Anne Petersen, executive director of the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, and Monica Orozco, executive director at Mission Santa Barbara, will come and speak about their experiences working at top California historic sites.

Senior historian and vice president at Wells Fargo Bank Marianne Babal will be coming to speak as part of our Career Diversity series. Marianne is a UCSB public history alumna and she will be speaking about how her skills as a historian have shaped her career.

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. 

Geismer is currently working on her second book, Doing Good: the Democrats and Neoliberalism from the War on Poverty to the Clinton Foundation. She is co-editor of Shaped by the State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century (2019) and author of Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party (2015) You can find a […]