Congratulations to CMS affiliates Dr. Leonora C. Angeles and Dr. Efrat Arbel for receiving the 2025–2026 UBC Public Humanities Hub Public Engagement Awards.
These awards are given to individuals and partner organizations that have exhibited outstanding public humanities engagement over the past two years and whose work has contributed to expanding the range of voices in public discourse.
Dr. Leonora C. Angeles is cross-appointed professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) School of Community and Regional Planning and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice. As faculty affiliate at the UBC Centre for Human Settlements (CHS) and the Centre for Southeast Asian Research (CSEAR), she worked on number of applied research and capacity-building research projects in Brazil, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines, related to community and international development studies, social policy, participatory planning and governance, participatory action research, and transnational feminist networks, particularly in Southeast Asia.
Dr. Efrat Arbel is an Associate Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. Her research is focused on Canadian immigration detention, refugee protection, and border governance. She has published widely in these fields. Her research has helped shaped law and policy in Canada, and has introduced creative tools to advance legal education and public engagement.
