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Sarah Cline

Current Courses

Fall 2009 (current)


Spring 2010 (tentative)


Department Fields

Announcements

Early Final HIst. 156A - December 7, 4-7 p.m. Girvetz 2128
You must sign up in advance for the early final

Review Session - Friday 12/04 HSSB 1173 1-2 p.m.
Review for the final exam. NOTE DIFFERENT ROOM FROM CLASSROOM




Current Graduate Students

Latin America, Mexico, Indians, Race, Religion, Colonial era, Atlantic World, empires, world history


Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1981

Office: HSSB 4251 Fall 2009 Hours: Thursdays 1-3 + by appt.
Phone: (805) 893-2726   Fax: (805) 893-8795
Email: cline@history.ucsb.edu

I am interested in working with students wishing to pursue research on Latin American social and cultural history. I am a specialist on colonial Mexican history, but I also have broad interests in Latin American history generally, Atlantic world history, globalization, and in comparative studies of gender, race, ethnicity, and colonialism.

Research and Teaching Interests

  • Visual History of colonial and nineteenth-century Mexico with a focus on race and gender

Current Projects

  • Picturing race and hierarchy in colonial and nineteenth-century Mexico

Selected Publications

  • The Early History of Greater Mexico (with Ida Altman and Javier Pescador), Prentice Hall 2003
  • The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos Mexico. UCLA Latin American Center Publications 1993
  • Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: The Social History of an Aztec Town. University of New Mexico Press 1986; ACLS EBook 2007
  • The Testaments of Culhuacan (with Miguel Leon-Portilla). UCLA Latin American Center Publications 1984
  • "Native Peoples of Colonial Central Mexico" in The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: Mesoamerica. 2000
  • The Conquest of New Spain 1585 Revision by Fray Bernardino de Sahagun (editor) University of Utah Press 1989

Undergraduate and Graduate Courses

  • History 56 Introduction to Mexican History
  • History 8 Introduction to Latin American History
  • History 2B, World History 1000-1700
  • History 156A Colonial Mexico
    Fall 2009 - Conquest to independence
  • History 156B Post-Independence Mexico
    Spring 2010 - Independence to the present era
  • History 156I Indians of Mexico
  • History 201, Advanced Historical Literature
    Selected topics
  • History 158R Religion in Latin America
    Spring 2010. Survey from the colonial era to the present, includes non-Catholic religions
  • History 156DR Directed Readings in Mexican History
  • History 250A Foundations of Latin American History, Colonial Era
    Fall 09 - Historiography of colonial Latin America. Graduate students only
  • History 251 A-B Research Seminar in Latin American History
  • History 256 Topics in Mexican History
  • LAIS 101 History and Societies of Latin America and Iberia
    Commodity chains, globalization, nongovernmental organizations
  • LAIS 201 History and Societies of Latin America and Iberia
    Commoidity chains, globalization, nongrovernmental organizations

Honors and Professional Activities

  • Editorial Board, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos
  • Contributing Editor, Handbook of Latin American Studies, in charge of Mesoamerican Ethnohistory 1983-93
  • Winner, Harold J. Plous Award (outstanding assistant professor at University of California, Santa Barbara) 1986
  • Advisory Board, Orfalea Center for Global and International Stuies, UCSB
  • Faculty Affiliate, Global and International Studies, UCSB
  • Faculty Affiliate, Religious Studies, UCSB
  • Faculty Affiliate, Chican@ Studies, UCSB
  • Faculty Affiliate, Feminist Studies, UCSB
  • Faculty Affiliate and Advisory Committee Member, Latin American and Iberian Studies, UCSB

Administrative Positions

  • Director, Latin American and Iberian Studies Program UCSB 2003-06
  • Chair, Department of History, UCSB 1995-97

Other

  • President, UCSB Faculty Association
  • Volunteer, Santa Barbara Red Cross
  • Volunteer, Heifer International
  • Member, Bishop's Advisory Committee, Saint Michael's University Church, Isla Vista