Professor Desmond King is the author Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of Diverse Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2002) and co-author (with Lawrence Jacobs) of Fed Power: The Federal Reserve and the Great Recession (forthcoming).
TALK: Lorena Rizzo (University of Bielefeld & Harvard University) Probing “Presence” – Photography and Policing in Colonial South Africa The presentation starts from research conducted in the Western Cape Archives in 2012/3. While working on a collection of photographic albums produced in a Cape Town convict station in the late 19th and early 20th century, […]
On Tuesday, February 23, 2016, Chaucer Books in Santa Barbara will be hosted a book launch/signing for James F. Brooks' new monograph, Mesa of Sorrows: A History of the Awat'ovi Massacre. For additional information on Mesa of Sorrows, please visit the following URL: http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Mesa-of-Sorrows/
On February 28, the UCSB History Associates present the 3rd annual Van Gelderen Lecture shocasing graduate student Holly Roose who will talk about her doctoral dissertation: "Once you go Black you got to go back: Multicultural Garveyism in the Far West" About our Speaker: Holly Roose has recently completed her doctoral dissertation and will receive her degree soon. […]
Samir Sonti is completing a dissertation on the politics of inflation in the United States from the 1930s to the 1980s.
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Conference, Shape Shifters: Journeys Across Terrains of Race and Identity, to be held in UCSB's McCune Conference Center, March 18-20. Forty scholars from three continents will be on hand. Conference Website Conference Poster Speakers Please join us for two public lectures in the McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020): Friday, March 18, 9:30-10:30, Paul Spickard of […]
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Alternative way of satisfying UCSB AH & I GE requirement. Those students interested in taking the exam must contact the HIST undergraduate advisor, Monica I. Garcia, to obtain the reading list for the exam a minimum of two weeks prior to the exam date. migarcia@hfa.ucsb.edu HSSB 4036
Lecture by Dr. Arunima Datta Dr. Arunima Datta received her PhD in 2015 in Southeast Asian history from the National University of Singapore. She is currently a post-doctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore and Assistant Editor of the Journal of Malayan Branch of the Asiatic Society. She has published several […]
