Professor, Department of Language & Literacy Education
Email: mary.bryson@ubc.ca
Web / Social: http://lled.educ.ubc.ca/profiles/mary-bryson/
Dr. Mary Bryson is the author of multiple publications concerning the social, cultural, and educational significance of networked media technologies and publics that make significant contributions to theoretical accounts of gendered and sexual marginality, knowledge mobilization, and resilience. Dr. Bryson chairs the UBC Vice-Presidential Trans, Two-Spirit, and Gender Diversity Task Force and is a member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Global Education Initiative. They are the recipient of multiple awards for their interdisciplinary scholarship, including, most recently, the American Educational Research Association Significant Body of Research award (2013), a Senior Fellowship (2011) at Stanford University’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research, and, in 2000, the Canadian Women in the Spotlight, Wired Women Pioneer in New Media award. At present, their CIHR-funded Cancer’s Margins project is the first nation-wide Canadian research study designed to advance our understanding of how sexuality and gender shape breast and gynecologic cancer health knowledge access and its mobilization in health and treatment decision-making and implications for the design of care that is both medically and culturally competent.
Dr. Bryson was for many years author and instructor of ETEC 510.