Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Launch Party for the UCSB Undergraduate Journal of History
2021-03-02 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom, CA
The UCSB Undergraduate Journal of History is about to release its first issue, and its editors and contributors cordially invite the public to its Zoom launch party on March 2. The event will feature a short Q&A featuring four of the ten undergraduate authors and moderated by members of the editorial team.

To celebrate the Journal‘s launch, use this Zoom link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/86005899456

Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium
2021-05-28 09:00 - 15:30 | Zoom, CA
The participants of the 2020-2021 Senior Honors Thesis Seminar will be holding a Zoom colloquium to showcase their research on Friday, May 28th. We encourage you to attend and show support for your fellow undergraduate history majors. This is also a great opportunity to get a feel for what the colloquium is like if you plan to participate in the honors thesis seminar in the future! The schedule of presentations and zoom link are attached.
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History Department New Majors' Meeting
2021-09-21 11:00 - 12:30 | University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join us at the annual History Department New Majors‘ Meeting! This meeting is geared towards incoming freshmen and transfer students, and any student that is new to our department. The meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 21st at 11am in HSSB 4080. Meet your future professors and classmates, listen to an impressive faculty panel speak about topics such as undergraduate research, the senior honors thesis program, the history club, and more!
This will be a hybrid event, so you can either attend in-person, or watch via Zoom. The first 35 students who RSVP to attend in-person will be able to do so, and any other students can watch the meeting live on Zoom, or review a recording at their own convenience. Please RSVP using one of the links below:
Use THIS LINK to RSVP to attend the meeting in-person (you must RSVP to attend in-person).

Use THIS LINK to RSVP to attend the meeting via Zoom, and THIS LINK to join the meeting.

History Department celebrates GIVE DAY 2022
2022-04-07 08:00 - 17:00 | University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States

Thinking About Career Options with a Degree in History: A Conversation with Alumni
2022-04-08 17:00 - 18:00 | University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Date: April 8th, 2022
Time: 5:00 PM
Venue: Click here to join
Zoom Meeting ID: 822 6050 0131
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Click here to download the flyer: Thinking About Career Options with a Degree in History

Honors Thesis Colloqium for the History Department
2022-05-13 09:00 - 17:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The very best majors in the history department share the research that they have undertaken on their senior theses.
When : May 13th, 8:45 AM – 5:00 PM
Venue : HSSB 4020 and Zoom
Click here to join the zoom meeting.
Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium Schedule
May 13, 2022
HSSB 4020 or via zoom at
https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/2796093108

8:45-8:55 Arrive. Coffee and a continental breakfast will be available.
8:55-9:00 Opening comments by Professor Bouley
9:00-10:30 Panel #1
Akunna Chilaka, “The American Dream Denied: The Inland Empire and Southern California’s Legacy with Postwar, Anti-Black Racial Housing Discrimination.” Respondent: Professor Terrance Wooten, Black Studies
Bill Tamburelli, ““The Grudge Against Drudge: Clinton and the Rise of the ‘New Media’ in the 1990s.” Respondent: Professor Nelson Lichtenstein, History
Sabrina Hall, “Welfare Reform, It’s What’s for Lunch: How the Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Program Changed School Lunch Across America.” Respondent: Professor Lisa Jacobson, History
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Panel #2
James Scherrer, “The Empire with a Thousand Faces: State & Subject at the End of the Achaemenid Empire. Respondent: Professor Beth Digeser, History
Sydney Evans, “Gender Queerness in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe” Respondent: Professor Debra Blumenthal, History
John Young, “’New Men’ Rising: Landed Emulation in the English Country House, 1700 to 1860.” Respondent: Julie Johnson, Graduate Fellow, History Department
12:30-1:30 Lunch. A catered lunch will be served.
1:30-3:00 Panel 3
Carolina Sanchez, “The People in the Oranges: Redlands’ History of Multiethnicsm: An Inclusive Public History of a California Suburb.” Respondent: Professor Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, History
Ryker Tebbs, “100 Years of Abolition: The Gradual Abolition of Slavery in Pennsylvania.” Respondent: Professor John Majewski, History
Grace Molinari, “The PLO and the Reagan Administration The Great Thaw of 1988” Respondent: Professor Sherene Seikaly, History
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-5:00 Panel 4
Illiana Lievanos, “Mere Seconds From Launch: Able Archer 83, the NATO Exercise That Almost Triggered a Nuclear War.”Respondent: Professor Salim Yaqub, History
Tamia McDonald, “The Black Panther Party: How Media Bolstered, Decimated, and Ensured the Legacy of a Movement.” Respondent: Professor Stephan Miescher, History
Emily Searson, ” The computer got it wrong’: The Cold War Roots of the Racial Biases in Artificial Intelligence.” Respondent: Sean Gilleran, Graduate Fellow, History
Ryan Kenyon, “Imperial Ancestry: The Soviet Union’s Relationship with the Past” Respondent: Professor Cynthia Kaplan, Political Science
Click here for the full schedule of Honors Colloquium Schedule 2022

Pizza The Past
2023-05-24 11:00 - 13:00 | HSSB 4080, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
HISTORY MAJORS:
Professors Erika Rappaport, Utathya Chattopadhyaya, and Jarett Henderson are members of a History Department Committee that is examining the experience of our undergraduate students in the History Major at UCSB.

As a first step, they would like to invite you to join us on Wednesday, 24 May 2023, between 11 AM and 1 PM in HSSB 4080, to eat some pizza, chat, and answer some initial (short) survey questions about the History program and your time as a student.

You can stop by anytime between 11 AM and 1 PM (and stay as long as you like). They hope you will join them!

UCSB History Department’s Annual Senior Honors Colloquium
2023-05-26 09:00 - 16:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join the History Department in celebrating the undergraduates at the Department’s Annual Senior Honors Colloquium 2023. The program can be downloaded here.

9:00 AM – Welcoming Remarks

Stephan Miescher, Chair, History Department
Debra Blumenthal, Director of 2022-23 Senior Honors Seminar

9:10-10:40 – Panel I – Women and Politics Across Time and Space

Cole Grissom, “Severing the Old Order: The Involvement of Women in the Politics of Ancient Rome’s Severan Dynasty.” (Mentor: Beth Digeser, History)

Comment: Misa Nguyen, History

Madeline Josa, “Ladies’ Magazines: Women’s Fashion as Politics in Georgian England” (Mentor: Erika Rappaport, History)

Comment: Lisa Jacobson, History

Raana Naghieh, “Dudes, Prudes, and Statute Moralists Had Better Not Read This: PR, Feminism, and Nineteenth Century ‘Sex Radicalism’ (Mentor: Steve Zipperstein, History)

Comment: Pat Cohen, Professor Emerita, History

10:45 – 12:15 – Panel II – The Global Early Modern

Nichole Poblete, “Treating the Body Politic: Epidemics and Spanish Colonial Rule in the Early Modern Philippines” (Mentor: Juan Cobo, History)

Comment: Brad Bouley, History

Samuel Ricci, “Mirror in the Maghrib. Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Early Modern European Captivity Narratives” (Mentor: Brad Bouley, History)

Comment: Adam Sabra, History

Wei Cui, “Agents and Agency in Japanese Daimyo Foreign Trade: Kyushu in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century” (Mentor: Luke Roberts, History)

Comment: Ya Zuo, History

12:15 – 1:30 PM – LUNCH

1:30-2:30 – Panel III: The Immigrant Experience

Keren Zou, “Obliterated People, Chinese Gold: Chinese Immigrants, Resistance and Resilience in Pacific Coast Fishery, 1882-1930” (Mentor: Xiaojian Zhao, Asian-American Studies)

Comment: Donna Anderson, History

Gina Kim, ““Twisted Tongues’ Take the Stand: Legal Advocacy and Education Reform for National Origin Minorities in California, 1931-1997” (Mentor: Miroslava Chavez, History)

Comment: Randy Bergstrom, History

2:30-4:00 Panel IV: Building Community in the 20th Century US

Logan Cimino, “Del Webb, Corporate Development and the Building of the Landscape of Mass Consumption in the Postwar American Southwest” (Mentor: Erika Rappaport)

Comment: Alice O’Connor, History

Emma Barrera, “The Forgotten Crusader: Dr. Dorothy Ferebee and her career as a public health activist” (Mentor: Holly Roose, History)

Comment: Sarah Case, History

Marisol Cruz, “En La Vida: A Glimpse into the Life of Queer Latine Folks in Chicago during the 1990s” (Mentor: Jarett Henderson, History)

Comment: Viviana Valle Gomez, Feminist Studies

Spring 2023 Issue Launch Party
2023-06-05 11:00 - 12:15 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Come eat pastries, drink coffee, and meet the Editorial Board of the UC Santa Barbara Undergraduate Journal of History as they celebrate the launch of their Spring 2023 issue.
See the table of content here.
All Welcome.

UCSB History Department’s Annual Senior Honors Colloquium
2024-05-17 08:45 - 16:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join the History Department in celebrating the undergraduates at the Department’s Annual Senior Honors Colloquium 2024.
The program can be downloaded here.

Department of History Senior Honors Colloquium
Friday, 17 May 2024
HSSB 4020

Coffee: 8:45 am
First Panel, 9-10:30 a.m.: To Get Us Started…
Roselind Zeng, “Chinese Protein PR: Selling Soymilk to Build a Nation, 2010-Present” (Jacobson)
Comment: Professor Xiaowei Zheng
Daira Chavez, “Coal Oil Point: Ranching, Restoration, and their Effects” (Alagona)
Comment: Dr. Sarah Case
Harry Pardoe, “The Ever-Changing Dynamics of Control, Power, and Black Agency in Georgetown County, South Carolina from 1860 to 1900” (Majewski)
Comment: Professor Giuliana Perrone

Second Panel, 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.: Gender, Memory, and Cultural Construction
Madison Dunkle, “‘Learn How to Mend Your Lives:’ Repentance and Restraint in Early Modern English Broadside Ballads, 1570-1630” (Bouley)
Comment: Dr. Jessica Zisa, Writing Program
Emilio Perez Williams, “A Blood Stained Brush: Societal Reaction to Female Military Command in Medieval Europe” (Lansing)
Comment: Professor Debra Blumenthal
Stephanie Gerson, “Triumphing Comprehensive Content Over Moral Messaging: Exhibiting the Holocaust at the Reagan Library” (Marcuse)
Comment: Professor Erika Rappaport

Third Panel, 1:15-2:15 p.m.: Contesting Boundaries in Early America
Nicole Knox, “Frontiers of Reciprocity: The Dynamics of Exchange, Diplomacy, and Power in the Dawnland” (K. Moore)
Comment: Professor Juan Cobo
Hanna Kawamoto, “‘Spiritually Unsexed’: Believers, Critics, and Early Histories of the Publick Universal Friend, 1776-1835” (Henderson)
Comment: Professor Katie Moore

Fourth Panel, 2:30-4 p.m.: Labor, Policy, and Power
Nikita Srinivas, “American Psychopharmacology and its Discontents: Tracing the Historical Underpinnings of the 2004 Regulatory Intervention in Antidepressant Use, 1950s-2004” (O’Connor)
Comment: Professor Lisa Jacobson
Jake Taylor, “‘Telesis: Progress Intelligently Planned’ for Whom? Deciding Who Counts in the Telecommunications Industry” (Stein)
Comment: Professor Nelson Lichtenstein
Matthew Mucha, “Singapore’s Labor Relations Reveal that People’s Action Party Pragmatism is Political (1958-1985)” (McDonald)
Comment: Professor Alice O’Connor
