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This pages offers links to news and blogs about how online courses are being developed at UC. Feb. 20, 2013, Chronicle of Higher Education: “Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course […]

POSITION OVERVIEWPosition title: Assistant Professor in Twentieth-Century Mexico Salary range: A reasonable estimate for this position is $82,200 – $111,800 Applicants that currently hold a senate faculty position at another […]

Professor 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 […]

Prof. Digeser Distinguished Teaching, Prof. Spickard Outstanding Graduate Mentor, and Lily Welty Outstanding Teaching Assistant. Three UCSB Historians have won campus-wide outstanding teaching awards for 2007-2008. Professor Elizabeth Digeser won […]

In 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 […]

The History Department welcomes its 7 newest members! Standing (l. to r.): Eun Ah Kim, Annette Kassis, Joshua Rocha, Hanni Jalil, Director of Graduate Studies Sharon Farmer, History Chair John […]

 Paola De La Cruz Paola de la Cruz, a History of Public Policy major, has received the Thomas More Storke Award for Excellence, which is the campus’s highest student honor […]

With news about many recent faculty and graduate student awards and accolades The new issue of Historia, the UCSB History Department’s newsletter for alumni and supporters, is now available for […]

UCSB alum Jacob Darwin Hamblin is the most recent winner of the Watson and Helen Miles Davis Prize from the History of Science Society. The prize – awarded for the […]

Prof. 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 […]

updated June 17, 2012 Congratulations to graduate students who have won national fellowships and awards, and to our alumni as they move up the career ladder! Niccole Coggins (Prof. Spickard) […]

Stephan 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 […]

Professor Sherene Seikaly has won this year’s prestigious Plous Award from UCSB’s Academic Senate. Established in 1957, and named after Harold J. Plous, an Assistant Professor in UCSB’s Department of Economics, […]

The full text is available in this News item.>br> UCSB History Ph.D. Elizabeth “Ellie” Shermer (homepage) was the 2009 commencement speaker at the June 14 ceremony for those receiving graduate […]

It was voted no. 1 of 2014 publications by leading scholars of Peruvian history Prof. Cecilia Méndez’s book La República Plebeya: Huanta y la formación del Estado Peruano, 1820-1850 (Lima: […]

Dr. Stephanie Seketa, who recently earned her PhD from the History Department in the field of Modern Britain, has published an article in the journal Enterprise & Society. You can […]

This list of publications gives a sample of the interesting and innovative research produced by historians at UCSB. (note: missing from the photograph is Prof. Lee’s A Greek Army on […]

Listen to the podcast by Professor Sherene Seikaly as part of the Ottoman History Podcast series. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230675809″ params=”color=ff5500″ width=”100%” height=’166′ iframe=”true” /]

HIST 209B: The Academic Profession of History, Prof. Cohen, Spring 2012 The class will meet Thursdays from 11 to 1. Listed below are weekly topics as I’ve done them in […]

UCSB Professor Emerita Sarah Cline published a reflection on the life and career of UCSB Professor Francis A. Dutra in the American Historical Association’s Perspectives newsmagazine. Dr. Dutra was an […]

“Education gets pounded on a lot… As local educators we need to redeem history by coming together with the community, sink our teeth into the truths of history, and to […]

Dr. Verónica Castillo-Muñoz has just published, The Other California: Land, Identity and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands with the University of California Press. The Other California is the story of working-class communities and […]

Thanks to all who came to celebrate Larry’s life on October 3, 2010 Our friend and colleague Larry Badash passed away on August 23, 2010, just a few weeks after […]

With 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 […]

Speakers explore how cultural and political commitments shape people’s experience of their own biology. Details on the events listed here are posted in the Events calendar listing of this website. […]

In fact, UC campuses including UCSB regularly offer both U.S. History and Western Civilization courses. Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum recently sent a letter to MSNBC anchor Rachael Maddow […]

“Why did Japan surrender? Sixty-six years ago, we dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima. Now, some historians say that’s not what ended the war.” Boston Globe, Aug. 7, 2011 An […]

Prof Kalman remarks on portrayal of LBJ; others quoted in Jan. 2015 UCSB Current Several critics of the recently released film Selma have remarked that the portrayal of President Johnson […]

Until now, all History majors have had to take a Proseminar course (with a “P” in its course number). Starting in Fall 2007, new courses with “DR” (Directed Readings) in […]

Author of The Visioneers says “breakthroughs” aren’t always recognized at the time. ‘McCray, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, says revolutionary discoveries don’t necessarily announce themselves when they happen. […]

2014 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize recognizes history of science books accessible to a general audience. The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, […]

Alumni and supporter newsletter reports on the end-of-year awards garnered by undergrads, grads and faculty In this issue: –Chinatown event set for June 13 –Honors for Sarah Cline and Paul […]

The Hopi community of Awat’ovi existed peacefully on Arizona’s Antelope Mesa for generations until one bleak morning in the fall of 1700—raiders from nearby Hopi villages descended on Awat’ovi, slaughtering […]

Two 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 […]

Nine new students joined the History graduate program this Fall.We extend a warm welcome to our newest colleagues! The 2013-14 entering class of grad students in the UCSB History Department: […]

Professor 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 […]

History 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 […]

While teaching World History (History 2A) during the last few years, I have been experimenting with various historical games or simulations that might make the study of the ancient world […]

Historical comparison of tactics used to resist desegregation and Affordable Care Act OP-ED Obamacare: New fight, old tactics Opponents of the healthcare law are following in the footsteps of Southern […]

UC Santa Barbara Public Affairs asked faculty, staff, and students to reflect on Asian and Pacific Islander American (AAPI) Heritage Month in May. Professor John W.I. Lee responded to the question […]

Congratulations to Stephan Miescher who has been awarded the 2023 Sidney M. Edelstein Prize from the Society for the History of Technology, honoring A Dam for Africa: Akosombo Stories from […]

Professor Elizabeth DePalma Digeser will be the founding editor of a new online journal, Studies in Late Antiquity, for the University of California Press. The journal is the first fully online […]

Students and their families visited the History Dept. table to learn about studying History at UCSB. On Saturday, April 11, the History Department’s information table at the Spring Insight Open […]

Frank Dutra should be remembered not only as a careful archival scholar of early modern Portugal and Brazil, superb mentor to generations of graduate students in the History Department and […]

UCSB History professors Verónica Castillo-Muñoz, Elizabeth Digeser, Ann Plane, and Gabriela Soto-Laveaga have chapters in a new edited volume, Globalizing Borderlands Studies in Europe and North America, just published by […]

Here you can view the program with the thesis titles, and some of the presentation powerpoints. Each year about a dozen of the best History students at UCSB participate in […]

Dozens of scholarships and fellowships were distributed. For more information on the individual awards and what they are for, see our Awards page. If you click on the name of […]

A 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 […]

The United States’ long record on race is, shall we say, checkered. Even in a time when an African-American sits in the White House and mixed-race families are common, issues […]

UCSB Alumna Betty K. Koed ’83, MA ’91, PhD ’99 retired as Historian of the United States Senate this past October 2023. She served as the first female Historian of […]

Numerous admitted students stop by History Department table On Saturday, April 4, 2009, the History Department’s Table at the Academic Fair offered friendly advice and information about the History major […]

After 18 years in the making, Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, professor of Chinese history in at the Department of History here at UCSB, released his fifth book on July 28th, 2022. […]

On 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 […]

Information about the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) study of History education. While much of the UCSB History Department’s News is about the various accolades we’ve […]

An overview of the latest books and articles from UCSB historians.(updated January 2011) UCSB History faculty have been busy publishing new and innovative historical research. Here are the most recent […]

Majewski to speak at exhibition on Lincoln and the Civil War. CSU-Channel Islands to host Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War Traveling Exhibition Read More:https://archive.vcstar.com/news/exhibit-explores-lincolns-presidency-ep-363029435-351946301.html/ jwil 26.ix.2012

Congratulations are in order for graduating senior Ebelechukwu Eseka, a History minor and Sociology major. At the end of her undergraduate career, UCSB has recognized her impressive accomplishments in three […]

Congratulations to Professor Sarah Case, who has been awarded the Southern Association for Women Historians‘ Anne Firor Scott Mid-Career Fellowship. The Fellowship is given every two years to fund a […]

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 […]

“A collaborative effort of the Public History Program at UC Santa Barbara, the UCSB Library’s Department of Special Research Collections and the campus’s divisions of student affairs and humanities and […]

The 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 […]

He is also quoted in a June 7, 2012 AP news report on the Wisconsin election. Nation’s unions lost big in the Wisconsin showdown By SAM HANANEL, Associated Press Some […]

Detailed descriptions of many of this year’s graduate seminars are available here, to assist in choosing classes. Below are detailed description of the History graduate seminars that will be offered […]

Apply now: https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02380/apply View this position online: https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02380 POSITION OVERVIEW Salary range: See Table 15 for the salary range for this position. A reasonable estimated full-time rate for this position […]

Historia has more in-depth articles about many of the News items on this webpage, as well as features such as the Chair’s column. The current issue (and all past issues) […]

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!

The History Department is now accepting applications for the 2021-22 Senior Honors Thesis Program (HIST 194AH/BH). If you will be a senior next year, have at least a 3.5 GPA […]

Attention 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 […]

“Gaza: A Turning Point?” Al Jazeera, July 25, 2014: Is the Gaza war more of the same or a turning point in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict?” When the current round of […]

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 […]

[vimeo 160296399 w=801 h=450] Finding Your Inner Rockstar: UCSB Department of History from UC Santa Barbara on Vimeo.

UCSB Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy brings distinguished speakers to campus. Historian Scott Reynolds, author of A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America’s Financial […]

2009 PhD Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly makes generous gift, to be matched by History Associates. An excerpt from the article in the July 20, 2012 UCSB GradPost: With gratitude for the assistance […]

The History Department extends a warm welcome to its 21 newest members! ALL SMILES. The 2007-08 entering class of grad students takes a break from their orientation meeting. Pictured (l. […]

Mexican peasants played an important role in the sourcing of synthetic hormones for birth control. Twenty years ago, NAFTA — the North American Free Trade Agreement — removed barriers to […]

April Haynes (UCSB History PhD 2009) has won the 2016 SHEAR (Society for the History of the Early American Republic) book prize for her 2015 monograph, Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology […]

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 […]

Prof. 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 […]

Prof. Mendez was the recent recipient of the 2010 LAIS Faculty Mentor Award, an award selected by LAIS graduates and undergraduates to recognize faculty who have displayed exemplary mentorship. The […]

UCSB Faculty Association to Host Open Forum on October 17th Higher Education and California Voters: Can this Election Save UC? A forum sponsored by the Faculty Association at UC Santa […]

UCSB Press release about exhibition curated by Prof. Farmer and History students This exhibit was curated by six undergraduate history majors and Prof. Sharon Farmer. It is on display in […]

The Art, Design, and Architecture Museum opens a new exhibit, “14 Black Classicists.” The exhibit opens Saturday, January 14th and runs through April 30th, 2017. Shortly after the Civil War, […]

The 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 […]

We are pleased to announce that five students have been awarded Steve and Barbara Mendell Graduate Fellowships in Cultural Literacy from UCSB’s Walter H. Capps Center for the 2021-2022 academic […]

Studies 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 […]

Congratulations to the Professor of Soviet and Central Asian History at the Department of History, UCSB, Adrienne Edgar. Her new book Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in […]

History students receive Fulbrights, Mellon Fellowships, Rockefeller Foundation fellowships, and more. Dissertation Research Fellowships in 2010 — Some Highlights Megan Barber has been offered two year-long research fellowships: the CLIR […]

Prof. Manuel Covo’s new book, Entrepôt of Revolutions: Saint-Domingue, Commercial Sovereignty, and the French-American Alliance has been awarded the prestigious Gilbert Chinard Book Prize. The Gilbert Chinard Prize is awarded annually by […]

Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects and the Making of the Pill UCSB history associate professor Gabriela Soto Laveaga recently released a book examining the origins of the oral contraceptive […]

Recently, a number of faculty members in the History Department have received awards and honors from various professional organizations and on-campus entities. Join us in congratulating the following faculty members […]

With articles on comics in the Cold War, new faculty and graduate students, and much more. In this issue: — Cold War Comics, Oct. 23 — Peter Alagona’s big year […]

History Dept. continues to dominate campuswide awards Apr. 11, 2010: The History Department is pleased to announce that Prof. Sarah Cline has been selected as a recipient of an Outstanding […]

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 […]

The Board of Directors for the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation (SBTHP) announced today that Anne Petersen, Ph.D. has been appointed as their new Executive Director. The search for […]

This 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 […]

Neushul and Westwick’s highly readable history traces surfing from a sport of Hawaiian kings & queens to a billion-dollar worldwide industry. Peter Neushul and Peter Westwick’s new book on the […]

“Analyzing Culture with Google Books: Is It Social Science?” OPINION: Discovering fun facts by graphing terms found among the 5 million volumes of the Google Books project sure is amusing […]

He will be studying the University of California’s Natural Reserve System Santa Barbara, Calif. –– Four assistant professors at UC Santa Barbara have been awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER […]

Prof. Castillo-Muñoz’s Hist 168A class (History of the Chicanos) visited the Santa Barbara Mission Archive this quarter to get first-hand experience with primary documents. hm 11/29/14

Professor Pat Cohen’s 1998 book, The Murder of Helen Jewett, is taking on a new life next month in New York City. Helen Jewett will be featured as part of the first permanent […]