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Division Social Sciences Division

Department/College/Unit Global & Community Health

Title Associate Professor
Associate Director, Global and Community Health Program

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Global & Community Health

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise Religion and Secularism
Immigration
Community-based Research

Primary Office Location Social Sciences 1

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours Tuesday, 10-11am

Mail Stop Social Sciences 1 Faculty Services

Biography, Education and Training

Professor Bugg is an Associate Professor in and Associate Director of the Global and Community Health Program at UCSC. She received an MDiv and ThD from Harvard University in 2006 and then an MURP from The University of Sydney in 2008. She has been part of the teaching and research faculty at both The University of Sydney (2008-2013) and The University of Toronto (2014-2024). She joined UCSC as a faculty member in March, 2024.

Summary of Expertise

Prof. Bugg is a sociologist of religion and migration whose research examines urban governance in relation to social and spatial justice, particularly with regard to new immigrant groups. Her publications on Islamic schools and Hindu temples have contributed new knowledge at the intersection of religion, migration, gender, participatory democracy, and spatial justice. She has also worked to develop experiential learning that amplifies the voices of partners and persons from equity-deserving communities and that imagines pedagogy through a social justice lens. At both The University of Sydney and The University of Toronto she developed community-partnered learning experiences, including a collaborative learning project offered in a prison setting and a community-engaged learning opportunity that brought together students and grassroots organizations working with refugees and asylum seekers.

Research Interests

KEY AREAS OF INTEREST: Religion, place, and welfare governance; migration and health; religion and development; anti-oppressive frameworks for experiential learning; community-engaged learning.

Teaching Interests

Global and Community Health; Migration and Health; Religion and Health; Health Justice; Space, Place and Health; Critical Development Theory; Experiential Learning through an Equity and Justice Lens

Awards, Honors and Grants

2023 Inaugural Experiential Learning Faculty Fellow, University of Toronto

2013 The Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Teaching, The University of Sydney

2012 Social Justice SYRENS Award, The University of Sydney

2011 The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Teaching Excellence Award, The University of Sydney

Selected Publications

Omar, S.,  Williams, C., Bugg, L. and Colantonio, A. (2024). "‘If you do not have Black futures in mind...then what’s guiding the steps': Anti-racist recommendations for traumatic brain injury rehabilitations’ investments in hopeful Black futures." Disability and Rehabilitation, 1-20. DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2024.2367604.

Omar, S.,  Williams, C., Bugg, L. and Colantonio, A. (2024). "Mapping the Institutionalization of racism in the Research about Race and Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation: Implications for Black Populations." Disability and Rehabilitation, 1-16.

Omar, S. Williams, C., Bugg, L. and Colantonio, A. (2024). "'Somewhere Along the Line, Your Mask isn’t Going to Be Fitting Right': Institutional Racism in Black Narratives of Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation Across the Practice Continuum." BMC Health Services Research 24, 834.

Bugg, L. (2014). "How Gujarati Hindu Migrant Women Negotiate Identity and Belonging within their Religious Community: An Ethnographic Study’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 40(12): 1934-1952.

Bugg, L. (2014). "Space, representation and belonging: a Swaminarayan temple in Sydney, Australia". In S. Mawani and A. A. Mukadam, eds. Globalisation, Diaspora and Belonging: Exploring Transnationalism and Gujarati Identity, Jaipur: Rawat Publications.

Bugg, L. (2013). "Citizenship and belonging in the rural fringe: a case study of a Hindu temple in Sydney, Australia". Antipode 45(5): 1148-1166.

Bugg, L. (2013). "Collaborative planning in a complex local context: The case of an Islamic school in Sydney, Australia." Journal of Planning Education and Research 33(2): 204-14.

Bugg, L. (2012). "Religion on the fringe: the representation of space and minority religious facilities in the rural-urban fringe of metropolitan Sydney, Australia". Australian Geographer 43(3): 273-289.

Bugg, L. and Gurran, N. (2011). "Urban Planning Process and Discourses in the Refusal of Islamic Schools in Sydney, Australia". Australian Planner 48 (4): 281-291.

Gurran, N., Milligan, V., Bugg, L., Baker, D. (2008). “International Practice in Planning for Affordable Housing: Lessons for Australia." Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Final Report No. 120, AHURI: Melbourne. 

Courses GCH 123: Migration as a Social Determinant of Health
CMMU/GCH 165: Community Analysis for Global Health
GCH 195: Global and Community Health Communication
GCH 1: Foundations for Global and Community Health
GCH 190: Task Force in Global and Community Health
GCH 10: Covid and Culture