In January 1942, three years before Americans arrived at Buchenwald and Dachau, Jewish photographers working for the Soviet press became the first liberators to photograph the unprecedented horror we now call the Holocaust. These photographers participated in a social project in which they were emotionally and intellectually invested; they had been dispatched by the Stalinist […]

The Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group at the University of California, Santa Barbara is pleased to host the 3rd Biennial Graduate Student Conference on Ancient Borderlands. The full conference program appears below. FRIDAY, APRIL 13TH COFFEE/ MEET AND GREET-- starting at 2:00pm INTRODUCTIONS AND WELCOMING COMMENTS-- 3:00pm Dean David Marshall, Prof. John W. I. Lee, […]