UBC Arts brings together diverse members of the faculty in committees to advance a wide variety of initiatives, including the Curriculum Committee and the Dean’s Advisory Committee on Promotion and Tenure.
Curriculum Committee
Chair
- Catherine Rawn, Psychology
Curriculum Manager
- Heidi May, Arts Curriculum Development
Members
- Stefania Burk, Asian Studies, Associate Dean Academic ex officio
- Janice Stewart, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice
- Annabel Lyon, Creative Writing Program
- Jason Lieblang, Central, Eastern, & Northern European studies
- Hotze Rullman, Linguistics
- Library: Keith Bunnell ex officio
- Arts Advising: Nancy Campbell ex officio
Consultation requests from other faculties can be sent to arts.curriculum@ubc.ca.
Dean’s Advisory Committee on Promotion and Tenure
Chair
- Gage Averill, Dean of Arts
Members
- Recording Secretary: Gillian Creese, Associate Dean, Faculty and Equity
- Trevor Barnes, Professor, Department of Geography (appointed; 2019-2020)
- Jennifer Berdahl, Professor, Department of Sociology (appointed; 2019-2020)
- Corey Hamm, Professor, School of Music (elected; 2018-2020)
- Carla Hudson Kam, Professor, Department of Linguistics (elected; 2019-2021)
- Tina Loo, Professor, Department of History (elected; 2018-2020)
- Margaret Schabas, Professor, Department of Philosophy (appointed; 2019-2020, Term 1)
- Tom Scholte, Professor, Department of Theatre and Film (elected; 2019-2021)
- Sandra Tomc, Professor, Department of English Language and Literatures (appointed; 2019-2020)
Faculty Council Meeting Representatives
Graduate Council Representatives
- Mark Swetz
- Dorothee Leesing
- Sarah Lachance
Faculty Representatives from the Faculty of Arts to Other Faculties
- TBA
Faculty Representatives from Other Faculties to the Faculty of Arts
- Pharmaceutical Sciences: Dr. Sarah de Leeuw
- Medicine: Dr. Sarah de Leeuw
- Land and Food System: Dr. Jim Vercammen
- Applied Science: Dr. Carol Jaeger
- Education: Dr. Leah Macfadyen
- Forestry: TBA
- Dentistry: TBA
- Science: TBA
Elected Student Representatives
- President: Kat Aquino
- VP Academic: Kana Saarni
- 1st Year: Lawrence Liu (FoA Council Representative)
- 2nd Year: Emmanuel Cantiller
- 3rd Year: Punya Bhargava
- 4th Year: Awais Quadre