Congratulations to CMS affiliate Dr. Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam for receiving a 2024–2025 UBC Public Humanities Hub Public Engagement Award.
These awards are given to individuals and partner organizations who have exhibited outstanding public humanities engagement over the past two years and whose work has contributed to expanding the range of voices in public discourse.
Dr. Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam is an Assistant Professor and settler scholar in the Department of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies at UBC in Vancouver. She is currently completing her book manuscript, Graphic Historiography: History & Memory through Comics and Graphic Novels (Ohio State University Press). Biz’s research and teaching include the representation of history in comics, comics and new media on forced migration, intersections between Indigenous studies and German, European, and migration studies, digital and analog game studies, and feminist methodologies in the graphic arts. Biz sits on the Executive Committee of the International Comic Arts Forum, is the Director of the Comics Studies Cluster in UBC’s Public Humanities Hub, and is Co-Director of the Popular Media for Social Change Research Excellence Cluster.
