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Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science
Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of British Columbia Okanagan
1147 Research Road
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7
Canada
Email: epp.okanagan@ubc.ca
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Holger Andreas | Associate Professor | Global Studies, Philosophy, Power, Conflict and Ideas | holger.andreas@ubc.ca | 250.807.8130 | SCI 211
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Philosophy of science, formal epistemology, logic.
Courses & Teaching: Philosophy of science, logic, metaphysics, and epistemology.
Kenneth Carlaw (On Leave) | Professor | Economics | kenneth.carlaw@ubc.ca | 250.807.9264 | SCI 263
Research Interests: Evolutionary economics applied to historical technological change and sustainable long term economic growth; application in policy analysis of economic growth, development and sustainability as well in the development of measurement methodology; analysis of issues of socially just wealth distribution.
Courses & Teaching: Macroeconomics; strategic thinking; economic growth; productivity and technological change.
Ana Cortes Ceron | Senior Department Assistant | Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, History | ana.cortes@ubc.ca | ART 260
Andrea Craig | Assistant Professor | Economics, Global Studies, Sustainability (IGS) | andrea.craig@ubc.ca | 250.807.9345 | ASC 265
Graduate student supervisor. Only Masters supervision for IGS themes Global Studies and Sustainability.
Research Interests: Urban Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Courses & Teaching: Principles of Microeconomics, Urban Economics
Catherine Craig (On Leave) | Assistant Professor | Political Science | Ce.craig@ubc.ca | 250.807.8443 | ART 239
Research Interests: History of Political Philosophy; Politics and Literature; Politics and Art; Politics and Myths; Classical Political Thought; Plato
Wei Dai | Assistant Professor | Economics | wei.dai@ubc.ca | 250.807.9340 | ART 233
Research Interests: Macroeconomics; Monetary Economics; Applied Econometrics; Time Series Analysis; Index Number Theory
B. Curtis Eaton | Adjunct Professor | Economics | eaton@ucalgary.ca | 250.872.9511
Research Interests: Applied microeconomic theory; evolutionary game theory; the economics of social interaction and well-being.
Manfred Elfstrom | Associate Professor | Global Studies, International Relations, Political Science | manfred.elfstrom@ubc.ca | 250.807.8675 | ART243
Research Interests: Chinese politics; social movements; labor; authoritarianism.
Courses & Teaching: Politics of China (POLI 314); Social Movements and Contentious Politics (POLI 413); Authoritarianism (POLI 322); Problems in International Relations: Chinese Foreign Relations (POLI 464H); Introduction to Comparative Politics (POLI 220); Global Studies Panorama (IGS 588).
Brad Epperly | Associate Professor | Global Studies, Political Science | brad.epperly@ubc.ca | ART 229
Research Interests: Rule of law; law and politics; democracy and authoritarianism; postcommunist politics
Courses & Teaching: Introduction to Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (POLI 223); Contemporary European Politics (POLI 464)
Renaud-Philippe Garner | Assistant Professor | Philosophy | r_p.garner@ubc.ca | ART 277
Research Interests: The intersection of political and moral philosophy; collective identity and loyalty, e.g. nationalism and patriotism; ethics of war and issues related to social learning and social trust among many others.
Giovanni B. Grandi | Associate Professor | Philosophy, Power, Conflict and Ideas | giovanni.grandi@ubc.ca | ART 230
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Early modern philosophy, history of economic thought
Courses & Teaching: Early modern philosophy, logic and critical thinking, Austrian school of economics
Anmol Grewal (On Leave) | Department Administrative Assistant | Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, History, Sociology | anmol.grewal@ubc.ca | ART 323
Thomas Heilke | Professor | Global Studies, Political Science, Power, Conflict and Ideas | thomas.heilke@ubc.ca | 250.807.8539 | ART 239
Research Interests: Political philosophy and theory; classical political thought; modern political thought; political theology; religion and politics; political ideologies; international relations in political philosophy.
Courses & Teaching: Political philosophy; history of political thought; religion and politics; international relations in political philosophy.
Maxime Heroux-Legault | Assistant Professor | Global Studies, Political Science, Power, Conflict and Ideas | maxime.heroux-legault@ubc.ca | 250.807.9606 | ART 225
Research Interests: Canadian Politics, Research Methods, Election studies
Courses & Teaching: Canadian Politics, Research Methods, Election studies
Ross Hickey | Associate Professor | Economics, Faculty of Management | ross.hickey@ubc.ca | 250.807.8653 | EME 4155
Research Interests: Public finance and political economy; fiscal policy (government expenditure and taxation) and how it is influenced by interactions within a hierarchy of governments (municipal, provincial and federal); elections; lobbying activity.
Courses & Teaching: Public finance; empirical economics; macroeconomics
Min Hu | Associate Professor | Economics, Global Studies, Sustainability (IGS) | min.hu@ubc.ca | ART 334
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Health Economics; Public Health; Applied Microeconomics; Labour Economics; Sports Economics
Courses & Teaching: Microeconomics; Health Economics; Sports Economics; Labour Economics; Managerial Economics
Andrew Irvine | Professor | Global Studies, Philosophy | andrew.irvine@ubc.ca | 250.807.9704 | ART 309
Research Interests: Bertrand Russell, censorship, and the rule of law.
Courses & Teaching: Introduction to philosophy, logic, philosophy of law.
Khan Jahirul Islam, PhD | Lecturer | Economics | khan.islam@ubc.ca | ART 231
Graduate student supervisor. By request at the approval of the Department and/or Dean’s Office.
Research Interests: Economic Development; Financial Inclusion; Economics of Household.
Courses & Teaching: Economic Development; Labour Economics, Data Analysis;
Money and Banking; Financial Economics;
Introduction to Mathematical Economics; Managerial Economics;
Economics of the Environment; Intermediate Macroeconomics;
Principles of Microeconomics
John Janmaat | Professor | Economics, Global Studies, Sustainability (IGS) | john.janmaat@ubc.ca | ART 255
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Environmental and resource economics, with an emphasis on the role of environmental services.
Courses & Teaching: Primary: Knowledge mobilization and sustainability policy; Environmental economics; Natural resource economics. Occasionally: Cost benefit analysis; Experimental economics; Development economics.
James Johnson | Associate Professor | Economics | ja.johnson@ubc.ca | 250.807.9391 | ART 232
Research Interests: Labour economics and the economics of education.
Courses & Teaching: Empirical economics; methods of empirical research.
Adam Jones | Professor | Global Studies, Political Science | adam.jones@ubc.ca | ART 257
Research Interests: Genocide and structural violence; crimes against humanity; gender and violence; gender and international political economy; research impacts human rights policymaking and social activism, gender and development policies, humanitarian intervention and peacebuilding, and international law.
Courses & Teaching: Genocide studies; human rights; gender and international relations; mass media.
David Macdonald | Assistant Professor | Economics | david.macdonald@ubc.ca | ART 275
Research Interests: Crime and the criminal justice system, public economics and labour economics.
Christopher Martin | Director, Centre for Mindful Engagement | Education, Philosophy | christopher.martin@ubc.ca | 250.807.8427 | EME 3159
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Philosophy of education; educational ethics; the aims of higher education; education for democracy
Courses & Teaching: Philosophical Inquiry in Education
Controversial Issues in Education
Conceptions of Teaching and Learning
Policy and Education
Noriko Ozawa | Department Head, Associate Professor | Economics | noriko.ozawa@ubc.ca | 250.807.9303 | ART 266
Research Interests: Industrial organization; applied microeconomics; applied game theory; understanding how firms determine their vertical boundaries and arrange their relationships with suppliers and customers; examines the organizational forms employed by Japanese firms by focusing on their effectiveness for coordinating various production activities.
Courses & Teaching: Consumer behaviour; firm and market structure; business strategy; game theory.
Kit Pasula | Associate Professor | Economics | kit.pasula@ubc.ca | ART 238
Research Interests: Macroeconomics; international economics; monetary economics.
Courses & Teaching: ECON 340 - Financial Economics; ECON 356 - International Finance; ECON 402 - Applied Macroeconomic Analysis
Julien Picault | Professor | Economics | julien.picault@ubc.ca | ASC 450
Research Interests: Economic Education and Pedagogy, Labour Economics, Discrimination, and Industrial Organization.
Courses & Teaching: ECON 370 - Benefit-Cost Analysis and the Economics of Project Evaluation; ECON 102 - Principles of Macroeconomics; ECON 351 - Women in the Economy
Madeleine Ransom | Associate Professor | Global Studies, Philosophy, Power, Conflict and Ideas | madeleine.ransom@ubc.ca | ART 338
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Philosophy of Perception; Philosophy of Cognitive Science; Philosophy of Technology; Epistemology; Aesthetics.
Courses & Teaching: Philosophy of Technology
Pamela Robinson | Assistant Professor | Philosophy | pamela.robinson@ubc.ca | ART 241
Research Interests: Rationality; Ethics & Metaethics; Epistemology; AI Ethics & Safety.
James Rochlin | Professor | Global Studies, Political Science | james.rochlin@ubc.ca | 250.807.9388 | ART 256
Research Interests: Research Summary: Latin American security and political economy, Critical Security Studies, and Global Politics Theory.
Rallye Shen | Assistant Professor | Economics, Global Studies, Power, Conflict and Ideas | rallye.shen@ubc.ca | 250.807.8158 | ART 272
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Urban economics, economic history
Courses & Teaching: Econometrics; Data and Statistics
Roger Shiner | Adjunct Professor | Philosophy | roger.shiner@ubc.ca | 250.470.0333
Research Interests: Philosophy of Law; criminal law, esp. as concerns corporations; freedom of expression, esp. as concerns corporations; 20th-century analytical philosophy of law
Courses & Teaching: Most recently taught Philosophy of Law, Business Ethics, Computer Ethics, Contemporary Moral Issues
Geoffrey Sigalet | Assistant Professor | Political Science, Power, Conflict and Ideas | geoffrey.sigalet@ubc.ca | ART 234
Research Interests: Canadian Charter Rights and Public Policy, Federalism, Constitutional Theory, Theories of Constitutional Interpretation, Judicial Politics, Comparative Constitutional Law, and Democratic Theory.
Courses & Teaching: Canadian Charter Politics, Federalism, Comparative Constitutional Law, Democratic Theory.
Manuela Ungureanu (On Leave) | Associate Professor | Philosophy | manuela.ungureanu@ubc.ca | 250.807.9375 | ART 236
Research Interests: Social epistemology, philosophy of language, translation studies, philosophy of social sciences.
Courses & Teaching: Philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophy of social sciences.
Wendy Wong | Professor | Digital Arts and Humanities, Global Studies, Political Science | w.wong@ubc.ca | LM4 619
Courses & Teaching: Human rights; global governance; international relations
Helen Yanacopulos | Professor | Global Studies, Political Science, Power, Conflict and Ideas | helen.yanacopulos@ubc.ca | LM4 621
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: International Development; civil society and NGOs; strategy and transnational networks; political communication; international norms; anti-slavery; conflict and development, Human Rights.
Courses & Teaching: International Development; Governance and Public Policy, International Relations; Conflict, Global Studies, Global Citizenship.
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