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BC Studies – Student Podcasts Coordinator
Deadline for applications: April 23 BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly (www.bcstudies.com) invites applications from History majors, honours, and graduate students for the temporary, part-time position of Student Podcasts Coordinator. BC Studies is creating an innovative opportunity for scholars to submit scholarly work in the form of a single podcast episode. These episodes would be subject to peer review […]
Jim Winter
James H. Winter was born on 24 October 1925. He pursued his undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College, and completed his MA and PhD at Harvard University in 1961. He first joined UBC History in 1961, and served the academic community here for 30 years. He was the recipient of the UBC Teaching Prize in 1991 […]
John Norris
March 23, 1925-May 2, 2010 Eulogy John Norris, member of the University of British Columbia’s Department of History from 1953 until his retirement in 1990, died in Vancouver following a prolonged struggle with stroke-induced memory loss. Born in Kelowna, a boy and adolescent during the Depression, and approaching young manhood as World War Two broke […]
Edward Hundert
Edward Hundert was born in 1940 in New York City and grew up there. He received his PhD from the University of Rochester. Ed’s area of research interest was British intellectual history of the Enlightenment era. After teaching briefly at the University of Calgary, he began his career at UBC in 1966. His teaching in the Department of […]
George Egerton
Professor George W. Egerton (1942-2025) was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He received his PhD in History from the University of Minnesota. After teaching for two years at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland, in 1972 he accepted an appointment in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia and remained there until his […]
János Bak
János Bak was born in Budapest in 1929 and lived there until he left Hungary after the Hungarian uprising of 1956. He received his PhD at the University of Göttingen in Germany and after a few years moved briefly to the United and then to Canada to begin his career at UBC in 1968. His research interests included rituals of […]