Graduate
UBC’s Department of History offers two graduate degree programs: a Master of Arts (MA) and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). Working closely with faculty supervisors, our graduate students engage with cutting-edge scholarship and produce their own path-breaking research.
Undergraduate
Know the World. Study History. Students in the Department of History study every part of the human past: from Medieval Europe to Twenty-First Century Hong Kong. They explore a wide range of themes, from the history of colonialism to the history of human rights. Through our history undergraduate programs, students gain strong communication and analytical […]
Bill Wray
Bill’s research interests included Japanese business and industrial history, as well as Japanese politics in the 1930s.
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.
Daniel Vickers
Daniel’s research interests included early America, the social history of seafaring, and work and economic culture.
Sylvia Thrupp
Sylvia’s books, The Worshipful Company of Bakers and The Merchant Class of Medieval London, 1300–1500, along with her many articles on guilds and on demography, brought increased dynamism to medieval social history as a field in which the methods of economic history and sociology opened fresh questions, and her personal ties as well as her teaching and research connected North American scholarship to the stimulating new work being done by British and French historians.
Stephen Straker
Stephen Straker (1942-2004) was an historian of science at UBC for thirty years and the chief inspiration for the creation of the STS program. We honour his memory with an annual distinguished lecture.
Frederick H. Soward
Soward developed a keen interest in studying foreign relations and international affairs, and particularly after Mack Eastman’s departure for Geneva, was responsible for the major introductory surveys in European diplomatic history.
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