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UBC History offers a wide-ranging variety of courses that give students the opportunity to study the past in a way that empowers their future. With fascinating courses that range from the practice of oral history to imperial and colonial archaeology and museums, there’s a History course for you, no matter your interests and endeavours. Check out the highlight of our 2024/2025 undergraduate course offerings below.

UBC History welcomes Dr. Alycia Hall, who specializes in the history of Jamaica, and in particular, the history of the Afro-descended Maroon communities which populate the mountainous regions of the island, from the seventeenth century to the present. Dr. Hall will begin her appointment as of July 1, 2024.

Congratulations to the UBC History Class of 2024! To help you celebrate your next adventures beyond graduation, read this message from Professor and Acting Department Head Dr. Tamara Myers.

Florian Bobin is a UBC History alumnus who graduated in 2020. In May 2024, Florian will be publishing his first book, Cette si longue quête, a biography of the Senegalese philosopher Omar Blondin Diop. Read this Q&A to learn about Florian’s journey and his advice for current students who want to forge a path as a practicing historian.

Dr. Pheroze Unwalla (UBC History; UBC Middle East Studies) has been awarded a 2024 KillamTeaching Prize, in recognition of his leadership and excellence in pedagogy.

Congratulations to History MA student Shane Atienza on winning a 2023/2024 Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, which recognizes graduate students for their outstanding teaching, research and service to the community.

Congratulations to History MA student Noah James on winning the 2023 Conway Summer Travel Scholarship in German History.

Dr. Kelly McCormick is a professor of modern Japanese history whose research focuses on the ways in which photography can be invaluable in revealing relationships, whether to power or to community. In this editorial, she discusses “Behind the Camera,” an open-source and collaborative website that shares the history of women’s participation in photography in Japan.

In this Black History Month Q&A, Dr. Webster reminds us that Black excellence has always been deeply rooted in the histories of Black activism, liberation, and solidarities around the world.

UBC History welcomes Dr. Meghan Longstaffe and Dr. Jane Komori as 2023/2024 Postdoctoral Fellows. Dr. Longstaffe works on histories of women, poverty, and activism in the late twentieth century, especially Downtown Eastside Vancouver. Dr. Komori writes about the “settler ecology” of Western Canada from the 1850s through the Second World War.