Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

History Club Weekly Meetings
2019-07-11 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-07-04 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-06-27 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-06-20 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-06-13 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-06-06 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-05-30 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-05-23 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) and 5 more dates | HSSB 4020
UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions.

Undergraduate Commencement Reception
2019-06-16 13:30 - 14:30 | HSSB 4020
The Department of History would like to invite you to the annual Undergraduate Commencement Reception taking place on Sunday, June 16th from 1:30-2:30pm in HSSB 4020. This event prior to the commencement ceremony is an opportunity for faculty, graduates, and their families to celebrate together! Light appetizers will be provided.

Please fill out this RSVP form no later than June 6th.

History of Public Policy Senior Research Colloquium
2019-06-07 09:30 - 15:30 | HSSB 4020
You are cordially invited to this year’s History of Public Policy Student Research Colloquium
Friday, June 7, in HSSB 4020. Welcome and breakfast will open festivities from 9:30- 10:00, followed by four sessions of History of Public Policy Senior thesis presentations and a session of research from the Seminar on Work, Labor, and Democracy, sixteen presentations in all, with your questions and comments encouraged. The schedule is attached; please plan to stop by as time allows!

Colloquium Schedule of Presentations

History Department Awards Ceremony
2019-06-05 16:00 - 19:00 | HSSB 6020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States

Talk by Kathryn Sklar, Berkeley, CA: "The Social Origins of Minimum Wage."
2019-05-24 13:00 - 15:00 | hssb 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States
Sklar, who taught history for many years at SUNY Binghamton, is author of Catharine Beecher: a Study in American Domesticity (1973) and Florence Kelley and the Nation’s Work: The Rise of Women’s Political Culture, 1830-1900 (1995), both of which received the Berkshire Prize. She has received fellowships from the Ford, Rockefeller, Goggenheim, and Mellon Foundations, as well as from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for Advanced Study in the Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Talk by Doug Genens, UCSB: "From Farm to Tourist Trap: Tourism as a Rural Development Strategy"
2019-05-17 13:00 - 15:00 | HSSB 4041
Genens, a PhD candidate in the UCSB department of history, is writing a dissertation on the varieties of rural development in the United States after World War II.

Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium
2019-05-17 08:30 - 17:00 | HSSB 4020
The students of this years History Senior Honors Thesis course will present their research in front of faculty, peers, and friends. All are welcome! Please see the schedule of presentations below:
8:30 a.m. Coffee and Pastries
9:00 a.m. Welcome
Professor Erika Rappaport, Chair of the History Department
Professor Adrienne Edgar, Director of the 2018-2019 Senior Honors Seminar
Session I (9:15-10:45) Race and Ethnicity
Ciaran Hiney (Spickard) “Resilient Beyond Measure: Japanese-American Coping Mechanisms During WWII Internment.”
Discussant: Prof. Kate McDonald
Jeffrey Kaplan (Bergstrom) “To Mislead and Misrepresent: The Failure of the Ninth Census.”
Discussant: Prof. Giuliana Perrone
Ashlynn Deu Pree (Spickard) “White by Association: The Mixed Marriage Policy of Japanese American Internees”
Discussant: Mika Thornburg
Coffee break (10:45-11:00)
Session II (11:00-12:30) Foreign Policy and Law
Noah Fleishman (Amihay) “Carter’s Middle Eastern Policy and the Egypt-Israel Peace Agreement”
Discussant: Prof. Salim Yaqub
Shervin Rafie (Yaqub) “The Eisenhower Doctrine in Syria: Intervention Behind the Scenes.”
Discussant: Dr. Munther al-Sabbagh
Calvin Chiu (Kalman) “How to Lose a Supreme Court Nominee in 115 Days: The Story of the Robert Bork Confirmation and its Legacy Today”
Discussant: Prof. Randy Bergstrom
Lunch Break (12:30-1:30)
Session III 1:30-3:00 Colonialism and Eugenics
Nicholas Papazyan (Chavez Garcia) “The Darkest Chapter in the Golden State: A Legal History of Coerced Eugenic Sterilization in California”
Discussant: Prof. Laura Kalman
Julia Madden-Fulk (Bergstrom) “From ‘Early Days’ to Alcatraz: A History of Native American Engagement with Public Space in California, 1890-present.”
Discussant: Prof. Ann Plane
James Paules (Chikowero) “One Tide, Separate Shores: Towards a Delocalized Colonial Studies”
Discussant: Prof. Stephan Miescher
Coffee break (3:00-3:15)
Session IV (3:15-4:45) Education and Public Policy
Sarah Kinane (Rappaport) “How Reagan Starved Children: The History of California’s School Lunches under the Reagan Administration.”
Discussant: Prof. Lisa Jacobson
Chelsea Borg (Lichtenstein) “Unpaid Interns: ‘Breaking Persistent Barriers’ without Employee Status and Anti-Discrimination Protections?”
Discussant: Nora Kassner
Kristina Ruvalcaba (Lichtenstein) “The Pacific Research Institute’s Influence on Labor, Education, and Healthcare.”
Discussant: Prof. Alice O’Connor

Talk by Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace"
2019-05-15 16:00 - 17:30 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States

Talk by April Haynes, University of Wisconsin: "'Sold by her Own Desire': Intimate Labor, Commodification, and Resistance in Female Intelligence Offices, 1810-1850."
2019-05-10 13:00 - 15:00 | hssb 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States
Haynes is the author of Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-century America (2015) and the forthcoming Tender Traffic: Intimate Labors in the Early American Republic. She is the chair of the Program in Gender and Women’s History at the University of Wisconsin.

Talk by Nadia Yaqub, "Towards a Palestinian Third Cinema"
2019-05-08 16:00 - 17:30 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States

Talk by Juan Carlos Estenssoro, "The inescapable Indian"
2019-05-07 16:00 - 19:00 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join us for a lecture by Juan Carlos Estenssoro, entitled “The inescapable Indian: Yungas, chunchos and serranos in the geographical, social and pictorial imaginings of Peru, 16th through 18th centuries.”
Juan Carlos Estenssoro is an historian and professor of Iberian and Latin American Studies at l’Université Paris, where he also directs the Center for Research on Colonial Spanish America (CRAEC). ** The lecture will be delivered in Spanish with consecutive English translation from 4:00 to 5:30 pm. After a short break, it will be followed by an extended Q and A session until 7:00 pm.
** The event is organized by the History Department and the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, and cosponsored by the Office of the Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts. It is free and open to the public.

Book Launch: Juan Cobo Betancourt and Natalie Cobo's "The legislation of the archdiocese of Santafé"
2019-05-06 17:00 - 19:00 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join the Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies and the Department of History to celebrate the publication of Juan Cobo Betancourt and Natalie Cobo’s new book, La legislación de la arquidiócesis de Santafé en el periodo colonial [The legislation of the archdiocese of Santafé in the colonial period] (Bogotá: Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia, 2018).
The book will be presented, in Spanish, by Juan Carlos Estenssoro, professor and director of the Center for Research on Colonial Spanish America of the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, who will be visiting our campus for this purpose, and Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi, associate professor of History and director of the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program at UCSB. The panel will be moderated by Juan Pablo Lupi, associate professor of in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCSB.
The event is cosponsored by the Department of Classics and the Office of the Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts. It is free and open to the public and will be followed by a dinner reception.
The event will be conducted in Spanish, in line with the LAIS Program policy of promoting the the use of languages other than English on campus events, in an effort linguistically to diversify our academic culture.
About the authors:
Juan Cobo Betancourt is assistant professor of history at UCSB. His research focuses on questions of race, language, law, and religion in the New Kingdom of Granada, and seek to situate the study of this region in a broader geographic and temporal context, while taking advantage of the region’s distinctive position to explore key themes in early modern social and cultural history.
Natalie Cobo is an historian and translator of early modern Latin texts. She completed her BA and MPhil in Classics at the University of Cambridge, and is currently a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford, where she focuses on questions of religion, law, and ethnology in the 16th and 17th-century Philippines. She is also translating the second volume of Juan de Solórzano y Pereira’s De Indiarum Iure, entitled De gubernatione (1629) from Latin into Spanish and English at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History.
They are both co-founders of Fundación Histórica Neogranadina, a Colombian non-profit foundation devoted to rescuing, preserving, and sharing Latin America’s historical manuscripts and early printed books through digitization, and promoting the development of digital humanities projects in the region (https://neogranadina.org).
About the guest discussant:
Juan Carlos Estenssoro is an historian and professor of Iberian and Latin American Studies at l’Université Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle, where he also directs the Center for Research on Colonial Spanish America (CRAEC) . He is one of the world leading specialists in colonial Andean society, religion, music, and art, and the author of serval award winning books and articles. His pathbreaking book Del paganismo a la santidad: La incorporación de los indios del Perú al catolicismo (1532-1750) (Lima, 2003), is considered a classic. Other books include Música y sociedad coloniales: Lima 1680-1830 (Lima, 1989), and, with other collaborators, La Música en el Perú (1985, 1989, 2007).
About the book:
The Catholic Church played a central role in shaping how early modern Spaniards arranged their own lives and attempted to transform those of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and the Philippines to suit their vision of civilization. The early years of Iberian colonialism also coincided with a period of profound transformation within the Catholic Church — catalysed by the Reformation — which sought to centralize and homogenize its own practices. Because the reforms introduced by the Church in this period, spearheaded by the Council of Trent, were orientated towards the situation in Europe, ecclesiastics in the New World, who confronted a vastly different range of issues, had great freedoms to adapt and develop the spirit of these changes to local circumstances. A key way in which they did so was through the production of ecclesiastical legislation, whether issued individually by bishops or in assemblies of clerics such as synods and provincial councils.
This book contains the first critical edition of all of the ecclesiastical legislation promulgated during the colonial period in the archdiocese of Santafé in the New Kingdom of Granada, a vast region covering much of the territory of modern-day Colombia. It brings together the constitutions of the first and second synod of Santafé, of 1556 and 1606, the influential Catechism and instructions of fray Luis Zapata de Cárdenas, composed in 1576, and the never before published constitutions of the first and only provincial council held there during the colonial period, in 1625. This legislation was essential to the development of the Church in the region, and particularly the evangelization of indigenous people, and therefore provides key insights into how colonial society was constructed and consolidated in this period. Moreover, because the authors of these texts worked not in isolation but by drawing on a multitude of legal, theological, and pastoral sources that originated in different places and moments, in a complex process of translation and adaptation, the book explores what these texts reveal about how knowledge and ideas circulated in the early modern world, and the place that the New Kingdom of Granada occupied in the networks of exchange and communication that connected it.
This edition, with an extensive introduction, critical apparatus, and a translation into Spanish of Latin texts, aims to make these important sources available to a much broader community of scholars in order to open this field to new research.

Talk by James T. Sparrow, University of Chicago. "Boundaries of the Firm, State, and Nation: the Problem of Public Utility in the American Century."
2019-05-03 13:00 - 15:00 | HSSB 4041
Sparrow is the author of Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government (2011) and co-editor of Boundaries of the State in US History (2015). His current projects include Sovereign Discipline: the American Extraterritorial State in the Atomic Age and New Leviathan: Rethinking Sovereignty and Political Agency after Total War.

Criminalizing Immigrant Families: Race, Gender, and Family Separations at the U.S.-Mexico Border
2019-05-03 09:30 - 17:30 | Loma Pelona Conference Center, Loma Pelona Center, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Race and gender have shaped the law, public policy, and the emotional and physical experiences of migration throughout history. At the present moment, however, shifting patterns of migration and the current administration’s use of family separation as a deterrent has led to an intense struggle to define migration, the migrant, and the family. This conference explores these struggles on both sides of the border from historical and contemporary perspectives.

9:30: Welcome Addresses
Charles Hale (Dean of Social Sciences, UCSB)
Erika Rappaport (Chair of the Department of History, UCSB)
Veronica Castillo-Muñoz (History, UCSB)
10:00-12:15: “Border Families: Violence and Separations”
Chair: Veronica Castillo-Muñoz (History, UCSB)
Leisy Abrego (UCLA, Chicana/o Studies)
Central Americans as Criminals and Crisis:
The Legal Violence of Family Separations at the US-Mexico Border
Natalia Molina (Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California)
The Birth of the “Anchor Baby”: The Decoupling of Race and Citizenship for Mexican Americans
Veronica Montes (Bryn Mawr College, Department of Sociology)
Stranded in Tijuana: The Central American Caravan at the Closed Gate of the US-Mexico Border
Robert Irwin (UC Davis, Spanish)
Criminality, Paternity, Feelings: Testimonial Narratives from the Streets of Tijuana
12:15 – 2:00: Lunch and Keynote Talk
Immigration Research at UCSB: Confronting Local Concerns, Federal Policies and Global Problems
Edward Telles, UCSB Department of Sociology
2:15-3:45: “Scholarship as Resistance”
Chair: Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval (UCSB, Chicana and Chicano Studies)
Ana Y. Guerrero (UCSB, Department of Education)
“Como la Monarcha: A Journey to a PhD“
Monica Cornejo (UCSB, Department of Communication)
Experiences of an Undocumented Scholar in Research and the Academic Environment
Ana Guerrero Gallegos (UCSB Alumni, Chicano Studies and History)
Opposing an Image: Immigration and Resistance in the San Fernando Valley
3:45-4:00: Coffee Break
4:00-5:30
“Deportations and the Law in the Age of Trump”
Chair: Alice O’Connor
(UCSB History and the Blum Center for Global Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development)
Joseph Huprich (Immigration attorney, Huprich and Vega)
Vivek Mittal (Managing Attorney UC Immigrant Service Center)
Anahi Mendoza (Executive Directory, Santa Barbara County Immigrant Legal Defense Center)

Atheism and Unbelief in the Protestant Atlantic World, c. 1558 - c. 1776, Patrick Seamus McGhee, University of Cambridge. LUNCH PROVIDED
2019-05-02 13:00 - 14:30 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
MCGHEE FLYER MAY 2 12-1-30

History Department Alumni Career Panel and Luncheon
2019-04-27 12:00 - 14:00 | HSSB 1173 and Couryard, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Former History Majors are returning to UCSB to talk about their career paths and choices.
Please join us for the panel and lunch and mingle with faculty, alumni and current majors.

Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture by Audra J. Wolfe: "Science, Freedom, and the Cold War: a Political History of Apolitical Science"
2019-04-17 16:00 - 18:00 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
As a part of the Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture Series, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center presents Audra J. Wolfe on the development of so-called apolitical science.
Why do so many U.S. scientists continue to lean on the language of apolitical science, even as political leaders display less and less interest in scientists’ claims to expertise, or even the existence of facts? In a new book, Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science, historian Audra J. Wolfe suggests the answer lies in Cold war propaganda.
From the late 1940s through the late 1960s, the U.S. foreign policy establishment saw a particular way of thinking about scientific freedom as essential to winning the global Cold War. Throughout this period, the engines of U.S. propaganda amplified, circulated, and, in some cases, produced a vision of science, American style, that highlighted scientists’ independence from outside interference and government control. Working (both overly and covertly, wittingly and unwittingly) with governmental and private organizations, U.S. scientists tried to come to terms with the meanings of “scientific freedom” and “U.S. ideology.” More often than not, they ended up defining scientific values as the opposite of Communist science.
Science, in this view, was apolitical.
The Cold War ended long ago, but the language of science and freedom continues to shape public debates over the relationship between science and politics in the United States.
Audra J. Wolfe, Ph.D. is a Philadelphia-based writer, editor, and historian. She is the author of Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science (2018) and Competing with the Soviets: Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America (2013). Her articles have appeared in both scholarly and more popular venues, including the Washington Post, The Atlantic.com, Slate, and the popular podcast American History Tellers.
Wolfe holds a Ph.D. in the History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania (2002). Previously, she studied biochemistry and chemistry at Purdue University (B.S., 1997). She has taught courses on Cold War science as well as science and the media at the University of Pennsylvania. As a publishing professional, Wolfe has worked at the University of Pennsylvania Press, Rutgers University Press, and the Chemical Heritage Foundation, where she additionally served as executive producer for an award-winning podcast, Distillations. Her editorial and publishing consulting company, The Outside Reader, supports the work of scholars and scholarly publishers.

Talk by Lily Geismer, Claremont McKenna College. "'The Perfect Model for the 1990s': Community Development Banking, Market-Based Solutions, and Democratic Neoliberalism"
2019-04-12 13:00 - 15:00 | HSSB 4041
Geismer is currently working on her second book, Doing Good: the Democrats and Neoliberalism from the War on Poverty to the Clinton Foundation. She is co-editor of Shaped by the State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century (2019) and author of Don’t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party (2015)
You can find a copy of the paper Professor Geismer will present here.
