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 […]
Reminder: Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship
To everyone who is looking for the opportunity to be nominated for UBC’s Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, just a quick reminder that applications are due to the History Department by October 15th, 5:00 PM PST. Please send all documents to history.dept@ubc.ca, and for more information please visit https://www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam-postdoctoral-research-fellowship.
Congratulations to Leslie Paris on her appointment as UBC Public Humanities Fellow
Please join us in congratulating Leslie Paris on her appointment as one of four UBC Public Humanities Fellows for 2020-21! The fellowship provides support for Humanities scholars in the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, and Allard School of Law in developing public-facing Humanities research projects. Leslie’s project, “‘Send it to ZOOM!’: A Fiftieth Anniversary […]
Meet UBC History’s New Professor: Kelly McCormick
“I am a historian of the visual and material culture of modern Japan. I write about the politics of photography culture and optical technologies in Japan from the 1930s to the 1970s. “ Prof. Kelly McCormick joined the UBC History Faculty in January 2020. Get to know her through a short Q&A discussing her […]
Eight UBC History Books Launched in 2019
2019 was a record year for book launches in the Department of History. Congratulations to our faculty for such a productive year! For more information on the eight books and their authors, please review the list below: Heidi Tworek: “News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900 – 1945” (Harvard University […]
Sebastian Prange wins the American Historical Association’s John F. Richards Prize
Sebastian Prange’s book, “Monsoon Islam: Trade and Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast” (Cambridge Univ. Press), was recently awarded the American Historical Association’s John F. Richards Prize recognizing the most distinguished work of scholarship on South Asian history in 2018. “Monsoon Islam” was also recently awarded the AHA’s Pacific Coast Branch Book Award recognizing […]
Schedule for Medieval & Early Modern Research Cluster Lectures 2019-2020
Schedule of Lectures for 2019-2020 Shahzad Bashir (Brown, Islamic Humanities) Oct 11 Imagining Time in India: Persian Chroniclers and their Interpreters. Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster and MEMRC. 5:00pm-6:30, Choi 120 Erik Kwakkel (UBC ISCHOOL) Oct 24 Medicine at Monte Cassino: Copying and Disseminating Constantine the African’s Medical Translations. 12:30-2, BuTo 1197 Felipe […]
Focus on History Honours Research: Carmen Watson
Finding Answers Through Hidden Narratives Carmen Watson never saw herself as a historian. In fact, she thought the subject was dry and unrelatable, and that the discipline leaned towards war-centric, Euro-centric and male-centric perspectives. Her mind quickly changed in her first year at UBC while taking a history course with Professor Tim Brook which explored […]
Focus on Graduate Research: Ryan Cheuk Him Sun
Getting to know Hong Kong through History For Ryan Cheuk Him Sun, studying history has a personal connection. Ryan was born in Hong Kong but grew up in Toronto for most of his life, so he felt unfamiliar with the city where his family held roots. Ryan felt the pull to learn more […]
Focus on History Honours Research: Caroline Cassinelli
An Exploration of American Deaf History For Caroline Cassinelli, the History Honours thesis is much more than just an academic paper. In fact, the research that Caroline is embarking on will connect her even more deeply to the community that her mother and uncle belong to, and one that she has always been interested in— […]