Our Scholar Spotlight Stories aim to showcase and celebrate the breadth and depth of humanities research at UBC by spotlighting humanities faculty, staff, and students whose work is community-engaged, public-facing, and/or produced in and with the public. These spotlights also ask scholars to reflect broadly on the value and process of public scholarship, who it serves, and how it’s done.
Do you know a UBC humanities scholar whose work we should spotlight? Send us a note and consider nominating them for our Public Humanities Hub Public Engagement Award.
Scholar Spotlights
Julen Etxabe
Assistant Professor in the Allard School of Law; and in his philosophy towards public scholarship with the Canadian Network of Law & Humanities (CNLH) and as an advisory board member of the Public Humanities Hub.
Denise Fong
Denise Fong is currently a PhD candidate at UBC’s Interdisciplinary Studies and recently started her new role as Curator of Urban Cultures at the Museum of Vancouver. She is a 2023 recipient of the Public Engagement Award.
Maria Carbonetti
Dr. Maria Carbonetti is a lecturer in the Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies (FHIS) and a director of Spanish for Community, a community-based experiential learning initiative at the FHIS she created in 2016.
David Ng
David Ng is a queer, feminist, media artist, and co-Artistic Director of Love Intersections. He is currently a PhD candidate at UBC’s Social Justice Institute, and holds a Master of Social Sciences from the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town.
Heidi Tworek
Dr. Heidi Tworek (she/her/hers) is a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) and Associate Professor, jointly appointed at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and History
Jon Beasley-Murray
Dr. Jon Beasley-Murray (he/him/his) is an Associate Professor of Spanish in UBC’s French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies Department.
Hessam Dehghani
Dr. Hessam Dehghani (he/him/his) is an Assistant Professor of teaching in Persian literature and founder of the UBC Persian Literature Reading Club.
Michelle Stack
Dr. Michelle Stack (she/her/hers) is a 2021 recipient of the Hub’s Public Engagement Award and an Associate Professor in UBC Department of Educational Studies.
Erin Goheen Glanville
Dr. Erin Goheen Glanville (she/her/hers) received Honorable Mention for the Hub’s 2021 Public Engagement Award and is a faculty member in the Coordinated Arts Program.
Joash Gambarage
Dr. Joash J. Gambarage (he/him/his) is a 2021 recipient of the Hub’s Public Engagement Award and a Sessional Lecturer of Linguistics in UBC Language Sciences.