Dr. Richard Menkis Awarded the Pinksy Givon Family Prize at the 2025 Western Canada Jewish Book Awards
Congratulations to Dr. Richard Menkis for being awarded the Pinksy Givon Family Prize at the 2025 Western Canada Jewish Book Awards. His edited collection prioritizes diverse Jewish voices from politicians to workmen, and women from across the country, expressing the multiple realities of the Canadian Jewish experience.
Dr. Coll Thrush Shares Insights on His Latest Book, Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific
How can we understand colonialism on the Northwest Coast not as a sweeping, triumphal narrative but rather as an example of continuing settler colonialism literally wrecking on Indigenous shores?
History PhD Candidate Dane Allard wins 2024 Native American and Indigenous Studies Association’s Most Thought-Provoking Article Award
Congratulations to History PhD candidate Dane Allard for winning a 2024 NAISA Most Thought-Provoking Article Award for his article on Métis history.
As I Remember It: Teachings (ʔəms tɑʔɑw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder Wins ACLS Open Source Book Prize
As I Remember It: Teachings (ʔəms tɑʔɑw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder, coauthored by Elsie Paul with Davis McKenzie, Paige Raibmon & Harmony Johnson, wins ACLS Open Source Book Prize in the Multimodal Category. Congratulations to the co-authors.
Dr. John Roosa Wins Association of Asian Studies’ Kahin Prize
Congratulations to Dr. John Roosa on winning the George McT. Kahin Prize of the Association for Asian Studies for his book, Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965–1966 in Indonesia.
Highlighting Undergraduate Work at the UBC Journal of Historical Studies
“Sometimes, we forget just how much undergraduate students work to produce original content in their research papers!” Since 2004, the UBC Journal of Historical Studies, formerly known as the Atlas, has been publishing the best historical work by UBC’s undergrads. This year, the JHS received 63 submissions covering a wide range of historical topics, […]
Interview with Crystal Webster, professor of African American history
“I envision … teaching, learning, and activism as central to my role as a scholar and professor of Black history.” Dr. Crystal Webster will be joining the UBC History Department as Assistant Professor of African American History this July. With a PhD from the W.E.B Du Bois Department of African American Studies at University of […]
Two UBC Historians Shortlisted for the Canadian Historical Association’s Wallace K. Ferguson Prize for Best Book on a Non-Canadian Subject
Congratulations to Dr. David Morton and Dr. Heidi Tworek! Dr. David Morton’s Age of Concrete and Dr. Heidi Tworek’s News from Germany were among the five shortlisted for the 2020 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize for best book published in 2019 on a non-Canadian subject. Find out more about Dr. Morton here, and his book here, […]
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 […]
Congratulations to Gabriela Aceves on winning the CALACS Book Prize 2020
Congratulations to UBC History PhD alumni Gabriela Aceves on winning the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) Book Prize 2020! Her book, Women Made Visible: Feminist Art and Media in Post-1968 Mexico City (Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 2019), focuses on an important group of women who radically pushed the boundaries of […]