Core Faculty
Alexei Kojevnikov
Alexei Kojevnikov
Professor
emaila.nikov@ubc.ca
location_onBuTo 1122, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Teaching and Research Fields
Soviet, Russian, and Eurasian History
Science, Society, and Culture
History of Modern Science, especially Exact Sciences
International Nuclear History and the Cold War
Thematic Research Area
Empire & Colonialism | Global & International History | Science, Technology, & Medicine
Alycia Hall
Alycia Hall
Assistant Professor
phone604-822-5176
location_onBuTo 1203, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Dr. Hall is a Historian of the African Diaspora with a focus on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Caribbean.
Anne Murphy
Anne Murphy
Associate Professor
emailanne.murphy@ubc.ca
location_onBuTo 1107, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
AsiaAnne Murphy is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Chair of Punjabi Language, Literature and Sikh Studies. She is a cultural and intellectual historian whose work focuses on the Punjab region of India and Pakistan, with interests in language and literary cultures, the history of ...Read more
Regional Research Area
Asia
Benjamin Bryce
Benjamin Bryce
Associate Professor
emailben.bryce@ubc.ca
phone604 822 5162
location_onBuTo 1102, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
My research focuses on migration, health, education, and religion. At UBC, I teach courses on global history, migration, imperialism, and anticolonialism. I am also chair of the Latin American Studies program (2022-2025). Beyond UBC, I am the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Canadian Historical...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Global & International History | Migration, Borderlands, & Transnational History | Public History | Race, Ethnicity, & Nationalism | Religion
Bonnie Effros
emailbonnie.effros@ubc.ca
Bonnie Effros has been Professor and Head of the History Department at UBC since January 2022. Prior to this, she was Professor of European History and the Chaddock Chair in Economic and Social History at the University of Liverpool (2017-2021). Her research and teaching address a number of chronolo...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Empire & Colonialism | Gender, Sexuality, & the Body | Race, Ethnicity, & Nationalism | Religion
Bradley Miller
Bradley Miller
Associate Professor
emailbrmiller@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 6307
location_onBuTo 1118, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
CanadaI teach courses on Canadian history, legal history, and the history of crime and criminal justice. I am also a core faculty member of the Law and Society Minor Programme. I welcome inquiries from prospective MA and PhD students.
Regional Research Area
CanadaThematic Research Area
Empire & Colonialism | Global & International History | Law & Society | Migration, Borderlands, & Transnational History | Politics & the State
Coll Thrush
Coll Thrush
Professor
emailcoll.thrush@ubc.ca
location_onBuTo 1222, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
I was raised in Auburn, Washington, about an hour from Seattle, in the treaty territory of the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe. Before arriving at UBC in 2005, I taught at the University of Washington and Pacific Lutheran University and worked as a historian for Muckleshoot.
Thematic Research Area
Empire & Colonialism | Environmental History | Global & International History | Indigenous History | Locality & Community
Courtney Booker
Courtney Booker
TA Coordinator, Professor
emailcbooker@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 6480
location_onBuTo 1121, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
EuropeI am a historian of medieval Europe, with a focus on Carolingian intellectual and cultural history.
Regional Research Area
Europe
Crystal Webster
Crystal Webster
Associate Professor
location_onBuTo 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
United StatesRegional Research Area
United StatesThematic Research Area
Childhood & Youth | Gender, Sexuality, & the Body | Race, Ethnicity, & Nationalism
David Morton
David Morton
Associate Professor
emaildavid.morton@ubc.ca
phone604 822 5195
location_onBuTo 1116, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
Africa & the Middle EastI am a historian of southern Africa, African urbanism, and decolonization, with specific expertise in informal settlement and the histories of Mozambique and its capital Maputo.
Regional Research Area
Africa & the Middle East
Eagle Glassheim
Eagle Glassheim
Professor
emaileagle.g@ubc.ca
location_onBuTo 1221, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
EuropeOffice hours in person on Tuesdays 12:30-2:00, and by appointment over zoom.
Regional Research Area
Europe
Heidi Tworek
Heidi Tworek
Canada Research Chair, Director, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Professor
emailheidi.tworek@ubc.ca
location_on1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Dr. Heidi Tworek is a Canada Research Chair and professor of international history and public policy at UBC. She directs the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Her work examines history and policy around communications, particularly the effects of new media technologies on democracy. S...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Global & International History | Law & Society | Politics & the State | Public History | Science, Technology, & Medicine
Henry Yu
Henry Yu
Professor
emailhenry.yu@ubc.ca
phone778 895 5088
location_onBuTo 1104, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
As a history professor, Dr. Yu’s research and teaching has been built around collaborations with local community organizations, civic institutions such as museums, and multiple levels of government. He is passionate about helping British Columbians and Canadians undo the cultural and historical le...Read more
Hicham Safieddine
Hicham Safieddine is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the History of the Modern Middle East. He researches financial, economic and intellectual history (19th and 20th centuries) with a particular emphasis on the MENA region.
He is currently examining the emergence and transformati...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Economic History | Empire & Colonialism | Global & International History | Politics & the State
Jeffrey Byrne
Jeffrey Byrne
Associate Professor
emailjeffrey.byrne@ubc.ca
phone604 822 5194
location_onBuTo 1101, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
Africa & the Middle EastI study the postcolonial origins of our collective present in world affairs. My first book, Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order (Oxford University Press, 2016), showed how South-South exchanges of methodologies of revolution built our state-centric world order. T...Read more
Regional Research Area
Africa & the Middle East
Jessica Wang
Jessica Wang
Professor
emailjessica.wang@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4500
location_onGEOG 140E (Geography Building)
Regional Research Area
United StatesJoint appointment in the Department of Geography.
On study leave, July 2022 - June 2023.
Regional Research Area
United StatesThematic Research Area
Empire & Colonialism | Global & International History | Politics & the State | Science, Technology, & Medicine
John Christopoulos
John Christopoulos
Undergraduate Chair, Associate Professor
phone604 822 5938
location_onBuTo 1206, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
EuropeI am a historian of early modern Europe with a research focus on sixteenth and seventeenth century Italy. My research explores the intersections of medicine, law and religion. My first book, Abortion in Early Modern Italy, examined Italian attitudes and practices surrounding abortion. My current pr...Read more
Regional Research Area
EuropeThematic Research Area
Gender, Sexuality, & the Body | Law & Society | Locality & Community | Politics & the State | Religion | Science, Technology, & Medicine
John Roosa
John Roosa
Professor
emailjroosa@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 5175
location_onBuTo 1115 / 1214B, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
AsiaOffice Hours:
Office hours by appointment.
Regional Research Area
AsiaThematic Research Area
Empire & Colonialism | Global & International History | Law & Society | Politics & the State | Public History
Joy Dixon
Joy Dixon
Associate Professor
emailjoy.dixon@ubc.ca
phone604 822 5748
location_onBuTo 1125, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
EuropeIn 2022-2024 I'll be teaching in the Arts One program -- The Sources of the Self. See the description of the program here: https://artsone.arts.ubc.ca/themes/2022-2024-sources-of-the-self/sources-of-the-self/
Regional Research Area
EuropeThematic Research Area
Empire & Colonialism | Gender, Sexuality, & the Body | Religion | Science, Technology, & Medicine
Kelly McCormick
Kelly McCormick
Assistant Professor
phone604 822 5161
location_onBuTo 1207, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
AsiaI am a historian of modern Japanese material and visual culture. My research explores the ways Japan's social, political and cultural transformations shape photographic culture and the mass press; state implementations of photography and uses of photography against the state; the gendering of photog...Read more
Regional Research Area
AsiaThematic Research Area
Economic History | Gender, Sexuality, & the Body | Science, Technology, & Medicine
Laura Ishiguro
location_onBuTo 1201, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
CanadaFor information about my research, teaching, supervision, service, and speaking engagements, please see my website.
Regional Research Area
Canada
Leo Shin
Leo Shin
Honours Chair, Associate Professor
emailleo.shin@ubc.ca
phone604 822 5167
location_onBuTo 1223, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
AsiaLeo K. Shin is Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Born and raised in the former British colony, Dr. Shin was for a brief period an education and political reporter for The Hong Kong Standard. Trained as a historian of China, he is inter...Read more
Regional Research Area
AsiaThematic Research Area
Migration, Borderlands, & Transnational History | Public History | Race, Ethnicity, & Nationalism
Leslie Paris
emailleslie.paris@ubc.ca
phone604 822 8810
location_onBuTo 1225, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
United StatesRegional Research Area
United States
Michael Lanthier
Michael Lanthier
Undergraduate Advisor, Lecturer, IR Co-Chair
emailmlanthie@mail.ubc.ca
phone604-822-5179
location_onBuTo 1106, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
2024W Term I Advising Office Hours:
-Fridays, 14:30-16:30, in-person and on Zoom
2024W Term I Teaching Office Hours:
-Wednesdays, 15:30-16:30
-Fridays, 13:30-14:30
Michel Ducharme
Michel Ducharme
Associate Professor
phone604 822 5642
location_onBuTo 1218, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
CanadaOffice Hours: N/A
Regional Research Area
Canada
Paige Raibmon
emailpraibmon@mail.ubc.ca
location_onBuTo 1220, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
CanadaMy research engages a range of questions united by my preoccupation with Indigenous peoples' endurance and resurgence in the face of settler colonialism's historical workings and on-going implications.
Regional Research Area
CanadaThematic Research Area
Empire & Colonialism | Gender, Sexuality, & the Body | Indigenous History | Locality & Community | Public History | Race, Ethnicity, & Nationalism
Pheroze Unwalla
location_onBuTo 1208, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
Africa & the Middle EastI am a historian of Turkey and the modern Middle East whose main research interests include memory, trauma, nationalism and space. As EL-stream faculty, I am presently focused on expanding Middle East Studies (MES) at UBC and developing new pedagogical approaches in MES and Middle East History.
Regional Research Area
Africa & the Middle EastThematic Research Area
Global & International History | Public History | Race, Ethnicity, & Nationalism
Richard Menkis
Richard Menkis
Associate Professor
emailmenkis@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 5163
location_onBuTo 1204, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Office Hours:
Tuesday: 11:00-12:00
Thursday 11:00-12:00 (by appointment, on zoom)
Thematic Research Area
Migration, Borderlands, & Transnational History | Race, Ethnicity, & Nationalism | Religion
Robert Brain
Robert Brain
Graduate Chair, Associate Professor
emailrbrain@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 5409
location_onBuTo 1119, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
EuropeOffice Hours
Tue: 11:00-12:00
Thu: 15:30-16:30
Regional Research Area
EuropeThematic Research Area
Science, Technology, & Medicine
Sara Ann Knutson
emailsa.knutson@ubc.ca
phone604.822.5178
location_onBuTo 1109, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Sara Ann Knutson (she/ her) is Assistant Professor of Teaching, chair of Medieval Studies, and a historian and anthropological archaeologist specializing in premodern Afro-Eurasia, including the Islamic World and Scandinavia, and contemporary cultural heritage.
Her research and teaching examine t...Read more
Shoufu Yin
Shoufu Yin
Assistant Professor
emailshoufu.yin@ubc.ca
location_onBuTo 1103, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
AsiaShoufu Yin is an assistant professor of history at the University of British Columbia. His primary expertise lies in the intellectual and political cultures of China and Inner Asia from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries. Simultaneously, his interests extend to the global histories of politic...Read more
Regional Research Area
AsiaThematic Research Area
Empire & Colonialism | Global & International History | Law & Society | Migration, Borderlands, & Transnational History | Politics & the State
ON LEAVE
Until May 2025
Steven Lee
Steven Lee
ON LEAVE
Until May 2025
Associate Professor
emailstevenhl@mail.ubc.ca
location_onBuTo 1224, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Office Hours
Service
Associate Editor, Journal of American-East Asian Relations
Tamara Myers
Tamara Myers
Associate Head, Professor
emailtamara.myers@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4010
location_onBuTo 1219, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
President, Society for the History of Children and Youth, 2019-21. shcy.org
Timothy Cheek
Timothy Cheek
Professor
emailt.cheek@ubc.ca
phone604 822 6206
location_onChoi 276, Choi Building 1855 West Mall, V6T1Z2 Vancouver, BC Canada
Regional Research Area
AsiaTimothy Cheek is a Professor with the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Department of History, Louis Cha Chair in Chinese Research, and C0-Director of the Centre for Chinese Research at the Institute of Asian Research (IAR). He has been a professor at UBC since 2002. His research, teach...Read more
Regional Research Area
Asia
Tina Loo
Tina Loo
Professor
emailtina.loo@ubc.ca
phone604 822 5173
location_onBuTo 1124, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
CanadaRegional Research Area
CanadaSessional Faculty
Avram Agov
Regional Research Area
Asia
Carol Matheson
Regional Research Area
Europe
Clement Tong
Clement Tong
Sessional Lecturer
emailclement.tong@kpu.ca
location_on604-1871 West Mall, Vancouver , BC, V6T1Z2, Canada
Regional Research Area
AsiaDr. Clement Tong is an assistant professor of biblical studies and the coordinator of the Global Mandarin Program at the ACTS Seminaries (TWU). He is also a History and Asian Studies lecturer at the Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and a sessional lecturer at the University of British Columbia. Havi...Read more
Regional Research Area
Asia
Colin Grittner
Colin Grittner
Sessional Lecturer
emailcgrittne@mail.ubc.ca
location_onBuTo 1235, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
CanadaRegional Research Area
Canada
Dane Allard
Regional Research Area
Canada
David Borys
David Borys
Sessional Lecturer
emaildavid.borys@ubc.ca
location_onBuTo 1235, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
CanadaDavid Borys is a military historian who specialise in the Canadian war experience specifically examining the changing nature that warfare has wrought on Canadian society. His most recent book titled Civilians at the Sharp End examines the relationship between the soldiers of First Canadian Army and ...Read more
Regional Research Area
Canada
Dexter Fergie
Dexter Fergie
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
emaildxtr@mail.ubc.ca
location_onBuTo 1120
Regional Research Area
United StatesI am a US and global historian, specializing in the history of international organizations, infrastructure, US foreign relations, and ideas.
As a doctoral candidate at Northwestern University, I am completing a dissertation, entitled “Headquartering the World: American Power and the Space of Gl...Read more
Regional Research Area
United States
Josh Timmermann
I am an historian of Late Antiquity and early medieval Europe, in particular the Carolingian era (ca. 751–888 C.E.) and with emphases on intellectual, cultural, and reception history. My forthcoming book is concerned with perceptions and applications of the texts, ideas, and famous writers of the ...Read more
Regional Research Area
Europe
Lara Silver
Lara Silver
Sessional Lecturer
emaillsilver@mail.ubc.ca
location_onBuTo 1108, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
I joined the Department of History in September 2007 and deliver lectures in Canadian-American relations, international relations of the twentieth century, American history, and postwar British history. I have also held lecturing positions at Canterbury Christ Church University and at the University...Read more
Ryan Sun
Ryan Sun is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at UBC working with Prof. Leo Shin and Prof. Richard Menkis. My transnational project expands the geography of Jewish exile outside Europe and beyond Shanghai, and onto the British colonies of Hong Kong and Singapore. I adopt a refugee-centere...Read more
Tucker Sharon
Tucker Sharon
Sessional Lecturer
emailt.sharon@ubc.ca
location_onBuTo 1235, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
Latin AmericaOffice Hours
Thurs: 12-1pm
Courses Taught Outside the Department
LAST 100: Introduction to Latin American Studies
Regional Research Area
Latin America
Xian Wang
Xian Wang
Sessional Lecturer
emailxian.wang@ubc.ca
location_onBuTo 1114, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
Asia
My PhD is in history, in the field of modern Chinese history, specializing in the history of the People’s Republic of China. My work focuses on religion and politics, oral history and memory studies, and the history of state violence.
Regional Research Area
AsiaAdjunct Faculty
David Eltis
David Eltis
Adjunct Professor
emaildeltis@emory.edu
phone404 727 2184
location_onBuTo 1297, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Julian Weideman
Julian Weideman
Associate Member
Regional Research Area
Africa & the Middle EastI am a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Toronto, where I study modern North Africa with a focus on universities, political economy, Islamic thought, and colonialism. My work mainly draws on sources from the Tunisian National Archives. I also work in digital...Read more
Regional Research Area
Africa & the Middle EastThematic Research Area
Empire & Colonialism | Global & International History | Law & Society | Politics & the State | Public History | Race, Ethnicity, & Nationalism | ReligionPostdoctoral Fellows
Dexter Fergie
Dexter Fergie
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
emaildxtr@mail.ubc.ca
location_onBuTo 1120
Regional Research Area
United StatesI am a US and global historian, specializing in the history of international organizations, infrastructure, US foreign relations, and ideas.
As a doctoral candidate at Northwestern University, I am completing a dissertation, entitled “Headquartering the World: American Power and the Space of Gl...Read more
Regional Research Area
United States
Seema Mahi
Seema Mahi
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
emailseema.mahi@ubc.ca
location_onBuTo 1205, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Administrative Faculty
Bonnie Effros
emailbonnie.effros@ubc.ca
Bonnie Effros has been Professor and Head of the History Department at UBC since January 2022. Prior to this, she was Professor of European History and the Chaddock Chair in Economic and Social History at the University of Liverpool (2017-2021). Her research and teaching address a number of chronolo...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Empire & Colonialism | Gender, Sexuality, & the Body | Race, Ethnicity, & Nationalism | Religion
John Christopoulos
John Christopoulos
Undergraduate Chair, Associate Professor
phone604 822 5938
location_onBuTo 1206, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
EuropeI am a historian of early modern Europe with a research focus on sixteenth and seventeenth century Italy. My research explores the intersections of medicine, law and religion. My first book, Abortion in Early Modern Italy, examined Italian attitudes and practices surrounding abortion. My current pr...Read more
Regional Research Area
EuropeThematic Research Area
Gender, Sexuality, & the Body | Law & Society | Locality & Community | Politics & the State | Religion | Science, Technology, & Medicine
Leo Shin
Leo Shin
Honours Chair, Associate Professor
emailleo.shin@ubc.ca
phone604 822 5167
location_onBuTo 1223, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
AsiaLeo K. Shin is Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Born and raised in the former British colony, Dr. Shin was for a brief period an education and political reporter for The Hong Kong Standard. Trained as a historian of China, he is inter...Read more
Regional Research Area
AsiaThematic Research Area
Migration, Borderlands, & Transnational History | Public History | Race, Ethnicity, & Nationalism
Michael Lanthier
Michael Lanthier
Undergraduate Advisor, Lecturer, IR Co-Chair
emailmlanthie@mail.ubc.ca
phone604-822-5179
location_onBuTo 1106, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
2024W Term I Advising Office Hours:
-Fridays, 14:30-16:30, in-person and on Zoom
2024W Term I Teaching Office Hours:
-Wednesdays, 15:30-16:30
-Fridays, 13:30-14:30
Robert Brain
Robert Brain
Graduate Chair, Associate Professor
emailrbrain@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 5409
location_onBuTo 1119, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
Regional Research Area
EuropeOffice Hours
Tue: 11:00-12:00
Thu: 15:30-16:30
Regional Research Area
EuropeThematic Research Area
Science, Technology, & Medicine
Tamara Myers
Tamara Myers
Associate Head, Professor
emailtamara.myers@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4010
location_onBuTo 1219, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada
President, Society for the History of Children and Youth, 2019-21. shcy.org