Faculty
Faculty listing for Women's and Gender Studies:
Program Coordinator
Beeler, Dr. Karin
PhD, MA (University of Alberta)
Coordinator, Women's and Gender Studies
Chair, English
Email: karin.beeler@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-6640
Office: 3-3062
Campus: Prince George
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 courses, video conference and audio conference technology. Dr. Beeler has been President, Vice-President and Treasurer of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association. When not occupied with academic activities, she enjoys acting in community theatre and participating with her dogs at various dog events.
Faculty
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PhD, MA (University of Alberta)
- Coordinator, Women's and Gender Studies
- Chair, English
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, MES, BA
- Professor
Phone:250-960-6649Email:Supervises in: PhD NRES ; MA NRES Environmental Studies ; MNRES Math & Physics ; MSc NRES Environmental Science
I hold a PhD in Land Resources from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1992), where I studied environmental ethics, Native American Studies, eco-feminism and bio-regionalism, among other things. I also have a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University in Ontario (1985), where I studied... more -
PhD (Western Ontario), MA (Carleton)
- Assistant Professor
Email:Office Number:CJMH-3086Supervises in: English
Christine Campana completed her PhD at Western University in 2023. Her doctoral research examined the work of Indigenous, diasporic, and white settler women writers who travel through and away from Canada to illuminate the ways that poetry can reveal how different forms of movement are foundational... 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 (McGill University)
- Associate Professor (on sabbatical)
Phone:250-960-6633Email: -
PhD (York University), MA (University of Western Ontario)
- Assistant Professor
Phone:250-960-5759Email:Office Number:CJMH-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 (University of Toronto), MA (Western University)
- Professor
Phone:250-960-6642Email:Office Number:CJMH-3072Supervises in: English ; Gender Studies
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PhD
- Assistant Professor
Phone:250-960-5936Email:Office Number:10-3058Dr. Theresa Healy has lived and worked in Northern BC since 1994 holding a variety of appointments at UNBC since her arrival. She has a wide range of experiences with community engagement and community-based research related to healthy community development. She considers herself fortunate to have... more -
PhD (Emory), MA, BA (Simon Fraser University)
- Professor
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 (Wageningen University)
- Assistant Professor
Email:Office Number:CJMH-3005Supervises in: International Studies ; Gender Studies
Hello, my name is Luna K C; I’m an Assistant Professor in Global International Studies at the Faculty of Indigenous Studies, Social Sciences and Humanities. Prior to my current role, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Research Network on Women, Peace and Security, the Centre for International... more -
PhD, Human and Health Sciences; MA, First Nations Studies; BSc, Psychology
- Assistant Professor
Phone:250-960-6690Email:Office Number:CJMH-3059Dr. Jessie King, Hadiksm Gaax, is Gitxaała Git Lax M’oon, people of the salt water where her family traces her wil’naat’al (matriline) to Lach Klan while also honouring the Irish/Scottish lineage from her Father. Her family belongs to the Ganhada (Raven Clan). Born and raised in Prince Rupert,... more -
Phone:250-960-5641Email:Office Number:ADM 3070 -
PhD (University of British Columbia), MA (Simon Fraser University), BSW (University of Calgary), BA (Brandon University)
- Associate Professor
- Chair, Global and International Studies
- Co-Chair, International Studies Graduate Program
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 -
RSW, BA Honours (Guelph), MSW (Wilfred Laurier), PhD (OISE Toronto)
- Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Cell:778-988-5117Email:Office Number:Room 10-2550Website: -
BA Geography (University of Calgary), MA, PhD (Queen's University at Kingston, 2000)
- Professor, Geography
- Department Chair, Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Phone:250-960-5875Cell:250-961-5875Email:Office Number:Teaching Lab 8-148Website:Supervises in: PhD NRES ; MA NRES Geography ; MA Interdisciplinary Studies
I am a social geographer with two broad areas of research interest that connect in many ways and often overlap: Guatemala/Violence/Development/Justice and Migration/Transnationalism/Refugee Studies. I am a Professor of Geography and Chair of the Department of Geography, Earth and Environmental... 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 -
- Associate Professor
- Chair, Anthropology
Phone:250-960-6492Email: -
PhD, MA, BA (University of Toronto)
- Professor
- Departments Chair, History
Phone:250-960-5706Office Number:Admin 3010Supervises in: MA History ; MA Gender Studies
Professors Emeriti
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MSc, MSW (UNBC), RSW, BA (SFU)
- Professor Emerita
Email: dawn.hemingway@unbc.ca -
PhD (Dalhousie University); MA (University of Guelph); MA (University of Sussex); BA Hons (University of Guelph)
- Professor Emeritus
Phone: 250-960-6660Email: macphail@unbc.caOffice Number: CJMH-3055Areas of expertise: Paid and unpaid work, gender, and public policy; poverty and inequalities; resource extraction and just transition alternatives; precarious work and the gig economy.
