The Department of Political Science is delighted to announce that Dr. Terri Givens will join the University of British Columbia as a Professor on July 1, 2024.
Terri Givens
Terri E. Givens grew up in Spokane, Washington, and loves the outdoors. She is currently a Professor of Political Science at McGill University. She began her career on the faculty at the University of Washington and has held leadership positions as Vice Provost at the University of Texas at Austin and Provost of Menlo College.
She was the founding director of the Center for European Studies at the University of Texas and led the faculty and staff at Menlo College in developing programs for first generation students, updating curriculum and creating infrastructure for evidence-based assessment.
Dr. Givens is the author and editor of books and articles on immigration policy, European politics and right-wing politics. Her most recent published books are Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Racial Divides from Policy Press and The Roots of Racism: The Politics of White Supremacy in the US and Europe published by Bristol University Press.
Dr. Givens is the first hire in the Faculty of Arts’ “Black Studies: Mobility, Place-Making, and Power” cluster, a collaboration between Anthropology, Geography, and Political Science under UBC’s Black Faculty Cohort Hiring Initiative.
