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9 March 2018 / 22 March 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz is the lead institution on a $100,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) to help build a […]
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5 December 2017 / 4 January 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
By Sana Saleem and Rose Aguilar, for KALW San Francisco August 27, 2017 In the wake of the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville and this weekend’s events in the […]
14 November 2017 / 21 February 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
Brown recently returned to campus to display her latest project, Conversations I Wish I Had. She spent an afternoon at UC Santa Cruz in the Humanities courtyard, alongside a beautiful custom-made, collapsible wooden phone booth—complete with vivid green plants and a stylish blue telephone.
Events News
2 October 2017 / 21 February 2018 by Whitney DeVos | 1 Comment on Gail Project exhibition studies military occupation of Okinawa through a photographic lens
The Gail Project: “An Okinawan-American Dialogue” opens on campus October 5 at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery September 29, 2017 By Scott Rappaport The Gail Project is a collaborative public history project […]
Area studies is often simplistically depicted as little more than a Cold War form of knowledge, but its emergence as a component of the postwar American academic scene was in fact […]
“The Devil’s Wheels Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic” by Sasha Disko During the high days of modernization fever, among the many disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar […]
8 July 2016 / 9 May 2018 by Evin Knight | Leave a Comment
by Scott Rappaport Why is studying the humanities—history, literature, languages, philosophy, culture—important? How would you convince your parents, an employer, a politician, or others that there is value in pursuing the […]
During the Second World War, 50,000 to 100,000 French women chose to leave France to work for the war industry in Germany. Their transnational experience points to the racial and […]
Covell Meyskens, Assistant Professor of History at the Naval Postgraduate School, will talk about his website Everyday Life in Mao’s China which currently houses over 5,000 images China. Meyskens will […]
26 April 2016 / 9 May 2018 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
By Scott Rappaport The 2016 Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award, honoring emeriti professors in the University of California system, has been awarded to UC Santa Cruz professor emeritus of history […]
The History Department Presents the Thom Gentle Lecture on Environmental History Bernadette Jeanne Pérez Ph.D. Candidate University of Minnesota, Twin Cities What can the sugar beet industry tell us about […]
PODCAST: EVENT PHOTOS: by Steve Kurtz UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research Presents: UCSC Night at the Museum: The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection 6:30pm | “The […]
Archaeologists and historians are utilizing improving 3D technologies to create scholarly reconstructions of ancient places. These visualizations of now-disappeared spaces offer new potential for the examination of the ancient world. […]
7 December 2015 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Associate professor of history Gregory O’Malley has been honored with four awards this year for his latest book, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807. The book […]
Q&A with Director John Junkerman to follow the film Introduction by Professor Alan Christy, Department of History Directed by John Junkerman, long-term resident of Japan and Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, the […]
10 June 2015 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
History professor Kate Jones was presented with the John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities at the Humanities Division’s 2015 Spring Awards celebration held at the Cowell Provost House. Established in […]
David Brundage is Professor of history and the History Graduate Program Director. The talk will draw on an essay-in-progress for a collection entitled Remembering 1916: The Easter Rising, the Somme […]
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] To commemorate UC Santa Cruz’s 50th Anniversary, the Department of History has invited a few distinguished faculty emeriti and alumni to share stories about their experiences at UC […]
The History Department Undergraduate Research Symposium is an annual event held each spring that recognizes the exceptional research being conducted by UC Santa Cruz history undergraduates. The symposium provides undergraduate […]
Ernesto Chávez, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas, El Paso, and Visiting Researcher at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, reads expressions of devout Catholicism and queer […]
In Republican Rome, birds had served as the messengers of the gods, communicating in ways that only a few religious specialists could fully understand and interpret. At the turn of […]
29 May 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
Congratulations to UC Santa Cruz’s Class of 2014! Ideally, we’d profile every one of UCSC’s talented, passionate, and determined graduates—but the three students featured here serve as excellent ambassadors for […]
20 May 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz’s hard-working undergraduates deserve recognition for their vision and determination, whether they’re cobbling robots together, studying planets and ecosystems, setting up high-tech interactive exhibits or staging plays. Student […]
10 April 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
Emeritus history professor Edmund “Terry” Burke III, director of the UCSC Center for World History, will deliver the 2014 Spring Emeriti Faculty Lecture on Thursday, April 17, at the UCSC […]
