Department of History

Donations ensure 5 years of support UCSB’s Department of History is delighted to announce that a trio of private donors will provide funding to continue the annual Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture. For the next five years, Nancy Hofbauer, Larry’s life partner, and his two children, Bruce Badash and Lisa Jones, will generously support the annual lecture series. (The photo shows […]

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 in 2010-11. For more information on a particular seminar, please contact its instructor. NOTE: All information is subject to change. Our Courses page may be more up to date. If […]

The Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Modern German Studies discusses his experiences at UCSB. The UCSB College of Letters & Science web page features this profile of Prof. Michael North, who is spending 2010-2011 at UCSB as a member of the History Department. Michael North, who is visiting the College of Letters & Science this year as the Fulbright Distinguished Chair […]

“He Likes Cats,” about a homeless man in Santa Barbara, available on edhat.com The community news aggregator has published Frank’s latest story “He Likes Cats.” Edhat also has photos of Frank’s 2010 Thanksgiving in the Provence–he has to improvise for lack of whole turkeys. See also Prof. Frost’s faculty webpage, and his 2001 book Subversives Stories at amazon.com, with the […]

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 titles, listed alphabetically by author. This year’s graduate student and alumni publications are listed below. Larry Badash, A Nuclear Winter’s Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s (MIT Press, 2009) […]

The Premio del Rey is awarded to the best book on medieval Spain published in the past two years. Prof. Blumenthal’s 2009 book has won the AHA’s Premio del Rey for 2010. Congratulations to our colleague! The Premio del Rey goes to the best book on Medieval Spain published in a biennial period. For past winners of the prize, follow […]

Feminist scholar Khanum Shaikh is affiliated with the History Department for 2010-2012 For more information, see Khanum’s webpage on the UCLA Women’s Studies website. Her UCSB email is: kshaikh(a)history.ucsb.edu. hm 11/19/10, 11/22

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 having been diagnosed with late stage pancreatic cancer. There was a large turnout on Sunday, October 3, for the celebration of Larry’s life by his family, friends, colleagues and others […]

Prof. Michael North from the University of Greifswald, Germany, will be joining our department for a year of research and teaching. Update 10/12/10: Prof. North’s UCSB email is: mnorth@history.ucsb.edu. Professor North, whose home institution is the University of Greifswald in Germany, is a distinguished historian of early modern and modern Europe. His research and teaching interests are quite broad, and […]

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 award was presented at LAIS’s end of the year party by Jeremy Simer, an LAIS graduate student. Students said they selected Cecilia, who was “the toughest professor” they had ever […]

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 a two-quarter Honors Seminar course that culminates in the oral presentation of the students’ research projects. Here is a list of the 2010 theses, with links to three of the […]

In October 2010, UCSB designated the History Department one of 3 departments on campus to pilot the creation of assessment tools–ways of measuring how well we as faculty teachers meet our stated goals. What follows are links to some resources that can help the dept. committee charged with developing metrics. Links to 14 college and institutional history assessment documents, compiled […]

UCSB History alumna (Ph.D. 1999) fills local post. From the September 2009 newsletter of the SANTA BÁRBARA MISSION ARCHIVE-LIBRARY: The Board of Trustees of the Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library and the Province of St. Barbara of the Orders of Friars Minor are happy to announce that Dr. Monica I. Orozco has been appointed Director of the Mission Archive-Library. Dr. Orozco […]

A celebration of Dimitrije’s life was held in Santa Barbara on Saturday, May 16. We record with sadness the death of our colleague, Professor Emeritus Dimitrije Djordjevic. Dimitrije was born in Belgrade in 1922, and died on March 5, 2009 at age 87. He is survived by his wife Nan, his daughter Jelena Markovic, two grandchildren and one great granddaughter, […]

Prof. Lindemann was able to save his house from the firestorm. See his story and a Santa Barbara Independent article about how. The photos on the left are some shots taken by Al’s son Tim on the afternoon of Wed., May 6, when the fire hit Tunnel Road. Al writes the following in an email: The fire storm surrounded our […]

Two faculty positions have just been filled: Sub-Saharan Africa and Modern China To read the original job announcements please go to SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA FACULTY POSITION (application deadline: Nov. 7, 2008) and MODERN CHINESE HISTORY FACULTY POSITION (application deadline: Oct. 7, 2008) TWA 5/14/09, hm 5/14, 5/18

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 their number will satisfy that requirement as well. For more information, see Mike Tucker in the History main office. jwil 11.ii.09

We are sad to report that Professor Robert Collins passed away on April 11, 2008. The UCSB Daily Nexus of April 15 has an article describing Professor Collins’ contributions to the university. Please see also the April 25, 2008 Los Angeles Times obituary.

History majors are now able to do a history degree audit via GOLD. This will check which history major requirements remain to be fulfilled. It will also show which GEs have yet to be completed. Instructions for running a degree audit 1) Log on to GOLD 2) Select “Academic History” 3) Click the tab titled “Degree Audit” 4) Click the […]

The departmental support group has been bringing historians and community members together since 1987. This year is the 20th anniversary of the UCSB History Associates. The departmental support group was created in 1987 with the dual purpose of bringing members of the community interested in history together with UCSB faculty through an annual program of lunches and lectures, and raising […]

The following History graduate seminars will be offered in Spring 2008. For more information on a particular seminar, please contact its instructor. Ancient History 201E: The Roman Revolution. Prof. Digeser, Time and room TBA. Students will be required to sit in on 112B of the same title. The course will be devoted to modern interpretations of the fall of the […]

Congratulations and welcome to students admitted to the History graduate program for 2008-9. On Friday, March 7, we will hold a full day of orientation, panels, and activities to acquaint potential new students with the department and faculty. There will be opportunities to meet current graduate students and to tour the UCSB campus. See below for a full schedule of […]

see this obituary in the March 2007 AHA Perspectives One of our professors commented on this obituary: “In the current issue of AHA Perspectives, there is an excellent obituary of our colleague written by Quince Adams, one of our department’s earliest and most distinguished PhDs. Both Freddie and Quince have done us proud!”