History Department

    
        Xian Wang, doctoral student in History, is the winner of a 2014 Killam Doctoral Scholarship  
        The life and times of ɬaʔamin Elder, Elsie Paul  
Paige Raibmon talks about her SSHRC funded project and the resultant book-length narrative and online database
        Congratulations Tim Brook!  
Tim Brook elected to the Royal Society of Canada
        Congratulations Tina Loo!  
Tina Loo awarded the Brenda and David McLean Chair in Canadian Studies

History of China at UBCThe 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 HistoriansWelcome 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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        Summer courses for 2014 announced  
        Summer 2014: GoGlobal Group Study Exchange Opportunity  
        4th Annual Burge Lecture: Ann Stoler - Imperial Duress: Concept-Work for our Times  
        A Lost Son Returns Home: 2013 report from winner of the John Conway Travel Scholarship  

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        Dr. Louisa Mackenzie, "Don’t Panic: The Unknowability of Early Modern Nature"  
04/30/2014 - 17:00 to 18:30
        RUDOLF VRBA MEMORIAL LECTURE 2014  
05/08/2014 - 17:30 to 19:00
        Summer 2014: GoGlobal Group Study Opportunity in Hong Kong and Singapore  
05/19/2014 - 15:45 to 06/27/2014 - 15:45

            Title          
                  
            Date          
              
            History Colloquium - Evelynn Hammonds, "The Concept of 'Race' and/in the History of Science and Medicine"          
                  
            Thu, 02/27/2014 - 12:30          
              
            History Colloquium - Arif Dirlik, "Global Modernity and the Colonial"          
                  
            Thu, 03/06/2014 - 12:30          
              
            Piers Hale, "Malthus or Mutualism: A Reassessment of the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England"          
                  
            Thu, 03/13/2014 - 17:00          
              
            History Colloquium - Paul Otto, "The Economy of Wampum"          
                  
            Thu, 03/20/2014 - 12:30          
              
            Talk and book launch, Jace Weaver "The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000-1927.”          
                  
            Thu, 03/20/2014 - 12:30          
              
            Dr. Renisa Mawani, "'Rule Britannia! Rule the Waves':  The World of the Ship and the Quest for Global Time"          
                  
            Wed, 03/26/2014 - 17:00          
              
            History Colloquium - Bryna Goodman, "The Alchemy of Translation: Economics and Stock Exchanges in Early 20th-Century China"          
                  
            Tue, 04/01/2014 - 12:30          
              
            Talk: Humza Yousaf, "Tartan Day 2014: Scotland’s Future"          
                  
            Sat, 04/05/2014 - 10:00          
              
            Workshop: Opening Up Canadian Federalism the European Way          
                  
            Mon, 04/14/2014 - 09:30          
              
 For complete details about the internship program, please see History Department Research Internship Program. 

            Project Title          
                  
            Faculty Supervisor          
              
            Lord of Another Man's Purse: Borrowing & Lending in Early America          
                  
            Daniel Vickers          
              
            Marriage, Modernity, and Biblical Law in the British Empire, 1870-1882          
                  
            Bradley Miller          
              
In Press
      
          A.  Denning, “From Sublime Landscapes to ‘White Gold:’ How Skiing Transformed the Alps after 1930”, Environmental History, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 78-108, 2014.    
Recent Faculty Publications
      
          A.  Bronfman and Wood, A. G., Media, sound, & culture in Latin America and the Caribbean. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.    
Recent Student Publications
      
          G.  Arbulu, Teresa, M., and Sharon, T., “Peru's Amazonian Imaginary: Marginality, Territory and National Integration”, in Environment and Citizenship in Latin America: Nature, Subjects and Struggle, A.  Latta and Wittman, H. 2012.

Title	Date
History Colloquium - Evelynn Hammonds, "The Concept of 'Race' and/in the History of Science and Medicine"	Thu, 02/27/2014 - 12:30
History Colloquium - Arif Dirlik, "Global Modernity and the Colonial"	Thu, 03/06/2014 - 12:30
Piers Hale, "Malthus or Mutualism: A Reassessment of the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England"	Thu, 03/13/2014 - 17:00
History Colloquium - Paul Otto, "The Economy of Wampum"	Thu, 03/20/2014 - 12:30
Talk and book launch, Jace Weaver "The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000-1927.”	Thu, 03/20/2014 - 12:30
Dr. Renisa Mawani, "'Rule Britannia! Rule the Waves': The World of the Ship and the Quest for Global Time"	Wed, 03/26/2014 - 17:00
History Colloquium - Bryna Goodman, "The Alchemy of Translation: Economics and Stock Exchanges in Early 20th-Century China"	Tue, 04/01/2014 - 12:30
Talk: Humza Yousaf, "Tartan Day 2014: Scotland’s Future"	Sat, 04/05/2014 - 10:00
Workshop: Opening Up Canadian Federalism the European Way	Mon, 04/14/2014 - 09:30

Project Title	Faculty Supervisor
Lord of Another Man's Purse: Borrowing & Lending in Early America	Daniel Vickers
Marriage, Modernity, and Biblical Law in the British Empire, 1870-1882	Bradley Miller