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The UCSB Community Labor Project invites applications for a Lecturer in Labor Studies. Responsibilities include teaching core courses for the Minor in Labor Studies, which is administered by the History […]

Kristen Thomas-McGill is a PhD Candidate in the History Department and is a cultural historian of gender and sexuality who draws on the fields of literary studies, queer theory, and […]

UCSB Professor Emerita Sarah Cline published a reflection on the life and career of UCSB Professor Francis A. Dutra in the American Historical Association’s Perspectives newsmagazine. Dr. Dutra was an […]

UCSB Alumna Betty K. Koed ’83, MA ’91, PhD ’99 retired as Historian of the United States Senate this past October 2023. She served as the first female Historian of […]

Dr. Sarah Cline’s most recent book, El libro de testamentos de Culhuacán: vida y muerte entre los nahuas del México central, siglo XVI (Universidad Iberoamericana Press) has been awarded the […]

Adrienne Edgar’s book Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia (Cornell University Press) has won a second prize (the first was the Joseph Rothschild Prize […]

Congratulations to Stephan Miescher who has been awarded the 2023 Sidney M. Edelstein Prize from the Society for the History of Technology, honoring A Dam for Africa: Akosombo Stories from […]

Congratulations to the Professor of Soviet and Central Asian History at the Department of History, UCSB, Adrienne Edgar. Her new book Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in […]

The History Department was saddened to learn that our colleague Professor Emeritus Jeffrey Russell passed away on April 12. We would like to share with you the message of condolence […]

Apply now: https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02380/apply View this position online: https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02380 POSITION OVERVIEW Salary range: See Table 15 for the salary range for this position. A reasonable estimated full-time rate for this position […]

Prof. Manuel Covo’s new book, Entrepôt of Revolutions: Saint-Domingue, Commercial Sovereignty, and the French-American Alliance has been awarded the prestigious Gilbert Chinard Book Prize. The Gilbert Chinard Prize is awarded annually by […]

The Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in twentieth-century African American history, to begin July 1, 2023. We welcome […]

After 18 years in the making, Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, professor of Chinese history in at the Department of History here at UCSB, released his fifth book on July 28th, 2022. […]

Two members of the History Department Faculty, Anthony Barbieri and Sherene Seikaly were awarded two prestigious National Endowment of Humanities grants and fellowships. NEH Fellowships are a set of competitive […]

Are we witnessing a ‘General Strike’ in our own time? W.E.B. Du Bois defined the shift from slavery to freedom as a “general strike” — and there are parallels to today […]

“Education gets pounded on a lot… As local educators we need to redeem history by coming together with the community, sink our teeth into the truths of history, and to […]

Brian Griffith, who earned his PhD in the department in January 2020 and is currently The Eugen and Jacqueline Weber Post-Doctoral Scholar in European History at UCLA, has been awarded the 2021 […]

The Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenure-track position (rank open). We seek applications from scholars in any geographic and chronological specialization, […]

If you weren’t able to attend our New Majors’ Meeting this morning, you can view the slideshow below!  New Majors’ Meeting 2021

We are pleased to announce that five students have been awarded Steve and Barbara Mendell Graduate Fellowships in Cultural Literacy from UCSB’s Walter H. Capps Center for the 2021-2022 academic […]

Professor Barbieri has published another ground-breaking new book.  Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society and Culture (University of Washington Press, 2021), is the first extended comparative study of New Kingdom Egypt […]

Congratulations are in order for graduating senior Ebelechukwu Eseka, a History minor and Sociology major. At the end of her undergraduate career, UCSB has recognized her impressive accomplishments in three […]

UC Santa Barbara Public Affairs asked faculty, staff, and students to reflect on Asian and Pacific Islander American (AAPI) Heritage Month in May. Professor John W.I. Lee responded to the question […]

A whole spate of good news has come through at the end of the academic year! Congratulations to the following current and former graduate students on their accomplishments. The community […]

The May 2021 issue of the Archive, the History Department’s newsletter, is now available! Click here for the full interactive version.

The May 2021 issue of the academic journal The Public Historian has been published and can be viewed here. Since 1978, The Public Historian has made its mark as the definitive voice of the […]

Professor Utathya Chattopadhyaya has been named a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for 2021. The fellowship, which comes with a $60,000 stipend, will support his research […]

We are heartbroken to note the passing of Paul Baltimore, who received his PhD in History from UCSB in 2014. Paul died in Sacramento on April 8, 2021, having taught […]

Frank Dutra should be remembered not only as a careful archival scholar of early modern Portugal and Brazil, superb mentor to generations of graduate students in the History Department and […]

Chi-yun Chen, a devoted husband, father, and mentor, passed away peacefully in his sleep on December 1, 2020 after spending several quiet hours with his wife by his side. Professor […]

Journalists, politicians, and historians are comparing the Biden Administration’s ambitious economic and social agenda to that of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. Illuminating that tentative and provocative judgement are two […]

The History Department is now accepting applications for the 2021-22 Senior Honors Thesis Program (HIST 194AH/BH). If you will be a senior next year, have at least a 3.5 GPA […]

The Academic Senate has announced that the P/NP grading exceptions implemented in the Winter 2021 quarter will now be extended to the Spring and Summer 2021 quarters as well. All history […]

The UCSB Department of History stands in solidarity with the Asian Pacific Islander Graduate Student Alliance and with all of our colleagues, students, and family members who have been touched […]

Congratulations to Professor Hilary J. Bernstein whose new monograph, Historical Communities: Cities, Erudition, and National Identity in Early Modern France, has been published by Brill. The book explores the outpouring […]

The March 2021 issue of the Archive, the History Department’s newsletter, is now available! Click here for the full interactive version.

Feel like time traveling? Zip back to the end of 2020 with The Archive! The History Department newsletter, now called The Archive, last appeared in email inboxes in December 2020, but […]

Cold War Working Group conveners Addie Jensen and Mattie Webb have developed a new opportunity for undergraduates to gain experience with public history through the Cold War Working Group’s blog. […]

Dr. Stephanie Seketa, who recently earned her PhD from the History Department in the field of Modern Britain, has published an article in the journal Enterprise & Society. You can […]

Read below for an update on the changes to P/NP grading policies for the W21 quarter. ———————————————————————   As many of you may be aware, the Academic Senate has just […]

Doctoral candidates Addison Jensen and Mattie Webb announce the formation of the Cold War Working Group (CWWG), a subset of the Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS). The […]

The History Department’s Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the inaugural session of our FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series.  Inspired by the History Department’s Statement on the George Floyd Uprising and […]

The research of Dr. Nicole Archambeau, a 2009 PhD graduate and Assistant Professor at Colorado State University, has been featured in CSU’s Liberal Arts Magazine. Read her reflections on “Surviving an […]

Professor W. Patrick McCray‘s new book Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture (The MIT Press, 2020) has made a splash. The book […]

Congratulations to Professor Sarah Case, who has been awarded the Southern Association for Women Historians‘ Anne Firor Scott Mid-Career Fellowship. The Fellowship is given every two years to fund a […]

Studies in Late Antiquity, edited by UCSB’s Professor Elizabeth DePalma Digeser, is a forum for innovation and reflection on global Late Antiquity (150-750 CE) which questions and expands on received […]

If you weren’t able to attend our information session on 11/5, you can watch the recording here! If you have further questions about the thesis course, please contact either Professor […]

The History Department Newsletter for October 2020 is now available! Click here for the full interactive version.

The November issue of the academic journal The Public Historian has been published and can be viewed here. Since 1978, The Public Historian has made its mark as the definitive voice of the […]

If you weren’t able to attend the Education Abroad Program information session for History majors, you can view the recording below!

If you weren’t able to join us for the 2020 New Majors’ Meeting, you can view the recording below. History Department faculty and staff spoke about academic advising, research seminars, […]

Rather than have her students write traditional essays in HIST 193F: Food in World History, Elizabeth Schmidt, a graduate student in history, had something else in mind for her summer […]

Three pieces of good news to celebrate! On 28 August 2020, Josh Rocha successfully defended his dissertation! His thesis, Military Spectacle in Interwar Britain: Militarism, Propaganda, and the Shadows of World War, […]

View the slideshow featuring the research projects of undergraduates who graduated at the virtual June ceremony. Included are students’ senior honors theses, History of Public Policy and Law senior theses, […]

The revamped History Department Newsletter for Summer 2020 is now available. Click here for the full interactive version, or download the PDF below. History Department Newsletter (Summer 2020)

History Department Statement  George Floyd’s slow, excruciating, and brutal death on May 25, 2020 has sparked a global uprising. The UCSB History Department grieves and stands in solidarity with colleagues […]

On Sunday, June 14th 2020, the History Department held a virtual gradation ceremony to honor our undergrads and PhD students graduating this year. If you weren’t able to attend, you […]

The History Department held their annual awards ceremony over Zoom this year, with campus still closed to in-person meetings. If you weren’t able to attend, you can view the ceremony […]

History Professor Brad Bouley gave a lecture on “The Black Plague, 1346-1351″ that was recorded recently by UCSB Admissions and made available to our incoming students for the coming academic […]

In honor of Professor Sherene Seikaly‘s thirteen years of service as editor of Arab Studies Journal, the Spring 2020 issue–the final issue under her supervision–has graciously been made open access. You […]

Our students are facing unprecedented financial circumstances as a result of the global COVID pandemic. Fellowships and research grants have been cancelled or postponed, leaving many without income for the […]

To help support students as they face current  covid-19 and remote learning challenges, the university has created a new “Student Wellbeing” website. This website includes resources for financial and food […]

Professor Evelyne Laurent-Perrault has recently been recognized for her accomplishments on multiple fronts. She received a Faculty Career Development Award and a Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellowship at […]

Attention History, History of Public Policy and Law, and Medieval Studies majors! If you will be a senior next year, have at least a 3.5 GPA in the upper division […]

In honor of Black History Month, the Journal of American History asked Professor Peniel Joseph of the University of Texas to curate a special on-line issue designed to highlight ten […]

We are happy to announce a brand-new study space in HSSB is now available for student use! Through a collaborative effort between the History Department, HASC, the History Club @ […]

The first episode of a podcast that alumna Caitlin Rathe (PhD, 2019) has been a part of creating since August 2018 has gone live! The NEH-funded project, LBJ and the […]

Doctoral Candidate in Public History, Melissa Barthelemy, was interviewed by CBS News KCAL9 about the Spontaneous Memorials created for Kobe Bryant and the other victims of the helicopter crash near […]

The Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a pool of qualified temporary lecturers to teach a course (or courses) in History for upcoming […]

The special issue, “Gender and Intimacy across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” with guest editors Miroslava Chávez-García and Verónica Castillo-Muñoz has just been released! This issue focuses on the primacy of gender […]

Professor April Haynes, a 2009 PhD graduate of the UCSB History Department, has been awarded the Mellon New Directions Fellowship, which will pay for a two-year research leave and one […]

The Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in Middle Period Chinese history, c. 618-1644, to begin July 1, 2020. […]

The Organization of American Historians has appointed UCSB Professor Verónica Castillo-Muñoz to its Distinguished Lectureship Program. She will serve as a Distinguished Lecturer until 2022. Congratulations, Dr. Castillo-Muñoz!

History Associates will kick off the 2019-2020 year with a presentation by UCSB’s Professor Stephan Miescher titled Ghana’s Electric Dreams. It is based on his forthcoming monograph on the history of […]

The NEH awarded UCSB History Professor Kate McDonald and her colleague, Prof. David R. Ambaras of NC State University, a $100,000 Level II Digital Humanities Advancement Grant to complete the […]

Whether they just want to be more knowledgeable foodies or get inspired to embark on careers as chefs, culinary journalists, or even food reformers, UCSB students can now take a […]

The History Honors Senior Thesis Colloquium was a great success this year thanks to Professor Adrienne Edgar and all the students, discussants, friends and family who put so much time […]

The history department welcomed back its alumni on April 26th as part of the campus homecoming event, All Gaucho Reunion.  We invited alumni to participate in a lunch and career-panel […]

Congratulations to Professor Nelson Lichtenstein for winning the Academic Senate’s Faculty Research Lecturer Award.  This is a very prestigious award granted to professors for a career of truly superb scholarship, […]

Welcome new minors…..Read here about UC Santa Barbara’s Blum Center’s new minor in Poverty, Inequality and Social Justice.  Professor Alice O’Connor, director of the Blum Center and a history professor […]

The Latin American and Iberian Studies Program’s undergraduate conference has been featured in the UCSB Current! Check it out here. Several members of the History department faculty are part of […]

Professor Rappaport’s new book A Thirst for Empire has been chosen as the featured review in the next issue of the American Historical Review. Check it out here!

Congratulations to Doug Genens, who was recently awarded the 2019 Everett E. Edwards prize for his article “Fighting Poverty in the Fields: Legal Services and the War on Poverty in […]

Professor De Hart and her book were featured in the online publication of the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts at UCSB. The article details not only the book itself […]

Congratulations to Stephanie Seketa, a department graduate who has just been hired as the Director of Academic Affairs at Marist College in New York. This position manages college-wide projects (under the […]

Studies in Late Antiquity is edited by Prof. Elizabeth DePalma Digeser of the UCSB History Department.  Check out the contents of the latest issue below. Studies in Late Antiquity Spring […]

Both Professors Cobo and Castillo-Muñoz have been awarded prestigious library fellowships, which is a testament to the quality of their scholarship. Professor Cobo won a yearlong John Carter Brown Library fellowship […]

Congratulations to Tim Paulson, who has accepted a faculty position at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. Tim’s graduate research, which combined economic, labor, social, and environmental history, focused on […]

UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. […]

Congratulations to Cheryl Jiménez Frei, who just accepted a position in Public History at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, and to Ben Ma, who has accepted a position at […]

Professor Eileen Boris is, along with Professor Nupur Chauduri, a winner of the Coordinating Council for Women’s History’s (CCWH) inaugural Rachel Fuchs award. The award recognizes and applauds service to […]

Bodies and Structures 1.0: Deep-Mapping Modern East Asian History is now live. The website, a collaboration between Kate McDonald and North Carolina State University professor David Ambaras, is a platform for […]

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A new edition of the Historía newsletter is now available for download. Visit our archive to download the current and past editions.

The Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a pool of qualified temporary lecturers to teach a course (or courses) in History for the […]

Professor Nelson Lichtenstein was featured in a WalletHub piece about the best and worst cities for jobs in California. He was part of a panel of experts who was asked […]

Anita Guerrini, a Horning Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at Oregon State University and an adjunct professor at UCSB, has won the 2018 Pfizer Award for her […]

Professor de Hart’s new book, Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life, is the first full-life biography of the pioneering Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.   It has been getting a great deal […]

Erika Rappaport’s new book, A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World (Princeton University Press, 2017), has won the prestigious Jerry Bentley Prize in World History. Professor Rappaport’s […]

The Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in Early North American history, c. 1700-1830. Appointment begins July 1, 2019. […]