Research Description

My thesis presents an ethnohistorical analysis of Indigenous health on the Central Coast of British Columbia, between 1895 and 1925. In particular, I am examining Indigenous relations with Methodist medical missionaries, and how these interactions mutually informed and shaped different socio-cultural conceptions of health and healing.

Working Thesis Title

Indigenous and Methodist Medical Missionary Encounters on the Central Coast of British Columbia, 1895-1925

Publications

Huang, Alice C. “A Potlatch of Provincial Proportions.” British Columbia History 45, no. 2 (Summer 2012): 17-25.

Conference Papers

“Cultural Food Colonialism and Converging Indigenous-Newcomer ‘Tastescapes’ in Coastal British Columbia, 1880-1930.”Poster Session. Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting. Victoria, BC, June 3-5, 2013.

 “’There is a soul-sickness at the bottom of it all’: Indigenous Encounters with Protestant Medical Missionaries on the North-central Coast of British Columbia, 1880-1930.” Canadian Society for the History of Medicine Annual Meeting. Victoria, BC, June 1-3, 2013.

“Cannot My Taste Discern Perverse Things? Cultural Food Colonialism and the Transformation of Indigenous Foodscapes and Tastescapes in Coastal British Columbia, 1880-1930.” BC Studies Conference. New Westminster, BC, May 2-4, 2013.

 “Rise of First Nations? Representations of Indigeneity and Indigenous Masculinity in Historical Simulation Video Games.” Qualicum History Conference. Parksville, BC, Feb. 1-3, 2013.

Awards

2013 J.V. Christensen Graduate Scholarship

2013 Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship- Master’s, SSHRC

2013 Graduate Fellowship, Department of History, SFU

2013 Travel and Minor Research Award, SFU

2012 Douglas Cole Graduate Entrance Scholarship in Cultural History, SFU            

2012 Valedictorian Address Speaker, Faculty of Arts Convocation Ceremony, UBC            

2011 Women’s Canadian Club of Vancouver Scholarship in Canadian History, UBC

2011 W. Kaye Lamb Award, British Columbia Historical Federation

2008 – 2011 Trek Excellence Scholarship for Continuing Students, UBC

2007 Governor General’s Academic Medal (Bronze Level), The Office of the Secretary to the Governor General, Ottawa               

2007 Class Historian, Steveston Secondary School

Teaching Assistantships

HIST 101: Canada to Confederation (Fall 2012)

HIST 102W: Canada since Confederation (Spring 2013)

HIST 254: China to 1800 (Fall 2013)

HIST 338: World War II (Spring 2014)