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Lisbeth Haas

Lisbeth Haas   
Lisbeth Haas
    Title:  Professor
    Type:  Faculty Member
    Concentration:  The Americas and Africa
    Email:  lhaas@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-2304 Office
(831) 459-1924 Message
    Office:  541 Humanities 1
    Office Hours:  Fall 2009: Fridays, 11:00am - 1:00pm, and by appointment

Courses Taught 
HIS-124-01 - American Empire
HIS-125-01 - California History
HIS-126-01 - The Southwest and Borderlands
HIS-190F-01 - Research Seminar in the Americas
HIS-190H-01 - Myths and Models in (and of) American History
HIS-190I-01 - California and the Boarderlands
HIS-200-01 - Methods and Theories of History
HIS-204C-01 - Colonialism, Nationalism, and Race Research Seminar
HIS-205-01 - Diaspora and World History
HIS-221-01 - Empires and New Nations in the Americas
HIS-280B-01 - Research Presentations and Grant Writing
HIS-80N-01 - Topics in US History: Women at Work

Research Focus 
U.S. and borderlands history; California history, Indigenous histories of the Americas, colonialism, Chicano history, race relations, diaspora, U.S. empire, world history, theory, visual culture, historical and interdisciplinary methodology

Education History 
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

Selected Publications 
"Horses and Saints: Indigenous Histories and the Missions of Colonial and Mexican California" (forthcoming, UC Press)

"Writing in Another Time" Pablo Tac, Luiseño Indian Scholar, 1820-1840 (forthcoming, UC Press)

"Fear in Colonial California and along the Borderlands" in Gyan Prakash and Michael Lapan, eds., Fear in History (forthcoming, Princeton University Press)

"Indigenous Ethnic and Interethnic Relations in the Spanish/Mexican Borderlands" In Ada Savin, ed. Journey into Otherness (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2005)

"Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom in mexican California," Boletín: The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association, 20 (1, 2003): 11-22

"Conflicts and Cultures in the West, 1780-1880" in Nancy Hewitt, ed., A Companion to American Women's History (Malden, Ma.: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002)

"War in California, l846-l848." Contested Eden: California before the Gold Rush, R. Gutiérrez and  R. Orsi, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Conquests and Historical Identities in California, 1769-1936. Berkeley: University of California, l995. (Winner of the Elliott Rudwick Prize from the Organization of American Historians, 1997.)

"Grass-Roots Protest and the Politics of Planning: Santa Ana, l976-l988." In Postsuburban California: The Transformation of Orange County since World War II, R. Kling, S. Olin, and M. Poster, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, l991. Paperback edition, 1995.