Tara Mayer wins 2018/19 Killam Teaching Prize
Congratulations to Tara Mayer for receiving the 2018/2019 Killam Teaching Prize! The Killam Teaching Prize is awarded annually to faculty nominated by students, colleagues, and alumni in recognition of excellence in teaching. As quoted by Eagle Glassheim, UBC History Department Head: “Congratulations to History Instructor Tara Mayer for winning the Killam Teaching Prize for 2018/19! This […]
Professor Heidi Tworek’s book “News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945” is now available
“News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945” by Heidi J.S Tworek To control information is to control the world. This innovative history reveals how, across two devastating wars, Germany attempted to build a powerful communication empire—and how the Nazis manipulated the news to rise to dominance in Europe and further their global […]
PhD student Ken Corbett wins PCCBS Graduate Student Paper Prize
Congratulations to Ken Corbett for winning the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies Graduate Student Paper Prize! Ken attended the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies (PCCBS) at the University of California Santa Barbara on March 23-25 2018 and he presented his paper “Redeeming the Time: Punctuality, Credit, & the Middling Sort.” Ken’s paper was selected […]
Tara Mayer appointed as 2019/20 Wall Scholar
Tara Mayer has been awarded a Wall Scholar fellowship at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies for the 2019/20 academic year. Wall Scholars are chosen among leading UBC researchers from all academic disciplines to spend one year in residence at the Institute, in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment. During her fellowship, Dr. Mayer will advance on a project […]
UBC History Emeritus Professor Arthur Ray wins prestigious award
UBC History Emeritus Professor Arthur Ray was honoured with the 2018 Massey Medal from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. He was recognized for his contribution to the development of a more comprehensive geography of Canada. Read the press release here: http://www.rcgs.org/awards/massey_medal/winner_massey2018.asp The Massey Medal, established in 1959, recognizes the outstanding career achievements in exploration, development or […]
Tara Mayer awarded Peter Wall Institute grant to lead International Research Roundtable
Tara Mayer has been awarded $35,000 in funding by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies to convene an international conference on “Visual Literacy: Seeing, Making and Reading Images across the Disciplines.”
Jessica Wang awarded 2018-19 Warren Center Faculty Fellowship
Professor Jessica Wang has been awarded a fellowship at Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History for the 2018-19 academic year
New Peter Wall Institute Book “Memory” features essay from UBC Historians, Tara Mayer and Pheroze Unwalla
A collection of essays from scholars has been put together and released in time to mark a momentous occasion —one hundred years since the end of the First World War and the 100th anniversary of Remembrance Day.