Please join us for a lecture by Juan Carlos Estenssoro, entitled “The inescapable Indian: Yungas, chunchos and serranos in the geographical, social and pictorial imaginings of Peru, 16th through 18th centuries.” Juan Carlos Estenssoro is an historian and professor of Iberian and Latin American Studies at l'Université Paris, where he also directs the Center for […]

Paul Thomas Chamberlin recounts the brutal conflicts that killed millions on battlegrounds across the postcolonial world. He proposes a new geography and periodization and explores the lasting political impact of mass violence after 1945.

The students of this years History Senior Honors Thesis course will present their research in front of faculty, peers, and friends. All are welcome! Please see the schedule of presentations below: 8:30 a.m. Coffee and Pastries 9:00 a.m. Welcome Professor Erika Rappaport, Chair of the History Department Professor Adrienne Edgar, Director of the 2018-2019 Senior […]

Genens, a PhD candidate in the UCSB department of history, is writing a dissertation on the varieties of rural development in the United States after World War II.

Sklar, who taught history for many years at SUNY Binghamton, is author of Catharine Beecher: a Study in American Domesticity (1973) and Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900 (1995), both of which received the Berkshire Prize. She has received fellowships from the Ford, Rockefeller, Goggenheim, and Mellon Foundations, as well as from […]