read more
Core Faculty
Amanda Giang
Amanda Giang
Core Faculty
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
Avi Lewis
Avi Lewis
Executive Committee | Core Faculty
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Avi Lewis is an Associate Professor in the Geography department at the University of British Columbia. Avi is also a documentary filmmaker and educator, with more than 30 years of experience in journalism and storytelling from the front lines of social movements. In 2015, he was a co-author of The L...Read more
Geraldine Pratt
Geraldine Pratt
Core Faculty
Geraldine Pratt is a professor at the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on transnational migration, labour precarity, and new geographies of dementia care. She recently completed a book (Migration in Performance: crossing the colonial present, 2019) ...Read more
Glen Coulthard
Glen Coulthard
Core Faculty
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
Hannah Wittman
Hannah Wittman
Professor, IRES and Land and Food Systems
Research Area
Just Transitions in Energy, Water, and AgricultureDr. Hannah Wittman’s research examines the ways that the rights to produce and consume food are contested and transformed through struggles for agrarian reform, food sovereignty, and agrarian citizenship. Her projects include community-based research on farmland access, transition to organic agric...Read more
Research Area
Just Transitions in Energy, Water, and Agriculture
Jarrett Martineau
Jarrett Martineau
Executive Committee | Core Faculty
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
Interim Co-Director
Research Area
Indigenous-Led Climate Action and PlanningJessica 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
Research Area
Indigenous-Led Climate Action and Planning
Jocelyn Stacey
Jocelyn Stacey
Executive Committee | Core Faculty
Jocelyn Stacey is Associate Dean, Graduate Studies and Associate Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia. She researches environmental crises and the visible and invisible ways in which law creates, regulates and prevents these events. Her work focuses on envir...Read more
Leila Harris
Leila Harris
Executive Committee | Core Faculty
Research Area
Debt and ReparationsLeila M. Harris is a professor at IRES Institute on Resources Environment and Sustainability and with the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Harris’s work examines social, cultural, political-economic, institutional and equity dimens...Read more
Research Area
Debt and Reparations
Lorien Nesbitt
Lorien Nesbitt
Core Faculty
Lorien Nesbitt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Forest Resources Management at the University of British Columbia. Drawing on a desire to help create liveable and equitable urban environments, her research and teaching focus on urban forestry and environmental justice, using a social-e...Read more
M. V. Ramana
M. V. Ramana
Core Faculty
M.V. Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security and Director of the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of The Power of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy i...Read more
Maggie Low
Maggie Low
Core Faculty
Research Area
Indigenous-Led Climate Action and PlanningMaggie Low is the Co-Chair of the Indigenous Community Planning (ICP) program at
UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP). Maggie is a community-
engaged scholar who seeks to advance a better understanding of Indigenous
sovereignty as it is expressed outside the Canadian courts. ...Read more
Research Area
Indigenous-Led Climate Action and Planning
Mohammed Rafi Arefin
Mohammed Rafi Arefin
Executive Committee | Core Faculty
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
Tim Frandy
emailtim.frandy@ubc.ca
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
Vanessa Andreotti
Vanessa Andreotti
Core Faculty
My research examines historical and systemic patterns of reproduction of inequalities and how these limit or enable possibilities for collective existence and global change. My publications in this field include analyses of political economies of knowledge production, discussions of the ethics of...Read more
Executive Committee
Avi Lewis
Avi Lewis
Executive Committee | Core Faculty
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Avi Lewis is an Associate Professor in the Geography department at the University of British Columbia. Avi is also a documentary filmmaker and educator, with more than 30 years of experience in journalism and storytelling from the front lines of social movements. In 2015, he was a co-author of The L...Read more
Bernard Perley
Bernard Perley
Executive Committee | Core Faculty
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
Gastón Gordillo
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
Jarrett Martineau
Jarrett Martineau
Executive Committee | Core Faculty
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
Interim Co-Director
Research Area
Indigenous-Led Climate Action and PlanningJessica 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
Research Area
Indigenous-Led Climate Action and Planning
Jocelyn Stacey
Jocelyn Stacey
Executive Committee | Core Faculty
Jocelyn Stacey is Associate Dean, Graduate Studies and Associate Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia. She researches environmental crises and the visible and invisible ways in which law creates, regulates and prevents these events. Her work focuses on envir...Read more
Kavita Philip
Kavita Philip
Executive Committee | Core Faculty
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
Leila Harris
Leila Harris
Executive Committee | Core Faculty
Research Area
Debt and ReparationsLeila M. Harris is a professor at IRES Institute on Resources Environment and Sustainability and with the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Harris’s work examines social, cultural, political-economic, institutional and equity dimens...Read more
Research Area
Debt and Reparations
Mohammed Rafi Arefin
Mohammed Rafi Arefin
Executive Committee | Core Faculty
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