Student Members

Our student members are Masters and PhD students from the UBC Vancouver and Okanagan campuses.  They span departments across the Faculty of Arts, Applied Science, Science, Medicine, Education, and Business.  Learn more about them below.

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Name Department or Unit Position Email
Kamal Abou Mikhael English Language & Literatures PhD Student, Research Assistant
Ifeoluwanimi Adebara Linguistics PhD Student
Asma Afreen Language & Literacy Education PhD Student
Max Ahluwalia Department of Linguistics Graduate Student
Samuel Akinbo Linguistics PhD Candidate
Ryosuke Aoyama Department of Language and Literacy Education PhD Student
Ana Laura Arrieta Zamudio Linguistics PhD Student
Alex Ayala Department of Linguistics PhD Student
B
Name Department or Unit Position Email
Opelo Badubi Department of Language and Literacy Education Ph.D Student
Erfan Bidabadi Department of Language and Literacy Education Graduate Student
Heather Burge Anthropology PhD Candidate
C
Name Department or Unit Position Email
Jennifer Campbell Psychology Post graduate research assistant
Douglas Chan Department of Linguistics Graduate Student
Sylvia Chan School of Audiology & Speech Sciences PhD Candidate
Ashley Chand Audiology & Speech Sciences MSc Student
Kristina Chang School of Audiology & Speech Sciences MSc Student
Katy Chen School of Audiology and Speech Sciences Graduate Student
Linda Chen Psychiatry Research Assistant
Wei-Rui Chen Department of Linguistics PhD Student
Emily Comeau Community, Culture & Global Studies PhD Candidate
D
Name Department or Unit Position Email
Deea Dev Graduate Student, Post graduate research assistant
Erica Dharmawan Psychology PhD Student
Liam Doherty Language & Literacy Education PhD Candidate
Denitza Dramkin Psychology PhD Candidate
E
Name Department or Unit Position Email
Nicole Ebbutt Speech Sciences
F
Name Department or Unit Position Email
Chinazam Faith Okeke Department of Language and Literacy Education Graduate Student
Jonathan Ferreira Department of Language and Literacy Education PhD Candidate
Sonja Fougére Linguistics PhD Student
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Name Department or Unit Position Email
Yoriko Gillard Language & Literacy Education PhD Student
Michelle Gilman Language & Literacy Education PhD Student
Erin Guntly Linguistics PhD Candidate
Charu Gupta Department of Language and Literacy Education PhD Student
H
Name Department or Unit Position Email
Ean Henninger Library, Archival & Information Studies MLIS Student
Tomoharu Hirota English Language & Literatures PhD Student
Shanelle Huberdeau-Haliuk French, Hispanic & Italian Studies Graduate Student
Marianne Huijsmans Linguistics PhD Candidate
J
Name Department or Unit Position Email
Ganesh Jawahar Computer Science PhD Student
Xuejun (Ryan) Ji Educational & Counselling Psychology, & Special Education Member, Language Sciences Steering Committee, PhD Student
Khia Johnson Linguistics PhD Student
K
Name Department or Unit Position Email
Mitchi Kamigaki-Baron Department of Linguistics PhD Student
Fiana Kawane English Language & Literatures PhD Candidate
Jules Koostachin Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice PhD Candidate
Aaditya Kulkarni Linguistics PhD Student
L
Name Department or Unit Position Email
Ilse Labuschagne School of Audiology & Speech Sciences PhD Candidate
Jade LaFontaine Department of Language and Literacy Education PhD Student
Veronika Larsen English Language & Literatures PhD Student
Sarah Elysia Leif Moar English MA Student
Yoann Léveillé Department of Linguistics Graduate Student, PhD Student
Suyuan Liu Linguistics PhD Student
Yadong Liu Linguistics PhD Student
Line Lloy Department of Linguistics Graduate Student
Roger Lo Linguistics PhD Candidate
Noah Luntzlara Department of Linguistics PhD Student
M
Name Department or Unit Position Email
Andy Ma Educational & Counselling Psychology, & Special Education MA Student
Katie Martin Linguistics MA Student
Alicia Matthews English Graduate Student
Firth McEachern Department of Language and Literacy Education Graduate Student
Gloria Mellesmoen Linguistics PhD Candidate
Debasish Ray Mohapatra Electrical & Computer Engineering MASc Student
Angela Moon Language & Literacy Education PhD Candidate
Psyfun Mustary English Language & Literatures PhD Student
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Name Department or Unit Position Email
Sander Nederveen Department of Linguistics PhD Candidate
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Name Department or Unit Position Email
Claudia Beth Ong Department of Linguistics Graduate Student
P
Name Department or Unit Position Email
Raymond Pai Asian Studies / Language & Literacy Education Lecturer / PhD Student
R
Name Department or Unit Position Email
Shadi Rezaei French, Hispanic & Italian Studies PhD Student
Mirta Roncagalli French, Hispanic & Italian Studies PhD Candidate
Huma Roshan Department of Language and Literacy Education
Alex Ross Department of Language and Literacy Education PhD Student
S
Name Department or Unit Position Email
Emily Sadlier-Brown Linguistics PhD Candidate
Pramod Sah Language & Literacy Education PhD Candidate
Pramit Saha Electrical & Computer Engineering MASc Student, Graduate Research Assistant
Victoria Sear Anthropology PhD Student
Arian Shamei Department of Linguistics PhD Candidate
Monica Shank Lauwo Language & Literacy Education Member, Language Sciences Steering Committee, PhD Student
Prakul Sharma Department of Linguistics Graduate Research Assistant, Graduate Student
Rachel Soo Linguistics PhD Candidate
Venkata Praneeth Srungarapu Electrical & Computer Engineering MASc Student
Anna Stacey Department of Linguistics Graduate Student, MA Student
Zhuo Sun Language & Literacy Education PhD Candidate
T
Name Department or Unit Position Email
Hongyang Tao Asian Studies PhD Candidate, Sessional Lecturer
Serikbolsyn Tastanbek Department of Language and Literacy Education Ph.D Student
Oksana Tkachman Linguistics PhD Candidate
Elif Tutku Tunalı Psychology Graduate Student
V
Name Department or Unit Position Email
Sara Van Dan Acker Language & Literacy Education PhD Student
Sara Vieira Community, Culture & Global Studies PhD Candidate
Martina Volfova Anthropology PhD Candidate
W
Name Department or Unit Position Email
Regina Wenk School of Audiology & Speech Sciences MSc Student
Clare Wiznura Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies MA Student, Research Assistant
Phoebe Wong Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program Ph.D Student and Audiologist
Y
Name Department or Unit Position Email
Masaru Yamamoto Department of Language and Literacy Education PhD Candidate
Xing (Ezra) Yu School of Population and Public Health MSc Student
Z
Name Department or Unit Position Email
Chiyu Zhang School of Information PhD Student
Qinghe Zhang MA Student
Xuan Zhang Audiology & Speech Sciences PhD Candidate
Tianyi Zheng Educational & Counselling Psychology, & Special Education MA Student
Kate Zhou Department of Linguistics

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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