UBC Press Experts List

The UBC Press Experts List is a resource for media seeking the opinion of subject matter experts who have published with UBC Press. Experts are available for television, phone and in-person interviews.

Please direct all media inquiries to:

Melissa Pitts, Assistant Director, Eastern Canada Manager (Toronto)
t: (416) 778-7193
Email: pitts@ubcpress.ca

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Subject Areas:
Aboriginal Studies / Asian studies / Anthropology / Cultural Studies / Environment / Gender Studies / History / Law / Military history / Planning / Political Science / Sociology

Author	Area of Expertise	Book
Aboriginal Studies
Jessica Ball	Indigenous-university work	Supporting Indigenous Children's Development
Jean Barman	BC history, missionaries	Good Intentions Gone Awry
Hans Carlson	The James Bay Cree and Canadian environmental and native history	Home Is the Hunter
Julie Cruikshank	Yukon/Native oral history	Do Glaciers Listen?
Hamar Foster	Aboriginal Title and the legal history of Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal relations in Canada, especially with respect to British Columbia and the North	Let Right Be Done, The Grand Experiment
Douglas C. Harris	Fisheries; Aboriginal and treaty rights to fish	Landing Native Fisheries
Ailsa Henderson	Electoral behaviour, Nunavut, Inuit land claims, devolution, institutional reform, political culture	Nunavut
Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox	Circumpolar and Arctic Studies, Canadian Aboriginal Policy	Finding Dahshaa
Laurence J. Kirmayer	Cultural psychiatry, Aboriginal mental health	Healing Traditions
John Sutton Lutz	BC history, Native studies; aboriginal-settler relations	Makúk
R.G. Matson	BC archaeology	Emerging from the Mist
Lisa Matthewson	Sta'at'imc/linguistics	When I Was Small - I Wan Kwikws
Renisa Mawani	Law; anthropology/Native studies; cultural studies; history	Colonial Proximities
Bruce Miller	Coast Salish	Be of Good Mind
Gerta Moray	Emily Carr	Unsettling Encounters
Heather Raven	Aboriginal Title	Let Right Be Done
Martine J. Reid	First Nations art (aesthetic anthropology), and oral history	Paddling to Where I Stand
Gabrielle Slowey	First Nations governance	Navigating Neoliberalism
Annis May Timpson	Nunavut; Indigenous thinking; Indigenous language politics, employment equity	First Nations, First Thoughts
Christopher Walmsley	First Nations, child welfare	Protecting Aboriginal Children
Jeremy Webber	Aboriginal Title	Let Right Be Done
Asian Studies
Jeffrey W. Alexander	History of Japan's motorcycle industry, History of motorcycling in Japan	Japan's Motorcycle Wars
Stephanie Bangarth	Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians during the Second World War	Voices Raised in Protest
Greg Donaghy	History of Canadian foreign policy, including Canada's relations with Japan and the Asia-Pacific region	Contradictory Impulses
Diana Lary	History of China	The Chinese State at the Borders
Helen Hok-Sze Leung	Chinese Cinema & Culture; Gender & Sexuality Studies	Undercurrents
Hsiao-ting Lin	Contemporary China	Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier
Patricia E. Roy	Historian of non-Asian community response to Chinese and Japanese immigrants	The Oriental Question, Contradictory Impulses
David Webster	History, Political science, Asian studies	Fire and the Full Moon
Anthropology
R.G. Matson	BC archaeology	Emerging from the Mist
Lisa Matthewson	Sta'at'imc/linguistics	When I Was Small - I Wan Kwikws
Renisa Mawani	Law; anthropology/Native studies; cultural studies; history	Colonial Proximities
Bruce Miller	Coast Salish	Be of Good Mind
Gerta Moray	Emily Carr	Unsettling Encounters
Martine J. Reid	First Nations art (aesthetic anthropology), and oral history	Paddling to Where I Stand
Cultural Studies
Darin Barney	Communications	Communication Technology, Prometheus Wired
Sheila L. Cavanagh	Public and professional responses to female teacher sex scandals	Sexing the Teacher
Hoi F. Cheu	Film studies, women’s studies and cultural studies	Cinematic Howling
Laurence J. Kirmayer	Cultural psychiatry, Aboriginal mental health	Healing Traditions
Helen Hok-Sze Leung	Chinese Cinema & Culture; Gender & Sexuality Studies	Undercurrents
Jean L. Manore	Hunting	The Culture of Hunting in Canada
Renisa Mawani	Law; anthropology/Native studies; cultural studies; history	Colonial Proximities
Michael Mehta	Technology & Society	Biotechnology Unglued
Lydia Miljan	Media	Hidden Agendas
Rod Preece	Animal Rights and Vegetarianism	Sins of the Flesh
Nicholas Russell	media/communications	Morals and the Media, 2nd Edition
David Taras	media, communications, domestic politics	The Last Word
Sharon Wall	Environmental history, history, cultural studies	The Nurture of Nature
Environment
Derek Armitage	Resource governance	Adaptive Co-Management
Fikret Berkes	Resource governance	Adaptive Co-Management
Fred L. Bunnell	Climate change and biodiversity	Forestry and Biodiversity
David R. Boyd	Environment	Unnatural Law
Hans Carlson	The James Bay Cree and Canadian environmental and native history	Home Is the Hunter
Nancy Doubleday	Resource governance	Adaptive Co-Management
Glen Dunsworth	Climate change and biodiversity	Forestry and Biodiversity
Kathryn Harrison	Environmental politics	Racing to the Bottom?
Michael Howlett	Resource policy	Canadian Natural Resource and Environment Policy, 1st and 2nd Editions
Mark Jaccard	Climate change	The Cost of Climate Policy
Barry Smit	Agriculture and Climate Change	Farming in a Changing Climate
Rod Preece	Animal Rights and Vegetarianism	Sins of the Flesh
Chris Tollefson	Forest policy	The Wealth of Forests, cleanair.ca, Setting the Standard
Sharon Wall	Environmental history, history, cultural studies	The Nurture of Nature
Gender Studies
Yasmeen Abu-Laban	Gender and politics	Gendering the Nation-State
Sylvia Bashevkin	Political Science, Gender Studies	Opening Doors Wider
Susan B. Boyd	Resistance to feminism	Reaction and Resistance
Carellin Brooks	sexuality studies	Every Inch a Woman
Catherine A. Cavanaugh	western women's history	Telling Tales
Sheila L. Cavanagh	Public and professional responses to female teacher sex scandals	Sexing the Teacher
Dorothy E. Chunn	Resistance to feminism	Reaction and Resistance
Marjorie Griffin Cohen	gender and economics	Training the Excluded for Work
Donald G. Dutton	domestic violence/psychology	Rethinking Domestice Violence
Patrizia Gentile	Critical perspectives on national security and sexual regulation; queer history; history of beauty contests and the body; gender history and the history of sexuality; the October Crisis	The Canadian War on Queers
Nancy Janovicek	Battered women’s shelter movement in Canada	No Place to Go
Leslie Ann Jeffrey	gender; sex trade; politics	Sex Workers in the Maritimes Talk Back
Christopher N. Kendall	Gay and lesbian legal rights / Discrimination / Equality / Law reform	Gay Male Pornography
Gary Kinsman	Critical perspectives on national security and sexual regulation; queer struggles; the social organization of knowledge and institutional ethnography	The Canadian War on Queers
Hester Lessard	Resistance to feminism	Reaction and Resistance
Helen Hok-Sze Leung	Chinese Cinema & Culture; Gender & Sexuality Studies	Undercurrents
Gayle MacDonald	gender; sex trade; feminism, women and the law, sex trade on health	Sex Workers in the Maritimes Talk Back
Lindsey McMaster	Western Canadian history; women’s history; Canadian literature	Working Girls in the West
Jean Bobby Noble	sexuality studies	Masculinities without Men?
Becki Ross	Sexuality Studies / Sexuality and Gender issues	N/A
History
Jeffrey W. Alexander	History of Japan's motorcycle industry, History of motorcycling in Japan	Japan's Motorcycle Wars
Stephanie Bangarth	Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians during the Second World War	Voices Raised in Protest
Jean Barman	BC history, missionaries	Good Intentions Gone Awry
Y.A. Bennett	Military History, Canadian History, Letters	Kiss the kids for dad, Don’t forget to write
Benjamin L. Berger	Issues of law and religion, criminal law, and constitutional law, history, and theory	The Grand Experiment
A.R. Buck	Comparative legal history	The Grand Experiment
Fred L. Bunnell	Climate change and biodiversity	Forestry and Biodiversity
Hans Carlson	The James Bay Cree and Canadian environmental and native history	Home Is the Hunter
Michael Carroll	Canadian history, diplomatic and political	Pearson's Peacekeepers
Greg Donaghy	History of Canadian foreign policy, including Canada's relations with Japan and the Asia-Pacific region	Contradictory Impulses
John Douglas Belshaw	Population and community studies	Becoming British Columbia
Judith Hudson Beattie	History of the Hudson's Bay Company	Undelivered Letters to Hudson's Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-58
Phillip Buckner	Canadian history, British Empire	Canada and the End of Empire, Canada and the British World
Michael Carroll	Canadian history, diplomatic and political	Pearson's Peacekeepers
Catherine A. Cavanaugh	Western women's history	Telling Tales
Dominique Clément	Canadian History/ Social Movements/ Canadian Politics/ Activism	Canada's Rights Revolution
Serge Courville	Quebec historical geography	Quebec
Glen Dunsworth	Climate change and biodiversity	Forestry and Biodiversity
Magda Fahrni	Post-war Canada	Creating Postwar Canada
John Farley	history; health; political science	Brock Chisholm, the World Health Organization, and the Cold War
Hamar Foster	Aboriginal Title and the legal history of Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal relations in Canada, especially with respect to British Columbia and the North	Let Right Be Done, The Grand Experiment
R. Douglas Francis	Canadian intellectual history, British Empire	Canada and the British World, The Technological Imperative in Canada
Patrizia Gentile	Critical perspectives on national security and sexual regulation; queer history; history of beauty contests and the body; gender history and the history of sexuality; the October Crisis	The Canadian War on Queers
David Jacques Goutor	Immigration and Labour	Guarding the Gates
Douglas C. Harris	Fisheries; Aboriginal and treaty rights to fish	Landing Native Fisheries
Nancy Janovicek	Battered women’s shelter movement in Canada	No Place to Go
Jose E. Igartua	Canadian history/post-WW2	The Other Quiet Revolution
Jo Fraser Jones	Okanagan history	Hobnobbing with a Countess and Other Okanagan Adventures
Gary Kinsman	Critical perspectives on national security and sexual regulation; queer struggles; the social organization of knowledge and institutional ethnography	The Canadian War on Queers
Michael Kluckner	BC history/art	Vanishing British Columbia
Diana Lary	History of China	The Chinese State at the Borders
John Sutton Lutz	BC history, Native studies; aboriginal-settler relations	Makúk
Don MacGillivray	Pelagic sealing, Maritimers in Victoria’s sealing fleet	Captain Alex MacLean
Lindsey McMaster	Western Canadian history; women’s history; Canadian literature	Working Girls in the West
Desmond Morton	Canadian History; Military History	Fight or Pay
Michael Petrou	Military History, Canadian History, Labour History	Renegades
Rod Preece	Animal Rights and Vegetarianism	Sins of the Flesh
Patricia E. Roy	Historian of non-Asian community response to Chinese and Japanese immigrants	The Oriental Question, Contradictory Impulses
Robert Rutherdale	Post-war Canada	Creating Postwar Canada
Amy J. Shaw	Conscientious Objection in Canada	Crisis of Conscience
Shirley Tillotson	Canadian History	Contributing Citizens
Cynthia Toman	Nursing History	An Officer and a Lady
Sharon Wall	Environmental history, history, cultural studies	The Nurture of Nature
David Webster	History, Political science, Asian studies	Fire and the Full Moon
Law
Catherine Bell	Dispute resolution/First Nations/law	Intercultural Dispute Resolution in Aboriginal Contexts
Benjamin L. Berger	Issues of law and religion, criminal law, and constitutional law, history, and theory	The Grand Experiment
David R. Boyd	Environment	Unnatural Law
Susan B. Boyd	Public welfare Law and Legislation, Poverty, Social rights, Human rights, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom	Poverty, Reaction and Resistance
Gwen Brodsky	Public welfare Law and Legislation, Poverty, Social rights, Human rights, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom	Poverty
A.R. Buck	Comparative legal history	The Grand Experiment
Cynthia L. Cates	Law; Politics	Multi-Party Litigation
Dorothy E. Chunn	Resistance to feminism	Reaction and Resistance
Catherine Dauvergne	Immigration, refugee and citizenship law	Humanitarianism, Identity, and Nation
Ronald B. Davis	Pension Funds	Democratizing Pension Funds
Shelagh Day	Public welfare Law and Legislation, Poverty, Social rights, Human rights, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom	Poverty
Richard Devlin	Critical equality theory, and legal ethics and professional responsibility	Critical Disability Theory
Alvin J. Esau	Religion and law	The Courts and the Colonies
Hamar Foster	Aboriginal Title and the legal history of Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal relations in Canada, especially with respect to British Columbia and the North	Let Right Be Done, The Grand Experiment
Ian Greene	Courts; law	The Courts
Douglas C. Harris	Fisheries; Aboriginal and treaty rights to fish	Landing Native Fisheries
Christopher N. Kendall	Gay and lesbian legal rights / Discrimination / Equality / Law reform	Gay Male Pornography
Gayle MacDonald	gender; sex trade; feminism, women and the law, sex trade on health	Sex Workers in the Maritimes Talk Back
Julie Macfarlane	Practice of Law, Dispute Resoluation Law	The New Lawyer
Wayne V. McIntosh	Law; Politics	Multi-Party Litigation
Richard Moon	Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Expression	Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada
Christopher P. Manfredi	charter issues, judicial politics	Feminist Activism in the Supreme Court
Renisa Mawani	Law; anthropology/Native studies; cultural studies; history	Colonial Proximities
John McLaren	British Empire, property rights	Despotic Dominion, Regulating Lives
Dianne Pothier	Disabilities, equality rights	Critical Disability Theory
Anna Pratt	Immigration, refugees	Securing Borders
Heather Raven	Aboriginal Title	Let Right Be Done
Jeremy Webber	Aboriginal Title	Let Right Be Done
Margot Young	Public welfare Law and Legislation, Poverty, Social rights, Human rights, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom	Poverty
Military History
Y.A. Bennett	Military History, Canadian History, Letters	Kiss the kids for dad, Don’t forget to write
Michael Carroll	Canadian history, diplomatic and political	Pearson's Peacekeepers
Jose E. Igartua	Canadian history/post-WW2	The Other Quiet Revolution
Desmond Morton	Canadian History; Military History	Fight or Pay
Michael Petrou	Military History, Canadian History, Labour History	Renegades
Amy J. Shaw	Conscientious Objection in Canada	Crisis of Conscience
Planning
Carolyn Whitzman	Health impacts of urban planning	Suburb, Slum, Urban Village
Political Science
Yasmeen Abu-Laban	Gender and politics	Gendering the Nation-State
Peter Andrée	Political science, environmental studies, sociology	Genetically Modified Diplomacy
Caroline Andrew	Municipal policy, gender and health and diversity policy	Electing a Diverse Canada
Stephanie Bangarth	Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians during the Second World War	Voices Raised in Protest
Stephen Baranyi	Political Science, Peace & Conflict Studies, International Relations, Security Studies	The Paradoxes of Peacebuilding Post-9/11
Sylvia Bashevkin	Political Science, Gender Studies	Opening Doors Wider
Robert Bothwell	Politics and political diplomacy	Canada and Quebec
David R. Cameron	Political Science, Sociology, Canadian Studies	Language Matters
Cynthia L. Cates	Law; Politics	Multi-Party Litigation
Stephen Clarkson	Canadian politics, the Liberal Party, and Canadian-American relations	The Big Red Machine
Dominique Clément	Canadian History/ Social Movements/ Canadian Politics/ Activism	Canada's Rights Revolution
William D. Coleman	Globalization	Renegotiating Community, Global Ordering
John C. Courtney	Canadian and Comparative Government, Party Conventions	Elections
William Cross	Political Parties, Representation and Electoral Democracy in Canada	Political Parties, Rebuilding Canadian Party Politics
David Docherty	Canadian political system, Canadian legislature	Legislatures
Joanna Everitt	Political Science and gender	Advocacy Groups
Leonard Ferry	Emotions in modern liberal and democratic politics	Bringing the Passions Back In
Elisabeth Gidengil	Voting Behaviour and Public Opinion; Gender and the Mass media;  Gender and Representation.	Citizens
Josh Greenberg	Law, sociology, politics	Surveillance
Kathryn Harrison	Environmental politics	Racing to the Bottom?
Michael Hart	Canadian foreign trade policy	From Pride to Influence
Ailsa Henderson	Electoral behaviour, Nunavut, Inuit land claims, devolution, institutional reform, political culture	Nunavut
Sean Hier	Law, sociology, politics	Surveillance
Leslie Ann Jeffrey	Gender; sex trade; politics	Sex Workers in the Maritimes Talk Back
Kurt F. Jensen	Canadian intelligence community; intelligence and security	Cautious Beginnings
James B. Kelly	Charter issues, judicial politics	Governing with the Charter
Rebecca E.D. Kingston	Emotions in modern liberal and democratic politics	Bringing the Passions Back In
Christopher J. Kukucha	Canadian foreign trade policy	The Provinces and Canadian Foreign Trade Policy
Daniel Madar	Political Science, Economics, Industrial Relations	Big Steel
Christopher P. Manfredi	charter issues, judicial politics	Feminist Activism in the Supreme Court
Wayne V. McIntosh	Law; Politics	Multi-Party Litigation
Louis W. Pauly	Politics of global economic and financial institutions	Global Ordering
Richard Simeon	Political Science, Sociology, Canadian Studies	Language Matters
Gabrielle Slowey	First Nations governance	Navigating Neoliberalism
Jennifer Smith	Canadian Government and Politics, comparative federalism	Federalism
Ian Stewart	Maritime politics and Leadership selection	Conventional Choices, Roasting Chestnuts
David Stewart	Maritime politics	Conventional Choices, Quasi-Democracy
David Webster	History, Political science, Asian studies	Fire and the Full Moon
Graham White	structures and processes of Canadian government, particularly at the provincial and territorial level	Cabinets and First Ministers, Cycling into Saigon
Lisa Young	Canadian political parties, women's participation in politics, interest groups and social movements and the regulation of electoral finance	Advocacy Groups
Sociology
Susan B. Boyd	Resistance to feminism, Public welfare Law and Legislation, Poverty, Social rights, Human rights, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom	Poverty, Reaction and Resistance
Gwen Brodsky	Public welfare Law and Legislation, Poverty, Social rights, Human rights, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom	Poverty
Sheila L. Cavanagh	Public and professional responses to female teacher sex scandals	Sexing the Teacher
Dominique Clément	Canadian History/ Social Movements/ Canadian Politics/ Activism	Canada's Rights Revolution
Shelagh Day	Public welfare Law and Legislation, Poverty, Social rights, Human rights, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom	Poverty
Donald G. Dutton	domestic violence/psychology	Rethinking Domestice Violence
Patrizia Gentile	Critical perspectives on national security and sexual regulation; queer history; history of beauty contests and the body; gender history and the history of sexuality; the October Crisis	The Canadian War on Queers
Josh Greenberg	Law, sociology, politics	Surveillance
Sean Hier	Law, sociology, politics	Surveillance
Gary Kinsman	Critical perspectives on national security and sexual regulation; queer struggles; the social organization of knowledge and institutional ethnography	The Canadian War on Queers
Hester Lessard	Resistance to feminism	Reaction and Resistance
Renisa Mawani	Law; anthropology/Native studies; cultural studies; history	Colonial Proximities
Sheryl Nestel	Sociology and Equity Studies; Critical Race Theory	Obstructed Labour
Dianne Pothier	disabilities, equality rights	Critical Disability Theory
Margot Young	Public welfare Law and Legislation, Poverty, Social rights, Human rights, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom	Poverty