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Dec 14History Department Teach-In at Occupy Davis

The following are videos of teach-ins at the Occupy Davis movement on the Quad:

Nov 28Reinhardt wins article award

Bob H. Reinhardt has been chosen as winner of the Western History Association's 2011 Bert M. Fireman Award for his article "Drowned Towns in the Cold War West: Small Communities and Federal Water Projects," published in the Summer 2011 issue of the Western Historical Quarterly. The Fireman Award recognizes the best student article published in the WHQ each year, as judged by the editors.

Oct 31The Port Said Orphan Scandal: Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

Beth Baron, Professor of History, CUNY Graduate Center "The Port Said Orphan Scandal: Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt" Monday, November 14, 12:00-1:30p Andrews Conference Room (2203 Social Sciences and Humanities) Co-sponsored by the Institute of Government Affairs, Middle East/South Asian Studies, and the Davis Humanities Institute

Oct 26Indígenas andinos en Santiago de Chile colonial: inmigración, integración y etnicidad

Jaime Valenzuela, Professor of History, Catholic University, Chile November 9th, Noon. SS/H 1271, HIA Conference room

Jaime Valenzuela Márquez is Chair and professor of History at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago. His doctoral work was completed at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris, 1998). Prof. Valenzuela specializes in colonial history, and, in particular, indigenous labor, migration, identity and integration in colonial Chile and the viceroyalty of Peru between the XVI and XVIII centuries. He has dozens of publications and coordinates a colonial history blog that can be found at laboratoriodehistoriacolonial.wordpress.com.

Professor Valenzuela will be visiting UC Davis as part of a faculty exchange between UC Davis’ Hemispheric Institute on the Americas and the History department of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

*Please note, this lecture will be in Spanish.

Oct 03The Future of African Studies at the UC: A Roundtable Discussion

Friday, October 7, 2011 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. 3201 Hart
Featured panelists:
Stephan Miescher, Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara and Co-Director of the UC African Studies MRG Peter Bloom, Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara and Co-Director of the UC African Studies MRG Moradewun Adejunmobi, Professor of African American & African Studies, UC Davis James Smith, Associate Professor of Anthropology, UC Davis Ugo Nwokeji, Associate Professor of African American Studies, UC Berkeley
Reception to follow

Stephan Miescher and Peter Bloom are the Co-Directors of the University of California Multicampus Research Group (MRG) in African Studies. The UC African Studies MRG was initiated in 2008 with funding from the UC Office of the President to expand the context for African Studies within the UC system through the organization of Ph.D. dissertation workshops, intercampus events (conferences, international speakers and performers, sharing of library resources, online courses in African languages and research methods), and conferences on the African continent and in the Global South. The African Studies MRG provides opportunities to bring together faculty, researchers, and students across the UC system and with our interlocutors on the African continent and beyond (e.g., Latin America, Caribbean, Europe). For more information see: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/africanstudies/?page_id=2

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of History, the African American & African Studies Program, the Department of Anthropology, the Women and Gender Studies Program, the Department of Wildlife, Fish, & Conservation Biology, and the Davis Humanities Institute. For more information, please contact Corrie Decker at crdecker@ucdavis.edu.

Aug 12Giving Back

If you would like to contribute financially to the UC Davis Department of History, we now have the capability to properly accept such generosity. Please give to the UC Davis History Giving page or the Fund for the Future of History page. Thank you!

Aug 11

Louis Warren, W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History, University of California, Davis, has received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to complete his book, A Hole in the Dream: The Ghost Dance and the Making of Modern America.

Apr 21Biale Wins Major Teaching Award

David Biale, the Emmanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History and the chair of the Department of History, has received the UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement, the campus’s highest honor. Biale is contributing half of the $40,000 prize, believed to be the largest of its kind in the country, to a fund that supports the department’s graduate studies program. You may read the speech he presented at the banquet in his honor here.

Apr 20Alan Taylor's The Civil War of 1812

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alan Taylor has a new book, The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, and Indian Allies (Knopf). It has already garnered high praise in the New York Review of Books and elsewhere.

Apr 20BOOM!

Louis Warren, the W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History, and Carolyn de la Peña, director of the UC Davis Humanities Institute, have launched a new journal, BOOM, dedicated to California’s most pressing issues and cultural life. Published by the University of California Press and available both online and in print, BOOM is supported by a generous grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Available at some newsstands, BOOM can also be ordered at http://www.boomcalifornia.com.