The UBC Centre for European Studies was launched in early 2022. The Centre emerged from the former Institute for European Studies, which was founded in 1998 at UBC to advance the study and understanding of European politics, economy, and societies. The new Centre for European Studies supports a broad, transnational view of Europe, embodied through the collective work of faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and visiting scholars across the Social Sciences and Humanities. Through its speaker series, research colloquia, and other events, the Centre provides a collegial and stimulating space for critical examinations and discussions of the legacies of Europe and its constituent parts, European current affairs and scholarship, and European cultures and societies, broadly conceived. We strive to engage with Europe from the perspective of our place on unceded Musqueam territory, supporting approaches that amplify Indigenous and minoritized perspectives and that decolonize our historical relationships with Europe.
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Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Biukovic, Ljiljana | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Adaptation of international legal norms by national governments, the impact of regionalism on multilateral trade negotiations and the development of European Union Law,European union Law, International Trade Law, International Dispute Resolution, E-commerce, Comparative Law |
| Bloch, Alexia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Social sciences; migration; Gender; Eurasia; Russia; ethnography |
| Bowers, Katherine | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Literature and literary studies; Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Arts and Technologies; Arts and Literary Policies; Dostoevsky; genre; gothic fiction; imagined geography; literary culture; narrative; Russian culture; Russian literature; the novel |
| Brain, Robert | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History |
| Casas Aguilar, Anna | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Contemporary literatures; Spanish Cultural Studies; Catalan Literature and Culture; Gender Studies; Masculinities; Feminisms; Self-writing; Hispanic Cinemas |
| Drljaca, Igor | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Creative writing; Documentary; Film Production; Screenwriting |
| Frackman, Kyle | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cinema studies; Media studies (except social media and digital media); Literature and literary studies; Cultural studies; queer studies; German studies; media studies; history of sexuality; sexuality; sexuality studies; East Germany; film; Gender Studies; history of science; literature; Media; Media Types (Radio, Television, Written Press, etc.); Scandinavia |
| Frank, Erica | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Health sciences; Public and population health; Other education; Free education; Preventive Medicine; Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Architecture; Holocaust studies; Exile Reintegration; Democratization; Intervention Research |
| Gelinas-Lemaire, Vincent | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | French language; Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; Comparative Literature; Creative Writing; French Literature (1945 to the present); Québec and French-Canadian Literature and Culture; Spatial Poetics; Visual Culture |
| Glassheim, Eagle | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | European history (except British, classical Greek and Roman); History of Central and Eastern Europe; Environmental History |
| Hallensleben, Markus | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Comparative literatures; Other Arts; German Language Cultures and Literatures; Transnational Literatures; Visual Arts and Literature; European Studies; Literature and Sciences; Literature and Migration; Narratives of Belonging; Decolonization and Indigenization |
| Iurascu, Ilinca | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Comparative literatures; Theories of cultural studies; Media, visual and digital culture; German literature; Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies; media theory; Media history; critical theory; film studies |
| Jacobs, Alan Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Political science; Social Organization and Political Systems; economic inequality; Political economy; public opinion; Public Policy; Research Methodology |
| Kuus, Merje | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | transnational regulatory practices in contemporary Europe, but the empirical focus undergirds a broader interest in knowledge and power, structure and agency, in bureaucratic and policy-making settings; political identity, subject-formation, and center-periphery relations, especially in contemporary Europe |
| Malakaj, Ervin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Literature and literary studies; German studies; German Film Studies; German Media Studies; German Media History; Queer Theory and Queer Studies; Feminist and Queer Film Historiography; Critical Pedagogy |
| Pailer, Gaby | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | German literature, gender and literature, drama and theatre, enlightment, classicism and romanticism |
| Sundstrom, Lisa | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), global activism, human rights, Democratization, authoritarianism, civil society, Russian/ post-Communist politics, Western aid, and NGOs in global politics |
| Tiberghien, Yves | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Political science; global politics |
| Tworek, Heidi | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Historical studies; Europe; Germany; history of media and communications; international organizations; international relations; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies |
| Vellutini, Claudio | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Opera; Critical Musicology; Cultural and reception history of nineteenth-century Italian opera; Early 19th century music (opera); Habsburg cultural policies; Historiography; Italian opera in the Habsburg Empire; Performance and staging practices; Vienna opera (first half of 19th century); 19th-century opera singers; Opera and mobility studies; Opera's global dissemination in the 19th century |
| Wright, Matthew | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Political science; American politics; Comparitive politics; immigration; Immigration Policy; migration; National identity; Political behaviour; Political psychology; public opinion |
| Zhang, Gaoheng | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Intercultural and Ethnic Relationships; Cultural Exchanges; Migrations, Populations, Cultural Exchanges; Media and Society; Media Ethics; Media and Democratization; Migration Studies; Mobility Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Gender and Masculinity Studies; Race Theory; Film and Media Studies; Rhetoric and Communication Studies; Cultural Theory; Italian-Chinese relations; Italy's global networks; Modern and contemporary Italian literature and culture |