Dorian Warren (Department of Political Science/School of International Affairs, Columbia University) specializes in the study of inequality and American politics, focusing on the political organization of marginalized groups. His latest project is an examination of the contrasting fates of community/labor mobilizations against Wal-Mart in Chicago and Los Angeles. This talk is sponsored by the Program […]
The lecture will be from 4:00-5:30 p.m., with a reception afterwards. Mark R. Cohen is the author of Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt; Al-mujtama` al-yahudi fi Misr al-islamiyya fi al-`usur al-wusta (Jewish Life in Medieval Egypt 641-1382); The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi: Leon Modena’s Life of Judah; Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews […]
The research group on Consumers, Commodities and Markets will be discussing Bianca Murillo's paper on colonial Ghana this Friday at 1 p.m. in HSSB 4020. Bianca Murillo will give a short introduction but please read the paper in advance if you can. For a copy of the paper please contact Erika Rappaport. jwil 27.v.08
Ever since Henry Dana wrote about Santa Barbara in Two Years Before the Mast, authors have been drawn to Santa Barbara. The distinguished writers on our panel will discuss the city's rich literary tradition over the past 150 years. The event will be held from 5:30-7:00 p.m. in the Founder's Room at the Granada Theater, […]
The UCSB History Associates and the Department of History will hold the annual awards ceremony and reception on Wednesday, June 4, starting at 4:00 p.m. The event will be held in the McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020).
Graduating History Majors and their families are cordially invited to attend a reception on commencement Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. in HSSB 4020. The commencement ceremony will begin at 1 p.m., on the Faculty Club Green. jwil 24.v.08
Summer Session A runs from June 23 to August 1.Summer Session B runs from August 4 to September 12. For History courses taught during Sessions A and B, see our summer 2008 course schedule. For more information visit UCSB Summer Sessions.
All new History Department Teaching Assistants must attend both morning and afternoon sessions of the Initial Training Meeting. All returning History TAs must attend the afternoon session. For more information contact History Lead TAs Jessica Elliott and Rachel Winslow. jwil 04.viii.2008
Fall instruction begins on Thursday, September 25, 2008.Note that some History syllabi are available for downloading from the History website Courses page prior to the start of the quarter. Also, each instructor's web page (click on their name to get there) has a section "announcements" in the left-hand column. Some instructors post information about waiting […]
Lichtenstein is the author of Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (1995). His current research examines the interplay of the civil rights and labor movements in Florida during the 1940s. hm 9/22