Sat Sep 19	Exhibition: Ancient China Santa Barbara Art Museum, through Dec. 13 (more...)
Mon Nov 9	A Nuclear Winter's Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s book presentation by Prof. Lawrence Badash (UCSB), HSSB 4020, noon-1pm (more...)
Mon Nov 9	The Taste of the Enemy: Food and Warfare in Asia, 1937-1953 Lecture by Katarzyna Cwiertka (Leiden), 4pm in HSSB 6020 (more...)
Tue Nov 10	Learning the Lessons of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill lecture by Riki Ott, 12:30 - 1:45pm, Lotte Lehmann Hall (more...)
Wed Nov 11	Film screening "The Promise" (1995) Theater/Dance 2600, 7pm (more...)
Fri Nov 13	Festschrift presentation in honor of Prof. Humphreys 2-4pm, HSSB 4020 (more...)

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Winter 2010 History Course WAITING LIST POLICY
For information on waiting lists for History courses that are full, this is the place.
Read more... News about the UC Budget crisis, its causes, consequences, and what people are doing about it.
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Read more... 2009-2010 Graduate Students: Meet the Entering Class
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Read more... September 2009 Issue of Historia now available online
Historia has more in-depth articles about many of the News items on this webpage, as well as features such as the Chair's column.
Read more... Monica Orozco Named New Director at Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library
UCSB History alumna (Ph.D. 1999) fills local post.
Read more... Prof. Hämäläinen's The Comanche Empire on the way to its **eleventh** award
This is unprecedented--now is the time to get your copy!
Read more... Prof. Lichtenstein's The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business attracts national media attention.
It was featured on NPR's Fresh Air and reviewed in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, among other places. Read more... UCSB Historians win campus-wide teaching prizes.
Prof. Pat Cohen named outstanding graduate mentor; Laurence Christian selected as outstanding teaching assistant.
Read more... Prof. Barbieri-Low's book wins its *fourth* prize
Barbieri-Low's Artisans in Early Imperial China has won the AHA Breasted Prize, the College Art Association's Morey Book Award, and two others.
Read more... UCSB History faculty publish eight new books in 2008.
Alumni and graduate students have been prolific as well.
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