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
Beyond UBC | 3 Things You Might Not Know about the Chinese Exclusion Act in Canada with Dr. Henry Yu
When the Chinese head tax wasn’t enough to stop Chinese immigration, the Canadian government banned Chinese people entirely, separating families for a generation. On July 1, 1923, the federal government passed the Chinese Exclusion Act. Learn about the impact of this history on Chinese diasporic communities in Canada with Dr. Henry Yu.
Prof. Bill French and Prof. Glen Peterson Retire after Three Decades of Inspiring UBC Students
UBC History faculty Dr. Glen Peterson and Dr. Bill French retire after 30 and 33 years of service to the Department, respectively. Learn about their contributions in this editorial.
No time machine, no problem: 2023/2024 UBC History Courses to take you across Time and Space
Whichever pockets of the past piques your interest, UBC History has a course just for you. See a highlight of UBC History courses offered during the 2023/2024 academic year.
On the Bridge to Argentina: A Q&A with Curator Dr. Benjamin Bryce
Bridge to Argentina is a brand new multilingual virtual museum with the goals of narrating the history of immigration to Argentina. It presents scholarly research in interactive exhibits and builds connections across the world. We sit down with its curator Dr. Benjamin Bryce for an inside look at the online exhibit and what’s to come.