While completing her dissertation in history at UCSB, Rathe is affiliated with the Blum Center for Global Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development. She studies welfare and social policy in the twentieth century.
Professor Dana Frank of UC Santa Cruz will be leading an all day op-ed writing workshop on Saturday, May 6th. This workshop, offered on an annual basis by the UCSB Center for Work, Labor, and Democracy, provides faculty and students with an opportunity to hone their op-ed writing skills, translating their historical expertise into opinion pieces […]
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The Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster will meet periodically throughout the year for brown bag lunches to read and workshop works-in-progress from members of the research cluster. On May 8, Sasha Coles will discuss “A Nation’s Wealth Surrounds a Worm”: Mormonism, Consumer Politics, and Utah’s Silk Industry, 1860s-1906.” Draft papers will be distributed before the event, […]
Please join us on May 10, 4PM, in the McCune Conference Room for the Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture. Our guest speaker will be Erika Lorraine Milam (Princeton University) who will be giving a lecture titled Creatures of Cain: Human Nature and the Politics of Violence During the Cold War. Human nature contains the seeds of humanity’s […]
Hertel-Fernandez is completing a book, Politics at Work, and with Theda Skocpol is writing a study that examines the rise of the Koch political network. Visit https://www.history.ucsb.edu/labor/home for more details.
Please join us for the annual Senior Honors Research Colloquium hosted by the Department of History. Twelve senior honors students will present their research, followed by comments from faculty respondents. Refreshments will be served, beginning at 8:45 a.m.
Danielson is the author of American Gandhi: A.J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the 20th Century (2014). Visit https://www.history.ucsb.edu/labor/home for more details on her talk.
The Workshop Theoretical Perspectives on War, Political Violence, Nationalism, and the State (His 291) is pleased to present Xiaowei Zheng, Associate Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at UCSB, who will speak about her forthcoming book with Stanford University Press, The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China. The appointment […]
In this talk, Professor Erika Rappaport of the UCSB History Department explores how tea shops emerged in the 18th century and came to be defined as “women’s spaces” in 19th century and early 20th century Europe and North America -- but as “male spaces” in parts of Africa and South Asia. These institutions helped build […]
