UCSB History Department’s Annual Senior Honors Colloquium

Please join the History Department in celebrating the undergraduates at the Department’s Annual Senior Honors Colloquium 2023. The program can be downloaded here.

9:00 AM – Welcoming Remarks

• Stephan Miescher, Chair, History Department
• Debra Blumenthal, Director of 2022-23 Senior Honors Seminar

9:10-10:40 – Panel I – Women and Politics Across Time and Space

• Cole Grissom, “Severing the Old Order: The Involvement of Women in the Politics of Ancient Rome’s Severan Dynasty.” (Mentor: Beth Digeser, History)
  • Comment: Misa Nguyen, History
• Madeline Josa, “Ladies’ Magazines: Women’s Fashion as Politics in Georgian England” (Mentor: Erika Rappaport, History)
  • Comment: Lisa Jacobson, History
• Raana Naghieh, “Dudes, Prudes, and Statute Moralists Had Better Not Read This: PR, Feminism, and Nineteenth Century ‘Sex Radicalism’ (Mentor: Steve Zipperstein, History)
  • Comment: Pat Cohen, Professor Emerita, History

10:45 – 12:15 – Panel II – The Global Early Modern

• Nichole Poblete, “Treating the Body Politic: Epidemics and Spanish Colonial Rule in the Early Modern Philippines” (Mentor: Juan Cobo, History)
  • Comment: Brad Bouley, History

• Samuel Ricci, “Mirror in the Maghrib.  Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Early Modern European Captivity Narratives” (Mentor: Brad Bouley, History)
  • Comment: Adam Sabra, History

• Wei Cui, “Agents and Agency in Japanese Daimyo Foreign Trade: Kyushu in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century” (Mentor: Luke Roberts, History)
  • Comment: Ya Zuo, History

12:15 – 1:30 PM – LUNCH

1:30-2:30 – Panel III: The Immigrant Experience

• Keren Zou, “Obliterated People, Chinese Gold: Chinese Immigrants, Resistance and Resilience in Pacific Coast Fishery, 1882-1930” (Mentor: Xiaojian Zhao, Asian-American Studies) 
  • Comment: Donna Anderson, History

• Gina Kim, ““Twisted Tongues’ Take the Stand: Legal Advocacy and Education Reform for National Origin Minorities in California, 1931-1997” (Mentor: Miroslava Chavez, History)
  • Comment: Randy Bergstrom, History

2:30-4:00   Panel IV: Building Community in the 20^th Century US

• Logan Cimino, “Del Webb, Corporate Development and the Building of the Landscape of Mass Consumption in the Postwar American Southwest” (Mentor: Erika Rappaport)
  • Comment: Alice O’Connor, History

• Emma Barrera, “The Forgotten Crusader: Dr. Dorothy Ferebee and her career as a public health activist” (Mentor: Holly Roose, History)
  • Comment: Sarah Case, History

• Marisol Cruz, “En La Vida: A Glimpse into the Life of Queer Latine Folks in Chicago during the 1990s” (Mentor: Jarett Henderson, History)
  • Comment: Viviana Valle Gomez, Feminist Studies