An emerging difficulty in writing these letters is coming up with new ways to say we face challenging times. But that, unfortunately, has become our new normal. Federal efforts to defund and control higher education continue to cause turmoil throughout US academia, and UC Santa Barbara has been no exception.
Despite all this, our department is flourishing. We are delighted to see Ana Guerrero Gallegos, a UCSB alum, return to campus as a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, having earned her PhD from Princeton University. We also keenly anticipate the arrival of Marissa Nichols as a new faculty member in January. Meanwhile, a robust cohort of incoming graduate students has enlivened our courses and extracurricular activities.
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Salim Yaqub
Chair, Department of History
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The History Department is excited to welcome Marissa Nichols as new faculty in our department this year! Professor Nichols comes to us from Emory University where she completed her PhD in 2023 and is now conducting additional research while funded by two prestigious postdoctoral fellowships.
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Welcoming our new Graduate Students
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This year, the History Department welcomes eleven new doctoral students:
Emmanuel Amoako, Naja Christmas, Finn Gaensler, Yasmin Ismail, Raul Kuroki, Wai Ho Lee, Liz Marchante, Junghwan Ryoo, Anthony Sales-Hernandez, Scott Terlouw
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Graduate Student Spotlights
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In this academic year our graduate students are pursuing exciting research projects, earning prestigious scholarships, and landing academic jobs.
Billy Marino won multiple awards including the History of Science Society’s Fellowship in Aerospace History, Caltech’s Maurice A. Biot Fund, and the National Air and Space Museum’s Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Fellowship.
Elena Mailander won a Fulbright Fellowship to undertake research in Tokyo, Japan for her dissertation research on the history of physics and popular media in Japan.
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Sergey Salushchev accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the history of the Russian Empire at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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Mattie Webb accepted a tenure track faculty position as an assistant professor at the Virginia Military Institute’s Department of History.
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History Associates Updates
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The UC Santa Barbara History Associates was created in 1987 with the dual purpose of bringing together members of the community and UCSB faculty interested in history through an annual program of events and lectures, while raising money to support graduate training in History at UCSB.
Our 2025-2026 speaker series is taking shape and while we don’t have all of the details yet, visit the link below to learn more.
Also, check out our online presence, join the UCSB History Associates or donate to our Graduate Student Fellowship or one of our many fellowships.
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