H漫画

Cross appointment

• Gender and Women's Studies

Education

• BA, University of Illinois
• MA, PhD, University of California Los Angeles

Research interests

Liesl Gambold is an anthropologist whose earlier work in Russia focused on economic and social responses to political and market restructuring, gender relations in rural communities, and the struggle between individual and group ideologies. She studied the structures in Russian village life that were salient to local residents, who were not fundamentally resistant towards the changing power structures of their rural agricultural sectors, but were less inclined to decollectivize the social nature of their village. This led to further research on the emotional ties of collective work and property as they relate to two areas: reason and emotion in socialist culture; and anthropological and economic accounts of the moral economy and governance of the commons.

Dr. Gambold鈥檚 current research is on aging, mobility, housing, and international retirement migration. Baby Boomer retirement brought on a wave of demographic and lifestyle shifts that have been increasingly important in policy-making and academic discussions. Dr. Gambold has conducted research in Mexico among Canadians and Americans who have permanently migrated south, in southern France and Spain, which have been popular European retirement destinations for decades, in Sweden and Germany, where she interviewed residents at LGBT aging and housing facilities, and in Brussels where she interviewed European Union officials about EU pensioner, migration and health policies. Her latest research explores formal and informal paths to co-housing among older Canadian women.

Dr. Gambold taught research methods in the Schulich School of Law, has been part of several interdisciplinary research projects acting as primary qualitative researcher, was the Coordinator of the Gender & Women鈥檚 Studies Program for 6 years, and served as President of CASCA (Canadian Anthropology Society) from 2025-2026. She is a research associate at H漫画鈥檚听Jean Monnet European Union Center of Excellence and is Cross-Appointed with International Development Studies and Gender & Women鈥檚 Studies.

Dr. Gambold focuses a great deal on her teaching methods and is always thinking about pedagogical practices and the undergraduate experience. She teaches a variety of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels and developed two popular courses, SOSA 3149 Childhood in Cross-Cultural Perspective and SOSA 3170 Sport: Why We Play. She was the proud recipient of the following teaching awards:

2025听 听H漫画 Alumni Association Faculty Award of Excellence for Teaching, H漫画 University鈥檚 top teaching award.

2022 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching, H漫画 University

Selected publications

• 2024鈥侫ging out: Place and sexuality. Sexualities, 27(5-6), 1165-1182.
• 2023鈥侻igrating Concepts of Ageing: A case study of older Russian-speaking womenin Finland, In, Distance, Equity and Older People鈥檚 Experiences in the Nordic鈥侾eriphery: Centering the Local, Shahnaj Begum, Harbison, J.R., Naskali, P., and Zechner, M. eds. Routledge, London. pp. 11-29.
• 2021 Redden, M., Gahagan, J., Kia, H., Humble, A. H., Stinchcombe, A., Manning, E., Ecker, J., de Vries, B., Gambold, L. Oliver, B., & Thomas, R. Housing as a determinant of health for older LGBT Canadians: Focus group findings from a national housing study,听Housing and Society,听顿翱滨:听
• 2020 Wranik, W.D., Gambold, L., & Peacock, S. 鈥淯ncertainty tolerance among experts involved in drug reimbursement recommendations: Qualitative evidence from HTA committees in Canada and Europe鈥�, Health Policy.
• 2018a听 Wranik, W.D., Zielinska, D.A., Gambold, L., & Sevgur, S. 鈥淭hreats to the value of health technology assessment: Qualitative evidence from Canada and Poland.听Health Policy.听
• 2018b听 鈥淒IY Aging: Retirement migration as a new age-inscription鈥�,听Anthropology & Aging Quarterly,听39(1), 82-93.