Interview with Shoufu Yin, Assistant Professor of Chinese History
“I excavate the intellectual worlds of many previously under-represented groups- peasant women who fought in wars, Mongol scribes who processed imperial documents, anonymous typesetters behind the production of books…” Dr. Shoufu Yin will be joining the UBC History Department as Assistant Professor of History this July. With a PhD from UC Berkeley, he specializes in […]
Recently Published Articles
Our professors are dedicated teachers and award-winning researchers who cover a wide range of themes and regions of the world. Below are some recent published articles from the Department of History.
Internationalism, Curiosity and Violence: Questions of Race in the 1960s and 1970s Moscow
The Institute for European Studies, the Department of Anthropology and the Eurasia Research Cluster present: Internationalism, Curiosity and Violence: Questions of Race in the 1960s and 1970s Moscow A virtual talk by Riikkamari Muhonen, PhD Candidate of History, Central European University Wednesday, March 24, 2021 12:15pm – 1:30pm (PST) Register at: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5MtdO6vqTMpG9NwI_WWIz4SfTiOVfP7ikYT Abstract – Officially […]
Disability and the Distorted Body on the Ancient Roman Comic Stage
The times when Plautus, the most well-preserved Roman comic playwright, lived and worked, were the times of the biggest war campaign the Roman Republic had undertaken till then. Alongside changeable war luck, the Punic Wars brought huge social turmoil. As a direct result of wars, among other marginal social groups that increased in this period […]
Q&A with María Muñoz
“My research and teaching aim to excavate and understand the complexities of human systems, cultures and hierarchies.” María Muñoz is an associate professor of history at Susquehanna University, and will be joining the UBC History Department for one year. I talked with her about her historical interests, the several exciting courses she’ll be teaching at […]
Pandemics and History – a roundtable on COVID-19 and its historical connections
“I feel that it’s a moment when all of history is kind of rising up and being revealed before us, and we’re provoked to think about a million different questions.” – Robert Brain. How has history been impacted by pandemics? How do we understand pandemics, and how do we study them? How do historians interact […]
Leading Through Collaboration: History Major Suyesha Dutta’s experience as Student Directed Seminar co-facilitator
Suyesha Dutta is a student leader. She prides herself in getting involved in the student community at UBC which is evident by her position as the 2019-2020 President of the History Student Association (HSA.) She also took on a role representing the Arts Undergraduate Society in the Alma Mater Society (Student Union) of UBC, […]
Alumni Profile: Connie Chang (BA’07)
“The ability to advocate for my company and the experience we provide to potential clients is very similar to declaring a position in any history discussion or essay I wrote over my years at UBC.” Connie Chang, a 2007 History and English Literature Major, now owns her own digital services and consulting agency called Type […]
Meet UBC History’s New Professor: Kelly McCormick
“I am a historian of the visual and material culture of modern Japan. I write about the politics of photography culture and optical technologies in Japan from the 1930s to the 1970s. “ Prof. Kelly McCormick joined the UBC History Faculty in January 2020. Get to know her through a short Q&A discussing her […]
Economic History Cluster
Economic history examines the most fundamental forces that have shaped the human past: material production, distribution, and consumption. It studies how the creation and distribution of wealth defined the structures of individual societies, how connections between different societies came to be forged and sustained, and how the modern capitalist world order was established. This new […]