UVic Participants

The program draws on a wide base of research and teaching at UVic.

Three participating Faculties

• Humanities
• Human and Social Development
• Social Sciences

Eight Participating Departments

• Anthropology
• Child and Youth Care
• History
• Philosophy
• Political Science
• Social Work
• Sociology
• Women’s Studies

Five Collaborating Programs

• Indigenous Studies
• Environmental Studies
• Leadership Studies
• Studies in Policy and Practice
• Religious Studies

Forty-six Participating Faculty Members

The faculty listed below participate in Social Justice Studies through teaching core or elective courses in the program.

Name	Department	Areas of Interest
Heather Botting	Anthropology	social justice, First Nations, applied anthropology
Margo Matwychuk	Anthropology	power, feminism, global inequality
Lisa M. Mitchell	Anthropology	gender, age, poverty, power
Peter Stephenson	Anthropology	health, marginalization
Sibylle Artz	Child and Youth Care	social justice in action, gender and aggression, homeless families
Sandrina de Finney	Child and Youth Care	participatory and change-centred practice and research, Indigenous research, girlhood studies
Veronica Pecini-Ketchabaw	Child and Youth Care	children and racialization, participatory action research, practices and racialization
Alan Pence	Child and Youth Care	social equity and social justice issues as they relate to children, cross-cultural and majority world issues
Jin-Sun Yoon	Child and Youth Care	anti-racism education, cross-cultural counselling, ethnic identity development
Richard Pickard	English	Ecocriticism and the literature/environment relationship
James Rowe	Environmental Studies	corporate social responsibility, sustainable economies, neoliberalism, social movements, root causes of injustice
Karena Shaw	Environmental Studies	political ecology, local/global environmental governance, political theory, indigenous politics, sustainable energy systems
Moussa Magassa	Equity and Human Rights	human rights, diversity education, immigration and refugee studies, cross-cultural and intercultural communication, conflict resolution
Lynne Marks	History	gender history, history of sexuality and religion
Andrea McKenzie	History	17/18th century English legal, social and cultural history, including crime, felony and treason trials and executions and early modern criminal literature
Christine O'Bonsawin	History and Indigenous Studies	Indigenous Studies, race and sport, sport and Olympic history
Rick Rajala	History	environmental history, labour history
Eric Sager	History	Power, Protest and Resistance in 20th Century Canada
Elizabeth Vibert	History	historical understandings of race
Darlene Clover	Leadership Studies, Faculty of Education	feminist pedagogy, women in leadership, community arts and adult education
Catherine McGregor	Leadership Studies, Faculty of Education	civic agency, aesthetic production and social change, democratic and social justice leadership, gender and leadership
Alison Preece	Curriculum and Instruction, Faculty of Education
Cindy Holder	Philosophy	group rights, international law, feminist philosophy
Colin MacLeod	Philosophy	distributive justice, equality, children’s rights
Janni Aragon	Political Science	gender and politics, feminist theories and methodolgies, social movements, youth and politics, transnational feminisms
Marlea Clarke	Political Science	development, African politics, labour and social movements, gender and politics, health and human rights
Avigail Eisenberg	Political Science	minority rights, gender and politics
Matt James	Political Science	social movements and citizenship, reparations
Jamie Lawson	Political Science	environmental justice, land and resource politics
Feng Xu	Political Science	Chinese politics, comparative politics (East Asia); gender politics (especially East Asia); migration and citizenship; national and diaspora identities; policy ideas, translation theory and global hegemony.
Martin Adam	Religious Studies	nonviolence, Gandhi
Leslie Brown	Social Work	Indigenous governance and community practice, critical research methods and child welfare
Catherine Richardson	Social Work	Indigenous resistance, decolonizing approaches to social work, response-based practice
Allan Wade	Social Work	microanalysis, resistance to violence/oppression, therapeutic interviewing, language and violence
Bill Carroll	Sociology	social inequality, social movements, critical methods and theory
Steve Garlick	Sociology	sociology of gender and sexuality, critical social theory
Helga Kristin Hallgrimsdottir	Sociology	social inequality, social movements, labour movements, work and vulnerable populations
Sean Hier	Sociology	racism, social change, surveillance, moral regulation
Martha McMahon	Sociology	feminism theory, environment and environmental justice, food and agriculture, ecological feminism
Peyman Vahabzadeh	Sociology	social movements, social theory, hegemony, phenomenology of justice
Lyn Davis	Studies in Policy and Practice, HSD	lesbian, queer, and transgender issues, housing, homelessness, marginalization, liberatory and de-colonizing research methodologies
Pamela Moss	Studies in Policy and Practice, HSD	feminism, women, illness, disability, space
Michael J. Prince	Studies in Policy and Practice, HSD	Canadian social policy, disability movement, Canadian state/Aboriginal government relations
Budd Hall	School of Public Administration, HSD	community-based research, international community development, community-university engagement, social movements
Connie Carter	Women's Studies and Sociology	Sessional Instructor
Jo-Anne Lee	Women’s Studies	anti-racist feminism, participatory action research, transnational migration, Asian Canadian studies
Annalee Lepp	Women’s Studies	law, human trafficking
Laura Parisi	Women’s Studies	gender, development and the environment, gender and human rights
Georgia Sitara	Women's Studies	Animal Rights, Feminist Ethics, Social Justice
Heather Tapley	Women’s Studies	queer studies, class