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 1990s, nanotechnology is always linked to California in some fashion. In this talk, McCray will explore how the West Coast version of nanotechnology […]

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 the New York Frontier: an American General Fails to Grasp Victory” (Pat Cohen) 1:30-2 pm: Christos Potamiamos, “The Function of the Roman Spectacle in Ephesos” […]

"Why Should I Join Learned Societies -- AHA, OAH, LASA, MESA, NCPH -- Even Though I Now Can Get Their Journals Free?" This brown-bag talk will be held Wednesday, May 18 at noon in HSSB 4041. Kerber is part president of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the American Studies Association, […]

In the following schedule, the name of the student’s mentor appears in parenthesis and that of the commentator in brackets. 2:30-3 pm: Andrew Seguin, “Forays into the ‘Urban Frontier’: The Beginnings of Gentrification in New York City” (Randy Bergstrom) 3-3:30 pm: Emmett Bloom, “Who’s In Charge? Political Fragmentation in Post-Taliban Afghanistan” (Steve Humphreys) 3:40-4:10 pm: […]

Presidio Chapel at El Presidio de Santa Bárbara SHP123 East Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara, CA Vanessa Crispin-Peralta, adjunct professor of history at Westmont College, will draw upon her doctoral dissertation “Children at the Edge of the Empire: A History of Childhood in Coastal California’s Pueblos and Missions, 1750 – 1850,” to explore the integral […]

At the height of Han expansion, the northern frontier of the Han Empire stretched from northern Korea in the east to the Tengger Desert in the west and onward into Central Asia. In Chinese historical sources, the massive complex of walls built across this region appears as an absolute dividing line between the Chinese and […]

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: Cheyanne Gustason, “Some Like It Haute: the Role of 1930s Hollywood Cinema in the Rise of the U.S. in the International Fashion Industry” (Chuck Wolfe) 1:30-2 pm: Eric Rogers, “A Study of Early […]