About
He will be teaching HIST_204 (History through Video Games) in the Fall 2026 term.
Publications
Journal articles
- Cheuk Him Ryan Sun, “Between Viennese childhood and Shanghai survival: Gerda Gottfried’s Poesiealbum as a palimpsestic object,” Journal of Holocaust Research (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/25785648.2024.2426871.
- Cheuk Him Ryan Sun, “The Holocaust and Hong Kong: An Overlooked History,” Journal of Holocaust Studies 29, vol. 3 (2023): 393-413. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2022.2057118.
Book Reviews
- Review of “Kathryn Hellerstein and Song Lihong (eds.), China and Ashkenazic Jewry: Transnational Encounters (Munich: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022), 359 pp., $89.99.” PaRDeS: Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany no. 29 (2023): 181-184.
Other writings
- “The possibilities in-transit: Helmut Newton’s experiences on a Shanghai-bound ship.” Blogpost for Refugee History
- “The Multiple Lives of Gerda Gottfried’s Notebook,” Zachor (Spring, 2023): 20-21, 24.
- “Small Insights: Revisiting the VHEC’s Shanghai Oral History Project,” Zachor (Spring, 2022): 6-8.
- Also republished in the Jewish Independent as “Revisiting Oral Histories“
Public lectures
- “Boredom and Excitement at Sea: Jewish Refugees’ Experiences on Ships Bound for Shanghai.” Lecture delivered at USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research, February 2023.
Awards
Select Awards and Scholarships
- SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- 2022-2023 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship, USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research, University of Southern California
- Fritz Thyssen Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute
- Conway Summer Travel Scholarship in German History, University of British Columbia
- Four Year Fellowship, University of British Columbia
- SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Master’s Award