Message from the Department Head
Congratulations UBC History Class of 2024!
You did it! After many lectures, readings, essays, and exams on which to sharpen your craft, you are now ready to walk across the Chan Centre stage, with historical imagination in every step. Through exploring other times and societies, you have found the ability to connect to distant events and people, and to situate yourself and your generation in history. We in the UBC Department of History salute you.
You remind us time and time again that change is something to embrace, not fear. You began your academic career under less-than-optimal conditions as COVID-19 and its variants wrought havoc on the world as we knew it. Along the way, you learned to remain steadfast in your pursuit of learning, adapting to the changes and challenges that demanded your resolve, flexibility, and imagination. We continue to see these strengths this year as global events reverberated across our campus. Your empathy, sense of social justice, and deep appreciation for evidence-based argument inspire us all.
As you prepare for your next step in pursuit of your goals and ambitions, remember your undergraduate degree is the first step to something much bigger. Your training as a historian unlocked new ways of thinking and opened the door to vast opportunities informed by an understanding of the past. Take a moment to look back on how far you have come and how you got here: by taking one step at a time. Wherever you choose to go, whatever you choose to do, the History Department is ready to cheer you on as you venture beyond UBC to put your mark on the world.
Thank you for sharing these years of dramatic change with us and making them meaningful. We wish you nothing but the best in your future endeavours.
Dr. Tamara Myers
Professor and Acting Head
UBC Department of History
Below are the names of UBC History’s 2024 graduates, sorted by degree and program. If you know you are graduating but you don’t see your name on this list, do not panic! Email hist.comms@ubc.ca to rectify any errors.
April 2024
Adrian Wawrejko, MA
Thesis: Committee for an Independent Canada and its promotion of Canadian independence in the 1970s
Supervisor: Michel Ducharme
November 2023
Hannah Facknitz, MA
Thesis: City planning for extinction : eugenics, anti-Indigeneity, and the haunted city-organism in North Vancouver, 1903-1940
Supervisor: Paige Raibmon
Calvin Lin, MA
Thesis: Ming maritime governance and the Suppression of Lin Feng
Supervisor: Leo Shin
Lucy Warrington, MA
Thesis: “One notable exception” : how concerns over international and intra-imperial norms shaped Amherst internment camp operations during the First World War
Supervisor: Benjamin Bryce
Jelsing Kaden, PhD
Dissertation: Sovereign futures : Indigenous and settler prophecies in two nineteenth-century American “northwests”
Supervisor: Coll Thrush
Eric Johnson, PhD
Dissertation: The struggle for coexistence : Peter Kropotkin and the social ecology of science in Russia, Europe, and England, 1859-1922
Supervisor: Alexei Kojevnikov
Archa Meelakandan Girija, PhD
Dissertation: Changing perspectives on Indian Ocean cityscapes : the port city of Calicut in the early modern period
Supervisor: Sebastian Prange
Niping Yan, PhD
Dissertation: Making the Boxer Codex : sixteenth-century book cultures and Sino-Hispanic interactions in the Philippines
Supervisor: Timothy Brook
Kiri Bhana, Honours in History
Thesis: India’s Rebellion of 1857 and Ideologies of Masculinity in the Times of India, 1839-1899
Supervisor: Anne Murphy
Molly Bryan, Honours in History
Thesis: The Challenges of Change: Expanding Diversity at Burnaby Village Museum
Supervisor: Henry Yu
Elise Hodges, Honours in History
Thesis: An Unprecedented Intersection of Gender, Aviation, and Military History: A Rethinking of the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots of World War Two
Supervisor: Joy Dixon
Lauren Howell, Honours in History
Thesis: The Culpability Question: Capital Punishment in Early 20th Century Western Canada
Supervisor: Bradley Miller
Liang-Hsuan (Alan) Mao, Honours in History
Thesis: The Rigid Ship and the Changing Coast: An Examination of the True Briton’s Eastward Journey
Supervisor: Coll Thrush
Camryn Traa, Honours in History
Thesis: Otter Moments: Perceptions of Sea Otters and the History of Vancouver and British Columbia
Supervisor: Tina Loo
Guillaume Attia, Honours in History
Thesis: Alexis de Tocqueville and The Failure of Enlightenment Liberalism, 1789 – 1851
Supervisor: Michael Lanthier
Emily Mann, Honours in History
Thesis: Crimes of the Past, Crimes of the Present: White Liberals and the Early Years of South Africa’s Democracy
Supervisor: David Morton
Nola Boasberg, Honours in History with International Relations
Thesis: The Story of SPOTA: Narrating Chinese Diaspora Activism in Strathcona, 1968-2023
Supervisor: Henry Yu
Emma Prantner, Honours in History with International Relations
Thesis: Language in Crisis: Der Deutsche Schulverein and German Speakers in the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Supervisor: Benjamin Bryce
Huanjun Zhou, Honours in History with International Relations
Thesis: Evolutionary Revolution: Sino-British Extraterritoriality Negotiations and the Reconstitution of Chinese Foreign Relations, 1929-1931
Supervisor: Timothy Cheek
Adam Abraham
Alexa Bancroft
Theo Benedet
Amir Biring
Ainsley Bork
Andrew Cavalli
Corey Chang
Rachel Cheung
Wesley Choi
Shay Chugani
Ross Crumrine
Pius da Silva
Isobelle Davidson
Ben Desharnais
Ben Dixon
Mackenzie Dong
Chris Englezos
Colton Enslen
Bronwyn Ferguson
Camille Garvey
Amber Gaskill
Tova Gaster
Gizel Gedik
Erin Geerlof
Dylan Hamilton
Alex Hewlett-Bowbrick
Brandon Hicks
Ethan Ho
Sten Hoffman
Sage Houston
Kristal Huang
Emily Ison
Angela Jafary
Alancia Jeffery
Arjun Khandelwal
Yon-Jun Kim
Natasha Kruger
Shun Kurasawa
George Lakoumentas
Maria Leon
Weixi Lin
Jason Liu
Paisley McKenzie
Felicity Mellesmoen
Lisa Mishina
Fazeeha Mohammed Manzoor
Veronica Moino
Gustavo Neves
Kalum Ng
Jessica Nonay
Devyn Patrick
Steven Penner
Meaghan Plumridge
Chloe Reimer
Angus Ross
Liam Simmonds
Victoria So
Simran Sohi
India Spriggs
Kai Storms Storms
Natalia Stubbs
Ella-Rose Thomas
Milad Veysmoradi
Fiona Wang
Emily Wang
Leonie Withoeft
Ian Wolf
Jeremy Wong
SiYu Wu
Vivian Wu
Heather Wye
Reiko Xu
Costa Yannakoulias
John Ye
Wesley Yiu
Henry Yong
Sam Aiello
Jack Arends
Martina Atanackovic
Summer Bacon
Roman Bains
Esfahan Bhura
Emmy Bos
Navpreet Boyal
Jessie Chang
Nandita Chawla
Markus Enns
Jackson Farmer
Gary Feng
Chloe Fike
Nick Halme
Spencer Haslam
Joe Latam
Sylvia Liang
Alexandra Liaw
Erik Lyon
Jeremiah Magahis
Kaylan Mah
Amelia Parkin
Mia Sampert
Lea Schelb
Muskan Shukla
Sam Sims
Ruoxi Xu
