Sue Frohlick
Principal Investigator
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Professor, Anthropology and Gender and Women’s Studies
Co-Director, Collaborative & Experimental Ethnography Lab
I am a cultural anthropologist interested in many different things. My research in the past few years has explored the social aspects of contemporary tourism and migration, and in particular the entanglement of subjectivity, place, mobility, and power as well as the lived affects of tourism and migration as complex and embodied phenomena. I enjoy doing and thinking about fieldwork and the evolving genre of ethnographic writing. I’m a settler scholar, born in Canada with grandparents who came from Germany, Norway, and England and settled in Tofino, BC, and Biggar, Saskatchewan in the early 1900s. I continue to learn what it means to live and work on the unceded territory of the Syilx (Okanagan) Peoples. I’m a proud parent to two grown children, Alex and Breck. Our dogs, Lucy and Sora-Blue, make sure that I get outside and away from my computer everyday to explore the beautiful landscape of the Okanagan with them. This is my first project in the exciting field of sound in cultural anthropology.
I am a graduate student, research assistant, and teaching assistant at UBC Okanagan. My Ph.D. research focuses on the intersection of sound studies, the anthropology of belonging, and the built environment, with a specific emphasis on newcomer immigrants to Canada and their process of rootedness and uprootedness in the new landscape. Coming from Iran and having the honor of working with communities in the field of cultural heritage and urban and rural landscapes, I am grateful to live, work, and engage in the Syilx Okanagan Territory and learn from Indigenous culture and heritage every day.
Nassim Zand D.
Research Assistant
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I am a graduate student at UBCO where I am also a research assistant and teaching assistant. My graduate research is centered around making bike riding more inclusive through community building. This will hopefully result in the creation of an art piece made out of repurposed bike parts. The art piece is meant to be a visual representation of diversity in the outdoors. I am originally from Mohkinstsis (Calgary), Treaty 7 where the Bow river meets the Elbow river and I am honored to be part of this research project on the unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Peoples.
Em Isaak
Research Assistant
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Émilie Ovenden
Research Assistant
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I’m a graduate researcher, teaching assistant and research assistant at UBCO, where I’m studying community-based climate adaptation. After years of reforesting northern Canada and engaging in various community-based projects around the world, my current work examines carbon offsetting in community forestry. My research interests include environmental justice, migration, visual anthropology, political ecology, postcolonial feminism, and human geography.
I am a settler currently residing on the unceded land of the Syilx (Okanagan) People, but I was born and raised in Montréal (Tiohtià:ke), Québec, in the territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg Nations. Outside of academia, you can find me swimming in lakes, brunching, hiking with my dog, and camping with friends.
Celeste (she/her) – I worked as a research assistant at the beginning of this project following the completion of my BA in anthropology. This is an exciting, innovative project that introduced me to new ways of listening, relating, and knowing. I am now a student in the Masters in Public Health program at the University of Victoria and a research assistant at the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research. I live as a settler on unceded Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ territory.
Celeste Macevisius
Research Assistant
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Tourism Sound Study 