I am a Professor of Teaching in Philosophy, and from 2018-2023 I’m also the Academic Director of the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology at UBC Vancouver.

I earned a BA at the University of Idaho in 1991 with a double major in Philosophy and Political Science. I then earned 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.

My position at UBC Vancouver is focused on undergraduate teaching. The Professor of Teaching role is the third level in the educational leadership stream of faculty here at UBCV. There are faculty here who focus on teaching and research (Assistant, Associate, Full Professors) and those who focus on teaching and educational leadership (Instructor, Sr. Instructor, Professor of Teaching). As a faculty member in the latter stream, I do not teach graduate courses and I do not supervise graduate students, though on occasion I do serve as a member on graduate committees.

You can see more about me at 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.

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

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.