As a university venue for interdisciplinary conversation, Green College is open to faculty and staff members of UBC and other local universities. We also welcome members of the non-university local community to our public events, which are widely advertised on social media.
UBC faculty and staff, and others, are invited to attend publicly advertised events at the College, to join the College residential community for dinner (with a reservation), and to bring guests—colleagues, graduate students, friends, academic visitors, etc.—with them. They are also invited to propose future academic events and programming for the College, by contacting the Principal in the first instance.
UBC faculty and staff who wish to learn more about the College or to explore opportunities for partnership between the College and their unit or research program are warmly encouraged to contact the Principal, as are members of local organizations outside UBC who see comparable opportunities.
Within the much larger population of regular or occasional visitors to the College, about 100 persons at a time have the status of Members of Common Room at Green College, in the following categories:
Members of Common Room at Large
UBC Faculty and Staff Members of Common Room
UBC Faculty who are Current Leading Scholars
Why Become a Member of Common Room at Green College?
Unlike some other kinds of college fellowship, Membership of the Common Room at Green College is a purely voluntary commitment, made by individuals who wish to participate in and advance the intellectual conviviality of the College, both as a partly residential university community and as a public cultural venue (heraldic motto: “Ideas and Friendship”).
As a Member of Common Room at Green College, you will
- Be notified of all upcoming events at the College, by weekly e-mail listings or other means
- Be kept up-to-date with important College news and receive a copy of the Green College Annual Report & Society Magazine, published each year (for the previous academic year)
- Be invited to select annual galas, and other special events
- Have access to College financial and other support for interdisciplinary, extra- or co-curricular, research and/or community outreach projects/lecture and discussion series/performance series/workshops / conferences / academic hospitality, etc. subject to routine processes of College academic and administrative review
- Be eligible to have complimentary use of meeting rooms and standard AV facilities (with catering by the Green College Dining Society, if required, at standard rates) for suitable non-College academic and/or social events that you wish to host at the College, subject to availability of space and approval by the Principal. (This entitlement includes the option of holding your own wedding ceremony and/or reception at the College!)
Expectations
Members of Common Room are expected to involve themselves directly in the academic and social life of the College by:
- Regularly attending lectures and other public events at the College
- Attending and, as the opportunity arises, presenting their own work and/or co-hosting other presenters in the Tuesday 5 pm (or other) public series at the College
- Occasionally coming to dinner between September and April, not counting invitational gala events
- Being accessible to Resident Members and other members of the College community, past and present, who may wish to consult them on matters in which they have expertise
- Being available to serve on College committees, at the invitation of the Principal, President of the Green College Dining Society or Chair of the Green College Advisory Board
- Advising the Principal and Green College Staff, upon request
It is also expected that they will assist in:
- Bringing College events and programs to the attention of students, colleagues and others likely to be interested in them
- Advertising the College to potential Resident Members (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, visiting scholars) and guests
- Introducing other members of the University and wider local community to the College and, where appropriate, recommending them as possible Members of Common Room
- Promoting the College by word of mouth as a venue for university-sponsored conferences, meetings, catered events, etc.
- Sustaining the Green College Society as a network for those with continuing attachments to the College
Eligibility
A Member of Common Room at Green College will normally both
- be a faculty or staff member of UBC or of another local university, or (in the case of non-university Members of Common Room) a resident of the Lower Mainland of BC or neighbouring island
and
- have established some voluntary connection with the College before being invited to become a Member of Common Room (e.g. by organizing an event or lecture series, by nominating a Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor, by participating in College programs at the invitation of another member of the College.)
The invitation to become a Member of Common Room is made by the Principal.
Membership of Common Room is usually for a four year period. Past Members of Common Room continue to be associated with the College as Friends of Green College.
Interested in becoming a Member of Common Room at Green College?
Contact one of the current Faculty Members or the Principal to find out how you can become involved in the life of the College
Members of Common Room at Large
| Bath, Stephen | Community Member; Member of the Green College Membership Committee (2024-28) | |||
| Canty, Daniel | Distinguished Visiting Fellow; writer and artist (Montreal) | |||
| Coe, Imogen | Distinguished Visiting Fellow; Professor of Chemistry and Biology, Toronto Metropolitan University | |||
| Diggens, John | Chair Emeritus of the Green College Advisory Board | |||
| Ericson, Diana | Foundation Fellow | |||
| Fisher, Donald | Acting Principal (2015-2016; 2023-2024); Professor Emeritus of the Department of Educational Studies; Foundation Fellow | |||
| Fujiwara, Makoto | TRIUMF; Member of the Green College Advisory Board (2023-27); Society Member | |||
| Gemme, Brigitte | Community Member; Society Member; Member of the Green College Membership Committee (2024-28) | |||
| Gibbs, Robert | Distinguished Visiting Fellow (2022-27); Professor, Department of Philosophy and Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto | |||
| Gilbert, John | Professor Emeritus of Audiology and Speech Sciences; Foundation Fellow | |||
| Grace, Sherrill | UBC University Killam Professor Emerita; Professor Emeritus of English | |||
| Greig, Ian | Community Member; Society Member; Member of the Green College Membership Committee (2024-28) | |||
| Guha, Arnie | Chair of the Green College Advisory Board (2022-27) | |||
| Hall, Judith | Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics; Foundation Fellow | |||
| Nicola Hodges | Professor School of Kinesiology; Vice Principal, Green College; Member of the Green College Advisory Board; Society Member | |||
| Huot, Suzanne | Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy; Member of the Green College Advisory Board (2022-26) | |||
| Kelsey, Graham | Professor Emeritus of Educational Studies; Foundation Fellow | |||
| Kienholz, Joanne | Community Member; Member of the Green College Advisory Board (2022-26); Society Member | |||
| Kraljii Gardiner, Elee | Community Member; Vancouver's 2025-2027 Poet Laureate | |||
| LeBlanc, Suzie | Community Member; Executive and Artistic Director, EMV | |||
| Lievsley, Denise |
Distinguished Visiting Fellow (2015-19); Honourary Fellow and past Principal (2015-20) of Green Templeton College, Oxford; Fellow of the University College London; Visiting Professor, Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy, King's College London |
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| McIntyre, Scott | Distinguished BC Fellow (2022-27); publisher | |||
| Merivale, Patricia | Professor Emeritus of English | |||
| Murphy, Colleen | Distinguished Visiting Fellow (2024-29) | |||
| Seto, Darlene | Community Member; Member of the Green College Advisory Board (2024-28); Society Member | |||
| Smetzer, Megan | Community Member; Member of the Green College Academic Committee (2024-28); Society Member | |||
| Suedfeld, Peter | Professor Emeritus of Psychology; Foundation Fellow | |||
| Ripley Trafford, Ellis | Community Member; great-grandniece of the original owner of Graham House at Green College | |||
| Vertinsky, Patricia | Professor School of Kinesiology; former Acting Principal, Green College | |||
| Vessey, Mark | Professor of English; Principal Emeritus, Green College | |||
| Wu, Roselle | Community Member; Member of the Green College Academic Committee (2024-28); Society Member | |||
| Wynn, Graeme | Department of Geography | |||
| Airini | Provost and Vice-President Academic, University of Saskatchewan; Vice Principal, Green College; Member of the Green College Advisory Board; Society Member |
UBC Faculty and Staff Members of Common Room
| Amijee, Fatema | Department of Philosophy | |||||||||||||
| Ayan, Irem | Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies | |||||||||||||
| Beswick, Samuel | Peter A. Allard School of Law | |||||||||||||
| Blakney, Anna | Michael Smith Laboratories- Blakney Lab | |||||||||||||
| Bloch, Alexia | Department of Anthropology | |||||||||||||
| Boley, Aaron | Department of Physics and Astronomy | |||||||||||||
| Borduas-Dedekind, Nadine | Department of Chemistry | |||||||||||||
| Bose, Sarika | Department of English Language and Literatures | |||||||||||||
| Bouchard, Marie-Eve | Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies | |||||||||||||
| Bowers, Katherine | Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies | |||||||||||||
| Brown, William | Department of Theatre & Film | |||||||||||||
| Bryce, Benjamin | Department of History | |||||||||||||
| Byers, Michael | Department of Political Science | |||||||||||||
| Canuto, Luisa | Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies | |||||||||||||
| Cao, Yankai | Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | |||||||||||||
| Ciernia, Annie | Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | |||||||||||||
| Connolly, James | Faculty of Applied Science | |||||||||||||
| Coulthard, Lisa | Department of Theatre and Film; Member of the Green College Advisory Board | |||||||||||||
| Daniels, Megan | Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies | |||||||||||||
| d'Entremont, Agnes | Department of Mechanical Engineering; Member of the Green College Advisory Board (2020-2024) | |||||||||||||
| Derksen, Ruth | Faculty of Applied Science | |||||||||||||
| Effros, Bonnie | Faculty of Applied Science | |||||||||||||
| Etxabe, Julen | Peter A. Allard School of Law | |||||||||||||
| Flynn, Alexandra | Peter A. Allard School of Law | |||||||||||||
| Götz, Friedrich | Department of Psychology | |||||||||||||
| Hammerly, Christopher | Department of Linguistics | |||||||||||||
| Henderson, Julia | Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy | |||||||||||||
| Hooper, Michael | Community and Regional Planning | |||||||||||||
| Knutson, Sara Ann | Department of History | |||||||||||||
| Lerner, Jillian | Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory | |||||||||||||
| Leyton-Brown, Kevin | Department of Computer Science | |||||||||||||
| Ma, Jasmin | School of Kinesiology | |||||||||||||
| Madhav, Manu | School of Biomedical Engineering | |||||||||||||
| Maier, Harry | Vancouver School of Theology | |||||||||||||
| Makris, Georgios | Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory | |||||||||||||
| Margulis, Matias | School of Public Policy and Global Affairs | |||||||||||||
| McCormick, Kelly | Department of History | |||||||||||||
| Mitchell, Tamara | Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies | |||||||||||||
| Mole, Christopher | Department of Philosophy | |||||||||||||
| Morris, Leora | Department of Theatre & Film | |||||||||||||
| Orsi, Anaïs | Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences | |||||||||||||
| Park, Keunhyun | Department of Forest Resources Management | |||||||||||||
| Ramana, M.V. | Liu Institute for Global Issues | |||||||||||||
| Reid, Andrea | Institute for Ocean and Fisheries | |||||||||||||
| Reynolds, Graham | Peter A. Allard School of Law | |||||||||||||
| Shroff, Farah | Department of Family Practice | |||||||||||||
| Sia, Rosanne | Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice | |||||||||||||
| Stickles, Elise | Department of English Language and Literatures | |||||||||||||
| Tansey, James | Sauder School of Business | |||||||||||||
| Tate, Bronwen | School of Creative Writing | |||||||||||||
| Toti, Giulia | Department of Computer Science | |||||||||||||
| Turin, Mark | Department of Anthropology | |||||||||||||
| Turner, Hannah | iSchool | |||||||||||||
| Wagner, Katherine | Vancouver School of Economics | |||||||||||||
| Walker, Jude | Department of Educational Studies | |||||||||||||
| Weir, Lorraine | Department of English Language and Literatures | |||||||||||||
| Wilbur, Kerry | Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences | |||||||||||||
| Wilson, Tina E. | School of Social Work | |||||||||||||
| Wood, Stepan | Peter A. Allard School of Law | |||||||||||||
| Wylie, Alison | Department of Philosophy; Member of the Green College Advisory Board (2022-2026) | |||||||||||||
| Yang, Renren | Department of Asian Studies | |||||||||||||
| Yoshimizu, Ayaka | Department of Asian Studies | |||||||||||||
| Zuo, Mila | Department of Theatre & Film | |||||||||||||
UBC Faculty who are Current Leading Scholars (2023-2025)
| Alaica, Aleksa | Department of Anthropology | |||
| Bulk, Laura Yvonne | Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy | |||
| Dev, Rubee | School of Nursing | |||
| Finbloom, Joel | Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences | |||
| Georgopulos, Nikki | Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory | |||
| Jaccard, Torsten | Vancouver School of Economics | |||
| Joshi, Jaya | Department of Wood Science | |||
| Khanna, Tarun | Department of Public Policy and Global Affairs | |||
| Kim, Hyosub | School of Kinesiology | |||
| Lebrec, Caroline | Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies | |||
| Marzano-Lesnevich, Alex | School of Creative Writing | |||
| Peck, Alexandra | Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory | |||
| Piechocki, Katharina | Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies | |||
| Routh, Supriya | Peter A. Allard School of Law | |||
| Wiesner, Felix | Department of Wood Science | |||
| Wu, Helena | Department of Asian Studies | |||
| Yang, Ron | Sauder School of Business |
UBC Faculty who are Current Leading Scholars (2024-2026)
| Akinwole, Tolulope | Department of English Language and Literatures | |||
| An, Ji-yoon | Department of Asian Studies | |||
| Boerner, Katelynn | Department of Pediatrics | |||
| Devisscher, Tahia | Department of Forest Resource Management | |||
| Franks, Scott | Peter A. Allard School of Law | |||
| Hoffman, Alexandra | Department of Asian Studies | |||
| Koh, Germaine | Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory | |||
| Koncan, Frances | School of Creative Writing | |||
| Krentz, Nicole | Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences | |||
| Maler, Anabel | School of Music | |||
| Nidjam, Biz | Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies | |||
| Nobiss, Jac | School of Social Work | |||
| Rodriguez Arelis, Alexi | Department of Statistics | |||
| Sunar, Kiran | Department of Asian Studies | |||
| Tavasoli, Alexandra | Department of Mechnical Engineering |