The Public History program and History Graduate program are hosting two guests, Megan Bowman and Peter Bachman, to discuss their experiences teaching at independent schools. Both teach at Fintridge Preparatory […]
Professor Gregory O’Malley, of UC Santa Cruz, is the author of Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807 (2014), a logistical study of slave trading and its economic, political, […]
"Podcasting the Past: Teaching Tolerance and the Making of Queer America" — History Department Gender and Sexualities Cluster Interactive talk with Dr. Leila Rupp, Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies Leila Rupp, […]
Chinese scientists, scholars, and state officials are actively engaged in a transnational movement to preserve "agricultural heritage." But what is agricultural heritage and how does it relate to a "people's […]
The year 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill. The Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Energy Justice in Global Perspective at UCSB is excited to invite […]
Please join us for a talk by Jane Sherron De Hart, professor emerita of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on her new biography, Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A […]
Abstract The history of twentieth-century Peru is the history of the rural countryside, its governance, and the making of comunidadesand campesinosas foundational elements of a social, economic, and political landscape. […]
2019 marks the 50th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo program. The mission’s crewed flights began in 1968 with the first lunar circumnavigation; on July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong became the first […]
A scholar of gender and globalization, Ramamurthy has conducted ethnography in the same villages in the Telangana region of southern India for three decades to examine the relationship between social […]
DeVun Flier This lecture examines how certain ancient and medieval thinkers claimed that “hermaphroditism” was the original condition of humanity, created by God and documented in the first chapters of […]
