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        HISTORY SESSIONAL LECTURER, UBC VANTAGE COLLEGE  
        Courses Announced for the Summer of 2017  
        Congratulations to Leslie Paris, recipient of a 2017 National Endowment for the Humanities  

  
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Upcoming Events        Imagine Day  
09/05/2017 - 08:30 to 17:00

  
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      Everything you need to know to both apply to and graduate through the UBC History Programs:
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Twitter                  @UBC_History          2017-5-28  
        RT @alexei_golubev: Database of Photography’s First 100 Years from Over 50 European Archives in a searchable online database… https://t.co/st5Xz7Ybm2  
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        RT @HeidiTworek: My article for the OECD: How to make facts matter again https://t.co/rop7H6iiGF  
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        RT @HeidiTworek: Nazis stole at least 20x more books than works of art. https://t.co/HOOVAs05d5  
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                  @UBC_History          2017-5-26  
        RT @lienhart85: The Programming historian; Free online tutorials on digital methods, tools & techniques https://t.co/RbbLdtC9gv https://t.co/FffjGNhAmB  
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        RT @UBC_Arts: .@UBC_History course "Moments that Matter" transforms a second-year course into a team performance: https://t.co/aELOHyneNO @UBC @ubcnews  
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        RT @NGhoussoub: Historic Rejection Letters to Women Engineers. https://t.co/Ok8Hh70lqP  
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        RT @ubcprez: Tina. I am well aware of and often brag about the innovations occurring within UBC History https://t.co/stX9C5JjIR  
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        RT @LooTina: I'm fortunate to work with such a great group of scholars+teachers of #cdnhist: Michel Ducharme, Laura Ishiguro, Br… https://t.co/QFO8BApNjp  
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        RT @ubcprez: Well history does, on occasion, repeat itself. https://t.co/QVhq9ei78l  
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        RT @HabitatForum: Does Vancouver remember nothing of Habitat'76? “A moment in time when people came together to think of their neighb… https://t.co/rVM4NytI1y  
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        History macebearer headed off on endless loop.  Thanks @ubcprez  for getting him back on track. https://t.co/WYynKF98lE  
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        UBC Introduction to Canadian History featured in University Affairs https://t.co/ceqsuIJdB5 via @ua_magazine  
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Positions        HISTORY SESSIONAL LECTURER, UBC VANTAGE COLLEGE  
Vantage College and the Department of History at the University of British Columbia invite applications for a sessional lecturer for the period September 2017 to April 2018. See http://vantagecollege.ubc.ca and http://www.history.ubc.ca.
Equity updates        Equity Committee Update #1  
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      History of China at UBC    The Department of History offers a complete set of courses on China for undergraduates and provides graduate students with training in fields from the Ming dynasty to the Republic congruent with the expertise of its faculty. Please browse through this History Department sub-site and learn more about our research and teaching programs.
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      Careers for Historians    Welcome to Careers for Historians. This is a resource for history students to explore career options. It’s for those who are considering pursuing studies in history, for those who already have a history degree (undergraduate or graduate) and are wondering about what career paths exist, and for faculty members to refine how they advise their students.
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      In Press    
      
              
          P.  Krause, “"Iron and Steel Industry," "Andrew Carnegie," and "Homestead Lockout"”, in The Oxford Companion to United States History, P.  Boyer and al, et New York: Oxford University Press, In Press.    

      Recent Faculty Publications    
      
              
          T. R.  Grunow, “Paving Power: Western Urban Planning and Imperial Space from the Streets of Meiji Tokyo to Colonial Seoul”, Journal of Urban History, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 506-556, 2016.    

      Recent Student Publications    
      
              
          C.  Laursen, “The Poltergeist at the Intersection of the Spirit and the Material: Some Historical and Contemporary Observations”, in Super Religion (edited by Jeffrey J. Kripal), Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan/Cengage Learning, In Press.    