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Rethinking Early China in Light of the Mawangdui Finds

Many of the archaeological discoveries at Mawangdui have great artistic merit and aesthetic appeal. Beyond these qualities, however, the Mawangdui finds suggest that certain of our assumptions about early China, […]

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 […]