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.
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”.
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.
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.
UBC History faculty Benjamin Bryce and Eagle Glassheim awarded five-year SSHRC Insight Grants
Congratulations to Dr. Benjamin Bryce and Dr. Eagle Glassheim for receiving five-year SSHRC Insight Grants for their respective projects, “Grounds for Exclusion: Immigration, Race, Health, and Gender in Argentina, 1876-1940,” and “Revitalizing Mining Landscapes and Communities: Ecological Restoration, Heritage Preservation, and Economic Development in the Age of Mass Destruction Mining.”
Dr. Leo Shin awarded UBC Public Humanities Faculty Fellowship
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Leo Shin on his appointment as one of four UBC Public Humanities Fellows for 2021-22! These fellowships are awarded annually to support research excellence among humanities scholars in the Faculties of Arts, Law, and Education at UBC and to develop and highlight public-facing research in the humanities. Dr Shin’s […]
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, […]
Community and Identity in Dragon Boat: A Q&A with UBC History alum Dominic Lai
“Dragon boating welcomes anyone into the boat, and this exhibit does the same- it invites the visitor in to explore and build their own story.” On February 12th, 2021, Paddles Up! The Canadian International Dragon Boat Festival Exhibit opened at the BC Sports Hall of Fame & Museum. Behind the development of this exhibit was […]
UBC History professor Tina Loo named a University Killam Professor
Dr. Tina Loo, Professor in the Department of History, has been named a University Killam Professor — the highest honour UBC can confer on a faculty member. A University Killam Professorship recognizes extraordinary teachers and researchers who are leaders in their fields and who have received international recognition for their talents and achievements.