Faculty Members

Our Faculty members include researchers from the UBC Vancouver and Okanagan campuses, who join us from departments in the faculties of Arts, Applied Science, Science, Medicine, Education, and Business.  Learn more about them below.

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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Muhammad Abdul-Mageed Faculty Computer Science, Linguistics Associate Professor, ELIE Research co-Lead, Language Sciences Steering Committee
Kathryn Accurso Faculty Language & Literacy Education Assistant Professor of Teaching
Irem Ayan Faculty French, Hispanic & Italian Studies Assistant Professor of French Traductology and Translation
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Molly Babel Faculty Linguistics Professor
Paul Bartha Faculty Philosophy Head, Professor
Barbara May Bernhardt Faculty Audiology & Speech Sciences Emerita Professor
Alexis Black Faculty School of Audiology & Speech Sciences Assistant Professor
Ryan Bochnak Faculty Linguistics Assistant Professor
Marie-Eve Bouchard Faculty French, Hispanic & Italian Studies Assistant Professor
Lara Boyd Faculty Physical Therapy Professor
Laurel Brinton Faculty English Language & Literatures Professor
Stefania Burk Faculty Asian Studies Associate Dean, Academic, Associate Professor of Teaching
Strang Burton Faculty Linguistics Assistant Professor of Teaching
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Catherine Ann Cameron Faculty Psychology Honorary Professor
Luisa Canuto Faculty French, Hispanic & Italian Studies Assistant Professor of Teaching
Amanda Cardoso Faculty Linguistics Lecturer
Giuseppe Carenini Faculty Computer Science Professor
Diana Carter Faculty Psychology Professor
Jessica Chan Faculty Language Arts and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education, Okanagan School of Education Assistant Professor
Sylvia Cho Faculty Department of Linguistics Sessional Lecturer
Ho Jung Choi Faculty Asian Studies Associate Professor of Teaching
Valter Ciocca Faculty Audiology & Speech Sciences Professor
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Reginald D'Silva Faculty Language & Literacy Education Associate Professor of Teaching
Barbara Dancygier Faculty English Language & Literatures Professor
Ron Darvin Leadership, Steering Committee Department of Language and Literacy Education Associate Professor
Henry Davis Faculty Linguistics Professor
Isabelle Delage-Béland Faculty French, Hispanic & Italian Studies Lecturer
Stefan Dollinger Faculty English Language & Literatures Professor
Scott Douglas Faculty Education (UBC-O) Professor
Patricia Duff Faculty Language & Literacy Education Professor
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Sid Fels Leadership, Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering Member, Language Sciences Steering Committee, ELIE Research co-Lead, Professor
Thalia Field Faculty Neurology Associate Professor
Tim Frandy Faculty Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies Assistant Professor
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Joash Gambarage Faculty Linguistics Sessional Lecturer
Deborah Giaschi Faculty Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Director of Operations, Child and Family Research Imaging Facility, BC Children's Hospital, Professor
Bryan Gick Co-directors, Leadership Department of Linguistics Academic Co-Director, ELIE Research co-Lead, Professor, Simulating Languaging Bodies co-Lead
Michael Griffin Faculty Philosophy Associate Professor
Lee Gunderson Faculty Language & Literacy Education Professor
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Geoff Hall Faculty Psychology Head, Professor
Kathleen Currie Hall Faculty Linguistics Associate Professor
Kiley Hamlin Faculty Psychology Professor
Christopher Hammerly Faculty Department of Linguistics Assistant Professor and Director of the Experimental Linguistics and Fieldwork Lab (ELF-Lab)
Gunnar Ólafur Hansson Faculty Linguistics Associate Professor
Anthony Herdman Leadership, Steering Committee Audiology & Speech Sciences Member, Language Sciences Steering Committee, CoMBo Research co-lead, Associate Professor
Alfred Hermida Faculty School of Journalism, Writing, and Media Professor
Nancy Hermiston Faculty Music Professor
Carla Hudson Kam Leadership, Faculty Linguistics Professor
Bowen Hui Faculty Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics Associate Professor of Teaching
Dallas Hunt Faculty English Language & Literatures Assistant Professor
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Judy Illes Faculty Neurology Professor
Hee Yeon Im Faculty Psychology Assistant Professor
Jahurul Islam Faculty, Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Linguistics Lecturer
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Lorienne Jenstad Faculty Audiology & Speech Sciences Associate Professor
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Anusha Kassan Faculty Educational & Counselling Psychology, & Special Education Associate Professor
Ryuko Kubota Faculty Language & Literacy Education Professor
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Laks V.S. Lakshmanan Faculty Department of Computer Science Professor
Zoe Lam Faculty Asian Studies Lecturer
Caroline Lebrec Faculty French, Hispanic & Italian Studies Assistant Professor of Teaching
Neil Leveridge Faculty Wood Science Assistant Professor
Guofang Li Co-directors, Leadership Language & Literacy Education Academic Co-Director (on leave), Enhancing Language & Literacy Education co-lead, LST Research co-Lead, Professor
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
John D Madden Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering Professor
Glenda Mason Faculty Audiology & Speech Sciences Instructor
Lisa Matthewson Faculty Linguistics Professor
Patrick Moore Faculty Anthropology Associate Professor
Mónica Morales-Good Faculty Languages and World Literatures Assistant Professor of Teaching
Anne Murphy Faculty History Associate Professor
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Raymond Ng Leadership, Faculty Computer Science Member, Language Sciences Steering Committee, Mapping Language Acquisition and Decline Lead, Professor
Elena Nicoladis Faculty Psychology Professor
Garrett Joseph Nicolai Faculty Department of Linguistics Assistant Professor of Teaching
Elizabeth Nijdam Faculty Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies Assistant Professor
Bonny Norton Faculty Language & Literacy Education LST Research Lead, 2016-2019, Professor
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Juliet O'Brien Faculty French, Hispanic & Italian Studies Lecturer
Darko Odic Faculty Psychology Assistant Professor
Joan Ongchoco Faculty Psychology Assistant Professor
Brianne Orr-Álvarez Faculty French, Hispanic & Italian Studies Assistant Professor of Teaching
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Brenda Poon Faculty Population & Public Health / Wavefront Centre for Communication Accessibility Assistant Professor / Research Division Lead
Ève Poudrier Faculty Assistant Professor
Douglas Pulleyblank Faculty Linguistics Professor
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Estella Qi Faculty Statistics Instructor
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Harini Rajagopal Faculty Language & Literacy Education Assistant Professor
Daisy Rosenblum Leadership, Steering Committee Anthropology, First Nations & Endangered Languages Program Member, Language Sciences Steering Committee, LST Research co-Lead, Supporting Community-Engaged Language Survivance co-lead, Assistant Professor
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Anne Salamon Faculty French, Hispanic & Italian Studies Associate Professor
Murray Schellenberg Faculty Linguistics Research and Archives Manager
Patricia Shaw Faculty Anthropology, First Nations & Endangered Languages Program Professor Emerita
Vered Shwartz Faculty Computer Science Assistant Professor
Stacey Skoretz Faculty Audiology & Speech Sciences Assistant Professor
Douglas Sladen Faculty School of Audiology & Speech Sciences Associate Professor
Jeff Small Faculty Audiology & Speech Sciences Professor
Elise Stickles Faculty English Language & Literatures Assistant Professor
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Anne-Michelle Tessier Faculty Linguistics Associate Professor
Mark Turin Faculty Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies Associate Professor
Heidi Tworek Faculty History / Public Policy Associate Professor
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Manuela Ungureanu Faculty Economics, Philosophy, and Political Science Associate Professor
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Leigh VanHandel Faculty Music Associate Professor of Music Theory
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Qian Wang Faculty Asian Studies Associate Professor of Teaching
Janet Werker Leadership, Faculty Psychology CoMBo Research co-lead, Enhancing Language & Literacy Education co-lead, Professor
Meike Wernicke Faculty Language & Literacy Education Assistant Professor
Melanie Wong Faculty Department of Language and Literacy Education Associate Professor of Teaching
Todd Woodward Faculty Psychiatry Professor
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Dongwook Yoon Faculty Computer Science Assistant Professor
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Jian Zhu Faculty Department of Linguistics Assistant Professor

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

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Research Excellence Clusters at UBC Vancouver are funded through the Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters program.

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