We want to bring together a diverse range of academic perspectives to enrich the experience of students pursuing interdisciplinary pathways.
The Interdisciplinary Scholars can serve as mentors, helping you develop and carry out your unique academic trajectories across disciplinary boundaries.
Alfred Hermida, Professor in the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media
email alfred.hermida@ubc.ca
Research interests: Transformation of media, journalism innovation, and AI
Farid Laroussi, Professor in the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies
email farid.laroussi@ubc.ca
Research interests: Literatures and Cultures in French
Jason Lieblang, Associate Professor of Teaching and Director of First-Year and Interdisciplinary Programs for Arts in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies
email jason.lieblang@ubc.ca
Research interests: Curriculum design, emerging technologies in foreign language learning, translation, teaching with and about comics, gender and sexuality in the theatre, the culture of the Weimar Republic, and horror cinema
Biz Nijdam, Assistant Professor of Teaching and Director of Undergraduate Studies – German in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies
email biz.nijdam@ubc.ca
Research interests: Representation of history in comics, comics and new media on forced migration, intersections between Indigenous studies and German, European, and migration studies, and feminist methodologies in the graphic arts
Alex Tavasoli, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering
email alex.tavasoli@ubc.ca
Research interests: Industrial decarbonization, community-based and/or distributed infrastructure, chemical and materials manufacturing processes, carbon dioxide capture and conversion, photocatalysis
Matthew Tomkinson, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies
email mtomkins@mail.ubc.ca
Research interests: Theatre studies, musical composition, cinema studies, and disability studies
Dante Prado, PhD Candidate in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies
email dante.prado@ubc.ca
Research interests: Late 18th through 20th-centry German literature, culture, and philosophy. In particular, modernist works and the relationship between laughter and culture
Charlotte Taylor, graduate student in the Master of Arts in Planning with the School of Community and Regional Planning
email charlotte.taylor@ubc.ca
Research interests: Climate justice, environmental planning, and community-owned energy