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Current & upcoming courses
You can find a selection of my previous syllabi here.
Overview
At UBC, I teach History (HIST) and Asian Canadian & Asian Migration Studies (ACAM) courses, focused on Canadian and global imperial/comparative colonial history. I am honoured to have won the Killam Teaching Prize in 2018.
- What to expect of me as an instructor
Learn more about me in this 2021 “Know Your Profs” feature from UBC History!
Broadly, I am committed to teaching that is clear, transparent, flexible, and accessible; rooted in genuine care and inflected with enthusiasm; attentive to the importance of representation; and focused not only what we are learning but also why it matters. My courses are always designed with the intention of equipping you to succeed in the course itself, and to build meaningful take-away lessons – knowledge, understanding, skills, and questions – that can continue to grow and resonate after term is over.
There are no required textbook costs in my courses.
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Current & upcoming courses
In the 2024-25 academic year, I am teaching two undergraduate courses.
- ACAM 300 – Dis/Orienting Asian Canada (term 1)
What do Asian Canadian histories have to do with the present? What good can historical knowledge, understanding, and thinking do now? Driven by these questions, ACAM 300 is an Asian Canadian history course for our times. We will explore how Asian Canadian histories are portrayed and used in a range of contexts today – from scholarship and textbooks to political apologies and media coverage, from films and museum exhibits to community festivals and family stories. We will consider what role these diverse historical representations play in the present. And we will develop our own ideas about what other histories need to be told about people of Asian descent in northern North America, and explore how and why we might do so.
Overall, you can expect to learn about some important topics in Asian Canadian history; understand why these histories – and how they are told – matter today; build skills related to ethical community-engaged and community-centered historical work; and, in the process, contribute to histories that can make a difference in our times.
This course is eligible for the new UBC Arts Place & Power requirement. ACAM courses are in the Humanities and Creative Arts breadth area. Learn more about the new Ways of Knowing breadth requirements for students entering the BA degree program in 2024-25.
ACAM 300 is a multi-access course. It is possible to complete the course in person, online (asynchronous), or through a combination of the two.
- HIST 329 – The People Who Shaped Canada (term 2)
Canadian history through the lens of individual people’s lives and their social impacts. Stay tuned for an updated course description, coming soon!
ACAM 300 is a multi-access course. It is possible to complete the course in person, online (asynchronous), or through a combination of the two.