History Department

    

  

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News        Meeting for prospective History Majors, Minors, & Honours students  
        Courses Announced for the Summer of 2017  
        Congratulations to Leslie Paris, recipient of a 2017 National Endowment for the Humanities  
        History Undergrad Chad Bush honoured by Governor General as Academic All-Canadian  

  
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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          2017-8-18  
        RT @ykomska: The brilliant fellow-Germanist and media theory whiz/translator Winthrop-Young on Pervitin, etc. in @Artforum. https://t.co/TmyzpzqFNY  
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                  @UBC_History          2017-8-18  
        RT @MichaelJAltman: Monuments are not history, they are myth. They don't tell us what happened, they tell us how certain people want to remember what happened.  
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                  @UBC_History          2017-8-18  
        RT @kalpenn: Dear @realDonaldTrump, attached is our letter of resignation from the President's Committee on the Arts & the Human… https://t.co/KZSBDzvAYP  
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                  @UBC_History          2017-8-17  
        RT @AdelePerry: now is a good time to go back to Constance Backhouse's chapter on the KKK in Canada in the 1920s and 30s: https://t.co/ctORfDNpBG  
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                  @UBC_History          2017-8-17  
        RT @TimoHSchaefer: My book #LiberalismAsUtopia: The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico, 1820-1900 - now out: https://t.co/2IHQ8rqxVH  
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                  @UBC_History          2017-8-17  
        RT @SFUhistory: Unwritten Histories' Best New Articles from July 2017 include article by @SFUhistory's ass't prof @TinaAdcock!… https://t.co/YYnK1Era05  
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                  @UBC_History          2017-8-17  
        RT @UBC_Arts: LISTEN: @UBC_History's Henry Yu on the history of white supremacy & anti-immigration rallies in the U.S. (at 9:16):… https://t.co/Lm0zIGRhxD  
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                  @UBC_History          2017-8-17  
        RT @AHAhistorians: "You’re not changing history... You’re changing how we remember history." ~ @JimGrossmanAHA on altering monuments https://t.co/89mn95Dbbr  
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                  @UBC_History          2017-8-17  
        RT @ykomska: Germany's main lesson for the U.S. now: There is no closure. My latest unpopular opinion. https://t.co/8ARZYH9cDV  
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                  @UBC_History          2017-8-17  
        RT @CarlaNappi: Call for themes for @UBC rogue #humanities! Orgnze a gathering, give yrslf a nifty title. (Pirate Queen now taken.) https://t.co/iGLq3roA2W  
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                  @UBC_History          2017-8-16  
        RT @JBerdahl: When you alter monuments, “you’re not changing history, you’re changing how we remember history.” @theaha https://t.co/i3PUdb2CeW  
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                  @UBC_History          2017-8-16  
        RT @AHAhistorians: How are historians responding to Trump's comments on Confed. monuments? NYT interviews a few, incl. @JimGrossmanAHA https://t.co/89mn95UMA1  
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Positions        University of British Columbia, History Instructor I (tenure track)  
The Department of History at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver campus invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Instructor whose scholarship concerns war, conflict, or mass violence in non-Western contexts. This position offers opportunities to pursue a career in teaching and educational leadership at the university level, with engagement in innovative curriculum design and pedagogy in a collaborative teaching and learning community.
Equity updates        Equity Committee Update #1  
        2015-10-15  
        Equity Committee Update #2  
        2015-11-12  
        Equity Committee Update #3  
        2015-12-3  
        Equity Committee Update #4  
        2015-12-21  
        Equity Committee Update #5  
        2016-5-19  

      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    
      
              
          L.  Ishiguro, “Northwestern North America (Canadian West) to 1900”, in The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism, E.  Cavanagh and Veracini, L. New York: Routledge, 2017, pp. 125-138.    

      Recent Faculty Publications    
      
              
          C.  Thrush, Indigenous London: Native Travellers at the Heart of Empire. Yale University Press, 2016.    

      Recent Student Publications    
      
              
          S.  Greenhalgh, “Edmonton's Local Heroes”, in The Frontier of Patriotism, Alberta and the First World War, Calgary: University of Calgary Press, In Press.    