Faculty of Arts

Faculty of Arts

Heads, Directors & Chairs

View current Heads, Directors, and Chairs for all academic units and cultural venues within UBC Arts.

Departments

Department of Anthropology	Alexia Bloch (Head)
Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory	Dana Claxton (Head)
Department of Asian Studies	Ross King (Head)
Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies	Geoffrey Winthrop-Young (Head)
Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies	Leanne Bablitz (Head)
Department of English Language and Literatures	Patricia Badir (Head)
Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies	Joël Castonguay-Bélanger (Head)
Department of Geography	Geraldine Pratt (Head)
Department of History	Eagle Glassheim (Head)
Department of Linguistics	Bryan Gick (Head)
Department of Philosophy	Matt Bedke (Head)
Department of Political Science	Richard Price (Head)
Department of Psychology	Geoffrey Hall (Head)
Department of Sociology	Guy Stecklov (Head)
Department of Theatre and Film	Stephen Heatley (Head)

Schools

School	Director
Vancouver School of Economics	Patrick Francois (Director)
UBC School of Journalism	Alfred Hermida(Director)
iSchool: School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies	Luanne Freund(Director)
School of Music	T. Patrick Carrabré(Director)
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs	Max Cameron (Director pro tem)
School of Social Work	Donna Baines (Director)

Institutes

Institute	Director
Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice	Janice Stewart (Acting Director)
Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies	Dory Nason (Acting Director)

Programs

Program	Chair
Creative Writing Program	Alix Ohlin (Chair)
First-Year Programs & Interdisciplinary Programs	Laurie McNeill (Chair)

Interdisciplinary Programs

Interdisciplinary Program	Chair
African Studies Minor	Suzanne James, English Language and Literatures (Chair)
Arts Studies in Research and Writing	Laurie McNeill, English Language and Literatures (Chair)
Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Minor	Christopher Lee, English Language and Literatures (Chair)
Bachelor of Media Studies	Christina D’Onofrio, Art History, Visual Art and Theory (Chair)
Canadian Studies Program	Michel Ducharme, History (Chair)
Children’s Literature (MA) Program	Richard Gooding, English Language and Literatures (Chair
Cognitive Systems Program	Christopher Mole, Philosophy (Chair)
Environment and Society Minor	David Tindall, Sociology (Chair)
Health and Society Minor	Mark Lam, Psychology (Chair)
Interdisciplinary Studies	Clayton Ashton, Asian Studies (Chair)
International Relations Program	Jessica Wang, History and Lisa Sundstrom, Political Science (Co-Chairs)
Latin American Studies Program	Alessandra Santos, French, Hispanic & Italian Studies (Chair)
Law and Society Program	Renisa Mawani, Sociology (Chair)
Medieval Studies Program	Courtney Booker, History and John Christopoulos, History (Co-Chairs)
Religion, Literature, and the Arts	Sabina Magliocco, Anthropology (Chair)
Sciences Po Dual Degree Program	Tara Mayer, History (Chair)

Arts & Culture Venues

Venue	Director
AHVA Gallery at the Audain Centre	Barrie Jones (Acting Director)
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery	Scott Watson (Director); Lorna Brown (Associate Director and Curator)
Museum of Anthropology	Anthony Shelton (Director)
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts	Joyce Hinton and Cameron McGill (Co-Managing Directors)