History
History focuses on the fields of Asian, Canadian, First Nations, British and European (early modern and modern), U.S., Latin American, and Environmental History and in the History of Science.
The following thematic research clusters highlight the interests and expertise of departmental members:
- History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
- Global History, Maritime History, and the History of Empire
- First Nations, Aboriginal, and Indigenous History
- Environmental History
- Ethnicity, Race, and Nationalism
- Religion
- Gender, Sexuality, and the Body
- International Relations
- Culture/Power/History
- Children and Youth
- Migration, Borderlands, and Transnational History
- Politics, Political Culture, and State Power
- Law and Society
- Communities
Explore our Programs in History
Faculty Members in History
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Booker, Courtney | Early medieval europe, histiography, rhetoric, narrative, hermeneutics, literary and textual critcism, latin philology, codicology, transmission of texts, and intertextuality, drama and performativity, politcal theology and l'augustinisme politique, medievalism |
| Brain, Robert | History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History |
| Bryce, Benjamin | Historical studies; Argentina; Canada; Education; health; migration; Race and ethnicity; The Americas; Transnational history |
| Byrne, Jeffrey | International history; Empires, decolonisation, & postcolonial history; Africa; Middle East; Revolution |
| Cheek, Timothy | 20th century Chinese history, the history of the Chinese communist party, the role of intellectuals in public life in China |
| Christopoulos, John | Historical studies; Early modern Europe; History of pre-modern medicine; Social and cultural history of early modern Italy |
| Dixon, Joy | History of gender, sexuality, and the body, history of religion, history of the social and human sciences, history of empire |
| Ducharme, Michel | Social Organization and Political Systems; Political Ideologies; Canadian History before Confederation; Quebec History; Liberalism and Nationalism in Canada and Quebec; Canada and the Atlantic World |
| Effros, Bonnie | Humanities and the arts; History of archaeology; Antiquarianism and collecting in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; Late antique and early medieval history and archaeology; Gender history and archaeology |
| French, William Earl | Latin American history, Mexican history (19th and 20th century), Labour and social history, Working class culture, gender |
| Glassheim, Eagle | European history (except British, classical Greek and Roman); History of Central and Eastern Europe; Environmental History |
| Hanser, Jessica | Early Modern Britain; Economic History; Great Divergence; Drugs in History; China and the West; Qing China; Slavery; British Empire; Microhistory; Global History |
| Ishiguro, Laura | British Columbia, Canada, and the British Empire; settler colonialism; migration; family; gender; Publications |
| Kojevnikov, Alexei | Modern history of science, especially physics, science, society,and culture, Russia and Soviet History, Nuclear History and the Cold War |
| Lee, Steven Hugh | Cold war |
| Loo, Tina | Environmental history of Canada |
| McCormick, Kelly | Asian history; Visual theory, visual culture and visual literacy; Modern Japan; History of Visual and Material Culture/Photography; History of Technology; History of Gender and Sexuality |
| Menkis, Richard | Canadian history; Historical memory; Jewish history; Holocaust studies |
| Miller, Bradley | Historical studies; British Empire History; Canadian history; Criminal Justice History; International Law and International Relations; legal history; North American History; Political History |
| Morton, David | urban Africa; architecture and planning in history; informal settlement, housing, and citizenship; Mozambique in the twentieth century; Portuguese colonialism |
| Murphy, Anne | Asian history; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Religion; Literary or Artistic Work Analysis; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies; cultural history; Early Modern Studies; Punjabi Studies; South Asian Studies |
| Myers, Tamara | History of Children and Youth, Gender/Women’s History, History of Crime and Delinquency, History of Adolescence and the Family, Quebec/Canada |
| Paris, Leslie | History of American childhood, History of American summer camps, Modern American social and cultural history, childhood and youth, gender and sexuality, popular culture |
| Peterson, Glen | China, Chinese migration (especially to Southeast Asia), Overseas Chinese and the modernization of China, Refugee movements into and out of China in the twentieth century |
| Prange, Sebastian | History, maritime trade, Indian Ocean, India, piracy, Islam |
| Raibmon, Paige | first nations on the northwest coast, cultural representations, relocation of aboriginal peoples, environmental health on reserves, first nations history, Indigenous people and colonisation, life writing and life history |
| Roosa, John | Historical studies; Social Organization and Political Systems; Human Rights and Liberties, Collective Rights; Foreign Affairs; History of Indonesia |
| Safieddine, Hicham | Political economy and intellectual history (19th and 20th centuries), Political Economy of the Middle East, Modern Arab and Islamic Thought, Economic Thought and Theory, Global Financial Order, Currency Regimes, Private Banking, and Colonial Finance |
| Shin, Leo | Later imperial China |
| Thrush, Coll | Indigenous history; settler colonialism; Pacific history; Northwest Coast |
| Tworek, Heidi | Historical studies; Europe; Germany; history of media and communications; international organizations; international relations; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies |
| Wang, Jessica | US history, 19th and 20th centuries, history of science and medicine, political and intellectual history, social and urban history, US international history |
| Webster, Crystal | African American history, History of early America, African American women & children, Criminalization & incarceration |
| Yin, Shoufu | East Asian, Eurasian, and global histories from about the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries, Political, social, and intellectual cultures |
| Yu, Henry | Asian migration to Canada, Chinese Canadian, Asian Canadian, Chinese in British Columbia, multiculturalism, racism, Asian American history, sports and race, Chinatown, Head Tax, United States, 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 |
