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2017-9-19
RT : Terrific interview with Coll Thrush at : "always resist the past-tensing of Indigenous peoplehood." https://t.co/sNx3JEFZZD
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2017-9-19
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2017-9-19
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2017-9-18
RT : We must fix economic inequality, declining community institutions or our republic will fall. My Sunday column: https://t.co/NfQsEIy6HW
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2017-9-18
Iron Range's Aaron Brown on history and contemporary lived experience of income inequality. https://t.co/x0WVgRF6l0
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2017-9-17
RT : an interesting conversation between history and memory. "History" as Vietnam narrative; "memory" as experience of war.
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2017-9-17
RT : Boston Globe reports from Toronto on the record number of foreign students choosing Canada over the US: https://t.co/K1Jz9pZ3YU
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2017-9-17
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2017-9-17
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2017-9-15
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2017-9-14
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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.

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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

G. Peterson, “"Colonialism, Sovereignty and the History of the International Refugee Regime"”, in Refugees in Europe, 1919-1959: A Forty Year Crisis? Edited by Matthew Frank and Jessica Reinisch, London: Bloomsbury, 2017.

Recent Faculty Publications

E. Glassheim, Cleansing the Czechoslovak Borderlands: Migration, Environment, and Health in the Former Sudetenland. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016.

Recent Student Publications

Religion: Super book cover 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.