UBC experts are available to comment on the Great War’s impact from a variety of perspectives: political, historical and cultural.
HISTORY, POLITICS:
Richard Price
Professor, Dept. of Political Science
To reach by phone, please contact UBC Public Affairs: 604.822.6397
Email: richard.price@ubc.ca
- History of chemical warfare
- Use of mustard gas during the First World War
- Both of his grandfathers served in the war. One was gassed at Ypres, the other received a medal of honour
Lisa Grekul
Associate Professor, Dept. of Critical Studies, Okanagan campus
Tel: 250.801.1900
Email: lisa.grekul@ubc.ca
- Internment of Ukrainians in Canada during the war
Robert Brain
Assistant Professor, Dept. of History
Tel: 604.822.5409
Email: rbrain@mail.ubc.ca
- Shell-shock during the Great War
- Cultural history of the war
CULTURE, LITERATURE
Nancy Holmes
Associate Professor, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, Okanagan campus
Tel: 250.807.9369
Email: nancy.holmes@ubc.ca
- Canadian literature of First World War
- The war-time writings of Lucy Maud Montgomery
- “In Flanders Fields” and the adoption of the poppy as a symbol of remembrance
Sherrill Grace
Professor, Dept. of English
To reach by phone, please contact UBC Public Affairs: 604.822.6397
Email: sherrill.grace@ubc.ca
- Author of the forthcoming book Landscapes of War and Memory: The Two World Wars in Canadian Literature and the Arts, 1977–2007
- Biographer of Thomas Findley, author of The Wars, set during the Great War
- How Canadian artists have revisited the legacy of the war