Archived News report in Bengali about Border Incidents in India-Pakistan Border in Assam, India (c. 1950), Photo by Graduate Student: Tannishtha Bhattacharjee
Impero Cinema, Asmara in the 1940s, archived at the National Archives at Kew in London, Photo submitted by Graduate Student: Raymok Ketema
Fieldwork, South Africa, Photo by Graduate Student: Mattie Webb
Fieldwork, South Africa, Photo by Graduate Student: Mattie Webb
From the Eugenics Record Office Collection at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Photo by Graduate Student: Isidro Gonzalez
A view of the border between cultivated land in Giza and the Sahara seen from Cairo’s middle ring road, Photo by Graduate Student: Anthony Greco
Impero Cinema, Asmara in the Fall 2022, Photo clicked by Graduate Student: Raymok Ketema
Graduating class of Fresh Doctorates from the History Department, 2022-23
UCSB History Faculty Appeals to the Community for donations on Give Day 2022
Asmara in the 1940s, archived at the National Archives at Kew in London, Photo submitted by Graduate Student: Raymok Ketema
The Cairo Nilometer, an institution established in the eighth century to monitor the annual rise of the Nile, Photo by Graduate Student: Anthony Greco

News and Events for Graduate Students and Faculty

Welcome! The information below will be particularly relevant to you if you are a current graduate student or a faculty member in the History Department.

HGSA Spotlight

The History Graduate Students Association has been a long-standing body of elected leaders from amongst the Graduate Students of the Department. Rejuvenated with a fresh constitution in 2020, HGSA is a body that aims to serve the needs, the welfare, and interests of present and future graduate students of the Department of History. They organize events, fundraisers, community building exercises, and platforms for graduate students to share their intellectual concerns and emotional conditions. They also serve to garner, sense and represent students’ needs and interests to all relevant levels of the university as well as to advance the academic, social, economic, and physical environment of graduate students of the History Department. The HGSA also has an extended element of GSA Committee Representatives wherein elected students participate in departmental committees.

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