Arts recipients awarded for teaching excellence

Congratulations to Arts faculty members, teaching assistants, and staff who recently received various teaching awards!

Get to know the recipients and how they’re enhancing the teaching and learning landscape at UBC.

Killam Teaching Prize and Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

Meet the six faculty members and three teaching assistants from the Faculty of Arts who are being honoured for their excellence in teaching.

Dr. Evan Mauro

Lecturer, Coordinated Arts Program & Law and Society

Dr. Danielle Wong

Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literatures & Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program

Dr. JP Catungal

Assistant Professor, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice

Dr. Kathleen Currie Hall

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics

Dr. Olena Morozova

Assistant Professor, Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies

Dr. Simon Lolliot

Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Psychology & Chair, Vantage One Arts Program

Holly Bergeron-Dumaine

Ph.D. student, School of Music

Johanna Mickelson

Ph.D. student, Department of Psychology

Robyn Peers

Ph.D. student, Department of English Language and Literatures

Dean of Arts Educational Leadership and Innovation Award

Available across the Faculty of Arts, the award supports Educational Leadership faculty with developing innovative approaches to teaching and learning.

Congratulations to Dr. Luisa Canuto, Dr. Christine Evans, and Dr. Moberley Luger!

Dr. Luisa Canuto

Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies

Dr. Christine Evans

Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of Theatre and Film

Dr. Moberley Luger

Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of English Language & Literatures

OER Excellence and Impact Award

This year’s recipients include Social Work instructors Dr. Kelly Allison and Dr. Marie Nightbird, who are recognized for creating an open educational resource for their Social Work course.

Their project, A Toolkit for Teaching Communication Skills in Social Work, offers a series of videos to support students’ learning and exploration of interpersonal communication.

Kelly Allison

Assistant Professor of Teaching, Social Work

Marie Knightbird

Associate Professor of Teaching, Social Work

AMS UBC Teaching and Learning Champions Awards

Eight Arts recipients have also been awarded at the AMS UBC Teaching and Learning Champions Gala. The awards honour UBC faculty and staff who have gone above and beyond in advancing Open Educational Resources (OER) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) methods to enhance accessibility and affordability for students.

OER Champions Award

Recipients of the OER Champions Award include four Arts faculty members who advancing the use and impact of open educational resources at UBC.

Congratulations to Dr. Strang Burton, Dr. Elizabeth Nijdam, Dr. Sunil Bhatt, and Dr. Siobhán Wittig McPhee!

Elizabeth Nijdam

Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies

Siobhán Wittig McPhee

Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Geography

Strang Burton

Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Linguistics

Sunil Bhatt

Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Asian Studies

UDL Champions Award

Introduced this year, the UDL Champions Award celebrates the work of faculty and staff in advocating for Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles to foster more inclusive, accessible classrooms.

Congratulations to the four Arts recipients—Dr. Antoine Coulombe, Dr. Jonathan Graves, Dr. Laura Ishiguro, and Angela Lam!

Antoine Coulombe

Assistant Professor of Teaching, School of Social Work

Jonathan Graves

Associate Professor of Teaching, Vancouver School of Economics

Laura Ishiguro

Associate Professor, Department of History and Director, Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies

Angela Lam

Senior Manager, Arts Learning Technology Support, Arts ISIT