A big shout out to our most recent graduates. We had 7 graduate students and 5 undergraduate Anthropology majors in the December convocation. Many dropped by for cake and faculty tributes at the department before the ceremony.
Congratulations to all our students on this major achievement!
Graduate Students
Kendra Jewell
Thesis: Bailing with a red SOLO® cup: recognition, disregard, and the everyday horror of climate crisis in coastal Florida
Jad Brake
Thesis: Autism in practice: establishing, maintaining, and understanding friendships among autistic adults in British Columbia
Yujie Ji
Thesis: Neither Tibetan nor Chinese: the politics of authentic identities on the Sino-Tibetan borderland
Tyrone Joe-Mayers
Dissertation: Before a ball is kicked: how organizing Coast Salish soccer tournaments resist assimilation
Emily Leischner
Thesis: Captured audio: resource extraction and the collection, stewardship, and return of Nuxalk sound recordings
Sophie McKenzie
Dissertation: The peer comic book project: illustrating peer workers’ experiences working throughout the overdose crisis in the suburban lower mainland
Rachel Roy
Thesis: Museum of Vancouver’s engagement turn: an ethnographic study of institutional transformation
Undergraduate Students
Thea Jane Cadlaon
Jay Hilsden
Ian Jackart
Bronwyn Johnson
Isabella Moyer
Caption (top to bottom, left to right):
Top: UBC President, Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon, Dr. Emily Jean Leischner (PhD grad), Dr. Jennifer Kramer, and Dean, Faculty of Arts, Dr. Claire Haru Crowston.
Row 2: Jay Hilsden (MA grad) and his mother, Tyrone Joe-Meyers (MA grad) and Dr. Michael Blake (Emeritus), Dept Head, Dr. Alexia Bloch and Dr. Rachel Roy (PhD grad)
Row 3: Graduation cake and festivities
Row 4: Dr. Leslie Robertson and Sophie McKenzie (MA grad), Dr. Emily Jean Leischner (PhD grad) and Dr. Jennifer Kramer
Bottom: Dr. Michael Blake (Emeritus), Dr. Camilla Speller, Dr. Alexia Bloch, Dr. Jennifer Kramer, Dr. Leslie Robertson, Dr. Zhichun Jing, and Dr. Bill McKellin (Emeritus)
