“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 showcase that history is not a one-sided narrative.” Helen Murdoch, an alumnus of the MA program in history at UCSB, took her place as the newly-elected President of UCSB History […]
Read moreBrian Griffith, who earned his PhD in the department in January 2020 and is currently The Eugen and Jacqueline Weber Post-Doctoral Scholar in European History at UCLA, has been awarded the 2021 Society for Italian Historical Studies Article Prize for Modern Italian History for his article in Contemporary European History, “Bacchus among the Blackshirts: Wine Making, Consumerism and Identity in Fascist Italy, 1919-1937.” […]
Read moreA whole spate of good news has come through at the end of the academic year! Congratulations to the following current and former graduate students on their accomplishments. The community is invited to celebrate these and other achievements at the History Department Awards Ceremony on June 2. Dr. Ryan Abrecht (PhD 2014, supervised by Beth Digeser) has just been granted […]
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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 read Dr. Seketa’s article “Defining and Defending Valid Citizenship During War: Jewish Immigrant Businesses in World War I Britain” here at Cambridge Core. Congratulations, Dr. Seketa!
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Three pieces of good news to celebrate! On 28 August 2020, Josh Rocha successfully defended his dissertation! His thesis, Military Spectacle in Interwar Britain: Militarism, Propaganda, and the Shadows of World War, is a fascinating account of how the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force used popular spectacles to compete for public and political support for their services during the 1920s […]
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 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 moreSanta Barbara’s newsweekly The Independent reports that UCSB History alumna Monica Orozco, previously director of the Mission’s archive and library, will soon become the institution’s first lay director. For the full article see: http://www.independent.com/news/2016/aug/03/monica-orozcos-mission-mission/.
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Matthew Avery Sutton — who received his PhD in History at UCSB in 2005 — has been awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for the 2016-2017 academic year. His Guggenheim Fellowship will support his current project, a book tentatively entitled FDR’s Army of Faith: Religion and Espionage in World War II, to be published by Basic Books. This project looks at the roles […]
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