Name Office Phone Research Interests
Courtney Booker Buchanan Tower 1202 (604) 822 6480 Early medieval Europe; historiography; rhetoric, narrative, and hermeneutics; literary and textual criticism; Latin philology; codicology, transmission of texts, and intertextuality; drama and performativity; medievalism.
Robert Brain Buchanan Tower 1101 (604) 822 5409 History of Science, Technology, and Medicine; Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History.
Alejandra Bronfman Buchanan Tower 1121 (604) 822 5163 20th century Caribbean and Latin America; imperial and transnational history; violence and the production of knowledge; histories of race; broadcasting; wireless; sound, listening and politics.
Tim Brook Buchanan Tower 1117 (604) 822 5192 Timothy Brook works on the social and cultural history of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), the Japanese occupation of China during World War Two, and historical perspectives on world history and human rights. A new book exploring the links between English and Chinese cartography in the 17th century, Mr Selden's Map of China, will appear this far. Other current projects include cultural life in the Shanghai region in the early 17th century, the comparative formation of Asian traditions of statecraft, and the price history of the Ming dynasty.
Jeffrey James Byrne Buchanan Tower 1203 (604) 822 5194 International history; decolonisation; the Cold War; revolutionary movements; North Africa/Maghreb; modern Middle East; modern Africa
Tim Cheek Choi Bldg 276 (1855 West Mall) (604) 822 6206 Adjunct Professor - Cross appointed with Institute of Asian Research (IAR) My research focuses on 20th century Chinese history, the history of the Chinese Communist Party, and the role of intellectuals in public life in China. Current research focuses on "Contemporary Thought and Society in China" and the history of intellectuals in modern China.
Joy Dixon Buchanan Tower 1125 (604) 822 5748 History of gender, sexuality, and the body; history of religion; history of the social and human sciences; history of empire.
Michel Ducharme Buchanan Tower 1104 (604) 822 5642 British North American Colonies (1749-1873); Canada and the Atlantic World; History of Québec; Liberalism and Nationalism in Canada and Québec (19th- 20th century)
Bill French Buchanan Tower 1123 (604) 822 5706 Latin American history; Mexican history (19th and 20th century); Labour and social history; Working class culture; Gender.
Chris Friedrichs Buchanan Tower 1119 (604) 822 4010 Early modern European urban and social history; German history 1500-1800;  German Jewish history; social history of the Reformation; early modern world history. 
Eagle Glassheim Buchanan Tower 1221 (604) 822 4101 History of East/Central Europe; The Habsburgs; modern Germany; environmental history
Anne Gorsuch Buchanan Tower 1216 (604) 827 3560 Department Head. Areas of research interest: Soviet Union, tourism, cultural exchange and global encounter, the 1960s, Cuba, youth
Laura Ishiguro Buchanan Tower 1110 (604) 822 5174 British Columbia; the British Empire; comparative histories of empire and settler colonialism; migration and mobility; family; Canada and the Pacific world.
Alexei Kojevnikov Buchanan Tower 1226 (604) 827 3561 History of Modern Science, especially Physics Science, Society, and Culture Russian and Soviet History Nuclear History and the Cold War
Paul Krause Buchanan Tower 1122 (604) 822 5168 Home page: http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/pkrause/index.htm. PLEASE NOTE: ALL COURSE INFORMATION, INCLUDING SYLLABI, IS AVAILABLE ON MY HOME PAGE. ALSO USEFUL ARE THE LINKS PROVIDED IN THE "COURSES" SECTION.
Steven Lee Buchanan Tower 1224 (604) 822 5164 Cold War International History, Empire, Social and Political History of Conflict and Violence
Tina Loo Buchanan Tower 1124 (604) 822 5173 Environmental History of Canada
Julie MacArthur Buchanan Tower Room 1222 (604) 822 5073 Africa
Richard Menkis Buchanan C 223 (604) 822 1374 Modern Jewish history; Canada; ethnicity and historical memory; religion and society; antisemitism; responses to the Holocaust.
Bradley Miller British North America/Canada; law, legal history, and legal thought; crime and criminal justice; political history and state formation
Tamara Myers Buchanan Tower 1118 (604) 822 5161 History of Children and Youth, Gender/Women's History, History of Crime and Delinquency, History of Adolescence and the Family, Quebec/Canada
Carla Nappi Buchanan Tower 1109 (732) 503 8756 Multilingualism and translation in early modern China. Medicine, healing and embodiment. Manchu, Tibetan, Islamic, and Mongolian natural history and medicine in the Ming and Qing. Identification and resemblance in history. Historical epistemology. Dictionaries. Ontology and objects. Cream puffs.
Dianne Newell Rm 1107 Buchanan Tower (604) 822 5195 Dr. Newell's research interests span a range of subjects within these broad areas: Canadian social and economic history; science and technology in late industrial society; women in Cold War science fiction and 1970s radio documentaries; Aboriginal women in the industrial economy; and Pacific/Northwest Coast fisheries and anthropology. Her publications have won prizes from the Canadian Historical Association, the Canadian Nautical Research Society, and the Association of Canadian Studies. Dr. Newell has received the UBC Killam Memorial Fellowship and the UBC Killam Research Prize, was a 2002 Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Distinguished Scholar in Residence, and Director of the Institute 2003-2011, and a 2012 Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, South Africa. She is an ongoing Visiting Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich.  
Leslie Paris Buchanan Tower 1228 (604) 822 8810 Modern American social and cultural history; childhood and youth; gender and sexuality; popular culture.
Glen Peterson Buchanan Tower 1120 (604) 822 5177 I am a social and cultural historian of modern China. My recent research has centred on the history of forced migration and refugee experience in China and among ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia, as well as on the history of Chinese migration to Southeast Asia. I have also worked previously on the history of education in China and retain a strong interest in the subject.
Sebastian R. Prange Buchanan Tower 1227 (604) 822 6152 History of pre-modern South Asia with a focus on trans-oceanic networks.
Paige Raibmon Buchanan Tower 1220 (604) 822 5166 Indigenous people and colonialism; Life writing and life history
John Roosa Buchanan Tower 1105 (604) 822 5175 Southeast Asia; nationalism, imperialism, oral history, human rights.
Neil Safier Buchanan Tower 1201 (604) 822 5181 Early modern cultural and intellectual history; cross-cultural transmission of knowledge; literary genres of travel and exploration; narratives of cultural encounter between Europe and the non-European world; comparative imperial history; history of cartography; colonial Brazil and the Amazon River region; the Atlantic world.
Leo K. Shin Buchanan Tower 1223 (604) 822 5167 I am a cultural historian specializing in later imperial China. My research interest lies in the relationship between culture, identity, and historical memory. In my reading and writing, I seek to understand in particular how the sociology of culture—the production, transmission, and consumption of beliefs and practices—has shaped not only how the boundaries of China have been drawn but also how China itself has been historicized.
Arlene Sindelar Buchanan Tower 1103 (604) 822 5162 Medieval legal and social history; history of women and the family
Coll Thrush Buchanan Tower 1205 (office hours by appointment) (604) 827 3623 Indigenous; colonial and Atlantic; Northwest Coast and Pacific; environmental; place-based histories. Also ghosts, icebergs, food, and earthquakes.  
Danny Vickers Buchanan Tower 1225 (604) 822 5178 Early America, social history of seafaring, work and economic culture
Jessica Wang Buchanan Tower 1219 (604) 822 6155 U.S. history since 1870; political and intellectual history; history of science and medicine; history of U.S. foreign relations
Henry Yu Principal's Office, St. John's College, 2111 Lower Mall (778) 895 5088 Global Vancouver, Trans-Pacific migration, American intellectual history, Asian Canadian and Asian American history, Race and immigration, Social Science and Social Theory in US and Europe.