Jack Patrick Hayes
BA (Colorado College), MA (Hawaii), PhD (UBC)
Jack Hayes joined the Asian Studies and History faculty at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in 2013 and is a research associate with the Center for Chinese Research at UBC’s Institute of Asian Research. Dr. Hayes’ research focus is on late imperial and modern Chinese and Tibetan environmental history, resource development and ethnic relations in western China, and environmental policy development in East Asia. Dr. Hayes also serves on the editorial board and as the Assistant Editor (Reviews, Asia) for the journal Environmental History and Associate Editor (China) for Pacific Affairs. He has published a number of articles on Chinese environmental history, most recently on fire ecosystems and legal history, and wetlands and warfare in Chinese history. His book A Change in Worlds on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands (Lanham, MA: Lexington, 2013) is a social and environmental history of Sino-Tibetan north Sichuan. His current research project is seeks to analyze the historical policies, science, and boots-on-the-ground development of China’s wildfire and rural/peri-urban fire fighting. In addition to his academic activities, Dr. Hayes has served as a consultant on number of environment and history projects in China and the United States.
Courses taught
- HIST 1150: Introduction to Traditional East Asia
- HIST 1190 Explorations in History
- HIST/ASIA 2150: Tea In China and Japan
- HIST/ASIA 2156: Martial Arts of China and Japan
- HIST/ASIA 2351: Opium, Alcohol, & Tobacco in Asian History & Culture
- HIST/ASIA 2355: The Chinese Overseas
- HIST/ASIA 2359: Tea in Asia
- HIST 2375: Japan Under the Shoguns, 1600-1868
- HIST 2380: Introduction of Global Environmental History
- HIST/ASIA 3140: Environment and Society of East Asia
- HIST/ASIA 3150: East Asian Immigrants to North America
- HIST 3180: Environmental History of North America
- HIST 3350: China in the Twentieth Century: Reforms and Revolutions
- HIST 3370: Modern Japan
- HIST 4400: Applications of History
- HIST 4499: Selected Topics in History-Rebellion & Society in China, China’s Environmental History, The Empires of Rome and China
- ASIA 1100 Introducing Asia
- ASIA 1311: Religions of East Asia
- ASIA 2120: Introduction to Chinese and Japanese Cinema
- ASIA 2151: Folklore of China and Japan
- ASIA 2399 Readings in Asian Studies
- ASIA 3151: Gender in East Asia
- ASIA 3152: Ethnicity in East Asia
- ASIA 3154: Chinese Cinema and Society
- ASIA 4351: Advanced Topics in Asian Cinema (Monsters, Megacities & Nature in East Asian Film)
- ACUP 1210 East Asian Health and Philosophy
Areas of Interest
General Research and Teaching: Modern and Late Imperial Chinese History, Modern Japanese History, East Asian Environmental History, Historiography & Methodology in History
Material Culture in East Asia: Tea Ceremony in Asian Cultures, Opium, Alcohol & Tobacco Use in East Asia, Tourism in China & Nature Reserves/Park Systems
Environmental History: Global Environmental History, Chinese Environmental History, Fires & Natural Disasters in Chinese History
Borderlands History: Tibetan History, History and Dynamics in East & Central Asia