Congratulations, UBC History Class of 2022! We hope that by following your passion for the nuances of the past, you have gained a deeper understanding of how to build on the present. The world around us continues to offer many challenges, some new and others far older; your knowledge of history and how to weigh evidence and question existing narratives will help you formulate ways to solve problems, build communities, and address inequalities.
We join together to warmly wish the best to our 2022 graduating students. Their names are listed below, along with the titles of the honours and MA theses and doctoral dissertations that were completed for these degrees. Wherever your journey takes you next in life, know that the UBC Department of History will take pride in your accomplishments.
Mark Werner
Dissertation: "Looking for the Killer: A History of Orca Encounters, 1861-1964"
Supervisor: Dr. Coll Thrush
Elizabeth Wu Ren
Thesis: "China Goes Global: A History of Xinhua News Agency's International Expansion from 1978 to 1989"
Supervisors: Drs. Timothy Cheek, Heidi Tworek
Hamad Abdullah Nazar
Thesis: "From Pre-Colonial to Colonial Forms of Engagement with Punjabi Pasts: A Study of some Vār Texts"
Supervisors: Drs. Anne Murphy, Coll Thrush
Georgia Rose Twiss
Supervisor: Dr. Laura Ishiguro
Kayla Rose Reddecliff
Supervisor: Dr. Sebastian Prange
Aaron Wesley Throness
Supervisor: Dr. Timothy Cheek
Temidayo Olayide Ayodele-Oja, Honours in History with International Relations
Thesis: "Black Feminists' Activism Against Sexual Violence: A Critical Study of Three Topical Cases"
Supervisor: Dr. Crystal Webster
Zachary Crouch, Honours in History
Thesis: “Atmospheric Spaces of Colonization: The United Fruit Company and Early Wireless, 1904-1925”
Supervisor: Dr. Jessica Wang
Alfred Goy, Honours in History
Thesis: “Not So Absent Europeans”
Supervisor: Dr. Michael Lanthier
Grace M. Jefferd, Honours in History
Thesis: “Inquiries and Intermediaries: The Men of the Aba Women's War in Colonial Nigeria, 1929-1930”
Supervisor: Dr. David Morton
Amanda Kennedy, Honours in History with International Relations
Thesis: “The U.S. and Military Dictatorships in the Global South: The Struggle for Resources in Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia in the 1960s”
Supervisor: Dr. John Roosa
Bogdan Koutsenko, Honours in History with International Relations
Thesis: “Russia's 1992 Voucher Privatization: An Intellectual History”
Supervisor: Dr. Alexei Kojevnikov
Chenyang Li, Honours in History
Thesis: “Contrition and Emulation: Ambrose’s De apologia prophetae David and Its Carolingian Reception”
Supervisor: Dr. Courtney Booker
Azmeh Waleed Malik, Honours in History
Thesis: “Partitioned Time: An Exploration of the Multiplicity of Temporality Produced by the Indian Partition of 1947”
Supervisor: Dr. Bill French
Aydin Man Chun Quach, Honours in History with International Relations
Thesis: “From Chinese Men to Chinese “Boys”: Unearthing Masculinities and Intimate Labour in Colonial Singapore”
Supervisor: Dr. John Roosa
Bethlehem Samson, Honours in History with International Relations
Thesis: “The Evolution of Feminism and Reproductive Rights in the United States, 1960 – 2000”
Supervisor: Dr. Heidi Tworek
Andrew Ronald Sandfort-Marchese, Honours in History
Thesis: “Papers, Please: Broker Battles, Human Rights, and the Illegal Immigration Raids of 1960”
Supervisor: Dr. Tina Loo
Alifya Sohail, Honours in History with International Relations
Thesis: "Finding Hama: Complicating Silence and Erasure in Syria After 1982"
Supervisor: Dr. Pheroze Unwalla
Basheer Amin
Azaan Farid Amiri
Emma Bailey Anderson
Sammi Alyssa Anderson
Hamd Jalal Asif
Harley William Charles Bacon
Sadie Caroline Baird
Reece Bartel
Ajay Singh Bath
Trinity Rose Beckford
Madeline Berube
Sahvin Biring
Amelia Violet Chahley Blair
Mackenzie Mary Boates
Griffin Mathers Botsford
Avery Alyssa Bramadat
Ka Kit Chiam
Bahram Daneshvar
Antonin Henry Decrulle
Emma-Kate Christensen Dolbec
Thomas Dorman
James Robert Edel
Cole Jacob Fairweather
Emma Anne Frankenberger
Jasmin Isobel Ghorbani
Nicholas Francesco Giannone
Winnie Sie Man Ha
Leila Anne Hassan
Aaron Tiber John
Milena Francesca Krondl
Rishabh Kumar
Gabriel Lawrence Lee
Adrien Chi-Chung Li
Jiantian Liu
Josh Ljungström
Ryan Kwai Tim Ma
Cameron Hugh Gardom MacDonald
Semiah Monique Marquard
Parisa Mehregan
Jacqueline Sara Carvalho Melo
Alexander Wayne Morrow
Constance Annie Muradyan
Paul Wilsen Reyes Nitafan
Aidan Jedrek Olley
Harper Louise Petty
Melissa Chi-Ching Poon
Jane Dorothea Procyshyn
Sarai Elizabeth Jamieson Rasmidatta
Diego Salinas De Los Santos
Loubna Serghini
Daisy Eloise Sessions
Maryjane Isabella Sexton
Ragini Sharma
Claire Emily Sutherland
Amar Singh Walia
Jocelyn Nicole Lorraine Wall
Kelsey Wiebe
Abrielle Elizabeth Winsor
Daniel Wu
Edward Yuan
Nan Zhang
Zhiqian Zhang
