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The “Myth” of the Weak American State

Professor Novak, who is also a research professor at the American Bar Foundation, works in the fields of U.S. legal, political, and intellectual history. His first book first book, The […]

Biribi: The Penal Colonies of the French Army

Biribi is nowadays a forgotten and incomprehensible word for most people in France. But it was a well-known name in the late nineteenth and in the first half of the […]

Global Femicide and the Disappearance of Women in Juarez

The program includes:20 minute movie clip from Senorita Extraviada Panel: Professor Hobson, Graduate Student Sara Watkins, and members from Mujeres de Juarez Snacks will be provided UCSB History grad student […]

Seminar by Stephen Humphreys (UCSB History)

Seminar by Stephen Humphreys (UCSB History), 12:00-1:00 PM in HSSB 4020 "Christian Communities and Muslim Rule in Early Islamic Syria and Mesopotamia (634-1070)". Sponsored by the Medieval Studies Program and […]

Environment Now: The Rebirth of Environmentalism

The 2009-10 Critical Issues in American topic is "Forty Years after the Big Spill - Looking Back, Looking Ahead: 21st Century Environmental Challenges in a Global Context." Led by Dehlsen […]

Excavations at the Burial Tumulus of Lofkënd in Albania

Between 2004 and 2008 UCLA archaeologists and their Albanian collaborators excavated one of the last remaining undisturbed prehistoric burial mounds in Albania. Dating from the Late Bronze and Early Iron […]