Fast Facts About CCWS 

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CCWS is a leading international center dedicated to the study of the Cold War era. It promotes discussion and scholarship on topics related to the study of the Cold War, broadly conceived.

» Founded in 1994 as COWHIG (the Cold War International History Group) by Profs. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa and Fredrik Logevall (Dr. Logevall is now at Cornell University).

» Established as the Center for Cold War Studies (CCWS) at UC Santa Barbara on 19 November 2002. Affiliated with IHC (the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center) and the UCSB Department of History.

» CCWS is led by co-directors Tsuyoshi Hasegawa and Salim Yaqub, both UCSB history faculty members and specialists on Soviet and US-Middle East foreign relations, respectively.

» CCWS is located at the University of California, Santa Barbara, which is in Santa Barbara, California (about 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles). UCSB is a member of the ten-campus University of California system and one of 62 members of the Association of American Universities.

» CCWS members include UCSB faculty and graduate students as well as affiliated members from other institutions.

» CCWS is affiliated with the LSE (London School of Economics and Political Science) through a graduate student exchange agreement (signed in 2003). .

CCWS…

» …sponsors annual graduate student conferences on the Cold War with GWCW (the George Washington Cold War Group) (since 2003), LSE (since 2005), and Cambridge University (since 2005).

» …organizes a quarterly film series, the "Films of the Cold War," open to the general public free of charge. Films include a scholarly introduction and post-screening open discussion.

» …hosts international conferences on key topics such as the impact of Stalin's death on the Cold War (2000), the end of the Pacific War and the role of the atomic bomb on Japan's surrender (2001), and the relationship between Asia and the Cold War (2005-2007).

» …promotes scholarly exchanges through quarterly public lectures by distinguished visiting faculty, and by hosting scholars-in-residence.

» …seeks to improve high school and undergraduate teaching of Cold War-related issues through summer workshops (see our teaching site, coldwarclassroom.org, for further details).

» …works to promote graduate study of the Cold War through quarterly paper workshops and by building scholarly contacts with other institutions.

» CCWS is seeking both permanent funding support as well as funding for individual projects. Please contact the UCSB Development Office if interested in financially supporting the Center and its activities.

 

Contents Above Last Updated 2006/08/11