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Video: Burnaby North High School Recruitment Event
Watch as professors Mark Leier and Emily O'Brien deliver a hilariously entertaining history lecture to Burnaby North high school students. learn more →
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Video: Why Study History? An interview with New Westminster Mayor Jonathan Cote
Watch the video as SFU history alumnus Mayor Jonathan Cote talks about the value of a history degree learn more →
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Video: History Career Panel - "What to do with a History Degree"
Are you wondering what you might do with a history degree? When you think about your future do feel uncertain, confused, or overwhelmed? Watch our recent panel discussion with history alumni. learn more →
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Grad School - An Illustrated Primer
History professor Mark Leier's hilariously sage grad school advice, illustrated by Sam Bradd learn more →
Welcome to History at SFU. Our award-winning department offers students a rigorous program that covers a broad range of geographic and thematic areas.
Our program is global geographically, with a strength in Canadian history and US, Latin American, British, European, Middle Eastern, African, and Asian history. It makes thematic connections with strengths in early modern history, oral history, gender and sexuality, muslim studies, Hellenic studies, religion, aboriginal studies, and labour studies. (More...)
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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History Publication Celebration (Book Launch) Thu, 27 Oct 2016 7:00 PM
SFU Harbour Centre - Room 1400 - 515 W. Hastings Street -
Life isn't all Bhangra and Butter Chicken! Deconstructing BC's Punjabi-Canadian Culture Wed, 16 Nov 2016 6:30 PM
SFU Surrey Campus - Westminster Savings Theatre- Room 2600 -
Does Confederation Matter? Canada and its Regions Thu, 23 Feb 2017 6:30 PM
SFU Harbour Centre - 515 W. Hastings Street - Room 1400 -
Shelagh Rogers: Revelation: Bearing Witness to the Transformative Testimonies of Residential School Survivors Thu, 27 Apr 2017 6:30 PM
SFU Segal School of Business - 500 Granville Street
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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Cities Beyond Borders: Comparative and Transnational Approaches to Urban History Co-edited by Nicolas Kenny and Rebecca Madgin
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The Commentaries of Pope Pius II (1458-1464) and the Crisis of the Fifteenth-Century Papacy by Emily O'Brien
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Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism by Jeremy Brown & Matthew D. Johnson
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The Feel of the City: Experiences of Urban Transformation by Nicolas Kenny
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Gender History: Canadian Perspectives by Willeen Keough & Lara Campbell
DEPARTMENT NEWS
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Professor Sarah Walshaw Awarded 2016 Cormack Teaching Award September 01, 2016
History faculty has been recognized for their exceptional teaching ability for the fourth... -
NBFS Podcast: Emile Chabal August 24, 2016
Listen to Roxanne Panchasi's latest podcast, in which she interviews Emile Chabal about his book A... -
Professor Katie McCullough Comments on Scotland's Relationship to Europe in the Wake of Brexit August 23, 2016
Scotland has always been a European country. Since at least the late medieval period Scots have... -
Video: Burnaby North High School Recruitment Event August 11, 2016
Watch as professors Mark Leier and Emily O'Brien deliver a hilariously entertaining history lecture...