Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Talk by Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace"
2019-05-15 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States

History Club Weekly Meetings
2019-05-16 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-05-23 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-05-30 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-06-06 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-06-13 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-06-20 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-06-27 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-07-04 19:00 - 21:00 and 13 more dates | HSSB 4020
UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions.

Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium
2019-05-17 08:30 - 17:00 | HSSB 4020
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 Honors Seminar
Session I (9:15-10:45) Race and Ethnicity
Ciaran Hiney (Spickard) “Resilient Beyond Measure: Japanese-American Coping Mechanisms During WWII Internment.”
Discussant: Prof. Kate McDonald
Jeffrey Kaplan (Bergstrom) “To Mislead and Misrepresent: The Failure of the Ninth Census.”
Discussant: Prof. Giuliana Perrone
Ashlynn Deu Pree (Spickard) “White by Association: The Mixed Marriage Policy of Japanese American Internees”
Discussant: Mika Thornburg
Coffee break (10:45-11:00)
Session II (11:00-12:30) Foreign Policy and Law
Noah Fleishman (Amihay) “Carter’s Middle Eastern Policy and the Egypt-Israel Peace Agreement”
Discussant: Prof. Salim Yaqub
Shervin Rafie (Yaqub) “The Eisenhower Doctrine in Syria: Intervention Behind the Scenes.”
Discussant: Dr. Munther al-Sabbagh
Calvin Chiu (Kalman) “How to Lose a Supreme Court Nominee in 115 Days: The Story of the Robert Bork Confirmation and its Legacy Today”
Discussant: Prof. Randy Bergstrom
Lunch Break (12:30-1:30)
Session III 1:30-3:00 Colonialism and Eugenics
Nicholas Papazyan (Chavez Garcia) “The Darkest Chapter in the Golden State: A Legal History of Coerced Eugenic Sterilization in California”
Discussant: Prof. Laura Kalman
Julia Madden-Fulk (Bergstrom) “From ‘Early Days’ to Alcatraz: A History of Native American Engagement with Public Space in California, 1890-present.”
Discussant: Prof. Ann Plane
James Paules (Chikowero) “One Tide, Separate Shores: Towards a Delocalized Colonial Studies”
Discussant: Prof. Stephan Miescher
Coffee break (3:00-3:15)
Session IV (3:15-4:45) Education and Public Policy
Sarah Kinane (Rappaport) “How Reagan Starved Children: The History of California’s School Lunches under the Reagan Administration.”
Discussant: Prof. Lisa Jacobson
Chelsea Borg (Lichtenstein) “Unpaid Interns: ‘Breaking Persistent Barriers’ without Employee Status and Anti-Discrimination Protections?”
Discussant: Nora Kassner
Kristina Ruvalcaba (Lichtenstein) “The Pacific Research Institute’s Influence on Labor, Education, and Healthcare.”
Discussant: Prof. Alice O’Connor

Talk by Doug Genens, UCSB: "From Farm to Tourist Trap: Tourism as a Rural Development Strategy"
2019-05-17 13:00 - 15:00 | HSSB 4041
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.

Talk by Kathryn Sklar, Berkeley, CA: "The Social Origins of Minimum Wage."
2019-05-24 13:00 - 15:00 | hssb 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States
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 the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for Advanced Study in the Social and Behavioral Sciences.

History Department Awards Ceremony
2019-06-05 16:00 - 19:00 | HSSB 6020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States

History of Public Policy Senior Research Colloquium
2019-06-07 09:30 - 15:30 | HSSB 4020
You are cordially invited to this year’s History of Public Policy Student Research Colloquium
Friday, June 7, in HSSB 4020. Welcome and breakfast will open festivities from 9:30- 10:00, followed by four sessions of History of Public Policy Senior thesis presentations and a session of research from the Seminar on Work, Labor, and Democracy, sixteen presentations in all, with your questions and comments encouraged. The schedule is attached; please plan to stop by as time allows!

Colloquium Schedule of Presentations

Undergraduate Commencement Reception
2019-06-16 13:30 - 14:30 | HSSB 4020
The Department of History would like to invite you to the annual Undergraduate Commencement Reception taking place on Sunday, June 16th from 1:30-2:30pm in HSSB 4020. This event prior to the commencement ceremony is an opportunity for faculty, graduates, and their families to celebrate together! Light appetizers will be provided.

Please fill out this RSVP form no later than June 6th.

New Majors' Meeting
2019-09-24 13:30 - 15:00 | HSSB 4020
This meeting is for any majors that are new to the History Department! Come meet your future professors and classmates, listen to an impressive faculty panel speak about topics such as the senior honors thesis, studying abroad, and the history club, and hear about all the amazing opportunities the UCSB History Department has to offer!
Tuesday, September 24th at 1:30pm
Humanities and Social Sciences Building Room 4020
New Majors Meeting 2019

History Associates Presents: Stephan Miescher's Ghana's Electric Dreams
2019-10-05 16:00 | Faulkner Gallery, 40 E Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101, United States
History Associates will kick off the 2019-2020 year with a presentation by UCSB’s Professor Stephan Miescher titled Ghana’s Electric Dreams. It is based on his forthcoming monograph on the history of Ghana’s most ambitious development project, the Volta River Project and the Akosombo Dam, and their importance for the process of nation-building. It will include the showing of part of a documentary film based on Miescher’s research which was directed and edited by R. Lane Clark. The film visits sites affected by the dam and the broader vision of modernization that it represents.
Ghana’s Electric Dreams will be presented at 4:00 on Saturday, October 5 at the Santa Barbara Public Library (Faulkner Gallery) at 40 E Anapamu Street. The event is free and open to the public, although donations to support History Associates are welcomed.
Click here to see the flyer for the event.
