2017-2018 International Visiting Research Scholars

The Peter Wall Institute is pleased to announce the 12 International Visiting Research Scholars for 2017-2018. The Institute partners with UBC faculties, departments and research centres to attract exceptional scholars for an extended stay at UBC and the Peter Wall Institute. These outstanding scholars have achieved the highest levels of distinction in their fields, and their work has had a broad impact well beyond any one discipline.

2017-2018 International Visiting Research Scholars

• Josh Eagle, School of Law, Univsity of South Carolina (hosts: Tony Pitcher, Douglas Harris)
• Mary Galvin, University of Johannesburg, South Africa (hosts: Leila Harris, Karen Bakker)
• Elizabeth Hartland, University of Melbourne, Australia (host: Brett Finlay)
• Tsung-Yi Ho, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (hosts: Andre Ivanov, Alan J. Hu)
• Ann Jones, Harvard University (hosts: Peter Klein, Max Cameron)
• David Lubans, University of Newcastle, Australia (hosts: Mark Beauchamp, Heather McKay)
• Carmel Mevorach, University of Birmingham, England (hosts: Janis Sarra, Lara Boyd)
• Subhrendu Pattanayak, Duke University (hosts: Hisham Zerriffi, Sumeet Gulati)
• Somdatta Sinha, Indian Institute of Science Education Research (IISER) (hosts: Lean Kedelstein-Keshet, Daniel Coombs, Mark Gilbert)
• Hortense Spillers, Vanderbilt University, Nashville (hosts: Dina Al-Kassim, Margery Fee)
• Kylie Thomas, University of the Free State, South Africa (hosts: Margery Fee, Sarah Hunt)
• Yansong Wang, Shenyang Normal University, China (hosts: Siyuan Li, Christopher Rea)