Carolyn de la Pena is a professor of American Studies. Sponsored by the Food Studies Research Focus Group and the History Department. hm 4/26/11

The battle over plans to build a Muslim religious center near ground zero has thrown into sharp relief anti-Muslim rhetoric that contradicts American values of religious tolerance. This panel will […]

Please join us for a talk by Tom Juravich, Sociology and Labor Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. "The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century." Juravich is a labor […]

Between 1904 and 1914, the United States built the Panama Canal, an ambitious engineering project undertaken in the shadow of the French failure two decades earlier. The French experience taught […]

Eva Golinger will discuss the Bolivarian project for participatory democracy in Venezuela that has occurred through the empowerment of the country's poor majority during the last decade. As an advisor […]

This documentary explores the historical accounts of migrant Mexican farm workers brought into the U.S. from 1942 to1964 under the temporary contract worker program known as the Bracero Program to […]

Presidio Chapel at El Presidio de Santa Bárbara SHP123 East Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara, CA Independent scholar Vladimir Guerrero is author of the book The Anza Trail and the […]

Please join us for a talk by Reuel Schiller, University of California, Hasting College of Law. “Civil Rights Protest and Labor Union Autonomy: The 1966 Hilton Hotel Protests and the […]

Despite its seeming newness, nanotechnology already has many different historical narratives. From seminal speeches at the start of the Space Age to futuristic imaginings in the 1980s to industrial commercialization […]

In the following schedule, the name of the student’s mentor appears in parenthesis and that of the commentator in brackets. 1-1:30 pm: Benjamin Lopez, “The Sullivan Campaign of 1779 and […]