Dean of Arts Clare Crowston has announced the appointment of Professor Althea Thauberger as Academic Director of the Public Humanities Hub from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2027. Professor Althea Thauberger is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory. Prior to joining UBC in 2018, Professor Thauberger taught for close to 15 years at a number of institutions, including the University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University, and Emily Carr University. She was also a Guest Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Artist-in-Residence at Concordia University, and Guest Professor at Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in Karachi. Professor Thauberger is an artist, filmmaker and educator known for place-based experimental documentary projects that emerge from long-term collaborative processes and immersive social and historical research.
We express our huge thanks to Dr. Mary Bryson for their vital contributions to PHH over the last two years, expanding its funding programs and resources to support public humanities research and knowledge mobilization activities by faculty and graduate students at UBC, building interdisciplinary connections between the three collaborating Faculties—Arts, Education, and Law—and expanding publicly engaged programs that redistribute access to diverse publics.
We look forward to carrying out PHH’s mission to support interdisciplinary, collaborative, public humanities research at UBC under Prof. Thauberger’s leadership.
June 30, 2025