Contract faculty
Education
- PhD, Simon Fraser
- MA, Simon Fraser
- MA, Simon Fraser
- BEd, British Columbia
- BA, British Columbia
Room N3323, New Westminster campus
About
Jennifer Chutter is a white settler scholar whose research and teaching interests include Canadian history, BC History, Colonial histories, Domestic histories, and Urban Studies. She is currently teaching Canadian history before and after Confederation and Global Indigenous Histories. Before joining Douglas College as contract faculty, she worked at SFU as the program coordinator of for-credit academic skills courses and as a sessional lecturer. She is currently revising her manuscript based on her dissertation, “Palimpsests and Placemaking: a critical inquiry into Strathcona as home,” which examines the Strathcona Property Owners and Tenants Association’s activism and agency in preserving their neighbourhood from urban renewal. Her previous research was on the importance of the Vancouver Special as a localized form of domestic architecture and the ways it solved the housing affordability crisis in Vancouver during the 1960s and 1970s.
Education
- PhD Candidate, British Columbia
- MA, British Columbia
- BA, Toronto
Room A3074, Coquitlam campus
About
Nicole Yakashiro (she/her) is a settler historian of Asian Canadian history, race and racialization, settler colonialism, and property relations in northern North America. She is passionate about inclusive pedagogies, public-engaged knowledge, and accessibility, and is currently teaching Canada before Confederation at Douglas College. She has also taught as a sessional lecturer at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Canada after Confederation) and the University of British Columbia (Asian Canadian public history). She is currently completing her PhD dissertation which examines the intersections between Asian Canadian land-occupation and settler colonialism from the 1900s to 1960s in British Columbia. Her publications include, “‘Powell Street is Dead’: Nikkei Loss, Commemoration, and Representations of Place in the Settler Colonial City,” in the Urban History Review and “Daffodils and Dispossession: Nikkei Settlers, White Possession, and Settler Colonial Property in Bradner, BC, 1914-51,” in BC Studies.
Retired faculty
Education
- PhD,Pennsylvania
- BA, Calgary
About
A graduate of the University of Calgary (Hons BA, 1968) and the University of Pennsylvania (PhD, 1975), Elmiro Argento is a regular faculty member of the Department of History at Douglas College, where he has taught since 1993. He taught previously at Carleton University, the University of British Columbia and at Simon Fraser University. He teaches early modern European history, 19th-century European history, and 20th-century world history.
He has also taught 19th and 20th-century diplomatic history, the history of the 19th-century bourgeoisie, 19th-century revolutionary movements and modern European intellectual history. He is particularly interested in the politics of education in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, and the links between politics, labour markets and school systems; all the while deeply committed to exploring the meaning and relevance of history with his students.
Faculty Emeritus
About
Jacqueline Gresko has taught at Douglas College since it opened in 1970. She has designed and taught Canadian, American and women's history courses. She was the elected Chair of Arts and Humanities, 1988-1991. She has served on a wide range of College committees with recent service on the Occupational Health and Safety Committee. Gresko directed the Fraser River Harbour Commission History Project, working with the Commission and Douglas and Kwantlen students, culminating in the publication of Fraser Port: A History in 1986. Gresko, born and brought up in New Westminster, attended the University of British Columbia where she received a BA Honours in History in 1969. In 1970 she completed her MA in Canadian Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa. Her thesis 'Qu'Appelle Industrial School: White 'Rites' for the Indians of the Old Northwest' became the base for several published articles. In 1999 she finished her PhD in Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. Recent publications include:
"'The Serfs of the System": Oblate Brothers and Sisters of Saint Ann in British Columbia Schools, 1858-1920", Western Oblate Studies (4) 1996 "Roman Catholic Sisters and Japanese Evacuees in British Columbia", Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society, Volume 38, No. 1 (April 1996) Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries on: L.J. D'Herbomez OMI; Pierre-Paul Durieu OMI; Henry Holbrook; Joseph Hugonard OMI; William Henry Ladner; James M. McGuckin OMI; and Salomé Valois SSA.
Faculty Emeritus
About
BA (hons) (British Columbia), MA (Toronto), PhD (York) Canadian and Asian History Frank Leonard earned both an Honours BA in History and a teacher's certificate at the University of British Columbia. After completing an MA in European and Russian History at the University of Toronto, he obtained a doctorate in Canadian History at York University. Besides working at Douglas, he has taught at Capilano College and the College of New Caledonia. He also served as a visiting scholar at Uppsala University in Sweden. Dr. Leonard published a revision of his dissertation, A Thousand Blunders: The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and Northern British Columbia (UBC Press, 1996), which received a Regional Certificate of Merit from the Canadian Historical Association.
He reviews other books on railways for numerous journals in Canada and the United States. He has also consulted on several native land claim cases involving railways. His work has elicited interviews and invitations from across the province, and he has appeared on both radio and television to discuss railway matters. He has now extended his research concerning railway development to Washington State and presented a series of papers to international conferences.
In Memoriam
Education
- PhD, Columbia
- MA, Columbia
- BA, Barnard
About
Rhoda Friedrichs received her BA (hons) from Barnard College, and her MA and PhD from Columbia University. Her major area of concentration was in European medieval history, and her minor area was modern British history. She has taught at Brooklyn College in New York, in the UBC Arts I Program, in the Humanities program of the UBC Engineering Faculty, and has also offered a number of courses on specialized historical themes for UBC Continuing Education. Since 1989 she has taught at Douglas College, where she teaches courses in 20th-century world history, European history from 1500-1789, European history from 1789-1900, Europe in the early Middle Ages, and Europe in the high Middle Ages.
Friedrichs has published several articles in scholarly journals on subjects in medieval social and political history, and has also written a number of book reviews for Canadian, U.S., and European journals. She has presented papers at meetings of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, the UBC Medieval Workshop, the Vancouver Medieval Symposium, and the International Congress of Medieval Studies. She has served on the boards of the Medieval Association of the Pacific and the Society of Canadian Medievalists.