Mikael Wolfe is a visiting assistant professor of environmental history at UCLA. He is an expert in history of modern Mexico, specifically agrarian reform, water policy, and environment. He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled, “A Thirsty Revolution: Water, Technology, and the Ecological Demise of Mexican Agrarian Reform.” Professor Wolfe will be speaking […]
Kate Cooper is Professor of Ancient History in the Department of Ancient History and Classics at the University of Manchester. Professor Cooper's research interest is in the cultural, social, and religious history of late Roman society, with a special focus on the Roman family and the Christianization of Roman elites. She is the author, most […]
Verónica Castillo-Muñoz, Assistant Professor in Chicano History, will be speaking about her research topic, "Contested Borderlands: Gender, Transnational Migration, and the Movement for Land Reform in Baja California, 1900-1937". Sponsored by the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department.
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Tamale Making, Saturday, December 3 from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Learn the Mexican tradition of tamale making with George Hernández, a Ventura County cook for over 40 years. Learn how tamales are made, enjoy tamale tasting, and leave with a recipe just in time for the winter holidays. Pico Adobe 123 East Canon Perdido […]
The Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library presents: “Indians at Mission Santa Bárbara: Life at the Mission in 1800” Featuring Dr. John Johnson Sunday December 4 at 3:00 in the Bonaventure Room at Old Mission Santa Bárbara. This lecture is part of the celebration of the 225th anniversary of Mission Santa Bárbara. Admission is free, but donations […]
Gabriela Ramos is lecturer in Latin American History at the University of Cambridge, and author the Death and Conversion in the Andes: Cuzco and Lima 1532-1670 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010) winner of the Howard F. Cline Prize awarded by the Conference on Latin American History in 2011. Her talk will explore the ways […]
See the calendar at:www.registrar.ucsb.edu/cal2012.htm On our Courses page you will find some syllabi (click the Download link), and links to the instructors' faculty pages, where there are often announcements about waiting list and "crashing" policies. hm 11/6/11
Please join us for the next event in the IHC's Public Goods series: McCune Conference Room, Contrary to conventional wisdom, the notion of welfare as a public good has a venerated?if highly contested?history, and has found valence in many different cultures, political regimes, and religious traditions over the course of centuries. It has also been […]
Dear History Graduate Students: I plan to devote two-hours of my History 223A (Research Seminar in Modern Europe) to the art of note-taking and note-organizing. I decided to open this session to interested graduate students. The workshop will be held at 4-6, Monday, January 23, in HSSB 4041. Roger Eardly-Pryor will demonstrate how to take […]