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Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Assistant Professor, iSchool / Linguistics / Computer Science
email: muhammad.mageed@ubc.caMuhammad Abdul-Mageed’s research is at the intersection of artificial intelligence, natural language processing and social media.
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Julia Bullard, Assistant Professor, iSchool
email: julia.bullard@ubc.caJulia Bullard studies the design, construction and maintenance of knowledge organization systems with a focus on how classification systems and metadata schemas can be responsive to community values.
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Fionn Byrne, Assistant Professor, Architecture and Landscape Architecture
email: fbyrne@sala.ubc.caFionn Byrne’s research focuses on the relationship between ecology and ethics, using speculative design to challenge dominant environmental narratives.
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John Paul (JP) Catungal, Assistant Professor, Social Justice Institute
email: catungal@mail.ubc.caJ.P. Catungal is an interdisciplinary scholar with interests in “for us, by us” community organizing and cultural production by marginalized ethno-racial, queer and migrant communities.
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Toby Goldbach, Assistant Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law
email: goldbach@allard.ubc.caToby Goldbach’s research sits at the intersection of dispute resolution, legal anthropology, and law and development. Her current research asks the question, How is judges’ work in and beyond the courtroom transforming the politics and practices of court procedures and dispute resolution?
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Kevin Golovin, Assistant Professor, Engineering (UBC-Okanagan)
email: kevin.golovin@ubc.caThe Golovin group investigates interfacial mechanics, chemistry, and modification, including the development of next-generation coatings for anti-icing, oil-repellency, waterproofing, malaria prevention, dust-repellency, and sustainable textiles.
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Emily Huddart Kennedy, Assistant Professor, Sociology
email: emily.huddart@ubc.caEmily Kennedy’s research examines the relationships among social class, status and environmentalism.
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Ateya Khorakiwala, Assistant Professor, Art History, Visual Art and Theory
email: ateya.khorakiwala@ubc.caAteya Khorakiwala (GC Leading Scholar, 2018-19) researches the aesthetic and material histories of architecture, infrastructure, and the built environment in South Asia. She teaches in the Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory.
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Nadja Kunz, Assistant Professor, Public Policy and Global Affairs
email: nadja.kunz@ubc.caNadja Kunz’s work focuses on improving mine water management practices and governance processes within mining regions. An example of her current research considers how to improve decision making by mining companies to incorporate uncertainties such as climate variability.
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Leah Macfadyen, Instructor, Educational Technology Program
email: leah.macfadyen@.ubc.caLeah Macfadyen’s research addresses a range of challenges relating to eLearning and digital technologies, and includes qualitative investigation of cultural issues in online learning environments, and learning analytics approaches to understanding and optimizing learning and learning design.
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Ervin Malakaj, Assistant Professor, Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies
email: ervin.malakaj@ubc.caErvin Malakaj researches German media history in the long nineteenth century with a focus on late-19th-century literary markets and literary form, German film studies with a focus on queer silent film cultures and film periodicals, and critical pedagogy with a focus on decolonialization in German Studies.
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Carlos Molina Hutt, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering
email: carlos.molinahutt@civil.ubc.caCarlos Molina Hutt conducts research in the field of structural and earthquake engineering, specifically in the following areas: performance-based earthquake engineering, seismic resilience and risk analysis.
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Patrick Moran, Assistant Professor, French, Hispanic and Italian Studies
email: patrick.moran@ubc.caPatrick Moran’s research deals with 12th-and-13th century narrative fiction, with an emphasis on the interaction between poetics, philology and reader-response theory. His current research project focuses on the notion of genre in 12th-and-13th century vernacular literature.
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Omar Swei, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering
email: oaswei@civil.ubc.caOmar Swei’s research centers on the development of optimal infrastructure management policies under uncertainty and improving the economic performance and environmental sustainability of existing infrastructure assets.
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Michelle Tseng, Assistant Professor, Botany and Zoology
email: mtseng@zoology.ubc.caMichelle Tseng’s research seeks to understand how species respond ecologically and evolutionarily to rapid changes in the environment. Variation in the environment is everywhere, and she aims to understand when this variation acts as background noise versus when it generates important broad scale patterns in nature.
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Kerry Wilbur, Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
email: kerry.wilbur@ubc.caKerry Wilbur is studying how cultural contexts (social, organizational, professional) influence health professions training and the quality of patient care.
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For a list of the:
- 2014-2015 GC Leading Scholars, click here.
- 2015-2016 GC Leading Scholars, click here.
- 2016-2017 GC Leading Scholars, click here.
- 2017-2019 GC Leading Scholars, click here.