Anita L Allen
John Grace Memorial Legal Scholar in Residence at Green College
Dr Anita L Allen is the Henry R Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, Emerita. A graduate of Harvard Law with a PhD from the University of Michigan in Philosophy, Dr Allen is internationally renowned as an expert on philosophical and social justice dimensions of privacy and data protection law; ethics; bioethics; legal philosophy; women’s reproductive rights; and faculty advancement. She was Penn’s vice provost for faculty from 2013-20 and chaired the Provost’s Arts Advisory Council.
Dr Allen is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Law Institute, the American Philosophical Society and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2018-19 she served as president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. From 2010-17, Dr Allen served on President Obama’s Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. She has served on the faculty of the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell, for which she is an advisor, and served a two-year term as an associate of the Johns Hopkins Humanities Center, 2016-18.
Dr Allen’s books include Unpopular Privacy: What Must We Hide (Oxford, 2011); Privacy Law and Society (Thomson/West, 2017); The New Ethics: A Guided Tour of the 21st Century Moral Landscape (Miramax/Hyperion, 2004); Why Privacy Isn’t Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), and Uneasy Access: Privacy of Women in a Free Society (Rowman & Littlefield, 1988).
Dr Allen will be in residence at Green College for five weeks, beginning in mid-September 2026.
Anthony Ayari
Visiting Scientist from France in Residence at Green College
Dr Anthony Ayari is a senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), based in the Physics Department of the University of Lyon at the Light and Matter Institute. His research explores the behaviour of matter and electrons at the atomic scale, where classical and quantum physics intersect. He earned his PhD in Physics from Université Grenoble Alpes, France, with a focus on exotic electronic states in cryogenic environments. Following his doctoral studies, Dr Ayari joined the Nanoscience Group in the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland (USA) as a research associate, where he conducted pioneering work on ultrathin transistors. In Lyon, his research on vacuum electron sources achieved record-high-temperature quantum emission and enabled the creation of highly coherent electromechanical devices, leading to multiple patents and collaboration with industrial partners. Dr Ayari serves on the scientific steering committee of the Center for Nanoscience and previously chaired the NanoElectroMechanical Systems committee at the Observatory for Micro and Nanotechnology.
Dr Ayari will be in residence at Green College for three months, beginning in early September 2026. His residency is in partnership with the French Embassy in Canada.
Phillip Brown
Cecil H and Ida Green Visiting Professor to UBC
Professor Phillip Brown was a distinguished research professor at Cardiff University, UK, before giving up his day job to become an emeritus professor. He spent much of his academic career studying the future of work and its relationship to education, economy, and society. His research has involved interviewing leading transnational companies and senior policy makers in countries including China, Finland, Germany, India, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He has written, co-authored, and co-edited eighteen books, including The Death of Human Capital?: Its Failed Promise And How To Renew It In An Age Of Disruption (2020, Oxford University Press); The Global Auction (2011, Oxford University Press); and over 120 academic articles and reports. Phil chaired a Welsh Government Review on Digital Innovation for the Economy and the Future of Work (2019), and was research programme director (2019-23) for Digital Futures Work. He is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and is currently AI fellow (Future of Work) in the Ministry of Justice, Westminster, UK Government. He is writing a new book on AI and the futures of work.
Professor Brown will be in residence at Green College for two weeks, beginning in late September 2026. His residency is in partnership with UBC's Emeritus College.
Eric DH Durieux
Patricia Merivale Scholar in Residence at Green College
Dr Eric DH Durieux is an associate professor in Marine Fisheries Ecology at the University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli (UCPP). His research focuses on the ecology of marine fishes, with particular interests in life-history traits, population dynamics, fisheries characterization, and ecological modelling. He has developed a multidisciplinary research program integrating species- and ecosystem-level approaches to better understand ecological change in the Mediterranean, particularly in island territories such as Corsica. More recently, he has expanded his work towards interdisciplinary studies combining fisheries science and anthropology to support the sustainable management of Mediterranean socio-ecosystems.
Dr Durieux is actively involved in marine biodiversity conservation through his participation in the scientific councils of several Marine Protected Areas in Corsica, including the Bonifacio Strait Natural Reserve, the largest marine nature reserve in Corsica and mainland France. He holds a Professorship degree (HDR) in Fisheries and Marine Ecology and has coordinated or contributed to more than 20 research projects, authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications, supervised five PhD theses, and coordinated the Master’s Program in Integrated coastal management at UCPP.
Since 2025, he has collaborated closely with Professor Daniel Pauly (Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, Sea Around Us, UBC). Awarded the France-Canada Mourou/Strickland Mobility Grant, he visited UBC in 2025 to support this collaboration. Dr Durieux will be in residence at Green College for a period of three months starting in April 2027, where he will develop collaborative research on biodiversity trajectories of marine fish assemblages in the Northeast Pacific under climate change and fishing pressure.
Yuriko Furuhata
Cecil H and Ida Green Visiting Professor to UBC
Dr Yuriko Furuhata is a professor and a former William Dawson Scholar of Cinema and Media History (2015-25) in the Department of East Asian Studies, and an associate member of the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. Her first book, Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics (Duke University Press, 2013), won the Best First Book Award from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies. Her second book, Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control (Duke University Press, 2022), explores the geopolitical conditions underpinning environmental art, weather control, digital computing, and cybernetic architecture in Japan and the United States. Her third book, Archipelagic Archives of the Anthropocene: Visual Grammars of Deep Time (forthcoming from Duke University Press) examines sets of scientific atlases, photographs, and films of fossils, clouds, snow crystals, and corals in relation to the settler colonial histories of geosciences in Japan, the Pacific, and North America. She is currently working on a new project on the media history of celestial navigation and computing.
Dr Furuhata is in residence at Green College for a week in April, 2027. Her residency is in partnership with UBC's Centre for Climate Justice, UBC's English Language and Literatures, UBC's Pacific Islands Research Network, and UBC's Public Humanities Hub.
Julia Gillen
Emeritus College Patricia Merivale Scholar in Residence at Green College
Dr Julia Gillen is the co-director of the University of Lancaster’s Literacy Research Centre, a world-recognised site for Literacy Studies. Literacy Studies works to understand the role of literacy in all areas of social life, within and beyond education and the workplace, in contemporary and historical modes. Dr Gillen has made outstanding contributions in a range of topics, including literacy and primary education, deaf multiliteracies, and social media practices.
Julia Gillen is an interdisciplinary scholar who has provided long-term leadership of the Edwardian Postcard Project, which is an academically rigorous study with impressive outputs. Her recently completed project, popularly known as “Toddlers, Tech and Talk,” investigated very young children’s interactions with digital media in the home. This was the first large-scale research project of its kind across the UK. Findings and, in particular, Dr Gillen’s expertise have been welcomed by professional and public audiences. Finally, in her three years as associate dean for Engagement in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (since renamed, with more accuracy, the Faculty for Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences) at Lancaster, she led academics’ engagements with external stakeholders in a variety of ways, including stimulating (and modelling) dialogues with policymakers, and engagement with museums and creative industries.
Dr Gillen will be in residence at Green College for the month of March, 2027. Her residency is in partnership with UBC's Emeritus College.
Michelle N Huang
Patricia Merivale Scholar in Residence at Green College
Dr Michelle N Huang is an associate professor of English and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. Her book, Racial Beings: Experiments in Asian American New Materialisms (Duke University Press, 2026) examines posthumanist aesthetics in post-1965 Asian American literature to trace racial representation beyond the individual human character. Her work appears in Journal of Asian American Studies, American Literature, Contemporary Literature, and American Quarterly, among other venues. Her film essay, INHUMAN FIGURES: Robots, Clones, and Aliens can be viewed online at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center.
Dr Huang is in residence at Green College for a week in March, 2027. Her residency is in partnership with UBC's Centre for Climate Justice, UBC's English Language and Literatures, UBC's Pacific Islands Research Network, and UBC's Public Humanities Hub.
Megan Leitch
Patricia Merivale Scholar in Residence at Green College
Dr Megan Leitch is a professor and chair of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen. Before relocating to the Netherlands in 2024, she was reader in English Literature at Cardiff University, where she worked for 12 years after receiving her PhD from the University of Cambridge. She has been president of the International Arthurian Society British Branch and co-editor of the journal Arthurian Literature, and is now co-editing Boydell and Brewer's Arthurian Studies book series. She has published monographs on treason and romance in the Wars of the Roses (2015) and sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature (2021). She is now working on her third monograph, The Medieval Middlebrow: Romance, Gender and the Body Politic, c. 1300-1534, supported by the Leverhulme Trust.
Dr Leitch will be in residence at Green College from late August through to mid-October, 2026. Her residency is in partnership with UBC's English Language and Literatures.
Tiara R Na'puti
Patricia Merivale Scholar in Residence at Green College
Dr Tiara R Na’puti is an associate professor of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Dr Na’puti is a first-generation college student who received a master’s and doctorate in Communication Studies, and a certificate in Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) from The University of Texas at Austin. She is a Chamoru scholar (Guåhan/Guam) who focuses on issues of Indigenous movements, colonialism, and militarism in the Mariana Islands archipelago and throughout Oceania. Dr Na’puti works with organizations addressing immigration rights and issues facing Native and Indigenous Pacific Islander populations. Her research has been published in venues such as American Quarterly, AmerAsia, Environmental Communication, Security Dialogue, The Contemporary Pacific, Micronesian Educator, and the Quarterly Journal of Speech. She is a PI on the three-year “Archipelagos of Indigenous-led Resurgence for Planetary Health” project, and was the 2021-22 recipient of a Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship for her project Sovereignty and Climate Change in Guåhan: Creating a Sustainable Future. She is currently editing a book volume called Detours Guåhan: A Decolonial Guide.
Dr Na'puti is in residence at Green College for two weeks in October, 2026. Her residency is in partnership with UBC's Pacific Islands Research Network, UBC's English Language and Literatures, UBC's Centre for Climate Justice, and UBC's Public Humanities Hub.
David Yee
23rd Writer in Residence at Green College
David Yee is a mixed-race (half Chinese, half Scottish) playwright and actor, born and raised in Toronto. He is the co-founding artistic director of fu-GEN Theatre Company, Canada’s premiere professional Asian Canadian theatre company. A Dora Mavor Moore Award nominated actor and playwright, his work has been produced internationally and at home. He is a two-time Governor General’s Literary Award nominee for his plays lady in the red dress and carried away on the crest of a wave, which won the award in 2015, along with the Carol Bolt Award in 2013. In 2023, he was named Laureate of the prestigious Siminovitch Prize in Theatre for his groundbreaking work in playwriting. He currently teaches playwriting at the University of Toronto and works extensively in the Asian Canadian community as an artist and an advocate.
David Yee will be in residence at Green College for three months, beginning in January 2027.
Photo credit: Dahlia Katz.