Research We Do

Katelin Albert

Assistant Professor
Sociology

Research Interests: vaccination politics, health behaviours and health decision making, sexual health & sex-education, gendered health technologies (such as the HPV vaccine)

External Links:
katelinalbert.com

 

Cecilia Benoit

Professor & Scientist 
Sociology & Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research

Research Interests: sexuality;  gender; sex work; social determinants of health

External Links:
www.understandingsexwork.ca

Robert Beringer

Assistant Professor
School of Public Health and Social Policy

Research Interests: 2SLGBTQ+ aging; technology and aging; health equity; diversity and inclusion; aging and chronic disease

Jean Buckler

Assistant Professor 
Exercise Science, Physical & Health Education

Research Interests: gender inclusive physical activity, physical literacy, health promotion

 

Thea Cacchioni

Associate Professor
Gender Studies

Research Interests: Medicalization; Big Pharma, sex, gender, and sexuality; intersectionality and health

External Links:
Google Scholar

Hélène Cazes

Professor
French

Research Interests: Early Modern Literature; History of Medicine; History of Women; Feminism; Humanism; Book Culture

External Links:
www.helenecazes.info

 

Rachel Hope Cleves
Professor
History

Research Interests: history of sexuality; food history; sex and food; same-sex sexuality; intergenerational sex; lesbian history; American history;

Social Media: @RachelCleves

Aaron Devor

Chair in Transgender Studies and Professor
Sociology

Research Interests: transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit people; sex, gender, and sexuality

External Links:
Chair in Transgender Studies
Transgender Archives
Moving Trans History Forward Conferences

Sandrina de Finney

Associate Professor
School of Child and Youth Care

Research Interests: Indigenous body-land sovereignty; Indigenous gender and sexuality knowledges and practices; colonial sexualized and gendered violence

External Links:
sistersrising.uvic.ca

 

Ingrid Handlovsky

Assistant Professor
School of Nursing

Research Interests: Health equity, gender, sexuality, sexual health, social determinants of health, mental health, substance use

External Links:
UBC Men’s Health Research

 

Cindy Holmes

Assistant Professor
School of Social Work

Research Interests: LGBTQ2S wellbeing and health; violence; feminist critical race, intersectional and decolonial theories; health, place and identity; qualitative; participatory action research; social movements; intergenerational

Vanessa Jérome

Political Scientist
Visiting Fellow Cultural, Social and Political Thought

Research Interests: sexual violence in politics, effects of sexuality and conjugality on the careers of political activists, new (em) bodyments in politics.

External Links:
uvic.academia.edu

Chase Joynt

Assistant Professor
Gender Studies

Research Interests: cinema and media, art and aesthetics, practice-based research, transgender studies

External Links:
https://www.chasejoynt.com/

Doris Kakuru

Associate Professor
School of Child and Youth Care

Research Interests: violence in childhood, children and youth in urban poverty, young/adolescent motherhood, adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights

 

Nathan Lachowsky

Associate Professor
School of Public Health and Social Policy

Research Interests: sexual health; global health; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and two-spirit (LGBTQ2S) people; HIV prevention and care; health equity; interdisciplinary approaches; indigenous health; mixed methods; community-based research; public health surveillance; infectious diseases; population health.

External Links:
Community-Based Health Equity Research

 

Pierre-Luc Landry

Assistant Professor
French

Research Interests: queer studies; cultural studies; contemporary literature of France, Québec and Canada; Indigenous literature; creative writing; research-creation

External Links:
pierreluclandry.com

 

Bonnie Leadbeater

Professor. (Honours Advisor)
Psychology

Research interests: transitions to young adulthood; peer victimization

External Links:
www.witsprogram@uvic.ca

 

Lynne Marks

Professor
History

Credentials
BA (UofT), MA, PhD (York)

Research Interests: gender; religion/atheism/secularism; second wave feminism; family; motherhood; reproductive rights; welfare rights; immigrant and racialized women

Mandeep Kaur Mucina

Assistant Professor
School of Child and Youth Care

Research Interests: gender based violence; migrant; immigrant; refugee communities; honour related violence; child welfare; shifting consent culture

Renée Monchalin

Assistant Professor
School of Public Health and Social Policy

Research Interests: sexual health outreach and HIV prevention; Indigenous Peoples ageing well with HIV

External Links:
Google Scholar

Helga Thorson

Associate Professor
Germanic & Slavic Studies
(Currently on leave until 30 June 2020)

Research Interests: German and Austrian sexology; intersectional constructions of sex, gender, and sexuality in Germany and Austria around 1900; life writing

 

Audrey Yap

Associate Professor; Graduate Advisor
Philosophy

Research Interests: gender; gendered violence; feminist philosophy

Social Media: @audreyseokhean

External Links:
WordPress