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

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

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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Proofreading, Editing, and Formatting: 5 More Tips for Writing a Better History Essay

Your essay due dates continue to loom. Fourth-year History Honours student and History Writing Centre Peer Tutor Elizabeth Elliott shares 5 more useful tips to help you ace your next writing assignment. 

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Dr. Crystal Lynn Webster on CBC Kids News: Black History Month 2022

Dr. Crystal Lynn Webster speaks on CBC Kids News about the history and futures of the celebration of Black History Month.

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Style, Voice and Using Evidence: 7 Tips for Writing a Better History Essay

Essay season is upon us. Fourth-year History Honours student and History Writing Centre Peer Tutor Elizabeth Elliott shares 7 useful tips to help you ace your next writing assignment. 

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Know Your Profs with Dr. Bradley Miller

In this instalment, Dr. Bradley Miller shares with us why he pursues collegial disagreement, what it takes to succeed in his classes, and how gaining work experience outside of academia sparked his life-long passion for the history of law. 

Meet four Black scholars leading innovative research in the Faculty of Arts

Meet four Black scholars leading innovative research in the Faculty of Arts

Four Black scholars from across the Faculty of Arts, including Dr. Crystal Lynn Webster, talk about their inspiring research, the importance of Black storytelling and world-building, and their advice for aspiring scholars.

Prof. Heidi Tworek Awarded Canada Research Chair in History and Policy of Health Communications

Prof. Heidi Tworek Awarded Canada Research Chair in History and Policy of Health Communications

Dr. Heidi Tworek has been appointed as a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in History and Policy of Health Communications.

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Congratulations UBC History Class of 2021!

A message of congratulations from History Department Head, Prof. John Roosa, to the Class of 2021.

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Professors Benjamin Bryce and Kelly McCormick win 2021 SSHRC Insight Development Grants

Congratulations to UBC History professors Dr. Benjamin Bryce and Dr. Kelly McCormick, who were each awarded a 2021 Insight Development Grant for their respective projects, “Settler Vines: Migrants, Science, and Environment in Canada and Argentina, 1890-1940”, and “The Cameraman in a Skirt: A New Visual History of Modern Japan.”