Faculty

Faculty listing for Women's and Gender Studies:

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Beeler, Dr. Karin

PhD, MA (University of Alberta)

Coordinator, Women's and Gender Studies
Chair, English

Email: karin.beeler@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-6640
Office: 3-3062
Campus: Prince George

Karin Beeler is one of UNBC's founding faculty members and has contributed to the development of the university as an administrator for various units and served on the boards of several community organizations. She has taught courses with a wide range of delivery methods including online/web courses, video conference and audio conference technology. Dr. Beeler has been President, Vice-President and Treasurer of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association. When not occupied with academic activities, she enjoys acting in community theatre and participating with her dogs at various dog events.


 
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Beeler, Dr. Karin

PhD, MA (University of Alberta)

Coordinator, Women's and Gender Studies
Chair, English
Phone
250-960-6640
Office
3-3062

Biography

Karin Beeler is one of UNBC's founding faculty members and has contributed to the development of the university as an administrator for various units and served on the boards of several community organizations.

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Booth, Dr. Annie

PhD, MES, BA

Professor
Phone
250-960-6649

Biography

I hold a PhD in Land Resources from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1992), where I studied environmental ethics, Native American Studies, eco-feminism and bio-regionalism, among other things.

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Campana, Christine

PhD (Western Ontario), MA (Carleton)

Assistant Professor
Office
CJMH-3086

Biography

Christine Campana completed her PhD at Western University in 2023.

Daoust, Dr. Gabrielle

PhD (University of Sussex, UK), MSW (University of Calgary)

Assistant Professor
Phone
250-960-6015

Biography

My research focuses on the political economy of conflict, peace-building, and development (with a focus on education development); the relationships between environmental and climate change, water, and insecurity (including implications for conflict and migration); and experiences of violence in

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Duchesne, Dr. Annie

PhD (McGill University)

Associate Professor (on sabbatical)
Phone
250-960-6633

Farhan, Dr. Sara

PhD (York University), MA (University of Western Ontario)

Assistant Professor
Phone
250-960-5759
Office
CJMH-3092

Biography

I am an historian of the modern world with specific interest in medicine, professionalization, and education in the modern Middle East. I have a broad training in cultural and social histories accumulated in interdisciplinary environments.

Guest, Dr. Kristen

PhD (University of Toronto), MA (Western University)

Professor
Phone
250-960-6642
Office
CJMH-3072
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Healy, Dr. Theresa

PhD

Assistant Professor
Phone
250-960-5936
Office
10-3058

Biography

Dr. Theresa Healy has lived and worked in Northern BC since 1994 holding a variety of appointments at UNBC since her arrival. She has a wide range of experiences with community engagement and community-based research related to healthy community development.

Holler, Dr. Jacqueline

PhD (Emory), MA, BA (Simon Fraser University)

Professor
Phone
250-960-6343
Office
CJMH-3003

Biography

Dr. Jacqueline Holler is an historian of early colonial Mexico who also teaches contemporary Latin American history and teaches and conducts research in the area of Gender Studies.

K C, Dr. Luna

PhD, MA (Wageningen University)

Assistant Professor
Office
CJMH-3005

Biography

Hello, my name is Luna K C; I’m an Assistant Professor in Global International Studies at the Faculty of Indigenous Studies, Social Sciences and Humanities.

King, Dr. Jessie

PhD, Human and Health Sciences; MA, First Nations Studies; BSc, Psychology

Assistant Professor
Phone
250-960-6690
Office
CJMH-3059

Biography

Dr. Jessie King, Hadiksm Gaax, is Gitxaała Git Lax M’oon, people of the salt water where her family traces her wil’naat’al (matriline) to Lach Klan while also honouring the Irish/Scottish lineage from her Father. Her family belongs to the Ganhada (Raven Clan).

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LaTosky, Dr. Shauna

Phone
250-960-5641
Office
ADM 3070
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MacDonald, Dr. Fiona

PhD (University of British Columbia), MA (Simon Fraser University), BSW (University of Calgary), BA (Brandon University)

Associate Professor
Chair, Global and International Studies
Co-Chair, International Studies Graduate Program
Phone
250-960-6482
Cell
778-789-1168
Office
CJMH-3058

Biography

Dr. Fiona MacDonald (PhD UBC) is an Assistant Professor specializing in Gender Politics. Dr.

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Margolin, Indrani

RSW, BA Honours (Guelph), MSW (Wilfred Laurier), PhD (OISE Toronto)

Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Cell
778-988-5117
Office
Room 10-2550
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Nolin, Dr. Catherine

BA Geography (University of Calgary), MA, PhD (Queen's University at Kingston, 2000)

Professor, Geography
Department Chair, Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Phone
250-960-5875
Cell
250-961-5875
Office
Teaching Lab 8-148

Biography

I am a social geographer with two broad areas of research interest that connect in many ways and often overlap: Guatemala/Violence/Development/Justice and Migration/Transnationalism/Refugee Studies.

Romanets, Dr. Maryna

PhD University of Saskatchewan, PhD Ukrainian National Academy of Arts and Sciences, MA Chernivtsi State University

Professor
Phone
250-960-6658
Cell
250-617-7783
Fax
250-960-5545
Office
ADM 3079

Biography

Professor Maryna Romanets specializes in contemporary, comparative, postcolonial, world, and women’s literatures, gender, sexuality and cultural studies, and contemporary critical theory.

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Smith, Angele

Associate Professor
Chair, Anthropology
Phone
250-960-6492

Wessell Lightfoot, Dr. Dana

PhD, MA, BA (University of Toronto)

Professor
Departments Chair, History
Phone
250-960-5706
Office
Admin 3010
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Professors Emeriti

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Hemingway, Dawn

MSc, MSW (UNBC), RSW, BA (SFU)

Professor Emerita
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MacPhail, Dr. Fiona

PhD (Dalhousie University); MA (University of Guelph); MA (University of Sussex); BA Hons (University of Guelph)

Professor Emeritus
Phone
250-960-6660
Office
CJMH-3055

Research and Expertise

Areas of Expertise
Paid and unpaid work, gender, and public policy; poverty and inequalities; resource extraction and just transition alternatives; precarious work and the gig economy.