Participating faculty members
The faculty listed below participate in Social Justice Studies through teaching core or elective courses in the program.
Child and youth care
| Name | Area | Contact |
| Sandrina de Finney Associate Professor |
Participatory and change-centred practice and research, Indigenous research, girlhood studies | sdefinn@uvic.ca 250-721-6372 |
| Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw Adjunct Professor |
Children and racialization, participatory action research, practices and racialization | vpacinik@uvic.ca 250-721-6478 |
| Jin-Sun Yoon Teaching Professor |
Anti-racism education, cross-cultural counselling, ethnic identity development | jsyoon@uvic.ca 250-721-6471 |
Gender studies
| Name | Area | Contact |
| Thea Cacchioni Associate Professor |
Medicalization, the politics of Big Pharma, gender health inequalities | tcacchio@uvic.ca 250-721-6261 |
| Annalee Lepp Associate Professor, Chair and Undergraduate Advisor |
Gender and legal history; migration, sex work, and human trafficking | alepp@uvic.ca 250-721-6157 |
| Laura Parisi Associate Professor |
Human rights, international development, international political economy and law, transactional activism, methodologies | lparisi@uvic.ca 250-472-4277 |
|
Georgia Sitara |
Animal rights, Feminist Ethics, Social Justice, Canadian history, Race, racism and racialization, sexuality, children and youth | gsitara@uvic.ca 250-721-6158 |
| Heather Tapley Associate Professor |
Queer theory, feminist theory and monster theory | (on leave) |
History
| Name | Area | Contact |
| Lynne Marks Associate Professor |
Gender history, history of social welfare, history of religion, history of second wave feminism, of welfare rights activism and of immigrant women's activism | lsmarks@uvic.ca 250-721-7392 |
| Andrea McKenzie Associate Professor |
17/18th century English legal, social and cultural history, including crime, felony and treason trials and executions and early modern criminal literature | mckenzie@uvic.ca 250-721-7403 |
| Christine O'Bonsawin Associate Professor (history and Indigenous studies) |
Indigenous Studies, race and sport, sport and Olympic history | cobonsaw@uvic.ca 250-853-3807 |
| Elizabeth Vibert Associate Professor |
Food sovereignty/security; gender, work, and poverty; history of Southern Africa | evibert@uvic.ca 250-721-7286 |
Law
| Name | Area | Contact |
| Patricia Cochran Assistant Professor |
Constitutional law, political and legal theory, law of evidence, human rights, social welfare law | pcochran@uvic.ca 250-721-8183 |
| Freya Kodar Associate Dean |
Pension (public and private), consumer law and policy, debt and credit regulation, income security, care work, disability and the law | law.assocdean.adm@uvic.ca 250-721-8190 |
| Andrew Newcombe Associate Professor |
Consumer law, trade and investment law (free trade agreements etc), international law, commercial law | newcombe@uvic.ca 250-721-8161 |
| Tim Richards Assistant Teaching Professor |
Human rights law, poverty and social policy, legal skills education | trichard@uvic.ca 250-721-8185 |
Political science
| Name | Area | Contact |
| Janni Aragon Adjunct Assistant Professor |
Gender and politics, feminist theories and methodologies, pedagogy, and technology | jaragon@uvic.ca |
| Marlea Clarke Associate Professor |
Development, political economy of development, African clothing industry and 'decent work', precarious employment, gender and politics | mjclarke@uvic.ca 250-721-6487 |
| Rita Dhamoon Assistant Professor |
Critical race politicism feminist and gender politics, critiques of multiculturalism, the politics of difference | dhamoonr@uvic.ca 250-721-6492 |
| Avigail Eisenberg Professor and Chair |
Democratic theory and group rights | avigaile@uvic.ca 250-721-7499 |
| Matt James Associate Professor |
Reparations, political apologies, historical justice, collective memory, transitional justice, Canadian politics, social movements, constitutionalism | mattjame@uvic.ca 250-721-6489 |
| Jamie Lawson Associate Professor, Director, Human Dimensions of Climate Change |
Environmental justice, land and resource politics, critical political economy | lawsonj@uvic.ca 250-721-7496 |
| Feng Xu Associate Professor |
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 | fengxu@uvic.ca 250-472-4263 |
Sociology
| Name | Area | Contact |
| Bill Carroll Professor and Co-director of the Corporate Mapping Project |
Social inequality, social movements, political ecology, critical methods and theory | wcarroll@uvic.ca 250-721-7573 |
| Steve Garlick Chair, Sociology, Associate Professor, |
Sociology of gender and sexuality, critical social theory | sgarlick@uvic.ca 250-721-8600 |
| Martha McMahon Associate Professor |
Human dimensions of climate change, feminism theory, environment and environmental justice, food and agriculture, ecological feminism | mcmahon@uvic.ca 250-721-6351 |
| Peyman Vahabzadeh Associate Professor |
Social movements, social theory, hegemony, phenomenology of justice | peymanv@uvic.ca 250-721-6353 |
Other units
The following participating faculty are members of departments or programs that have two or less associated members with the Social Justice Studies Program.
| Name | Area | Contact |
|
Martin Adam |
Socially engaged Buddhism; Gandhi; Ethics |
mtaam@uvic.ca |
|
Darlene Clover |
Feminist pedagogy, women in leadership, community arts and adult education, museums and art galleries |
clover@uvic.ca |
|
Budd Hall |
Community-based research, international community development, community-university engagement, social movements |
bhall@uvic.ca |
|
Helga Kristin Hallgrimsdottir Dean, Human and Social Development, Professor, Public administration |
Social inequality, social movements, labour movements, work and vulnerable populations |
hknenedi@uvic.ca |
|
Cindy Holder |
Human rights, international law, cultural rights and rights to land |
clholder@uvic.ca |
|
Donna Jeffrey |
Anti-racist and critical pedagogies, social work education and professional identity, knowledge production and modes of inquiry |
donnaj@uvic.ca |
|
Colin Macleod |
Distributive justice, equality, children's rights |
philchr@uvic.ca |
|
Moussa Magassa |
Human rights, diversity education, immigration and refugee studies, cross-cultural and intercultural communication, conflict resolution, global leadership in working in complex global systems |
mmagassa@uvic.ca |
|
Catherine McGregor |
Civic subjectivity and ally practices, distributed and social justice leadership, gender and leadership |
cmcgreg@uvic.ca |
|
Richard Pickard |
Teaches courses in Environmental Humanities |
rpickard@uvic.ca |
|
Michael J. Prince |
Canadian social policy, disability movement, Canadian state/Aboriginal government relations |
mprince@uvic.ca |
|
Catherine Richardson |
Indigenous resistance, decolonizing approaches to social work, response-based practice |
cathyr@uvic.ca |
|
James Rowe |
Social movement politics, mindfulness and social change, micropolitics, critical theory, root causes of injustice |
jkrowe@uvic.ca |
|
Carmen Rodriguez de France |
Indigenous epistemologies and pedagogy; Indigenous Education; Indigenous Research Methods, The role of language in knowledge creation |
mdcr@uvic.ca |
|
Karena Shaw |
Political ecology, local/global environmental governance, political theory, indigenous politics, sustainable energy systems |
shawk@uvic.ca |
|
Helga Thorson |
Modernist German and Austrian literature, gender studies, history of medicine, and Holocaust studies |
helgat@uvic.ca |