Celebrating UBC History Class of 2023
Congratulations, UBC History Class of 2023! Read a message from Department Head Dr. Bonnie Effros and see a list of our graduates as well as the thesis titles of honours students and graduate students.
UBC History Graduate Students Receive Support from the Japanese Canadian Students of 1942 Fund to Further Nikkei Research
UBC History PhD candidate Nicole Yakashiro and MA student Bailey Irene Midori Hoy expand the field of Japanese Canadian and Asian Canadian history with new perspectives on the past, thanks to the support from the Japanese Canadian Students of 1942 Fund.
Richard Menkis named recipient of the 2022/2023 Dean of Arts Award
Dr. Richard Menkis, Associate Professor in the Department of History, has been awarded the annual Dean of Arts Award in recognition of his exceptional leadership and impact in his field, and his service to UBC and the academy.
Dr. John Roosa Wins Association of Asian Studies’ Kahin Prize
Congratulations to Dr. John Roosa on winning the George McT. Kahin Prize of the Association for Asian Studies for his book, Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965–1966 in Indonesia.
The Political Resistance of Play: Dr. Crystal Lynn Webster on Black Childhood, Social Justice, and Public History
Dr. Crystal Lynn Webster studies the history of childhood and youth, African American history, and carceral studies. In this interview, she shares her interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to research and highlights the importance of celebrating Black communities for the work they have done to push back against systemic racism.
Finding History: Dr. Tina Loo and Dr. Heidi Tworek on Interdisciplinarity, Pedagogy, and the Future of the Discipline
History is a discipline that gives us the freedom to choose the methodologies we want to use to engage with the past. As an ever-changing backdrop to the passage of time, it also gives us space for contingency, agency, and the possibility of doing things differently. Professor Tina Loo specializes in Canadian History with thematic […]
Bureaucratic Documents as Sources for the History of Ideas: An Interview with Shoufu Yin
Prof. Shoufu Yin speaks with Alexander Collin about his article, “Redefining Reciprocity: Appointment Edicts and Political Thought in Medieval China,” recently published in the Journal of the History of Ideas.
Dr. John Christopoulos Awarded the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award from the American Society for Legal History
Dr. John Christopoulos wins the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award from the American Society for Legal History for his 2021 book, Abortion in Early Modern Italy (Harvard University Press).
Dr. Crystal Lynn Webster Wins The Library Company of Philadelphia Biennial First Book Award
Dr. Webster’s first book, Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North (U of North Carolina Press, 2021), is the recipient of the 2022 Library Company of Philadelphia First Book Award.
UBC History Welcomes Ukrainian Holocaust Scholar Dr. Nataliia Ivchyk
The UBC Department of History is pleased to welcome Dr. Nataliia Ivchyk, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Rivne State University for the Humanities (Rivne, Ukraine). Dr. Ivchyk is joining us as a visiting scholar for the 2022-2023 academic year.