History Student Spotlight: Dakota Koch (BC Newcomer Camp)
Fourth-year History student Dakota Koch discusses his organization BC Newcomer Camp, a free summer camp program for refugee children.
History Honours Alumnus, Aidan Forth, receives the 2019 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize
Congratulations to Aidan Forth on his achievement – the 2019 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize of the Canadian Historical Association. This award recognizes an outstanding scholarly book in a field other than Canadian history. Aidan received this award for his book Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876-1903 (University of California Press, 2017). Aidan Forth is currently […]
Jan Prchal’s Go Global Semester Abroad at Uppsala University
“Learning Swedish history while living in Sweden was a great way to understand the context of the country I was living in” In 2017, Jan Prchal, a UBC History Honours student, followed through on a goal he always had — to study in another country. Taking advantage of UBC’s Go Global Program, Jan studied […]
Eagle Glassheim Feature: Finding Gold Mountain on the Fraser River
From a raft on the wide and powerful Fraser River, the stone chutes of Browning’s Bar were easy to miss. The rock piles looked like the remnants of a small landslide, or maybe the deposits of the meandering river bed millennia ago…
Alumni Interview: Joanna Chiu (Journalist)
Joanna Chiu, a 2010 History Honours graduate, applies her knowledge and passion for Chinese history in her career as a journalist. Joanna is the Bureau Chief at the Star Vancouver, the West coast newsroom of the Toronto Star, where she focuses her reporting time on telling the complex and nuanced stories of China-Canada relations. Joanna […]
Alumni Interview: Katie Taylor (Law Student)
We interviewed Katie Taylor, third-year law student at the Peter Allard School of Law, on her experience as a UBC History major and how her degree has informed her career after graduation.
