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History PhD Candidate Henry John Wins Student of the Year Award in Work-Integrated Learning

PhD candidate Henry John wins University Work-Integrated Learning Student of the Year for his work with the Kaatza Station Museum and Ts’uubaa-asatx Nation.

Dr. Benjamin Bryce Wins UBC CCEL Grant for Advancing Community Engaged Learning

Congratulations, Dr. Benjamin Bryce, on winning an Advancing Community Engaged Learning Grant from the UBC CCEL for his project entitled “Public History and Community Engagement at the Roedde House Museum”.

Dr. Pheroze Unwalla Wins Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) Seed Fund

Entitled “Emotion(ality) and Emotive Writing: Assessing the Impacts in/on the Middle East Studies Classroom”, this project evaluates the impact of emotion(ality) in MES 300: The Middle East: Critical Questions & Debates and beyond.

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Know Your Profs with Department Head Dr. Bonnie Effros

In this instalment, Department Head Dr. Bonnie Effros shares with us her journey into the history of archaeology, an innovative interdisciplinary course she has planned for the future, and the responsibilities that come with the privileged platform of being a historian.

Prof. Heidi Tworek: How to Avoid Spreading Misinformation about Ukraine

Heidi Tworek, associate professor of public policy at the University of British Columbia, says it’s important to view information with a critical eye.

Reclaiming the Narrative: How UBC Students Helped Decolonize MOA’s African Collections

UBC’s Museum of Anthropology (MOA) boasts over 5,000 objects from Africa. However, many of these objects arrived at MOA without historical and cultural context, resulting in inaccurate and incomplete descriptions in the museum’s displays and online catalogue.

Curating Belonging: Decolonizing the Path Forward with PhD Candidate Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra

History PhD candidate Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra is a museum curator, lecturer, and working mom. She is also an emerging public historian studying museums as spaces of belonging who is driving change in her field.

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