The Political Resistance of Play: Dr. Crystal Lynn Webster on Black Childhood, Social Justice, and Public History
Dr. Crystal Lynn Webster studies the history of childhood and youth, African American history, and carceral studies. In this interview, she shares her interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to research and highlights the importance of celebrating Black communities for the work they have done to push back against systemic racism.
Finding History: Dr. Tina Loo and Dr. Heidi Tworek on Interdisciplinarity, Pedagogy, and the Future of the Discipline
History is a discipline that gives us the freedom to choose the methodologies we want to use to engage with the past. As an ever-changing backdrop to the passage of time, it also gives us space for contingency, agency, and the possibility of doing things differently. Professor Tina Loo specializes in Canadian History with thematic […]
UBC History Welcomes Ukrainian Holocaust Scholar Dr. Nataliia Ivchyk
The UBC Department of History is pleased to welcome Dr. Nataliia Ivchyk, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Rivne State University for the Humanities (Rivne, Ukraine). Dr. Ivchyk is joining us as a visiting scholar for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Know Your Profs with Dr. Henry Yu
Dr. Henry Yu reminds us that each of us has a connection to history, and that learning to interpret our relationships to the past holds the key to untangling our individual and collective futures.
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”.
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. 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.
History PhD Candidate Henry John Wins Student of the Year Award in Work-Integrated Learning
PhD candidate Henry John wins University Work-Integrated Learning Student of the Year for his work with the Kaatza Station Museum and Ts’uubaa-asatx Nation.
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.