Message from the Department Head
Many congratulations to the UBC History Graduating Class of May 2026!
No doubt you may be wondering how your time in Vancouver has passed so quickly, but there is no question that you have gained much along the way while completing your History degree. We are confident your studies will provide a source of strength in following your passions, and we hope that your knowledge of history will stoke your curiosity to learn more after you leave campus. Amidst the fraught political tensions that have arisen in many parts of the world during your time at UBC, you have shown resilience and determination to acquire the tools that will help you navigate an increasingly uncertain world.
Over the course of your studies in History, you have acquired essential skills such as reading thoughtfully and critically, and writing and speaking effectively. Your ability to identify the larger context of the historical developments we are witnessing today will assist you in making a difference in the world beyond UBC. Wherever you head after your graduation, we trust that the friends, mentors, and community you gained during your studies will remain important in your life. Please do remain in touch!
The History Department joins me in wishing the very best to our graduating students!
The names of our Honours, MA and PhD students are listed below, along with the titles of their theses and doctoral dissertations that were completed for these degrees.
Dr. Bonnie Effros
Department Head
Department of History
Ciara E. Albrecht, "Ancient Clothes, Living Ghosts: Historical Memory and Nationalist Imaginings in Ireland (1865–1925)"
Shubhreet Kaur Dadrao, "‘Beta… Being Happy for You Means Being Khush’: Khush and Queer South Asian Representation in 1980s–90s Toronto"
Erin Dawson, "Seers, Storms, and Spindles: Women’s Magic and Spinning in Settlement- and Commonwealth-Era Iceland"
Hana Ito, "‘Show the Mona Lisa to Everyone!’: Solidarities of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Japan, 1969–75"
Alli Kaounas, "« La Politique de la Piété »: Reputation, Court Gossip, and the Construction of Madame de Maintenon’s Légende Noire in Louis XIV’s ‘Third’ Reign"
Raffaella Law, "Aspiration Without Disruption: Women Advertisers and the Making of Professional Femininity in Late-Twentieth-Century America"
Luka Lukic deBakker, "Visual Representations of Greenland in Denmark: 1870–1945"
Hannah McDermott, "The Picturesque Past: Understanding the Use and Expressions of Historical Dress in Victorian and Edwardian Britain"
Carson Metanczuk, "Set Safely Apart: Public Health, Quarantine, and Identity Formation in Late Nineteenth Century British Columbia"
Eman Murshed, "‘In This Damn Country, Which We Hate and Love’: Imagining and Actualizing an Anti-Racist Britishness in England (1980–2001)"
Agostino Pizzolato, "Naika Mamook-Kumtuks Mesaika / I Will Teach You: Christian Missionization, Chinook Pipa Literacy, and Indigenous Agency in BC’s
Interior in the Late Nineteenth Century"
Ari Provost, "Machiavellian Mercy: The Arbitrary Sentencing of Patriots during the Court Martial in Lower Canada in 1838–39"
Matthew Tsui, "From Crisis to Consolidation: An Analysis of the Intensification of Hong Kong Consciousness Through the Undergrad (1966–1968)"
Quinton Huang, "Sedimentary planning : the formation of squatter settlements in Hong Kong, 1669-1954"
Sichen Liu, "Bridging East Berlin and Beijing : the transnational publishing network between the People's Republic of China and the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1963"
Liliya Ozdemir, "Agents of care, objects of rule : women, medicine, and colonial authority in Russian Turkestan"
Cheuk Him Ryan Sun, "Shelters Interrupted : Hong Kong, Singapore, and Jewish Refugees (1938–1941)"
