Co-Directors
Henry Yu
emailhenry.yu@ubc.ca
phone778 895 5088
Henry's research is centered around Asian Canadian and Asian American history, migration, borderlands and transnational history, global and international history, race, ethnicity, and nationalism.
John Paul (JP) Catungal
John Paul (JP) Catungal
Co-Director; Research Lead for Browning Asian Canada
emailcatungal@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 9148
JP conducts community-engaged research on community organizing and cultural production practices of migrant, racialized, and LGBTQ+ communities.
Research Leads
Henry Yu
emailhenry.yu@ubc.ca
phone778 895 5088
Henry's research is centered around Asian Canadian and Asian American history, migration, borderlands and transnational history, global and international history, race, ethnicity, and nationalism.
Jennifer Douglas
Jennifer Douglas
Associate Professor; Research Co-Lead and Principal Investigator for CACHE
emailjen.douglas@ubc.ca
phone604 827 5905
Jennifer's research focuses on arranging and describing archives, including personal and community archives. She also specializes in person-centred and care-oriented archival theory and practice.
John Paul (JP) Catungal
John Paul (JP) Catungal
Co-Director; Research Lead for Browning Asian Canada
emailcatungal@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 9148
JP conducts community-engaged research on community organizing and cultural production practices of migrant, racialized, and LGBTQ+ communities.
Faculty Affiliates
Alifa Bandali
Alifa Bandali
Assistant Professor of Teaching
emailalifa.bandali@ubc.ca
Alifa Bandali is an Assistant Professor of Teaching at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ).
Aryan Karimi
Aryan Karimi
Assistant Professor
emailaryan.karimi@ubc.ca
In my work, I use an analytical toolkit consisting of the scientific method (of hypothesizing and falsification) and the genealogical method (of the social construction of knowledge). I bring this critical approach to the study of human migration, race, and sexuality/gender within the context of social theory, policy, and the law....Read more
Ayaka Yoshimizu
Ayaka Yoshimizu
Assistant Professor of Teaching
Research Area
Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesAyaka Yoshimizu is an Associate Professor of Teaching at the Department of Asian Studies. Ayaka teaches courses on transpacific histories and cultures, Indigeneities in Asia and Asian diaspora, and anti-colonial, anti-racist, and embodied methodologies.
Research Area
Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies
Barbara Lee
Barbara Lee
Assistant Professor
emailb.lee@ubc.ca
Barbara Lee is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work. As a Knowledge Exchange and Mobilization (KxM) scholar, Barbara builds university-community partnerships to co-create and mobilize knowledge that promotes social change.
Benjamin Cheung
Benjamin Cheung
Assistant Professor of Teaching
Research Area
Experiential LearningDr. Benjamin Cheung is an Assistant Professor of Teaching and Indigenous Initiatives Coordinator in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia.
Research Area
Experiential Learning
Christine Kim
Christine Kim
Professor and Associate Head (Research)
emailc.kim@ubc.ca
Christine Kim is Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures.
Christopher Lee
Chris specializes in Asian Diaspora, Post/Anti/Decolonial studies, and Global Literature including Canadian, United States, Contemporary, Modernist and Twentieth-Century literatures.
Christopher B. Patterson
Christopher B. Patterson
Professor
emailc.patterson@ubc.ca
Christopher B. Patterson (they/he) is a Professor in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia. Their research focuses on transpacific discourses of literature, games, and films through the lens of American empire studies, queer theory, critical disability studies, colonial racial capitalism, and creative writing....Read more
Danielle Wong
Danielle Wong
Associate Professor
emaildanielle.wong@ubc.ca
Danielle Wong is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia, where she is also a faculty affiliate of the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program. Her research focuses on the analysis of race, empire, capitalism, and “new” technologies....Read more
Desirée Valadares
Desirée Valadares
Assistant Professor
My research brings cultural geography and landscape studies into conversation with architectural history. I am interested in geographies of remembrance and commemoration and my work is driven by a commitment to land stewardship and cultural placemaking. I contribute my geographical and architectural perspectives on these issues and to interdisciplinary debates in Asian North American studies, settler colonial studies, and preservation law....Read more
Elder Larry Grant
Elder Larry Grant
Adjunct Professor, First Nations and Endangered Languages Program | Consultant, Musqueam Language and Culture Department
Larry Grant, Musqueam Elder, was born and raised in Musqueam traditional territory by a traditional hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaking Musqueam family. After 4 decades as a tradesman, Larry enrolled in the First Nations Languages Program, which awoke his memory of the embedded value that the hən̓q̓...Read more
Elif Sari
Elif Sari
Assistant Professor
emailelif.sari@ubc.ca
I am a socio-cultural anthropologist interested in transnational sexualities, migration, asylum, waiting, humanitarianism, and queer and critical race theory with a specific focus on the Middle East and its diasporas as well as collaborative, multimodal, and social justice-oriented approaches to knowledge production....Read more
Glenn Deer
Glenn Deer
Associate Professor
emailGlenn.Deer@ubc.ca
My areas of teaching and research include Canadian and Asian North American literature, multi-ethnic and mixed race studies, and the intersections of writing, photography, and film.
Hedy Law
Hedy Law
Director, UBC School of Music Associate Professor, Musicology
emailhedy.law@ubc.ca
Dr. Hedy Law is Director and Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) School of Music.
Helena Wu
Helena Wu
Canada Research Chair | Associate Professor
emailHelena.Wu@ubc.ca
Helena Wu is Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor of Hong Kong Studies at the Department of Asian Studies of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Helena Zeweri
Helena Zeweri
Assistant Professor
emailhelena.zeweri@ubc.ca
I was drawn to the field of Anthropology because of its ability to attend to how people navigate relations of power in everyday life. I believe in the power of ethnography to capture the nuances of people’s multi-layered experiences of systems, institutions, and policies. At UBC anthropology, I teach courses in culture, power, and politics; diasporic belonging; ethnographies of Australia; and the relationship between empire and migration....Read more
Kelly Midori McCormick
Kelly Midori McCormick
Assistant Professor
I am a historian of modern Japanese material and visual culture. My research examines how Japan’s social, political, and cultural transformations have shaped photographic practice and the mass press. I explore photography as both an instrument of state power and a medium used to challenge the ...Read more
Laura Ishiguro
Laura Ishiguro
Associate Professor
For information about my research, teaching, supervision, service, and speaking engagements, please see my website.
Leo K. Shin
Leo K. Shin
Associate Professor
emailleo.shin@ubc.ca
Leo K. Shin is Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Born and raised in the former British colony, Dr. Shin was for a brief period an education and political reporter for The Hong Kong Standard. Trained as a historian of China, he is inter...Read more
Mila Zuo
Mila Zuo
Associate Professor
emailmila.zuo@ubc.ca
Mila Zuo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at UBC. Her research areas include transnational Asian cinemas; film-philosophy; abject and enchanted epistemologies; star studies; digital and new media; and critical theories of gender, sexuality, and race and ethnicity.
H...Read more
Nancy Sin
Nancy's work focuses on stress, positive well-being, and health across the lifespan. She is conducting research on psychosocial and cultural strengths among Chinese Canadian older adults
Research Area
Health and Well-being
Neda Maghbouleh
Neda Maghbouleh
Associate Professor | Canada Research Chair in Race, Ethnicity, Migration, and Identity
Neda Maghbouleh is Canada Research Chair in Race, Ethnicity, Migration, and Identity and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia.
In 2024, Neda was one of 26 individuals appointed by the Director of the U.S. Census Bureau to the 2030 Census Advisory Committee, w...Read more
Nora Angeles
Nora Angeles
Professor
emailnora.angeles@ubc.ca
Dr. Leonora (Nora) C. Angeles is Professor at the School of Community and Regional Planning and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. She is also faculty research associate at the UBC Centre for Human Settlements where she has been in...Read more
Olivia Michiko Gagnon
Olivia Michiko Gagnon
Associate Professor
emailolivia.gagnon@ubc.ca
OLIVIA MICHIKO GAGNON, BA Hons (U. Toronto), MA (NYU), PhD (NYU), specializes in performance studies, with research and teaching interests in minoritarian performance, critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, critical Indigenous studies, and performative/experimental writing.
Her first mo...Read more
Raymond Pai
Raymond Pai
Lecturer
emailraymond.pai@ubc.ca
Raymond Pai is a Lecturer and the Director of the Cantonese Language Program at the University of British Columbia. He is also a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada-funded PhD candidate in the UBC Department of Language and Literacy Education.
He teaches all levels of Cant...Read more
Renisa Mawani
Renisa Mawani
Professor | Canada Research Chair
emailrenisa@mail.ubc.ca
Renisa Mawani is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Colonial Legal Histories. She is the author of Colonial Proximities (University of British Columbia Press, 2009) and Across Oceans of Law (Duke University Press, 2018), which was a finalist for the U.K. Socio-Legal Studies Association Theor...Read more
Rosanne Sia
Rosanne Sia
Assistant Professor
emailrosanne.sia@ubc.ca
Rosanne Sia is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research and teaching engage cultural histories of race and performance, gender and sexuality, migration and borders, and oral history and memory. At UBC, she is faculty associate with Asian Canadian and Migration Studies and the Sound and Humanities...Read more
Zoe Lam
Zoe Lam
Lecturer
emailzoe.lam@ubc.ca
Zoe Lam teaches Cantonese language courses at UBC Asian Studies. Please visit https://blogs.ubc.ca/zoelam/ to learn more about her work.