UBC sociology has a strong tradition of publishing research that matters A sample of recent and award-winning books include Gillian Creese s The New African Diaspora U Toronto Press Amin Ghaziani s There Goes the Gayborhood Princeton U Press Renisa Mawani s Colonial Proximities UBC Press Becki Ross Burlesque West Showgirls Sex and Sin in Postwar Vancouver U Toronto Press and Wendy Roth s Race Migrations Stanford U Press UBC sociology has a strong history of engaging in community and service oriented learning projects providing students with hands-on learning experiences carrying out research for partnering organizations in and around Vancouver e g RainCity Housing SPEC City of Vancouver Neighborhood House Association Be The Change There is a strong co-op tradition and the Department also runs the Immigrant Vancouver Ethnographic Field School in conjunction with the Department of Anthropology

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