Professor Joy Dixon Awarded SSHRC Insight Grant for Research on Evangelicalism and Sexuality
Congratulations to Dr. Joy Dixon (she/her/they/them) on winning a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant for her project titled “Evangelicalism and Sexuality in Britain since 1945”.
Professors Timothy Cheek and Heidi Tworek Awarded SSHRC Partnership Development Grants
Dr. Tworek (History; SPPGA) won SSHRC funding for projects on Decolonizing World News and Digital Governance in Canada. Dr. Cheek (History; SPPGA) was awarded funding for the Xinjiang Documentation Project.
UBC History Welcomes Historian and Anthropological Archaeologist Sara Ann Knutson
Dr. Sara Ann Knutson, historian and anthropological archaeologist working on the premodern world, joins the UBC Department of History. Welcome, Dr. Knutson!
Dr. Henry Yu on the Rise and Fall of Chinatown: the Hidden History of Displacement
Prof. Henry Yu speaks to Global News about the history of Vancouver Chinatown and city planning campaigns across North America that had intended to wipe Chinatowns off the map.
Dr. Pheroze Unwalla Awarded a UBC CTLT Students as Partners (SaP) in Course Design Grant
Dr. Unwalla will work in partnership with three Middle East Studies (MES) students throughout Summer and Fall 2022 on a project titled, “Redesigning MES 300: Faculty-Student (re)Visions of a Student-Centered Course.”
Dr. Kelly McCormick wins Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund Award for “Behind the Camera: Gender, Power, and Politics”
This project makes historical photographs and essays related to the history of photography available to students online through digitization and translation, creates new scholarly content analyzing these materials, and uses scholarly perspectives to teach students how to analyze visual materials as primary and secondary sources.
Know Your Profs with Dr. Timothy Cheek
Dr. Timothy Cheek shares with us what triangulation has to do with working with historical documents and artifacts, why context is important to any work in the discipline of history, and why you should take a chance on at least one discipline that is new to you in first and second year.
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.
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.