Alumni Interview: Joanna Chiu (Journalist)
Joanna Chiu, a 2010 History Honours graduate, applies her knowledge and passion for Chinese history in her career as a journalist. Joanna is the Bureau Chief at the Star Vancouver, the West coast newsroom of the Toronto Star, where she focuses her reporting time on telling the complex and nuanced stories of China-Canada relations. Joanna […]
Religion and Sexuality in Modern Britain (Bibliography by Joy Dixon)
This page contains an ongoing and frequently updated bibliography of work in the field. Any inquiries related to this page can be directed to Joy Dixon. General Avery, Todd. “‘This Intricate Commerce of Souls’: The Origins and Some Early Expressions of Lytton Strachey’s Ethics.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 13, no. 2 (Apr. 2004): 183-207. Bernstein, […]
Honours Thesis Archive
The senior thesis is the main challenge and reward of your final year in the History Honours program. Students must undertake substantial pieces of independent research on topics of their choice and will receive individual direction from faculty members. We encourage students to pick a topic in a field in which they are broadly familiar […]
MA Program
The Master’s (MA) program in the Department of History is a 24-month program and requires full-time residential study. The history master’s program includes regional and thematic courses, methods and historiography, and a research seminar, culminating in the writing of thesis. Program Requirements – MA Degree Conference Travel Funding Graduate students are now eligible to […]
Ed Wickberg
Prof. Wickberg taught Modern Chinese History at UBC between 1969 and his retirement in 1992, and achieved an international reputation as a leading scholar of the global Chinese diaspora, but his lasting impact went well beyond his research on the Chinese in the Philippines and in Canada.
Allen Sinel
Allen Sinel, who served the UBC Department of History for more than 50 years as a gifted teacher and scholar, a wise administrator, and an engaged and engaging mentor and raconteur, died at peace on January 29 at Vancouver General Hospital.
Walter Noble Sage
Born in London, Ontario, in 1888, Walter Sage was educated in both Canadian and English schools, and received his degrees from Oxford University and the University of Toronto. He lectured at Calgary College and at Queen’s University, and, at the age of thirty started his long association with the University of British Columbia, where for the last twenty years of his teaching career (1933-1953) he was Head of the Department of History
Ted Hill
Leonidas (“Ted”) Hill (1934-2012) taught in the Department of History for 34 years, and was a passionate advocate of public education, as well as the author of numerous scholarly articles, the editor of four books, and a regular speaker at the UBC Symposia on the Holocaust.
Mack Eastman
Mack was an accomplished author whose research interests focused on Canada, Europe and the history of work.
Q&A with the Editors of the Atlas: Undergraduate Journal of World History
Caroline Cassinelli and Rebecca Silver, Editors in Chief for the Atlas, reflect on the process of how papers are reviewed and chosen for the publication, and provide tips for students interested in submitting their research. 1. Tell us about the journal’s publication process. How are the papers chosen, and prepped for publication? All papers go […]