Tim Pauketat is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Religion, violence, and political centralization are all entangled in larger fields of human experience, perception, and agency. The […]

Dear Faculty and Graduate Student Colleagues, You are cordially invited to a discussion with Stephen Aron (UCLA), a co-author of a new world history textbook. The event will be on […]

Ingrid Banks, Professor of Black Studies at UCSB, will discuss her multi-city, fourteen-month ethnographic study that examines black beauty salon culture. These events are part of Race, Place, and Power, […]

This George Wittenstein lecture will be given by Amir Eshel, Stanford University:"History as a Gift: Postwar German Literature and the Quest for the Past" Tuesday, May 20, at 5 pm, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]