History Department Statement George Floyd’s slow, excruciating, and brutal death on May 25, 2020 has sparked a global uprising. The UCSB History Department grieves and stands in solidarity with colleagues and students on campus and in the community, and with Black people around the world. The Floyd Uprising has, like many Black led movements in the past, launched our reckoning […]
Read moreOn Sunday, June 14th 2020, the History Department held a virtual gradation ceremony to honor our undergrads and PhD students graduating this year. If you weren’t able to attend, you can view the ceremony below!
Read moreThe History Department held their annual awards ceremony over Zoom this year, with campus still closed to in-person meetings. If you weren’t able to attend, you can view the ceremony below. Congratulations to all of our 2020 History Associates and Department of History award recipients!
Read moreHistory Professor Brad Bouley gave a lecture on “The Black Plague, 1346-1351″ that was recorded recently by UCSB Admissions and made available to our incoming students for the coming academic year and their parents. You can view his lecture on the UCSB admissions youtube channel here!
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In honor of Professor Sherene Seikaly‘s thirteen years of service as editor of Arab Studies Journal, the Spring 2020 issue–the final issue under her supervision–has graciously been made open access. You can download the issue in full and read Professor Seikaly’s parting Editor’s Note here.
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Our students are facing unprecedented financial circumstances as a result of the global COVID pandemic. Fellowships and research grants have been cancelled or postponed, leaving many without income for the summer. As one grad student reports, “All potential summer internships in my field were cancelled, and they included a stipend and housing.” Another adds, “I am now faced with the […]
Read moreTo help support students as they face current covid-19 and remote learning challenges, the university has created a new “Student Wellbeing” website. This website includes resources for financial and food insecurity, technology rentals, mental health, physical health, support groups and much more. Please visit the website HERE for more information.
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Professor Evelyne Laurent-Perrault has recently been recognized for her accomplishments on multiple fronts. She received a Faculty Career Development Award and a Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library. Additionally, the volume Demando mi libertad: Mujeres negras y sus estrategias de resistencia en la Nueva Granada, Venezuela y Cuba, 1700-1800, to which Professor Laurent-Perrault […]
Read moreAttention History, History of Public Policy and Law, and Medieval Studies majors! If you will be a senior next year, have at least a 3.5 GPA in the upper division major, and have completed or are currently enrolled in at least 4 upper division history courses, you may be eligible to apply to the 2020-21 History Senior Honors Seminar! The […]
Read moreIn honor of Black History Month, the Journal of American History asked Professor Peniel Joseph of the University of Texas to curate a special on-line issue designed to highlight ten key articles, previously published in the JAH, illuminating the theme, “Black Power, American Democracy, and Dreams of Citizenship.” Among those selected was “Opportunities Found and Lost: Labor, Radicals, and the […]
Read moreWe are happy to announce a brand-new study space in HSSB is now available for student use! Through a collaborative effort between the History Department, HASC, the History Club @ UCSB and the History Grad Student Association, the History Hub is now open for all students to use as a quiet reading and study space on weekdays between the hours of […]
Read moreThe first episode of a podcast that alumna Caitlin Rathe (PhD, 2019) has been a part of creating since August 2018 has gone live! The NEH-funded project, LBJ and the Great Society, tells the story of Johnson’s remarkable domestic policy legacy piecing together oral histories, telephone calls from the White House, and other archival audio sources. The podcast website describes […]
Read moreDoctoral Candidate in Public History, Melissa Barthelemy, was interviewed by CBS News KCAL9 about the Spontaneous Memorials created for Kobe Bryant and the other victims of the helicopter crash near Calabasas that occurred on Sunday January 26th. Check it out here.
Read moreThe Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a pool of qualified temporary lecturers to teach a course (or courses) in History for upcoming openings. The number of positions varies from quarter to quarter and may include summer terms, depending on the needs of the department. Courses needed may include: • Hist 2A, 2B, […]
Read moreThe special issue, “Gender and Intimacy across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” with guest editors Miroslava Chávez-García and Verónica Castillo-Muñoz has just been released! This issue focuses on the primacy of gender and intimacy in the 19th and early 20th C borderlands. Features articles by Celeste R. Menchaca on sexual regulation at the border, Erika Pérez on several generations of the biethnic […]
Read moreProfessor April Haynes, a 2009 PhD graduate of the UCSB History Department, has been awarded the Mellon New Directions Fellowship, which will pay for a two-year research leave and one year of tuition at the London School of Economics. She will work on her next book, Tender Traffic: Intimate Labor Movements, 1790-1860, a study of the interrelations of sex work […]
Read moreThe Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in Middle Period Chinese history, c. 618-1644, to begin July 1, 2020. We welcome applications from scholars who research any aspect of Middle Period Chinese history. We are especially interested in candidates whose work connects with other scholars in the department and […]
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The Organization of American Historians has appointed UCSB Professor Verónica Castillo-Muñoz to its Distinguished Lectureship Program. She will serve as a Distinguished Lecturer until 2022. Congratulations, Dr. Castillo-Muñoz!
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History Associates will kick off the 2019-2020 year with a presentation by UCSB’s Professor Stephan Miescher titled Ghana’s Electric Dreams. It is based on his forthcoming monograph on the history of Ghana’s most ambitious development project, the Volta River Project and the Akosombo Dam, and their importance for the process of nation-building. It will include the showing of part of a […]
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The NEH awarded UCSB History Professor Kate McDonald and her colleague, Prof. David R. Ambaras of NC State University, a $100,000 Level II Digital Humanities Advancement Grant to complete the second edition of their digital spatial history project, Bodies and Structures 2.0 and to create new analytical tools for Scalar, the project’s platform. Congratulations, Kate and David!
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Whether they just want to be more knowledgeable foodies or get inspired to embark on careers as chefs, culinary journalists, or even food reformers, UCSB students can now take a class called the “History of Food.” The enlightening and literally appetizing course was designed about a decade ago by two Department of History professors, Lisa Jacobson and Erika Rappaport, who […]
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The History Honors Senior Thesis Colloquium was a great success this year thanks to Professor Adrienne Edgar and all the students, discussants, friends and family who put so much time and energy into the event. The papers covered a wide range of themes but many examined how race, gender, and political machinations undercut individual rights in the 19th and 20th […]
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The history department welcomed back its alumni on April 26th as part of the campus homecoming event, All Gaucho Reunion. We invited alumni to participate in a lunch and career-panel moderated by the president of our History Club, Veronica Andrade. Four amazing former History undergraduates Avery Barboza (2018), Kilma Lattin (2002), Rebecca Stephens Loman (2006), and Avi Ross (2001) told […]
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Congratulations to Professor Nelson Lichtenstein for winning the Academic Senate’s Faculty Research Lecturer Award. This is a very prestigious award granted to professors for a career of truly superb scholarship, teaching, mentorship and service to the university and profession. A rare prize for a rare person.
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Welcome new minors…..Read here about UC Santa Barbara’s Blum Center’s new minor in Poverty, Inequality and Social Justice. Professor Alice O’Connor, director of the Blum Center and a history professor at UCSB, has been working on creating this minor since 2016.
Read moreThe Latin American and Iberian Studies Program’s undergraduate conference has been featured in the UCSB Current! Check it out here. Several members of the History department faculty are part of the program, including Professor Cecilia Méndez, who is program director. She is featured in the article and discusses why the theme of displacement and migration is a potent one for […]
Read moreProfessor Rappaport’s new book A Thirst for Empire has been chosen as the featured review in the next issue of the American Historical Review. Check it out here!
Read moreCongratulations to Doug Genens, who was recently awarded the 2019 Everett E. Edwards prize for his article “Fighting Poverty in the Fields: Legal Services and the War on Poverty in Rural California,” which is slated for publication in spring 2020. The Edwards prize is given to the best article by a graduate student accepted for publication in Agricultural History in […]
Read moreProfessor De Hart and her book were featured in the online publication of the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts at UCSB. The article details not only the book itself but the long process of writing and publication. Check it out here!
Read moreCongratulations to Stephanie Seketa, a department graduate who has just been hired as the Director of Academic Affairs at Marist College in New York. This position manages college-wide projects (under the office of the Vice President of Academic Affairs) including: academic events such as commencement, convocation, and high-profile lectures; public relations; regulatory compliance and accreditation oversight such as leading faculty in […]
Read moreStudies in Late Antiquity is edited by Prof. Elizabeth DePalma Digeser of the UCSB History Department. Check out the contents of the latest issue below. Studies in Late Antiquity Spring 2019; Vol. 3, No. 1 THE EDITOR Embodying the Past Elizabeth Depalma Digeser Stud Late Antiq 2019; 3.1: 1-3 doi:10.1525/sla.2019.3.1.1 http://sla.ucpress.edu/content/3/1/1 VIEWPOINT ESSAY Advancing Feminism Online: Online Tools, Visibility, and […]
Read moreBoth Professors Cobo and Castillo-Muñoz have been awarded prestigious library fellowships, which is a testament to the quality of their scholarship. Professor Cobo won a yearlong John Carter Brown Library fellowship for his project “The coming of the kingdom: the Muisca, the Catholic Reformation, and the Spanish monarchy in the New Kingdom of Granada.” The John Carter Brown Library, at Brown University, […]
Read moreCongratulations to Tim Paulson, who has accepted a faculty position at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. Tim’s graduate research, which combined economic, labor, social, and environmental history, focused on the history of the American beef cattle industry–from ranch to table–and its place in a changing world economy. In addition to his dissertation, Tim taught courses in three departments, held […]
Read moreUCSB’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.
Read moreCongratulations to Cheryl Jiménez Frei, who just accepted a position in Public History at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, and to Ben Ma, who has accepted a position at the University of Macau after a year-long post-doc at the University of Freiburg in Germany. Future professors Frei and Ma graduated in 2017 under Professors Sarah Cline and Anthony Barbieri-Low, […]
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Professor Eileen Boris is, along with Professor Nupur Chauduri, a winner of the Coordinating Council for Women’s History’s (CCWH) inaugural Rachel Fuchs award. The award recognizes and applauds service to the profession, including mentoring. It is named in honor of the late Rachel Fuchs, who served as President of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, as President […]
Read moreBodies and Structures 1.0: Deep-Mapping Modern East Asian History is now live. The website, a collaboration between Kate McDonald and North Carolina State University professor David Ambaras, is a platform for researching and teaching spatial histories of Japan, its empire, and the larger worlds of which they were a part. It begins from the premise that space and place are fundamental […]
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Read moreA new edition of the Historía newsletter is now available for download. Visit our archive to download the current and past editions.
Read moreThe Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a pool of qualified temporary lecturers to teach a course (or courses) in History for the upcoming openings. The number of positions varies from quarter to quarter and may include Summer terms, depending on the needs of the department. Courses needed may include: • Hist 2A, […]
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Professor Nelson Lichtenstein was featured in a WalletHub piece about the best and worst cities for jobs in California. He was part of a panel of experts who was asked to weigh in on the employment future of California, the challenges that job seekers face and the policies that help to level the playing field for disadvantaged workers.You can find […]
Read moreAnita Guerrini, a Horning Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at Oregon State University and an adjunct professor at UCSB, has won the 2018 Pfizer Award for her book, The Courtiers’ Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2015. Pfizer Book Prize is one of the top awards in […]
Read moreProfessor de Hart’s new book, Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life, is the first full-life biography of the pioneering Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It has been getting a great deal of attention with reviews in Newsday, the Wall Street Journal, and other media outlets. Congratulations on the accomplishment, Professor de Hart!
Read moreErika Rappaport’s new book, A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World (Princeton University Press, 2017), has won the prestigious Jerry Bentley Prize in World History. Professor Rappaport’s book examines how the global tea industry shaped and was shaped by the British empire, as well as the ways in which it helped shaped our modern consumer society. The […]
Read moreThe Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in Early North American history, c. 1700-1830. Appointment begins July 1, 2019. PhD expected at time of appointment or candidate must have completed all requirements for a PhD in History or a related field (or equivalent degree), except the dissertation (or equivalent), […]
Read moreSarah Case and Norah Kassner have curated a UCSB Library exhibition about UCSB forerunner Anna Blake Normal School, which runs until Dec. 20, 2018. See this Aug. 7 UCSB Current news item by Shelly Leachman for more information. As a bonus see also this Feb. 2018 H-Net review of Case’s new book, Leaders of Their Race: Educating Black and White Women […]
Read moreThis notice is provided because of the filing of an application for permanent alien labor certification for the following position: Assistant Professor. Concerned applicants for this position should report to University of California, Santa Barbara Department of History responsible for placing this position. Any person may provide documentary evidence bearing on the application to the attention of the certifying Officer […]
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Congratulations to James F. Brooks, whose French translation of his book Mesa of Sorrows: A History of the Awat’ovi Massacre, was just reviewed in Le Monde. https://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2018/06/21/histoire-massacre-au-sein-du-peuple-hopi_5318705_3260.html
Read moreUCSB History graduate student Brian Griffith has been awarded a 2018-2019 Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research in Italy on his doctoral dissertation, “Bacchus’ Blackshirt: Winemaking and Making Italians in Fascist Italy.” While residing primarily in Rome, he will conduct archival research in Rome and Florence, and he will interview vintners in Tuscany.
Read moreUCSB Emeritus Professor of History, Harold Clark Kirker, died in San Francisco on May 30, 2018, just a few days before his 97th birthday. Professor Kirker, who served in the 10th Mountain Division of the U.S. Army from 1943-45, received his PhD from U.C. Berkeley in 1957. After teaching at M.I.T. for nine years, he served on the faculty at […]
Read moreRudy Guevarra, a 2007 UCSB History PhD, has been named one of two recipients of a 2018 Ford Foundation Senior Fellowship. They give this description of his pathbreaking work: Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., Associate Professor Arizona State University, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation“Aloha Compadre: Latinxs in Hawai’i, 1832-2010” My research over the last eighteen years has focused […]
Read moreThe History Department was saddened by the death of Professor Emeritus Carl Harris on May 14 of this year. Professor Harris, who joined the UCSB history faculty in 1968 and retired in 2011, combined theoretical breadth, innovative social science, and in-depth research in primary sources to produce influential scholarship on the nature and sources of political power in the United […]
Read moreStudies in Late Antiquity is edited by Prof. Elizabeth DePalma Digeser of the UCSB History Department. Check out the contents of the latest issue below. Studies in Late Antiquity Summer 2018; Vol. 2, No. 2 THE EDITOR The Chain of Hermes: Late Ancient Founders and Traditions Elizabeth Depalma Digeser Stud Late Antiq 2018; 2.2: 145-146 doi:10.1525/sla.2018.2.2.145 http://sla.ucpress.edu/content/2/2/145 ARTICLES […]
Read moreLast week, a number of UCSB History graduate students organized and participated in the biannual UCSB Graduate Student Medieval Studies Conference. This year’s conference theme was “The Politics of Pleasure: Social Networking in the Middle Ages.” The planning committee invited a number of scholars from diverse backgrounds to present on the varied ways in which pleasure leisure competition, entertainment, friendly […]
Read moreDr. Holly Roose completed her PhD in History at UCSB last June. Since then, Holly received offers of tenure-track professorships, but she has decided to pursue a higher calling. She is now the Director of UCSB’s Promise Scholar Program. The program guides several hundred students who have extremely high financial need through their university careers. She advises them, makes sure they […]
Read moreProfessor Zheng has just published her monograph The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China with Stanford University Press. China’s 1911 Revolution was a momentous political transformation. Its leaders, however, were not rebellious troublemakers on the periphery of imperial order. On the contrary, they were a powerful political and economic elite deeply entrenched in local society and well-respected both for […]
Read moreProfessor Alagona has been awarded a visiting fellowship for fall, 2018 at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, where he will be working on his next monograph, Menagerie: People and Wildlife in the American City.
Read moreThe UCSB History Department excelled with the most number of donors in the Humanities and Fine Arts during UCSB Give Day 2018. Thank you to everyone who supported our department and our students!
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Professor Miroslava Chavez-Garcia has just published her new monograph, Migrant Longing: Letter Writing Across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, with the University of North Carolina Press. Drawing upon a personal collection of more than 300 letters exchanged between her parents and other family members across the U.S.-Mexico border, Professor Chávez-García recreates and gives meaning to the hope, fear, and longing migrants experienced in […]
Read moreTwo UCSB History faculty — Giuliana Perrone and Sherene Seikaly — have been awarded UC Presidents’ Research Fellowships in the Humanities, which will enable them to spend the 2018-2019 academic year working on their next monographs. Professor Perrone’s project, Reconstructing the Law: Slavery in Post-Emancipation Southern Courts, tells the story of “legal Reconstruction,” which was the process by which all […]
Read moreDavid Baillargeon, who works with Prof. Erika Rappaport on the British colonial empire, has just accepted a position as college fellow at the University of Nottingham. It is a three year research position in which he will be leading a segment of an interdisciplinary collaborative research project funded by the European Research Council entitled “Spaces of Occupation in Twentieth Century […]
Read moreProf. Erika Rappaport’s book A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World was recently awarded the biannual Book Prize at the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies (the PCCBS is an affiliate of the North American Conference on British Studies). A Thirst for Empire previously won the Gourmand award for Best Book on Tea in the World and has received excellent reviews in […]
Read moreProf. Patrick McCray is the newest recipient of the Smithsonian Institution’s Arthur Molella Distinguished Fellowship. The position is offered for 2018-2019 by the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The fellowship was awarded to McCray for his project “Artists as Inventors, Inventors as Artists” which aims to broaden our understanding […]
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This January, history graduate student Caitlin Rathe received funding to start a new organization, Students for Food Justice (SFFJ). Working with fellow history graduate student, Nicky Rehnberg, and partnering with the Blum Center for Sustainable Development and Global Poverty Alleviation, SFFJ aims to expand the conversation around student food insecurity by looking beyond meeting immediate needs. While a lot of attention on campus has […]
Read moreDr. Sarah Case, who is Managing Editor for The Public Historian, published her book Leaders of Their Race: Educating Black and White Women in the New South last year. It has just been reviewed for H-Net. Professor Case has also been invited to be a feature author at the Decatur book festival this coming August/September.
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Read moreSenior Honors Thesis student Zingha Foma has been chosen as the first Parker-Tiampo Family Scholar. The scholarship will support Foma’s research on her senior honors thesis, “The Origin of Dutch African Prints: An Investigation into the history of the Dutch owned African textile company, Vlisco.” The project emerged from her discovery that today Vlisco, a European company, is the […]
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The History Department faculty and students, along with the staff of HASC, and numerous colleagues from around UCSB, mourn the tragic, untimely death of Alan Vu, our beloved undergraduate advisor. Alan brought sunshine wherever he went, was a major problem solver, and always went the extra mile for students and faculty alike. If there is any consolation in this terrible […]
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Gen. George Washington recently made an appearance at UCSB, visiting with the students of Dr. Eric Fenrich’s Colonial and Revolutionary America course (History 161B). Gen. Washington addressed the class, then answered questions ranging from the role of religion in Washington’s life (“It’s private”), to his evolving views on slavery (“I resolved that I could not break a family apart by selling […]
Read moreWith Spring 2018 registration beginning soon, here are some History classes to consider. And, check out our full Spring 2018 schedule of classes. History 9: Introduction to Historical Methods– Hiroshima in History and Memory MWF 2:00-2:50pm, GIRV 2108. Professor Kate McDonald. How has the atomic bombing of Hiroshima been remembered and commemorated in the United States and Japan? This course […]
Read moreProfessor McDonald appears in this week’s edition of the “Meiji at 150” podcast, hosted by Dr. Tristan Grunow at the University of British Columbia. Listen to the podcast here.
Read moreJob # JPF01193 The Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a pool of qualified temporary lecturers to teach a course (or courses) in history for the upcoming openings. The number of positions varies from quarter to quarter and may include Summer terms, depending on the needs of the department. Courses needed may include: • […]
Read moreStudies in Late Antiquity (SLA) is a forum for innovation and reflection on global Late Antiquity (150 – 750 CE) which questions and expands on received models and methods. Primary points of interest include interconnections between the Mediterranean and Africa, Iran, Arabia, the Baltic, Scandinavia, the British Isles, China, India and all of Asia, as well as disrupting the assumed connection […]
Read moreA new study from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences challenges the myth of the underemployed, unhappy humanities graduate. The study analyzed data from the U.S. Census and other government sources, plus Gallup polling of workers nationwide. In contrast to stereotypes about humanities majors, the study reveals that workers with BA degrees in the humanities had a very low unemployment […]
Read moreCongratulations to Sergey Saluschev, who has been awarded a 2018-2019 research fellowship from the American Councils Title VIII Research Scholar Program. Funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (Title VIII), the American Councils Research Scholar Program provides full support for graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars […]
Read moreProfessor Manuel Covo has been awarded a research fellowship at the Huntington Library for the 2018-2019 academic year. During the tenure of the fellowship he will be finishing his first monograph, The Entrepôt of Atlantic Revolutions: Saint Domingue, Commercial Republicanism and the Remaking of the French Empire. This monograph will place the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions within a global context […]
Read moreEmerita Professor Sarah Cline has been appointed to a two year post on the General Council of the Conference on Latin American History
Read moreAnthony Barbieri-Low’s co-authored 2 volume work, Law, State and Society in Early Imperial China (Brill 2015), has been accorded Honorable Mention status in this year’s Patrick D. Hanan Prize for translation from the Association for Asian Studies. The prize is awarded biennially to an outstanding English translation of a significant work in any genre, from any work from any era that […]
Read moreProfessor Juan Cobo Betancourt has won a $15,000 grant from the UC Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) to support his work on a digital archive of texts from Colonial Latin America. Prof. Cobo has co-founded a non-profit foundation devoted to digitizing the holdings of endangered archives and libraries in Colombia, making the results available and accesible online for free, and promoting […]
Read moreA Thirst for Empire, Professor Rappaport’s recent book on how tea shaped the British empire, has won a Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for the Best Book on Tea in the United States and the World. The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards were founded in 1995 by Edouard Cointreau and are the only international competition that features food writing. Every year, they honor […]
Read moreProfessor Brownlee, author of Federal Taxation in America: a History and professor of economic history, appeared this week in the “Taxes” episode of the Washington Post podcast Constitutional. In the episode, he and Joseph Fishkin, professor of law at the University of Texas, Austin, discuss the history of the income tax in the United States in light of Congress’s historic tax reform bill. The […]
Read moreProfessor Hasegawa was recently featured in a cover interview with Rorotoko: Cutting Edge Intellectual Interviews discussing his recently published book on the Russian Revolution, Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution: Mob Justice and Police in Petrograd.
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Erika Rappaport’s new book, A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World garners another major review. This time in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, Holiday Edition. The Sun Never Set on the British Empire, or its Food
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Congratulations to Professor Nancy Gallagher, who was awarded with the Middle Eastern Studies Association Mentoring Award last night! The MESA Mentoring Award was established in 1995 and first given at MESA’s 1996 annual meeting. The award recognizes exceptional contributions retired faculty have made to the education and training of others.
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This Monday, Professor McDonald’s new book Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan was written up in the UCSB Current. Congratulations, Professor McDonald!
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Professor Bouley’s Pious Postmortems: Anatomy, Sanctity and the Catholic Church in Early Modern Europe explores the complex connection between the spiritual and physical realms in Catholicism by exploring the widespread practice of using autopsies in determining sainthood in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The book, which was featured in the UCSB Current, considers the dozens of examinations performed on reputedly holy corpses in […]
Read moreClick here to watch a short interview with Prof. McDonald about her recent book, Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017).
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Professor Miroslava Chavez-Garcia has received the Bolton-Cutter Prize from the Western History Association for the best article in Spanish Borderlands history for her piece “Migrant Longing, Courtship, and Gendered Identity in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” which appeared in the Western Historical Quarterly. Congratulations, Professor Chavez-Garcia!
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Professor Hasegawa has added to his impressive list of publications The February Revolution, Petrograd, 1917. It is the most comprehensive book on the epic uprising that toppled the tsarist monarchy and ushered in the next stage of the Russian Revolution. Professor Hasegawa presents in detail the intense drama of the nine days of the revolution, including the workers’ strike, soldiers’ revolt, the […]
Read moreCrime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution Mob Justice and Police in Petrograd Tsuyoshi Hasegawa “This book makes a fundamental contribution to our understanding of the Russian Revolution by revealing the violent, chaotic lived experience of the revolution in the capital city. In a narrative full of colorful characters and stories, Hasegawa gives us a street-level view of the collapse […]
Read moreStephan Miescher, along with Javiera Barandiaran (Global Studies), Mona Damluji (Film and Media Studies), David Pellow (Environmental Studies), and Janet Walker (Film and Media Studies) has been awarded, by the Andrew F. Mellon Foundation, a yearlong grant to support a Sawyer Seminar on “Energy Justice in Global Perspective” for the 2018-19 academic year. Sawyer Seminars aim to engage productive scholars […]
Read moreJob #JPF01087 About: The Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in Modern South Asian history, c. 1500-Present. Appointment begins July 1, 2018. The minimum requirement to be considered an applicant is to have either a PhD at time of appointment or to have completed all requirements for a PhD in History […]
Read moreSecondary-level female education played a foundational role in reshaping women’s identity in the New South. In Leaders of Their Race: Educating Black and White Women in the New South, Sarah H. Case examines the transformative processes involved at two Georgia schools–one in Atlanta for African American girls and young women, the other in Athens and attended by young white women […]
Read more9/21/17 update: On Friday October 13 there will be a book launch with Prof. Rappaport and guest speakers, in UCSB Theater-Dance West 1701 auditorium, from 5 to 7pm. Recent books have revealed how certain commodities, such as sugar and cotton–and now tea–have shaped the global economy and the rise of mass consumerism. Tea has been one of the most popular […]
Read moreIn addition to Prof. Kate McDonald’s first book, a study on travel in imperial Japan, and Prof. Hal Drake’s examination of miracles in the fourth century Roman empire, summer and fall 2017 will see the publication of Prof. Erika Rappaport’s A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World and Prof. Toshi Hasegawa’s Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution: Mob […]
Read moreProfessor Drake’s new book offers a fresh examination of a complex polytheistic period in Roman history, surveying a wide range of faiths and belief systems during this eventful century. It offers a thoroughly researched assessment of the supernatural and its sociological and cultural effects on history down to the present. Contemporary readers engaged in religious discourse will find the analysis […]
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We are happy to announce that Prof. Kate McDonald’s new book, Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan is now available in paperback and ebook from UC Press. Placing Empire examines the spatial politics of Japanese imperialism through a study of Japanese travel and tourism to Korea, Manchuria, and Taiwan between the late nineteenth century and the […]
Read more“Confederate Monuments Always Embodied a White Heritage of Hate” in Haaretz, Aug. 17, 2017 The coupling of neo-Nazism with neo-Confederate hate displayed in Charlottesville has helped strip away the thin veneer of states’ rights, military valor and Southern pride from the fundamental truth of the Lost Cause.
Read moreProf. Mhoze Chikowero is a featured correspondent in the June 20, 2017 issue of The Herald, Zimbabwe’s largest daily newspaper. Click here to read Prof. Chikowero’s essay on Cde Dickson “Chinx” Chingaira, a leading Chimurenga (“liberation” in the Shona language) musician and veteran of Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle. The essay draws from Prof. Chikowero’s recent book, African Music, Power, and Being […]
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Andy Chen, a triple major in Medieval Studies, Classics, and Linguistics, is one of two undergraduates to win this year’s Chancellor’s Award in Undergraduate Research. Andy wrote a History Senior Honors thesis on religion and warfare in the Byzantine Empire during the 9th-12th centuries AD. Click here to read the full story.
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