Noah James Awarded 2023 Conway Travel Scholarship
Congratulations to History MA student Noah James on winning the 2023 Conway Summer Travel Scholarship in German History.
Behind the Camera: Japanese Women Photographers with Dr. Kelly McCormick
Dr. Kelly McCormick is a professor of modern Japanese history whose research focuses on the ways in which photography can be invaluable in revealing relationships, whether to power or to community. In this editorial, she discusses “Behind the Camera,” an open-source and collaborative website that shares the history of women’s participation in photography in Japan.
Solidarities Around the World: A Black History Month Q&A with Dr. Crystal Lynn Webster
In this Black History Month Q&A, Dr. Webster reminds us that Black excellence has always been deeply rooted in the histories of Black activism, liberation, and solidarities around the world.
Alumna Feature | Jasmine Wilson: Musqueam Indian Band Archivist
Guided by knowledge gained from both her academic studies and her lived experiences as an Indigenous woman, History alumna Jasmine Wilson (Musqueam) now works as the Assistant Archivist in the Archives Department of the Musqueam Indian Band. Read to learn about her journey.
UBC History Welcomes Visiting Professors Dr. Asma Qadri and Dr. Sayyid Muhammad Farid
UBC History welcomes Visiting Professors Dr. Asma Qadri (University of the Punjab Lahore) and Dr. Sayyid Muhammad Farid (University of the Punjab Lahore). Dr. Qadri and Dr. Farid are both collaborating with Dr. Anne Murphy (UBC History) on separate projects that engage local Punjabi and Sikh communities.
Dr. Benjamin Bryce Wins Ontario Historical Society’s Joseph Brant Award
Congratulations to Dr. Benjamin Bryce (UBC History, UBC Latin American Studies) on winning the 2022 – 2023 Joseph Brant Award for his monograph, The Boundaries of Ethnicity: German Immigration and the Language of Belonging in Ontario (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2022).
UBC History Faculty Professor Timothy Cheek Elected to the Royal Society of Canada
Cheek’s prodigious research, manifest in works like The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History, has bridged China’s past and present, international scholarly communities, and the spheres of academia and public policy.
Dr. Hicham Safieddine Named New Canada Research Chair in the History of the Modern Middle East
Congratulations to Dr. Hicham Safieddine, who has been named a new Canada Research Chair in The History of the Modern Middle East. With his team, Dr. Safieddine will use an interdisciplinary framework and diverse methodologies to decolonize financial history and globalize Middle East Studies.
2023/2024 UBC History Postdoctoral Fellows: Drs. Meghan Longstaffe and Jane Komori
UBC History welcomes Dr. Meghan Longstaffe and Dr. Jane Komori as 2023/2024 Postdoctoral Fellows. Dr. Longstaffe works on histories of women, poverty, and activism in the late twentieth century, especially Downtown Eastside Vancouver. Dr. Komori writes about the “settler ecology” of Western Canada from the 1850s through the Second World War.
Active History | Henry Yu: How Can We Reckon with a Future that Never Was
“It is so difficult for us as historians to truly give an account of something like the 1923 Chinese Immigration Act, a law designed to kill the future…how do we properly reckon for children never born, for relationships never allowed to exist? How do you give an historical account of a future that never was?” Article via activehistory.ca