News and Projects from the Department

Spring 2024 Creative Works Showcase

In April 2024, the department was delighted to showcase a wide variety of creative works from our Spring 2024 students. The photos below capture just a few of these exceptional projects. 

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KPU Day 2023

Dr Tracey Kinney led a series of workshops entitled "food for thought" where participants were invited to consider the assumptions they hold about food and the cultural connections we make to the foods that sustain us. Additional resources from the workshop can be accessed here: 

Dr Jack Hayes Heads to Harvard

KPU History's own Dr Jack Hayes was recently invited to present a paper and chair a panel at the prestigious Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. The Conference, entitled "Environment in Asia" honoured the careers of two leading scholars in the field of environmental history - Peter Perdue (Yale University) and Robert Marks (Whittier College) - and offered a chance to reconceptualize the ways that we teach, research, and write about environmental issues. 

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Dr Hayes at Harvard Yard 

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Dr Hayes (left) with Dr Peter Perdue and Dr Donald Worster

Students Get Their Hands on History 

Students in History 3310: The Fibre of Society - Textile Production in global history were given an option to research and recreate a textile product from the past.

Eronmon Okojie learned about Irish lace-making and created the amazing work shown below: 

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Priya Atwal researched all of the elements of Kashmiri embroidery to produce the work shown here. Priya even used traditional transfer techniques to add the pattern to the cotton fabric. 

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Alumni Feature: Sydney Kadagies

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Sydney recording her portion of the Juno Beach Virtual Tour

KPU History alumni Sydney Kadagies just returned to Canada after an extended internship at the Juno Beach Centre in Courseulles-sur-Mer, France. The internship at Juno Beach enabled Sydney to combine the knowledge of public history that she gained during her bachelor’s degree with her fluency in French. Sydney’s internship was so successful that the Centre offered her an extended placement as an administrative coordinator. She’s also featured in the new virtual tour of Juno Beach!

Some recent faculty-student collaborations in the department!

3D Printing the Past is a collaborative initiative between Dr Kyle Jackson in the History Department, History student research assistant Lukas Akai, and Wilson School of Design student research assistant Birk Zukowski. The video below explains the project and its importance to the ways in which we understand interactions among peoples in the past.

KPU Remembers is a collaborative project co-created by the students in Dr Chris Hyland's History 4496: Canada and World War I. Click on the link below the image to explore the multimedia biographies of Canadian soldiers in the First World War

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KPU Remembers The Canadian Soldier's Experience

Click to read more about the project in this Surrey Now-Leader article written by Tom Zillich:

And this outstanding feature article on Jordan Fenske White, one of the students who participated in the project, by Valerie Leung in The Richmond News: Remembrance Day

And another feature from Joti Grewal at the Langley Advance Times: KPU Remembers

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Thanks to everyone who joined Dr Maddie Knickerbocker, and @KPUHistory students, Sarah Anderson, Rebecca Moroso, and Samantha Tsang, on November 3 for the Arts Speaker Series presentation "Highway Heritage Revisited: Retelling BC's Public Histories". The ArcGIS StoryMap can be accessed here: Highway Heritage ArcGIS StoryMap