If you weren’t able to attend our New Majors’ Meeting this morning, you can view the slideshow below!  New Majors’ Meeting 2021

The History Department is now accepting applications for the 2021-22 Senior Honors Thesis Program (HIST 194AH/BH). If you will be a senior next year, have at least a 3.5 GPA […]

The Academic Senate has announced that the P/NP grading exceptions implemented in the Winter 2021 quarter will now be extended to the Spring and Summer 2021 quarters as well. All history […]

The UCSB Department of History stands in solidarity with the Asian Pacific Islander Graduate Student Alliance and with all of our colleagues, students, and family members who have been touched […]

History Department Statement  George Floyd’s slow, excruciating, and brutal death on May 25, 2020 has sparked a global uprising. The UCSB History Department grieves and stands in solidarity with colleagues […]

On Sunday, June 14th 2020, the History Department held a virtual gradation ceremony to honor our undergrads and PhD students graduating this year. If you weren’t able to attend, you […]

The History Department held their annual awards ceremony over Zoom this year, with campus still closed to in-person meetings. If you weren’t able to attend, you can view the ceremony […]

History Professor Brad Bouley gave a lecture on “The Black Plague, 1346-1351″ that was recorded recently by UCSB Admissions and made available to our incoming students for the coming academic […]

To help support students as they face current  covid-19 and remote learning challenges, the university has created a new “Student Wellbeing” website. This website includes resources for financial and food […]

In honor of Black History Month, the Journal of American History asked Professor Peniel Joseph of the University of Texas to curate a special on-line issue designed to highlight ten […]

The special issue, “Gender and Intimacy across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” with guest editors Miroslava Chávez-García and Verónica Castillo-Muñoz has just been released! This issue focuses on the primacy of gender […]

The Latin American and Iberian Studies Program’s undergraduate conference has been featured in the UCSB Current! Check it out here. Several members of the History department faculty are part of […]

Professor Rappaport’s new book A Thirst for Empire has been chosen as the featured review in the next issue of the American Historical Review. Check it out here!

Professor De Hart and her book were featured in the online publication of the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts at UCSB. The article details not only the book itself […]

Congratulations to Stephanie Seketa, a department graduate who has just been hired as the Director of Academic Affairs at Marist College in New York. This position manages college-wide projects (under the […]

Studies in Late Antiquity is edited by Prof. Elizabeth DePalma Digeser of the UCSB History Department.  Check out the contents of the latest issue below. Studies in Late Antiquity Spring […]

Both Professors Cobo and Castillo-Muñoz have been awarded prestigious library fellowships, which is a testament to the quality of their scholarship. Professor Cobo won a yearlong John Carter Brown Library fellowship […]

Congratulations to Tim Paulson, who has accepted a faculty position at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. Tim’s graduate research, which combined economic, labor, social, and environmental history, focused on […]

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. […]

Congratulations to Cheryl Jiménez Frei, who just accepted a position in Public History at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, and to Ben Ma, who has accepted a position at […]

Bodies and Structures 1.0: Deep-Mapping Modern East Asian History is now live. The website, a collaboration between Kate McDonald and North Carolina State University professor David Ambaras, is a platform for […]

You can read the article here: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/l-a-teachers-prepare-to-strike

The Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a pool of qualified temporary lecturers to teach a course (or courses) in History for the […]

Anita Guerrini, a Horning Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at Oregon State University and an adjunct professor at UCSB, has won the 2018 Pfizer Award for her […]

Professor de Hart’s new book, Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life, is the first full-life biography of the pioneering Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.   It has been getting a great deal […]

UCSB History graduate student Brian Griffith has been awarded a 2018-2019 Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research in Italy on his doctoral dissertation, “Bacchus’ Blackshirt: Winemaking and Making Italians in Fascist […]

UCSB Emeritus Professor of History, Harold Clark Kirker, died in San Francisco on May 30, 2018, just a few days before his 97th birthday.  Professor Kirker, who served in the […]

Rudy Guevarra, a 2007 UCSB History PhD, has been named one of two recipients of a 2018 Ford Foundation Senior Fellowship.  They give this description of his pathbreaking work: Rudy […]

The History Department was saddened by the death of Professor Emeritus Carl Harris on May 14 of this year. Professor Harris, who joined the UCSB history faculty in 1968 and […]

Studies in Late Antiquity is edited by Prof. Elizabeth DePalma Digeser of the UCSB History Department.  Check out the contents of the latest issue below.   Studies in Late Antiquity […]

Last week, a number of UCSB History graduate students organized and participated in the biannual UCSB Graduate Student Medieval Studies Conference. This year’s conference theme was “The Politics of Pleasure: […]

Dr. Holly Roose completed her PhD in History at UCSB last June. Since then, Holly received offers of tenure-track professorships, but she has decided to pursue a higher calling.  She is […]

Professor Zheng has just published her monograph The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China with Stanford University Press. China’s 1911 Revolution was a momentous political transformation. Its leaders, however, […]

Professor Alagona has been awarded a visiting fellowship for fall, 2018 at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, where he will be working on his […]

Two UCSB History faculty — Giuliana Perrone and Sherene Seikaly — have been awarded UC Presidents’ Research Fellowships in the Humanities, which will enable them to spend the 2018-2019 academic […]

Prof. Erika Rappaport’s book A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World was recently awarded the biannual Book Prize at the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies (the PCCBS is an […]

Prof. Patrick McCray is the newest recipient of the Smithsonian Institution’s Arthur Molella Distinguished Fellowship. The position is offered for 2018-2019 by the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and […]

Dr. Sarah Case, who is Managing Editor for The Public Historian, published her book Leaders of Their Race: Educating Black and White Women in the New South last year. It has just been reviewed […]

Click here to read the full interview in the UCSB Current.

  Senior Honors Thesis student Zingha Foma has been chosen as the first  Parker-Tiampo Family Scholar.  The scholarship will support Foma’s research on her senior honors thesis, “The Origin of […]

With Spring 2018 registration beginning soon, here are some History classes to consider.  And, check out our full Spring 2018 schedule of classes. History 9: Introduction to Historical Methods– Hiroshima […]