People

Faculty
Core Faculty

Alexei Kojevnikov

Alexei Kojevnikov

Professor

location_onBuTo 1122, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Asia | Europe
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

Regional Research Area

Asia | Europe

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

location_onBuTo 1107, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Asia
Anne 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

phone604 822 5162
location_onBuTo 1102, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Canada | Europe | Latin America
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

Regional Research Area

Canada | Europe | Latin America

Bonnie Effros

Bonnie Effros

she/her

Department Head, Professor

Regional Research Area

Africa & the Middle East | Europe
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

Regional Research Area

Africa & the Middle East | Europe

Bradley Miller

Bradley Miller

Associate Professor

phone604 822 6307
location_onBuTo 1118, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Canada
I 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

Canada

Clare Crowston

Clare Crowston

Professor

Coll Thrush

Coll Thrush

Professor

location_onBuTo 1222, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Canada | United States
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.

Regional Research Area

Canada | United States

Courtney Booker

Courtney Booker

TA Coordinator, Professor

phone604 822 6480
location_onBuTo 1121, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Europe
I am a historian of medieval Europe, with a focus on Carolingian intellectual and cultural history.

Regional Research Area

Europe

Thematic Research Area

Politics & the State | Religion

Crystal Webster

Crystal Webster

Associate Professor

location_onBuTo 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

United States

David Morton

David Morton

Associate Professor

phone604 822 5195
location_onBuTo 1116, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Africa & the Middle East
I 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

location_onBuTo 1221, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Europe
Office 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

location_on1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Canada | Europe
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

Regional Research Area

Canada | Europe

Henry Yu

Henry Yu

Professor

phone778 895 5088
location_onBuTo 1104, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Asia | Canada | United States
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

Regional Research Area

Asia | Canada | United States

Hicham Safieddine

Hicham Safieddine

Associate Professor

phone604-822-5073
location_onBuTo 1209
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

Jeffrey Byrne

Jeffrey Byrne

Associate Professor

phone604 822 5194
location_onBuTo 1101, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Africa & the Middle East
I 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

phone604 822 4500
location_onGEOG 140E (Geography Building)

Regional Research Area

United States
Joint appointment in the Department of Geography. On study leave, July 2022 - June 2023.  

Regional Research Area

United States

John Christopoulos

John Christopoulos

Undergraduate Chair, Associate Professor

phone604 822 5938
location_onBuTo 1206, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Europe
I 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

Europe

John Roosa

John Roosa

Professor

phone604 822 5175
location_onBuTo 1115 / 1214B, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Asia
Office Hours: Office hours by appointment.

Regional Research Area

Asia

Joy Dixon

Joy Dixon

Associate Professor

phone604 822 5748
location_onBuTo 1125, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Europe
In 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

Europe

Kelly McCormick

Kelly McCormick

Assistant Professor

phone604 822 5161
location_onBuTo 1207, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Asia
I 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

Asia

Laura Ishiguro

Laura Ishiguro

she/her/hers

Associate Professor

location_onBuTo 1201, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Canada
For 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

phone604 822 5167
location_onBuTo 1223, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Asia
Leo 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

Asia

Leslie Paris

Leslie Paris

she/her

Associate Professor

phone604 822 8810
location_onBuTo 1225, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

United States

Regional Research Area

United States

Michael Lanthier

Michael Lanthier

Undergraduate Advisor, Lecturer, IR Co-Chair

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

Canada
Office Hours: N/A  

Regional Research Area

Canada

Paige Raibmon

Paige Raibmon

she/her

Professor

location_onBuTo 1220, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Canada
My 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

Canada

Pheroze Unwalla

Pheroze Unwalla

he/him/his

Associate Professor of Teaching, History / Chair, Middle East Studies

location_onBuTo 1208, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Africa & the Middle East
I 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 East

Richard Menkis

Richard Menkis

Associate Professor

phone604 822 5163
location_onBuTo 1204, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Canada | Europe
Office Hours: Tuesday: 11:00-12:00 Thursday 11:00-12:00 (by appointment, on zoom)

Regional Research Area

Canada | Europe

Robert Brain

Robert Brain

Graduate Chair, Associate Professor

phone604 822 5409
location_onBuTo 1119, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Europe
Office Hours Tue: 11:00-12:00 Thu: 15:30-16:30

Regional Research Area

Europe

Thematic Research Area

Science, Technology, & Medicine

Sara Ann Knutson

Sara Ann Knutson

She/ her

Assistant Professor of Teaching & Chair of Medieval Studies

phone604.822.5178
location_onBuTo 1109, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Africa & the Middle East | Asia | Europe
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

Regional Research Area

Africa & the Middle East | Asia | Europe

Shoufu Yin

Shoufu Yin

Assistant Professor

location_onBuTo 1103, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Asia
Shoufu 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

Asia

Steven Lee

Steven Lee

Associate Professor

location_onBuTo 1224, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Asia | Canada | United States
Office Hours Service Associate Editor, Journal of American-East Asian Relations

Regional Research Area

Asia | Canada | United States

Tamara Myers

Tamara Myers

Associate Head, Professor

phone604 822 4010
location_onBuTo 1219, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Canada | United States
President, Society for the History of Children and Youth, 2019-21. shcy.org

Regional Research Area

Canada | United States

Timothy Cheek

Timothy Cheek

Professor

phone604 822 6206
location_onChoi 276, Choi Building 1855 West Mall, V6T1Z2 Vancouver, BC Canada

Regional Research Area

Asia
Timothy 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

phone604 822 5173
location_onBuTo 1124, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Canada

Regional Research Area

Canada
Sessional Faculty

Avram Agov

Avram Agov

Sessional Lecturer

Regional Research Area

Asia

Regional Research Area

Asia

Carol Matheson

Carol Matheson

Sessional Lecturer

Regional Research Area

Europe

Regional Research Area

Europe

Clement Tong

Clement Tong

Sessional Lecturer

location_on604-1871 West Mall, Vancouver , BC, V6T1Z2, Canada

Regional Research Area

Asia
Dr. 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

location_onBuTo 1235, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Canada

Dane Allard

Dane Allard

PhD Candidate

Regional Research Area

Canada

Regional Research Area

Canada

David Borys

David Borys

Sessional Lecturer

location_onBuTo 1235, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Canada
David 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

location_onBuTo 1120

Regional Research Area

United States
I 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

Jack Fairey

Jack Fairey

Sessional Lecturer

Josh Timmermann

Josh Timmermann

Sessional Lecturer

location_onBuchanan Tower, room 1210

Regional Research Area

Europe
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

Thematic Research Area

Politics & the State | Religion

Lara Silver

Lara Silver

Sessional Lecturer

location_onBuTo 1108, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Canada | Europe | United States
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

Regional Research Area

Canada | Europe | United States

Ryan Sun

Ryan Sun

PhD Candidate

Regional Research Area

Asia | Europe
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

Regional Research Area

Asia | Europe

Tucker Sharon

Tucker Sharon

Sessional Lecturer

location_onBuTo 1235, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Latin America
Office 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

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

Asia
Adjunct Faculty

David Eltis

David Eltis

Adjunct Professor

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 East
I 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 East

Nataliia Ivchyk

Nataliia Ivchyk

Visiting Associate Professor

Regional Research Area

Europe

Regional Research Area

Europe

Sayyid Muhammad Farid

Sayyid Muhammad Farid

Honorary Visiting Professor

phone604-827-5669
location_onBuTo 1107
Postdoctoral Fellows

Dexter Fergie

Dexter Fergie

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

location_onBuTo 1120

Regional Research Area

United States
I 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
Administrative Faculty

Bonnie Effros

Bonnie Effros

she/her

Department Head, Professor

Regional Research Area

Africa & the Middle East | Europe
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

Regional Research Area

Africa & the Middle East | Europe

John Christopoulos

John Christopoulos

Undergraduate Chair, Associate Professor

phone604 822 5938
location_onBuTo 1206, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Europe
I 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

Europe

Leo Shin

Leo Shin

Honours Chair, Associate Professor

phone604 822 5167
location_onBuTo 1223, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Asia
Leo 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

Asia

Michael Lanthier

Michael Lanthier

Undergraduate Advisor, Lecturer, IR Co-Chair

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

phone604 822 5409
location_onBuTo 1119, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Europe
Office Hours Tue: 11:00-12:00 Thu: 15:30-16:30

Regional Research Area

Europe

Thematic Research Area

Science, Technology, & Medicine

Tamara Myers

Tamara Myers

Associate Head, Professor

phone604 822 4010
location_onBuTo 1219, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Canada

Regional Research Area

Canada | United States
President, Society for the History of Children and Youth, 2019-21. shcy.org

Regional Research Area

Canada | United States