Dear alumni/ae, faculty, and friends of the Department of History,
As the expression goes, it has been a minute. To say that we have recently experienced a great deal of difficulty, turmoil, and upheaval is to make a considerable understatement. The fires that raged in the Los Angeles area throughout January were horrifying and deeply distressing. All of us were affected in one way or another, and some of us quite directly. Many members of our community had to evacuate their homes, with terrible disruption to their studies, teaching, and scholarship. I was heartened, though, by the outpouring of generosity I witnessed from our department, as people opened their homes to colleagues, students, and friends who had been temporarily displaced. We also, of course, have seen an across-the-board change of political leadership in the nation’s capital, resulting in abrupt policy shifts of which the long-term (or even immediate) impacts we can scarcely predict.
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Turning to cheerier topics, lots of exciting things are happening in our department. Two faculty searches are underway, for specialists in Environmental History and 20th-century Mexico. In May, UC Santa Barbara will host the 21st International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War. At the undergraduate level, our History Club is thriving, serving up an active program of “Fireside Chats” with UCSB professors and screenings of historical movies. Our Undergraduate Journal of History publishes outstanding student scholarship based on original research. From our productive faculty, as detailed in this issue, we have several new books, some of them featured in on-campus events.
And do stay tuned for the Alumni Weekend taking place from Thursday, April 24, through Sunday, April 27. Things are still in the planning stages, but I can say that we’ll be featuring at least one unusually interactive event.
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| Salim Yaqub
Chair, Department of History
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Graduate Students at the Huntington
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In exciting graduate news, three current and former graduate students — Fang He, Maria del Pilar Ramirez Restrepo, and Laura Voisin George — had overlapping Fellowships at the Huntington Library in 2024. These are prestigious fellowships awarded to scholars whose research can benefit from work in the extensive collections at the Huntington Library, in San Marino, CA.
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The UCSB History Associates are in the midst of their speaker series. We hope you find time to join us at one or more of these talks and events (found at the link below). All events are free of charge.
We are also working on some non-speaker series events such as trivia nights, a possible book group, a themed dinner party, and in May we will be at the Trust for Historic Preservation’s Community History Day.
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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History Associates Spotlight:
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Following her doctoral studies at UCSB, Dr. Julia Brock '12 launched her professional career as a curator at the Museum of History and Holocaust Education (MHHE) at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. In 2018, Dr. Brock joined the Department of History at the University of Alabama as an assistant professor, where she was tasked with developing a dynamic public history program, which she now directs.
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She works closely with both graduate and undergraduate students, as well as community members, engaging them in collaborative projects that include museum exhibits, community archives, and partnerships with contemporary artists.
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Faculty in the History Department have been productive in the past several years and we are excited to present a sampling of some of the new books that have or are about to come out!
Featured authors:
- Juan Cobo Betancourt
- Katie Moore
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Lisa Jacobson
- Giuliana Perrone
- Adrienne Edgar
- Anthony Barbieri
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Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
- Sharon Farmer
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Sherene Seikaly and the American Historical Association's Resolution Against Scholasticide
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In a landmark action, the American Historical Association--the oldest learned organization in the United States, comprising over 10,000 members--adopted the “Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza,” condemning Israel’s “intentional effort to comprehensively destroy the Palestinian education system.” One of the main supporters of this resolution who helped push for the vote is UCSB's own Sherene Seikaly, an associate professor of history. Seikaly was interviewed by "Democracy Now!" about the vote, which has been labelled as "ground breaking." The ground-breaking aspect of the bill owed both to its rallying of a major scholarly organization to a political action and to the overwhelming support of the resolution: 428 voted in favor, 88 opposed, and 4 abstained.
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