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Understanding the ubiquity and multiplicity of photography in the context of Japan: A Q&A with Kelly McCormick

Understanding the ubiquity and multiplicity of photography in the context of Japan: A Q&A with Kelly McCormick

  Prof. Kelly McCormick joined the UBC History Faculty in January 2020. Get to know her and her research through our new Q&A! Tell me about your research. How do you use photography to study race, class, and gender in modern Japan? I see photography as one of the most expansive forms of historical evidence. What I mean by […]

Museum of Vancouver and the Chinese Canadian Museum exhibit symbolizes the Chinese-Canadian struggle for a “seat at the table”

Museum of Vancouver and the Chinese Canadian Museum exhibit symbolizes the Chinese-Canadian struggle for a “seat at the table”

Professor Henry Yu remembers speaking with his writing professor in his office decades ago as an undergraduate student at the University of British Columbia. The professor made an offhand comment that Yu “writes well for an Asian.” When asked today what inspired a new exhibit in Vancouver’s Chinatown that challenges the notion that Chinese-Canadians don’t […]

HIST 440: History of Health in the Modern West- a Q&A with Benjamin Bryce

HIST 440: History of Health in the Modern West- a Q&A with Benjamin Bryce

“[H]istorical examples give us food for thought about our current experience with COVID-19, and how many of the same factors are at play.” Dr. Benjamin Bryce is joining the UBC History Department after teaching for six years at the University of Northern British Columbia. He completed his PhD at York University in 2013, and he […]

HIST 376: Modern Japanese History Since 1800- A Q&A with Kelly McCormick

HIST 376: Modern Japanese History Since 1800- A Q&A with Kelly McCormick

“All of these incidents [in Japanese history] are connected by people who have wanted to make a change to the world around them and either used images or were depicted in images as heroes and villains.” Kelly McCormick is a historian of modern visual and material culture. She writes about “everything from advertising strategies and […]

Q&A with UBC History PhD graduate Alexey Golubev

Q&A with UBC History PhD graduate Alexey Golubev

“A degree will … open new career prospects and immerse you in a vibrant academic environment. You will connect with interesting people and will learn things that you would have never learned otherwise.” Alexey Golubev is a scholar of Russian history, with a focus on social, cultural,  and transnational history. After teaching at Petrozavodsk University for […]

Courses in History for Term One of 2020W

On May 11, President Santa J. Ono announced that the majority of UBC classes in Term 1 of the 2020W academic session (September to December 2020) will be offered online. As of late, UBC has not yet made a decision regarding Term 2 of 2020W. Further to this announcement, and for the health and safety […]

HIST 399A: The Theory and Practice of History- A Q&A with David Morton

HIST 399A: The Theory and Practice of History- A Q&A with David Morton

“If you write about the same historical subject at two different times in your life, you will write two different histories. And yet some call this a social “science.” David Morton is a historian of modern Africa, and he specializes in histories of cities and of decolonization. His focus is on Mozambique, a former Portuguese colony […]

HIST 310: The British Empire to 1850- A Q&A with Jessica Hanser

HIST 310: The British Empire to 1850- A Q&A with Jessica Hanser

“I … hope [students] will gain a new appreciation for imperial history by tackling the subject from an unconventional perspective.” Jessica Hanser studies the connections, relationships and interactions between Britain and China from 1600 until the First Opium War (1839–1842). She says of her research, “I’m fascinated by the history of global trade in funky […]

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UBC Statements against Racism and Injustice

UBC Statements against Racism and Injustice

  UBC History joins UBC President Santa Ono in condemning racism and injustice, at UBC, in Canada, and around the world. As historians, we seek to understand how racial hierarchies form, how they continue into the present, and how they are resisted. Historical understandings of colonialism and the political, economic, and cultural foundations of racism are […]