Community, Culture and Global Studies Faculty (Unit 1)
Anthropology: Hugo De Burgos / Robin Dods / Michael Evans / Diana French / Richard Garvin / Naomi McPherson / Sandra Peacock / Christine Schreyer / John Wagner
Gender and Women's Studies: Ilya Parkins / Margo Tamez
Human Geography: Lawrence Berg / Jon Corbett / Bernard Momer / Donna Senese / Carlos Teixeira
Indigenous Studies: Jeanette Armstrong / Tirso Gonzales / Margo Tamez / Greg Younging
ANTHROPOLOGY
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HUGO DE BURGOS WEBSITE
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RESEARCH: Cross cultural psychiatry; applied medical anthropology; Central American Indigenous medicine and identity; social inequality and health; visual anthropology |
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ROBIN DODS |
TEACHING: cultural anthropology; futurist anthropology; materials analysis; Algonquian ethnography, specific American and world archaeology areas, archaeological theory |
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MICHAEL EVANS |
RESEARCH: urban Aboriginal Issues; Métis history and contemporary issues; Tonga, Oceania, Trans-national migration and globalization; whaling and whale-watching tourism; trade liberalization, diet, and nutrition in the Pacific; Indigenous methodologies; participatory action research; community based research; and Island studies |
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DIANA FRENCH
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RESEARCH: Western Canadian archaeology; subarctic anthropology; applied anthropology and aboriginal issues; heritage resource management; works with First Nations communities to manage and protect archaeological and other cultural resources; provides workshops on cross-cultural communications; assists forestry licensees with policy development and cultural resource management. TEACHING: applied anthropology; historical archaeology; cultural anthropology; ethnography and archaeology of the western subarctic |
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RICHARD GARVIN |
RESEARCH: archaeology of the Northwest coast; Mesoamerican archaeology; archaeological method and theory; development of agriculture and ancient civilizations; mortuary analysis; and zooarchaeology; examination of people and their behaviours in the past particularly with regard to how they adapt to their natural and social environments |
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NAOMI MCPHERSON |
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SANDRA PEACOCK |
RESEARCH: relationship between people and the plant world; the use, classification, and management of plants for food, medicine, materials, and spiritual purposes |
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CHRISTINE SCHREYER |
TEACHING: linguistic anthropology; language documentation and revitalization |
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JOHN WAGNER |
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MA University of Toronto
MA University of Toronto
BA University of Victoria
MA University of Victoria
BA Simon Fraser University
BA Simon Fraser University
MA University of Calgary
MA University of Western Ontario
MA University of VictoriaGENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES
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ILYA PARKINS |
RESEARCH: feminist theories, especially epistemologies; history and theory of fashion; theories of modernity and early twentieth-century cultural formations; the image analysis of femininity and concepts of time in early twentieth-century Western fashion designer autobiographies to illuminate the centrality of women in modernist culture TEACHING: concepts of sex and gender; embodiment; feminist theories |
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MARGO TAMEZ margo.tamez@ubc.ca |
MFA Arizona State University RESEARCH: Indigenous Studies, Critical Legal Studies, Gender; Kónitsąąhįį gokíyaa ('Lipan country'); Indigenous Women, Governance, Self-Determination, Borders, Human Rights; Sovereignty; Settler Societies; Genocide; Indigenous Anti-colonial Alliance; Witness & Memory; Indigenous Decolonial Mapping. TEACHING: Indigenous Studies, Gender & Women’s Studies; human rights, decolonization, state violence, development, labor, migration, borders, nationalism, empire, militarization, militarism, transnational feminisms; action-activist service learning. |
PhD York UniversityHUMAN GEOGRAPHY
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LAWRENCE BERG |
RESEARCH: geographies of academic knowledge production and place and the politics of identity; the effects of postcolonial geographies of place and language in Aotearoa, New Zealand; local study of the historical geography of Whiteness in the Okanagan Valley; barriers and opportunities for health and social service delivery to the urban Aboriginal communities of the Okanagan Valley |
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JON CORBETT |
RESEARCH: geography; ethnobiology; cartography; exploration, facilitation and promotion of community and ecosystem-based models of land and resource use in communities in Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines and British Columbia, Canada |
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BERNARD MOMER |
TEACHING: urban geography; urban planning; cultural geography |
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DONNA SENESE |
TEACHING: tourism, wine and recreation geographies; |
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CARLOS TEIXEIRA |
RESEARCH: urban and social geography with emphasis on migration processes; community formation, housing and neighbourhood change; ethnic entrepreneurship and the social structure of Canadian cities; gentrification; racialization in the city; class segregation; urban form |
MA University of Victoria
MSc University of Oxford, UK
MA University of Ottawa 
MA Wilfrid Laurier University
MSc Universite du QuebecINDIGENOUS STUDIES
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JEANNETTE ARMSTRONG |
RESEARCH: Indigenous philosophies; Okanagan Syilx thought and environmental ethics coded into Syilx literatures TEACHING: indigenous perspectives; traditional ecological methodologies |
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TIRSO GONZALES |
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MARGO TAMEZ margo.tamez@ubc.ca |
MFA Arizona State University RESEARCH: Indigenous Studies,Critical Legal Studies, Gender; Kónitsąąhįį gokíyaa ('Lipan country'); Indigenous Women, Governance, Self-Determination, Borders, Human Rights; Sovereignty; Settler Societies; Genocide; Indigenous Anti-colonial Alliance; Witness & Memory; Indigenous Decolonial Mapping. TEACHING: Indigenous Studies, Gender & Women’s Studies; human rights, decolonization, state violence, development, labor, migration, borders, nationalism, empire, militarization, militarism, transnational feminisms; action-activist service learning. |
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GREGORY YOUNGING |
RESEARCH: traditional knowledge; Indigenous rights; United Nations; intellectual property rights; Indigenous literatures; Indigenous arts TEACHING: Indigenous rights and traditional knowledge issues in Canada and the UN |
BFA University of Victoria
PhD University of Wisconsin
MA Carleton UniversityLast reviewed 
11/16/2011 4:34:18 PM
