Committees

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

Voting Members

  • Patrick Rizzotti, Chair, Theatre and Film
  • Andrew Owen, Political Science and Associate Dean Academic, Faculty of Arts ex officio
  • Chelsea Freeborn, Sociology
  • Strang Burton, Linguistics
  • Richard Price, Political Science and Director of Graduate Studies, Faculty of Arts, ex officio
  • Bronwen Tate, Creative Writing
  • Janet Um, Asian Studies

Non-Voting Members

  • Arts Curriculum Development: Heidi May, ex officio
  • Arts Advising & Academic Systems: Madeline Stephens, ex officio
  • Indigenous Initiatives CTLT: Janey Lew, ex officio

Consultation requests from other faculties can be sent to arts.curriculum@ubc.ca.


Dean’s Advisory Committee on Promotion and Tenure

  • Clare Haru Crowston, Dean (Committee Chair, non-voting)
  • Patricia Badir, Associate Dean Faculty (Recording Secretary, non-voting), eff. Jan 1, 2025
  • Nicole Fortin,  Professor, Vancouver School of Economics (appointed; 2024/2025), eff. Jan 1, 2025
  • Eagle Glassheim, Professor, Department of History (elected; 2023-2025)
  • Corey Hamm, Professor, School of Music (elected; 2024-2026)
  • Marwan Hassan, Professor, Department of Geography (appointed; 2024/2025)
  • Daniel H. Justice, Professor, Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and Department of English Language and Literatures (appointed; 2024/2025)
  • E. David Klonsky, Professor, Department of Psychology (appointed; 2024/2025)
  • Siyuan Liu, Professor, Department of Theatre and Film (elected; 2023-2025)
  • Margaret Schabas, Professor, Department of Philosophy (elected; 2023-2025)

Faculty Council Meeting Representatives

Faculty Representatives from the Faculty of Arts to Other Faculties

  • Education: Strang Burton
  • Forestry: Eagle Glassheim
  • Dentistry: N/A
  • Science: Steven Barnes
  • Medicine: Jason Snyder

Faculty Representatives from Other Faculties to the Faculty of Arts

  • Pharmaceutical Sciences: Annalijn Conklin
  • Medicine: Sarah de Leeuw
  • Education: Leah Macfadyen
  • Forestry: Agni Boedhihartono
  • Dentistry: Chris Overall
  • Science: Liane Chen, Dan Bizzotto, Joanna McGrenere, Brian Marcus, Jennifer Sibley, Jeremy Heyl, Andrew Potter, Agnes Lacombe, Stuart Sutherland
  • Land and Food Systems: James Vercammen

Lecturer Representatives

  • Cameron Mitchell Pierson

Sessional Representatives

  • Stefan Lukits

Elected Student Representatives

  • AUS President: Sarah Wong
  • AUS VP Academic: Maral Tabarmanaf
  • 1st Year: TBC
  • 2nd Year: TBC
  • 3rd Year: TBC
  • 4th Year: TBC
  • Non-AUS: Vacant

Graduate Council Representatives

  • TBC
  • TBC

Policy, Governance, and Organization

Members

  • Patricia Badir, Associate Dean, Faculty
  • Andrew Owen, Associate Dean, Academic
  • Christiane Hoppmann, Associate Dean, Research
  • Kamal Al-Solaylee, Professor, School of Journalism, Writing, and Media
  • Carla Hudson-Kam, Professor, Department of Linguistics
  • Alan Jacobs, Professor, Department of Political Science
  • Allison Macfarlane, Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
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