Q&A with María Muñoz
“My research and teaching aim to excavate and understand the complexities of human systems, cultures and hierarchies.” María Muñoz is an associate professor of history at Susquehanna University, and will be joining the UBC History Department for one year. I talked with her about her historical interests, the several exciting courses she’ll be teaching at […]
HIST 376: Modern Japanese History Since 1800- A Q&A with Kelly McCormick
“All of these incidents [in Japanese history] are connected by people who have wanted to make a change to the world around them and either used images or were depicted in images as heroes and villains.” Kelly McCormick is a historian of modern visual and material culture. She writes about “everything from advertising strategies and […]
Q&A with UBC History PhD graduate Alexey Golubev
“A degree will … open new career prospects and immerse you in a vibrant academic environment. You will connect with interesting people and will learn things that you would have never learned otherwise.” Alexey Golubev is a scholar of Russian history, with a focus on social, cultural, and transnational history. After teaching at Petrozavodsk University for […]
Courses in History for Term One of 2020W
On May 11, President Santa J. Ono announced that the majority of UBC classes in Term 1 of the 2020W academic session (September to December 2020) will be offered online. As of late, UBC has not yet made a decision regarding Term 2 of 2020W. Further to this announcement, and for the health and safety […]
UBC Statements against Racism and Injustice
UBC History joins UBC President Santa Ono in condemning racism and injustice, at UBC, in Canada, and around the world. As historians, we seek to understand how racial hierarchies form, how they continue into the present, and how they are resisted. Historical understandings of colonialism and the political, economic, and cultural foundations of racism are […]
Congratulations to Tina Loo, winner of the Canadian Historical Association Political History Group’s Book Prize!
Please join us in congratulating Tina Loo for her win of the 2020 Best Book in Political History Prize from the Canadian Historical Association! Loo’s book, Moved by the State, Forced Relocation and Making a Good Life in Postwar Canada (UBC Press, 2019) studies the history of forced relocations in Canada. UBC Press says, “From the 1950s […]
Collected news and opinions on COVID-19 from UBC historians
Historical perspectives are proving to be of crucial importance during the COVID-19 pandemic. UBC’s historians have been busy lending their knowledge to a wide variety of news and media publications, on everything from the World Health Organization to hand-washing. COVID-19 in Vancouver, BC, and Canada The Conversation: Coronavirus: Racism and the long-term impacts of […]
Pandemics and History – a roundtable on COVID-19 and its historical connections
“I feel that it’s a moment when all of history is kind of rising up and being revealed before us, and we’re provoked to think about a million different questions.” – Robert Brain. How has history been impacted by pandemics? How do we understand pandemics, and how do we study them? How do historians interact […]
Theresa Wong and Olivia Brocklehurst: Studying History Abroad in London
“History in London, and in Europe is… layers, upon layers, all with their own unique stories and narratives, jostling alongside modernity.”
Alumni Profile: Kristen Walters
“The history courses I took at UBC taught me how to ask questions, form my argument, provide supporting evidence and communicate my findings effectively. These lessons … resulted in my ability to carve a niche in the scientific community. “ Kristen Walters is a UBC History major and Biology minor now working as a biologist for […]