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
- Dr. Danielle Wong
- Dr. JP Catungal
- Dr. Kathleen Currie Hall
- Dr. Olena Morozova
- Dr. Simon Lolliot
- Holly Bergeron-Dumaine
- Johanna Mickelson
- Robyn Peers

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
Ten 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