Prof. James Brooks, President and CEO of the School of Advanced Research in Santa Fe (and former UCSB professor), will speak on Dinetah and Navajo history and present politics. Prof. Brooks, together with Prof. Smith in Anthropology and Prof. Digeser in History, will be teaching a three-quarter graduate seminar on comparative borderlands at UCSB in […]
Nelson is the author of Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of An American Legend (2008) which won the Merle Curti Prize for the best book in U.S. social and cultural history. Nelson's paper can be found here.