Alicia Barker-Åström
Alicia Barker-Åström is a student in the Dual Degree between Sciences Po Paris and the University of British Columbia. She got her first Bachelor’s in Politics and Government with a Middle East and North Africa specialization from Sciences Po Campus de Menton. She is currently pursuing an Honours degree in Political Science and International Relations […]
Nikki Georgopulos
Nikki Georgopulos is an historian, curator, and educator specializing in European art of the nineteenth century. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses primarily on realism and its intersections with histories of science, philosophy, and cultural constructs […]
Jeffrey Byrne
I am a scholar of decolonisation, revolutionary movements, and the history of international relations. My first book, Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order, won numerous awards and distinctions in the fields of global history, African studies, and Middle Eastern studies. My current project is a global history of revolutionary anticolonialism that […]
Lance Pederson
Lance Pederson is a PhD student who studies power, masculinity, and homosexuality in France and its colonial empire from 1660-1815. He obtained his BA [Hons] from Hamline University where he majored in History with a double minor in French and Mandarin Chinese. He completed the first year of his PhD program at the University of […]
Isabelle Avakumovic-Pointon
Isabelle Avakumovic-Pointon (she/her) is a first-year PhD student in History at the University of British Columbia. Her doctoral research examines ideas and experiences of disability in Bosnia and Serbia at the turn of the twentieth century. Isabelle’s work engages with a wide range of subdisciplines, including disability history, history of the body, history of medicine, […]
Julen Etxabe
Dr. Julen Etxabe is Canada Research Chair in Jurisprudence and Human Rights and joined Allard Law as Assistant Professor in July of 2019. His current research combines legal and literary theory to identify a new model of dialogical judgment emerging in the area of human rights, especially through the jurisprudence of the European Court of […]
Elizabeth Nijdam
Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam is an Assistant Professor and settler scholar in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where she works, learns, and lives on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. She is currently completing her book manuscript […]
Sara Ann Knutson
Dr. Sara Ann Knutson (she/ her) is Assistant Professor of Teaching, chair of Medieval Studies, and a historian and anthropological archaeologist specializing in premodern Afro-Eurasia, including the Islamic World and Scandinavia, and contemporary cultural heritage. Her research and teaching examine topics including global history, race and ethnicity, diasporas, the Digital Humanities, materiality, museum anthropology and […]
Josh Timmermann
Dr. Josh Timmermann is an historian of Late Antiquity and early medieval Europe, in particular the Carolingian era (ca. 751–888 C.E.) and with emphases on intellectual, cultural, and reception history. His forthcoming book is concerned with perceptions and applications of the texts, ideas, and famous writers of the Christian past – especially the “Church Fathers” […]
Gaoheng Zhang
章杲恆 Gaoheng Zhang is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is a humanities scholar of migration, mobilities, multiculturalism, media, rhetoric, ethics, and masculinity. His recent research seeks to provide a road map for analyzing cultural mobilities concerning contemporary Italy’s and Europe’s global networks with Asia, America, and Africa, which are […]