I am a Professor of Teaching, which is the third level in the educational leadership stream of faculty at UBC Vancouver (Assistant, Associate, and Professor of Teaching). This faculty stream focuses on teaching, educational leadership, and service.

I have also held several administrative roles at UBC in the past, including: Chair of the Arts One program, Academic Director of the Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology, and Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President Teaching and Learning pro tem.

I earned a BA at the University of Idaho in 1991 with a double major in Philosophy and Political Science, and a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin in 2000, with a dissertation about the political role of intellectuals according to Michel Foucault. In graduate school I also studied and wrote about the work of Julia Kristeva, focusing in part on her view of the political role of intellectuals.

Courses I have taught at UBC include: Arts One; Introduction to Philosophy; Introduction to Ethics; Social and Political Philosophy, Sex, Gender and Philosophy; Power and Oppression; Topics in Continental Philosophy.

You can visit my website for more information: christinahendricks.ca

My research is largely in the area of teaching and learning, and I have done research on peer feedback on writing, as well as on use and perceptions of open educational resources and open educational practices. I write posts on these and many other teaching and learning topics on my blog, You’re the Teacher.

I am also the series editor for a series of open textbooks for Introduction to Philosophy courses. Open textbooks are like any other textbooks except they are free of cost (for digital versions) and are licensed to allow revision and reuse without asking express permission from the authors. The first six books in the series have been published:

• Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind
• Introduction to Philosophy: Ethics
• Introduction to Philosophy: Logic
• Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Religion
• Introduction to Philosophy: Epistemology
• Introduction to Philosophy: Aesthetic Theory and Practice

We are working on three more books in the series: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, and Social and Political Philosophy.

Hendricks, C., & Engle, W. (2024). OER in tenure and promotion at UBC. In A. McKinney (Ed.), Valuing OER in the Tenure, Promotion, and Reappointment Process. DOERS3.

Chen, D., and Hendricks, C. (2023). “Open pedagogy benefits and challenges: Student perceptions of writing open case studies.” Open Praxis, 15(1), 27–36. https://doi.org/10.55982/openpraxis.15.1.518

Morgan, T., Childs, E., Hendricks, C., Harrison, M., DeVries, I., and Jhangiani, R. (2021). How are we doing with Open Educational Practice Initiatives? Applying an institutional self-assessment tool in five higher education institutions. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 22(4), 125-140. https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v22i4.5745

Hendricks, C., Reinsberg, S. and Rieger. G. (2017). The adoption of an open textbook in a large physics course: An analysis of cost, outcomes, use, and perceptions. The International Review of Open and Distributed Learning, 18(4). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v18i4.3006

Ozdemir, O. and Hendricks, C. (2017). Instructor and student experiences with open textbooks, from the California Open Online Library for Education. The Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 29(1), 98-113. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12528-017-9138-0

Hendricks, C. (2015). Teaching and learning philosophy in the open. American Association of Philosophy Teachers, Studies in Pedagogy, 1, 17-32. https://doi.org/10.5840/aaptstudies20159162

Hendricks, C. (2012). Prophecy and parrêsia: Foucauldian critique and the political role of intellectuals. In R. Sonderegger and K. de Boer (Eds.), Conceptions of Critique in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy (pp. 212-230). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

Hendricks, C. (2008). Foucault’s Kantian critique: Philosophy and the present. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 34(4), 357-382. https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453708088. Here is a pre-publication version of this paper.

Killam Teaching Award, UBC Vancouver, 2016

Briseño-Garzón, A., Hendricks, C., and Phelps, J. (2025 April). Supporting Students, Instructors, and Advisors in Using GenAI for Academic Work. BCNet Connect Summit, Vancouver, BC.

Walji, S., Mostafa, H., and Hendricks, C. (2024, July). AI Policies and Guidelines: Views from Three Universities. Equity Unbound Mid-Year Festival, online.

Burns, J., Hendricks, C. & Gopaluni, B. (2024, April). UBC’s Approach to Generative AI: Balancing the Benefits and Risks. BCNet Connect Summit, Vancouver, BC.

Childs, E., DeVries, I., Harrison, M., Hendricks, C., & Morgan, T. (2021, April). Moving open educational practices from grassroots to institution-wide: Perspectives from four BC higher education institutions. Cascadia Open Education Summit (online).

Hendricks, C. & Wake Hyde, Z. (2019, April). I can’t do it all myself! Collaborating with colleagues around the world on OER. Cascadia Open Education Summit, Vancouver, BC. Slides and discussion of the open textbook project we talked about in the presentation are on my blog.

Hendricks, C. (2019, February). Open educational practices: What, why and how. [Keynote]. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Slides from this talk can be found on Slideshare.

Adam, T., Bali, M., Cronin, C., Friedrich, C., Hendricks, C., Miller, J., & Walji, S. (2018, May). Breaking Open [Workshop]. 2018 Open Education Global Conference, Delft, The Netherlands. Information about this workshop.

Hendricks, C. (2018, March). Beyond cost savings: The value of OER and Open Pedagogy for student learning. [Keynote]. Mt. Royal University, Calgary, Alberta. Slides from this talk can be found on my blog.

Hendricks, C. (2017, November). Students and open education: From the what to the how and why (and when not). [Keynote]. eCampus Ontario Technology Enhanced Seminar and Showcase, Toronto, Ontario. Slides from this talk can be found on my blog.

Hendricks, C. (2017, October). What’s open about open pedagogy? [Keynote]. Douglas College, New Westminster, BC. Slides and video from this talk can be found on my blog.