Message from the Department Head
Our sincere congratulations to the UBC History Graduating Class of May 2025! We are confident that your studies in the department and at UBC have offered you a multitude of exciting opportunities to explore your curiosity, pursue your passions, and grow as a person during your time here. Although it is often challenging to balance commitments with following your dream, we honour your resilience, especially in the face of so many challenges that have emerged locally and globally.
It can be overwhelming to live in times such as the present, but your well-honed skills of measuring evidence and weighing the value of historical narratives will serve you repeatedly as you move beyond the walls of UBC and into the world. No matter the directions your life takes you post-UBC, we know that community will remain essential, and we hope that you will remain in touch. Your professors and peers wish you all of the best in your future endeavours!
The History Department joins me in wishing all of the best to our graduating students in May 2025. The names of our honours, MA and PhD students are listed below, along with the titles of the theses and doctoral dissertations that were completed for these degrees.
Dr. Bonnie Effros
Department Head
UBC Department of History
Sarah Alisabeth Fox, PhD
Dissertation: Vexed forgetting and unruly plumes: tracing the settler wasting cycle in the Pacific Northwest across the long twentieth century
Supervisor: Coll Thrush
Carmen Watson, MA
Dissertation: “Something that is very old, very honourable and should be very precious to you”: an Indigenous feminist analysis of the Salish Weavers Guild, 1966-1986
Supervisor: Paige Raibmon
The following students have completed their undergraduate Honours theses during the 2024/2025 Winter term:
Leo Zhaoxu Liao
Thesis: The Evolution of the International Arbitration System in Mainland China and Hong Kong in the 1980s
Sara Livingston
Thesis: Never in Isolation: An Exploration of Gay Asian Canadian Space and Allyship in the Celebrasian
Laura Silveira
Thesis: From Carnations to Complications: Decolonization and Portuguese–Mozambican Relations (1975–1977)
Please email hist.comms@ubc.ca to let us know about any necessary corrections or omissions.
