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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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        New Washington Post history column: Made by History.  Hist thinking and knowledge crucial to present & future. 
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                  @UBC_History          9 hours 3 min ago  
        RT @ubcprez: Universities can contribute to world peace by teaching  leaders the cultural and historical context to today's geopolitical challenges  
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                  @UBC_History          9 hours 4 min ago  
        RT @ubcprez: Studying history is critical to understanding current geopolitical tensions. It also provides clues to a path forward: cooperation  
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                  @UBC_History          9 hours 6 min ago  
        Historians Shouldn’t Be Pundits, but can help us understand the Trump phenomenon  https://t.co/tUzA1AEZqx  
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                  @UBC_History          2017-6-25  
        RT @justicedanielh: A little thing I wrote for @NAISA2017 https://t.co/4jSaX47p0C  
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                  @UBC_History          2017-6-25  
        RT @brdemuth: Lovely piece by @LooTina in @NiCHE_Canada on the politics of hope in environmental history: https://t.co/wIojqHqMFJ  #envhist  
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                  @UBC_History          2017-6-25  
        RT @yalepress: Why did Native Americans visit London? @lizcovart sits down w/ "Indigenous London" author Coll Thrush. https://t.co/zafdWVsJK2 @UBC_History  
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                  @UBC_History          2017-6-25  
        @NAISA2017 Thank you for all your hard work: it was a fantastic conference!  
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                  @UBC_History          2017-6-22  
        UBC History welcomes everyone attending #NAISA2017 on unceded, traditional Musqueam territory. Looking forward to lots of learning+exchange!  
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                  @UBC_History          2017-6-17  
        RT @ykomska: "Imagining and memorializing historians who never existed, but should have." @CarlaNappi has a cool project here. https://t.co/flRUw5y2pp  
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                  @UBC_History          2017-6-17  
        RT @NAISA2017: UBC's Indian Residential School History & Dialogue Centre open house on Th & Fri from 10 to 7, Sat 9-4: https://t.co/dETFPrIe3E #NAISA2017  
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                  @UBC_History          2017-6-17  
        RT @LeoShinUBC: @UBCAsianStudies & @UBC_History to offer a slate of Hong Kong-related courses in 2017W https://t.co/kIoSkjGJrs Go… https://t.co/97IWz8UDjQ  
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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.
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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    
      
              
          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. M.  Booker, “Addenda to the Transmission History of Dhuoda’s Liber Manualis”, Revue d’histoire des textes, vol. n.s. 11, pp. 181–213, 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.    