“Which Witch is Which? The Facts About Witches Today”
Sabina Magliocco, Ph.D. is a retired Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where she founded and directed the interdisciplinary Program in the Study of Religion from 2019-2025, as well as Professor Emeritus at California State University – Northridge, where she taught for 20 years. A recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities, SSHRC, Fulbright and Hewlett fellowships, and an honorary Fellow of the American Folklore Society, she has published on religion, folklore, foodways, festival and witchcraft in Europe and North America, and is a leading authority on the modern Pagan movement.
Prof. Phil Yoo
Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies
Office: BUCH C 214
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A native of Mississauga, Ontario, he is a graduate of the University of Toronto (B.Comm. in Commerce and Finance; M.Div. from Knox College), Yale University (S.T.M.), and the University of Oxford (D.Phil.). Before his arrival at UBC in 2021, he was first Postdoctoral Fellow and then Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on Pentateuchal theory, Ezra-Nehemiah, Second Temple Judaism, and biblical interpretation. He is the author of Ezra and the Second Wilderness (Oxford, 2017), co-editor of To Gaul, to Greece and into Noah’s Ark: Essays in Honour of Kevin J. Cathcart on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday (with Laura Quick, Ekaterina K. Kozlova, and Sonja Noll; Oxford, 2019), and several articles. His current book project, From Egypt to Canaan: The Israelite Wilderness and its Mythmakers examines the exodus and wilderness accounts and the reception of this tradition by the earliest Jewish and Christian interpreters.
Prof. Evan Thompson
Professor of Philosophy
Associate Member of the Department of Asian Studies and the Department of Psychology (Cognitive Science Group)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Office: BUCH E 377
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