The Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster invites all to attend a paper workshop by Mariel Aquino.  The paper explores the construction of masculinity and Basque nationalism through an examination of football (soccer), specifically the Athletic Club de Bilbao.  This is a paper workshop so please try to read the paper in advance. Mariel Aquino is […]

American History & Institutions Exam Alternative way of satisfying UCSB AH & I GE requirement, 01/11/2017 9:00-12:00 am in HSSB 3038 Well in advance of the exam date, contact Monica I. Garcia Ph.D. for information regarding the exam to satisfy the American History and Institutions general education requirement and to obtain the required reading list, please […]

Please join us in welcoming Professor Rui Kohiyama (American and Gender Studies, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University) to UCSB. Professor Kohiyama will give a talk on “American Woman Missionaries, Christian Homes, and Romantic Love in Meiji Japan.” American women missionaries are well known for their educational and reformatory intervention in various mission fields in Asia. Although […]

This symposium, organized in part by UCSB History and Black Studies Professor Terence Keel, will explore the embedded nature of race in the health sciences and identify opportunities to disrupt and rethink these arrangements in pursuit of racial justice and health equity. We will examine the interconnected histories of science, medicine, and law that lead […]

Trevor Burnard is the author of Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820 (2015) and The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint Domingue and British Jamacia (2016, with John Garrigus) A copy of his paper, "Slavery and British Industrialisation: The 'New History of Capitalism Movement' and Eric Williams' Capitalism and Slavery" can be found here: Slavery and […]

The UCSB History Associates invite you to a docent-led tour of the Bisno Schall Gallery in the tower of the Santa Barbara County Courthouse. From 1929 until 2011 the magnificent Seth Thomas masterpiece that moves the hands on the tower clock was out of sight. Dr. David Bisno and the late Dick Schall funded a […]