University of British Columbia

ANTHROPOLOGY

Alexia Bloch: Russian Far East and Siberia

http://www.arts.ubc.ca/Alexia_Bloch.1899.0.html

SOCIOLOGY

Guppy, Neil: Attitudes to Immigration, Social Inequality in Canada: Patterns, Problems, and Policies

http://www.soci.ubc.ca/index.php?id=11341

Kemple, Thomas M.: Reading Weber Writing: Sociological Allegory and the Vocations of Modernity; W. E. B. DuBois, Georg Simmel, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Rethinking the legacy of post-Marxian critical theories of capitalism (from Marcuse to Bourdieu), post-Weberian histories of occidental rationality (from Parsons to Foucault), and post-Durkheimian cultural analyses of civilizing processes(from Elias to Baudrillard).

http://www.soci.ubc.ca/index.php?id=11324

Roth, Wendy D.:  Current Research — A study of the social impact of DNA ancestry testing on identity, conceptions of race, and social relations with other ethnic and racial groups.

A comparative study (with Nadia Kim) extending Blumer’s theory of race prejudice as a sense of group position to a transnational frame, examining the cases of the Dominican Republic and South Korea.

Completing a book manuscript on how migration to the mainland U.S. affects the racial identities Dominicans and Puerto Ricans. Where most research focuses solely on migrant outcomes, this project adopts a transnational perspective, using qualitative interviews and ethnography in San Juan, Santo Domingo, and New York City to show how migration simultaneously affects conceptions of race and ethnicity in both sending and receiving societies. The book examines whether emergent racial identities help explain the socioeconomic differences between light- and dark-skinned Puerto Ricans and Dominicans in the mainland U.S.
http://www.soci.ubc.ca/index.php?id=11218

Wilkes, Rima : Current Research — Residential Segregation — Many people in Canada and to a greater extent, the United States do not live together in ethnically/racially integrated neighborhoods.Furthermore segregation levels vary considerably between cities. Whilesome cities are fairly integrated others are characterized as having defacto apartheid. My research focuses on understanding why segregationlevels vary so much across North American cities.

Protest by First Nations — During recent decades, there have been several hundred instances ofcollective protest undertaken by First Nations. My research seeks toprovide a sociological understanding of these important events as awhole. Among the topics I am investigating are the characteristics ofFirst Nations whose members have or have not protested, whether thereare variations in levels of First Nation protest across regions inCanada, looking at how media coverage of protest by First Nationsvaries by region, and comparing protest in Canada with protest in theUnited States.

http://www.soci.ubc.ca/index.php?id=11345