Spotlight

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.

Joy Dixon smiles in front of a tall green bush. They have short salt and pepper hair and wear a white button down shirt. She smiles at the camera.

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”.

Dr. Sara Ann Knutson in the Wadi Rum, Jordan. She wears a black shirt with white line patterns, khaki pants, and white, silver, and pink running shoes. She smiles and sits on a pile of sand stone with one leg crossed in front of the other.

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 Timothy Cheek shares with us what triangulation has to do with working with historical documents and artifacts, why context is important to any work in the discipline of history, and why you should take a chance on at least one discipline that is new to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.

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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.

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.

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Dr. Crystal Lynn Webster on CBC Kids News: Black History Month 2022

Dr. Crystal Lynn Webster speaks on CBC Kids News about the history and futures of the celebration of Black History Month.