History
Master of Arts
Department of History
The History Department at the University of British Columbia is an intellectually vibrant centre of scholarship and teaching. We are one of five original departments in the Faculty of Arts that commenced offering undergraduate classes when the University of British Columbia accepted its first students in the fall of 1915. Our faculty have won national and international research fellowships and prizes. Our dedication to teaching has meant that History faculty have been frequent recipients of UBC Killam Teaching Awards.
Our faculty study and teach about the history of Canada, East Asia, Europe, the United States, Latin America, Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Near East as well as in the history of science. The History Department offers a complete range of degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate level. Talented and motivated undergraduate students can join our two-year honours program which offers one of the best and most intensive programs of its kind. We offer graduate training in the history of all parts of the world from the medieval period to the present. The Department has special strengths in East Asian history and the history of science. Historians of indigenous history constitute a smaller contingent within the Department, but one that builds on a long and important UBC tradition. Environmental history is a fourth cluster of real significance.
Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors
| 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 |
| Crowston, Clare | history of early modern France, history of labor, women and gender, material culture, economic exchange, and fashion |
| 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 |
| Glassheim, Eagle | European history (except British, classical Greek and Roman); History of Central and Eastern Europe; Environmental History |
| Hall, Alycia | |
| 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 | Historical studies; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Religion; Early Modern Studies; Modern history; cultural history; Philosophy, History and Comparative 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |