Department of History

Quick Links

• Student Well-Being Site
• Housing and Basic Needs Resources
• U-Mail
• GauchoSpace
• eGrades (for TAs)
• How-To videos for using the department website
• UCSB Academic Calendars:
  • Quarters
  • Final Examinations
  • Schedule of Courses
• History Department Calendar
• UCSB Library
  • Santa Barbara History Collection
  • US History Collection
  • World History Collection
• UCSB Campus Maps
• UCSB Homepage

Tips

• “How to Ask for a Letter of Recommendation” (outside blog post)

Academic Programs

• History, B.A.
• History of Public Policy, B.A.
• History, (minor)

Prospective Students

• Financial Aid Office
• Housing & Residential Services, UCSB
• Virtual Tour of UCSB
• Visit UCSB
• Things to Do Around UCSB

Policy

• Academic Calendar
  • Final Examination Schedules
• Academic Integrity
• Academic Senate
• Course Catalog

Other Helpful Links

• Education Abroad Program
• Women’s Center
• Non-Traditional Student Center
• Office of International Students and Scholars
• Educational Opportunity Program
• Transfer Student Center
• Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity
• MultiCultural Center
• Career Services
• Counseling and Psychological Services
• Campus Learning Assistance Services

Department

• Graduate Handbook For 2022-23
• Best Practices for Graduate Exams and Prospectus, from Fall 2021
• TA Handbook 2019-20
• T.A. Teaching Program
• Dissertations (completed)
• Alumni Job Placement
• History Staff Directory

Forms

• Curriculum Planning and Sabbatical Forms
• Entertainment Forms
• Graduate Division, Forms and Petitions
• Travel Forms
• Misc. HASC forms including:
  • Honorarium Request
  • Declaration of Missing Evidence (non-travel)
  • Instructor Door Card
  • Short Term Leave Request
  • ASE Checklist

Financial Information

• UCSB Office of Financial Aid & Scholarships
  • Financial Aid Department – FAQ
• UCSB Graduate Division Financial Support
  • Central Fellowships Applications
• UCSB General Catalog Fees & Financial Aid Information
• History Department Funding
• Outside Funding Sources for Graduate Students:
  • FinAid.org Scholarship Lists
  • The Spencer Foundation
  • The Foundation Center’s Grantmaker Web Search Site
  • The National Endowment for the Humanities
  • American Council of Learned Societies
  • John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
  • Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars
  • American Philosophical Society
  • New York Public Library, Center for Scholars and Writers
  • Post doctoral Fellowships and Senior Research Grants, The Getty Grant Program
  • School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey

Graduate Placement Materials

• • AHA Career Diversity Resources
  • Hacking Graduate School
  • National Council on Public History Jobs
  • Federal Government Hiring
  • Federal Pathways Program
  • Search Nonprofit jobs
  • Higher Education Recruitment Consortium
  • COF Career Center
  • New York Non-profit Jobs
  • Sample Cover Letter
  • The Professor is in – Rules for an Academic CV
  • Writing a Teaching Philosophy_ UCB TLWG
  • Steps in the Academic Job Application Process

Graduate Division

• Graduate Division Homepage
  • Grad Div. Forms and Petitions