Primary faculty teaching in the History of Public Policy field:
Additional faculty who can direct History of Public Policy doctoral dissertations include:
Prior to applying, students who wish to pursue graduate training in the History of Public Policy are encouraged to contact the faculty member whose specialty best matches their interest.
For more information on graduate training in the History of Public Policy at UCSB, see The Graduate History Program at UCSB.
Interdisciplinarity. We encourage research and collaboration across traditional boundaries of subject, discipline, and place. Students in policy history have also read and researched in the seminars of the Cold War and International History Center and Women’s Studies, among others.
We host conferences and speaker series in conjunction with the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy, Feminist Studies Department, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. These conferences offer faculty and graduate students opportunities for extensive scholarly interaction with visiting scholars of policy in History and affiliated disciplines.
Recent conferences and speaker series include:
Research and teaching opportunities. Students can research and teach in Washington, D.C., through the UC Washington, D.C., Center, and for state policy projects, in Sacramento at the UC Sacramento Center.
The UCSB History Department offers a variety of teaching opportunities for advanced students, including teaching assistantships in the courses of the Department’s unique undergraduate major in the History of Public Policy, in the interdisciplinary Labor Studies program, in the introductory survey courses in World, U.S., and other fields of history.
Recent graduates and current graduate students in the History of Public Policy include:
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