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 Leadership, Steering Committee Computer Science, Linguistics Associate Professor, ELIE Research co-Lead, Language Sciences Steering Committee
Kathryn Accurso Faculty Language & Literacy Education Assistant Professor of Teaching
Marlene Asselin Faculty Language & Literacy Education Associate Professor
Susan Atkey Faculty Library Humanities and Social Sciences Librarian
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
Anthony Bailey Faculty Psychiatry Professor
Roberta Ballarin Faculty Philosophy Associate Professor
Steven Barnes Faculty Psychology Associate Professor of Teaching
Andrew Baron Faculty Psychology Associate Professor
Paul Bartha Faculty Philosophy Head, Professor
Matt Bedke Faculty Philosophy Professor
Billy-Ray Belcourt Faculty School of Creative Writing Assistant Professor, Indigenous Creative Writing
Izak Benbasat Faculty Management Systems Division Emeritus Professor
Barbara May Bernhardt Faculty Audiology & Speech Sciences Emerita Professor
Susan Birch Faculty Psychology Associate Professor
Alexis Black Faculty School of Audiology & Speech Sciences Assistant Professor
Heather Bliss Faculty Linguistics Adjunct Professor
Ryan Bochnak Faculty Linguistics Assistant Professor
Marie-Eve Bouchard Faculty French, Hispanic & Italian Studies Assistant Professor
Alexandre Bouchard-Côté Faculty Statistics Associate Professor
Monique Bournot-Trites Faculty Language & Literacy Education Associate Professor
Katherine Bowers Faculty Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies Associate 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
Joanna Cannon Faculty Educational & Counselling Psychology, & Special Education Associate Professor
Luisa Canuto Faculty French, Hispanic & Italian Studies Assistant Professor of Teaching
Maria Carbonetti Faculty French, Hispanic & Italian Studies Lecturer
Amanda Cardoso Faculty Linguistics Lecturer
Giuseppe Carenini Faculty Computer Science Professor
Wendy Carr Faculty Language & Literacy Education Associate Dean, Teacher Education, Professor of Teaching
Diana Carter Faculty Languages and World Literatures Associate Professor of Teaching
Anna Casas Aguilar Faculty French, Hispanic & Italian Studies Assistant Professor
Jessica Chan Faculty Language Arts and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education, Okanagan School of Education Assistant Professor
Sylvia Cho Faculty Department of Linguistics PhD Candidate, Sessional Lecturer
Sonam Chusang Faculty Asian Studies Adjunct Professor
Valter Ciocca Faculty Audiology & Speech Sciences Professor
Paola Colozzo Faculty Audiology & Speech Sciences Associate Professor
Meghan Corella Faculty Language & Literacy Education Assistant Professor
Daniel W. Cox Faculty Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education Associate Professor, Myrne B. Nevison Professor of Counselling Psychology
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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 Assistant Professor
Henry Davis Faculty Linguistics Professor
Rose-Marie Déchaine Faculty Linguistics Associate Professor
Isabelle Delage-Béland Faculty French, Hispanic & Italian Studies Lecturer
Ruth Derksen Faculty Civil Engineering Senior Instructor Emerita
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
Jessica de Villiers Faculty English Language & Literatures Associate Professor
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Margaret Early Faculty Language & Literacy Education Associate Professor
Lauren Emberson Faculty Psychology Assistant Professor
James Enns Faculty Psychology Distinguished University Scholar, 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
Alfredo Ferreira Faculty Academic English Program, Vantage College Lecturer
Thalia Field Faculty Neurology Associate Professor
Kyle Frackman Faculty Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies 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
Grisel García Pérez Faculty Languages and World Literatures Associate Professor
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
Dave Gilbert Faculty Philosophy Instructor
John Gilbert Faculty College of Health Disciplines, School of Audiology & Speech Sciences Emeritus Professor, Founding Director, Founding Principal
Janet Giltrow Faculty English Language & Literatures Professor Emerita
Julia Gordon Faculty Mathematics Associate Professor
David Gramling Faculty Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies Professor, Head
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
Judith Hall Faculty Medical Genetics Emerita Professor
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
Tami Howe Faculty Audiology & Speech Sciences Assistant Professor
Carla Hudson Kam Faculty Linguistics Professor
Bowen Hui Faculty Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics Associate Professor of Teaching
Dallas Hunt Faculty English Language & Literatures Assistant Professor
Suzanne Huot Faculty Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy 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
Rajeev Jaiman Faculty Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor
Carrie Jenkins Faculty Philosophy Professor
Jen Jenson Faculty Language & Literacy Education Professor, Digital Languages, Literacies and Cultures
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
Michael Kobor Faculty Medical Genetics Professor
Varada Kolhatkar Faculty Computer Science Assistant Professor of Teaching
Ryuko Kubota Faculty Language & Literacy Education Professor
Helena G Kudzia Faculty Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies Sessional Instructor
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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
Mathias Lécuyer Faculty Computer Science Assistant Professor
Neil Leveridge Faculty Wood Science Assistant Professor
Guofang Li Co-directors, Leadership Language & Literacy Education Co-Director, Language Sciences Initiative, Enhancing Language & Literacy Education co-lead, LST Research co-Lead, Professor
Jason Lieblang Faculty Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies Associate Professor of Teaching
Suyuan Liu Steering Committee, Student Member Linguistics PhD Student
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Karon MacLean Faculty Computer Science Professor
John D Madden Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering Professor
Ervin Malakaj Faculty Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies Assistant Professor
Haykaz Mangardich Faculty Psychology Postdoctoral Fellow
Eric Margolis Faculty Philosophy Professor
Stefka H. Marinova-Todd Faculty School of Audiology & Speech Sciences Associate Professor
Glenda Mason Faculty Audiology & Speech Sciences Instructor
Lisa Matthewson Faculty Linguistics Professor
Lillian May Faculty Psychology Lecturer
Joanna McGrenere Faculty Computer Science Professor
Patrick Moore Faculty Anthropology Associate Professor
Mónica Morales-Good Faculty Languages and World Literatures Assistant Professor of Teaching
Olena Morozova Faculty Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies Assistant Professor
Shaylih Muehlmann Faculty Anthropology Associate Professor
Anne Murphy Faculty History Associate Professor
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Carolina A. Navarrete Faculty Liu Institute for Global Issues Postdoctoral Fellow
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
Desmond Nunez Faculty Surgery Associate 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
Brianne Orr-Álvarez Faculty French, Hispanic & Italian Studies Assistant Professor of Teaching
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Raymond Pai Faculty, Student Member Asian Studies / Language & Literacy Education Lecturer / PhD Student
Jungyeul Park Faculty Department of Linguistics Lecturer
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
J. Patrick Raftery Faculty Music Assistant Professor
Harini Rajagopal Faculty Language & Literacy Education Assistant Professor
Rebecca Reh Faculty Psychology Postdoctoral Fellow
Urs Ribary Faculty Psychiatry Professor
Caroline Rieger Faculty Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies Associate 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
Claudia Ruitenberg Faculty Educational Studies Professor Philosophy of Education
Hotze Rullmann Faculty Linguistics Associate 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
Mark Schmidt Faculty Computer Science Associate Professor
Christine Schreyer Leadership, Faculty Community, Culture & Global Studies Acting Academic Co-Director, Associate Professor, Interim Language Sciences Co-Director, Supporting Community-Engaged Language Survivance co-lead
Patricia Shaw Faculty Anthropology, First Nations & Endangered Languages Program Professor Emerita
Alla Sheffer Faculty Department of Computer Science Professor
Vered Shwartz Faculty Computer Science Assistant Professor
Linda Siegel Faculty Educational & Counselling Psychology, & Special Education Emerita Professor
Ori Simchen Faculty Philosophy Professor
Luanne Sinnamon Faculty School of Information Associate 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
Márton Sóskuthy Faculty Linguistics Assistant Professor
Valia Spiliotopoulos Faculty Language & Literacy Education Assistant Professor of Teaching
Elise Stickles Faculty English Language & Literatures Assistant Professor
A. Jon Stoessl Faculty Neurology Head, Professor
James Stratton Faculty English Language & Literatures Assistant Professor
Xin Sun Steering Committee, Postdoctoral Fellow Psychology Postdoctoral Fellow
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Anne-Michelle Tessier Faculty Linguistics Associate Professor
Mark Turin Faculty Anthropology, First Nations & Endangered Languages Program 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
Shannon Ward Faculty Community, Culture & Global Studies Assistant Professor
Janet Werker Leadership, Faculty Psychology CoMBo Research co-lead, Enhancing Language & Literacy Education co-lead, Professor
Meike Wernicke Faculty Language & Literacy Education Assistant Professor
Rozanne Wilson Faculty Audiology & Speech Sciences Research Manager
Martina Wiltschko Faculty, Affiliate ICREA Research Professor
Melanie Wong Faculty Department of Language and Literacy Education Assistant Professor of Teaching
Todd Woodward Faculty Psychiatry Professor
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Florence Yoon Faculty Classical, Near Eastern, & Religious Studies Assistant Professor
Dongwook Yoon Faculty Computer Science Assistant Professor
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Name Profile Category Department or Unit Position Email
Sandra Zappa-Hollman Faculty Language & Literacy Education Assistant Professor
Sherri Zelazny Faculty School of Audiology & Speech Sciences Clinical Supervisor / Registered Speech-Language Pathologist
Jiaying Zhao Faculty Psychology, Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability Associate Professor
Jian Zhu Faculty Department of Linguistics Assistant Professor

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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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