Our dynamic professors have a strong tradition of teaching and mentoring excellent students at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
Our faculty have won numerous Killam Teaching Prize awards, the highest teaching honour bestowed by UBC, as well as several research awards.
Kerry Greer |
Killam Teaching Prize |
2020 |
Renisa Mawani | Association for Asian American Studies,
Outstanding Achievement in History |
2020 |
Thomas Kemple |
Killam Mentoring Prize |
2019 |
Yue Qian |
Alexis Walker Award |
2019 |
Amanda Cheong |
IUSSP CRVS 2019 Fellowship |
2019 |
Sinikka Elliott |
Co-PI of the Russell Sage Foundation, Economic Inequality Grant |
2019-2021 |
Becki Ross |
Angus Reid Practitioners/Applied Sociology Award |
2019 |
Anne Martin-Matthews |
Appointed to Associate Vice-President, Health at UBC |
2019 |
Wendy Roth |
Martha Foschi Award for Excellence in Research and Teaching | 2019 |
Becki Ross |
BC Studies Prize |
2018 |
Amin Ghaziani |
UBC Killam Research Prize | 2018 |
Katherine Lyon |
UBC Vantage One Teaching Award | 2018 |
Lindsey Richardson |
Awarded a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant | 2018-2021 |
Lindsey Richardson |
UBC Community-University Engagement Support Bridge Fund Grant | 2018-2019 |
Qiang Fu |
Elected to the board of directors of International Chinese Sociologists Association | 2018 |
Kerry Greer |
Seeds Grant from the Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning | 2018 |
Thomas Kemple |
Seeds Grant from the Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning | 2018 |
Lindsey Richardson |
Awarded a six-month CIHR Opioid Crisis Knowledge Synthesis Grant | 2018 |
Qiang Fu |
Elected to the board of directors of International Chinese Sociologists Association | 2018 |
Anne Martin-Matthews |
Appointed Officer of the Order of Canada | 2017 |
Anne Martin-Matthews |
Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring (senior category) | 2017 |
Gillian Creese |
Kule Institute for Advanced Studies Cluster Grant | 2017 |
Lindsey Richardson |
Junior Scholar Award in the Section on Alchol, Drugs and Tobacco, at the ASA Conference | 2017 |
Seth Abrutyn |
Best Publication in the Section on Children and Youth at the ASA Conference Best Publication in the Section on Mental Health, ASA | 2017 |
Rima Wilkes | Appointed Incoming President of the Canadian Sociological Association |
2017 |
Neil Guppy |
Appointed Acting Principal of UBC Vantage College |
2017/2018 |
Nathanael Lauster | CSA John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award |
2017 |
Yue Qian |
Hampson Fund Research Grant - New Faculty Award at the University of British Columbia |
2017 |
David B. Tindall |
SSHRC Insigh Research Grant |
2017 |
Rima Wilkes | SSHRC Award funding project entitled "It's a Quesion of Trust: Explaining how Race and Ethnicity Matter" |
2017 |
Sean Lauer | Angus Reid Applied Sociology Award and Good Neighbour Award |
2017 |
Wendy Roth |
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Award |
2017 |
Rima Wilkes |
Martha Foschi Award for Excellence in Research and Teaching |
2017 |
Silvia Bartolic |
Killam Teaching Prize |
2016/2017 |
Catherine Corrigall-Brown |
Killam Teaching Prize |
2016/2017 |
Wendy Roth |
UBC Killam Research Fellowship |
2016 |
Rima Wilkes |
UBC Killam Research Fellowship |
2016 |
Beth Hirsh |
Named Canada Research Chair |
2016 |
Amin Ghaziani |
Named Canada Research Chair |
2016 |
Saleema Noon |
The Order of British Columbia |
2016 |
Anne Martin-Matthews | Shapiro Award for Excellence in Mentoring |
2016 |
Qiang Fu |
Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Grant to Study Urban Transformaion and Neighborhod Engagement in China |
2016 |
Amin Ghaziani |
Honourable Mention for the Community and Urban Sociology section’s Robert Park Award for best book |
2016 |
Sylvia Fuller |
Canadian Review of Sociology Best Article Award |
2016 |
Wendy Roth | CSA Early Investigator Award |
2016 |
Neil Guppy | CSA Outstanding Contribution Award | 2016 |
Lindsey Richardson | UBC Hornby Island Residency | 2016 |
Lindsey Richardson | PWI Solutions supplemental funding from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research | 2016 |
Lindsey Richardson | Peter Wall Solutions Initiative grant entitled Evaluating the impact of alternative social assistance timing on drug-related harm. | 2016 |
Anne Martin-Matthews |
Individual Connection Grant and UBC Hampton Research Endowment Fund Grant | 2016 |
Catherine Corrigall-Brown and Lindsey Richardson | Green College Leading Scholars Nominees. | 2015 |
Wendy Roth | Isis Duarte Prize in Dominican, Haitian, or Dominican-Haitian Transnational Studies from the Latin American Studies Association Haiti-Dominican Republic Section (Race Migrations). | 2015 |
Silvia Bartolic | ASA Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Seed Travel Fund | 2015 |
Amin Ghaziani | Author Meets Critic session, American Sociological Association (There Goes the Gayborhood?) | 2015 |
Amin Ghaziani | Author Meets Critic session, Association of American Geographers (There Goes the Gayborhood?) | 2015 |
Amin Ghaziani | Author Meets Critic session, Canadian Association of Geographers (There Goes the Gayborhood?) | 2015 |
Ralph Matthews | UBC Killam Research Prize | 2014 |
Renisa Mawani | Dean of Arts Faculty Research Award, 2015-2016 | 2015 |
Amin Ghaziani | Killam Teaching Prize for Distinguished Instruction, Faculty of Arts, UBC | 2014 |
Amin Ghaziani | Wall Scholar, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC | 2014 |
Lindsey Richardson | Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar Award | 2014 |
Richard Carpiano | UBC Killam Research Fellowship | 2014 |
Richard Carpiano | UBC Killam Research Prize | 2013 |
Catherine Corrigall-Brown | The Early Investigator Award, Canadian Sociological Association | 2013 |
Anne Martin-Matthews | Distinguished Member Award, Canadian Association on Gerontology (CAG's highest honour) | 2013 |
Becki Ross | "Harry Lyman Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professorship,” McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario | 2013 |
Gerry Veenstra | UBC Killam Research Fellowship | 2012 |
Amin Ghaziani | Best Article Award in Collective Behavior/Social Movements, American Sociological Association (“Cultural Anchors and the Organization of Differences”) | 2012 |
Amin Ghaziani | Clifford Geertz Best Article Honorable Mention Award in the Sociology of Culture, American Sociological Association (“Cultural Anchors and the Organization of Differences”) | 2012 |
Amin Ghaziani | Early Career Scholar, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC | 2012 |
Anne Martin-Matthews | Commemorative Diamond Jubilee Medal of Queen Elizabeth II, awarded by Minister of State for Seniors, Government of Canada. | 2012 |
Anne Martin-Matthews | Creation by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research of the “Anne Martin-Matthews Doctoral Research Prize of Excellence in Research on Aging”, in recognition of “commitment to the mentoring of the next generation of researchers on aging”. | 2012 |
Ralph Matthews | Outstanding Contribution Award, Canadian Sociological Association | 2012 |
Lindsey Richardson | Canadian Institutes for Health Research Post-doctoral Fellowship | 2012 |
Ralph Matthews | Srivastava Award, UBC Press | 2011 |
Amin Ghaziani | Sage Prize for Innovation and Excellence Finalist, British Sociological Association (“The Constraints of Culture”) | 2010 |
Anne Martin-Matthews | Degree of Doctor of Civil Law, Honoris Causa, Newcastle University, United Kingdom | 2010 |
Becki Ross | Clio Book Prize, for Burlesque West: Showgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver (University of Toronto Press, 2009), from the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) for excellence in historical research and writing in Canadian history (British Columbia) | 2010 |
Amin Ghaziani | Charles Tilly Honorable Mention Award for Best Book in Collective Behavior/Social Movements, American Sociological Association (The Dividends of Dissent) | 2009 |
Amin Ghaziani | Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Best Book in LGBT Studies, Lambda Literary Foundation (The Dividends of Dissent) | 2009 |
Lindsey Richardson | Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholar Award | 2009 |
Becki Ross | Teaching Prize, Sociology Undergraduate Students’ Association, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia | 2008 |
Gerry Veenstra | Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Senior Scholar Award | 2007-2012 |
Becki Ross | Killam Teaching Prize, Faculty of Arts, University of British Columbia. | 2005 |
Gerry Veenstra | UBC Killam Research Fellowship | 2005 |
Becki Ross | “Best Journal Article" Award, May 2002, "Bumping and Grinding on the Line" (Labour/le travail), from the Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality, Canadian Historical Association. | 2002 |
Julia Goldman-Hasbun |
Killam Doctoral Scholarship Awardee |
2020 |
Ryan Jamula |
SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship |
2020 |
Patara McKeen |
SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship |
2020 |
Julia Goldman-Hasbun |
SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship |
2020 |
Emily Truong-Cheung |
Killam Graduate TA Award |
2020 |
Adam Vanzella Yang |
Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC) |
2019 |
Max Chewinski |
Public Scholars Award |
2019 |
Max Chewinski |
Department of Sociology Graduate Teaching Assistant Award |
2019 |
Max Chewinski |
Faculty of Arts Graduate Research Award |
2019 |
D. Kyle Sutherland |
SSHRC Doctoral Award |
2019 |
D. Kyle Sutherland |
Kurt and Anne Paulus Memorial Scholarship in Sociology |
2019 |
Lily Ivanova |
Best Student Paper Award for the Violence & Society research cluster |
2019 |
D. Kyle Sutherland |
Arts Graduate Research Award |
2019 |
Kaitlyn Jaffe |
Arts Graduate Research Award |
2019 |
Jennifer Adkins |
Public Scholar’s Initiative (PSI) Award |
2019 |
Max Chewinski |
Department of Sociology Graduate Research Award |
2018 |
Hazel Hollingdale | The Yale Fox International Fellowship | 2018 |
Kyle Sutherland | Amanda Araba Ocran Memorial Award | 2018 |
David Champagne |
Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships | 2018 |
Nicole Malette | SAGE Teaching Innovations and Professional Development Award | 2018 |
Lily Ivanova | SAGE Teaching Innovations and Professional Development Award | 2018 |
Mabel Ho |
SAGE Teaching Innovations and Professional Development Award | 2018 |
Mabel Ho |
Killam Graduate TA Award |
2017/2018 |
Max Chewinski | Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship |
2017 |
Cary Wu | Doctoral fellowship from The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (CCKF) |
2017 |
Kaitlyn Jaffe | Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships |
2017 |
Kelsea Perry |
Affiliated Award |
2017 |
Kaitlyn Jaffe | Public Scholars Initiative Award |
2017 |
Cary Wu | Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad |
2017 |
François Lachapelle and Patrick John Burnett |
Canadian Sociological Association's Best Student Paper Award |
2017 |
Hélène Frohard-Dourlent | Sociology Doctoral Dissertation Award, Sociology Sessional Instructor Teaching Award |
2017 |
Katherine Lyon | Sociology Sessional Instructor Teaching Award |
2017 |
Madison Slobin | Francesco Duina Undergraduate Scholarship |
2017 |
Reba DeGuevara | Francesco Duina Undergraduate Scholarship |
2017 |
Kate Dalrymple | Joseph Bombardier SSHRC Award |
2017/2018 |
Noor Hewaidi | Outstanding Graduating Student award from the Canadian Sociological Association |
2017 |
Nicole Luongo | Outstanding Graduating Student award from the Canadian Sociological Association |
2017 |
Heather Holroyd | Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship |
2017 |
Nicole Luongo | Received full funding from Oxford’s Nuffield College and Oxford’s Clarendon Scholarship |
2017 |
Nicole Malette |
Killam Graduate Teaching Award |
2016/2017 |
Patrick John Burnett |
UBC Public Scholar's Initiative Fellowship |
2016 |
Skyler Wang | Outstanding Graduating Student award from the Canadian Sociological Association |
2016 |
Bethany Schmidt | Outstanding Graduating Student award from the Canadian Sociological Association |
2016 |
Helene Frohard-Dourlent | Outstanding Graduating Student award from the Canadian Sociological Association |
2016 |
François Lachapelle |
UBC Public Scholar's Initiative Fellowship |
2016 |
Valerie Berseth |
Killam Doctoral Scholarship |
2016-2018 |
Georgia Piggot |
Best Student Paper Award from the Environment Research Cluster of the Canadian Sociological Association |
2016 |
Lily Ivanova |
Yale-UBC Fox International Fellowship |
2016 |
Max Chewinski |
Best Student Paper Award from the Political Sociology and Social Movements Research Cluster of the Canadian Sociological Association | 2016 |
Natasha Stecy-Hildebrandt |
Canadian Review of Sociology Best Article Award |
2016 |
Sherrie Dilley |
2015 Sociology Graduate Teaching Assistant Award |
2016 |
Caitlyn Forsey |
2015 Sociology Doctoral Dissertation Award |
2016 |
Skyler Wang | Academic contribution to the Faculty of Arts | 2016 |
Emily Chan | Community Contribution to UBC and Beyond | 2016 |
Kennedy Wong | 2nd Place Oral Presentation for Research on Homelessness | 2016 |
Katherine Lyon | SAGE Teaching Innovations and Professional Development Award | 2015 |
Edward Haddon | Killam Doctoral Scholarship | 2014/2015 |
Katherine Lyon | Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award | 2014/2015 |
Jennifer Dengate | Sociology graduate scholarship (for research costs) ($550) | 2014 |
Edward Haddon | University of Auckland, Roger Oppenheim Memorial Prize for Best MA Thesis | 2014 |
Edward Haddon | University of British Columbia, Graduate Research Award | 2014 |
Edward Haddon | University of British Columbia, Kurt and Anne Paulus Memorial Scholarship in Sociology | 2014 |
Maria Jose Torrejon | International Summer School on Aging (ISSA) CASE & Swedish Graduate School for Competitive Science on Ageing and Health | 2014 |
Maria Jose Torrejon | Kurt and Anne Paulus Memorial Scholarship in Sociology, University of British Columbia | 2014 |
Kamila Kolpashnikova | 2014-2015 Kurt and Anne Paulus Memorial Scholarship in Sociology | 2014 |
Kamila Kolpashnikova | Sociology Graduate Scholarship, Department of Sociology, UBC | 2014 |
Kamila Kolpashnikova | 2014-2015 Graduate Research Award, Faculty of Arts, UBC | 2014 |
Seonok Lee | Korea Foundation Graduate Student Fellowship ($23,000) | 2014 |
Andrea Polonijo | University of British Columbia Four Year Doctoral Fellowship | 2014, 2013, 2012, 2010, 2011 |
Catherine Zangger | SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships | 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 |
Catherine Zangger | Four Year Fellowships For PhD Students | 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 |
Andrea Polonijo | University of British Columbia Faculty of Arts Graduate Award | 2013, 2010 |
Hélène Frohard-Dourlent | UBC Killam Graduate Teaching Assistantship Award | 2013 |
Maria Jose Torrejon | Summer Program in Aging, CIHR-IA | 2013 |
Maria Jose Torrejon | Graduate Student International Research Mobility Award, VPRI University of British Columbia | 2013 |
Will Keats-Osborn | Joseph Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship | 2013 |
Will Keats-Osborn | Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Pre-Doctoral Fellowship | 2013 |
Kamila Kolpashnikova | Patricia Marchak International Research Scholarship in Sociology | 2013 |
Seonok Lee | Doctoral Field Research Fellowship - Academy of Korean Studies ($10,000) Bottom Billion Field Research Grant - Liu Institute Global Issue UBC ($3,000) Four Year Fellowships for PhD Students |
2013 |
Bethany Schmidt | Faculty of Arts Graduate Award | 2013 |
Bethany Schmidt | John R. Grace Fellowship Award | 2013 |
Bethany Schmidt | David W. Strangway Fellowship Award | 2013 |
Patrick John Burnett | Theory and Philosophy Summer School Entrance Scholarship - University College Cork, Ireland. | 2012 |
Jennifer Dengate | Social Science and Humanities Research Council Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral ($35,000 per year) | 2012 |
Katherine Lyon | Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, SSHRC | 2012 |
Andrea Polonijo | Robin Badgley Memorial Student Award for Best Student Paper at the Canadian Society for the Sociology of Health 3rd Biennial Bilingual Conference | 2012 |
Bethany Schmidt | UBC Faculty of Arts Graduate Award | 2012 |
Kamila Kolpashnikova | UBC 4YF Fellowship | 2011-2015 |
Patrick John Burnett | Four Year Doctoral Fellowship - University of British Columbia | 2011 |
Patrick John Burnett | Faculty of Arts Graduate Award - University of British Columbia | 2011 |
Jennifer Dengate | University of British Columbia Four Year Fellowship ($16,000) | 2011 |
Seonok Lee | SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship ($40,000) The Pacific Century Graduate Scholarship ($6,660) Walter C Koerner Fellowship ($4,000) University of BC Graduate Fellowship ($599) Four Year Fellowships for PhD Students |
2011 |
Andrea Polonijo | University of British Columbia Faculty of Graduate Studies Travel Award | 2011 |
Patrick John Burnett | Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship - Canadian Institutes of Health Research | 2010 |
Maria Jose Torrejon | National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT) Bicentennial Becas-Chile Scholarship for doctoral studies. | 2010 |
Bethany Schmidt | Chinook Research Award | 2010 |
Bethany Schmidt | Millennium Excellence Award | 2010 |
Patrick John Burnett | Usamah Ansari Award for Scholastic Achievement - Simon Fraser University | 2009 |
Seonok Lee | Faculty of Arts Graduate Student Award International Partial Tuition Scholarship |
2009 |
Jennifer Dengate | Social Science and Humanities Research Council Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master's ($17,500) | 2008 |
Andy Holmes | LOUD Barajas/Reese Scholarship | 2019 |
Kennedy Wong |
Pacific Sociological Association Undergraduate Student Paper Award |
2019 |
Veronica Cho |
HSBC Emerging Leader Scholarship |
2019 |
Veronica Cho |
Wesbrook Scholar |
2019 |
Kennedy Wong |
2019 | |
Siqi Xiao |
The UBC International Community Achievement Award |
2018 |
Alex Chow |
Katherine Brearley Arts Scholarship Award |
2018 |
Larissa Sakumoto |
Governor-General's Silver Medal in Arts (Bachelor Level) |
2018 |
Jory Smallenberg |
Governor-General's Silver Medal in Arts (Bachelor Level) |
2017 |
Jory Smallenberg | 3M National Student Fellowship |
2017 |
Andy Holmes |
Premier Undergraduate and Wesbrook Scholarship Award |
2017 |
Jory Smallenberg | Premier Undergraduate and Wesbrook Scholarship Award |
2017 |
Kailyn Fung |
Dean of Arts Graduating Arts Student Leadership Award | 2017 |
Noor Hewaidi | Dean of Arts Graduating Arts Student Leadership Award |
2017 |
Aida Mwanzia | Dean of Arts Graduating Arts Student Leadership Award |
2017 |
Jory Smallenberg |
Dean of Arts Graduating Arts Student Leadership Award |
2017 |
Leslie Tulett |
Dean of Arts Graduating Arts Student Leadership Award |
2017 |
William Wibowo Liem |
Dean of Arts Graduating Arts Student Leadership Award |
2017 |
Jory Smallenberg |
Premier Undergraduate and Wesbrook Scholarship Award |
2016 |