Our faculty
View a complete list of our faculty below:
Faculty
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PhD, MA (University of Alberta)
- Professor
- Department Chair, English
- Acting Chair, First Nations Studies
Phone:250-960-6640Email:Office Number:3-3062Supervises in: MA ; BA English ; MA Gender Studies
Karin Beeler is one of UNBC's founding faculty members and has contributed to the development of the university as an administrator for various units and served on the boards of several community organizations. She has taught courses with a wide range of delivery methods including online/web... more -
PhD (University of Alberta), MA (Université Laval), BA (University of Toronto)
- Professor
- Secretary, Institute for Social Research
- Program Committee Member, Northern Studies
Phone:250-960-5643Cell:236-550-2822Email:Office Number:CJMH-3061Supervises in: MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Born and raised in a French-speaking community in Northern Alberta in the shadow of the historical fur economy, he has researched ethnicity and nationalism, particularly in Eastern Europe and Russia. He has studied the history of French-speaking populations in Western North America in the 18th and... more -
PhD, MA, BSc
- Professor
Phone:250-960-6648Email:Website: -
PhD (Queen's University); MA (University of Victoria); BA Hons (Simon Fraser University)
- Assistant Professor
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PhD (University of Calgary); MA, BEd (University of Manitoba)
- Professor (on sabbatical)
Phone:250-960-6693Cell:25-552-7384Email:Office Number:CJMH-3016Supervises in: MA English
Rob Budde teaches Creative Writing and Canadian Literature. He has published eight books (poetry, novels, interviews, and short fiction) and appeared in numerous literary magazines including Canadian Literature, The Capilano Review, West Coast Line, Dusie, ditch, filling Station, Prairie Fire,... more -
PhD (University of Sussex, UK), MSW (University of Calgary)
- Assistant Professor
Phone:250-960-6015Email:Supervises in: International Studies
My research focuses on the political economy of conflict, peace-building, and development (with a focus on education development); the relationships between environmental and climate change, water, and insecurity (including implications for conflict and migration); and experiences of violence in... more -
PhD, MEDes (University of Calgary), BA (Athabasca University)
- Associate Professor, Political Science
- Acting Chair, Anthropology
Phone:250-960-5662Email:Office Number:CJMH-3076Supervises in: Political Science
I joined the faculty of UNBC in 2000 after a SSHRC post-doc at UBC. I completed my PhD in Political Science in 1998 and my Masters in Environmental Science in 1994. -
- Senior Instructor
Phone:250-960-5593Email: -
PhD (Emory), MA, BA (Simon Fraser University)
- Chair, Global and International Studies
- Professor
- Program Coordinator, Women's and Gender Studies
Phone:250-960-6343Email:Office Number:CJMH-3003Supervises in: MA History ; MA Gender Studies ; MA Interdisciplinary Studies ; MA International Studies
Dr. Jacqueline Holler is an historian of early colonial Mexico who also teaches contemporary Latin American history and teaches and conducts research in the area of Gender Studies. She is author and co-author of books, chapters, and articles on colonial Latin American history and contemporary... more -
PhD, MA (McMaster University); BA Hons (University of Guelph)
- Professor
- University Research Chair
Phone:250-960-6621Email:Office Number:CJMH-3024Supervises in: MA English ; MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Kevin Hutchings is Professor of English and a UNBC University Research Chair. A past winner of the UNBC Award for Excellence in Teaching, and a two-time Canada Research Chair holder, he teaches British Romantic literatures, nineteenth-century Indigenous literatures, postcolonial literatures,... more -
PhD, Human and Health Sciences; MA, First Nations Studies; BSc, Psychology
- Assistant Professor
Phone:250-960-6690Email:Office Number:CJMH-3059Jessie is Tsimshian (T'symsen), with matrilineal ties to Gitxaala (Kitkatla). She grew up in Prince Rupert and moved to Lheidli T’enneh territory in 2005 after a year-long student exchange program in Västerås, Sweden. Jessie has her BSc in Psychology, MA in First Nations Studies, and PhD in... more -
PhD Monash University
- Senior Instructor
Phone:250-960-5597Email:Supervises in: Political Science ; International Studies
Dr. Lacharite is a Senior Instructor in the Department of Political Science at UNBC. He has a PhD in Political Science from Monash University's School of Political and Social Inquiry, Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Lacharite's teaching and research interests include, but are not limited to, Canadian and... more -
Phone:250-960-5641Email:Office Number:ADM 3070
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PhD (University of British Columbia), MA (Simon Fraser University), BSW (University of Calgary), BA (Brandon University)
- Assistant Professor
Phone:250-960-6482Cell:778-789-1168Email:Office Number:CJMH-3058Dr. Fiona MacDonald (PhD UBC) is an Assistant Professor specializing in Gender Politics. Dr. MacDonald co-edited the Finding Feminisms special issue of the Canadian Journal of Political Science (June 2017) which includes her article, “Knocking Down Walls in Political Science: In Defense of an... more -
- Assistant Professor
- Program Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Studies
Phone:250-960-5801Email:Office Number:CJMH-3077Supervises in: English ; Interdisciplinary Studies
Monica Mattfeld is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia. She has written on the history of animal and human disability in “Animal” (Bloosmbury, 2021) and on horse-human relationships and performances of gender in Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century... more -
SFU (BA, Cert. Lib Arts); UNBC (MA)
- Lecturer
Phone:250-960-5931Email:Office Number:ADM-3063Jason Morris has been teaching political science at UNBC since 2004, and is also an alumnus. He has worked in many positions in the so-called “real world” of politics and government. As a political scientist, Jason is interested in the politics of health care. He has researched poverty alleviation... more -
PhD McGill University, MA University of Western Ontario
- Professor
Phone:250-960-6683Email:Office Number:CJMH-3075Supervises in: PhD NRES ; MA NRES ; MA Political Science
Michael earned his PhD in Political Science from Mcgill University, with a specialization in political theory. Following postdoctoral positions at the University of Auckland and Queen's University, Michael taught in the Political Studies department at the University of Otago before joining the... more -
BA, MA, PhD
- Associate Professor
Phone:250-960-5434Website:Supervises in: MA International Studies
Agnieszka (Agnes) Pawlowska-Mainville is an Associate Professor in First Nations Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia. She examines intangible cultural heritage within land-based practices such as customary governance, sustainable livelihoods, food systems, folklore, language... more -
BA (Alberta), MA (Toronto), MA/PhD (Simon Fraser)
- Senior Instructor
Phone:250-960-6691Email:Office Number:CJMH 3008Supervises in: MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Farid is an archaeologist with a wide range of research interests. He has been involved in several archaeological projects throughout the coast and interior of British Columbia, and in Eastern Africa. His current work focuses on the deep Indigenous history of British Columbia, through community... more -
BA, MA - First Nations Studies (UNBC)
- Lecturer
Phone:250-960-5557Email:Office Number:CJMH-3013Traditional name, Dzih Bhen, in the Luk sil yoo or Caribou clan from the Stellat’en Bahlats (potlatch) system. Completed the Master of Arts in First Nations Studies from the University of Northern British Columbia with the help of fellow Stellat’en community members the MA thesis ~ "Stellakoh... more -
PhD (University of British Columbia), MA (University of Northern British Columbia)
- Assistant Professor
Phone:250-960-5294Email:Supervises in: First Nations Studies
Welcome to the Department of First Nations Studies! My name is Dr. Rheanna Robinson. Land acknowledgments are important and I would like to begin by acknowledging the territory of the Lheidli T’enneh Nation where the Prince George campus of UNBC is located and I have had the privilege to live, work... more -
PhD University of Saskatchewan, PhD Ukrainian National Academy of Arts and Sciences, MA Chernivtsi State University
- Professor
Phone:250-960-6658Cell:250-617-7783Email:Office Number:ADM 3079Supervises in: MA English ; MA Gender Studies ; MA Interdisciplinary Studies
Professor Maryna Romanets specializes in contemporary, comparative, postcolonial, world, and women’s literatures, gender, sexuality and cultural studies, and contemporary critical theory. She has published articles and book chapters on the issues of representation and gender, sexual politics,... more -
PhD York University, MA University of Western Ontario
- Assistant Professor
Phone:250-960-5759Cell:519-521-5303Email:Office Number:ADM 3092Supervises in: MA History ; MA Gender Studies
I am an historian of the modern world with specific interest in medicine, professionalization, and education in the modern Middle East. I have a broad training in cultural and social histories accumulated in interdisciplinary environments. My work esteems the intersection between colonialism,... more -
PhD, MA, BA
- Associate Professor
Phone:250-960-5242Email:Office Number:CJMH-3039Supervises in: First Nations Studies ; Interdisciplinary Studies
Born and raised in Prince George, Dr. Daniel Sims is a proud member of the Tsay Keh Dene First Nation. His research focuses on northern British Columbia and he has worked extensively with not only his own community, but also the related communities of Kwadacha and McLeod Lake. Currently he is... more -
PhD & MA (Queen's University) BA (University of Alberta)
- Professor
Email:Office Number:ADM 3080Supervises in: MA International Studies ; MA Gender Studies
Heather A. Smith is Professor of Global and International Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia. I am the recipient of the 3M National Teaching Fellowship (2006), the Canadian Political Science Excellence in Teaching Award (2012), a two time recipient of the UNBC Excellence in... more -
- Professor
- Committee Member, Institute for Social Research
Phone:250-960-5310Email: -
PhD, MA, BA (University of Toronto)
- Professor (on sabbatical)
- Chair, History
Office Number:10-3010Supervises in: MA History ; MA Gender Studies
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BA Hons, Political Science (Carleton); MA, Russian and East European Studies; PhD, Political Science (University of Toronto)
- Professor
- Chair, Political Science
- Program Coordinator, Northern Studies
Phone:250-960-5514Email:Supervises in: Political Science ; International Studies ; Interdisciplinary Studies
Gary N. Wilson is a Professor in the Department of Political Science. He is also the Coordinator of the Northern Studies Program. His research focuses on governance and politics in the Canadian and Circumpolar North, and on the impacts of globalization and political change on communities in... more
