Student Wellness: Take A Breather From Your Studies
Henry John, History PhD student and Teacher Assistant, has a message for students at UBC: take time out from your studies to nurture your mental and physical wellbeing. This is especially important during the month of December when final paper deadlines are approaching and exams are looming. Henry’s Story “Navigating life as a […]
Research Clusters
Find out about the UBC Department of History’s Research Clusters
Q&A with Graduate Student, Hannah Facknitz
Meet Hannah Facknitz from Harrisonburg, Virginia and a new masters student in the UBC History Department! We asked Hannah about her academic history, her research interests and her choice to study at UBC in the below Q&A. 1. Tell us about your academic history? I studied first at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia […]
History Student Spotlight: Dakota Koch (BC Newcomer Camp)
Fourth-year History student Dakota Koch discusses his organization BC Newcomer Camp, a free summer camp program for refugee children.
History Honours Alumnus, Aidan Forth, receives the 2019 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize
Congratulations to Aidan Forth on his achievement – the 2019 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize of the Canadian Historical Association. This award recognizes an outstanding scholarly book in a field other than Canadian history. Aidan received this award for his book Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876-1903 (University of California Press, 2017). Aidan Forth is currently […]
Coll Thrush’s Global Seminar “In Search of Indigenous London”
Coll Thrush’s book Indigenous London: Native Travellers at the Heart of Empire served as the groundwork for an exciting Global Seminar that took place for the second time this past summer. The six week Global Seminar “In Search of Indigenous London” was offered by UBC’s First Nations and Indigenous Studies (FNIS) and taught by […]
Eagle Glassheim Feature: Finding Gold Mountain on the Fraser River
From a raft on the wide and powerful Fraser River, the stone chutes of Browning’s Bar were easy to miss. The rock piles looked like the remnants of a small landslide, or maybe the deposits of the meandering river bed millennia ago…
HIST443: Q&A with Tamara Myers
In anticipation of the Fall semester, Tamara Myers answers a short Q&A on her upcoming course HIST443- History of North American Children and Youth. Can you explain the image and its significance? Why did you choose it? TM: Fifty years ago, 400 thousand young people gathered for a three-day music and art fair – […]
Project will Employ Students to Research Objects in the Africa Collections at the Museum of Anthropology (MOA)
A team led by David Morton, UBC assistant professor of African history, Nuno Porto, Museum of Anthropology (MOA) curator for Africa and South America, and John Michael Koffi, president of the UBC Africa Awareness Initiative (AAI), has been awarded $95,280 from UBC’s Program for Undergraduate Research Experience (PURE) toward a project entitled “Decolonizing the African […]
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 […]