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

  • Dr. Sherry Beaumont
    PhD (University of Waterloo), DVATI, RCC
    • Professor

    Supervises in: MSc Psychology ; PhD Psychology ; MA Gender Studies

    Dr. Beaumont has been a faculty member in the UNBC Department of Psychology since 1994 and is currently a Full Professor with expertise in developmental, positive, and existential psychology. She was one of the first Canadian university professors to develop an undergraduate course in positive... more

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  • PhD, MA (University of Alberta)
    • Coordinator, Women's and Gender Studies
    • Chair, English
    Phone:
    250-960-6640
    Office Number:
    3-3062

    Supervises 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

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  • Dr. Annie Booth
    PhD, MES, BA, MCIP, RPP
    • Professor
    Phone:
    250-960-6649

    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

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  • PhD (University of Sussex, UK), MSW (University of Calgary)
    • Assistant Professor
    Phone:
    250-960-6015

    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

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  • PhD, MA (McMaster); BA (Guelph)
    • Professor, English
    Phone:
    250-960-5364
    Office Number:
    CJMH-3053
    Dr. Lisa Dickson is a professor of English specializing in Renaissance Literature and Literary Theory. Her current research focuses on the relationship between beauty and violence in art and literature, with particular emphasis on the representation of violence in Renaissance Drama. She is a 3M... more

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  • Annie Duchesne
    PhD (McGill University)
    • Associate Professor (on sabbatical)
    Phone:
    250-960-6633

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  • PhD (York University), MA (University of Western Ontario)
    • Assistant Professor
    Phone:
    250-960-5759
    Office Number:
    CJMH-3092

    Supervises 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

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  • PhD (University of Toronto), MA (Western University)
    • Professor
    Phone:
    250-960-6642
    Office Number:
    CJMH-3072

    Supervises in: English ; Gender Studies

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  • Theresa Healy
    PhD
    • Assistant Professor
    Phone:
    250-960-5936
    Office Number:
    10-3058
    Dr. 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

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  • PhD (Emory), MA, BA (Simon Fraser University)
    • Professor
    Phone:
    250-960-6343
    Office Number:
    CJMH-3003

    Supervises 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

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  • PhD, MA (Wageningen University)
    • Assistant Professor
    Office Number:
    CJMH-3005
    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

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  • Dr. Fiona MacPhail
    PhD (Dalhousie University); MA (University of Guelph); MA (University of Sussex); BA Hons (University of Guelph)
    • Professor
    Phone:
    250-960-6660
    Office Number:
    CJMH-3055

    Supervises in: MA International Studies ; MA Development Economics

    I am a Professor of Economics with primary teaching areas in Labour Economics, Women and the Economy, and Poverty, Inequality and Development. In teaching economics, I strive to help students investigate contemporary issues using multiple economic perspectives and taking account of institutional... more

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  • Indrani Margolin
    RSW, BA Honours (Guelph), MSW (Wilfred Laurier), PhD (OISE Toronto)
    • Associate Professor, School of Social Work
    Cell:
    778-988-5117
    Office Number:
    Room 10-2550

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  • Catherine Nolin
    BA Geography (University of Calgary), MA, PhD (Queen's University at Kingston, 2000)
    • Professor, Geography
    • Department Chair, Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
    Phone:
    250-960-5875
    Cell:
    250-961-5875
    Office Number:
    Teaching Lab 8-148

    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

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  • PhD University of Saskatchewan, PhD Ukrainian National Academy of Arts and Sciences, MA Chernivtsi State University
    • Professor
    Phone:
    250-960-6658
    Cell:
    250-617-7783
    Office Number:
    ADM 3079

    Supervises 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

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  • Angele Smith
    • Associate Professor
    • Chair, Anthropology
    Phone:
    250-960-6492

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  • PhD, MA, BA (University of Toronto)
    • Professor
    • Departments Chair, History
    Phone:
    250-960-5706
    Office Number:
    Admin 3010

    Supervises in: MA History ; MA Gender Studies

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