Sydney Lines

Sydney Lines


PhD Candidate, Department of English Language and Literatures
Email: sydney.lines@ubc.ca

Sydney Lines (she/her/hers) has several years experience working in higher education, museums, and in various kinds of cultural programming. She is a multifaceted creative thinker who loves big ideas, memorable stories, and gathering communities through participation in arts and culture. She started at the Hub as a Graduate Academic Assistant in 2019 and completed two PhD Arts Co-op terms as the Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives for the Hub during Fall 2020 and Fall 2022.

Research Area: Long C19 & Early C20 Transatlantic Literature, Community Engagement, Digital Humanities, Experience Design, Marketing & Communications

Graduate, Public Scholarship

Renisa Mawani

Renisa Mawani smiling, wearing a white top, with concrete wall in the background


Professor, Sociology
Canada Research Chair in Colonial Legal Histories Composition
Email: renisa@mail.ubc.ca

Renisa Mawani is Canada Research Chair in Colonial Legal Histories and Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, located on the unceded territories of the Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) peoples. From 2022-2025 she is a Global Professorial Fellow at the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London. Renisa is the author of Colonial Proximities (University of British Columbia Press, 2009) and Across Oceans of Law (Duke University Press, 2018), which was a finalist for the U.K. Socio-Legal Studies Association Theory and History Book Prize (2020) and winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Prize for Outstanding Contribution to History (2020). With Antoinette Burton, she is co-editor of Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times (Duke University Press, 2020). With Antoinette Burton and Samantha Frost, she is co-editor of Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Imperial Life Worlds (forthcoming, 2024).

Research Area: Colonial Legal History; Critical Theory, Race and Racism; Affect; Time and Temporality; Oceans and Maritime Worlds; Settler Colonialism and Migration; Colonial India and the Diaspora; More-than-human Worlds

André Elias Mazawi


Head and Professor, Department of Educational Studies
Email: andre.mazawi@ubc.ca

Dr. André Elias Mazawi serves as Head, Professor, and Sociologist of Education, in the Department of Educational Studies, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (BC), Canada. He is Affiliate Professor with the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research at the University of Malta, and an Affiliate Researcher with the Équipe de Recherche en Dimensions Internationales de l’Éducation (ERDIE) at the University of Geneva. His academic interests are in the areas of the cultural politics of schooling and higher education, the intersections between colonialism and education, with particular attention to the effects of privatization and geopolitics on schooling and educational policies, school governance, and school-higher education restructuring in the Arab region.

Research Area: Adult education, Citizenship and democracy, Higher Education, International Comparative Higher Education, International Development Education, Media and democracy, Policy, Post-colonial studies, Research methodologies, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Higher Education